Business Green

AUGUST 5, 2020

But few sectors can lay as strong a claim for playing a central and strategic role in any recovery, as the renewables industry in general and the wind power sector in particular. It confirms that 2019 was a record year for the sector with 6.1GW of new capacity added, as costs continued to fall sharply.

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Business Green

JULY 30, 2020

For the first time ever electricity from wind, solar, biomass and others made up more than a third of UK power last year, government data shows. Renewables such as wind, solar and biomass provided 37.1 per cent of UK electricity during the 2019 calendar year, up from 33.1 per cent last year.

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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., Renewable energy sources include wind, hydroelectric, solar, biomass and geothermal energy. Only natural gas produced more electricity than renewables in the U.S. In 2020, U.S. EIA expects U.S.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Carbon emissions from energy stayed the same in 2019 despite expectations of further growth, latest International Energy Agency data indicates. per cent in GDP terms, data released today by the IEA indicates - defying expectations the growth trend would continue in 2019.

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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. electricity generation in 2020.

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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.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Onshore and offshore wind met more than half of Britain's electricity demand on Wednesday. Britain's fleet of wind turbines generated more electricity than ever before over a 90-minute window earlier this week, according to statistics from the electricity grid operator.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 3, 2020

Hawaiian Electric this week revealed the full list of winners from its second large-scale procurement of energy storage and renewables for the islands of Oahu, Maui and Hawaii. Bright Canyon has primarily invested in wind power projects to date, including ownership stakes in Missouri and Minnesota projects being developed by Tenaska.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 1, 2024

The province has outlined 13 new regulations limiting wind and solar projects near agriculture land and other proposed “protected” areas. These include the creation of 35-kilometre buffer zones intended to protect what the province has termed “pristine viewscapes” from wind power development. million homes.

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Charged

AUGUST 29, 2019

When wind conditions are favorable, it enables the electric propulsion thrusters and center propeller to be throttled back, reducing emissions. The route between Germany and Denmark is almost perpendicular to the prevailing wind, which gives Scandlines favorable conditions for using Rotor Sails on the ferry crossing.

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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). Market leader Asia accounted for 63 per cent of the world's total renewable energy jobs in 2019, with China alone accounting for 38 per cent at 4.4 As many as 11.5

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 27, 2021

Other than the changes we as individuals make, businesses need to adapt their operations to use greener sources of energy – such as wind power. With Boris Johnson pledging that by 2030 offshore wind farms will generate enough power for every home in the UK, the race is on to make wind energy the future.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The US could meet its current electricity needs using low-carbon sources by 2035 if the progress made in the past decade continues, according to a new study. Other key findings of the study include: The US has nearly tripled its wind power capacity since 2011, enough to energise more than 31 million homes. million homes.

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Business Green

JANUARY 29, 2021

The government is to auction 1,500MW annually between 2021 and 2025 under a wind-only pot and given this week's auction was delayed from 2020 a second auction is expected later this year. The profit marks a remarkable turnaround given the company lost $862m in 2019. Tesla reports first annual profit.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

gigawatts of wind power capacity to the grid in the first half of 2021, according to analysis by S&P Global Market Intelligence. now has 127 GW of cumulative wind power capacity with a pipeline of 62 GW under development through 2025. Here are the 10 largest wind farm projects completed in the U.S. connected 6.1

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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. NREL’s data shows that voluntary clean power sales are increasing in all six of the ways that customers buy clean power.

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

with electricity from solar photovoltaic (PV) power. on solar power would require a substantial amount of backup power or storage for when the sun isn’t shining. solar power generation has increased by a factor of 66. According to the Energy Information Administration (EIA), in 2019 the U.S.

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The Environmental Blog

JANUARY 26, 2021

The drop in the oil market wasn’t reflected by growth in the renewables market either, with the IEA registering a 13% drop in renewable capacity compared to 2019, largely due to projects being put on hold and investment ceasing temporarily as the world got to grips with the pandemic and subsequent lockdowns.

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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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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 6, 2020

Vestas has been powering its factories and offices worldwide with 100 percent renewable electricity since 2013. Vestas will transition its roughly 1,000 company cars to electric vehicles this year, while beginning to replace its 4,000 or so light-commercial service vehicles with renewably fueled alternatives.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 6, 2020

The nation’s next round of contracts for difference (CFD) revenue-stabilizing auctions, scheduled for autumn 2021, will aim to support twice as much renewables capacity as the 2019 round. The 2019 CFD auction offered long-term contracts at set prices to projects totaling 5.8 GW of offshore wind. gigawatts, including 5.5

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Business Green

APRIL 22, 2021

Carbon Tracker study finds solar and wind energy potential is 100 times as much as global energy demand. per cent of wind potential tapped thus far. As such, the analysts predict exponential growth for the solar and wind power sectors, noting that "humans specialise in extracting cheap energy, and fast". "The

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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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Clean Energy Canada

DECEMBER 5, 2023

And yet this sort of endorsement for variable renewables like wind and solar hasn’t been common in Canada over the last several years. But electricity demand is expanding rapidly, and wind and solar, which make up a combined 7 per cent of power generation in Canada, should play a leading role in meeting new demand.

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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. Adding to its challenges, the grid operator is now contending with falling power demand caused by the coronavirus pandemic.

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Business Green

MARCH 23, 2020

The downturn was particularly pronounced for large-scale energy storage projects, which are seen as key to expanding the use of intermittent forms of renewable energy such as solar and wind power.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

JANUARY 10, 2024

Operating since 2019, Eavor-Lite is a full-scale demonstration project of a multilateral closed-loop geothermal system that is currently being developed at a commercial scale in Geretsried in Bavaria, Germany. with the only downtime attributed to a 3rd party power outage. Outside of those trials, the system reliability is at 99.6%

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 31, 2020

The growing mismatch between Germany’s renewables capacity and the strength of its electricity network is leading to curtailment, crazy pricing and challenges for neighboring nations. At the same time, growth in German offshore wind installations is creating problems for Germany’s neighbors. They ask: ‘How is that?’

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

Additionally, the increasing costs of fossil fuels and gas have triggered significant adoption of electrical automobiles, propelling market enlargement. Additionally, global zero-carbon projects have turbocharged EV demand, states the researcher, driving the need for Li-Ion batteries in electric-powered vehicle power systems.

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Green Living Guy

JUNE 28, 2020

January 30, 2019 Deal also supports the acceleration of electric vehicle infrastructure deployment and management in North America. 30, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Greenlots, a US-based leader in electric vehicle (EV) charging and energy management software and solutions. LOS ANGELES, Jan.

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R-Squared Energy

JULY 13, 2022

Fossil fuels accounted for 82% of primary energy use last year, essentially the same as in 2020, but down from 83% in 2019 and 85% five years ago. The remaining share of primary energy use consisted of hydroelectric power (6.8%), renewables (6.7%), and nuclear power (4.3%). lower than consumption in 2019.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 4, 2021

The development of the wind industry, on the other hand, picked up slightly this quarter. gigawatts of wind generation capacity were installed in the second quarter of 2021, compared to just under 3 gigawatts in the previous quarter. All of the wind capacity built out in the second quarter of 2021 was onshore.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 29, 2020

gigawatt onshore wind power fleet. That’s a significant updraft from its less-than-stellar performance in 2019, when earnings dropped modestly. In a Wednesday conference call, CEO James Torgerson credited the improved performance to better wind production from its huge base of existing U.S. offshore wind farms.

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Business Green

AUGUST 30, 2020

A new 33MW battery storage facility is set to be built near Bristol after a lease was signed this month between land investor Electric Land and Hallen Energy, part of renewable energy firm Voltalia SA. Voltalia has 1.2GW of solar and wind power already in operation or construction, and a pipeline of 7.8GW, the firm said.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 9, 2020

The tally of canceled projects includes Eversource's Northern Pass project in the Northeast, as well as the transmission lines that were part of the first, larger version of American Electric Power's Wind Catcher project (a smaller version is now moving ahead without new transmission). and Tucson Electric Power.

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 25, 2021

As the sale of Rhode Island’s largest electric distributor comes before state regulators for approval, a group of solar developers, policy specialists and energy consultants are calling on the governor and attorney general to seize what they see as a golden opportunity to force a faster grid transition. . by Lisa Prevost, Energy News Network.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

This means that in the event of a heatwave, a spike in electricity use would ultimately test the power grid’s ability to meet supply with demand, potentially resulting in summer brownouts or blackouts. This enables a more environmentally prudent supply of electricity to meet peak power loads, while also containing costs.

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