GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 30, 2020

But they’re also part of a broader Upper Midwest Energy Plan that includes increasing its wind portfolio by about 3,700 MW, or about 55 percent, by 2022, and adding about 3,000 MW of solar to its current 750 MW by 2030. Existing battery technologies are “definitely part of these peaking resources,” he said.

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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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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 17, 2020

Electricity demand for air conditioning throughout the region stretched California's power capacity and limited the state's ability to import power from nearby states. “That solar resource is fading fast, and we have to ramp up other resources quickly to meet that net peak event.”

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Those include changes to how CPUC calculates the effective load-carrying capacity of utility-scale solar farms being built by developers under power purchase agreements with CCAs — changes that could, in effect, de-rate how much solar power is determined to be worth to the grid during different times of the day, week, and year.

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Business Green

JUNE 7, 2021

The UK's windy weather means that offshore wind energy, backed by energy storage, provides the best value route to a decarbonised grid, the report concludes, arguing that solar power is set to play a relatively "small role" in the transition to a zero-emission UK energy system.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Those include solar paired with batteries to shift its daytime output to late afternoon and early evening, when California faces its steepest demand peaks, and demand response that shifts energy consumption away from those critical hours. The all-source procurement is technically open to existing natural gas plants. gigawatts by 2022.

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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. Battery costs have also plummeted over that time frame.

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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. That’s a big boost from previous plans to build four pilot battery projects this year and study them for the next five years before committing to a broader buildout.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 22, 2020

The world’s leading nuclear power generator is betting big on a future of small-scale, distributed energy. Électricité de France operates 58 nuclear reactors in its home country and owns stakes in several U.S. nuclear plants that it's now moving to sell.

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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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R-Squared Energy

MARCH 1, 2020

Natural gas and renewables complement each other well, because natural gas plants can be ramped up quickly to compensate for some of the intermittency of renewables like wind and solar power. The holy grail for renewable power is affordable backup power that would allow renewables to provide power whenever it is needed.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Areas targeted by the green capital investment programme would be electric vehicle battery factories, offshore wind, UK-based wind turbine manufacturing, hydrogen, tree-planting, flood defences, energy efficiency and active travel, Reeves said. "As

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Business Green

AUGUST 7, 2020

Nuclear power plants have been struggling to restart while Japan has decided to fade out ageing coal-fired power plants, renewable energy is the only solution to cover a shortfall from these power sources.". Australia and Singapore edge forward with plans for giant solar powered interconnector.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The falling costs of wind and solar power are pushing utilities to find ways to incorporate them into their long-range plans, even as they struggle to define what resources can be relied on to provide the dispatchable power they need. Duke's utilities serve 7.7 million electric customers and 1.6 Southern Company.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Shaw Renewable Investments purchased the 160 MW Rancho Seco Solar II Project in Sacramento, California from Lendlease, an international property and infrastructure group. Impact Solar Project (G.S.E. Impact Solar Project (Courtesy: Lightsource bp). power grids," the researchers wrote. Twelve) - Lamar, TX. now has 53.8

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 19, 2021

“Our responsibility and commitment going forward is to be better prepared for extreme climate change-induced weather events and other operational challenges facing our evolving power system,” the report authors wrote. 14 and 15 emergencies. Utilities are getting on board with the CPUC's fast-track efforts.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 20, 2021

Many devices that power our lives, such as LED lights , get more performance from a kilowatt-hour of electricity now than they did 15 years ago. Wind and solar power dramatically outperformed expectations, delivering 13 times more generation in 2020 than projected. Emission-free nuclear generation largely held steady.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Some coal and nuclear power plants have been forced offline, most likely due to freezing temperatures shutting down cooling systems or instrumentation required to keep them running safely. “We’ve lost multiple gigawatts of coal, we’ve had a nuclear power plant trip offline” — the 2.4-gigawatt

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R-Squared Energy

JULY 14, 2020

Renewable power has grown rapidly in the past decade. In some places, it has created intermittent periods of excess power. For example, California has created so much solar power that at times it was cheaper to pay Arizona to take the excess power than to significantly curtail power.

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 17, 2022

Then, beginning around 2009, first wind turbines and then solar photovoltaic panels decreased enough in cost to become competitive in electricity markets. Beginning in 1958, these were augmented by nuclear power plants, which have operated nearly continuously to pay off their large capital investments. AP Photo/Jim Mone.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 28, 2021

In 2010, solar power was just 4 percent of new electric generating capacity and there was a patchwork of state solar policies and renewable portfolio standards. [1] In the US, battery electric vehicles represent about 2.5 Asaf Nagler, Senior Director, Government Relations, ABB Inc.

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Business Green

MAY 17, 2021

The IEA's roadmap also suggests that a global net zero energy system in 2050 would be dominated by wind and solar, with a small role for nuclear power, and fossil fuels confined only for use in the production of plastics and at some heavy industrial manufacturing sites or facilities equipped with carbon capture capability.

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Business Green

MARCH 26, 2020

Electricity generation from natural gas fired power plants also fell back slightly by 2.2 per cent, while nuclear power dropped 14 per cent to its lowest level since 2008 due to a series of prolonged outages at Dungeness B and Hunterson B last year, the statistics show.

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Clean Energy Canada

DECEMBER 6, 2021

With an abundance of sunshine and blustery plains, Alberta and Saskatchewan have wind- and solar-power potential that rivals the best on the continent. Meanwhile, British Columbia, Manitoba, Quebec, and Newfoundland and Labrador have long excelled at generating low-cost hydro power. Consider South Australia.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 15, 2020

On the solar front, it would include $300 million per year through 2025 for Department of Energy programs to improve solar PV energy efficiency and cost-effectiveness, boost manufacturing and recycling of solar panels, and fund programs to integrate solar power into the grid.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2023

In fact, the CCC's preferred option - or 'central scenario' - is for the government to aim for an overwhelmingly, but not entirely, decarbonised power system by 2035. It also wants to triple solar capacity from around 14GW today to around 50GW over the same time period.

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Earth Gratitude

JANUARY 21, 2016

Marines are now carrying Solar Power Blankets to recharge their batteries and communications. According to Secretary Mabus, this saves a company of Marines 700 pounds of batteries. You will never make nuclear power small enough or safe enough to put on a submarine.” themselves. How is the Navy going green?

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R-Squared Energy

MARCH 3, 2021

On the other hand, if Texas was being largely powered by wind and solar power — even with battery backups — the situation could have been much worse. Batteries would have been drained early in the storm, and then fast-responding firm power would be required to fill a huge supply gap. .

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Clean Energy Trust

AUGUST 5, 2020

Residential solar is a very fragmented market with many regional players, so the new entity will still have less than twenty percent market share. In the first quarter of this year, direct sales made up 76% of the US residential solar market, said Tara Narayanan, a solar analyst at BloombergNEF, compared to 39% in Q1 2016.”

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 21, 2020

But the tax-credit extensions contained in the bill could provide a significant boost for the primary federal incentive structure for wind and solar power by extending the expiration dates set by Congress late last year. R&D for clean energy, energy storage, carbon capture and nuclear power. Solar power will get $1.5

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The report lays out five alternative pathways to reaching its targets, ranging from those that rely on a complete shift to renewable energy and electrifying transport and buildings, to those that rely more on nuclear power, carbon capture and storage or biomass to decarbonize. In the U.S.,

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 26, 2021

The gas-free scenario is also reliant on the greatest mix of as-yet untested technologies such as long-duration energy storage or small modular nuclear reactors — and it would involve keeping some of its coal plants open past 2030, to ensure it can provide reliable power in the winter when solar power is scarce.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 12, 2021

But beneath the similar political dynamics lie a dramatically different set of ground truths — primarily, the ascendance of wind and solar power from relatively marginal and costly resources to the lowest-cost and fastest-growing source of electricity in the world. wholesale energy markets.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Their goal is to create synthetic fuel by directly capturing CO2¬ and water from the air using solar power. They are doubling down on oil and natural gas and investing what amounts to pocket change in innovative climate-oriented efforts like small nuclear power plants and devices that suck carbon out of the air.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 8, 2021

As CEO and co-founder of SunEdison, he helped pioneer the solar power-purchase agreement (PPA) model now central to the industry. And some of those bets will lead to losses,” as with loans to bankrupt (and now reviving) EV maker Fisker Automotive and bankrupt lithium-ion battery manufacturer A123.

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