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Solar to make up half of new generating capacity in 2022

Renewable Energy World

Energy Information Administration (EIA) says nearly half of planned capacity additions in 2022 will be solar energy resources. power grid this year. GW (21%) from natural gas projects and 7.6 One of these reactors, Unit 3, was delayed until June 2022 to allow additional time for construction and testing.

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Low carbon generation set to meet electricity demand growth – IEA

Smart Energy International

growth of 2022, attributing this to declines in advanced countries due to the lacklustre macroeconomic environment and high inflation. Nuclear power generation also is expected to reach an all-time high, with growth averaging close to 3% per year. The update finds that world demand for electricity grew by 2.2% Have you read?

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Canadian LNG Will Stall Asia’s Shift to Renewables, Energy Experts in Asia Say

DeSmogBlog

Oil and gas companies have for years marketed fracked gas from B.C. But an impending flood of liquefied natural gas exports from western Canada to Asia could make it harder for countries there to achieve their national climate targets and contribute to tens of thousands of additional deaths due to air pollution.

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Looming Grid Shortfall Prompts 2.5GW California Procurement Proposal

GreenTechMedia

State regulators have proposed a major set of responses to what could be a looming grid reliability shortfall in Sothern California, including a 2.5-gigawatt gigawatts in 2022, and of Southern California Edison, which offered the even more dire prognosis of as much as 5.5 gigawatts by 2021, and 2.2

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Can the US Catch Up in the Green Hydrogen Economy?

GreenTechMedia

Hydrogen Economy” report forecasts that hydrogen from low-carbon sources could supply roughly 14 percent of the country’s energy needs by 2050, including hard-to-electrify sectors now dependent on natural gas such as high-heat industrial processes or manufacturing fertilizer.

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How Long Will Coal Remain King in India?

GreenTechMedia

” Achieving India’s target to deploy 450 gigawatts of renewable energy by 2030 is critical if the country is going to succeed in displacing coal generation on the power grid as overall energy consumption grows. Source: Brookings Institute " Coal in India " report. The rules have already been delayed several times.

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UK renewables overtake gas to become UK's top electricity generator this winter

Business Green

Renewables has overtaken gas to become the biggest single source of power on the UK grid so far this winter, with power generated by wind, hydro and solar reaching a record 34TWh from 1 October 2022 to 13 January 2023. million homes' gas use for the entire winter, or 78 tankers of liquified natural gas (LNG).