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Sungrow VPP project to support ailing South African power grid

Smart Energy International

Solar solutions provider Sungrow has signed a supply agreement with French renewable energy group EDF Renewables to provide liquid-cooled energy storage systems and MV transformers for the Umoyilanga project in South Africa which, once connected to the grid, will help alleviate impacts of the country’s power crisis.

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Urban grids are ‘feeling the heat’, IEA reports

Smart Energy International

Power grids in many cities are being pushed to the edge of their operating limits with increased cooling demand and other climate change impacts, the IEA has reported. In China alone, in 2023 a 70% year-on-year increase in air conditioner sales was recorded. Have you read?

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Looking for Fixes to What Broke the Texas Power Grid

GreenTechMedia

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. Texas Republicans like Gov.

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AI and crypto mining are driving up data centers’ energy use

The Verge: Energy

. | Photo by Niall Carson/PA Images via Getty Images Data centers could gobble up twice as much electricity by 2026 thanks in large part to cryptocurrencies and artificial intelligence, according to a new report from the International Energy Agency (IEA). More and more, data centers are cropping up to mine Bitcoin and train AI.

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The answer to AI’s energy needs could be blowing in the wind

The Verge: Energy

. | Photo: Getty Images Data centers and offshore wind farms could prove to be a perfect pair as AI grows increasingly energy-hungry. A rush of new AI data centers could throw those climate goals off — unless they find a clean source of energy. That all comes with steep energy costs. I don’t see any reason why not.”

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Clean energy is officially ‘unstoppable’ now

The Verge: Energy

Photo by VCG via Getty Images By 2030, transportation and electricity around the world will be far greener than it is today, according to the latest forecast from the International Energy Agency. Solar panels alone generate more electricity globally than the entire US power sector does today. degrees of global warming this century.

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Texas Blackout Hearings Highlight Intertwined Risks of Natural Gas, Power Grid and Deregulated Market

GreenTechMedia

Instead, the widespread constraints in natural-gas supply and the shutdown of core power plant capacity that left millions without power can be chalked up to cascading failures between these two interdependent systems — and any solutions will need to take these interdependencies into account to avert a similar crisis in the future.