GreenTechMedia

JUNE 15, 2020

Local RA is costlier for these regions, which have higher loads and constrained transmission systems served by fewer local natural-gas plants that provide most of California’s capacity needs. That can allow those generators to demand higher prices. Last year the CPUC called for 3.3 Last year the CPUC called for 3.3

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Hydrogen Fuel News

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The diversity in their approach – from leveraging natural gas with carbon capture to harnessing renewable and biomass energy sources – showcases the multifaceted potential of hydrogen. These hubs are set to revolutionize the way we produce, store, and use hydrogen, paving the way for its commercial-scale deployment.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Plenty of industry observers and critics have pointed out the gaps between utilities’ 2050 net-zero carbon goals and their short- and long-term resource plans, many of which call for continued buildout of natural gas-fired power plants. Natural gas and oil pipelines also saw setbacks.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 26, 2021

New research asserts most have undermined those goals by keeping coal plants running and building new natural gas plants meant to operate for decades to come. utilities that still rely on coal and natural gas for most of their generation capacity. All but one call for new natural gas plants.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Although the proposed ‘all-source’ procurement would allow existing natural gas-fired peaker plants to compete, it could also open a massive new market for renewable energy, energy storage, demand response and other preferred alternatives to fossil fuels. Fitch wrote in Thursday’s proposed decision.

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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 26, 2023

In response to the federal government’s new plan to prepare workers for the energy transition , Premier Danielle Smith replied , “We are not going to be shutting down our oil and natural gas industry. The problem is that, while such words may pay lip service to Albertan oil and gas workers, they don’t serve them in reality.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 20, 2020

“PJM did a lot of good in this compliance order,” Casey Roberts, staff attorney with the Sierra Club’s Environmental Law Program, said in a Thursday interview. Demand-side resources have played an increasingly significant role in PJM’s market, although it remains dominated by natural gas-fired generators.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 20, 2021

shift away from coal and natural gas. Batteries, which have also seen dramatic cost declines over the past four years, will supply another 11 percent of new capacity, the first time the rapidly growing technology has marked significant national market share. Energy Information Administration. Since the Jan.

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R-Squared Energy

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Demand has returned, but supply hasn’t caught up. That’s a recipe for higher oil prices, and subsequently higher gasoline and natural gas prices. Europe’s natural gas crisis. Europe suffered from a natural gas shortage this year. batteries, solar panels, wind turbines). Honorable Mention.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

is President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), passed into law in August 2022. Below you’ll learn what subsidies and incentives are available to help your business transition to clean energy and cut fossil-fuel energy demand and the costs associated. And leading this transition in the U.S. meet net-zero goals.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 20, 2021

and Puerto Rico have adopted laws or executive orders setting goals for reaching 100% clean electricity by 2050 or sooner. Overall demand for electricity in 2020 was almost exactly the same as in 2005, and 24% lower than projected by federal energy forecasters. So far 17 states plus Washington, D.C., And 46 U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

SGIP was initially conceived of to provide customers with incentives to reduce their energy use during peak demand times and to promote energy self-sufficiency in response to California’s electricity crisis of 2001. The history. What's new. Our most recent action regarding the program adopts several significant changes.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

North Carolina utility law requires energy planning and ratemaking that results in the “least-cost mix of generation and demand-reduction measures” achievable. An analysis by Research Triangle Park-based think tank RTI shows the expenditures helped avoid over $4 billion in natural gas-fired electricity.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 22, 2020

Gulf Power is using its smart meter fleet for locational demand response. FPL is also planning more than 400 megawatts/900 megawatt-hours of battery energy storage at its Manatee Energy Storage Center, one of the largest projects in the country. Then there's PacifiCorp, which serves about 1.9

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Clean Energy Canada

AUGUST 8, 2023

Estimates indicate that power demand could double between now and 2050 and generation capacity will need to be up to 3 times larger. Specifically it found: In Alberta and Ontario, wind can now produce electricity at lower costs than natural-gas-fired power with even more cost reductions on the horizon.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 7, 2022

At the local level, 60 cities and counties have restricted natural gas hook-ups in buildings in some capacity, a trend that may accelerate with the flow of new money to all-electric buildings as part of the IRA. With the new tax credits under the IRA, demand for new projects is set to surge. If the world targets 1.5 Second, U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Developers in the space are concerned that the coronavirus pandemic’s impact on the economy will depress demand for tax equity investments, as banks and financial institutions will have less appetite for credits to offset tax liabilities in a year when profits were depressed. Solar tax credit impacts. Action by the U.S. Another $2.36

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

That dynamic is due to the cheaper price for batteries, but also demand from customers to match electricity to renewable supply. The city of Los Angeles, which LADWP serves, plans to meet 100 percent renewable energy by 2045 under its Green New Deal, meaning it will have to wean itself off of natural gas.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Then, after several months of a slow increase in demand, oil prices dropped again this week as Americans hunker down for another round of shutdowns to curb the coronavirus. Here's how the Great Pause of 2020 accelerated forces already in motion: First, oil demand plummeted as the world stood still in the spring.

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Climate Tech VC

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Meanwhile, oil continues its price ascent while California interconnection gets speedier and UAW wins union protection for GM battery plant workers.  ⚡ Elyos Energy , a London, UK-based energy flexibility and demand response platform, raised $3M in Seed funding from Rebel Fund, Zeno Partners, Endgame Capital, and Y Combinator.

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Clean Energy Trust

JUNE 9, 2020

Link The New York Times had a feature on this point as well, highlighting upcoming electric truck models and discussing how they will be a useful barometer for overall electric vehicle demand (since they are the types of vehicles that sell well). Link A gigantic battery procurement is underway in California.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Batteries are another important tool in the kit, but so are air conditioners, water heaters, refrigerators, pumps, and other behind-the-meter flexible loads — not to mention electric vehicles. The Golden State is by far the biggest market for solar, behind-the-meter batteries and plug-in electric vehicles. Massachusetts.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

This practice can be used as a reliability mechanism to ensure that there is enough generation available to meet energy needs in periods of high demand or as a mechanism for resources like energy storage to manage their unique operations (e.g., The storage story, from batteries to hydrogen. state of charge).

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

” Danly also voted against last month’s Order 2222 , which orders the country’s grid operators to allow aggregated distributed energy resources such as batteries, electric vehicles and demand response to participate in their wholesale energy, capacity and ancillary services markets.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Chairman Neil Chatterjee defended his agency’s progress Thursday, saying the two Republicans and one Democrat remaining at the five-member commission are moving ahead on key issues, such as expanding the country’s transmission network and integrating batteries into regional energy markets.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 23, 2022

liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports for Europe. It was 2014 and “American gas” would save Europe from being dependent on Russian gas imports. BP, Exxon, Shell, Equinor, Eni — many of the major fossil fuel companies — have all had long-standing stakes in Russian gas. Gas is not as easily transportable as oil.

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Charged

JULY 9, 2023

Direct reduction of iron (DRI) for steel accounts for another big chunk of current hydrogen demand. Heavy-duty trucking will all electrify, as in-hand battery energy densities allow 500-mile ranges today, 1,000-mile ranges in a year or two, and over double [the ranges of] current long-haul diesel rigs in the 2030s.”

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

However, it continues to burn coal and natural gas for baseload power and has not announced plans to phase out those power plants. Another emerging trend is cities banding together to demand changes from a utility. There’s a demand side of this equation that I think is out there but ends up being silent a lot of the time.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Key technologies include electrification, on-board batteries, solar panels, synthetic fuels, carbon capture and storage and possibly hydrogen. Although heavy fuel oil is conventionally used in the shipping industry, Sleipnir operates on Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) with Marine Gas Oil (MGO) as pilot fuel and as a back-up.

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Clean Energy Trust

DECEMBER 6, 2021

The bipartisan infrastructure bill was signed into law. NET Power is building a new type of natural gas power plant that uses oxy combustion (burning natural gas with pure oxygen) and supercritical CO2 instead of steam in its turbine. Infrastructure Month! Here’s a summary from Canary Media.

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Jigar Shah

OCTOBER 8, 2019

As of this year, 29 states enforce a form of a clean energy standard, and seven states — along with Puerto Rico — have passed laws mandating 100% clean electricity by 2045 or 2050. But if we were to convert that energy into hydrogen, we could use it to offset the hydrogen made from natural gas transported long distances.

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 26, 2021

State mandates and consumer choice have sparked a demand for clean and green energy. Wind power turbines and home battery systems might have a little more industry wiggle room. However, it’s Tesla’s power wall battery storage for homes that may have the most profound market impacts for consumers. Clean Energy.

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Jigar Shah

OCTOBER 8, 2019

have passed laws mandating 100% clean electricity by 2045 or 2050. Both of these technologies have reached very low electricity generation costs, and they’ve even been able to integrate chemical battery storage into their standard offerings to increase flexibility?—?but Clean energy standards are all the rage in 2019.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Meanwhile, demand for coal, oil and natural gas fall by 80 per cent, 60 per cent and 45 per cent, respectively, by 2060 compared with last year. Ford said its Tennessee factory - called Blue Oval City - will cover a six-square-mile area and build next-generation electric pickup trucks and batteries from 2025.

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Climate Tech VC

JULY 17, 2023

Source: Natural Gas Intelligence IRA enticement: The EOR to CCS pipeline? 🔋 Neuron Energy , a Mumbai, India-based developer of EV batteries for micromobility vehicles, raised $24M in Seed funding from Equanimity Investments, Rajiv Dadlani Group, and others. In the News The EU narrowly passed a nature recovery law.

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Mr. Sustainability

JANUARY 25, 2021

It contains natural gas, helium, and carbon dioxide. Solar panels, wind turbines, and lithium-ion batteries have all followed this trajectory over the past two decades. Once separated from carbon dioxide, natural gas is used for heating and cooking in homes and sold to power plants to generate electricity.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 29, 2022

And there were new climate laws in the United States and Europe, which breathed new life to climate action in those countries. With demand for talent outstripping supply, companies are increasingly tapping the large consultancies to find their next sustainability and ESG hires. It's not just on-road vehicles.

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