Smart Energy International

MAY 25, 2022

The batteries capture excess electricity from the grid , primarily overnight during high wind-output hours, and can release the power when customer demand is highest. Mortenson provided engineering and construction expertise. Project construction began in June 2021 and was finished in less than a year. Courtesy of Vistra.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Oil and gas companies have for years marketed fracked gas from B.C. But an impending flood of liquefied natural gas exports from western Canada to Asia could make it harder for countries there to achieve their national climate targets and contribute to tens of thousands of additional deaths due to air pollution.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 7, 2020

California’s two days of rolling blackouts in August were the result of disconnects between its existing grid reliability constructs and the needs of an increasingly solar-powered grid, and its failure to prepare for a Western U.S.-wide A gap between resource adequacy and current grid reality.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 30, 2020

Chevron will work with Canada’s Algonquin Power & Utilities, a growing global renewables developer, to build the plants over the next four years in Permian Basin of Texas and New Mexico, Argentina, Kazakhstan and Western Australia. The initial projects will be sited on Chevron-owned land, with construction to begin in 2021.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 16, 2024

million) to municipal energy supplier Thüringer Energie AG (TEAG) to upgrade and digitise the electricity grid in Thuringia, Germany. The project will upgrade and expand the grid in rural areas to meet the needs of the energy transition. Sign up to our newsletter and stay informed €3 billion ($3.2

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Clean Energy Canada

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Unfortunately, the ensuing debate has quickly polarized rather than bringing constructive discussions about the pros and cons of different approaches. Exaggerated claims about the costs and impacts of pursuing a clean power grid are largely dominating the discourse. This would undermine grid reliability.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The ninth edition of the Sustainable Energy in America Factbook tells the story of American energy efficiency, natural gas and renewable energy in a volatile year. Figure 2 shows that natural gas and renewable generation continued to expand their share of the resource mix. power in 2020. A record 33.6

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 10, 2021

And unlike last month’s CPUC order to utilities to boost grid supply under short-term contracts, the new proposal might allow contracts of five years or longer to expand or repower natural gas-fired power plants, which environmental groups say could set California back on its aggressive carbon emissions reduction goals.

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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. Shifting heating from fossil fuels to electricity can cut direct emissions.

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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. power grid by 2050. trillion through 2035.

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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 23, 2020

Building retrofits and solar panel installation programs re-employed construction workers laid off during the 2007-2008 housing crash. including California and Texas, solar and wind power is cheaper than natural gas and coal. power grid has contributed to cutting carbon pollution in the power sector by 28% since 2005.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 5, 2020

They use electricity to power lights, refrigerators and electronic devices. And they consume fossil fuels such as natural gas or propane to power furnaces, boilers, and water heaters. Gas-powered water heaters can be replaced with heat pump water heaters. “The grid could evolve to handle this.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 2, 2022

In fact, new construction is carbon intensive - concrete, steel and aluminum alone account for 23 per cent of total global emissions. The building's gas line was removed due to new equipment specifications. A commercial induction stove was also added to its new kitchen space.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 26, 2019

Meanwhile, local governments across California are moving to adopt bans on new natural-gas hookups, grabbing the attention of the state’s powerful oil and gas industry. At the time, natural gas was viewed as the cleaner fuel for appliances. Wave of natural-gas bans.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

” But Sridhar placed even higher expectations on a longer-range plan to adapt Bloom’s solid-oxide fuel cell technology, originally designed to run on natural gas and emit carbon dioxide, to generate electricity from hydrogen, make "green" hydrogen via electrolysis or capture the carbon from "blue" hydrogen made from natural gas.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

GW of utility-scale capacity is under construction. Facebook will take the electricity generated at the facility as well as the renewable energy credits, under a long-term agreement signed prior to the project’s construction. Anheuser-Busch and Energy Transfer Partners have signed 15-year power purchase agreements with the project.

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GreenTech Gazette

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

While this underground energy source is perfect for geothermal heating applications in colder climates, it can also be used as a supplemental power source for an overused power grid. This also places enormous pressure on America’s fragile electricity grid and forces you to consider renewable energy solutions.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 9, 2020

From 2025, all new boilers sold should be 'hydrogen-ready', before natural gas boilers are removed from sale altogether for homes and businesses by 2033 at the latest. Offshore wind is set to be the "backbone" of the UK power grid, with solar, nuclear, storage and flexibility technologies also playing a key role, according to the CCC.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 6, 2020

Various other pipelines, such as Permian Highway project in Texas, the Mountain Valley Pipeline from West Virginia to southern Virginia, and the PennEast project from Pennsylvania to New Jersey, may face legal challenges based on the Nationwide Permit 12 decision, said Dulles Wang, director with the North American gas team at Wood Mackenzie.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

The catastrophic breakdown of Texas’ natural gas and electricity system last week lacks a single villain to blame for it all. “We set up rules very deliberately to say, 'Give us the cheapest gas, power and water you can get, and don’t bother me about all that other stuff,'” she said.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

The blueprint, however, leaves open many questions about how the carbon would be captured at the source — a process that so far has proved difficult and expensive — and where it would be sent, focusing instead on suggesting policies the federal government can adopt to boost CO2 pipeline construction. Credit: Roy Luck , CC BY 2.0.

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Clean Energy Trust

JUNE 9, 2020

These deployments will help enable utilities to close natural gas plants as they work towards the state’s clean energy standard of 50% by 2030 and 100% by 2045. Link Meanwhile, some states are passing laws forbidding local bans on natural gas connections. Link Interesting autonomy application: the “middle mile.”

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Business Green

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Trump also went on to make a series of bizarre claims about renewables and energy efficiency, arguing Biden wanted to construct new buildings "with little tiny windows" to drive down emissions, and that wind turbines were expensive, kill birds, and produce more emissions than fossil fuels such as gas power. browski explained.

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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.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2020

The State of Vehicle-Grid Integration (Panel Discussion): The vehicle-to-grid market is finally about to kick off in earnest. California is in the process of setting important policy targets that will help stimulate the positive benefits of using electric vehicles for the power grid. How will this market unfold?

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Grist

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The region’s power grid — part of a larger Western grid — is too weak and fractured to reliably integrate the massive increase in renewable energy needed to decarbonize. Ensuring a cleaner and reliable grid. Cascadia’s rules don’t constrain highway expansion, which tends to increase driving and thus emissions.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

After a week of the country’s worst power grid collapse in decades — an event that's taken a dreadful toll in dozens of lives lost and billions of dollars in economic damage — the lights are back on in Texas. “That means firm gas contracts, dual-fuel capability or winterizing your plant,” he wrote.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Plenty of industry observers and critics have pointed out the gaps between utilities’ 2050 net-zero carbon goals and their short- and long-term resource plans, many of which call for continued buildout of natural gas-fired power plants. Natural gas and oil pipelines also saw setbacks.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 16, 2024

They were headed for the massive floating construction site of an offshore wind farm 35 miles from the eastern tip of Long Island, New York. Morano and company’s mission failed, as construction continued on the 12 turbines that now compose one of the largest offshore wind farms built to date in the United States.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 18, 2020

power grid, particularly if targeting a 10-year timeframe,” said Aaron Barr, the report’s author and principal consultant with WoodMac’s Energy Transition Practice. It also limits the addition of new natural gas-fired power plants which still play a role in many utilities long-term resource plans.

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