GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 18, 2019

2019 has seen a steady evolution of policy, regulation and business model innovation at the grid edge. Reflecting on the third quarter, Wood Mackenzie's grid edge team highlighted key trends and developments in the U.S. and global grid edge ecosystem. and global grid edge ecosystem. Digitalization. and Europe.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Andrew Maximow of US aerial data analytics company Zeitview, writes on the immense task of modernising the transmission and distribution power grids and how automated inspections might provide some much needed support. Electric utilities are being asked to do what may seem like the impossible. Undergrounding electrical equipment.

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Business Green

MAY 20, 2021

Almost a quarter of households plan to buy an electric or plug-in hybrid vehicle in the next five years, but only one in seven have their sights set on installing low carbon heating in their homes, the findings of a major consumer energy user survey released today by Ofgem show.

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Bidgely

JANUARY 5, 2022

Hear more from Florida Power & Light, Austin Energy, Portland General Electric and more utilities nationwide about how data informs their strategic plans, and learn how Bidgely’s EV Solution makes it easy to access the data insights that are critical to getting it right. The Public EV Infrastructure Landscape.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 7, 2020

The grid planning document calls for no new gas plants, although almost all of the existing capacity is expected to remain online throughout the decade. But none of them have achieved enduring success in the electricity markets as constituted today. The CPUC already oversees 1,600 megawatts of pumped hydro storage.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 25, 2022

That is due to gas prices soaring more quickly than electricity prices in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the government's recent decision to temporarily shift environmental and social policy levies from electricity bills onto general taxation as part of its Energy Price Guarantee.

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Business Green

AUGUST 16, 2021

Earlier this month, government figures confirmed that renewables ousted fossil fuels as the dominant source of power on Britain's grid for the first time ever in 2020, supplying 38 per cent of the island's power.

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Christopher Kemper

MARCH 22, 2020

Oil is specifically applicable to transportation sector, but not electricity markets, which is why we see decoupling of pricing between oil and electricity markets. The cost of electricity, often misunderstood, is associated with the generation, but also the transmission and distribution? land, power lines, maintenance?—?has

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Christopher Kemper

MARCH 22, 2020

Oil is specifically applicable to transportation sector, but not electricity markets, which is why we see decoupling of pricing between oil and electricity markets. The cost of electricity, often misunderstood, is associated with the generation, but also the transmission and distribution? land, power lines, maintenance?—?has

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Christopher Kemper

MARCH 22, 2020

Oil is specifically applicable to transportation sector, but not electricity markets, which is why we see decoupling of pricing between oil and electricity markets. The cost of electricity, often misunderstood, is associated with the generation, but also the transmission and distribution? land, power lines, maintenance?—?has

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

New 'Eco-Towers' boast built-in wind turbines, solar panels, and batteries, allowing Vodafone to extend coverage to remote, off-grid locations. Connecting masts to the energy grid can be a major barrier to delivering this objective, so making these sites self-sufficient is a huge step forward for us and for the mobile industry.".

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 5, 2024

Determining when and how much water to spill to help fish pass safely through dams while meeting grid reliability needs are critically important questions. Balancing needs Hydropower generates over half of the electricity in Oregon and Washington and is a key part of a reliable electric grid. CLICK IMAGE TO ENLARGE.

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Mr. Sustainability

MARCH 17, 2021

His enthusiasm for technologies such as electric vehicles and digital networks might not have been matched by Innogy’s investors, but it is by the backers of Neom. But while Neom’s $500 billion price tag prompts questions about whether it will go ahead exactly as planned, the hydrogen effort doesn’t depend on the megacity’s overall success.

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Business Green

MAY 24, 2021

Energy giant Drax has long maintained that a proposed BECCS plant at its power station in North Yorkshire can play a crucial role in delivering on the UK's net zero ambitions by generating electricity with negative emissions. As a result, Drax is entirely reliant on public subsidy to operate."

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 20, 2021

For just about $7,000, he converted it into an eco-friendly tiny home thanks to recycled materials, second-hand furnishings and a strong motivation to become self-sustaining and live off the grid. He bought the bus for just $3,000, making the total price tag for his project $10,000. One of his mottos is, “No roots, no limits.”

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EDF + Business

JULY 30, 2019

We are very focused on transitioning buses and cars across cities to electric. We need to identify where to get the power, how to pull that power from the grid, and how to make it accessible. Many car manufacturers now offer fully electric vehicles. It’s also important to recognize that battery technology is better now.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 1, 2020

These goals may include increasing penetration of renewable energy, lowering regulatory hurdles for cleantech, grid resiliency, protecting the natural environment, and protecting customers. Osuala represents environmental groups, communities and nonprofits before state public utility commissions in electric and gas utility proceedings.

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Mr. Sustainability

MARCH 17, 2021

His enthusiasm for technologies such as electric vehicles and digital networks might not have been matched by Innogy’s investors, but it is by the backers of Neom. But while Neom’s $500 billion price tag prompts questions about whether it will go ahead exactly as planned, the hydrogen effort doesn’t depend on the megacity’s overall success.

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Charged

JUNE 30, 2023

As EVs replace legacy vehicles, electrical grids will need to be expanded and upgraded, and this isn’t going to be cheap. The good news is that this estimate is far lower than the $50-billion price tag indicated by a similar study conducted by analytics firm Kevala for the CPUC in 2021.

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2023

Moreover, this price tag is for capital investments, not costs. The ETC calculates that through to 2050 around $2.4tr a year of investment is required in the global power sector, including $1.3tr in zero carbon power generation, $900bn in grid extensions and upgrades, and $200bn in flexible grid technologies including energy storage capacity.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Labour's Party Conference kicked off yesterday, with the new tag line 'A Fairer, Greener Future' on prominent display, and the opening policy announcement coming in the form of a commitment to deliver a net zero emissions power system by 2030, a full five years earlier than the government's current 2035 target date.

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Business Green

AUGUST 25, 2021

From delivering less than one per cent of Britain's then-tiny renewables capacity in 2010, solar is now a major plank of Britain's electricity system, providing a third of the grid's electricity supplies on several occasions in 2020. But at the same time, the industry still faces major challenges.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

As such, in 2022 81% of S&P 500 companies reported their own emissions (scope 1), and the emissions of the electricity they bought (scope 2). By energy purchased, we’re referring to electrical energy. Scope 2 emissions are calculated using a standard emission factor that’s set by the grid. For operations in the U.S.,

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Business Green

JANUARY 23, 2022

The firm said air source heat pumps, which are powered by electricity rather than via the fossil fuel gas grid, were the best immediate low carbon option for keeping millions of off-grid or well insulated homes warm across the UK, and were "essential" for helping to meet UK climate targets.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Community-choice aggregators representing three San Francisco Bay Area counties have launched a 30-megawatt behind-the-meter battery solicitation aimed at protecting vulnerable customers and communities from the massive fire-prevention power outages of bankrupt utility Pacific Gas & Electric.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

million price tag associated with the 2022 well in Nevada. Last November, Google announced that the renewable power plant had achieved full operation and was connected to the Nevada grid used by some of the tech giant’s data servers. The most recent well cost $4.8 million, compared to the $9.4

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Hydrogen Fuel News

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

FNB Gas chairperson Thomas Goessmann recently announced that the hydrogen fuel network in Germany will be more than 6,000 miles (9,700 kilometers) long and will come with a price tag of around $21 billion (€20 billion). The core H2 network is slated to be completed by 2032, according to the recent announcement.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Previous unconfirmed reports have estimated a price tag for the Sizewell project of between £16-20bn. Electric heat pumps and hydrogen, green gas and shared heat networks all have their part to play.". Electric vehicles are part of the energy strategy. There are currently around 1.7

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Business Green

JANUARY 18, 2021

Smart home gadgets are of rapidly growing interest to innovators, offering consumers greater ease of use, as well as opportunities to link up with green technologies such as battery storage, electric vehicle charging, and solar power generation to improve efficiency and ease pressure on the power grid. That wasn't all either.

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Business Green

JANUARY 18, 2021

Smart home gadgets are of rapidly growing interest to innovators, offering consumers greater ease of use, as well as opportunities to link up with green technologies such as battery storage, electric vehicle charging, and solar power generation to improve efficiency and ease pressure on the power grid. That wasn't all either.

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Business Green

JANUARY 20, 2023

New projects with big price tags are looking for long-duration energy storage solutions In the summer of 2021, a flurry of R&D money was flying into new long-duration energy storage technologies. These caverns are meant to have a collective volume equivalent to the area of two football fields by 100 yards of height.

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The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

So, in 2021, NYCHA and its partners announced a $263 million investment in electric heat pumps. Electric heat pumps are considered more environmentally friendly because they can run on wind and solar energy instead of fossil fuels. Without the right policies in place, an electric heat pump could shift heating costs to renters’ tabs.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

DECEMBER 18, 2023

This is inherently wasteful and it comes with a price tag of emissions. Although challenging, the idea to use sequestered CO 2 to produce electricity is a pretty elegant concept. But where is all that electricity going to come from? We want clean electricity, but it can’t only be from wind and solar because of intermittency.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

If they can close deals like that based on actual costs, just imagine what could be done with 30 percent chopped off the price tag. Long duration storage was always the thing that had to happen eventually, to balance out the desire of renewables advocates to take over the grid with intermittent wind and solar.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

In addition to the immediate support package, the PM unveiled fresh plans aimed at transforming Britain's energy supply by reforming the UK's energy market in a bid to bring down the cost of electricity in the longer-term. This will mean that generators are receiving a fair price reflecting their cost of production.".

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ThinkGeoEnergy

MARCH 15, 2024

Geothermal energy accounts for less than 1% of today’s global renewable capacity despite its enormous potential as a carbon-free, continuous source of heat and electricity (IRENA, 2023). The bulky, expensive nodes with poor battery life and hefty price tags, which are still on the market, do not offer vast improvements on geophone arrays.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 17, 2022

According to the EPA, the largest source of GHG emissions in the United States is electricity and heat. Look for Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs), also known as Green Tags. These are tradable, non-tangible energy certificates proving that 1 megawatt-hour (MWh) of electricity was generated from an eligible renewable energy source.

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