Renewable Energy World

JULY 13, 2021

Last year the number of residential battery systems installed in Australia increased by 20%. The 31,000 battery systems that were installed is a remarkable number, considering Australia entered a recession in September last year for the first time in almost 30 years. State-based Solar Battery Rebates.

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The Guardian: Energy

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Organisers believe the surging demand for electric vehicles in Australia can help revive showcase car shows – once a drawcard for petrol heads and car nerds, this fresh incarnation feels more like walking into an Apple store. Continue reading.

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The Environmental Blog

MAY 23, 2023

High temperatures increase the demand for air conditioning and may reduce the capacity of existing generation assets. It will require new investments in flexible technologies such as batteries and electric vehicles. It will also require changes in consumer behavior to reduce the energy demand when the weather is terrible.

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 28, 2021

The deployment of renewables has reached the point where balancing the electric grid requires shifting the supply of intermittent energy sources and demand on a MW-to-GW scale. The widespread use of grid storage can save utilities and their customers large amounts of money by evening out demand across time.

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Energy Storage News

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Dr Alastair Martin of Flexitricity sheds light on negative energy pricing and the opportunity it represents for batteries.

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The Environmental Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Colder months call for antifreeze and battery checks. Warmer weather demands inspection of cooling and AC systems. The post Lifecycle Maintenance: Prolonging Truck Efficiency Through Comprehensive Care appeared first on The Environmental Blog. Documenting service forms good habits and can pay off when selling vehicles later.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 2, 2021

Now, Duke Energy, one of the state’s vertically integrated investor-owned utilities, has worked with stakeholders to create a program that addresses winter peaking with a combination of solar, time-of-use rates, smart thermostats, and soon additional technologies that will likely include battery storage.

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Business Green

MARCH 24, 2020

He explained that in some regions with high shares of wind and solar generation, such as California and Spain, if demand declines and weather conditions continue as expected, it potentially offers an opportunity for renewables to take up an even higher share of generation than usual. But the situation varies significantly between nations.

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The Environmental Blog

APRIL 22, 2024

Many of these applications offer automation features, further reducing energy consumption and costs, for example, by automatically switching off devices when not in use or adjusting heating and cooling output based on actual demand. The post Introduction to Intelligent Power Management appeared first on The Environmental Blog.

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Mr. Sustainability

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Click here to go straight to Wartsila and find your region or click here to visit PV-magazine which serves as a basis for this blog. Astonishingly, Wartsila states that overbuilding enough renewable capacity to meet winter demand eliminates the need for seasonal storage. Is it possible to run on solar, wind and batteries only?

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AutoGrid

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

In this blog, I make the case for a more comprehensive definition of DERMS. Maintaining grid stability and balancing supply and demand from both DERs and grid-scale assets have become increasingly complex.

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Energy Storage News

APRIL 12, 2024

This Friday Briefing takes a look at how residential battery storage and other DERs can be a force for the greater grid.

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The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Located in the Gansu Province, this colossal wind energy project is a shining example of how a country can harness its vast natural resources to address its growing energy demands while simultaneously reducing its carbon footprint. The post The largest and most spectacular wind farms in the world appeared first on The Environmental Blog.

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Charged

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Hydrogen opponents cite its inefficiency relative to batteries, and question the wisdom of building a complex and costly new infrastructure. A recent article in the Desmog blog explains the dynamics of the developing hydrogen sector in detail, and includes links to various resources and arguments on both sides of the debate.

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AutoGrid

MAY 24, 2023

EVs can delay charging, for example, when prices are high and demand is peaking or can instead charge when prices are low due to decreased demand. The system will use the batteries of EVs to store excess renewable energy and feed it back into the grid during peak demand periods. V2G is now technically possible.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

“The science is clear: The world must act now if we’re going to avert the worst consequences of climate change,” Pichai wrote in the blog post. Google's supply, demand and policy approach. West driven by increased heat and dry conditions linked to global warming from human carbon emissions.

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AutoGrid

JULY 5, 2023

We will focus on the opportunities for “utility-scale” or “grid-scale” energy storage in this blog. They can help to balance the supply and demand of electricity by storing excess energy and providing services that help complement new or existing renewable generation deployments.

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AutoGrid

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Industrial customers were once viewed merely as attractive loads to be managed for first generation demand response (DR) programs. As detailed in this blog , as much as 160 GW of VPP capacity is possible in the U.S. PSE’s Future VPP Prospects The PSE program is just the beginning. VPPs in the U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 27, 2021

million to equip grocery stores with thermal batteries. But he and the team thought there was still potential in the software they had developed to accompany the thermal batteries. Instead of using a tank of saline solution to store energy, a grocery store can use software to precool its freezers to dodge utility demand charges.

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The Environmental Blog

JUNE 8, 2022

This is in conjunction with the industry’s shift towards battery-powered vessels such as the Yara Birkeland and China’s Zhongtiandianyun 001. Stronger demand for shore-to-ship power. The post 5 Maritime Sustainability Trends for 2022 appeared first on The Environmental Blog.

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AutoGrid

AUGUST 6, 2019

Energy-Storage Control Options: Optimizing Batteries for Maximum Value. In this blog, we discuss energy-storage control options to manage battery storage units. As the price of battery storage falls and its usage continues to increase, it is important to look at different programs and systems that can optimize its usage.

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AutoGrid

AUGUST 6, 2019

Energy-Storage Control Options: Optimizing Batteries for Maximum Value. In this blog, we discuss energy-storage control options to manage battery storage units. As the price of battery storage falls and its usage continues to increase, it is important to look at different programs and systems that can optimize its usage.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 15, 2021

Storage solutions for solar energy are varied, but lithium-ion batteries similar to those used in electronics and electric vehicles are the most popular, according to the Solar Energy Industries Association. Battery prices of these systems dropped recently because growing demand is leading to production increases.

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 28, 2021

The transition to renewables is now high on the agenda for developers, investors, utilities, and policymakers, and is being driven by demand from the corporate market that sees procuring energy from a renewable source as a key part of their decarbonization plans. Innovation to meet demand.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 2, 2021

Currently, electric cars rely on lithium and cobalt batteries to run, which, whilst undoubtedly better for the environment than carbon, aren’t entirely clean. Because lithium cathodes degrade over time, they can’t simply be placed into new batteries. We ideally need to shift to batteries that use less cobalt, or none at all.

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Energy Storage News

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

This Friday Briefing focuses on New York's fight to get rid of dangerous peaker plants, and getting battery storage manufacturing right.

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AutoGrid

OCTOBER 18, 2022

As my colleague Peter Asmus noted in a blog published this past May, Australia is leading the way with market conditions ripe for the creation of virtual power plants (VPPs). Demand patterns are also changing as domestic heating and transportation quickly electrify. Wild and Getting Wilder: The Australian Energy Crisis. The solution?

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Business Green

JANUARY 4, 2022

The number of battery electric vehicles (EVs) sold in the UK is likely to double in 2022, potentially taking a 15 per cent share of the total new car market by the end of the year, analysts have predicted. The industry body has yet to publish sales figures covering all 12 months of 2021. "We

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AutoGrid

AUGUST 16, 2023

August 16, 2023, marks the first full year of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), and this milestone demands a health check. Engaged Consumers and VPPs Are the Key IRA Innovation Call me biased, but one of the most inspiring elements of the IRA is the incentive structure for a wide variety of DERs, as was highlighted in this blog last year.

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Low Impact

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

As climate demands are raised, the aviation sector is redoubling its greenwashing efforts, pointing to improbable technological step-changes for ‘greener’ flights. In “fully-electric” aircraft, these motors are powered by electrical energy provided directly from batteries or hydrogen fuel cells (see Fact Sheet 3).

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The Environmental Blog

JANUARY 26, 2021

Perhaps one of the most prolific impacts on the energy market in 2020 was the plummeting demand for oil which reached a ground-breaking value of minus $37.63 The oil demand crisis instigated by the pandemic may not last much longer, with the BNEF predicting a re-balance in the global oil market in 2021. Oil to Re-Balance.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

Paul-Frederik Bach, a former transmission system operator executive, started tracking European wholesale electricity prices on his blog in 2014. “Whichever plant was required to meet the last megawatt of demand is the price-setting technology,” said Tom Edwards, senior modeler at Cornwall Insight, in an email.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The next frontier goes beyond the shift from fossil fuels to renewables and moves toward different power resources working together—wind, solar, batteries and energy efficiency in many different permutations—to deliver clean energy affordably and efficiently in ways that were just theoretical only recently. The midwestern U.S.

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Business Green

APRIL 21, 2021

The company added that it is also working to shift data centre backup generation to run on batteries, as well as progressing plans for time-based clean energy tracking that would enable its cloud customers to select the lowest carbon regions for their services.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 17, 2020

It will involve negotiating with auto manufacturers to reduce EV prices and aggregating demand to help drive down costs across the supply chain. Lyft also plans to do more to connect drivers to charging providers and help make EV charging infrastructure more ubiquitous and reliable. "If

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

For more details, visit the product page on itron.com, read the blog or see the solution details below. Braby elaborates that “we believe we have created a game-changing platform that can operate at the scale that EV charging and DERs demand over the next several decades.”. The EV Charging Optimizer solution is available now.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 5, 2021

While the 100% RE vision has somewhat become mainstream in the renewable energy bubble, the importance of reducing demand for energy is still often overlooked. Both areas triggered unemployment reduction and stimulated further investments, ultimately reducing costs and increasing demand. Energy efficiency to build back better.

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