GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Cities and utilities across the United States are starting to reject natural gas — and not just for environmental reasons. San Jose, the tenth largest city in the country, recently joined a string of cities banning gas utility connections for new homes and buildings.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 18, 2024

Just outside Delta, Utah, there is a small one-stoplight town that will soon be home to a massive underground battery that will use hydrogen fuel for storing excess energy. The idea is to make it possible to produce carbon-free energy that can be stored in caverns so that it can be cleanly used to generate electricity when it is needed.

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Charged

MARCH 7, 2023

A new study adds to the literature by comparing the lifecycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of electric, hydrogen, natural gas and diesel trucks and buses in Europe. It shows that only battery-electric and some fuel cell electric trucks can meet the climate targets in the sector.”

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 4, 2021

Keep your eyes on these 9 electric truck and van companies in 2021. These new vehicles are quickly bumping up against familiar challenges of battery range, production capacity and charging, or fueling, infrastructure. and attracting major investments for its electric buses and vans still in development. Mike De Socio.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 9, 2024

Spearmint Energy announced completion and start of commercial operation for Revolution, the Company’s 150 MW/300 MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) project in West Texas. The project reached mechanical completion following the delivery and installation of Sungrow’s PowerTitan Series battery energy storage system.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Battery plants have established themselves in the sunny Southwest, but this week was the first time they won big in New England. That means that these two battery plants offered a compelling enough price to edge out some fossil fuel plants for delivering power on demand. New England has seen a buildout of smaller batteries.

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Clean Energy Canada

AUGUST 19, 2021

isn’t the only jurisdiction to see clean hydrogen as the new natural gas. A number of European Union nations, Western Australia, Oman and Saudi Arabia have together committed tens of billions of dollars to produce clean hydrogen to replace natural gas for domestic use and export. s natural gas industry?

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 17, 2020

Electricity demand for air conditioning throughout the region stretched California's power capacity and limited the state's ability to import power from nearby states. But “batteries [alone] won’t fix this problem,” he said, since they can’t generate their own power. Friday and Saturday.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Pacific Gas & Electric is asking state regulators to approve another massive round of energy storage procurements, including its first large-scale contract for behind-the-meter batteries to serve grid needs. The 15-year agreement calls for Nexus Renewables U.S., gigawatt-hours, of energy storage projects.

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Charged

JULY 27, 2021

FEV has announced a long-term agreement with Hyliion to support design, development, integration and validation of its Electric Range Extender (ERX) for Class 8 tractor-trailer applications. Source: FEV.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The domestic electricity market is changing to a more decentralised model driven by deregulation and increased renewable generation. What will this decentralised electricity system look like in five or ten years’ time? Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) are viewed as an important part of the future energy system.

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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. Contributors.

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Charged

MARCH 30, 2021

PepsiCo says it expects to take delivery of 15 Tesla Semi electric trucks by the end of this year. On the other hand, Mr. Musk has also implied that Semi deliveries are being held up by a lack of sufficient battery cells— most recently in a tweet in which he said Tesla was “cell-constrained right now.”. Source: Electrek.

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Charged

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The company recently purchased 15 Volvo VNR Electric trucks, which are expected to provide air quality and noise-reduction benefits to the communities located adjacent to the ports and the heavily trafficked I-110 and I-710 freeway corridors. Our drivers are excited to drive the new VNR Electric trucks.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Thanks to converging forces — including supportive policies, dropping battery costs and aggressive climate goals — transportation leaders at large and small organizations are increasingly turning to new zero-emission and low-carbon options that decarbonize fleets and in some cases save money. Katie Fehrenbacher. Mon, 10/26/2020 - 02:00.

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The Environmental Blog

MAY 23, 2023

The cost of fuel is the most significant factor affecting your electricity rates. If natural gas prices increase, your electricity rates will rise. Weather The weather is one of the most significant factors affecting electricity prices. Fuel Fossil fuel prices are a critical factor in electricity prices.

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 30, 2021

Calpine and GE Renewable Energy this month announced completion of a 80-MWh standalone battery storage system in southern California. Calpine, which traditionally has been a natural gas power plant and geothermal developer, considers the Santa Ana project as a major step forward in its plans to grow the company’s energy storage footprint. “It

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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. Shifting heating from fossil fuels to electricity can cut direct emissions.

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Charged

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The Mobility House, in collaboration with partners including AlphaStruxure and Schneider Electric, has completed a microgrid-based infrastructure project that can charge electric buses without relying on the local utility. MW of solar PV, three 633 kW generators and 3 MW of battery storage. MW microgrid features 1.6

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Clean Energy Canada

JANUARY 30, 2024

TORONTO — Rachel Doran, vice president of policy and strategy at Clean Energy Canada, made the following statement in response to the announced refurbishment of the Pickering nuclear plant: “Building clean electricity capacity is an economic strategy and climate action rolled into one. Over 50% of electricity in Ontario is currently nuclear.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 16, 2021

Dominion Energy has announced a new target to convert its vehicle fleet of more than 8,600 units to electric models. The launch of the utility’s ‘Green Fleet’ initiative follows President Joe Biden’s executive order to make 50% of all vehicle sales in the US electric by 2030.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 29, 2020

Two more utilities in Arizona and Colorado are moving to accelerate closure of coal plants and replace them with renewable energy backed by batteries, joining a broader push in both states to shift to more cost-effective clean energy options even in the absence of state mandates. At the same time, the plan would see TEP adding 1.7

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 28, 2021

Florida Power & Light Company announced that construction has begun on the FPL Manatee Energy Storage Center , which is expected to become the world’s largest integrated solar-powered battery system, according to the company. FPL’s investments in battery storage technology directly complement the company’s expansion of solar energy.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

14 and 15, the California electric grid operator made the incredibly rare decision to proactively shut off parts of the electricity grid, resulting in limited rolling blackouts affecting businesses and homes throughout the state. 15, resulted in an electric grid unable to meet customer demand. Bryn Baker.

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Energy Storage News

MAY 10, 2024

Ontario's Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) has made Canada’s biggest energy storage procurement to date, selecting nearly 1.8GW of projects through a Request for Proposals (RFP).

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Solar Industry

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

MW of solar and a 10 MWh battery, augmenting a 12 MW wind farm supplying the city. “Leveraging 26 USPTO patents filed in the area of grids and optimization embedded in our AI products, this project at Sunbank will be a key AI-enabled battery dispatch project applicable to smart grids across Canada by 2035.”

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

-based storage and inverter company, has launched a new home backup system that combines three technologies: solar, storage and natural-gas or diesel generators. “By adding the batteries and the PV, you basically enable that generator to run for less time, at a more efficient power level,” said Dailey. geographies.

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Clean Energy Canada

JUNE 5, 2024

Energy and Natural Resource Minister Jonathan Wilkinson was recently quoted as saying that the federal government is “not interested” in subsidizing future liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects. Fully 30 per cent of the world’s electricity generation is now from renewables, and it’s increasing faster than anyone imagined.

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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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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The utility cooperative partnering with Form Energy on its first “iron air” battery project sees the long-duration energy storage technology as a potential buffer for its grid during extreme cold snaps like 2019’s polar vortex. Form Energy’s “iron air” battery. The battery discharges energy while breathing in oxygen and creating rust.

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Charged

MAY 10, 2022

The latest spurious sensation was a natural gas-powered bus that caught fire in Italy— a video of the catastrophic conflagration was posted online, and within hours, it had travelled around the world and back again, falsely described as an EV fire. False or misleading posts about EV fires flood the internet on a daily basis.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 28, 2022

The New York Power Authority (NYPA) is requesting proposals to replace its small power, or ‘peaker’ plants with bulk-scale battery storage projects. This would accelerate NYPA’s goal to decarbonise by 2035 and the state’s goal of a zero-emission electricity sector by 2040.

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Charged

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Fleets tested Volvo VNR Electric Class 8 tractors for three years: Here’s what they learned. However, heavy-duty electric trucks from traditional makers have started to hit the market. Publicity magnet Tesla said it delivered its first battery-electric Semi tractor on December 1. Driving style also matters.

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Business Green

MARCH 1, 2023

Given renewables exceed electricity generation from gas over the same period, British-based renewables were the leading source of electricity on the grid this winter, according to the ECIU. As such, winter renewables generation displaced the equivalent of more than a third of the UK's annual gas demand for power generation.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Solar plus battery storage can provide value in two ways: first, energy reliability for customers during emergency power outages, and second, during non-emergencies, to help the grid balance demand and generation," said Dawn Weisz, chief executive of California utility MCE, during a breakout session at last week’s virtual VERGE 20 event. .

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

Washington State Ferries, which runs the second-largest ferry system in the world, is switching from diesel to batteries amid a growing trend toward electrification in shipping. But the switch to batteries is "not just because the governor said [to do] it.". ” Not as easy as it sounds.

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Clean Energy Canada

AUGUST 8, 2023

The paper precedes the forthcoming Clean Electricity Regulations that will provide the regulatory support. The Clean Electricity Regulations help ensure that Canada’s regionally divided power system remains both clean and affordable in the years ahead. Already, provinces with the cleanest grids typically pay the least for electricity.

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