Business Green

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

To meet domestic and international renewable and climate change targets, North Sea Link will help increase opportunities for shared use of renewable energy - a mix of generation, including wind power from the UK and hydropower from Norway. North Sea Link will be National Grid's fifth interconnector to Europe.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 1, 2021

The “green cable” will exchange German wind energy with Norwegian hydropower and connect two optimally complementary systems, according to transmission system operator TenneT. TenneT and KfW each hold 50% of the shares in DC Nordseekabel, which is responsible for construction and permitting on the German side. each hold 50%.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 18, 2022

All of these are powered by hydropower. A further facility, wind powered 50MW Dorothy is under construction in Texas and the company is targeting over 150MW by the end of the year, with a corresponding factor three increase over the year in its Bitcoin mining hashrate.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 4, 2020

Dominion’s new IRP is driven by Virginia's Clean Economy Act passed earlier this year, which calls for 100 percent carbon-free electricity by 2045 and sets targets for energy efficiency, energy storage, and in-state solar and wind power. Under the law, Dominion Virginia and the smaller Appalachian Power Co.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

To meet the entire region’s needs with 100 percent renewable energy by 2040, endeavors are underway to cultivate and integrate clean energy sources like biomass, geothermal, hydropower, solar and wind. Estimated costs for all the green energy construction runs upward of 300 billion Japanese yen, or $2.75 billion in U.S.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 13, 2021

LS Power announces the formation of Rev Renewables LLC to develop, acquire and operate energy storage and renewable projects, including conventional hydropower and pumped storage. LS Power is a development, investment and operating company focused on the North American power and energy infrastructure sector.

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Global renewable power generation is growing at an unprecedented rate , driven by the favourable economics of wind and solar along with energy security concerns around oil and gas (largely caused by recent wars), and emissions goals. and Ontario, and solar potential in Ontario and the Prairies.

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Business Green

MAY 11, 2022

Renewables are set for yet another year of record growth in 2022, with some 320GW of new capacity expected to be added around the world this year as governments take advantage of the climate and energy security benefits of solar and wind power, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA).

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Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Eastern European countries differ strongly in their current share of RES in total electricity production (with a record 65% share in Romania, Latvia, and Croatia, which rely heavily on hydropower). The construction of D?bsk As Marek Marzec, Renewable Energy Projects Development Director at Polenergia S.A., the investor of D?bsk

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Charged

MAY 31, 2022

Battery “gigafactories” are under construction all over the world—and none too soon. The site in the Northeast of England was selected because of the abundance of renewable energy—it has access to the North Sea Interconnector, so the company can take hydropower-created electricity from Norway and feed wind power back.

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 5, 2021

The portfolio assembled by AES is expected to require approximately $600 million of investment and generate 1,200 jobs, both permanent and construction, in the host communities. Subscribe to Renewable Energy World’s free, weekly newsletter for more stories like this.

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Business Green

MARCH 25, 2021

However, renewable power sources also account for around 40 per cent of the energy sector's total externalities, with bioenergy's estimated costs at £14.5bn each year, just ahead of wind at £14.3bn, while solar power accounted for £5.1bn in costs and hydropower just £1bn, the research shows.

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 20, 2021

in state and local tax revenue over 25 years 10,500 clean energy and construction jobs exclusively to New York State.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 12, 2021

GW Ituango Hydroelectric is the main generation project in Colombia, which is in the construction stage. EPM’s total installed generation capacity is 3,556 MW, of which 86% corresponds to hydroelectric generation.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

A record 33.6GW of wind and solar combined was built. Wind enjoyed its strongest year ever with 17.1GW constructed while solar bested its previous 2016 high with 16.5GW completed. Coal plants continued to retire rapidly. Records were also set for each individual technology.

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Grist

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Renewable solar and wind power now typically costs less than fossil-fuel alternatives. And in Vancouver, British Columbia, the City Council is requiring zero-emission space and water heating in all low-rise residential buildings constructed after this year. People power. If not sooner. Clean up what you can ’ t plug in.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 4, 2021

To lower the cost of constructing the facility, GRID Alternatives brought in volunteers and job trainees, who also learn marketable skills in solar power installation. Block Island Wind Farm Run by 5 GE Haliade 150-6MW turbines (Courtesy: Ørsted). Geothermal and hydropower plants can also support ecological regeneration.

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 20, 2022

is going to need a lot more solar and wind power generation, and lots of cheap energy storage. Wind and solar power vary over the course of a day, so energy storage is essential to provide a continuous flow of electricity. Two types of pumped-storage hydropower; one doesn’t require a river. To cut U.S.

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Business Green

MARCH 31, 2023

Wind and solar accounted for 14 per cent of US electricity, with hydropower accounting for six per cent, and geothermal sources just under one per cent. The group's Annual Financing and Investment Trends report revealed that last year saw just €17bn invested in new wind farms, a fall of 58 per cent compared to €41bn in 2021.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 20, 2019

These sources are constantly replenished such as sunlight, wind, heat and water. The common energy sources are Hydropower, Biomass, Biofuels, Wind, Geothermal and Solar Energy. Now wind power technology is showing rapid growth and much more helpful than conventional power generation.by

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 23, 2021

It’s anticipated that the bulk of the earmarked funding will go towards electrical vehicle manufacture, construction and installation of offshore wind farms around the coast, and the retrofitting of homes across the country. As part of the Ten Point Plan, the Government also announced the creation of the Green Jobs Taskforce.

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 17, 2022

The original foundation was a combination of “base load” coal plants that operated 24 hours a day and large-scale hydropower. Beginning in 1958, these were augmented by nuclear power plants, which have operated nearly continuously to pay off their large capital investments. However, new nuclear plants in the U.S.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 7, 2021

“But then also looking out further in the plan you start to see things like hydrogen and energy storage…those are longer term strategies,” he added, explaining that pipeline construction skills could be transferable to the build-out of hydrogen infrastructure.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 21, 2021

Reindeer herders of the Sámi Indigenous community have moved to a court of appeals in Norway to challenge a proposed wind power project. The Øyfjellet wind farm is one of the largest onshore wind projects in Norway and is expected to help the country move away from traditional fossil fuels.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Schumer’s office, the two-year extension of the federal Investment Tax Credit for solar projects will retain the current 26 percent credit for projects that begin construction through the end of 2022, rather than expiring at the end of 2020 as they would have under existing law. ” Wind tax credit impacts.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

For wind, solar, geothermal, landfill gas, and qualified hydropower projects commencing before 2032, the production tax credit provides a base credit rate of.5 The bill extends the ITC to 30% of full value with a base rate of 6% for property constructed by the end of 2031, then phasing down over two years.

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Business Green

MARCH 4, 2022

The document indicated the agency would "further clarify the strict control of coal power plant projects, and in principle not [permit] the construction of any new coal power plants designed exclusively for electricity generation".

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Grist

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The power grid is a lynchpin for decarbonization because clean electricity, such as renewable solar and wind power, can take the place of fossil fuels currently used to power vehicles, heat buildings, and much more. Meanwhile, shifting patterns of precipitation threaten carbon-free hydropower supplies across the region.

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Mr. Sustainability

JUNE 27, 2020

Renewables include bio-energy, geothermal, hydropower, ocean, solar and wind power. Indirect effects are the jobs associated with industries that supply intermediate goods for the building retrofits or wind turbines, such as lumber, steel, and transportation. No matter which country ‘wins’ this race, we all benefit.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Developers are scrambling to start construction in the next several years as the credit phases down from its original 30 percent to a permanent 10 percent. Last year lawmakers declined to offer solar an ITC extension, even as the wind sector's Production Tax Credit got a one-year reprieve. What's at stake for the wind industry?

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