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California’s Shift From Natural Gas to Solar Is Playing a Role in Rolling Blackouts

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Electricity demand for air conditioning throughout the region stretched California's power capacity and limited the state's ability to import power from nearby states. “That solar resource is fading fast, and we have to ramp up other resources quickly to meet that net peak event.”

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2 More Western Utilities Move to Close Coal Plants Early, Shifting to Renewables and Storage

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Tucson Electric Power’s 2020 Integrated Resource Plan calls for a steady phase-down of its coal-fired Springerville Generating Station: the plant would start operating on a seasonal basis in 2023, close down one of its 425-megawatts unit in 2027, and the other remaining unit by 2032. gigawatts of energy storage by 2035.

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California Demands 3.3GW of New Resources by 2023 to Meet Looming Grid Shortfall

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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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Wind and Solar Energy Take the Lead Over Hydropower

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Note: The is the final article in a series on the recently released 2023 Statistical Review of World Energy. Solar electricity consumption rose by a record 263 Terawatt-hours (TWh) — an increase of 25% from 2021 and surpassing wind power’s 251 TWh increase. Wind and solar reached a record 14.4% exajoules, up 0.7%

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PG&E’s Latest Energy Storage Procurement Includes Fleet of Behind-the-Meter Batteries

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This foray into behind-the-meter battery aggregation comes as part of PG&E’s efforts to meet the California Public Utilities Commission’s call for energy storage to help balance the state’s increasingly solar power-influenced grid. The leading U.S.

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Dominion Targets 24GW of Renewables and Storage in Move Toward Virginia’s Clean Energy Goals

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Under the law, Dominion Virginia and the smaller Appalachian Power Co. must supply 30 percent of their power from renewables by 2030, and Dominion must close all carbon-emitting power plants by 2045. Retreat from natural gas not enough for environmental advocates. manufacturing for the growing industry.

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Looming Grid Shortfall Prompts 2.5GW California Procurement Proposal

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gigawatt reliability resources procurement between 2021 and 2023. 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.