GreenBiz

AUGUST 13, 2020

The Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis reported that "the world’s largest publicly traded oil and gas companies shelled out a total of $71.2 Meanwhile, the coal and natural gas industries are also collapsing around us — a swift decline from the shale fracking boom. Natural Gas. What happened?

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

While the immediate cause is still being investigated, we do know that California’s grid was experiencing multiple, coincident stressors — high demand, generators not performing when called upon and energy imports not showing up. 15, resulted in an electric grid unable to meet customer demand. And not just in California.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Solar plus storage is fast emerging as a top choice, both at scale on the grid and also "behind the meter," installed in a home, apartment or commercial building. . When it comes to reliability, solar-with-storage systems offer the ability to charge a battery that can keep the power on during an outage.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

gigawatt "all-source" procurement that will pit new renewables, energy storage, demand response and other clean resources against natural gas-fired power plants in a race to meet what could be a major shortfall in grid capacity in the next four years. California regulators have approved a 3.3-gigawatt gigawatts by 2022.

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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. utility has yet fully fleshed out how it intends to eliminate natural gas power plants from its generation portfolio. To be sure, no U.S.

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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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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 19, 2020

homes and commercial buildings consume roughly two-fifths of the country’s overall energy, three-fourths of all electricity, and account for most of the peak electricity demand that drives generation and power grid infrastructure costs. event hosted by the Electric Power Research Institute and utility Duke Energy.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 19, 2020

Although temperatures dropped a bit on Monday, California still faces excessive heat warnings similar to those issued last week, driving air-conditioning demand. Conservation, demand response and backup generation. CAISO also was able to secure some scarce imported power, and wind power coming on late in the day helped too.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 6, 2021

Last summer’s record heat waves triggered a surge in power demand that maxed out supplies and led to outages across the West. California and other states are pushing to use clean electricity to power vehicles and buildings to cut carbon, which will increase demand. Contributed by Ben Paulos. ROOT CAUSES. THE BIG RETHINK.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

S&P Global Market Intelligence notes that power plant operators added 8,139 MW of new generating capacity to the ERCOT market last year -- 42% came from wind and 40% from solar. Natural gas-fired additions made up 13% of the new capacity. ERCOT is gaining ground in the energy storage sector.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 13, 2021

Energy storage and renewable generation are essential components in meeting our decarbonization goals while maintaining affordability, reliability, and resilience,” said Paul Segal, chief executive officer of LS Power. Rev has a 2.4-GW Subscribe to Renewable Energy World’s free, weekly newsletter for more stories like this.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 14, 2020

” Day-ahead power prices for Southern California hit their highest levels in two years, Bloomberg reported. At the time of publication, CAISO expected peak demand of 47,641 megawatts, and counted 51,857 megawatts of capacity available. CAISO counts 216 megawatts of battery capacity in commercial operation.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 7, 2020

California’s two days of rolling blackouts in August were the result of disconnects between its existing grid reliability constructs and the needs of an increasingly solar-powered grid, and its failure to prepare for a Western U.S.-wide wide heatwave that undermined its reliance on out-of-state resources.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 16, 2024

The investments will be used to upgrade the grid to connect more decentralised producers and users of solar and wind power, among them consumers who want to connect solar panels, heat pumps and wall boxes to benefit from the digital transformation.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 26, 2020

Alliant, which serves about 1 million customers in the Midwestern states of Wisconsin and Iowa, currently relies on renewables for about 20 percent of its generation capacity, largely wind power in Iowa, with twice as much coming from natural gas plants.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 28, 2020

These disruptions will begin to ease in late 2021 as the pandemic comes under control and project developers and customers seek to take advantage of expiring federal tax credits for solar PV systems that are becoming more prevalent in microgrid projects. and Eastern Seaboard.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Companies interested in this process cover a range of technologies, including pumped hydro, gravity-based, compressed air and flow batteries, as well as current market leader lithium-ion batteries. Wind and solar power are the fastest-growing sources of electricity globally, but they only produce at certain times.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

megawatts of generating capacity, with 20 megawatts coming from natural gas-fired generators and 2.5 megawatts from a ground-mounted solar photovoltaic installation. Onsite access to plentiful, cheap gas helps to explain the project’s dependence on gas-fired power. megawatts of solar PV.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 30, 2020

million electric and 2 million natural gas customers spread across eight states, are moving toward their own clean-energy and zero-carbon mandates. One option could be green hydrogen , generated from zero-carbon electricity via electrolysis, that could be stored for use to power turbines. In Minnesota, Gov.

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Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Most of the new transmission buildout is projected to be driven by a near doubling of electricity demand between 2020 and 2030. . The researchers said that using domestically manufactured solar panels instead of imported panels may increase solar power purchase agreement (PPA) prices by about 10%–15% in the mid-term.

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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. gigawatts by 2021, and 2.2

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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.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

The range of designs being pursued range from TerraPower’s traveling wave reactor and sodium fast reactor design to Terrestrial’s integral molten salt reactor and Hyperion’s “ fission battery ” concept. NuScale’s design doesn’t require some of the key safety features for large-scale reactors.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 25, 2022

The announcement sees US energy storage solutions Convergent Energy + Power team up alongside National Grid US, an electricity, natural gas and clean energy delivery company. Convergent’s NWA with National Grid pairs battery energy storage with solar energy (solar-plus-storage). ANNOUNCEMENT ?? ??:

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Hydrogen Fuel News

APRIL 2, 2024

The growth of this fuel alternative in all major consuming regions witnessed robust growth with the sharp rise in natural gas prices. Efficiency can be achieved by utilizing renewable energy sources such as solar power or wind for electrolytic hydrogen production.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

One of the nation’s largest coal plants permanently powered down this week after the owners determined it would be uneconomical to continue operating the facility as natural gas and renewable energy prices continue to drop. Natural gas and a massive solar-charged battery.

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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. The Clean Electricity Regulations help ensure that Canada’s regionally divided power system remains both clean and affordable in the years ahead.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 17, 2021

Mature Thermochemical technologies include steam methane reforming (SMR) which relies on natural gas as an input and coal gasification which relies on coal. Australia has yet to create its own solar or storage industry, relying instead on foreign solutions. Gas prices currently remain high compared to some overseas markets.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

At night or on cloudy days, PV-owning customers use grid-sourced electricity so no batteries are needed. A previous Michigan Tech study found all customers in Michigan would profit from installing their own solar systems, which would generate electricity for less than they currently pay for it. Sunny Savings. return in the U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 27, 2020

The devastating effect of a global economy in stasis means oil and gas investments will fall by a third this year, compared to a 10 percent decline in the power sector, the watchdog says. Electricity network investment is down 9 percent, with backing for flexible assets, like battery storage, tailing off. In the U.K.,

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

While the immediate cause is still being investigated, we do know that California's grid was experiencing multiple, coincident stressors - high demand, generators not performing when called upon and energy imports not showing up. 15, resulted in an electric grid unable to meet customer demand. And not just in California.

Energy 66

Energy Energy Demand Climate change 66

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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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 13, 2020

The Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis reported that “the world’s largest publicly traded oil and gas companies shelled out a total of $71.2 ” Meanwhile, the coal and natural gas industries are also collapsing around us — a swift decline from the shale fracking boom. What happened?

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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

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Generac said it’s already “basically” sold out for 2020 and is working to keep up with demand and make sure product is available. “This one caught us off guard a little bit, that the demand has been more overwhelming than we thought it would be.” “Natural gas is dirt cheap.”

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 19, 2021

Read more: 10,000 MW large-scale battery power capacity to be added to the grid from 2021-23, EIA says. FPL makes progress on battery installations at solar-powered facility. The Oil and Gas Industry’s Eye for Hydrogen. No industry understands this geology better than the oil and gas sector.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

“We’ll do things like pairing wind and solar power sources together and increasing our use of battery storage,” said chief executive Sundar Pichai, according to BBC. “And we’re working on ways to apply AI [ artificial intelligence ] to optimize our electricity demand and forecasting.”

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