Greentown Labs

JANUARY 30, 2024

Certain key renewables—including solar and wind power—are intermittent, meaning that it’s critical to store power from these sources to ensure reliable electricity, even on cloudy or windless days. The post EarthEn’s CO2 Battery Stores Renewable Energy for Four to 100 Hours, Enabling a Cleaner Grid appeared first on Greentown Labs.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Stem, the decade-old behind-the-meter battery startup that was seeking a buyer earlier this year to bolster its growth ambitions, is now launching a plan to go public via a special-purpose acquisition corporation (SPAC) reverse merger. ” Stem’s role in opening up the behind-the-meter battery market. and abroad.

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 26, 2022

California’s Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) is proposing to add nearly 1,600 MW/6,400 MWh of battery energy storage across nine projects in the state. The nine stand-alone storage projects proposed by PG&E all would feature lithium-ion battery technology, each with four hours of storage. GW of new resources.

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Solar Industry

APRIL 23, 2024

Through this January, behind-the-meter battery storage systems among PG&E customers totaled more than 670 MW. PG&E retail customers also received 53% of their electric deliveries from carbon-free nuclear power generated by Diablo Canyon Power Plant and 13% from large hydroelectric power.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

One often overlooked piece, states Bernard Salha, group technical director and R&D director for French energy giant EDF, might be found in nuclear power. Nuclear power plants can follow the load, and consequently, they can help to bring stability on the grid.”

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Charged

MAY 10, 2023

In a recent interview for Einride , a Swedish provider of autonomous electric trucks, Cebon discussed his research into the pros and cons of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles versus battery-electric vehicles for road freight. They both have an electric motor, an electric drivetrain, a battery, inverter and so on.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

On its transmission network, 19 battery energy storage projects worth around 10GW will be offered dates to plug in, averaging four years earlier than their current agreement, based on a new approach which removes the need for non-essential engineering works prior to connecting storage.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 3, 2020

” But by the end of the decade, battery storage will be the cheapest option for balancing Europe's grid, overtaking gas peakers, according to a new long-term energy storage outlook. Most of that will come from front-of-the-meter battery systems. ” Gas plants next on chopping block after coal.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

While small modular reactors have powered naval ships for decades and are also in use in other military applications, they’ve yet to be approved for use in commercial power generation. NuScale’s design doesn’t require some of the key safety features for large-scale reactors.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 3, 2020

-based energy company AES, which through its Fluence joint venture with Siemens has developed the world’s largest fleet of grid-scale batteries. formerly 174 Power Global), a U.S.-based the owner of utility Arizona Public Service, will build a 42-megawatt/168 megawatt-hour battery system along with 42 megawatts of solar on Maui.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 29, 2020

Two more utilities in Arizona and Colorado are moving to accelerate closure of coal plants and replace them with renewable energy backed by batteries, joining a broader push in both states to shift to more cost-effective clean energy options even in the absence of state mandates. In 2018, Public Service Co.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

The global battery market is set to grow into a massive industry in the next decade, but policymakers today will decide which regions benefit the most in future, explain McKinsey's Nicolò Campagnol, Alexander Pfeiffer, and Christer Tryggestad. Winning companies will be those that act in the next few years.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 30, 2020

Arizona Public Service released its plan for reaching zero-carbon by 2050 , with multiple options to balance the costs and carbon benefits of switching from coal and natural gas to renewables, batteries, distributed energy resources and as-yet-untested technologies. ” But most likely the capacity will come in the form of batteries.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 22, 2024

Our hourly modeling shows that power systems can accommodate very high penetrations of wind and solar without incurring higher costs,” said Ian Berryman, lead energy systems modeler at BNEF. The path to staying well below two degrees is narrowing,” said David Hostert, head of economics and modeling at BNEF and the lead author of the report.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 6, 2021

California and other states are pushing to use clean electricity to power vehicles and buildings to cut carbon, which will increase demand. And the state’s last nuclear power plant and numerous coastal gas power plants are facing retirement. But rising temperatures from climate change are just one challenge. ROOT CAUSES.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 7, 2021

Another challenge outlined in the white paper is the feasibility of planned renewable developments, which would be needed to fill the demand gap left by declining coal generation and the ongoing decommissioning of nuclear power plants. Following the coal and nuclear phase-out, this capacity will have to be delivered by other assets.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Opponents of new natural gas power plant construction argue that the falling cost of renewable energy paired with batteries is undercutting the business case for natural gas-fired peaker plants, leaving them at risk of becoming stranded assets unable to recover the costs of building them. Department of Energy.

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Renewables-Info

JULY 15, 2019

Grid energy storage was developed to address overproduction of electricity during off-peak hours, especially for baseload power plants such as nuclear power plants whose energy output is relatively inflexible. When the energy source is unavailable, no electricity can be generated.

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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 gigawatts of carbon-free resources to help meet grid reliability needs that will arise when four natural gas-fired power plants retire next year to reduce their environmental harm to coastal waters.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Auction for 5GW of back-up power next winter sees record high prices with gas plants hoovering up contracts for lion’s share of capacity.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 21, 2021

Power Potential was developed to help manage the rapid increase in wind and solar farms, and battery storage connecting to local electricity networks. That’s almost as much as the UK’s entire nuclear power output.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Broad Reach Power announced this week that its North Fork and Bat Cave battery storage projects in Central Texas have been placed into service with ERCOT, each bringing online 100 MW/100 MWh. Broad Reach Power now has 300 MW of dispatchable storage resources in ERCOT. Source: Broad Reach Power). Comically full.

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Business Green

MAY 26, 2020

EDF has finally submitted plans for its long-trailed Sizewell C nuclear power project in Suffolk, today announcing it has lodged an official application to begin construction work on the multi-billion pound facility towards the end of next year. The same company also holds a 33 per cent stake in Hinkley Point C.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 14, 2020

California regulators have allowed utilities to replace capacity from the closed San Onofre nuclear power plant with new gas-fired peaker plants, though they also required Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas & Electric to seek out batteries, energy efficiency and demand response to meet part of the shortfall.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 30, 2021

From alkaline batteries for small electronics to lithium-ion batteries for cars and laptops, most people already use batteries in many aspects of their daily lives. Right now there are very few such batteries in use. Batteries work by creating a chemical reaction that produces a flow of electrical current.

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Business Green

AUGUST 30, 2020

The situation reduced the need for fossil fuel power such as coal and gas, and also led to curbed demand for nuclear power, as cheaper forms of renewable power such as wind and solar shouldered the lion's share of Britain's electricity needs.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

A raft of innovative nuclear power projects and atomic regulatory research efforts have won a share of £3.3m It forms part of the government's £385m Advanced Nuclear Fund, through which it is aiming to have an HTGR demonstration project up and running by the early 2030s to help decarbonise industrial heating supplies.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Xcel expects regulators to approve this plan, which also includes coal-closure commitments and extending its nuclear power plant operations through at least 2040, by the end of this year. One option could be green hydrogen , generated from zero-carbon electricity via electrolysis, that could be stored for use to power turbines.

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 24, 2021

The EIA found that in that month, natural gas generates approximately 42% of the nation’s electricity through natural gas-fired power plants. But with this system, if the grid goes down, you won’t have power either, unless you have a solar battery installed along with your solar system. So, what can you do to mitigate your risk?

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Business Green

JULY 17, 2022

Advanced nuclear technologies, modular manufacturing methods and new approaches to project finance could usher a more cost-effective era for the UK's nuclear industry, writes LSE's Esin Serin. As part of its approach to dealing with energy security concerns, the UK government has turned to nuclear power.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 5, 2020

“Let me tell you a secret from continental Europe: batteries are dead,” said Jochen Schwill, CEO of virtual power plant operator Next Kraftwerke, speaking at the recent Energy Storage Summit in London. Their role in peaking could be done by batteries.". “It’s not working anymore,” he said.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

The firm is now managing a network of more than 10,000 residential batteries in Japan, networked and managed as a fleet, less than a year after entering the market. It has a headstart on many of its competitors having started work on virtual power plant (VPP) trials back in 2013. It was the first to create a VPP in the U.K.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

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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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 2, 2021

Currently, electric cars rely on lithium and cobalt batteries to run, which, whilst undoubtedly better for the environment than carbon, aren’t entirely clean. Because lithium cathodes degrade over time, they can’t simply be placed into new batteries. We ideally need to shift to batteries that use less cobalt, or none at all.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 10, 2020

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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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

The 5.5TWh of exported power represented a new quarterly record. Whilst Russia throttled gas supplies and France saw several nuclear power stations shut down in response to drought conditions, Britain developed a sizeable trade surplus in electricity with the rest of Europe, as excess power was exported through subsea interconnectors.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Arizona Public Service promised in January to reach zero-carbon energy by 2050 , with interim 2030 goals to exit its remaining coal-fired power plants and reach 65 percent clean electricity, including 45 percent renewable energy and carbon-free power from its Palo Verde nuclear power plant.

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