Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 22, 2021

To reveal the current landscape and prospective role and influence of hydropower operations on the electric grid in the U.S., the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Water Power Technologies Office (WPTO) commissioned the Hydropower Value Study (HVS): Current Status and Future Opportunities. electricity system.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

According to a new study published in Environmental Science Technology, hundreds of active hydropower plants are making a worse impact on the climate than fossil fuels. Scientists have known for a while now that hydropower facilities release greenhouse gases — mostly methane, but also CO2 and nitrous oxide.

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 29, 2021

In 2020, renewables generated a record 834 billion kWh of electricity, or about 21% of all the electricity generated in the U.S., Only natural gas produced more electricity than renewables in the U.S. electricity generation and steadily increased use of wind and solar. Wind grew 14% in 2020 from 2019. In 2020, U.S.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

MW hydropower facility the company will construct on the Ohio River. For each year that the agreement is in effect, the county will offset emissions equivalent to the entire electrical consumption of more than 3,400 households. The hydropower facility will be located at the existing Emsworth Main Channel Dam. Allegheny, Pa.,

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Solar Power World

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Renewable energy sources (biomass, geothermal, hydropower, solar, wind) accounted for 18.49% of net domestic electrical generation during the first eight months of 2019, according to a SUN DAY Campaign analysis of just-released data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA).

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Business Green

APRIL 6, 2020

Renewable electricity capacity growth slowed just a touch in 2019, yet still made up almost three quarters of all new power capacty that came into operation worldwide last year, according to the latest data released today by the International Renewable Energy Association (IRENA). according to IRENA. per cent, up from 33.3

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Eighty-seven percent of 2019 installations were located in that region. electricity if installations were plopped on just over a quarter of the country’s existing human-made water bodies where FPV is feasible. That potential is even greater when FPV systems are paired with hydropower, reaching 4,400 to 5,700 GW.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 24, 2024

The IEA’s Electricity 2024 report records electricity demand growth easing in 2023 but is projected to accelerate over the next three years through 2026. The update finds that world demand for electricity grew by 2.2% Growing weather impacts on power systems highlight the importance of investing in electricity security.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 6, 2021

The world added more than 260 GW of renewable energy capacity last year, exceeding expansion in 2019 by close to 50%, despite the economic slowdown that resulted from the COVID-19 pandemic, according to data from the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). China and the U.S. were the two outstanding growth markets from 2020.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 29, 2020

Norwegian power firm Statkraft has secured a power-purchase agreement with Mercedes' parent company Daimler, covering all the firm’s electricity demand in its native Germany. That means taking advantage of Statkraft’s vast hydropower capacity to fill in any lulls in solar and wind availability.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 13, 2021

The share of non-hydro renewable energy in the fuel mix more than doubled during this period to over 13% in 2019, and this torrid rate of growth is expected to continue, according to IRENA’s Renewable Energy Statistics, 2020. Renewables will become the largest source of electricity generation in 2025.

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Clean Energy Canada

DECEMBER 5, 2023

While the federal government is still implementing its Clean Electricity Regulations — designed to move our national grid towards being fully clean by 2035 —achieving such an outcome will only be possible with the participation of provinces, for whom energy is a central responsibility. Hardly a wedge issue.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

In the final months of 2020, electricity generation from wind turbines in the United States set daily and hourly records. Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) Hourly Electric Grid Monitor show an hourly record set late in the day on December 22 and a daily record set on the following day. Wind electricity generation reached 1.76

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Renewables-Info

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Electrical generation by U.S. Similarly, annual electrical production by all renewable energy sources combined (i.e., biomass, geothermal, hydropower, solar, wind) reached an all-time high last year and provided more than a fifth of the nation's electrical output. of the country's total electrical output - up from 18.3%

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

operated with an average monthly round-trip efficiency of 79%, and the utility-scale battery fleet operated at 82%, according to 2019 data from the U.S. Round-trip efficiency is the percentage of electricity put into storage that is later retrieved. Batteries have become the second-largest source of electricity storage.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

million people worldwide working in the sector in 2019, up almost 500,000 from the year before, according to the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). and hydropower employed around 1.95 As many as 11.5 Job opportunities in the renewable energy continue to surge worldwide, with 11.5 Wind energy, meanwhile, accounted for 1.17

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Renewables-Info

JANUARY 27, 2021

Electrical generation by the nation's utility-scale wind and solar plants continues to set new records. The latest issue of EIA's "Electric Power Monthly" (with data through November 30, 2020) also reveals that, year-to-date, solar-generated electricity - including distributed (e.g., In fact, it was 35.1% of the nation’s total.

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Charged

JUNE 2, 2021

In the event, this goal was reached in 2019, 8 years early, and the company has now pledged a 50% reduction by 2030. In Virginia, 150 stores are using hydropower, and 300 Florida stores are powered by solar energy. “7?Eleven Eleven planned to achieve a 20% reduction in carbon emissions from its stores by 2027.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Millions of retail electricity customers in the United States buy voluntary clean power, meaning renewable energy beyond what load-serving entities such as utilities otherwise provide. And utility clean power sales have consistently increased over the last decade, nearly tripling from 2010 to 2019. Utility "green" pricing programs.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Exahash per second (EH/s) through the expansion of operations at its Cowansville, Québec, facility and electricity supplied by hydro power. Bitfarms became the first Bitcoin mining company to complete its long-form prospectus with the Ontario Securities Commission and started trading on the TSX-V in July 2019. Bitfarms Ltd.,

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Solar power is the "new king" of global electricity markets, with the International Energy Agency calling it the cheapest form of electricity in history in its annual centerpiece World Energy Outlook report. Solar's ascent and coal's decline have been rapid by the standards of the electricity industry. degrees Celsius.

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R-Squared Energy

JULY 11, 2019

This article is the fifth in a series on BP’s recently-released Statistical Review of World Energy 2019. The former consists of hydropower, which has been around for a long time. Coal is still the dominant source of electricity around the world, although natural gas has taken over the top spot in the U.S. Renewables.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Liquid Air Energy Storage (LAES) uses electricity to cool air until it liquefies, so it can be stored until an opportune moment arrives when it can be brought back to a gaseous state and used for power generation. Like other energy storage solutions, the idea of liquid air energy storage is to balance out electricity supply and demand.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 24, 2021

In addition, the bill lays out that hydropower facilities with a nameplate capacity of less than 100 MW may also be used to help meet the goal. We thank Governor Lamont and state Congressional leaders for recognizing the importance of deploying energy storage at scale to ensure electric grid infrastructure is ready for 21st century demands.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 1, 2020

ABB will now focus on industrial automation, electric transportation and digital solutions. Hitachi and ABB’s emphasis on renewables and distributed energy are shared by key rivals such as General Electric and Siemens as they move to diversify from slowing markets for large-scale grid equipment and natural gas turbines.

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Business Green

MARCH 25, 2020

Strong growth in corporate demand for renewable energy backed by European certificates of origin outpaced supply in 2019, data shows. per cent in 2019. per cent in 2019. per cent, resulting in a significantly smaller surplus in 2019 than previous years," he explained. "If per cent, according to AIB.

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 4, 2022

Solar, wind, and other renewable energy sources (including biomass, geothermal, and hydropower) added more than 2,250 MW of new generating capacity each month during 2021. . Including new hydropower (28 MW), geothermal (25 MW), and biomass (18 MW), renewables provided 83.6% of all new generating capacity through the end of October.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 2, 2020

California grid operator CAISO has been curtailing renewable energy at record levels this year, as the state’s ever-rising share of solar power during daylight hours increasingly outpaces electricity demand. That compares to 12,700 megawatt-hours curtailed in January 2019 and 82,600 megawatt-hours in February of last year.

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 31, 2021

A Concession Agreement for the project was signed in February 2019. The facilities will combine to maximize delivery of renewable energy to the national grid, with Khoumagueli Solar expected to mitigate against the impact of fluctuating rainfall on hydropower generation at Garafiri. Guinea’s energy plan. of annual sales.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 23, 2021

The 2MW tidal turbine, the Orbital O2, has been under construction since 2019 and it was developed by Scottish firm Orbital Marine Power (Orbital). The O2 turbine started construction in the second half of 2019 and is roughly 80% UK-made.

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

with electricity from solar photovoltaic (PV) power. The number of electric vehicles (EVs) on the roads has also grown exponentially in the past decade. According to the Energy Information Administration (EIA), in 2019 the U.S. Thus, in 2019 the U.S. fleet in 2019 was reportedly about 25 miles per gallon (MPG).

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Business Green

MARCH 25, 2020

Strong growth in corporate demand for renewable energy backed by European certificates of origin outpaced supply in 2019, data shows. per cent in 2019. per cent in 2019. per cent, resulting in a significantly smaller surplus in 2019 than previous years," he explained. "If per cent, according to AIB.

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Business Green

MARCH 8, 2023

FOI Request by Scottish Renewables reveals spike in Scottish students studying renewable energy There are almost 22,000 students in Scotland currently studying renewable energy, marking an increase of 70 per cent from 2019, fresh figures have revealed. billion to our economy every year," she said.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 21, 2020

billion this time in 2019. billion, mainly onshore projects in Sweden and Denmark, as a result of cheaper power prices and lower values for the renewable electricity certificates the projects generate. The projects in question tend to be older assets with a much higher levelized cost of electricity, said CFO Anna Borg.

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

So much so that new analysis suggests global emissions from electricity generation may peak this year due to a surge in wind and solar power. Canada’s hydropower-rich grid is 84% non-emitting with variable renewables (essentially wind and solar) currently making up 7% of the country’s total electricity generation.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MAY 21, 2023

More than $500 million to support the construction of charging stations for electric vehicles, as the government looks to bring the number of electric vehicles on Québec roads to two million. TWh produced Quebec is the largest producer of electricity in Canada and had an estimated generating capacity of 46,380 megawatts (MW) in 2019.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

By diversifying our decentralized mining portfolio, we prioritize locations with cost-effective electricity that allow for further growth and expansion,” said Emiliano Grodzki, chief executive officer of Bitfarms. Each Canadian facility is over 99% powered with environmentally friendly hydropower and secured with long-term power contracts.

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