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Britain's power grid celebrates greenest day and month on record in 2022

Business Green

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. Favourable conditions then saw that record once again broken by the year-end, with 20.918GW of wind power generated on 30 December.

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Stabilizing the energy system with energy storage

Smart Energy International

This means that in the event of a heatwave, a spike in electricity use would ultimately test the power grid’s ability to meet supply with demand, potentially resulting in summer brownouts or blackouts. These concerns make it difficult for the grid to fully rely on renewables.

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Texas company uses Bitcoin mines powered by renewables to stabilize the grid

Renewable Energy World

In September, Lancium broke ground on its first Clean Campus -- a 325 MW bitcoin mining data center in Fort Stockton, Texas with an expected full-scale operation target of Q4 2022. A Texas-based energy technology firm has raised $150 million to develop Bitcoin mining campuses powered by renewable energy sources. Courtesy: Lancium).

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IRENA: Renewables provided 80 per cent of new global power capacity in 2021

Business Green

Clean energy now comprises 38 per cent of global power capacity after another record year of additions driven largely by wind and solar, latest figures reveal. It calculates that across all countries, renewable power grew by 9.1 per cent in 2021, bringing clean energy's share of global power capacity to 38 per cent.

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Rising battery storage costs: A long-term trend or short term blip?

Business Green

The price of battery energy storage systems rose for the first time since records began in 2022, as raw material and component costs soared, and developers and system integrators increased their margins in the face of challenging economic headwinds and soaring energy costs worldwide.

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Revealed: Media Blitz Against Heat Pumps Funded by Gas Lobby Group

DeSmogBlog

Heat pumps will play an essential role in reducing our fossil fuel dependence and making our homes and buildings renewables-ready.” This echoes the view of the 2022 report from the IPCC – which cited over 18,000 studies. Hydrogen can be made in a number of ways – some of which are more polluting than others.

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“Learning” Frontiers In The Energy Transition

Energy Innovation

A different approach called AR(1) (a univariate autoregression) is used modeling changes in costs of fossil fuels, which are not expected to change as dramatically. Opportunities to apply ML to reduce GHG emissions from the power system. Source: Way et al. Learning from machine learning. Source: Rolnick et al.

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