GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 21, 2020

French oil major Total and Japanese conglomerate Marubeni have won the rights to build Qatar’s first utility-scale solar PV project, due online in time for the 2022 World Cup. The first 350 megawatts will be operational next year with the full project scheduled for completion in 2022. Lowest-ever solar PPA price.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 14, 2020

Energy Information Administration has confirmed what it and industry watchers predicted a year ago—that wind and solar power will expand on their already-large share of new U.S. gigawatts of natural gas-fired plants to come online this year. generation capacity in 2020. gigawatts of capacity.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 23, 2020

part of Ontario, Canada-based Nexus Renewables, to deploy a fleet of batteries at multiple sites in PG&E service territory and provide them for grid services starting in August 2022. megawatt/730-megawatt-hour project from Tesla being built near a natural-gas plant in the Monterey County community of Moss Landing.

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Clean Energy Canada

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Respondents also expressed strong support for energy storage (78%)—often paired with wind or solar power to store energy for later use—and homeowner-generated rooftop solar (75%). Natural gas production (48%) and exporting LNG (39%) were the least popular options presented.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 31, 2021

See our full coverage of the utility-scale solar power industry. Decarbonization is key to POWERGEN 2022 in Dallas. The plant is expected to be connected by the end of 2022. AEP Energy supplies electricity and natural gas to more than 500,000 customers in six states and Washington, D.C. as AEP Energy.

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R-Squared Energy

AUGUST 26, 2022

Note: The is the sixth article in a series on BP’s recently-released BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2022. Previous articles were: Wind And Solar Provided A Record 10% Of The World’s Power Generation In 2021. Natural Gas Production Set A New Record In 2021. exajoules, which is still more than wind and solar.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 17, 2023

billion liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in her Pennsylvania hometown, she will be facing off against some of the most powerful fossil fuel interests in the United States. LNG boom threatens to release vast amounts of methane, a powerful climate pollutant that is the main component of natural gas.

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R-Squared Energy

JUNE 15, 2023

This transition is being driven by several factors, including environmental regulations, competition from natural gas, and the declining cost of renewable energy. As coal-fired power plants are retired, there is a need for reliable and affordable zero-emission power replacements. Department of Energy.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

gigawatt "all-source" procurement that will pit new renewables, energy storage, demand response and other clean resources against natural gas-fired power plants in a race to meet what could be a major shortfall in grid capacity in the next four years. The all-source procurement is technically open to existing natural gas plants.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 13, 2021

Since its inception in 1990, LS Power has developed, constructed, managed or acquired more than 45,000 MW of power generation, including utility-scale solar, wind, hydro , natural gas-fired and battery energy storage projects. Rev has a 2.4-GW

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 28, 2020

microgrid outlook through 2022. These commercial systems rely on fossil-fueled generation or combined-heat-and-power systems, which are still more cost-effective for long-term power supplies than clean alternatives such as solar and batteries.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

APRIL 2, 2024

As of April 2022, 131 countries responsible for 88% of greenhouse emissions had committed to net zero emissions.  According to 2022 statistics, global hydrogen use touched 95 million tonnes, a year-on-year increase of nearly 3%. Anthropogenic emissions have resulted in a global temperature increase of 1.1°C,

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 26, 2020

Alliant, which serves about 1 million customers in the Midwestern states of Wisconsin and Iowa, currently relies on renewables for about 20 percent of its generation capacity, largely wind power in Iowa, with twice as much coming from natural gas plants.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 19, 2020

It ended the demand about 30 minutes later as demand began to fall and wind power ramped back up. CAISO hasn’t identified the power plants in question, but they could be natural-gas-fired plants, since those make up most of the state’s fleet. Berberich didn’t blame solar power for the rolling blackouts.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 30, 2020

But they’re also part of a broader Upper Midwest Energy Plan that includes increasing its wind portfolio by about 3,700 MW, or about 55 percent, by 2022, and adding about 3,000 MW of solar to its current 750 MW by 2030. Both Minnesota and Colorado, which contain the majority of Xcel’s 3.6

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Although the proposed ‘all-source’ procurement would allow existing natural gas-fired peaker plants to compete, it could also open a massive new market for renewable energy, energy storage, demand response and other preferred alternatives to fossil fuels. gigawatt reliability resources procurement between 2021 and 2023.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

A session called Funding the New Energy Paradigm: Innovative Financing Mechanisms & Clever Capital Structures will be presented during the POWERGEN Leadership Summi t in Dallas, Texas on January 28, 2022. . The push and pull of supply and demand. of total global emissions. Stepping back and taking a breath.

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Clean Energy Canada

AUGUST 8, 2023

Costs of clean power A recent Clean Energy Canada report, A Renewables Powerhouse , looked at the costs of producing power from wind and solar in Alberta and Ontario compared to gas power. Even when the costs of battery storage are included, both wind and solar are cost-competitive in many scenarios.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 7, 2020

California’s two days of rolling blackouts in August were the result of disconnects between its existing grid reliability constructs and the needs of an increasingly solar-powered grid, and its failure to prepare for a Western U.S.-wide wide heatwave that undermined its reliance on out-of-state resources.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 17, 2021

Mature Thermochemical technologies include steam methane reforming (SMR) which relies on natural gas as an input and coal gasification which relies on coal. In contrast, the global hydrogen market is expected to reach $155 billion by 2022. Gas prices currently remain high compared to some overseas markets.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 16, 2024

In November, he instructed his province’s public utilities, SaskPower and SaskEnergy, to stop collecting carbon taxes on natural gas as of January 1, 2024, if the federal government didn’t extend the same carbon price carve out to his province. The most extreme reaction was from Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 14, 2020

California grapples with this heat wave in the midst of a historic shift from a grid that depends on natural gas for capacity to a system that eliminates carbon emissions by 2045. The state’s pre-eminent solar power fleet already meets much of demand during the sunny hours, but fades away as the sun sets.

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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. In 2022, we expect more utilities will likely get onboard and firm up commitments and strategies.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 25, 2022

The system aims to deliver more cost-effective, reliable and sustainable electricity to National Grid customers in Cicero, New York, while leveraging solar energy during nonpeak periods to increase grid capacity. Read more: [link] — Convergent Energy + Power (@ConvergentEP) May 24, 2022.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

The claim plays on the idea, often promoted by opponents of climate action, that renewable energy from wind and solar power is unreliable. In April 2022 she wrote of “the high real cost of renewable generation”, arguing that “renewable electricity is not cheap”. Another of her sources, Paul Homewood, has written for the GWPF.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The figures indicate that Ohio can expect a steep curve in solar project construction over the next several years as greenlighted projects are built and more are approved. The fast growth of solar capacity also fits with the national trend. Last year the figure was more than 90 million MWh. million short tons last year.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 15, 2022

Check out this list for alternative options The 9 Best Zero VOC Paints of 2022 (treehugger.com). Solar Power. Solar power is the most practical way for a home or business to reduce its reliance on fossil fuels and help the planet. These chemicals can have adverse effects on humans and are pollutants of waterways.

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 11, 2022

Strata Clean Energy originally conceived of and developed the 100-MW/400-MWh system after Oxnard residents prevented the construction of a natural gas-fired peaker plant. Power from the system is being sold to Southern California Edison under a 20-year purchase-and-sale agreement. Tesla 200 MWh battery storage facility.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The falling costs of wind and solar power are pushing utilities to find ways to incorporate them into their long-range plans, even as they struggle to define what resources can be relied on to provide the dispatchable power they need. Its 2020 integrated resource plan (IRP) sets a goal of nearly 16 gigawatts of solar, 5.1

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 15, 2022

Check out this list for alternative options The 9 Best Zero VOC Paints of 2022 (treehugger.com). Solar Power. Solar power is the most practical way for a home or business to reduce its reliance on fossil fuels and help the planet. These chemicals can have adverse effects on humans and are pollutants of waterways.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

million in 2021, with another six percentage point growth on the cards by the end of 2022. The IEA report warns that high input costs and inflationary pressures are adding to existing energy hiring and supply chain challenges in some regions and subsectors, including solar, wind, oil, and gas.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 7, 2020

If approved by the California Public Utilities Commission, the NextEra contract is set for delivery in 2023, while the other two utility-scale projects are schedule to come online in 2022. Pacific Gas & Electric is contracting seven battery projects totaling 423 megawatts , or nearly 1.7 Meeting short-term grid reliability needs.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

This marks Dominion Energy’s first solar energy investment in Ohio, where the company owns and operates a Cleveland-based natural gas local distribution company serving 1.2 Eunice Solar Project (Permian Energy Center) - Andrews, Texas. power grids," the researchers wrote. Courtesy: Ørsted). now has 53.8

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 17, 2022

EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen delivers a speech during a special plenary session of the EU Parliament in Brussels on March 01, 2022 (image credit: Alexandros Michailidis / Shtterstock.com). After all, consumer prices have become much higher than the cost of producing wind and solar power.

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Business Green

JULY 19, 2022

Technically, National Grid ESO's remit is "networked energy" - the electricity, natural gas and future hydrogen networks that share a grid network and are considered part of one overarching system. ESO's report details how day-ahead wholesale gas prices have shot up from an average of around 50p per therm (1.7

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 18, 2019

The state government itself is aiming to source 30 percent of its electricity from renewables by 2022. Second, Virginia is part of mid-Atlantic grid operator PJM, giving corporate solar projects the opportunity to tap merchant revenue after their contracts expire.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2022

In July 2022 for example, Tata Steel announced that it wanted to decarbonise its UK operations – but would need huge financial help from government to do this. As an example, SKF’s Indian factories in Bangalore and Mysore have made solar power purchase agreements and now use more than 80% renewable energy.

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