GreenBiz

AUGUST 13, 2020

2020: Fossil fuels are dead, long live the sun. Thu, 08/13/2020 - 00:15. COVID-19 constricted commuting, and demand for refined oil products fell fast. For fundamental economic reasons, solar power generation plus battery storage will provide at least half of electric power generation globally by 2030. Hunter Lovins.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 7, 2020

Wood Mackenzie projects significant pullbacks in the larger North American economy and corresponding impacts to demand for power. Wood Mackenzie’s baseline view yields lower power demand and power prices across North American power markets. How much will peak demand fall? gigawatts in 2020 and 2.1 gigawatts in 2021.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 25, 2020

New sparks for the electric vehicle industry. Tue, 08/25/2020 - 01:45. Thinking back to the beginning of 2020 can seem like a lifetime ago. The move to electric vehicles (EVs) was intensifying. . With a growing unease in taking public transportation, the demand for electric bikes and cars is also skyrocketing. .

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 4, 2021

Keep your eyes on these 9 electric truck and van companies in 2021. And the demand and interest in this technology is only growing stronger. Nonetheless, the transition accelerated in 2020 as more mammoth automakers pushed electric trucking fleets closer to reality. delivered its 100th battery-electric truck in the U.S

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 5, 2021

California is facing a major decision under a tight deadline — whether it should push for large-scale power plants and batteries to prevent a repeat of its August 2020 rolling blackouts this coming summer, or turn to behind-the-meter resources like batteries and demand response. 14 and 15 last year.

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GreenBiz

MAY 12, 2020

The robotic, hybrid-electric future of agriculture. Tue, 05/12/2020 - 00:15. A recent IDTechEx webcast, "Electric Vehicles and Robotics in Agriculture: $50 Billion Market Soon,” provided a brief overview of a 215-page report , "Electric Vehicles and Robotics in Agriculture 2020-2030,” that the research firm published in February.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 28, 2020

Amazon hands Mercedes-Benz its biggest electric vehicle order to date. Fri, 08/28/2020 - 00:00. German auto giant Mercedes-Benz announced its largest order of electric vehicles to date Friday: 1,800 electric delivery vans for retail giant Amazon to use across Europe. Katie Fehrenbacher.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 7, 2020

electricity markets and hurt generators in 2020, the U.S. electric power sector generation to include the COVID-19 outbreak’s massive economic disruptions. EIA now expects retail sales of electricity to the commercial sector to fall by 4.7 percent in 2020 as businesses close, and industrial sales to fall fall by 4.2

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Green Living Guy

AUGUST 3, 2022

Demand for General Motors’ (GM) Chevrolet Silverado EV seems to be building among fleet owners. The Chevrolet Silverado and the GMC Sierra led the industry in total full-size pickup sales in 2020 […]. The post Demand of Silverado EVs on the Rise amongst Fleet Owners appeared first on The Green Living Guy.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 26, 2020

In July 2020, the Met Office reported that most UK water companies have seen an increase in average water consumption during lockdown, especially those operating in suburban areas. So, how do water companies prepare for an unexpected surge or drop in demand? So, how do water companies prepare for an unexpected surge or drop in demand?

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 21, 2020

Numerous new EV models became available in 2019 and 2020, and global markets showed strong sales for 2019 and early 2020. But some forecasts show EV sales slumping up to 43 percent in 2020 year-over-year, so 2020 is sure to be a serious blip in the overall growth story. In the U.S., and globally.

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 3, 2022

Carbon dioxide emissions in 2020 were the lowest in nearly 40 years, according to a 2021 year-end report by the U.S. EIA cited lower energy demand due to the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as continuing changes in the electricity generation fuel mix. Energy Information Administration (EIA). energy-related CO 2 emissions totaled 4.6

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 8, 2020

Heading into summer 2020, looming uncertainty about electricity demand makes flexibility more vital than ever in the United States. In particular, residential demand response faces more pressure than usual as many people continue to work from home over the next few months. power system. The role of generators.

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Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2021

Electric vehicle market goes from strength to strength even despite Covid-19 pandemic, with UK sales making up more than one in ten new car registrations in 2020. Together, battery and plug-in hybrid vehicles accounted for more than one in 10 new car sales in the UK last year, a huge leap from around one in 30 in 2019.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Gunda explained that in 2020, California suffered its first blackouts in 20 years, “because the temperatures had departed so much outside what we had planned for”. With renewables we need to start forecasting supply and match demand to it.” And he added a year later, droughts dried up reservoirs of hydropower plants.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 3, 2022

Japan’s electricity sector is facing the triple challenges in the energy transition of energy security, cost and decarbonisation , writes James Tedd from GridBeyond. Can we control or at least manage the levels of volatility in electricity prices? Demand side measures. Image: GridBeyond.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 10, 2021

” That’s how a range of clean energy advocates and demand response providers are describing the California Public Utilities Commission’s latest plan to prevent a repeat of the state’s August 2020 rolling blackouts this coming summer.

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R-Squared Energy

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Perhaps the most noteworthy prediction from the report is of peak demand for fossil fuels within this decade. The EIA’s projections are based on a prediction of major growth in renewables and electric vehicles by 2030 under current government policies. Natural gas demand grows 40% by 2050, while coal use declines.

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Grist

MARCH 4, 2021

During the final months of 2020, while a record number of Americans turned out to vote and the first essential workers were treated to jabs of the COVID-19 vaccine, another historic event was unfolding on the U.S. electricity grid. We had, in 2020, a total of about 3,500 megawatt-hours deployed this year as a whole,” she said.

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Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Almost two-thirds of meter points were smart or advanced meters at the end of 2020, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has reported in its latest annual assessment. FERC quotes Energy Information Administration (EIA) figures for the smart meters, stating that from 2019 to 2020, the number increased by 8.3 Have you read?

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 3, 2021

New research by Drax Electric Insights shows that the UK broke all records last year for renewable energy consumption. 42% of all energy used across the country through 2020 came from wind, solar, tidal and hydro. Covid19 created a fall in generation demand. At a first glance, the figures might not be too surprising.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Here's an outline of the most important trends of 2020, starting with the emergence of a green hope from the disaster of the coronavirus pandemic. Then 2020 did what 2020 has been wont to do and messed things up. By the end of 2020, all of Europe’s oil majors had made long-term climate commitments.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 11, 2021

According to recent analysis by BloombergNEF, in last year’s record-setting year, the wind market commissioned nearly 100 gigawatts (GW) of new build in 2020. GW of wind turbines globally in 2020, compared with 60.7 General Electric (GE), Vestas, Goldwind and Envision all commissioned over 10 GW last year. GW global portfolio.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Among other things, that shall remain nameless, 2020 has been notable for the rush of activity in the green hydrogen space. As 2020 unfurled and then unraveled, climate change ambition ramped up. Rob Gibson is the whole system and gas supply manager for National Grid Electricity System Operator in the U.K. Driving demand.

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Greentown Labs

JUNE 4, 2021

That’s why Greentown Labs and our partner Schneider Electric ran Bold Ideas 2020 , a Greentown Launch partnerships accelerator focused on enabling the swift deployment, integration, and operation of energy storage assets at scale. SE Ventures co-led Titan’s Series A funding round. Packetized Energy.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 6, 2021

Looking back, however, 2020 proved to be a decisive year for clean energy in India. Bids for new solar projects hit record lows last year, affirming that coal is no longer the cheapest source of electricity. By that year, the government wants to meet half of the country's power demand with renewable energy resources.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

clean energy sectors showed strong resilience in 2020, continuing a decade-long growth trend, BloombergNEF (BNEF) and the Business Council for Sustainable Energy (BCSE) find in their annual joint report. Energy demand for electricity and transportation fell by 3.8% The impacts of cleaner electricity generation will persist.

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Business Green

MARCH 29, 2021

Analysis from energy think tank Ember celebrates a record fall in coal-fired power generation through 2020, but warns the global energy system remains far from alignment with the goals of the Paris Agreement. However, despite huge economic disruption demand still fell by just 0.1 Renewables meet nine per cent of demand in India, 9.5

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Charged

JANUARY 3, 2022

A new report from IHS Markit foresees the possibility of an electrical steel shortage, beginning in 2025, that could pose a threat to automakers’ electrification plans. Electrical steel is an iron-silicon alloy with magnetic characteristics that make it well suited for electric motors.

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Greentown Labs

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

8, 2020 — Greentown Labs , the largest climatetech startup incubator in North America, and Schneider Electric , the global leader in the digital transformation of energy management and automation, have selected four startups for Greentown Labs Bold Ideas 2020 in partnership with Schneider Electric. Somerville, Mass.,

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 25, 2022

An investor-owned energy utility is pioneering the way forward with the ambitious approach of engaging its customers with real-world data and messaging in efforts to improve their demand response activities. To maximise investments in this area, National Grid needed a new way to engage customers in demand response activities.

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Business Green

MARCH 12, 2020

The coronavirus crisis gripping the global economy has forced clean energy analyst BloombergNEF (BNEF) to downgrade its expectations for the solar, battery, and electric vehicle (EV) markets, in one of the first signals that the escalating pandemic could undermine urgent efforts to combat climate change.

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Business Green

APRIL 6, 2020

Sunny and breezy weather coupled with lower demand for power due to lockdown prompted negative electricity prices on Sunday. Demand is around 19GW, which is getting towards summer overnight levels (I think lowest Grid has coped with recently was 17GW). — Thomas Edwards (@NotionalGrid) April 5, 2020.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

Another record year for renewables saw clean power sources overtake fossil fuels on Britain's grid for the first time in 2020, but new nuclear and emerging technologies such as hydrogen and bioenergy carbon capture and storage are likely to be required to deliver a fully decarbonised energy system. Nuclear power, meanwhile, provided 17.5

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 29, 2020

2020 forced most people into a more distributed and virtual way of life. This concept goes by various names — virtual power plants, flexible loads, behind-the-meter networks — and encompasses tools like rooftop solar, batteries, smart thermostats, smart appliances and electric vehicle chargers.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 13, 2020

International Energy Agency's latest electricity markets update confrms major drop in emissions in 2020, but warns that coal and gas-fired generation will bounce back next year. But China remains an outlier to the global trend, the update notes, as the only major economy to see electricity demand rise in 2020.

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Business Green

JANUARY 12, 2021

National Grid ESO data for 2020 confirms raft of new records for wind and solar as well as longest coal-free run since the industrial revolution. Last year gave us a flavour of some of the challenges ahead, as our control room worked 24/7 to operate the electricity system in unprecedented conditions.". Overall, coal generated just 1.6

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