GreenTechMedia

JULY 1, 2020

ABB’s Power Grids unit earned about $10 billion in annual revenues last year from its businesses ranging from high-voltage transmission systems and transformers to distribution grid controls and battery systems.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

Wind Power ‘Blackout’ Risk Porter told BBC Radio 4 listeners in the interview: “There were risks around blackouts this winter. In April this year Porter wrote in opposition to the UK’s windfall tax on oil and gas companies, arguing that the “windfall tax harms oil and gas production and must be cut”.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

And while the state’s 22-gigawatt wind power fleet has faced problems stemming from icing of wind turbine blades and relatively low wind conditions that have reduced its ability to contribute to the grid, the primary failure is from the state’s natural-gas, coal and nuclear generator fleet, according to ERCOT data.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Last month the CPUC launched a proceeding considering emergency steps to relieve the possibility of another grid emergency next summer, with options, ranging from bolstering supply-side resources like natural gas-fired power plants or utility-scale batteries to increasing demand-side resources like behind-the-meter batteries and demand response.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

For example, beyond Advanced Microgrid Solutions’ systems , which rely on large-scale batteries at a handful of commercial buildings, Southern California Edison’s DER procurements, ordered by the CPUC in 2014, have yet to deliver aggregated DERs to market in advance of a 2021 deadline.

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 26, 2021

Its latest 3-year data foresee the net capacity for coal, oil, natural gas, and nuclear power combined dropping by more than 14 gigawatts (GW) whereas renewables – mostly solar and wind – are forecast to grow by over 64 GW. adding about 1.35% to its share each year). If these higher growth rates (i.e.,

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R-Squared Energy

DECEMBER 28, 2021

That’s a recipe for higher oil prices, and subsequently higher gasoline and natural gas prices. Consumers saw that, as gasoline prices rose to their highest levels since 2014. Europe’s natural gas crisis. Europe suffered from a natural gas shortage this year.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Since the 1960s when Europe first began importing Russian gas, Washington perceived Russian energy as a threat to U.S. More recently, with fracking, the United States has become the world’s largest gas producer and a major exporter of liquefied natural gas (LNG). leadership and Europe’s energy security.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The carbon dioxide then is compressed and transported to sites where it is either stored underground, injected into oil and gas deposits for enhanced oil recovery, or used for a limited number of other applications such as beverage carbonation. A natural gas demonstration plant in Texas tests carbon capture technology.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

But these attacks have run up against the cold fact that the state’s natural gas infrastructure was central to its broader grid failure. They also took steps to insulate natural gas compression stations and pipelines, and remove moisture from natural gas to prevent it from freezing in transit.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 22, 2020

They are doubling down on oil and natural gas and investing what amounts to pocket change in innovative climate-oriented efforts like small nuclear power plants and devices that suck carbon out of the air. The future was bright and oil reached the highest of highs in 2014, just after I landed my first job as Jr.

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CleanTechnica

SEPTEMBER 26, 2020

Electricity from coal power plants has declined from 26.9% Furthermore, that's down from 33% in 2015, 39% in 2014, 45% in 2010, and 50% in. of US electricity generation in the first 7 months of 2018 to 17.7% of US electricity in the first 7 months of 2020.

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