R-Squared Energy

JULY 13, 2022

Last week the BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2022 was released, covering energy data through 2021. Fossil fuels accounted for 82% of primary energy use last year, essentially the same as in 2020, but down from 83% in 2019 and 85% five years ago. exajoules (EJ) — an increase of 22% — but wind power (+2.5

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2022

First touted by Prime Minister Boris Johnson last week, the upcoming Energy Security Strategy is expected to provide a roadmap for weaning the UK off Russian oil and gas, as well as reducing the country's exposure to the volatile global market for fossil fuels that has seen energy prices surge over the past year.

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R-Squared Energy

AUGUST 10, 2023

Overview The newest Review shows the world remains heavily reliant on fossil fuels for energy needs, even as renewables like solar and wind continue rapid growth. While renewable power expanded at record rates, fossil fuels maintained an 82% share of total primary energy consumption. growth in 2021.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The Global Wind Workforce Outlook 2023-2027 sets out that over 574,000 technicians will be required for C&I and O&M by 2027, but to keep pace with this growth, almost 43% of them will be new to the industry, joining from an education and recruitment pipeline or transferring from other sectors, such as offshore oil and gas.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

German chemical company, BASF, and EDF Energy North America signed a 35-MW wind power purchase agreement (PPA) that will bring 25 MW of wind power to BASF’s Verbund site in Freeport, Texas, and 10 MW of wind power to the Pasadena, Texas, site.

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Business Green

APRIL 25, 2022

Fossil gas' share of electricity supplies shrinks to less than 15 per cent over weekend as wind power meets more than half of UK demand. — Alok Sharma (@AlokSharma_RDG) April 24, 2022. 50% wind, 80% zero carbon nationally, and 100% in south west England! — John Taylor (@CoppiceJT) April 23, 2022.

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Business Green

APRIL 5, 2022

The global wind industry has shown impressive resilience through the COVID-19 pandemic, but growth rates still need to quadruple by 2030 if the sector is to play a full role in keeping the Paris Agreement's 1.5C per cent less than the year-over-year wind energy growth rate in 2020. "The temperature goal "alive".

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The IEA in a new report points to signs that grids are becoming a bottleneck to clean energy transitions and that delayed action means prolonging reliance on fossil fuels. This would mean that the global long-term temperature rise would go well above 1.5 o C, with a 40% chance of exceeding 2 o C.

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Green Living Guy

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Renewable energy development is key for Thailand to cut its dependency on fossil fuel imports, as gas-based thermal power generation accounted for nearly 61.3% GlobalData’s latest report, ‘Thailand Power Market Size, Trends, Regulations, Competitive Landscape and Forecast, 2022-2035’, reveals […].

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Business Green

MAY 24, 2022

Don't work for climate-wreckers," UN Secretary-General, António Guterres has warned students in a speech marking the graduation of the Class of 2022. Despite mountains of evidence of looming climate catastrophe, we still see mountains of funding for coal and fossil fuels that are killing our planet," he said.

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The Guardian: Energy

DECEMBER 9, 2023

The prospect of halving demand for coal is a goal worth striving for, but governments must stay the course In the past week almost 120 global leaders have pledged to triple the world’s renewable energy capacity before 2030 in a bold attempt to slash the global consumption of fossil fuels. Continue reading.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 1, 2024

The province has outlined 13 new regulations limiting wind and solar projects near agriculture land and other proposed “protected” areas. These include the creation of 35-kilometre buffer zones intended to protect what the province has termed “pristine viewscapes” from wind power development.

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Wind and solar accounted for 61% of electricity generated in Denmark in 2022. Other countries with relatively high shares of wind and solar include Uruguay (36%), Ireland (34%), Germany and the Netherlands (32% each), the U.K. (29%), states (18) generated more than 20% of electricity from wind and solar in 2022.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Improving renewable reliability Renewable energy resources, like solar and wind power, may be cheap, but their intermittent nature creates reliability concerns. Energy storage enables these intermittent renewable resources to be reliable and persistent sources of energy, available in the same way that fossil-fuel-fired generation is.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 20, 2023

One of those who challenged the premier’s assertion against renewable energy sources was Derek Power of Toronto, the founder of Power Networks, a company that installs solar roofs. After Smith asked, “And what do I do when there’s no sun and there’s no wind?,” Power responded, “Batteries.”

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

The consultant was the sole interviewee in the segment, in which she claimed that the move to renewable energy, primarily wind power, was increasing the risk of blackouts. Wind Power ‘Blackout’ Risk Porter told BBC Radio 4 listeners in the interview: “There were risks around blackouts this winter.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

A critical renewable energy initiative to transition away from fossil fuel reliance is struggling to meet 2030 targets, according to a new report by offshore wind market analysts, 4C Offshore. The latest report estimates that 14 GW of floating wind power will be installed or in construction offshore by 2030.

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Business Green

MARCH 14, 2022

The think tank has also run the numbers to calculate the savings being delivered by the UK's offshore and onshore wind farms, which it estimates between October last year and April 2023 will collectively pay back billpayers around £660m, thanks to the fixed power prices agreed under the Contracts for Difference (CfD) subsidy scheme.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

Additionally, the increasing costs of fossil fuels and gas have triggered significant adoption of electrical automobiles, propelling market enlargement. The researcher’s predictions, they state in a release, suggest a sizeable global Li-Ion battery demand increase, skyrocketing from over 700GWh in 2022 to approximately 4.7TWh by 2030.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

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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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Renewable energy generation capacity growth was comparable to last quarter , while new fossil gas construction dropped dramatically. In four of the last eight quarters, the fossil gas contribution to new power generation capacity has been less than 10 percent. disaggregated by energy source on a quarterly basis.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

The initial 50 MW phase will produce 9,000 tons of green hydrogen per year, enough to displace 20 percent of the refinery’s existing fossil-fuel derived hydrogen. It is hoped the site will be operational by 2024 with a final investment decision in 2022.

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Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 13, 2021

This transition, however, will impact jobs in fossil fuel-based energy production and could, if not considered from a social perspective, negatively impact millions of individuals in emerging economy nations. 27, 2022 in Dallas.). Those at risk are countries whose society and economy are based on fossil fuels.

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Business Green

MAY 11, 2022

Energy body predicts another bumper year for renewables this year, but warns policies introduced in next six months will determine whether momentum can be maintained beyond 2022. But it warns that efforts to ramp up clean power needed to happen in tandem with energy efficiency measures that kept energy demand in check.

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Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2023

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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Business Green

APRIL 13, 2022

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. La Camera reiterated the point writing in this week's Renewable Capacity Statistics 2022 report from IRENA. climate goal," he writes.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Experts believe the hot start to 2022 is not an anomaly, and that investors are now more bullish on renewables than they used to be. Compared to more volatile and increasingly more expensive fossil fuel sources, renewable energy power fits the institutional investors’ requirements. Experts weigh in on the future.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 21, 2021

EIA forecasts LNG prices will begin decreasing in the first quarter of 2022. "Ensuring that energy, including natural gas, remains affordable and available during the energy transition is likely to be a key concern for policymakers (at the COP26 United Nations climate summit)," Corbeau wrote in a commentary on the energy crisis. "As

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Business Green

DECEMBER 1, 2021

The IEA has previously estimated the world needs to add 630GW of new solar and 390GW of new onshore and offshore wind power capacity every year by 2030 in order to reach net zero goals, which is around four times the record-setting amount of renewables capacity in 2020.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 16, 2024

Premiers who support the fossil fuel industry were quick to exploit the emergency for the apparent political advantage. Alberta, Canada’s sunniest and windiest province, issued a moratorium on new solar and wind power projects last year. There were no reports of widespread heat pump failures in Alberta.

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Thus, those huge growth rates aren’t yet translating into enough energy consumption to even stall global fossil fuel consumption growth. Nuclear power is unique among energy sources. The levelized carbon intensity is calculated by dividing a power plants’ emissions over its lifetime by the overall expected electricity output.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Under the contract announced Wednesday , developer 174 Power Global will build the battery system, and Con Edison will bid its power into New York wholesale energy markets for seven years after it starts operations in 2022. After that, 174 Power will take over the battery system’s operations and wholesale market value.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

San Francisco-based developer Plus Power won two bids in the latest capacity auction held by the New England ISO, which operates the transmission grid and competitive power markets in six northeastern states. And in the nearby New York ISO, utility Con Ed awarded a capacity contract last year to developer 174 Global Power.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 26, 2019

It’s the utility’s second major round of contracts in the past year seeking to marry variable solar and wind power with the capacity and flexibility of batteries. Hawaiian Electric issued a long-awaited request for proposals on Thursday for about 900 megawatts of renewable energy and energy storage projects.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

The battery coming online will also yield cost savings for consumers as gas plants will not need to run as frequently and fees will not have to be paid to curtail wind power when the network becomes congested.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

MidAmerican has made major investments in wind farms in recent years and expects to soon offset 100% of its electricity sales with wind power. However, it continues to burn coal and natural gas for baseload power and has not announced plans to phase out those power plants.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 20, 2023

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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