Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Government and grid operators in the Netherlands are taking new, urgent measures to ensure sufficient space on the Dutch power grid as demand continues to surge in the compact country. That is good news, but it also puts enormous pressure on our power grid.

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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. Under the law, Dominion Virginia and the smaller Appalachian Power Co. Retreat from natural gas not enough for environmental advocates.

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 24, 2021

But what if an attack like this happens again and it affects our power grid? Whether you use gas or another source of electricity to power your home, you are probably aware that your consumption (and your energy bills) has two seasonal peaks. When it comes to natural gas in particular, the U.S.

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Clean Energy Canada

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Even without carbon pricing, wind power is set to be 40 per cent cheaper than gas-fired power in Alberta and Ontario by 2030. Our analysis also explores the costs of using battery storage to complement wind and solar power, finding that, even with storage included, both are still highly cost-competitive.

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GreenBiz

JULY 15, 2020

Other technologies are in the mix, such as battery electric vehicles. It is energy-efficient, abundant and an environmentally friendly alternative to natural gas. Clean hydrogen could cut greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel by up to 34 percent, reported Bloomberg New Energy Finance. . locations in 2021.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Enel X and power equipment and management company Eaton will partner on a solar-and-storage microgrid in Puerto Rico, one of the largest yet built on an island struggling to restructure its hurricane-battered power grid. megawatt hours of battery storage. Luma has ties to several natural gas businesses.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 25, 2022

The new energy infrastructure includes 3.4MW of solar, four sustainable microgrids, with 1.9MW/7.6MWh of battery energy storage with microgrid controls. “Solano County currently relies heavily on the power grid, and our rates went up eight percent this year,” added Greve.

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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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Smart Energy International

APRIL 16, 2024

million) to municipal energy supplier Thüringer Energie AG (TEAG) to upgrade and digitise the electricity grid in Thuringia, Germany. The project will upgrade and expand the grid in rural areas to meet the needs of the energy transition.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

But in the Midwest, with the harshest winters in the lower 48, it has been cheaper to stick with natural gas as a heating source. Previously, natural gas accounted for about 65 percent of the building’s $65,000 annual energy costs. But even in colder climates, the outlook is starting to change.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 24, 2022

According to the manufacturer, the microgrid lab comes in response to the need for reliable and efficient microgrid solutions; a result of changing governmental regulations, increasing cost of operations, inclement weather conditions and the instability of power grids.

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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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Clean Energy Canada

AUGUST 8, 2023

The federal government has released a new paper, Powering Canada Forward , which lays out the federal government’s vision for a 100% clean power grid by 2035. Canada’s grid is already 84% emissions free, but as the energy transition progresses, more homes, vehicles, and industries will be plugging into the grid.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

This week’s Smart Energy Finances looks at the reported sale of German virtual power plant and battery energy storage developer sonnen by Shell as a part of its retail divestment strategy. When numerous residential battery storage systems connect, something big happens. Shell has declined to comment. billion of assumed debt.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 19, 2020

Several out-of-state power grids also reported emergency conditions on Monday and Tuesday. SCE also tapped capacity bidding programs for utility-owned behind-the-meter battery systems to provide power, yielding approximately 5 megawatts, Griffo said. Meanwhile, heat waves have continued across the Western U.S.,

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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. Pumped hydro storage, but how much?

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

State regulators have proposed a major set of responses to what could be a looming grid reliability shortfall in Sothern California, including a 2.5-gigawatt The proposal follows a string of unusual orders from the state's regulator to deal with the ongoing reliability crises for Southern California’s power grid.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 17, 2020

The San Francisco-based utility is emerging from bankruptcy with a massive debt load that could make it harder to raise the tens of billions of dollars of investment needed to prevent its power grid from causing more devastating wildfires. PG&E plans to invest about $40 billion over the next five years into its power grid.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 10, 2021

And unlike last month’s CPUC order to utilities to boost grid supply under short-term contracts, the new proposal might allow contracts of five years or longer to expand or repower natural gas-fired power plants, which environmental groups say could set California back on its aggressive carbon emissions reduction goals.

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Smart Energy International

JULY 27, 2022

It also aims to encourage the use of interties from provinces and territories with an abundance of hydroelectric power; incentivise increased use of hydrogen, battery storage and carbon capture and storage; and help to set the stage for the increased use of demand-side management and distributed energy in Canada.

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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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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 7, 2020

California’s two days of rolling blackouts in August were the result of disconnects between its existing grid reliability constructs and the needs of an increasingly solar-powered grid, and its failure to prepare for a Western U.S.-wide wide heatwave that undermined its reliance on out-of-state resources.

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Climate Tech VC

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Longtime transmission guru Carl Zichella once called the American electric grid the “most complicated machine we’ve ever built”, and with $1T of IRA-driven renewable investments in the pipeline, it’s only going to get more complex. In other locations, grids stretch across international borders.

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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 long-term future for Form depends in part on its unit economics versus mass-produced lithium-ion batteries.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

California’s distributed energy resources add up to gigawatts' worth of capacity that could be used to prevent future rolling blackouts and balance the state’s increasingly clean-powered grid — if the state can compensate them for those services.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

In 2018, renewables accounted for 20 percent of Alliant’s portfolio while coal made up 31 percent and natural gas accounted for 42 percent. billion through 2020 on updating its power grid to interface more effectively with solar and other renewables as well as electric vehicles and batteries.

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The Environmental Blog

JUNE 8, 2022

This is in conjunction with the industry’s shift towards battery-powered vessels such as the Yara Birkeland and China’s Zhongtiandianyun 001. Among the alternatives being considered is liquefied natural gas (LNG), which is still a fossil fuel, despite being considered the cleanest. More diverse workforce.

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

He didn’t mention nuclear power or carbon sequestration in this speech, but his website does mention them among four specific goals designed to decarbonize the power sector. Biden’s plan calls for: Grid-scale storage at one-tenth the cost of lithium-ion batteries. power grid by 2050. trillion through 2035.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 4, 2022

Despite the Covid-19 pandemic, 2021 was a record-breaking year for investment in the energy transition and the deployment of renewable power, battery storage, and sustainable transportation, according to the 2022 Sustainable Energy in America Factbook published by BloombergNEF (BNEF) and the Business Council for Sustainable Energy (BCSE).

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AutoGrid

MARCH 30, 2022

Demand response (DR) first and foremost; targeted reductions in demand can have the same impact on the power grid as increasing supply and typically at lower cost (and with lower emissions). combustion turbines burning natural gas or oil meet most of the peak power demands. In both New York and Texas.

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GreenBiz

JULY 2, 2021

Even without extreme weather events, the power grid needs love. The grid was largely built in the 1950s and 1960s with a 35- to 80-year life expectancy , meaning much of it should have been retired and replaced by now. Battery systems (powered by renewables) are emerging as a clean alternative.

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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 23, 2020

Battery costs for electric vehicles decreased by over two-thirds in that same time period. including California and Texas, solar and wind power is cheaper than natural gas and coal. power grid has contributed to cutting carbon pollution in the power sector by 28% since 2005. In many parts of the U.S.,

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Business Green

JULY 17, 2020

Other technologies are in the mix, such as battery electric vehicles. It is energy-efficient, abundant and an environmentally friendly alternative to natural gas. Clean hydrogen could cut greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel by up to 34 per cent, reported Bloomberg New Energy Finance. locations in 2021.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

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. Record heat for several days across parts of the state strained the power grid so much that it started rationing electricity, for the first time in almost 20 years.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 2, 2022

The building's gas line was removed due to new equipment specifications. The building also includes an installed 30-kilowatt solar photovoltaic system and 220-kWh battery system for renewable energy generation and back-up power, and it opts for 100 per cent renewable electricity as offered by the local utility.

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Vote Solar

AUGUST 17, 2017

In fact, the California Independent System Operator, the managers of our statewide power grid, say they have been planning for this event for over a year and are confident that our power won’t be interrupted. In fact, solar is already proving more reliable than California’s traditional power plants during summer heat waves.

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