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 19, 2020

After a massive heat wave in California that led grid operator CAISO to order its first rolling blackouts since the 2001 energy crisis on Friday and Saturday, the state has thus far managed to avoid further forced outages. CAISO has issued a "Flex Alert" asking Californians to conserve energy from 3 p.m. by 6:30 p.m.,

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Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2023

New BloombergNEF analysis charts the rising cost pressures faced by the global stationary energy storage market. That is the core conclusion of recent analysis from BloombergNEF, which estimates the average price of a four-hour turnkey energy storage system rose to $324/kWh in 2022 - a 27 per cent increase from the previous year.

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 5, 2021

The power generator announced it will become sole supplier of the tech giant’s data-center needs for clean energy. AES will source the energy needed from a portfolio of wind, solar, hydro and battery storage which will be developed or contracted by the utility. 26-28 in Dallas, Texas.

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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 gigawatt-hours of energy storage capacity, to meet its share of a statewide procurement that must be brought online by late next year to assure statewide grid stability.

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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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Renewable Energy World

MAY 25, 2021

Burns & McDonnell said on Monday that it was selected by LG Energy Solution and Sustainable Environmental Renewable (SER) Capital Partners to provide engineer-procure-construct (EPC) services for three 10-MW/20-MWh lithium-ion, stand-alone battery energy storage systems.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Over the past decade, a new class of digital power electronics has emerged that can shape, shift and control the flow of electricity on the power grid in ways never before seen. Perhaps the UK, which has set far more ambitious green goals for its island grid, may be a better fit? SP Energy taps Ermco, Gridbridge.

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Clean Energy Canada

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Then there’s energy: whether it’s $2 gas or higher home heating bills , powering our lives has gotten pricier. These two realities, climate change and volatile energy prices, have a common denominator in fossil fuels. For starters, Alberta and Ontario are in the midst of transforming their power grids.

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Energy Innovation

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Energy Innovation partners with the independent nonprofit Aspen Global Change Institute (AGCI) to provide climate and energy research updates. A full list of AGCI’s quarterly research updates covering recent climate change research on clean energy pathways is available online at [link]. Here are some highlights.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) approved plans to add around 25,500 MW of renewable energy resources and 15,000 MW of energy storage and demand response resources by 2032. The decision said the process to include offshore wind in IRP capacity expansion models began in early 2020 and is due to wrap up in 2022.

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Business Green

AUGUST 2, 2022

Long duration energy storage is vital for Britain’s energy security, and the next Tory leader must urgently respond to industry proposals to grow the market, writes Drax's Will Gardiner. For many years energy security was an issue resolved by complex, continent-wide gas pipelines which stretched from Russia into the heart of Europe.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

Market reforms needed to stimulate investment in projects capable of storing electricity for four hours or longer, according to Aurora Energy Research. LDES provides a valuable contribution to system security and operability in a high renewables energy system," he said. "In

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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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Business Green

APRIL 6, 2020

With April ushering in sunny skies and breezy weather, output from renewables reached almost 65 per cent of the UK's overall electricity mix for a period on Sunday, while overall demand for power has been between 10-15 per cent lower than usual since lockdown measures were enforced in March.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

France’s Neoen SA has outlined plans to build a giant renewables complex in South Australia, including battery storage with up to nine times more capacity than the Tesla Inc. design at its nearby Hornsdale plant, which is billed as the world’s largest lithium-ion battery.

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Better Ventures

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

We need to shift to clean energy and electrify everything to run on that clean energy, fast! We now have the solar, wind and storage building blocks we need to completely replace our global energy system by 2050. Estimates of the economic cost of inaction are measured in the hundreds of trillions of dollars.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Bryn Baker of the Renewable Energy Buyers Alliance argues much of the finger-pointing in the wake of the recent Californian blackouts has been wide of the mark. Forced outages are a tool of last resort, employed in circumstances of incredible stress to the grid and done to protect against more widespread outages.

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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 23, 2020

Through media briefs, we aim to provide journalists with useful factual and contextual information related to Canada’s clean energy transition. Following the 2008 financial crisis, countries around the world put together stimulus packages with varying emphasis on clean energy. working in the clean energy sector.

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Business Green

APRIL 9, 2020

Between video calls, collaboration applications and streaming services, data centers are working overdrive - proving why energy efficiency matters more than ever. Less detailed analyses have predicted rapid growth in data center energy use, but without fully considering the historical efficiency progress made by the industry.

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Green Market Oracle

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

While it is true that you cannot generate solar electricity while the sun is not shining or the wind power when the wind is not blowing, this is resolved through rapidly evolving increasingly inexpensive battery storage technology. Extreme weather events support the case for locally generated clean power.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

The UK's growing sources of wind, solar and hydro power served to significantly curb millions of households' reliance on expensive, carbon-intensive fossil fuels last month, further underscoring the benefits of expanding clean, renewable electricity sources to tackle the ongoing energy crisis.

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Business Green

JULY 30, 2020

Renewables such as wind, solar and biomass provided 37.1 per cent in 2018, according to the annual Digest of UK Energy Statistics (DUKES) published by the government today. Offshore and onshore wind farms both made up 10 per cent of UK power generation each. Solar PV generation grew 1.4 per cent last year.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 10, 2019

As the sun sets on California’s solar farms, a backup energy source deep in the Sierra Nevada Mountains springs to life.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Clean energy and markets are the solution (not scapegoat) for California’s blackouts Bryn Baker Fri, 09/04/2020 – 01:00 On Aug. Forced outages are a tool of last resort, employed in circumstances of incredible stress to the grid and done to protect against more widespread outages. And not just in California.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Clean energy and markets are the solution (not scapegoat) for California’s blackouts Bryn Baker Fri, 09/04/2020 – 01:00 On Aug. Forced outages are a tool of last resort, employed in circumstances of incredible stress to the grid and done to protect against more widespread outages. And not just in California.

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Business Green

MAY 18, 2021

The International Energy Agency has set out a vision for a major transformation of the global economy – here are its top conclusions. Since it was first set up in the wake of the 1973 oil crisis, the International Energy Agency (IEA) has been a hugely influential player in world energy politics.

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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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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

utilities such as Duke Energy , Dominion Energy , Southern Company and Xcel Energy. Each still plans to build new natural gas power plants in the near term, despite the additional emissions they will cause. electric grid relies on fossil fuels for 63 percent of its generation, and according to the U.S.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Tobias Trübenbacher, a design student from Berlin, has created a wind-powered lamp post that uses an integrated wind rotor to generate energy and a motion detection system to create an insect-friendly light spectrum. Wind-powered lamp post helps reduce light pollution. View post:Â .

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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. Even so, it’s not a perfect system.

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 17, 2022

The Biden administration’s goal is to have a carbon emissions-free grid by 2035. will need to nearly triple its 2020 growth rate for the grid to be 80% powered by clean energy by 2030. (As As difficult as that may sound, China reportedly installed 120,000 megawatts of wind and solar in 2020.). electricity.

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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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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Consumers need new options for less wasteful and less pollutive products, packaging, transportation, and energy. Clean Energy. State mandates and consumer choice have sparked a demand for clean and green energy. Solar energy is one of the fastest growing industries worldwide, and may actually be too saturated in some states.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Statkraft has sold the 36MW Andershaw wind farm in South Lanarkshire to wind power specialist Greencoat UK Wind plc for £120m, with the European renewables major planning to use all of the proceeds from the sale to fund further renewables projects, it announced today.

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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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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2022

Among a handful of "bright spots" highlighted in the CCC's report are electric car sales, which have soared over the past few years as more and more automotive firms expand their line up of battery-powered passenger vehicles in response to growing demand and tightening regulations. Credit: Climate Change Committee.

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