ARC - Advanced Renewable Concepts

12/30/2025

In 2024, wind and solar generated more electricity in the U.S. than coal for the first time on record. Renewables produced about 17% of U.S. power, while coal fell to 15%, according to U.S. Energy Information data analyzed by Ember.

In Missouri, coal is still part of the mix, but nearly all new generation growth is solar and wind. Statewide solar capacity has more than tripled since 2018, with additional projects already approved and under construction.

Here in the St. Louis region, the grid is slowly shifting away from fuel that has to be burned and toward energy that is produced every day without it.

12/24/2025

Wishing you all a holiday season powered by the sun and a New Year that shines bright!

12/22/2025

Energy prices are rising faster than inflation. Owning your energy is no longer optional.

12/18/2025

Caltech’s MAPLE experiment successfully proved the basics of wireless power transfer in space and beamed detectable energy toward Earth in 2023. That mission continued into 2024, where the team pushed the hardware to its limits to understand weaknesses and operational realities so future designs can be improved. The project officially wrapped its first in-space mission with important lessons learned rather than just a simple one-shot test.

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Inside Caltech’s MAPLE Project and the Future of Clean Energy For decades, solar power from space lived in the same category as flying cars and moon bases. A great idea. Too complex. Too expensive. Too far off to take seriously. That changed quietly, in orbit. In 2023, a Caltech experiment called ...

12/16/2025

This is the Gonghe Talatan Solar Park in China, one of the largest solar installations on Earth.

Projects like this were planned, built, and brought online in a fraction of the time it takes to develop new nuclear power plants. Nuclear can play a role in the future, but it often takes 10 to 20 years before a single kilowatt is delivered to the grid.

Solar is different.
It is currently the fastest energy source to deploy at scale.

So here’s the real question.
If projects like this can be built quickly and generate massive amounts of electricity, could a similar large-scale solar build in the U.S. help stabilize energy prices and reduce what homeowners and businesses pay every month?

Energy demand is rising.
Build timelines matter.
And cost to the consumer matters even more.

Is large-scale solar part of the solution?

12/13/2025

For the first time in modern history, renewable energy has surpassed coal in electricity generation in several major markets. Not because of politics. Not because of trends. Because it’s cheaper, faster to deploy, and easier to scale.

Coal plants take years to permit and build. Solar and wind can be deployed in months. Once they’re online, they don’t burn fuel, don’t rely on volatile supply chains, and don’t get more expensive every year.

This isn’t the future anymore. It’s the present.
Energy is shifting from extraction to production, from centralized plants to distributed systems.

Coal had its era. Renewables are building the next one.

12/10/2025

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11/25/2025

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11/22/2025

Do you think vehicles could work as mobile battery banks? Because the truth is, the technology is already here. Every EV carries a massive battery that sits unused most of the day. With bidirectional charging, that energy could flow into your home or even back into the grid during peak demand.

The capability exists. The cars can do it.
The only thing holding it back is, well of course, policy and infrastructure.

11/20/2025

Solar panels don’t just create power. They create micro-climates.
On farms, that means lower soil temps, less evaporation, healthier ground cover, and even better grazing conditions for livestock.

Not to mention, farms in Illinois can work with us and UnCommon Energy to create standalone systems built for specific uses. Whether it’s shade for livestock, power for irrigation, or energy for equipment, we design systems that work with your land, not against it.

11/17/2025

Could we start to create micro ecosystems on our desert land in the US?

11/15/2025

You have the tech to generate your own power, the programs to make it affordable, and the chance to control your costs... then you choose to rent electricity forever.