Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

With studies indicating that Canadian power demand could double between now and 2050, the federal government recently proposed the Clean Electricity Regulations to help ensure that Canada’s power system remains both clean and affordable in the years ahead. Analyses for the U.S. Analyses for the U.S. even without a carbon price.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Record-high natural gas prices are fueling an energy crunch ahead of winter in the Northern Hemisphere, leading to power shortages in parts of the world. On one hand, developing countries eyeing a switch from coal to natural gas to support higher penetration of renewables may be dissuaded by higher gas prices.

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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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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Some of those pathways move more dramatically toward closing coal plants or halting new natural gas power plants. Others rely on options like offshore wind that are untested in the U.S., ” That’s given Duke a “dual-peaking” system, with both summer and winter demand spikes to deal with.

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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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Clean Energy Canada

JUNE 20, 2023

Wind power, the biggest contributor to new power generation in a net-zero 2050, increases ninefold from current levels. Pairing wind and batteries expands the role wind can play even further, still at a competitive cost. It’s our choice to keep our eyes on the road ahead.”

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

National Grid US had developed a vision highlighting Long Island as an ideal location to cluster hydrogen production, storage, and demand. It can be produced by electrolysis, separating the H2 from oxygen in water, and by the more carbon-intensive method of steam reforming of natural gas. Hydrogen has no carbon atom.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

MARCH 2, 2024

Moreover, it must be scalable as the demand for H2 continues to climb.  At the same time that H2 is a great way to store renewable energy such as solar and wind power, hydrogen storage isn’t necessarily simple. What makes it so important?

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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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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

Read more: LS Power launches Rev Renewables to operate energy storage and renewable projects. 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

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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

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Hydrogen Economy” report forecasts that hydrogen from low-carbon sources could supply roughly 14 percent of the country’s energy needs by 2050, including hard-to-electrify sectors now dependent on natural gas such as high-heat industrial processes or manufacturing fertilizer.

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Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 30, 2021

EPRI also informed consumers through a new, interactive Electric Vehicle Consumer Guide, providing a searchable database for battery-electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles by make, model, electric range, and MSRP. Industrial clusters are geographic regions comprised of co-located energy supply and demand companies.

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Business Green

AUGUST 16, 2021

After all, as the electrification of heat and transport gathers pace, Britain's peak demand capacity is set to grow to 80GW by 2050, up from 50GW today, and the fossil fuel gas-fired power stations that supply much of this power peak demand today are clearly incompatible with the nation's mid-century net zero target.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

This new era of power has only begun but is already quickly evolving. In the Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO), the nonprofit organization that operates the electric transmission in most midwestern states, wind, and solar energy have gone from less than 1% of the region’s power capacity ten years ago to over 12% today.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

MidAmerican has made major investments in wind farms in recent years and expects to soon offset 100% of its electricity sales with wind power. However, it continues to burn coal and natural gas for baseload power and has not announced plans to phase out those power plants. Bonugli said.

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Clean Energy Canada

JUNE 14, 2022

Sales of gas-powered cars already peaked in 2017, and global automakers are racing to meet electric-vehicle (EV) demand. Meanwhile, new solar and wind power projects are now typically cheaper than the cheapest fossil fuel option. The difference in 2022 is that this time, the incumbent has a fierce competitor.

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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.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

That could drive commercial and industrial customers out of the state, weaken public support for the state’s clean energy goals, and drive residential customers to “more gasoline usage and more natural gas usage” rather than toward their electric-powered alternatives, he said.

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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. Most fossil fuel majors are far behind the curve.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

My biggest geek-out moment during the COP26 gathering in Glasgow, Scotland, last week came in the central train station, where I had the opportunity to briefly tour a 30-year-old passenger train retrofitted to run on hydrogen fuel cells and lithium-ion batteries - up to 300 miles at speeds of up to 100 miles per hour.

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AGreenLiving

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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AGreenLiving

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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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 5, 2019

gigawatts of solar and 590 megawatts of batteries, underscoring a broader push toward renewable energy and storage by other Western utilities also owned by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway. Gemini’s 690 megawatts of solar will be matched by a 380-megawatt battery array with about 1.5 gigawatt-hours of storage capacity.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Each still plans to build new natural gas power plants in the near term, despite the additional emissions they will cause. The first stage, dubbed “renew,” concentrates on replacing coal and natural gas with renewables and energy storage.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

At the very least, utilities will need plans that can get them most of the way there, while rushing ahead with next-generation technologies: long-duration energy storage, small modular nuclear reactors or green hydrogen and methane to fuel natural gas peaker plants. gigawatts of offshore wind and 2.7 Dominion Energy.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Winter electricity demand hit record highs of more than 69 gigawatts on Sunday evening, spiking pressure on the grid. However, the root cause of the grid emergency is not excess demand but rather lack of supply. “So effectively we are seeing 30 GW-plus of load curtailment at times,” he wrote.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

The commissioners cited multiple complementary benefits as justification for the decision: greenhouse gas emissions reductions, the ability to soak up surplus renewable electricity, and grid demand flexibility. Around 90 percent (PDF) of the furnaces and water heaters in California are fueled by natural gas or propane.

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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.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 28, 2020

CPS closed two coal-fired power plants in 2018 and is examining the future of some of its single-cycle, natural-gas-fired power plants, Gold-Williams said. CPS serves more than 840,000 electric and 350,000 natural-gas customer accounts, or about 1.9

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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.

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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. Wind and solar power dramatically outperformed expectations, delivering 13 times more generation in 2020 than projected. Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, CC BY-ND.

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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. million solar panels or 364 large-scale wind turbines. economy in 2020, including electric power generation.

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R-Squared Energy

MARCH 3, 2021

This first graphic shows how one can conclude that freezing wind turbines were the problem, while natural gas was called upon to fill a huge demand surge. Keep in mind that the natural gas demand below is only from electric utilities, but demand for home heating was simultaneously surging.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 20, 2019

This mechanical power can be used for specific tasks (such as grinding grain or pumping water) in the turbines generator or can be convert this mechanical power into useful power like electricity. Now wind power technology is showing rapid growth and much more helpful than conventional power generation.by

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Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 18, 2021

Shell - Gas to liquids (GTL) | Shell Natural Gas. This is the practice where natural gas is separated into hydrogen and CO2. We will need to create a circular, sustainable feedstock to power our industry into the 21st century. Waterstof - Hydrogen in Rotterdam. For that we need green hydrogen.

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