GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

More immediately, Duke’s new plan improves on its 2017 goal to cut its 2030 carbon emissions by 40 percent, driven by “sustained low natural gas prices and declining costs for renewables and storage,” Tuesday’s press release noted. The gas question. This reliance on natural gas aligns Duke with most U.S.

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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. utility has yet fully fleshed out how it intends to eliminate natural gas power plants from its generation portfolio. To be sure, no U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 21, 2020

Qatar, whose natural-gas exports trail only those of Russia, will host the FIFA World Cup in 2022 and has pledged to make the event carbon-neutral. Lowest-ever solar PPA price. Essa bin Hilal Al-Kuwari claimed the PPA price was the lowest ever for a solar power project but did not state the value of the winning bid.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 22, 2020

There’s the natural gas that gets burned in them, and there’s all the electricity that it takes to power them. Clearly, how we choose to construct buildings really matters. NEXTracker has more than 30 gigawatts of resilient and intelligent solar tracking systems across six continents.

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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. Both find wind and solar to be cost-competitive with natural gas-fired electricity in the U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 12, 2020

power utilities, with 7.4 million natural-gas customers across six states in the Southeast and Midwest. Despite near-term headwinds, Duke stood behind its long-term plan to reach net-zero emissions by 2050, starting with a target of 50 percent greenhouse gas reductions by 2030. Duke is among the largest U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 7, 2020

Energy Information Administration says — even the fast-growing wind and solar power sectors. electric power sector generation to include the COVID-19 outbreak’s massive economic disruptions. electric power sector generation by 3 percent in 2020, EIA has forecast. The coronavirus pandemic will depress U.S.

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 20, 2022

MidAmerican estimates that the Wind PRIME project could create more than 1,100 full-time jobs during the construction phase and another 125 full-time positions for ongoing operations and maintenance. MidAmerican currently generates energy using 60% wind, 23% coal, 12% natural gas and 5% nuclear and other resources.

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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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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 25, 2020

The surge in spending on all-electric homes is expected even though many consumers are unfamiliar with the natural gas-displacing electric appliances on the market today. Around 70 million American homes burn natural gas, oil, or propane for home space and water heating, according to Navigant Research.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 4, 2020

Under the law, Dominion Virginia and the smaller Appalachian Power Co. must supply 30 percent of their power from renewables by 2030, and Dominion must close all carbon-emitting power plants by 2045. Retreat from natural gas not enough for environmental advocates.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 16, 2024

The overarching goal is to ensure a reliable and safe power supply in Thuringia as demand for electricity grows. EIB vice-president Nicola Beer, who oversees EIB financing in Germany, said in a release: “Modern power grids are vital for ensuring a future-proof and sustainable energy supply for people and businesses in Thuringia.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Energy Information Administration’s data shows that the overnight capital cost required to build new onshore wind and conventional natural gas combined-cycle power plants in the U.S. The same unfavorable economics have led to very few new coal plant constructions in the second half of the 2010s.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

megawatts of generating capacity, with 20 megawatts coming from natural gas-fired generators and 2.5 megawatts from a ground-mounted solar photovoltaic installation. Construction of the microgrid is scheduled to take 19 months, with the system expected to be online and fully commissioned in June 2021.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 13, 2021

LS Power is a development, investment and operating company focused on the North American power and energy infrastructure sector. Rev has a 2.4-GW Rev also has a robust development pipeline of projects underway across the country, according to a release, but the specific projects were not detailed.

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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 wide heatwave that undermined its reliance on out-of-state resources.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

billion for its 684-megawatt UAMPS project — roughly 20 percent lower than the initial costs of Southern Company’s Vogtle project, which have risen since construction began. In terms of cost, NuScale is targeting a levelized cost of energy of $65 per megawatt-hour and a cost to build that would equate to $2.9

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 28, 2020

The slowdown is driven by shelter-in-place and stay-at-home orders that have forced microgrid projects to delay permitting, construction and interconnection processes amid the country’s COVID-19 pandemic, microgrid analyst Isaac Maze-Rothstein wrote. That’s similar to the delays that have hurt U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 20, 2020

Adding solar farms to that list of assets could offer grid operators a new tool to deal with the challenge of integrating more and more carbon-free, yet intermittent and sometimes unpredictable, wind and solar power, said Troy Lauterbach, senior vice president of First Solar’s Energy Services business.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 19, 2020

” Brouillette toured a high-efficiency, all-electric home built by Meritage Homes, featuring high-efficiency insulation, thermal and battery storage, solar-powered heat pumps and appliances that can shift energy use based on homeowner or utility commands. Balancing the grid impacts, costs of electrification and net-zero homes.

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Grist

MARCH 21, 2024

Residential energy use accounts for roughly one-sixth of total greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. Our homes remain heavily reliant on fossil fuels, and natural gas in particular. — Claire Elise Thompson Our first foray into discarding gas was installing a heat pump water heater.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 25, 2022

The announcement sees US energy storage solutions Convergent Energy + Power team up alongside National Grid US, an electricity, natural gas and clean energy delivery company. The NWA system is designed, constructed and operated by Convergent. The solar-plus-storage system was constructed by CS Energy.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

One of the nation’s largest coal plants permanently powered down this week after the owners determined it would be uneconomical to continue operating the facility as natural gas and renewable energy prices continue to drop. Natural gas and a massive solar-charged battery. The human cost.

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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. Small modular nuclear reactors at half the construction cost of today’s reactors. Battery costs have also plummeted over that time frame.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Wind and solar power are the fastest-growing sources of electricity globally, but they only produce at certain times. Energy storage makes this power useful at other times. But these large construction projects are hard to build these days. Delivering peak power is one promising role.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 12, 2020

gas plants. It’s been a tumultuous few years for Engie, which traces its corporate history back to the construction of the Suez Canal. Engie claims to be the world's largest independent power producer, with nearly 100 gigawatts of generating capacity globally, including substantial amounts of gas-fired and nuclear plants.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

In 2019, more than 20 California cities jump-started a building decarbonization movement when they took steps to eliminate gas from new buildings, ensuring they will instead be constructed with electric appliances such as heat pumps. The Majority of Direct Building Emissions Are Coming From Burning Natural Gas.

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 11, 2022

made the big even bigger last July when it completed construction on Phase II of its Moss Landing Energy Storage Facility, which is located at the site of its retired gas-fired power plant in Monterey County, California. Tucson Electric Power said it started delivering power from its Wilmot Energy Center at the end of April.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 27, 2020

“These networks have to be resilient and smart to ward against future shocks but also to accommodate rising shares of wind and solar power. coal has all but fallen off the grid and natural gas is often dialed down as much as requirements for inertia will allow. In the U.K.,

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Saudi Arabia is constructing a futuristic city in the desert on the Red Sea called Neom. ” Europe, which has an economy saddled with high energy prices and is heavily dependent on Russian natural gas, is embracing green hydrogen by providing funding for construction of electrolysis plants and other hydrogen infrastructure.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 3, 2022

The steel is highly fire-resistant, and homes can be constructed quickly with minimal site impact. For energy efficiency, Dvele homes are constructed with a tight envelope that includes triple-pane windows and doors, along with lighting, appliances and electronics that minimize energy usage. Dvele Images via Dvele. Continued here:Â .

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Business Green

DECEMBER 24, 2021

The company recorded profits of $2.74bn in 2020, with many new projects in the pipeline in the coming decade - including large developments in solar power, onshore wind and green hydrogen. "I Even in the 2000s, Denmark remained dependent on its fruitful offshore oil and gas reserves.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The figures indicate that Ohio can expect a steep curve in solar project construction over the next several years as greenlighted projects are built and more are approved. The fast growth of solar capacity also fits with the national trend. Last year the figure was more than 90 million MWh. million short tons last year.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 12, 2019

The workhorse Power division was split up, to start. Though still a top supplier of the world's natural gas turbines, the division had turned into a money-loser as renewable adoption surged. Power electronics provide the lynchpin that ties solar, wind or hydro to batteries. Gas plus storage?

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Business Green

MAY 22, 2020

It also argued wind and solar power would be more cost-effective for bill payers compared to new gas power capacity. Leadsom, however, argued the country would still need fossil fuel power in the future, and that it was not the job of the planning system to block individual projects on climate grounds.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Concentrated solar power (CSP) plants reflect sunshine into a small area that reaches high heat; they can produce steam, but have not reached sufficient heat for many high-value industrial applications. The pathway is not so clear for tasks like air travel, long-distance shipping and energy-intensive industrial processes.

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Business Green

JANUARY 22, 2021

It also argued wind and solar power would be more cost-effective for bill payers compared to new gas power capacity. However, natural gas will still provide a reliable source of energy while we develop and deploy low carbon alternatives that can replicate its role in the electricity system.".

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