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GreenTechMedia
SEPTEMBER 23, 2020
That’s because those plants provide critical flexibility to meet peaks in grid demand and deliver power when wind and solar resources may not be reliably producing enough to meet customers’ needs. The natural gas conundrum. Department of Energy.
GreenTechMedia
MAY 4, 2020
Dominion’s Virginia generation portfolio today is roughly one-third natural gas, one-third nuclear and one-quarter coal, with just over 5 percent ascribed to renewable energy, much of it hydropower and biomass. Analysts at Morgan Stanley, among others, have expressed doubts that the Atlantic Coast Pipeline will ever get built.
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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. The original foundation was a combination of “base load” coal plants that operated 24 hours a day and large-scale hydropower. However, new nuclear plants in the U.S.
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. Wind power will also benefit from the tax extensions provided for in the bill.
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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