Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 6, 2021

Read more: South Carolina’s Past Failures and New Policies Contribute to a Brighter Future for Solar and Battery Storage. The procurement would not only add extra capacity, but it would also make up for the retirement of the 2,280 MW Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant and 4,200 MW of retiring natural gas plants. ROOT CAUSES.

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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 10, 2021

Current nuclear and large hydropower capacity add up to around 50 GW. India has a target ofd 500 GW of installed non-fossil fuel capacity by 2030, as announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP-26) in Glasgow in November.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 11, 2020

PacifiCorp's utilities have long relied on federally operated hydropower or utility-owned fossil-fueled generation for their electricity. But this is the first time that it has sought solar power and energy storage as a cost-competitive alternative to natural gas for new resources. million customers in six states.

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Clean Energy Canada

JULY 2, 2020

Currently, the majority of hydrogen around the world is produced from fossil fuels (76% from natural gas, 23% from coal). Hydrogen produced from renewable electricity (wind, solar, hydropower, tidal, etc.) Heating : Many buildings use natural gas for heat, and a portion of that energy could come from hydrogen instead.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 25, 2020

That’s primarily because renewable energy’s growth will remain challenging without a more flexible and regionally coordinated system to balance the intermittency of wind and solar power through geographic diversity and a broader range of hydropower dams, new battery storage and other balancing resources.

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Grist

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The second most important target for green power is replacing fossil fuel use in buildings, especially growing use of natural gas for heating; in Vancouver, British Columbia, that causes nearly 60% of the city’s carbon pollution. This currently is mostly achieved through rooftop solar and is increasingly augmented with big batteries.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

By transitioning to a 100% renewable energy grid with a sustainable hydropower backbone, we can curb the worst effects of climate change. How hydropower balances a renewable energy grid. By combining hydropower with wind and solar, we can decarbonize our grids without sacrificing reliability.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MAY 21, 2023

” “In 2021, Washington consumed less natural gas than about half of the states, and in 2020, the state used less per capita than all but four other states and the District of Columbia. The largest share of the state’s natural gas comes from Canada, either directly or through the state of Idaho.”

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Clean Energy Trust

DECEMBER 6, 2021

NET Power is building a new type of natural gas power plant that uses oxy combustion (burning natural gas with pure oxygen) and supercritical CO2 instead of steam in its turbine. this technology could chip away at and then eventually replace industry standard combined cycle natural gas plants.

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Climate Tech VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

  In deals, major funding for transportation including $144M for Indian EVs, $33M for rare earth-free magnets, and $15M for battery recycling.    In a ray of sunshine, US solar generation is expected to surpass hydropower for the first time in 2024.   Thanks for reading! Not a subscriber yet?

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

million customers by 2025, adding nearly 700 megawatts of wind power, plus more solar and battery storage systems to boost rural reliability. gigawatt generation fleet comes from coal-fired power plants, while natural gas makes up about a quarter more, and nuclear power one-tenth. megawatt nameplate capacity.

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Solar Industry

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Results show the technology is cost-competitive with lithium-ion batteries, pumped storage hydropower and natural gas peaker plants. Calculated LCOS that is cost-competitive to pumped storage hydropower and lithium-ion batteries. Sage Geosystems Inc. ,

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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. Here's a look at the five largest U.S. Dominion Energy.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Further, the results show Sage’s technology is cost-competitive with lithium-ion batteries, pumped storage hydropower, and natural gas peaker plants. Calculated LCOS that is cost-competitive to pumped storage hydropower and lithium-ion batteries.

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AutoGrid

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

On July 24 and 25, as temperatures soared, wildfires burned, and hydropower and gas supplies tightened, the California Independent System Operator (CAISO) issued calls to consumers statewide to voluntarily ratchet down electricity use. You can’t store sunlight, but you can store energy in batteries.

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R-Squared Energy

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Renewables, including hydropower, just 8.7%. has seen a drastic decline in coal consumption over the past decade (but global coal consumption has risen) as it has been displaced in the power sector by natural gas primarily, as well as renewables. of our energy in the U.S.; nuclear power supplied another 8.0%.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 8, 2021

wide transmission build-out could also slash the costs of reaching a zero-carbon grid with wind, solar and battery technologies that are cost-effective today. All of these benefits can be captured with solar, wind, existing hydropower and lithium-ion battery technologies at projected 2030 prices, he added. transmission grid.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 30, 2019

What Comes Next After Batteries Replace Gas Peakers? Is California finished building gas-fired power plants? natural gas production. Batteries can provide many of the same services as gas peaker plants, and they come with many other benefits. And it’s happening amid record U.S.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The rest would come mostly from a mix of other low- or zero-carbon sources, including wind, nuclear, hydropower, biopower, geothermal and combustion turbines run on zero-carbon synthetic fuels such as hydrogen. Natural gas, coal, and oil provided almost 80% of primary energy input to the U.S. has lots of sunshine.

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Mr. Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

We need to get rid of coal, natural gas and petroleum. Coal, natural gas and petroleum are the culprits here: the burning of these fuels tend to lead to inefficiency. It can also serve as seasonal energy storage in the form of wood or energy crops, basically acting as a cheap, self-growing all-organic battery.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 27, 2020

utilities committing to zero-carbon energy by midcentury have pointed to SMRs such as NuScale’s as an important round-the-clock addition to replace natural-gas-fired power plants to balance intermittent renewables.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 20, 2021

Finally, natural gas generation grew rapidly, driven by the shale gas revolution and low fuel prices. Wind, solar and battery technologies will be central to further decarbonization. Wind and solar power dramatically outperformed expectations, delivering 13 times more generation in 2020 than projected.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 20, 2019

One of the beneficial factors for the use of the renewable energy is that it is naturally generated. The common energy sources are Hydropower, Biomass, Biofuels, Wind, Geothermal and Solar Energy. The sources of renewable energy are present in the natural environment comprising the largest component of ecosystem.

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Business Green

MARCH 31, 2023

Wind and solar accounted for 14 per cent of US electricity, with hydropower accounting for six per cent, and geothermal sources just under one per cent. However, the EIA also revealed that while the use of renewables was rising, so too is the country's reliance on natural gas, which generated 39 per cent of US electricity last year.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

The awards announced this week, which include one 200-megawatt solar system paired with a 50 megawatts/200 megawatt-hour battery system, will increase the TVA’s share of solar generation by 44 percent. and a 200-megawatt solar system with 200 megawatt-hours of batteries in Lowndes County, Mississippi.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 26, 2021

New research asserts most have undermined those goals by keeping coal plants running and building new natural gas plants meant to operate for decades to come. utilities that still rely on coal and natural gas for most of their generation capacity. All but one call for new natural gas plants.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Meanwhile, demand for coal, oil and natural gas fall by 80 per cent, 60 per cent and 45 per cent, respectively, by 2060 compared with last year. Ford said its Tennessee factory - called Blue Oval City - will cover a six-square-mile area and build next-generation electric pickup trucks and batteries from 2025.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Utility-scale solar power is already cost-competitive against coal-fired power across the world and with natural-gas-fired power in many markets. Geothermal energy research will get $850 million, and hydropower and marine power will get $933 million. Another $2.36

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Grist

DECEMBER 8, 2021

None of Cascadia’s jurisdictions has proven policies to rein in growing consumption of natural gas, which is backed by a powerful oil and gas industry and associated unions. Josh Jacobs expresses similar confidence for Seattle-based Puget Sound Energy, which distributes both natural gas and electricity.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 13, 2020

Instead, in that same county along the Columbia River, PGE and NextEra Energy Resources are building the Wheatridge project — one of the first triple-hybrid renewables projects anywhere in the world, marrying wind, solar and batteries at large scale. PGE is also buying more hydropower in the Pacific Northwest.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Most of its IRP scenarios call for building new natural-gas plants, which critics say will lock in carbon emissions from resources that may end up as stranded assets as renewables backed by energy storage become more cost-effective solutions.

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Mr. Sustainability

JUNE 27, 2020

subsidies to the fossil fuel industry at roughly $20 billion per year; with 20 percent currently allocated to coal and 80 percent to natural gas and crude oil. In short: the oil and gas industry is a massive market with many stakeholders and high-stakes interests involved. Conservative estimates put direct U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 22, 2020

FPL is also planning more than 400 megawatts/900 megawatt-hours of battery energy storage at its Manatee Energy Storage Center, one of the largest projects in the country. Dominion's generation fleet centers around nuclear and gas. Then there's PacifiCorp, which serves about 1.9 NV Energy's IRP calls for adding nearly 1.2

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 22, 2020

They plan to combine green energy provided by wind turbines, biomass, solar panels and hydropower, with agricultural waste and grasses from the Northern provinces in the Netherlands as feedstock for the chemical cluster. Another, potentially even more futuristic example is Heliogen , dedicated to making fuel out of thin air.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Major natural gas and oil pipeline projects have been abandoned or halted by legal challenges. renewable energy will be short-lived: It took the crown from hydropower last year and will lose it to solar in the 2020s. Battery growth, though, has happened almost entirely free from active federal intervention during this time.

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