GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 21, 2019

If built as described, this project would mark a milestone for the exotic technologies challenging mass-market lithium-ion batteries for longer duration grid storage. Battery plants have begun supplying several hours of power in certain markets, but they are not economic for storing days or weeks of renewable power.

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

When Canada’s carbon price is also included, both wind and solar are significantly cheaper than natural gas already today. Both find wind and solar to be cost-competitive with natural gas-fired electricity in the U.S. Analyses for the U.S. from Lazard and the Energy Information Administration show similar results.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 25, 2022

Vistra has announced that its DeCordova battery energy storage system (BESS) in Granbury, Texas, is online and storing and releasing electricity to the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) grid. Aerial – battery containers. Courtesy of Vistra. Mortenson provided engineering and construction expertise.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 7, 2020

Minnesota utility Great River Energy confirmed Thursday that it will pilot Form's technology, identified for the first time as an "aqueous air" battery system. The utility sought a resource that would ensure reliable power while achieving a high return on investment and low levelized cost of energy. Competing with lithium-ion.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2022

A vital part of modern manufacturing, sulphuric acid is required for the production of phosphorus fertilisers that help feed the world, and for extracting rare metals from ores essential to the rapidly required green economy transition, like cobalt and nickel used in high-performance Li-ion batteries.

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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 26, 2023

The billions of clean energy investments in Canada’s recent budget was spurred by the half a trillion dollars delivered in the U.S.’s In response to the federal government’s new plan to prepare workers for the energy transition , Premier Danielle Smith replied , “We are not going to be shutting down our oil and natural gas industry.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 8, 2021

With several lithium-ion battery installations to shift solar generation into later parts of the day, Kauai has gone for as long as nine hours in a day on entirely renewable electricity production. A small battery next to the solar facility will keep the pumps running smoothly when clouds are blocking the sun.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 7, 2020

The plan anticipates 8,873 megawatts of batteries, the technology that dominates the energy storage market today. That’s many times over the national cumulative installed battery capacity that's now installed. Some of them tackle storage through a manufactured product, like the flow battery companies.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 9, 2019

“They are donating all of this electricity they paid highly for in subsidies to other countries, often with negative prices,” said Jussi Heikkinen, director of growth and development for the Americas at Wärtsilä, a Finnish company that manufactures battery storage and flexible gas power plants.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Some of those pathways move more dramatically toward closing coal plants or halting new natural gas power plants. This difference is mainly due to the Southeast’s reliance on electricity rather than natural gas for heating air and water in buildings, Snider explained. While most U.S.

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

We’re going to make a major investment to build 1.5 Biden’s plan calls for: Grid-scale storage at one-tenth the cost of lithium-ion batteries. Using renewables to produce carbon-free hydrogen at the same cost as that from shale gas. Battery costs have also plummeted over that time frame. power grid by 2050.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 17, 2021

Countries like Germany, Japan, the UK, China, Australia, and others have already made plans targeting Hydrogen production and prices with a series of investments and potential policies being considered. However, given the high capital cost, the investment risk is most likely to be shared under a joint venture arrangement.

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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.  The investment covers 40% of the Texas facility’s $1.3B project cost and is one of the largest DAC investments to date.   Thanks for reading! Not a subscriber yet?

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Mr. Sustainability

MARCH 14, 2021

Some ships already run on batteries, liquefied natural gas or with cleaner ship engines and / or catalytic converters. Modular drive train with battery pack. The fuel cell system has a capacity of 825 kWh and the lithium-ion battery pack of 504 kWh. What else can we do with this investment?

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Mr. Sustainability

MARCH 14, 2021

Some ships already run on batteries, liquefied natural gas or with cleaner ship engines and / or catalytic converters. Modular drive train with battery pack. The fuel cell system has a capacity of 825 kWh and the lithium-ion battery pack of 504 kWh. What else could we do with this investment?

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Batteries are another important tool in the kit, but so are air conditioners, water heaters, refrigerators, pumps, and other behind-the-meter flexible loads — not to mention electric vehicles. The Golden State is by far the biggest market for solar, behind-the-meter batteries and plug-in electric vehicles. Massachusetts.

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The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Surely, she could at least improve her air quality by keeping the gas heater off and purchasing a portable heat pump, an increasingly popular device that uses electricity to move heat in and out of the home. Money is key because electrification isn’t cheap Investing in the right technologies can help, too.

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Clean Energy Trust

DECEMBER 6, 2021

So, it is not the major climate legislation that is in the potential reconciliation bill, but a sizable set of investments in its own right. 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.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Six months after inking California’s largest single energy storage procurement, utility Southern California Edison has added another three massive utility-scale battery projects to its portfolio—plus a behind-the-meter battery project with Sunrun. The four-hour duration 2.63 utility record books. The four-hour duration 2.63

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

My biggest geek-out moment during the COP26 gathering in Glasgow, Scotland, last week came in the central train station, where I had the opportunity to briefly tour a 30-year-old passenger train retrofitted to run on hydrogen fuel cells and lithium-ion batteries - up to 300 miles at speeds of up to 100 miles per hour.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Our challenge, now, is to catalyse the urgent action needed to accelerate the world's progress toward that reality by testing and investing in solutions at-scale with transformative potential. In the past two years, confidence has grown that existing decarbonisation solutions can cost-effectively enable a net zero global economy by 2050.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 11, 2021

All include renewable energy (mostly solar PV but some wind), energy storage (mostly lithium-ion batteries but some lithium ferro phosphate ), and a diesel or natural gas genset. You can read about the specifics of each one by clicking their links. Get help identifying and applying financial solutions.

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GreenBiz

JULY 2, 2021

The Biden administration’s infrastructure plan, which continues to wind its way through the political process, includes billions of dollars for power grid investments and the creation of a new Grid Authority to oversee power infrastructure upgrades. As people invest in new AC systems, they simply must be all-electric.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Each still plans to build new natural gas power plants in the near term, despite the additional emissions they will cause. And each relies on as-yet-uneconomical technologies such as long-duration energy storage, net-carbon neutral fuels to replace fossil natural gas, and carbon capture and storage (CCS), to reach the final goal.

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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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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 23, 2020

billion in cumulative investment between 2020 and 2025. The COVID-19 pandemic and resulting economic downturn will reduce DER investments in 2020 and 2021, as solar and storage projects face permitting and installation delays, and as rising unemployment and falling economic activity threaten household and business budgets.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

AUGUST 31, 2023

This step is viewed by many as a considerably cleaner option than the current conventional methods of H2 production in the United States, which use natural gas reforming in large central plants without any carbon emission mitigation. This will make it possible to fuel 30 MW combined cycle plant with a 27 MW net output.

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Clean Energy Trust

MAY 7, 2021

April 2021 Cleantech Roundup: Policy Blueprints | EV Battery Supply Chain | Do Net Zero Goals Matter? This month, we highlighted a couple of policy moves that could serve as a blueprint for others, talked a bit more about the EV battery supply chain, and highlighted some human rights issues in the solar supply chain.

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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

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

This rate of growth would require ongoing reductions in PV costs, even as solar reaches cost parity with coal and natural gas. To date, lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries are responsible for expanding storage penetration, through electric vehicles, residential and other smaller-scale needs.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

Less advertised around that time, the company unveiled details about its new modular vehicle platform and Ultium batteries , designed to lower EV prices and allow a 400-mile range fully charged. It’s also investing in professional mentorship for minorities and backing communities through $6.5 Christophe Beck, CEO, Ecolab; St.

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Climate Tech VC

JULY 10, 2023

With a 40% decrease in climate tech venture investments compared to the first six months of 2022—and growth-stage activity experiencing the greatest decline, even as early-stage deals increased —the data could indicate a reshuffling of the ecosystem. Happy Monday! ICYMI, our H1 2023 funding report dropped at the end of June.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Key technologies include electrification, on-board batteries, solar panels, synthetic fuels, carbon capture and storage and possibly hydrogen. Although heavy fuel oil is conventionally used in the shipping industry, Sleipnir operates on Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) with Marine Gas Oil (MGO) as pilot fuel and as a back-up.

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Business Green

MARCH 31, 2023

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. Last year's investments in new wind farms only add up to 10 GW. But the numbers speak a different language.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JANUARY 19, 2021

So my advice – don’t be patient, look for solutions; find them; invest in them and put your personal efforts, motivation and passion for clean tech and energy into working on solutions. Given the impact of transportation related GHG emissions, investments in clean transportation need to happen now.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

DECEMBER 16, 2020

So my advice – don’t be patient, look for solutions; find them; invest in them and put your personal efforts, motivation and passion for clean tech and energy into working on solutions. Given the impact of transportation related GHG emissions, investments in clean transportation need to happen now.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

. “This project is not only a crucial step in helping us understand the practical challenges of using hydrogen traction power on our railways, but an example of the type of investment Scotland needs to take advantage of the opportunity to build a secure, flexible, cost effective and zero carbon energy network.”

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