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New York’s Con Edison invests $2.3bn into grid resilience

Smart Energy International

billion in infrastructure projects across New York City and Westchester County to keep power grid service reliable. Sign up to our newsletter and stay informed Con Edison forecasts that the demand for power will peak at 12,800MW this summer. The all-time record is 13,322MW, which occurred during a heat wave on July 19, 2013.

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Fossil Fuel Firms Flock to Conservative Party Conference

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They include the Spectator magazine and groups based in and around Westminster’s Tufton Street , home to a network of opaquely funded, free market think tanks with a history of criticising climate action and pushing for more fossil fuel exploration. The CPS has supported the expansion of fossil fuel exploration.

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How rising energy costs could shape UK's net zero agenda in 2022

Business Green

On the one hand, the Christmas holidays marked a particularly green period for Britain's power grid, with electricity from fossil fuels falling to an all-time low, taking a mere six per cent share of overall generation on 29 December, according to analysis commissioned by energy company Drax.

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Looming Grid Shortfall Prompts 2.5GW California Procurement Proposal

GreenTechMedia

Although the proposed ‘all-source’ procurement would allow existing natural gas-fired peaker plants to compete, it could also open a massive new market for renewable energy, energy storage, demand response and other preferred alternatives to fossil fuels.

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Flexibility Without a Capacity Market: What Texas Can Teach the UK

GreenTechMedia

Taking into consideration Texas’ ability to cope with rapidly growing levels of renewable generation, “I question whether a capacity market is the best way to bring forward flexibility,” said Chris Kimmett, director of the power grids business unit at Reactive Technologies, a U.K. cleantech firm. In the U.K.,

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Interview – Harnessing the potential of geothermal to scale up by 2030

ThinkGeoEnergy

As a society, we routinely burn fossil fuels at about 1000°C to heat our homes at about 22°C. There are some very interesting schemes around using CO 2 as a working fluid for power generation. In part, incentives are needed because the impacts of fossil fuels are often not accounted for when considering the power price.

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MIT Study: Transmission Is Key to a Low-Cost, Decarbonized US Grid

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These results come from a linear optimization model that uses hourly weather data from 2007 to 2013, encompassing heat waves, winter storms and other weather events that can disrupt renewable power supply, Brown noted. transmission grid. Another study led by Princeton University released last month, which charts a $2.5