GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 28, 2021

residential energy aggregator Social Energy is planning international expansion after gaining multimillion-dollar backing from U.S. alternative investment manager CarVal Investors. The parties have not disclosed the amount involved beyond saying it represents “a significant investment.” Power Networks.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 11, 2019

It isn’t easy to transform a century’s worth of electricity infrastructure from the ground up, particularly in the face of climate change-induced firestorms. As California goes, so goes the national trends, and that seems especially true of energy-related issues. But here are three of particular importance.

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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% Nuclear power generation also is expected to reach an all-time high, with growth averaging close to 3% per year.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Exceedingly few batteries actually live up to the vision of “storing clean power for when the sun isn’t shining.” Here are the tastiest stories that emerged in 2019, in no particular order. It serves clean power at night cheaper than incumbent fossil fuels. Massive utility procurements.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 29, 2020

In 2018, it pulled out of its retail partnership with Home Depot before finally closing all Tesla retail stores in 2019 and directing potential customers to its online platform. Those prices are before the federal Investment Tax Credit (ITC) is accounted for. In 2017 the company stopped door-to-door sales.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 27, 2021

By Frank Jossi, Energy News Network. A wave of pilot programs by Minnesota electric cooperatives is saving customers money and providing useful data for larger utilities considering new technology and pricing models to encourage grid efficiency. Today, 44 member-owned electric co-ops serve about 1.7

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

The electric power industry is a long-standing partner in this push toward a clean energy future, as demonstrated by its significant CO2 emissions reductions. There is still a way to go to slice energy usage in half. Energy companies across the U.S. invested more than $7.23 Evolving challenges.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

A little over a decade ago, Gary Dye, then a gas measurement engineer at NW Natural, Oregon’s largest gas utility, lost faith in his employer to responsibly deal with what he believed to be systematic inaccuracies among the company’s hundreds of thousands of gas meters. Faulty Meters Raise Questions About Profits.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 1, 2020

That’s the charge leveled in a Tuesday report from the Illinois Public Interest Research Group, asking state lawmakers to force the utility to align its capital investments with its customers' interests. The workings of the 2011 Energy Infrastructure Modernization Act. billion smart grid investment plan that included a 4.2-million

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 19, 2020

gigawatt-hours of energy storage capacity in 2020, more than double the 499 megawatt-hours installed in 2019. gigawatt-hours this year, according to Wood Mackenzie's latest report on Australia's energy storage market. Falling battery costs will lead to improved overall capex for the energy storage sector.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Rather than posing a threat to the grid, electric vehicles are beginning to help to solve Europe's grid flexibility problems. Tibber classes itself as a “digital energy company” offering consumers, via an app, a (relatively) frictionless way to switch their power provider.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 24, 2021

This week Connecticut Governor Lamont signed a new law that will require the state to install 1 GW of energy storage by 2030 with milestone requirements every three years: 300 MW by 2024, 600 MW by 2027 and 1 GW by 2030. The Energy Storage Association (ESA) applauded the move.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

As of the end of 2023, the ambitious geothermal drilling project in Szaflary, Poland has reached a total depth of 5000 meters. Drilling will continue to the target depth of 7000 meters, where another aquifer is expected, and the entire drilling process will be completed within the 1st quarter of 2024.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Spain’s booming renewable energy market is attracting the attention of an unlikely retail segment: mobile phone companies. Phone firms including national leader Telefónica are jostling to offer clean energy alongside more traditional products such as broadband connections. A boom brought on by the end of the sun tax.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 28, 2019

BBOXX, a startup delivering pay-as-you-go solar PV plans to hundreds of thousands of African homes, has landed a $50 million investment led from Japanese industrial giant Mitsubishi, marking another major funding milestone in the off-grid solar market. billion of this investment has occurred over the past two years.

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Econaur

MAY 6, 2020

million sq meters of green building space and this statistic is from the end of 2018. The focus of these spaces is on the efficient use of natural resources including energy (sunlight), water and construction materials. Also, green homes are meant to be cost-effective, self-sustaining and have low maintenance needs.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 30, 2020

The fallout from the coronavirus pandemic and coming recession is expected to drive down pricing for both front-of-the-meter solar and storage systems even faster than expected. Project construction delays and tightening consumer spending will drive down storage and electric vehicle demand, according to Wood Mackenzie.

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E8 Cleantech Angels

MAY 8, 2020

National cleantech investing network offers updates on angel investing, venture fund and a new philanthropic impact fund to mitigate climate change. Through investment presentations, collective due diligence and learning opportunities, the E8 community unites interest, passion and expertise from the Northwest and nationally.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

The 100-megawatt Minety project in the south-west of England, an area with a high concentration of solar power capacity, is expected to be completed by the end of the year. Rory McCarthy, senior analyst at Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables, said projects of this size could become a more common sight. In contrast to the U.S.,

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E8 Cleantech Angels

FEBRUARY 29, 2020

National cleantech investing network offers updates on angel investing, venture fund and a new philanthropic impact fund to mitigate climate change. Through investment presentations, collective due diligence and learning opportunities, the E8 community unites interest, passion and expertise from the Northwest and nationally.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

But despite falling system costs, growth in the region will be fairly constrained, and much of it will be offset by bottlenecks in Mexico slowing its pace of renewable energy development. Developers in the region will also face increased competitiveness in the market due to lower system costs and reduced power prices.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 16, 2020

Last year, utilities, grid operators and grid edge vendors all continued to grapple with their evolving roles in delivering and managing power. The grid edge space witnessed major transformations in 2019 right up through the end of Q4. In a new report , Wood Mackenzie grid edge analysts reflect on key events in the last months of 2019.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 6, 2022

A six-year streak in the US of improving or flat customer satisfaction rates with residential water utilities has, due to a significant increase in monthly bills, come to an end. This was earned through investment in water quality, proactive customer communications and digital customer service channels. Power 2022 U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 3, 2020

So this year I’m giving myself a whole decade to get these behind-the-meter energy system predictions mostly right. But adding batteries to a PV system increases the cost and confuses the energy savings calculations. Cellphone apps are the standard for customer system monitoring. No standard energy system interface.

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Bidgely

JULY 1, 2021

Learn more about How to Use Data to Drive Your EV Investment Plans , watch the on demand webinar and download the report What Utilities Know (And Don’t Know) About EV Drivers and How Better Customer Insights Can Maximize Utility Investments in Electric Vehicle s.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

The record gas demand would have been even higher without the rolling blackouts, because more homes with central heat would have run either gas-fired heaters or electric heat pumps, which would have been powered mostly by coal or gas-fired generators if those weren't on outage. Based upon data from the U.S. Meanwhile, U.S.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 2, 2023

The Power-to-X unit being demonstrated. Soletair Power (Finland) has developed a seemingly unique solution for extracting carbon dioxide (CO2) from building ventilation systems to help achieve carbon net zero and even carbon negative building projects.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2021

It is an achievable, affordable plan that will bring jobs, investment and wider benefits to the UK. Ministers have made the big decisions – to decarbonise the power sector by 2035, to phase out petrol and diesel vehicles, to back heat pumps for homes. Now we have the Government’s own plan for meeting the UK’s emissions targets.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 1, 2020

Whether booming off-grid power demand in emerging markets is met with grid extension or distributed renewables will be central to the growth story of the global clean-power sector. Wood Mackenzie's working definition of minigrids. Source: Wood Mackenzie. Minigrids the lowest-cost option for many.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 21, 2020

Wireless electric vehicle charging carries a whiff of the future, akin to flying cars. The company has designed a ground-mounted pad that beams electricity up to a car-mounted receiver to wirelessly charge it. The electric vehicle industry is scrambling to build out enough chargers to handle the expected wave of EV adoption.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 27, 2021

For this episode of the Local Energy Rul es Podcast, host John Farrell speaks with City Administrator Shannon Mortenson of Warren, Minnesota. Mortenson and the city partnered with a community college to pilot a novel project; the college, using drones and thermal cameras, captures images that display energy leaks in homes and businesses.

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 13, 2021

Last year the number of residential battery systems installed in Australia increased by 20%. The rate solar system owners can earn for selling energy back to the grid (Feed in tariff) has fallen significantly in the last 2-3 years in line with decreasing wholesales prices. The Emergence of Virtual Power Plants.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 27, 2020

New Jersey looked like the promised land for energy storage. Phil Murphy campaigned in 2017 on a clean energy platform that pushed for a 100 percent clean grid by 2050. When Murphy won and took office, he signed sweeping clean energy legislation in May 2018 that turned his goals into law. Who’s the Boss?

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 25, 2022

UK energy software platform Kaluza is enabling energy retailers to operate more efficiently and at lower costs while empowering end customers with easy-to-use digital experiences that help decarbonise the grid. This feature article was originally published in The Global Power & Energy Elites 2022.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The trend for Silicon Valley startups applying advanced technologies to solve utility grid problems is clear — go big, or stay home. After a decade of eking out a niche in the world of advanced distribution grid power controls, Silicon Valley startup Varentec has sold its key assets for an undisclosed sum.

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GreenBiz

JULY 12, 2021

That trend is the motivation for a "significant strategic investment" this week — the amount isn’t being disclosed — by investment firm Closed Loop Partners in ERI, the largest IT recycling and refurbishment company in the United States. . More details in a moment. First, consider the problem.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

British Energy Efficiency Federation chair Andrew Warren sets out his vision for building a thriving market for domestic green homes upgrades. It is universally acknowledged that Britain needs urgently to improve the energy efficiency of its housing stock, long deemed amongst the worst in western Europe. Here is how.

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