GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

That puts the Southeast ahead of other regions of the country in terms of transitioning heating loads from fossil fuels to electricity, but it also puts a strain on the power grid to meet peak heating needs. Why offshore wind is no slam dunk for Duke. Pumped hydro storage, but how much?

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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 gigawatt-hours of energy storage capacity, to meet its share of a statewide procurement that must be brought online by late next year to assure statewide grid stability.

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 19, 2022

Engineering consulting firm Burns & McDonnell completed construction of three 10 MW/20 MWh lithium-ion battery energy storage systems in West Texas. Kansas City-based Burns & McDonnell tapped its direct-hire subsidiary Ref-Chem to complete construction and installation of the batteries.

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 25, 2021

Burns & McDonnell said on Monday that it was selected by LG Energy Solution and Sustainable Environmental Renewable (SER) Capital Partners to provide engineer-procure-construct (EPC) services for three 10-MW/20-MWh lithium-ion, stand-alone battery energy storage systems. The three facilities are located in the West Texas region.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

This means that in the event of a heatwave, a spike in electricity use would ultimately test the power grid’s ability to meet supply with demand, potentially resulting in summer brownouts or blackouts. These concerns make it difficult for the grid to fully rely on renewables.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Over the past decade, a new class of digital power electronics has emerged that can shape, shift and control the flow of electricity on the power grid in ways never before seen. Perhaps the UK, which has set far more ambitious green goals for its island grid, may be a better fit?

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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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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. Major boosts for solar, offshore wind and energy storage.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

France’s Neoen SA has outlined plans to build a giant renewables complex in South Australia, including battery storage with up to nine times more capacity than the Tesla Inc. design at its nearby Hornsdale plant, which is billed as the world’s largest lithium-ion battery.

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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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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

The preferred system plan portfolio differs from one previously adopted by including more solar and battery storage, as well as new long-duration storage, out-of-state wind, and offshore wind resources. The projects are both in Pacific Gas and Electric’s service area.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Dutch oil giant Shell, which is planning a gigawatt-scale, wind power-driven hydrogen cluster in the Netherlands, is also building hydrogen fueling stations in Los Angeles to serve these ports fuel cell vehicle’s needs, Wayne Leighty, the company’s hydrogen fuel business development manager, said.

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Business Green

APRIL 6, 2020

With April ushering in sunny skies and breezy weather, output from renewables reached almost 65 per cent of the UK's overall electricity mix for a period on Sunday, while overall demand for power has been between 10-15 per cent lower than usual since lockdown measures were enforced in March. pic.twitter.com/fwCbxMA8up.

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 5, 2021

AES will source the energy needed from a portfolio of wind, solar, hydro and battery storage which will be developed or contracted by the utility. The utility will ensure the energy powering those data centers will be 90% carbon-free when measured on an hourly basis. “Not

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Green Market Oracle

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Renewable sources of power are not only cleaner they are more dependable than fossil fuels. While it is true that you cannot generate solar electricity while the sun is not shining or the wind power when the wind is not blowing, this is resolved through rapidly evolving increasingly inexpensive battery storage technology.

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Better Ventures

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Our power grids will buckle and we don’t yet have the wherewithal to manage so many distributed energy resources coming on line at once. Solar and wind power won’t help Nike decarbonize its production if it can’t manage the carbon footprint of its many supply chain layers, but software will.

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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. wind generation has tripled and solar generation has increased over 80 times. And these prices continue to fall. In many parts of the U.S.,

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Business Green

AUGUST 2, 2022

The rollout of biomass, wind and solar power has enabled the UK to decarbonise its power grid at a faster rate than any other major economy. And in order to reduce energy bills in the years ahead we need to have more clean, green, renewable power, which is generated in the UK for the UK.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Dr Simon Cran-McGreehin, ECIU's head of analysis, said that amid significant concerns over the reliability of Britain's gas supplies this winter in the wake of Russia's war in Ukraine, the UK could reduce its dependency on gas by generating more power from renewable sources. The same goes for insulation and electric heat pumps.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

Major investment is urgently needed to roll out up to 24GW of long-duration energy storage over the next 15 years to help smooth operation of the grid as it contends with a rapid influx of intermittent wind power capacity, Aurora Energy Research has warned. The flow batteries are capable of storing up to 0.8

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Business Green

JULY 30, 2020

Renewables such as wind, solar and biomass provided 37.1 The growth in wind capacity made up the bulk of growing influence of renewables on the UK power grid, last year accounting for a fifth - 20 per cent - of the mix alone. Offshore and onshore wind farms both made up 10 per cent of UK power generation each.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 10, 2019

As the sun sets on California’s solar farms, a backup energy source deep in the Sierra Nevada Mountains springs to life.

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Energy Innovation

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

These original images were produced by the author’s prompt: “People learning how to solve climate change with solar, wind, and batteries.”. More recently, learning curves have been enthusiastically referenced to explain staggering declines in costs of key climate technologies like solar photovoltaics (PV) and batteries (see Figure 1).

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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

APRIL 9, 2020

Microsoft also will continue to seek efficiency gains through technical design changes that reconsider how some resources, particularly the massive batteries that provide power backup, interact with the electricity grid, Janous added. "That is where that type of data center becomes interesting," he said. A model for the future?

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AGreenLiving

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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AGreenLiving

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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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Tobias Trübenbacher, a design student from Berlin, has created a wind-powered lamp post that uses an integrated wind rotor to generate energy and a motion detection system to create an insect-friendly light spectrum. Wind-powered lamp post helps reduce light pollution. View post:Â .

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

They’re also a key dispatchable assets to help meet peak grid demand. Stage 2: ‘reshape’ the demand side of the grid. Deloitte’s second stage, dubbed “reshape,” concentrates on the demand side of the equation, namely shifting electricity loads to match a primarily renewable-powered grid.

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Business Green

MAY 18, 2021

There currently remains a strong pipeline of new gas power projects around the world, including in the UK - it remains to be seen whether the IEA's roadmap can trigger a rethink or whether carbon capture and hydrogen innovations provide justification for continued investment in gas infrastructure.

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 20, 2022

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. Why wind and solar need long-term storage.

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The Verge: Energy

APRIL 24, 2024

Climate change poses new risks to the power grid, and Costa Rica has a lot of work left to do to get more solar and wind farms online. That’s when we have low wind, but we have more hydropower. We’ve got a problem because hydropower does not have the same variability as solar wind.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

ACES will provide up to 150,000 megawatt-hours of energy storage capacity, a scale that dwarfs the lithium-ion battery capacity being installed in California and across the Intermountain West. Mitsubishi also makes lithium-ion batteries for the rapidly growing global market, said Paul Browning, CEO of Mitsubishi Power America.

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 17, 2022

There are basically three ways to accommodate the variability of wind and solar energy: use storage, deploy generation in a coordinated fashion across a wide area of the country along with more transmission, and manage electricity demand to better match the supply. Storage is now largely being provided by lithium-ion batteries.

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Wind power turbines and home battery systems might have a little more industry wiggle room. In some countries, entire power grids are being overhauled as market restrictions eliminate some methods of energy production in favor of cleaner alternatives.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Statkraft has sold the 36MW Andershaw wind farm in South Lanarkshire to wind power specialist Greencoat UK Wind plc for £120m, with the European renewables major planning to use all of the proceeds from the sale to fund further renewables projects, it announced today. "It

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The rest would come mostly from a mix of other low- or zero-carbon sources, including wind, nuclear, hydropower, biopower, geothermal and combustion turbines run on zero-carbon synthetic fuels such as hydrogen. One advantage solar power has over many other low-carbon technologies is that most of the U.S. power grid.

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