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China Three Gorges starts work on 1.7 GW pumped storage station

Renewable Energy World

Upon completion, the Tiantai station will mainly provide peak load regulation, valley filling, frequency regulation, phase modulation, power storage and emergency use for Zhejiang’s power grid, as well as offer flexible dispatching capacity for the East China Grid. CTG expects to record annual output of 1.7

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

Renewable Energy World

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. Power from all zero-carbon sources (renewables plus nuclear power) set another record, meeting 40% of demand.

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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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Smart Wires Looks to Ease Transmission Grid’s Mounting Challenges with Digital Controls

GreenTechMedia

Smart Wires is one of a handful of companies developing digital power flow control systems that could revolutionize how power grids function, compared to the mostly electromechanical system in place today. Deployments in Europe, Australia to test power flow capabilities. In the U.K.,

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Dynamic Line Rating: Expanding Transmission Grid Capacity for Clean Energy

GreenTechMedia

This is a valuable safety feature in a world where power grid failures are causing deadly wildfires , Gilmer noted. Renewable energy projects are “awaiting interconnections because of the inefficiency of the transmission we have,” Jon Wellinghoff, FERC chairman from 2009 to 2013 and CEO of Grid Policy, told GTM.

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Massive Senate Energy Bill Falters

GreenTechMedia

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. industry and jobs. Energy storage.

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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. Grid modernization. industry and jobs. Energy storage.