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Ameren Missouri Looks to Harness Wind, Solar and Batteries With $7.6B ‘Smart Energy Plan’

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billion grid modernization plan that includes smart meters for its nearly 1.3 million customers by 2025, adding nearly 700 megawatts of wind power, plus more solar and battery storage systems to boost rural reliability. Missouri's lagging wind market. About half of Ameren Missouri’s existing 10.3-gigawatt

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New York?s Energy Transition (and Challenges) in 5 Charts

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Grid operators around the world are unusually busy these days, but few have quite as much on their minds as NYISO, the independent system operator that manages New York state's bulk power system and wholesale energy market. percent in 2018, and hitting 100 percent zero-carbon emissions by 2040. Source: NYISO. Source: NYISO.

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Here’s how pumped hydro works as an energy storage resource

Renewable Energy World

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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A 21st-century reinvention of the electric grid is crucial for solving the climate change crisis

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Then, beginning around 2009, first wind turbines and then solar photovoltaic panels decreased enough in cost to become competitive in electricity markets. Even faster growth is expected ahead, especially given the Biden administration’s plans to tap high-value offshore wind resources. is headed in that direction.

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Europe’s Energy Storage Market Is Fading, Right When It’s Needed Most

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European energy storage deployment is set to shrink compared to other global markets, even as the need for flexibility on the grid increases, according to new research from Wood Mackenzie. In 2014, EMEA, dominated by Europe, represented 44 percent of global energy storage deployment. By the end of 2019, the total tally (plus the U.K.)

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Sweeping Senate Energy Bill Could Come to a Vote This Week

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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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Massive Senate Energy Bill Falters

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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.