Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Global renewable power generation is growing at an unprecedented rate , driven by the favourable economics of wind and solar along with energy security concerns around oil and gas (largely caused by recent wars), and emissions goals. These options can enable relatively high shares of wind and solar on a grid.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 13, 2021

LS Power announces the formation of Rev Renewables LLC to develop, acquire and operate energy storage and renewable projects, including conventional hydropower and pumped storage. Rev is the latest effort by LS Power to support the commercialization and deployment at-scale of clean energy technologies.”. Rev has a 2.4-GW

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Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Current nuclear and large hydropower capacity add up to around 50 GW. Most of the new transmission buildout is projected to be driven by a near doubling of electricity demand between 2020 and 2030. . A coal power plant capacity of 229 GW (23 GW net addition over 2020) also was found to be cost-effective.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 29, 2019

Department of Water and Power Board of Commissioners voted 2-1 in favor of the Eland solar project, but with one member abstaining and one absent, it failed to clear the majority needed to approve. By shifting solar power into the evening, the plant would reduce the need to rely on gas peakers or hydropower to meet peak demand.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

That’s because those plants provide critical flexibility to meet peaks in grid demand and deliver power when wind and solar resources may not be reliably producing enough to meet customers’ needs. The natural gas conundrum.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Alstom to deliver new battery electric trains for Chemnitz-Leipzig line. Engineering giant Alstom has signed a landmark deal with two German rail operators that will see it manufacture, deliver and maintain eleven Coradia Continental battery-electric trains for the Leipzig-Chemnitz route.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Climate change-induced heat waves are once again increasing demand for electricity just as the impacts of wildfires, drought and a diminished snowpack have coalesced to reduce electricity supplies and disrupt critical transmission and distribution systems. How hydropower balances a renewable energy grid.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 25, 2020

The modeling highlighted this discrepancy in the form of planning reserve margins, or the amount of generation required to meet peak grid demand in emergencies. Under the IRP scenario, that reserve margin could reach 48 percent — far greater than the 15 percent recommended by the North American Electric Reliability Corporation.

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The Verge: Energy

APRIL 24, 2024

In the winter, like a six-month period from June to December, many of the hydropower plants get surplus flows. That’s when we have low wind, but we have more hydropower. Why does Costa Rica rely so heavily on hydropower, which makes up 73 percent of electricity generation? Costa Rica lies in a tropical zone with heavy rainfall.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Department of Energy that found that solar power could generate up to 45% of the U.S. Why such a heavy focus on solar power? It concludes that the latter two scenarios would require approximately 1,050-1,570 gigawatts of solar power, which would meet about 44%-45% of expected electricity demand in 2050.

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Business Green

JUNE 19, 2022

Moreover, solar is already the cheapest source of power in many parts of Africa and is set to outcompete all other power sources continent-wide by 2030, as both solar PV and battery costs continue to fall. Africa has 5,000 bcm of discovered but not yet approved gas fields," Birol explained on Twitter this morning.

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EDF + Business

MARCH 28, 2023

per year Useful life of 17 years (model assumes a 17-year useful life, however, typical life of a solar system ranges from 30 to 40 years. 5376 – Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 , WH IRA Guidebook , DoE Solar Energy Technologies Office , IRC. Sources: Deloitte Analysis, H.R.5376 Sources: Deloitte Analysis, H.R.5376

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 20, 2022

Batteries get hyped, but pumped hydro provides the vast majority of long-term energy storage essential for renewable power. is going to need a lot more solar and wind power generation, and lots of cheap energy storage. To rely more on wind and solar power, the U.S. Genex Power. To cut U.S.

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 17, 2022

Then, beginning around 2009, first wind turbines and then solar photovoltaic panels decreased enough in cost to become competitive in electricity markets. The original foundation was a combination of “base load” coal plants that operated 24 hours a day and large-scale hydropower. Dennis Schroeder/NREL. Buildings use 74% of U.S.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 20, 2021

Overall demand for electricity in 2020 was almost exactly the same as in 2005, and 24% lower than projected by federal energy forecasters. Many devices that power our lives, such as LED lights , get more performance from a kilowatt-hour of electricity now than they did 15 years ago. Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, CC BY-ND.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The falling costs of wind and solar power are pushing utilities to find ways to incorporate them into their long-range plans, even as they struggle to define what resources can be relied on to provide the dispatchable power they need. Duke's utilities serve 7.7 million electric customers and 1.6 Southern Company.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 20, 2019

The common energy sources are Hydropower, Biomass, Biofuels, Wind, Geothermal and Solar Energy. Renewable energy can be defines as a form of energy derived from the natural sources which cannot be depleted such as wind or solar power. The flowing water energy is converted to electricity in the hydropower plants.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 19, 2020

Last year wind overtook hydropower in total generation, and 2020 is on track to be a record year for new wind farm construction. But all other energy sources are losing ground to solar these days, wind included. Solar accounted for 40 percent of new U.S. The company played an early role in Ontario's solar market.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

The Tennessee Valley Authority announced this week that it has contracted for 484 megawatts of solar power in the past two months, part of its push to expand its clean energy portfolio and reduce its reliance on coal power. and a 200-megawatt solar system with 200 megawatt-hours of batteries in Lowndes County, Mississippi.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 21, 2020

But the tax-credit extensions contained in the bill could provide a significant boost for the primary federal incentive structure for wind and solar power by extending the expiration dates set by Congress late last year. Solar tax credit impacts. Solar power will get $1.5

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 26, 2021

The gas-free scenario is also reliant on the greatest mix of as-yet untested technologies such as long-duration energy storage or small modular nuclear reactors — and it would involve keeping some of its coal plants open past 2030, to ensure it can provide reliable power in the winter when solar power is scarce.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 22, 2020

As the coronavirus struck the global economy earlier this year, demand for oil dropped by more than a fifth and prices collapsed. Many sources now suggest that oil demand has already passed its peak. I do not expect oil prices or demand for our products to recover in the medium term." The industry as we once knew it, is gone.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 22, 2020

Gulf Power is using its smart meter fleet for locational demand response. FPL is now putting NextEra’s deep renewables expertise to use in its in-state utility-scale solar plans, with more than 8 gigawatts planned by 2030. Then there's PacifiCorp, which serves about 1.9 NV Energy's IRP calls for adding nearly 1.2

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Biden would do his best to find a compromise or, barring that, force change through executive orders, making it easier to build renewables projects on federal land and waters, for instance, or requiring government agencies to procure more wind and solar power. The 100 GW or more of annual solar additions the U.S. Current U.S.

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