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New Sustainable Energy Factbook shows 2020 was ‘blockbuster’ year for renewables in America

Renewable Energy World

Global supply chain disruptions, workforce protection measures, and policy uncertainty required adaptation across the industry. Notable clean energy statistics from the pandemic year include: Power Generation. Renewables’ contribution to the power grid set another record, rising 11% year-on-year. power in 2020.

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A 21st-century reinvention of the electric grid is crucial for solving the climate change crisis

Renewable Energy World

Then, beginning around 2009, first wind turbines and then solar photovoltaic panels decreased enough in cost to become competitive in electricity markets. Hailed as the greatest invention of the 20th century , our now-aging grid was based on fundamental concepts that made sense at the time it was developed. Buildings use 74% of U.S.

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Dynamic Line Rating: Expanding Transmission Grid Capacity for Clean Energy

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This is a valuable safety feature in a world where power grid failures are causing deadly wildfires , Gilmer noted. ” Getting the grid policies in place for DLR. More than half the U.S. transmission infrastructure is more than 30 years old, and “utilities just don’t have good tools to deal with this.

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Sweeping Senate Energy Bill Could Come to a Vote This Week

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Murkowski, chairwoman of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, called it “our best chance to modernize our nation's energy policies in more than 12 years,” or since the passage of the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009. This policy, part of a 2019 bill from Sens. Renewable energy.

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Massive Senate Energy Bill Falters

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Murkowski, chair of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, called it “our best chance to modernize our nation's energy policies in more than 12 years,” or since the passage of the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009. Grid modernization. Renewable energy. industry and jobs.