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. The deal is a 100 percent renewable power-purchase agreement that will match supply with Daimler’s demand in real time.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 10, 2020

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 Larger-scale transmission projects aimed at carrying Canadian hydropower and wind power downstate, such as the $2.2 Source: NYISO. Source: NYISO.

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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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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 18, 2021

But they “are clearly incompatible between them both for hydraulic, electrical and environmental reasons,” said Gironés & Raïmats developer Romero Polo in documentation hosted by the European Network for Transmission System Operators — Electricity (ENTSO-E), an industry body. Pumped hydro in Europe.

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Business Green

MAY 11, 2022

The latest renewable energy market update from the influential organisation reveals the world added a record 295GW of new renewable power capacity in 2021, despite clean energy sectors facing higher material costs, construction delays and supply chain bottlenecks in the wake of disruption caused by the Covid-19 crisis.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 6, 2021

Last summer’s record heat waves triggered a surge in power demand that maxed out supplies and led to outages across the West. California and other states are pushing to use clean electricity to power vehicles and buildings to cut carbon, which will increase demand. NERC’s On-Peak Risk Scenario for California.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

’s electricity, rather than pursuing that work from different technological focuses. In June, AWEA along with solar, hydropower and storage industry trade groups also introduced a joint vision to achieve “majority renewables” by 2030. There's a push for clean energy and an emphasis on. technology agnosticism.

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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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Clean Energy Trust

DECEMBER 6, 2021

billion for EV charging infrastructure, and billions more for transitioning school buses and transit vehicles to electric. Bukaty/AP A bad omen for the future: fossil fuel plant owners bankrolled a referendum in Maine to try and pass a ballot measure to kill a transmission line that would bring in zero-carbon hydropower from Canada.

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Business Green

JULY 15, 2021

Global demand for electricity is also growing faster than renewables capacity post-pandemic, opening the door to more fossil fuel energy in many parts of the world. But the surge in renewables generation may still only be enough to meet around half of the projected increase in demand, the IEA said. per cent this year and by 2.5

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

“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. biomass, geothermal, hydropower, solar, wind) dominated new U.S. million peak kW from 2019.

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Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Current nuclear and large hydropower capacity add up to around 50 GW. The nation added 2,835 MW of solar in the third quarter of 2021, up 14% compared to 2,488 MW installed in the second quarter. The nation added 2,835 MW of solar in the third quarter of 2021, up 14% compared to 2,488 MW installed in the second quarter.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 14, 2024

Today’s electric actuators can be remotely controlled, and receive commands to open or close from industrial control systems like SCADA or DCS. AUMA’s electric actuators feature a combination of an electric motor and gearbox, specially developed for valve automation. Actuators play a vital role in the control process.

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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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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Long-Duration Energy Storage: The Key to Making the Most of Zero-Carbon Electricity analyses curtailment data from US grid operators, illustrating the mismatch between renewable energy supply and grid demand. In 2021, solar accounted for 17% of California’s utility-scale generation, with wind accounting for 8%. LDES options.

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2022

per cent in the last quarter of 2021. As such, the PPA market has grown steadily in recent years, however, LevelTen said that over the past year the supply of new PPAs has struggled to keep pace with fast-growing demand. And second, buyers have so far remained undeterred by market conditions, meaning that demand is still high.

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Energy Innovation

JULY 2, 2021

Providing reliable, affordable, and low-carbon electricity in a warming world requires careful consideration of evolving electric energy supplies and demands. For instance, energy demands are likely to shift, reducing the need to heat in the winter and increasing the need to cool in the summer. Southeast in 2050.

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 6, 2021

Queensland’s largest hydropower station, the 570-MW Wivenhoe Pumped Storage Hydroelectric Power Station, will undergo a $14 million overhaul to ensure it continues to produce cleaner, cheaper energy for years to come. Maintenance works will run from mid-July until late October 2021. The plant is owned by CleanCo Queensland.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Energy demand for electricity and transportation fell by 3.8% This fall in emissions (see Figure 1) is the most significant on record and puts the United States on track to meet its 2025 Paris Agreement commitment, though energy demand and emissions are expected to rebound with widespread vaccinations in 2021.

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Charged

MAY 31, 2022

The site in the Northeast of England was selected because of the abundance of renewable energy—it has access to the North Sea Interconnector, so the company can take hydropower-created electricity from Norway and feed wind power back. When I joined in 2021 we had around 20 employees. That must be a huge demand on the suppliers.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

Happy Earth Day 2021! When you’ve followed the evolving research of a leading clean energy expert and become a supporter of his vision for a global clean energy transition, it should come as no surprise that I was eager to crack open Mark Jacobson’s 2021 book release, 100% Clean, Renewable Energy and Storage for Everything.

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Grist

AUGUST 16, 2022

A 2021 Los Angeles Times series found that about 3,900 people had likely died in California in the past decade due to extreme heat — a figure six times the state’s official count. The scorching temperatures have strained electric grids in Texas, the West and the Midwest. electric grid has struggled to meet demand.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Coal’s grip on the global electricity sector is loosening as more utilities and companies invest in renewable energy. Boston Metal, an outfit spun out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or MIT, uses electric currents to heat iron ore into a bright orange-white liquid, which converts into metal and cools as gray steel blocks.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Gravitricity’s novel system, which uses excess electricity to winch weights to charge the system and then releases these when energy is required, was announced as winner of the Best Innovation Award. The 2021 Scottish Green Energy Awards was headline-sponsored by EDF Renewables. in community benefit payments. “The

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AGreenLiving

MAY 21, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted nationwide energy supply-and-demand patterns. electricity consumption. Bulk electricity usage by commercial businesses and industrial manufacturing has given way to increased household electricity consumption as the general population isolates at home.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 21, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted nationwide energy supply-and-demand patterns. electricity consumption. Bulk electricity usage by commercial businesses and industrial manufacturing has given way to increased household electricity consumption as the general population isolates at home.

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Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2023

BloombergNEF also expects costs across the sector to remain high throughout 2023, due to high raw material and labour costs, soaring demand for battery packs from automakers, and cost increases across other parts of their supply chain, such as for power conversion systems and balancing services. link] pic.twitter.com/C55UHprYIv.

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2022

In an analysis of the electricity market published late last week, the IEA warned the global economy could face three more years of turbulence and stagnating levels of carbon emisisons if national governments do not start to spend significantly more money on these clean energy and green grid technologies.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 29, 2020

Even so, Torgerson, who announced plans to retire in June earlier this year, said Avangrid “will be closely monitoring and addressing the potential COVID-19 risks,” such as potential impacts on energy demand and on prices for the 21 percent of its renewables generation open to fluctuations in energy market prices as merchant 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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Business Green

MARCH 6, 2023

per cent last year, as a growing reliance on clean energy and a further decline in coal power helped bring an end to the 2021 rebound in emissions that followed the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a new analysis of preliminary data released today. While the economy grew 4.1 per cent last year.

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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 15, 2024

Deal after Deal Canada’s list of achievements is noteworthy: launching the country’s first full-scale electric vehicle assembly plant , landing a trio of highly sought-after EV battery gigafactories from Volkswagen , Stellantis/LG , and Northvolt , and being considered by Honda for an $18-billion EV plant.

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EDF + Business

MARCH 28, 2023

Decreased Renewables Cost: Levelized Cost of Electricity (LCOE) to project sponsors is expected to decrease by 40-60%, which will likely result in cost reductions for commercial electricity users. Notes: PTC stands for Production Tax Credit. ITC stands for investment tax credit. Sources: Deloitte Analysis, H.R.5376

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Alstom to deliver new battery electric trains for Chemnitz-Leipzig line. Engineering giant Alstom has signed a landmark deal with two German rail operators that will see it manufacture, deliver and maintain eleven Coradia Continental battery-electric trains for the Leipzig-Chemnitz route.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Von der Leyen announced a plan to collect up to 140 billion euros in windfall profit taxes from energy companies that produce electricity at low cost, e.g. wind, solar, hydro and nuclear. Also, electricity companies aren’t likely to be generous. Electricity markets reform. Skimming off windfall profits. Then, you skim it off.’.

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Mr. Sustainability

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

From open-plan offices to cleanrooms, nearly 400 people are involved in battery technology for electric cars. That battery factory, with a planned capacity of 40 gigawatt hours, will run on clean and cheap hydropower starting next year. Around 750,000 electric cars can then be supplied with European-made batteries every year.

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Business Green

AUGUST 13, 2021

2021 is turning out to be quite the year for Newark, New Jersey-based vertical farming pioneer AeroFarms. He is confident its technology can support a massive jump in demand and commercialisation. Rosenberg also hopes AeroFarms will start to focus on places and cities that have access to hydropower. There's a reliable demand.

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