GreenTechMedia

JULY 29, 2020

CPS has set an August 31 deadline for would-be resource providers to respond to its RFI, and it expects to solicit formal bids through a request for proposals in early 2021. CPS serves more than 840,000 electric and 350,000 natural-gas customer accounts, amounting to approximately 1.9

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 19, 2020

Pacific Gas & Electric has asked California regulators to approve seven battery projects totaling 423 megawatts, or nearly 1.7 gigawatt-hours of energy storage capacity, to meet its share of a statewide procurement that must be brought online by late next year to assure statewide grid stability.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

The decision also adopted a 35 million metric ton (MMT) electric sector greenhouse gas emission (GHG) planning target. The preferred system plan portfolio differs from one previously adopted by including more solar and battery storage, as well as new long-duration storage, out-of-state wind, and offshore wind resources.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 15, 2021

155 wind turbines with a capacity of 5.8MW and rotor diameters of 170 and 155 meters — representing some of the largest turbines in the global onshore wind industry. The inspection services will include checking the electrical characteristics of wind turbines to assess their reliability and safety in generating electricity.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

In the US, 25% of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions come from electricity generation. This is not surprising, with coal and natural gas representing about 60% of electrical supply. As more eco-invested consumers choose green power, it increases the demand for renewable energy sources. Have you read?

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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. Figure 1: U.S.

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 25, 2021

The project will help back up intermittent renewable energy from wind and solar power. The batteries will also provide support services for the Texas power grid to respond to fluctuations in supply and demand. Project construction is expected to be complete by June 2021.

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Energy Innovation

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Observed global average levelized cost of electricity (black dots) compared with projections from the IEA (red lines) and IAMs (blue lines). Technology forecasts for solar PV, wind, batteries, and electrolyzers that produce fuels from clean electricity. Caption text and image adapted from Way et al. Source: Way et al.

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Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2023

It will take four more years for costs to fall back to 2021 levels. But batteries undeniably remain the most common form of energy storage and are widely regarded as a critical component of the net zero transition and an enabler of both vehicle electrification and cleaner, more efficient grids dominated by intermittent solar and wind power.

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Business Green

JANUARY 18, 2021

2021 must be the year to pick up the pace on progress - there's ample opportunity, and we can't afford to stall. Alongside energy, the ever-accelerating transition to electric vehicles will be watched closely for any signs of post-Covid sluggishness. Duncan Burt is COIP26 director at National Grid.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Gridspertise , which states as its mission the digital transformation of power grids through advanced network technologies and solutions, was launched just over a year ago, in September 2021. The company operates four hydro power plants, and the only wind power plant in Georgia with a combined capacity of 71MW.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 20, 2023

Powered by electricity, heat pumps are currently set to play a key role in decarbonising heating and replacing gas boilers, which heat around 85 percent of Britain’s homes and account for 15 percent of greenhouse gas emissions nationwide. The PR campaign subjects heat pumps to intense criticism.

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Business Green

MAY 18, 2021

And on this point the IEA is perfectly clear: if the world is to achieve net zero emissions by 2050, there should be no new investments in oil and gas production fields, coal mines, or unabated coal power plants beyond 2021. Solar and wind power will dominate the net zero economy.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Namely, no new sources of fossil fuels worldwide after 2021, and a massive, accelerated ramp up of renewable energy capacity, including 390GW of new onshore and offshore wind each year by 2030. by the end of the century.

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Business Green

JANUARY 19, 2021

But the Business Secretary emphasised that the Cumbria mine would produce coking coal for use in industrial manufacturing, and not for generating electricity from coal power plants, arguing steelmaking required coal in the short term and that it would be better for the climate to source such coal from the UK rather than abroad.

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 17, 2022

Then, beginning around 2009, first wind turbines and then solar photovoltaic panels decreased enough in cost to become competitive in electricity markets. Even faster growth is expected ahead, especially given the Biden administration’s plans to tap high-value offshore wind resources. electricity.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

8, 2021, the White House released a report produced by the U.S. Department of Energy that found that solar power could generate up to 45% of the U.S. electricity supply by 2050, compared to less than 4% today. million solar panels or 364 large-scale wind turbines. electricity from solar power by 2050 feasible?

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 20, 2022

is going to need a lot more solar and wind power generation, and lots of cheap energy storage. Wind and solar power vary over the course of a day, so energy storage is essential to provide a continuous flow of electricity. To rely more on wind and solar power, the U.S. electricity system.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

At least $14 trillion needs to be invested in the grid worldwide by 2050 to support an evolved power system, according to BloombergNEF’s new Power Grid Long-Term Outlook 2021 published this week. Without adequate investment, the grid could become a bottleneck, slowing progress, said BNEF.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Nuvve, the San Diego-based company that’s spent the past decade pioneering electric-vehicle-to-grid (V2G) projects around the world, plans to go public via a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC). But the process of actively tapping EV batteries to discharge to the grid faces technical and economic challenges.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 21, 2020

” Wind tax credit impacts. Wind power will also benefit from the tax extensions provided for in the bill. State governments and utility ratepayers will be able to take advantage of lower delivered energy costs as a result of the extension," Dan Shreve, WoodMac's head of global wind research, said in an email.

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Grist

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Just look at what Cascadia woke up to on New Year’s Day 2021: Our supposedly “green” corner of the world came nowhere near to meeting the ambitious climate action goals for 2020 that politicians set a decade earlier, earning themselves accolades and admiration — not to mention talking points for the campaign trail.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The report notes that the cost of solar energy has fallen 90 percent in the last decade, and the cost of wind power has dropped 70 percent. The Hawaiian island of Kauaʻi is occasionally powered only by clean energy during the day, and in 2021 nearly 70 percent of the island was powered by renewable energy.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 16, 2024

.” More recently, Morano has been talking about whales—specifically, the idea that the higher-than-usual number of dead ones washing ashore along the East Coast is the result of President Joe Biden’s push to develop 30 gigawatts of offshore wind power by the end of the decade.

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Business Green

AUGUST 13, 2020

Some of the policies are aimed at areas that can reduce future emissions: the target of 500,000 electric vehicle charging stations by 2030, for example. This incorporates roads and bridges, but also a green power grid and improved water infrastructure. Globally, sales of electric cars topped 2.1

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