GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 14, 2020

The goal of these pairings is to make battery plants, and clean energy plants more broadly, more profitable and efficient in power markets, thereby hastening the acceleration of a lower carbon power grid. AMS founder Susan Kennedy rejected that offer , and another from French power company EDF.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Last year’s acquisition of Sentient, which has deployed its wirelessly networked, self-powered sensors on overhead and underground grid circuits across the country, gave KES a “vertical into the power grid area,” Jim Keener, then Sentient CEO, told Greentech Media last year. The Santa Clara, Calif.

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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 23, 2020

The overnight capital cost of utility-scale photovoltaic systems halved between 2008 and 2014. including California and Texas, solar and wind power is cheaper than natural gas and coal. power grid has contributed to cutting carbon pollution in the power sector by 28% since 2005. And these prices continue to fall.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 19, 2020

homes and commercial buildings consume roughly two-fifths of the country’s overall energy, three-fourths of all electricity, and account for most of the peak electricity demand that drives generation and power grid infrastructure costs. Shifting heating from fossil fuels to electricity can cut direct emissions.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Wärtsilä defines the goal of 100 percent decarbonization as a carbon-neutral power grid with a combination of generation resources — the vast majority of which would be wind and solar — as well as ample amounts of battery storage, demand response and flexible gas power, which will ultimately run on carbon-free renewable fuels.

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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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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Gretchen Whitmer and the MPSC of the MI Power Grid initiative. In another example, NextEra Energy’s Lee DeKalb 20-megawatt battery storage facility in Illinois has been in commercial service since 2014. As a result, storage has not received the attention in long-term utility planning in Michigan that it deserves.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2022

The good news is that the UK has already made some important progress in building a non-fossil-fuel based power system, with over 60 per cent of electricity demand met by renewables and nuclear power in February 2022 and renewables alone having provided around 40 per cent of the UK's electricity demand in the last two years.

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Energy Innovation

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

The inset in the upper right compares observed rates of improvement to the distribution of projected improvement rates provided by IAMs in 2014. If optimistic assessments of the future of electricity are accurate, power grid operators will have to learn to manage a much larger, more complex, and data-intensive system.

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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. It will bring a lot of value as there are many power grid operators which do not have the technological muscle to make the jump.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 15, 2021

That’s equivalent to roughly 10 years’ worth of China’s annual emissions as of 2014 — an amount that far surpasses the 90 billion ton avoidance potential of Drawdown’s top-ranked solution, refrigerant management. By empowering women and girls globally, Project Drawdown calculated that we could avoid 120 billion tons of emissions by 2050.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Chengdu’s Tianfu New Area was approved in 2014 to serve as a model for sustainable urban development and a hub for strategic new industries. startups to connect with Chinese investors and utilities, State Grid and China Southern Power Grid. State Grid refused an interview request at the Energy Internet Summit).

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Energy and Cleantech Council

JANUARY 14, 2020

In 2014, Iran successfully destroyed sensitive data when it hacked into the system at the Sands Casino, after the casino’s owner made anti-Iranian comments. The prediction that Iran’s cyberattack could target control systems vital to the operation of power grids and other critical energy infrastructure is not far-fetched.

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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.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 16, 2024

Between 1998 and 2014, ExxonMobil and its foundation gave more than half a million dollars to the committee, which did not respond to a request for comment. In order for the Biden administration to hit its goal of a 100 percent clean power grid by 2035, the nation needs to rapidly increase the rate of new wind and solar power installations.

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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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