2020 Recap: Innovation Roars

This year, energy got creative and innovative. The industry was impacted by building code changes, the sheer proliferation of renewable plus battery storage as part of utility planning, recycling wind turbine blades, powering buildings with EVs and smart roads, energy from land fills, ocean based wind farms, energy generating bicycles that power street lights, and new and original partnerships between diverse industries.

Oil companies announced that they would focus on sustainability and back away from fossil fuels.  Creative tax entities want to apply utility taxes apply to Zoom or other streaming services. Quick thinking COVID tracers used wastewater to track the disease.  It was innovation on top of innovation.