Solar Power World

APRIL 21, 2020

A review of FERC data by the SUN DAY Campaign has found that solar, wind and hydropower provided 85.7% electrical generating capacity added during the first two months of 2020 — completely overwhelming that provided by natural gas. of new U.S.

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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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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 11, 2021

Electric power generated from renewable energy sources in the U.S. electricity source in ­­2020 , trailing only natural gas. GW of new wind capacity in 2020, +17.6 GW utility-scale solar in 2020, +16.2 will rise to nearly 23% in 2022, according to short-term guidance released Tuesday by the U.S.

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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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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 3, 2021

Peninsula Clean Energy said it has begun providing 100 percent carbon-free electricity to all of its nearly 300,000 customers, which is ahead of California’s 2045 zero-emission power generation mandate and a step in helping the agency achieve its ultimate goal of providing all customers 100 percent renewable power on a 24/7 basis.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 31, 2020

As laboratories of democracy, states deserve a victory lap for enacting renewable portfolio standards (RPS) that have helped transform our electricity system. Started by Hawaii and California, eight states now have adopted such laws with another wave of state legislatures expected to consider 100 percent CES bills in 2020.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

million peak kilowatts in 2020, despite global pressures of the coronavirus pandemic. “Demand for residential solar installations increased in 2020 in part because people were spending more time at home, which in turn resulted in an increased interest in home improvement,” the report notes. per peak watt in 2020.

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Renewables-Info

OCTOBER 21, 2020

biomass, geothermal, hydropower, solar, wind) dominated new U.S. electrical generating capacity additions in the first eight months of 2020. June, July, August) was provided by solar (1,448 MW), wind (1,309 MW), and hydropower (24 MW). Moreover, all of the 2,781 MW of new generating capacity added this summer (i.e.,

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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. Renewable electricity has been largely unaffected while demand has fallen for other uses of renewable 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. ” India’s total installed capacity renewable energy, not including hydropower, currently stands at 90 gigawatts.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

In 2021, electricity production by hydropower plants across the U.S. will reduce by 14% compared to 2020 levels. The Columbia River, the country’s fourth-largest river by volume, contributes immensely to hydropower generation. Related: Hydropower demand is damaging Indigenous lands The U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

could have 14 MW installed by the end of 2020, if the COVID-19 pandemic doesn’t stall projects. electricity if installations were plopped on just over a quarter of the country’s existing human-made water bodies where FPV is feasible. “The U.S. Assessing FPV’s potential.

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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”. And he added a year later, droughts dried up reservoirs of hydropower plants.

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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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The Verge: Energy

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Ember, an energy think tank that crunched the numbers, calls it “an unprecedented collapse in coal and gas electricity generation.” Fossil fuels dropped to their lowest point since reliable record-keeping started in 1990, making up less than a third of EU’s electricity generation in 2023. Electricity demand actually fell by 3.4

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Renewables-Info

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Electrical generation by U.S. wind and solar set new records in 2020. greater in 2020 than a year earlier, according to a SUN DAY Campaign analysis of new data just released by the U.S. Similarly, annual electrical production by all renewable energy sources combined (i.e., electricity coming from green sources in 2020.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 23, 2021

requiring electricity providers to obtain a minimum percentage of their power from renewable energy sources. The most recent update, SB 13-252, requires cooperative utilities to generate 20% of their electricity from renewables. In 2004, Colorado passed the first voter-led RES in the U.S.,

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 16, 2020

And last: What about all that nice, flat water in hydropower reservoirs? And it would actually produce massive amounts of electricity. E2 : Clean Energy Sector Enters Final Months of 2020 Down 478,000 Jobs. Hydropower Potential from Existing Non-powered Dams. Could we float solar panels on it? Bloomberg : Most U.S.

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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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Renewables-Info

JANUARY 27, 2021

Electrical generation by the nation's utility-scale wind and solar plants continues to set new records. greater in November 2020 than it was in the same month a year earlier, according to a SUN DAY Campaign analysis of new data released by the U.S. Combined, electrical generation by wind and solar grew by 16.2% a year earlier.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

This week, the International Hydropower Association and the U.S. Because of this, “It isn’t easy to build new projects,” said Alejandro Moreno, director of hydropower and marine energy at U.S. DOE plans to publish the guidebook and two case studies outlining its methodology and results by the end of 2020, he said.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 25, 2021

biomass, geothermal, hydropower, solar, wind) dominated new U.S. electrical generating capacity additions and increased their contribution to the nation’s electrical production in the first half of 2021. Combined, net electrical generation by wind and solar is 14.1% electrical output. electrical output.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 28, 2020

got more energy from renewables in 2019 than it did from coal, a year sooner than that same milestone is expected for the electricity sector on its own, according to the Energy Information Administration. electricity mix throughout 2020, another major milestone. Last year the U.S. consumed 11.3 renewable power in 2019.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 24, 2023

Hydropower, traditionally one of Africa’s most important sources of electricity, will rapidly fade in importance and cede its position to solar power. Abundant rainfall, massive gorges, enormous waterfalls: the geography of Africa has all the elements for producing electricity from river flow.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The report also confirmed that renewable electricity capacity increased over the past year to 13.6GW in September 2022, up by 1.4GW since September 2021. per cent of all electricity generated in 2021 in Scotland was from renewable sources and 87.8 However, both shares were down slightly on 2020 levels as a result of weather conditions.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Round-trip efficiency is the percentage of electricity put into storage that is later retrieved. With electric energy storage becoming more important as the share of intermittent generating technologies, such as wind and solar, in the electricity mix increases, EIA said storage metrics can help us understand the value of the technology.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 10, 2020

NYISO’s Power Trends 2020 report released Wednesday highlights the challenges and opportunities for a grid in flux. Last year’s Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA) calls for getting 70 percent of the state’s electricity from renewables by 2030, up from 26.8 Source: NYISO. Source: NYISO.

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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% respectively compared to the same period in 2020.

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R-Squared Energy

JULY 26, 2021

Earlier this month the BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2o21 was released, covering energy data through 2020. However, the Covid-19 pandemic really upended the energy markets in 2020, and we shouldn’t extrapolate some of these trends. of the world’s primary energy consumption in 2020. In 2020, the world consumed 88.5

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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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Smart Energy International

APRIL 26, 2024

In 2023 alone, states the IEA, battery deployment in the power sector increased by more than 130% year-on-year, adding a total of 42GW to electricity systems around the world. The Outlook finds that under today’s policy settings, every other car sold globally is set to be electric by 2035.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 7, 2021

This acquisition allows Akuo to strengthen its hydroelectricity division and its presence in Bulgaria, where the French group already runs four other hydropower stations with installed capacity of 63 MW. Bulgaria has set a target of increasing the share of renewable energy in the country’s electricity production to over 30% by 2030.

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Charged

AUGUST 26, 2020

The carmaker is accelerating its Electric First strategy, and plans to use carbon-neutral battery cells, modules and systems supplied by CATL. To enable this, CATL will use electricity from renewable energy sources, such as wind, solar and hydropower, for its production.

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Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2023

More than half of the UK's electricity came from zero carbon sources across five months last year, as Britain celebrated a flurry of fresh green grid records in 2022, according to National Grid ESO. per cent electricity, according to National Grid ESO. per cent of the country's electricity in 2022, while solar accounted for 4.4

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Business Green

MAY 11, 2021

Renewable electricity expanded at its fastest pace in two decades last year with demand for clean energy skyrocketing, as coal plants shuttered and companies and governments embraced tougher climate goals. A massive expansion of clean electricity is essential to giving the world a chance of achieving its net zero goals.''.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

biomass, geothermal, hydropower) dominated new U.S. electrical generating capacity additions during the first three-quarters of 2021. [1]. Compared to the first nine months of 2020, new solar capacity additions are 38.28% higher while those from wind are 34.19% higher.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 20, 2022

When she returned in 2018, long after the war had ended, a journalist encouraged her to go into the hills and take a look at some new hydropower plants on the river Lumbardhi i Deçanit. In 2020, while drafting a letter to the Austrian embassy detailing her allegations, Loshaj received a notice from KelKos’ lawyers. Defamation Case.

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