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Alberta Premier’s Statements on Batteries ‘Ideologically Motivated,’ Inaccurate, Experts Say

DeSmogBlog

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s recent comments about the use of batteries for renewable energy infrastructure surprised experts, one of whom described the premier’s comments as possibly ideologically motivated misinformation. Power responded, “Batteries.” I don’t think there are any one-hour batteries around.

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Con Edison Contracts Its Biggest Battery to Date in New York City

GreenTechMedia

New York utility Con Edison has signed its biggest energy storage contract to date, a 100-megawatt/400-megawatt-hour lithium-ion battery project that will help balance a grid facing rising levels of offshore wind and other renewable power in the years to come. In New York City, the biggest battery is the 4.8

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Global Briefing: Activists bemoan slow progress in UN ocean treaty talks

Business Green

Arlo Hemphill, senior oceans campaigner with Greenpeace USA, said failing to secure a treaty in 2022, or even delivering a weak treaty, would make it "practically impossible" to ensure 30 per cent of global oceans are protected by 2030. Reports: Germany looking to postpone looming closure of nuclear plants.

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Can the US Catch Up in the Green Hydrogen Economy?

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Dutch oil giant Shell, which is planning a gigawatt-scale, wind power-driven hydrogen cluster in the Netherlands, is also building hydrogen fueling stations in Los Angeles to serve these ports fuel cell vehicle’s needs, Wayne Leighty, the company’s hydrogen fuel business development manager, said.

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Is Load shedding the solution?

Smart Energy International

The utilities involved have undoubtedly taken all necessary steps to improve their capacity for producing electricity; therefore, expanding another power plant won’t work. The main causes include a lack of fuel for diesel power plants, technical difficulties, and low water levels at the dams where hydropower is produced.

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The 5 Biggest US Utilities Committing to Zero Carbon Emissions by 2050

GreenTechMedia

It’s also looking to the potential for small modular nuclear reactors for carbon-free baseload power and long-duration storage technologies such as molten salt, compressed/liquefied air, sub-surface pumped hydro and advanced battery chemistries. Nuclear power plays a large role in PSEG’s carbon-reduction plans.

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Solar, Wind Tax Credit Extensions and Energy R&D Package in Spending Bill Before Congress

GreenTechMedia

Schumer’s office, the two-year extension of the federal Investment Tax Credit for solar projects will retain the current 26 percent credit for projects that begin construction through the end of 2022, rather than expiring at the end of 2020 as they would have under existing law. Action by the U.S.

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