Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Hitachi Energy acquires eks Energy Tech major Hitachi Energy has announced a strategic acquisition of eks Energy, adding its advanced power electronics and energy management software capabilities to Hitachi’s growing portfolio.

Energy Monitor 119

Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor Energy 119

Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2023

The price of battery energy storage systems rose for the first time since records began in 2022, as raw material and component costs soared, and developers and system integrators increased their margins in the face of challenging economic headwinds and soaring energy costs worldwide. link] pic.twitter.com/C55UHprYIv.

Batteries 44

Batteries Fossil fuels Lithium Demand 44

Renewable Energy World

JULY 21, 2021

Massive 50-GW wind, solar, hydrogen power plant with unique ownership model announced in Australia. These projects will play a key role in our efforts to help states reach their clean energy targets, spur job creation and meet rising corporate demand for renewables.”.

North America 109

North America Power grid Resilience Hydrogen 109

Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Using advanced AI , the Capalo platform attempts to optimise the use of flexible energy assets, such as energy storage systems and EV charging stations, allowing the commissioning of weather-dependent renewable energy sources to grow by coordinating with the flexibility of the energy grid to adjust to production and demand fluctuations.

Energy 119

Energy Energy Startups Asia 119

Clean Energy Canada

JUNE 8, 2023

Demand for high-quality iron ore is subsequently expected to grow significantly. Hydrogen is a great example. Canada has the resources to grow green hydrogen production capacity with access to abundant freshwater and an electricity grid that’s already 84 per cent non-emitting.

Hydrogen 56

Hydrogen Demand Batteries Power grid 56

GreenTechMedia

MARCH 8, 2021

utilities such as Duke Energy and Southern Company that include SMRs in the longer-range suite of options to fully decarbonize their power grids by 2050. One example would be covering seasonal rather than daily mismatches between electricity demand and renewables production. Similar challenges have been leveled against U.S.

Nuclear Power 246

Nuclear Power Climate change Technology Government 246

Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Meanwhile, US-based substation equipment manufacturer Systems Control has been sold by Comvest Partners to Hubbell Incorporated, UK flexibility provider Statera Energy has been acquired by a Swedish equity infrastructure fund and $550 million debt and tax equity financing has been announced for US battery projects. billion ($1.7

Energy 72

Energy Energy Investment Batteries 72

GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

The threat of power grid-sparked wildfires is forcing California utilities to invest billions of dollars in hardening and monitoring their grids and to institute grid blackouts affecting up to hundreds of thousands of customers to reduce the risk of live wires sparking conflagrations.

Energy Monitor 166

Energy Monitor Solar Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Batteries 166

Smart Energy International

MAY 17, 2022

Enel and stakeholders of the power distribution ecosystem gathered in Rome for the Net Zero Grid Day, in which Enel announced Enel’s Open Power Grids association and Gridspertise’s expansion into the US as part of their ‘net zero strategy’ for grids. Open Power Grids association.

Power grid 52

Power grid Resilience Climate change Electricity 52

Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Through MERIT, ORNL scientists are looking for a medium to fill this gap, which they say will help the US achieve clean energy goals and expand capacity in an overburdened power grid without erecting thousands of miles of new transmission lines.

Electricity 59

Electricity Power grid Energy Energy 59

Business Green

MAY 5, 2021

Surging demand for the minerals needed to build solar panels, wind turbines, hydrogen electolysers, batteries, and electric vehicles (EV) is set to accelerate further in the coming years, fuelling fears the net zero transition could be hampered by a metals supply crunch in the coming years.

Fossil fuels 69

Fossil fuels Lithium Demand Batteries 69

R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

This is notable because it would actually boost the demands on the power sector, which will increase the challenges of decarbonizing the sector. He didn’t mention nuclear power or carbon sequestration in this speech, but his website does mention them among four specific goals designed to decarbonize the power sector.

Natural gas 60

Natural gas Demand Solar Power Batteries 60

Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 13, 2022

With this GM is the latest vehicle manufacturer to broaden the potential of its EV development to create new business opportunities, particularly around storage, for which the demand is growing as more and more homes and businesses turn to solar PV and other clean energy technologies. Have you read?

Energy 52

Energy Energy Electric vehicle Power grid 52

Smart Energy International

AUGUST 10, 2022

Thorben Fohrmann and Bernd Niemann from Siemens Energy explain how to ensure grid stability of power grids built for central power plants in an age of increasing distributed generation. Listen to the audio version of ‘Safeguarding the stability of the grid’ , read by Philip Gordon. Gaining time for next steps.

Europe 59

Europe Energy Energy Batteries 59

Business Green

MARCH 8, 2023

The UK's climate advisory body latest report provides an in-depth assessment of the mix of renewable, flexible grid, hydrogen, nuclear, and carbon capture technologies that will need to be in place by the middle of the 2030s if the government is to deliver on its stated goal of operating a nearly completely decarbonised power grid by 2035.

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Government Hydrogen Power grid Policy 40

Smart Energy International

MARCH 4, 2022

Despite the Covid-19 pandemic, 2021 was a record-breaking year for investment in the energy transition and the deployment of renewable power, battery storage, and sustainable transportation, according to the 2022 Sustainable Energy in America Factbook published by BloombergNEF (BNEF) and the Business Council for Sustainable Energy (BCSE).

Energy 52

Energy Energy Natural gas Investment 52

Hydrogen Fuel News

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Photoncycle claims it can store solar power from summer to winter cheaper than batteries. The company says solid hydrogen is the key to bringing the solution to the market in as little as a couple of years. Any excess energy will be sold to the power grid. Capturing heat to heat houses.

Solar Energy Monitor 100

Solar Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Hydrogen 100

Hydrogen Fuel News

APRIL 3, 2024

The company has a target revenue of $200 million for these H2 solar batteries. a wholly owned subsidiary, is working on a low-cost hydrogen fuel cell intended to function as residential solar batteries. Reducing annual energy costs Gardner pointed to a number of studies to support his claims about the hydrogen fuel cell.

Hydrogen 64

Hydrogen Fossil fuels Batteries Sustainability 64

Business Green

MARCH 8, 2023

The overall message is clear: the government needs to get a move on, or risk missing out on much needed global green investment, as well as a more energy secure grid system. "The We need to see rapid progress across both renewables and hydrogen deployment to make the 2035 target achievable."

Hydrogen 40

Hydrogen Government Climate change Policy 40

Smart Energy International

JULY 27, 2022

It also aims to encourage the use of interties from provinces and territories with an abundance of hydroelectric power; incentivise increased use of hydrogen, battery storage and carbon capture and storage; and help to set the stage for the increased use of demand-side management and distributed energy in Canada.

Natural gas 52

Natural gas Fossil fuels Carbon-neutral Electricity 52

Business Green

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Because the solution to the challenge of renewables intermittency sits at the very core of how a decarbonised and electrified UK economy will operate, and as so-called smart grid technologies mature new market opportunities are fast emerging.

Solar Energy Monitor 36

Solar Energy Monitor Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring 36

Business Green

MAY 18, 2021

It provides direct advice to governments and its annual World Energy Outlook reports, which offer projections for future energy sources and demand, have provided the bedrock for major energy investment and policy decisions that help shape the trajectory of the global market. Solar and wind power will dominate the net zero economy.

Fossil fuels 90

Fossil fuels Natural gas Demand Government 90

Business Green

JUNE 11, 2021

Hydrogen fuel cell technology may play a small but crucial role here, making up around 10 per cent of the total fleet in 2050, but fully electric trucks look set to be the future, the report states. Moreover, vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology holds massive potential to help ease demand for power if rolled out at mass scale.

Transportation 51

Transportation Electric vehicle Electricity Demand 51

Business Green

MAY 4, 2020

Unprecedented low demand for power coupled with high renewables generation offers both headaches – and lessons – for the energy transition. To compound the challenge for grid operators, it is very difficult to simply 'switch off' certain power generators, with nuclear and some forms of renewable energy posing a particular challenge.

Demand 41

Demand Electricity Technology Carbon 41

GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Out in Utah, a coal-fired power plant supplying electricity to Los Angeles is being outfitted with natural-gas-fired turbines that will eventually be able to run on hydrogen, created via electrolysis with wind and solar power and stored in massive underground caverns for use when that clean energy isn’t available for the grid.

Hydrogen 130

Hydrogen Natural gas Lithium Batteries 130

Business Green

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

But Carbon Tracker has stopped short of calling for the existing system to be completely overhauled, warning a significant shift in design could threaten the power market's progress towards the goal of delivering a net zero emissions system by 2035 because it would introduce uncertainty over the revenues renewable power generators can expect.

Electricity 51

Electricity Government Carbon Energy 51

Business Green

MARCH 9, 2023

A power system running solely on clean energy technologies is entirely feasible During a media briefing yesterday, CCC officials made a point of emphasising the huge amount of work it has put into producing its most detailed and comprehensive analysis of the UK's energy system to date.

Power grid 57

Power grid Hydrogen Carbon-negative Government 57

Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

The "world's largest" CO2-to-methonal plant has started production in China this week, with developers hailing how they are capturing waste carbon dioxide and hydrogen gases from a steelmaking factory to produce hundreds of thousands of tonnes of methanol annually for use as a fuel or chemical feedstock.

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Methane Electric vehicle Europe Transportation 36

GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

They’re also a key dispatchable assets to help meet peak grid demand. Stage 2: ‘reshape’ the demand side of the grid.

Solar Energy Monitor 130

Solar Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring 130

Clean Energy Canada

JUNE 17, 2019

What’s more, we have a secret weapon that many Canadians aren’t aware of: our power grid is over 80 per cent non-polluting and getting cleaner every year. In other words, when we plug things into that grid, the pollution reductions are significant. And Ballard Power , hailing from Burnaby, B.C., Consumer rebates.

Electric vehicle 40

Electric vehicle Government Investment Electricity 40

Smart Energy International

JULY 5, 2022

And up to 30% of the principle storage task is helping keep the grid stable, keeping frequency and voltage intolerance above 30%. It’s more about matching fundamental supply and demand. Also of interest: 2GW UK battery storage projects to expand grid capacity DEWA doubles down on storage with patent for redox flow battery stack.

Energy 98

Energy Energy Hydrogen Batteries 98

Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 17, 2022

Converting to a 21st-century grid that is increasingly based on variable resources requires a completely new way of thinking. New sources of flexibility – the ability to keep supply and demand in balance over all time scales – are essential to enable this transition. Storage is now largely being provided by lithium-ion batteries.

Solar Energy Monitor 117

Solar Energy Monitor Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 117

GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 8, 2021

wide transmission build-out could also slash the costs of reaching a zero-carbon grid with wind, solar and battery technologies that are cost-effective today. First, nationwide transmission allows power-sharing across regions facing widely different weather systems that drive variation in wind and solar generation.

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Carbon-neutral Carbon North America Electricity 130

Business Green

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Reforming power pricing to take better account of regional patterns of supply and demand could hold the key to accelerating the development of a net zero emission electricity system, collectively saving British consumers £2.1bn a year on their bills in the process, a report by Policy Exchange and Aurora Energy Research today claims.

Electricity 71

Electricity Policy Carbon Hydrogen 71

Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

grid: business as usual; decarbonization, meaning a massive shift to low-carbon and carbon-free energy sources; and decarbonization with economy-wide electrification of activities that are powered now by fossil fuels. One advantage solar power has over many other low-carbon technologies is that most of the U.S. power grid.

Solar Power 90

Solar Power Electricity Hydropower Fossil fuels 90

Business Green

DECEMBER 9, 2020

For example, the CCC now expects decarbonising electric cars and vans so that they run on batteries or other zero carbon technologies will be cheaper than continuing to run petrol and diesel vehicles over the next 30 years. Due to efficiencies, regulation, and economies of scale, the costs of key technologies continues to decline.

Carbon 94

Carbon Fossil fuels Policy Government 94

Climate Tech VC

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Ford hit the brakes on construction of a new EV battery plant in Michigan last week as union workers escalated the strike against Detroit’s big three automakers. The US OEMs say they can't include planned battery production facilities in the labor contract negotiations, but the EV transition still looms large over the talks.

Batteries 61

Batteries Investment North America Climate change 61