GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Thanks to generous feed-in tariffs and other incentives, Germany’s wind and solar installations have soared over the past two decades to the point that renewables could cover half of the country’s electricity demand.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Energy storage allows the grid to tap power at will and store power in times of excess, and so represents a massive opportunity to shore up reliability and resiliency. By shifting electric demand to off-peak times and keeping the grid stable, storage can serve as an alternative to old ways of upgrading the grid.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2022

Their price will vary depending on international changes to energy supply and demand as well as major economic and political events. Russia is a significant producer and exporter of oil and gas, with 32 per cent of the EU's gas demand in 2021 having come from Russia.

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Business Green

JANUARY 18, 2022

Developments in the offshore wind sector , where the cost of projects at auctions went down threefold between 2014 and 2019, is a case in point. Low carbon investment also has the potential to create jobs in multiple locations across the country.

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Energy Innovation

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Deep decarbonization demands we do something that has never been done before: deliberately transform the energy foundation of the global economy in mere decades. The inset in the upper right compares observed rates of improvement to the distribution of projected improvement rates provided by IAMs in 2014. Source: Way et al.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

First, it’s one of the largest-ever efforts to aggregate distributed energy resources (DERs) at a scale that can help California’s power grid meet its capacity needs. EBCE has done some advance work to prepare for integrating DERs at grid scale, Ross said. It breaks ground on multiple fronts.

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Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 8, 2022

In an exclusive conversation with Robert Denda, CEO of Gridspertise, he explains how digital grid solutions conceived in Italy, building on Enel Grids’ legacy, are supporting DSOs worldwide. Much of the focus we see, will be on the integration of electric vehicles, storage, and the demand side in real-time at the control level.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

That’s roughly the net worth of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos — or twice the $100 billion that Biden has proposed spending to upgrade the nation’s electrical power grid. The pipelines themselves could cost between $170 and $230 billion to build, the CEQ noted, citing an estimate from Princeton’s Net-Zero America study.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

After a week of the country’s worst power grid collapse in decades — an event that's taken a dreadful toll in dozens of lives lost and billions of dollars in economic damage — the lights are back on in Texas. Why winterization efforts have fallen short.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

In January 2014, power plants owned by Texas’ largest electricity producer buckled under frigid temperatures. Its generators failed more than a dozen times in 12 hours, helping to bring the state’s electric grid to the brink of collapse. This story was originally published by The Texas Tribune and ProPublica.

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