GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Six months after inking California’s largest single energy storage procurement, utility Southern California Edison has added another three massive utility-scale battery projects to its portfolio—plus a behind-the-meter battery project with Sunrun. The four-hour duration 2.63 utility record books. The four-hour duration 2.63

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The United States can set a course to net-zero carbon by midcentury if it can radically overhaul its energy generation, transport, building and industrial sectors over the next decade, according to a major study from Princeton University. ” Five pathways to zero carbon.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 30, 2020

billion in new wind and solar investments in the next 12 months and is outlining plans for electric vehicle charging, energy storage and green hydrogen production pilot programs to meet its goal to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. Xcel made waves in late 2018 by setting its own net-zero carbon plans in advance of state mandates.

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Greentown Labs

JANUARY 30, 2024

Certain key renewables—including solar and wind power—are intermittent, meaning that it’s critical to store power from these sources to ensure reliable electricity, even on cloudy or windless days. The post EarthEn’s CO2 Battery Stores Renewable Energy for Four to 100 Hours, Enabling a Cleaner Grid appeared first on Greentown Labs.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 16, 2020

New York utility Con Edison has signed its biggest energy storage contract to date, a 100-megawatt/400-megawatt-hour lithium-ion battery project that will help balance a grid facing rising levels of offshore wind and other renewable power in the years to come. In New York City, the biggest battery is the 4.8

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Solar Industry

APRIL 23, 2024

Through this January, behind-the-meter battery storage systems among PG&E customers totaled more than 670 MW. PG&E retail customers also received 53% of their electric deliveries from carbon-free nuclear power generated by Diablo Canyon Power Plant and 13% from large hydroelectric power.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 22, 2024

Figure 1: Energy-related emissions and net-zero carbon budget, BNEF’s Economic Transition Scenario and Net Zero Scenario (Source: BloombergNEF. CCS is carbon capture and storage.) “Our A more nuanced picture of where low-carbon hydrogen can be most impactful in the energy transition, and where electrification plainly makes more sense.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 20, 2021

Renewable energy’s rapid growth is accelerating a national shift to a carbon-free electric power system. utilities have pledged to go carbon-free. Now the Biden administration and some members of Congress are proposing to decarbonize the power sector by 2035. Emission-free nuclear generation largely held steady.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

AUGUST 31, 2023

New technology is making carbon emission-free pink H2 possible at a very large scale. The US Department of Energy (DOE) is placing a major focus on nuclear hydrogen as a component of the US government’s proposed $7 billion push for clean H2 production. That said, no carbon emissions are produced along with those usable outputs.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 26, 2021

utilities have promised to eliminate their carbon emissions by midcentury. utilities are on track to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 80 percent by 2030 compared to a 2005 baseline, the target needed to prevent global warming beyond 1.5 Wind and solar power accounted for just above 10 percent of U.S. Most of the biggest U.S.

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R-Squared Energy

JULY 14, 2020

In a previous article , I analyzed the carbon footprint of producing hydrogen from fossil fuels. To recap, the carbon footprint of hydrogen production from natural gas in a steam methane reformer (SMR) is higher than from directly burning the natural gas. kilograms of carbon dioxide emitted per kilogram of hydrogen produced.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 3, 2020

” But by the end of the decade, battery storage will be the cheapest option for balancing Europe's grid, overtaking gas peakers, according to a new long-term energy storage outlook. Most of that will come from front-of-the-meter battery systems. ” Gas plants next on chopping block after coal.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

A new 5-gigawatt “low-carbon” hydrogen target for 2030 has been revealed, along with an ambition to heat an entire town with hydrogen by the end of the decade. Nuclear power will receive £525 million for the development of large and small-scale reactors. The hydrogen plans described above.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Last February, ExxonMobil announced it would further expand its only active carbon capture and storage (CCS) operation in the United States, located at a gas processing facility in LaBarge, Wyoming. The official launch of the Boundary Dam carbon capture and storage facility at a coal power plant in Canada on Oct.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

On its transmission network, 19 battery energy storage projects worth around 10GW will be offered dates to plug in, averaging four years earlier than their current agreement, based on a new approach which removes the need for non-essential engineering works prior to connecting storage.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 29, 2020

Two more utilities in Arizona and Colorado are moving to accelerate closure of coal plants and replace them with renewable energy backed by batteries, joining a broader push in both states to shift to more cost-effective clean energy options even in the absence of state mandates.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

utility can reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 while still keeping natural gas as a central part of its business, both to generate electricity and to sell to its customers. That includes a recommitment to reaching its 2030 goal of reducing carbon emissions below 50 percent of their 2007 levels, potentially ahead of schedule.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Financial think tank Carbon Tracker has urged the government to take its "foot off the gas" when planning future energy supply. The UK is committed to phasing out the UK's last 6GW of coal power by 2025, by which date almost half the country's 9GW nuclear fleet is due to be decommissioned.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Those include a deal with state power agency Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems to build 12 of its 50-megawatt modules by 2030 to deliver power across the Intermountain West as part of UAMPS’ Carbon Free Power Project. NuScale says it has also signed agreements with entities in the U.S.,

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R-Squared Energy

MARCH 1, 2020

In that article I divided carbon dioxide emissions into two broad categories: What has already been released into the atmosphere (the legacy emissions), and ongoing releases. There is some potential for removing CO 2 from the oceans as calcium carbonate, but that application is probably limited. Ongoing Emissions. In the U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

utilities pledging to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, with a long-range plan that invests nearly $8 billion in renewable energy and accelerates some coal plant closures — although it will retain much of its coal fleet through 2040. GW of nuclear, 820 megawatts of hydroelectric and 13 MW of solar. GW by 2040.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 21, 2020

What’s more, the bill “provides the industry a full extra year to negotiate longer-term tax credits or tie renewables directly with future carbon policies with the friendly Biden administration,” Manghani noted. R&D for clean energy, energy storage, carbon capture and nuclear power. Another $2.36

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The Verge: Energy

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Hydrogen combustion releases water vapor, rather than planet-heating carbon dioxide emissions. The problem is that today, most hydrogen is made with the help of fossil fuels — mostly through a process called steam-methane reforming that produces carbon dioxide emissions.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 14, 2020

California regulators have allowed utilities to replace capacity from the closed San Onofre nuclear power plant with new gas-fired peaker plants, though they also required Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas & Electric to seek out batteries, energy efficiency and demand response to meet part of the shortfall.

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 17, 2022

In the summer of 1988, scientist James Hansen testified to Congress that carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels was dangerously warming the planet. The Biden administration’s goal is to have a carbon emissions-free grid by 2035. will need to nearly triple its 2020 growth rate for the grid to be 80% powered by clean energy by 2030. (As

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 10, 2020

New York state’s zero-carbon energy goals will require new transmission to carry upstate wind and hydro to downstate markets, plus a wave of new batteries and other balancing agents to balance the state's increasingly intermittent renewable mix. percent in 2018, and hitting 100 percent zero-carbon emissions by 2040.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Arizona may soon join a lengthening list of states pledging to reach 100 percent carbon-free power by 2050, although a final decision on its plan to get there won’t be made until after Tuesday’s election. By midcentury, these utilities will be required to phase out all fossil-fueled generation.

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Clean Energy Trust

OCTOBER 8, 2021

September 2021 Cleantech Roundup: Illinois Goes Green | Battery Materials Supply Chain Evolves | What’s the SAF word? The law will phase out fossil fuels in energy generation, provides additional funding for the construction of renewable energy projects, subsidizes some existing nuclear power plants in the state, and a host of other features.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 19, 2020

Pacific Gas & Electric has asked California regulators to approve seven battery projects totaling 423 megawatts, or nearly 1.7 gigawatts of carbon-free resources to help meet grid reliability needs that will arise when four natural gas-fired power plants retire next year to reduce their environmental harm to coastal waters.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

The global battery market is set to grow into a massive industry in the next decade, but policymakers today will decide which regions benefit the most in future, explain McKinsey's Nicolò Campagnol, Alexander Pfeiffer, and Christer Tryggestad. Winning companies will be those that act in the next few years.

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38 North Solutions

MAY 3, 2024

Special Consideration: Related to Battery Manufacturing: Similarly, if a battery manufacturing facility was constructed using 48C, then it is ineligible for the Section 45X (advanced manufacturing credit). property designed to capture, remove, use or sequester carbon dioxide emissions; e.

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Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 16, 2024

In other news, Hertz shifts gears on its EV strategy, Kerry steps down from his climate envoy post, and AI helps discover promising new battery materials.  The last few months have brought a slew of major announcements signaling ammonia’s potential future as a low-carbon fuel.    Want more deals?

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 7, 2021

Another challenge outlined in the white paper is the feasibility of planned renewable developments, which would be needed to fill the demand gap left by declining coal generation and the ongoing decommissioning of nuclear power plants. Following the coal and nuclear phase-out, this capacity will have to be delivered by other assets.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 6, 2021

California and other states are pushing to use clean electricity to power vehicles and buildings to cut carbon, which will increase demand. And the state’s last nuclear power plant and numerous coastal gas power plants are facing retirement. But rising temperatures from climate change are just one challenge.

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Business Green

MAY 26, 2020

EDF has finally submitted plans for its long-trailed Sizewell C nuclear power project in Suffolk, today announcing it has lodged an official application to begin construction work on the multi-billion pound facility towards the end of next year. The same company also holds a 33 per cent stake in Hinkley Point C.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 21, 2021

Power Potential was developed to help manage the rapid increase in wind and solar farms, and battery storage connecting to local electricity networks. That’s almost as much as the UK’s entire nuclear power output.

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Business Green

JULY 17, 2022

Advanced nuclear technologies, modular manufacturing methods and new approaches to project finance could usher a more cost-effective era for the UK's nuclear industry, writes LSE's Esin Serin. As part of its approach to dealing with energy security concerns, the UK government has turned to nuclear power.

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