Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Clean Energy Canada is a clean energy think tank at the Morris J. Through media briefs, we aim to provide useful factual and contextual information related to Canada’s clean energy transition. Wind and solar accounted for 61% of electricity generated in Denmark in 2022. Wosk Centre for Dialogue at Simon Fraser University.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 15, 2021

A partial solar eclipse last Thursday was expected to reduce solar energy production for a time. It underlines the importance of photovoltaic operators and utilities having backups, whether in the form of energy storage or alternative ways of getting energy to customers during an outage. . GW capacity.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 2, 2020

California grid operator CAISO has been curtailing renewable energy at record levels this year, as the state’s ever-rising share of solar power during daylight hours increasingly outpaces electricity demand. California’s curtailment challenges.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 4, 2020

Utility Dominion Energy is planning a major shift toward renewable energy and batteries as it looks to comply with Virginia's ambitious new clean energy law. The new plan, by contrast, sets out a goal of nearly 16 gigawatts of solar, more than 5 gigawatts of offshore wind, and 2.7 Credit: Dominion Energy).

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 25, 2020

A new study says changing that could save the region’s utilities and customers billions of dollars over the next two decades — and highlights that a currently proposed plan to create an energy-trading market encompassing the region’s dominant utilities likely won’t be enough to get the job done.

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Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 10, 2021

A new study from the Energy Department’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory found that deploying 307 GW of solar and 142 GW of wind capacity in India by 2030 would need around a $26.5 Because solar resources are good across large parts of India, the solar energy buildout—and thus the land use—potentially could be spread out. .

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 29, 2019

Los Angeles made waves this summer by finalizing a 400-megawatt solar project with a record-breaking low price. But the project, developed by 8minute Solar Energy, still needs final approval. 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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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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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Like many other utilities with similar decarbonization goals , Southern Company doesn’t yet see a clear path to eliminating natural gas-fired power plants “unless and until technology emerges that can affordably and efficiently replace it,” CEO Tom Fanning said in a written introduction to the plan. To be sure, no U.S.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 21, 2021

By Gia Schneider , CEO and co-founder at Natel Energy. Hydropower sits at the nexus of energy and water, enabling hydropower projects to be unique catalysts for positive change. from fully embracing a new generation of hydropower? Explained below are 5 major myths about hydropower. Credit: Natel Energy.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 2, 2021

Sunreef Yachts developed a thin, highly efficient solar cell system that mounts completely flush to all surfaces of the boat, including masts, hull sides and bimini tops. The expected capacity of the system is 34 kWp energy, which is stored in ultralight lithium batteries until needed. Read more from the original source:Â .

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EDF + Business

MARCH 28, 2023

Decreased Renewables Cost: Levelized Cost of Electricity (LCOE) to project sponsors is expected to decrease by 40-60%, which will likely result in cost reductions for commercial electricity users. Notes: PTC stands for Production Tax Credit. ITC stands for investment tax credit. Sources: Deloitte Analysis, H.R.5376 Sources: Deloitte Analysis, H.R.5376

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Business Green

JUNE 19, 2022

New IEA report reveals encouraging recent trends have been thrown into reverse by the pandemic and Russia's invasion of Ukraine - but clean energy investment could swiftly reignite development. The report emphasises how Africa has huge untapped renewables potential.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

These back-to-back summers of extreme weather underscore the need for a more robust and resilient electric grid capable of delivering the reliable power that ultimately underpins our health and wellbeing, from communication and transportation infrastructure to broader economic growth and physical security.

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Business Green

JANUARY 19, 2023

Hydropower dam proposals have ballooned across the Balkans over the last two decades, as the leaders of some of Europe's poorest regions have looked to tap their abundant natural resources to secure access clean energy. But the picture is much more complicated.

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The Verge: Energy

APRIL 24, 2024

While most of the world still runs on dirty fossil fuels, Costa Rica has generated nearly all of its electricity from renewable sources of energy for nearly a decade. Costa Rica made global headlines in 2015 for generating 100 percent of its electricity from renewable energy for 75 days in a row. How do you think about those risks?

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

President Joe Biden has called for major clean energy investments as a way to curb climate change and generate jobs. 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? Doesn’t a low-carbon future require many types of clean energy?

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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.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 20, 2019

New Frontiers in Renewable Energy and Resources will take place on November 25-26, 2019 in Rome, Italy. The theme is "Renewable Energy for a Better Future" and the it will include: Keynote talks, Plenary sessions, Discussion Panels, B2B Meetings, Poster symposia, Video Presentations, and Workshops.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Driving this sea change in long-term planning is a combination of public pressure and energy economics. 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.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 20, 2021

While this much change in 15 years seems ambitious, our new report, “ Halfway to Zero ,” looks back at the past 15 and finds that power sector emissions are half of what they were projected to be. We analyzed the “business as usual” projection in the 2005 Annual Energy Outlook published by the Energy Information Administration , the 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. will need to nearly triple its 2020 growth rate for the grid to be 80% powered by clean energy by 2030. (As 3 ways to bring wind and solar into the grid.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 19, 2020

Onshore wind is now the leading renewable energy technology in the U.S., 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. ” NextEra Energy.

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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. Spanish developer OPD Energy will develop a fifth, 69-megawatt project in Simpson County, Kentucky.

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Green Market Oracle

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Renewable energy is an emissions free source of power production that can both improve air quality and mitigate against climate change. For these and other reasons clean energy is vital to the future of life on the Earth. With each passing year 100% renewable energy becomes more feasible.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 21, 2020

These clean energy provisions are included in a $1.4 These clean energy provisions are included in a $1.4 Summaries of the energy provisions included in the bill were provided by the office of Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-New York), and Schumer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.)

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 26, 2021

The report gives some of its worst marks to some of the biggest utilities with net-zero carbon by 2050 goals, including FirstEnergy , Duke Energy , Dominion Energy and utilities operated by Southern Company. Wind and solar power accounted for just above 10 percent of U.S.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Big oil and the energy transition Summary - 2020 is already the worst year for the oil industry ever. Now the world is in the midst of an energy shock that is unprecedented. The culprits are the quicker-than-expected growth of clean energy alternatives coupled with the collapse in demand for fossil fuels amid the pandemic.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 22, 2020

Last year saw major carbon-free targets set by utilities like Duke Energy and Xcel Energy ; this week, Arizona's APS made its own carbon-free pledge in a state without big climate legislation on the books. NextEra Energy: America's renewables behemoth. NextEra got into the U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 11, 2020

A massive energy bill that could direct billions of dollars to renewable energy, energy storage and smart grid R&D and deployments faces an unclear future in the U.S. The American Energy Innovation Act, introduced last month by Sens. The American Energy Innovation Act, introduced last month by Sens.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 2, 2020

Senate will consider a bipartisan energy package this week that could be this year’s best legislative hope to increase federal funding for a number of energy technologies, from solar, wind and batteries, to more efficient fossil fuel-fired power and carbon capture. Renewable energy.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

The reality is there’s no bad outcome for clean energy in the upcoming election, though the impact on the climate is another story. For clean energy resources — solar, wind and energy storage — the range of possibilities over the next four years runs from the merely good to the incredible.

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CleanTechnica

OCTOBER 1, 2020

China's largest solar-plus-storage project has been connected to the grid. How big is it — 500 megawatts (MW)? Nope, we're in 2020 — it's 2,200 MW (2.2

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