Renewable Energy World
APRIL 13, 2021
The proportion of global power generation represented by VRE, such as wind and solar power, has been rising rapidly since 2007. However, the variable nature of generation from wind and solar can pose challenges to grids. Existing hydropower plants can also help with this large ramp up power.
Business Green
FEBRUARY 14, 2021
But Imperial College London analysis warns emerging technologies and negative emission power plants are likely to be needed to unlock full decarbonisation of the grid. Wind and solar alone generated around 30 per cent of Britain's electricity in 2020, while biomass provided seven per cent, and hydropower made up 1.6
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GreenTechMedia
SEPTEMBER 23, 2020
utility can reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 while still keeping natural gas as a central part of its business, both to generate electricity and to sell to its customers. That includes a recommitment to reaching its 2030 goal of reducing carbon emissions below 50 percent of their 2007 levels, potentially ahead of schedule.
Renewable Energy World
MARCH 3, 2021
The authors of the report also showed that carbon emissions fell by 16% compared to figures from 2019. Lead author of the Drax report Iain Staffell said that: “2020 saw Britain edge closer to the power system of the future with renewables generating more power than fossil fuels.”. “The The broader picture. 19 lockdown measures.
GreenTechMedia
APRIL 9, 2020
transmission projects seeking to carry wind and solar power from where it’s most cost-effectively generated to where it’s needed the most. In 2018, Avangrid subsidiary Central Maine Power won a bid to develop the $1 billion, 145-mile project — a replacement for the failed Northern Pass Transmission project.
Business Green
MARCH 25, 2021
Yet while the failure to price in the costs of greenhouse gas emissions was famously described by economist Lord Nicholas Stern as the biggest market failure in history, attempts to bring in carbon pricing measures worldwide such as taxes and emissions trading schemes have had only limited success to date.
Business Green
JANUARY 19, 2023
Hydropower dam proposals have ballooned across the Balkans over the last two decades, as the leaders of some of Europe's poorest regions have looked to tap their abundant natural resources to secure access clean energy. But the picture is much more complicated.
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