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A decidedly impartial review of Mark Jacobson’s 100% Clean, Renewable Energy and Storage for Everything

Renewable Energy World

The plans, available at The Solutions Project’s “ Clean Energy ” link, reveal the unique mix of wind, water and sun technologies capable of powering states, countries and even select U.S. Wind, Water and Sun (aka WWS) include wind power; waterpower from tides, rivers, and subsurface water (geothermal water); and solar power.

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US Voluntary Clean Power Sales Keep Surging, With More Than a Little Help From Utilities

GreenTechMedia

Participation has grown steadily for two decades, from just over 100,000 customers in 2000 to about 570,000 in 2010, and then to just over 1 million in 2019. Unlike the growth of other clean power products such as PPAs, utility clean pricing program growth cannot be attributed to falling prices.

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Estimating The Carbon Footprint Of Utility-Scale Battery Storage

R-Squared Energy

. ————————————– Since the turn of the century, there has been a global explosion in the production of renewable power. According to the 2018 BP Statistical Review of World Energy, global renewable energy production in 2000 was 218 Terawatt-hours (TWh).

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SEF Weekly: German interconnector, bp R&D and heat network retrofitting

Smart Energy International

Using Hitachi Energy’s HVDC Light technology, SuedLink DC4 will transfer up to 2,000MWs of emission-free electricity, reportedly enough to power 5 million German households. Hitachi Energy will supply an HVDC Light converter station at each end of SuedLink DC4 to convert AC power from the transmitting grid to DC for delivery through the link.

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Solar, Wind Tax Credit Extensions and Energy R&D Package in Spending Bill Before Congress

GreenTechMedia

But the tax-credit extensions contained in the bill could provide a significant boost for the primary federal incentive structure for wind and solar power by extending the expiration dates set by Congress late last year. ” Wind tax credit impacts.

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