Business Green

JANUARY 12, 2021

Britain also chalked up a number of green electricity records last year as record levels of wind and solar generation dominated the power grid during periods of low demand thanks to lockdown measures spurred by the coronavirus crisis, and several of the UK's remaining coal plants shuttered. Overall, coal generated just 1.6

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Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2023

BloombergNEF also expects costs across the sector to remain high throughout 2023, due to high raw material and labour costs, soaring demand for battery packs from automakers, and cost increases across other parts of their supply chain, such as for power conversion systems and balancing services.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 2, 2020

The government is aiming to get the prototype nuclear fusion plant that can provide a new source of clean energy to the UK's power grid up and running by 2040, and has committed to spending £222m on the early-stage design phase of the project. Land conditions, grid connection, and water supplies will all be taken into account.

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Business Green

MARCH 8, 2022

A smart energy system will allow us to use cheaper renewable energy, reduce waste and help us end our reliance on fossil fuels. Smart meters also support the transition to a low-carbon energy system by unlocking new approaches to managing demand," BEIS said. Want to help celebrate and showcase the best of the green economy?

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CleanTech San Diego

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Cleantech San Diego member Baker Electric Home Energy, a leading solar, battery, and home energy solution provider, has announced the launch of its ChargeOn Battery Rewards Program in partnership with sonnen, a global market leader in smart energy storage and virtual power plant (VPP) technology. Customer enrollment is already underway.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Fossil fuel firms are broadly focusing on 'blue' hydrogen, which produces hydrogen from fossil gas and then captures and stores the resulting carbon emissions. Delta EE's research calculates that a 6GW pipeline of already-announced projects is planned by the end of 2024. A rapid growth in production is certainly needed.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Wood Mackenzie's latest Global Energy Storage Outlook projects that deployments will grow 13-fold over the next six years, from a 12 gigawatt-hour market in 2018 to a 158 gigawatt-hour market in 2024. Energy storage can also provide backup power during events that disrupt the power grid.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

APRIL 24, 2021

Washington’s unique advantages (power grid, heating demand) could keep compliance costs lower. The study appears to ignore mechanisms that lower cost-burdens, particularly for low-income utility rate-payers that may return more than any initial cost increase, and investments to increase efficiency. [2]

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Business Green

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The government described the new nuclear financing plan as a "win-win" that would help de-risk and therefore encourage more private investment, while also cutting costs for businesses and consumers, helping decarbonise the power grid, and boosting jobs and growth in the sector.

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Business Green

JUNE 11, 2021

Sales continue to surge in key markets, while scores of producers and users of cars, buses, trucks, and even scooters are now pushing towards ridding their operations of fossil fuel vehicles altogether. Moreover, vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology holds massive potential to help ease demand for power if rolled out at mass scale.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 17, 2020

The San Francisco-based utility is emerging from bankruptcy with a massive debt load that could make it harder to raise the tens of billions of dollars of investment needed to prevent its power grid from causing more devastating wildfires. PG&E plans to invest about $40 billion over the next five years into its power grid.

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The Verge: Energy

APRIL 24, 2024

While most of the world still runs on dirty fossil fuels, Costa Rica has generated nearly all of its electricity from renewable sources of energy for nearly a decade. Climate change poses new risks to the power grid, and Costa Rica has a lot of work left to do to get more solar and wind farms online.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The bidirectional design of the Twin States line will also allow the New England grid to export power to Canada when New England is producing more energy than it needs to meet its own demand, which is expected to occur as the offshore wind industry in New England expands. Join Enlit Europe in Paris.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 9, 2020

The government's Future Homes Standard - which requires all new build homes to be free of fossil fuels for heating - should be in place for new build homes by 2023. Energy, renewables and fossil fuels. That means a 70 per cent reduction in gas demand and an 85 per cent cut in oil demand by that date, according to the CCC.

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Climate Tech VC

MARCH 11, 2024

Reflecting Larry Fink’s statement “climate risk is investment risk”, the SEC’s ruling addresses growing investor demand for disclosing and pricing-in climate-related risks. ⚡ Gridcog , a London, UK-based power grid asset management platform, raised $4m in Seed funding from AlbionVC.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Last year, I committed to work with our Congress to quadruple our climate finance to provide $11bn annually by 2024, including $3bn for adaptation," he said. Biden's address also set out his administration's plans to crackdown on methane leaks in the US' fossil fuel industry.

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