Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

So much so that new analysis suggests global emissions from electricity generation may peak this year due to a surge in wind and solar power. Canada’s hydropower-rich grid is 84% non-emitting with variable renewables (essentially wind and solar) currently making up 7% of the country’s total electricity generation.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 10, 2020

NYISO’s Power Trends 2020 report released Wednesday highlights the challenges and opportunities for a grid in flux. Last year’s Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA) calls for getting 70 percent of the state’s electricity from renewables by 2030, up from 26.8 Source: NYISO.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 24, 2023

Hydropower, traditionally one of Africa’s most important sources of electricity, will rapidly fade in importance and cede its position to solar power. Abundant rainfall, massive gorges, enormous waterfalls: the geography of Africa has all the elements for producing electricity from river flow.

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R-Squared Energy

JULY 11, 2019

Previous articles in this series covered carbon dioxide emissions, petroleum supply and demand, the production and consumption of coal, and global natural gas trends: BP Warns Of An Unsustainable Path. Coal Demand Rises, But Remains Below Peak Levels. The former consists of hydropower, which has been around for a long time.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

That is the conclusion of new research released today by Imperial College London on behalf of energy firm Drax, which estimates that carbon emissions from Britain's grid fell by 16 per cent last year as a result of the growth of green power and plummeting energy demand during Covid-19 lockdowns. Nuclear power, meanwhile, provided 17.5

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 15, 2021

German grid operator Amprion warned that the celestial event would cause a drop in solar power output of about one gigawatt, Reuters reported. Under peak conditions Germany can produce 40 GW of solar power, so the eclipse loss is significant. Previous eclipses strained solar power systems in the past.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 6, 2021

Last summer’s record heat waves triggered a surge in power demand that maxed out supplies and led to outages across the West. California and other states are pushing to use clean electricity to power vehicles and buildings to cut carbon, which will increase demand. NERC’s On-Peak Risk Scenario for California.

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 31, 2021

The facilities will combine to maximize delivery of renewable energy to the national grid, with Khoumagueli Solar expected to mitigate against the impact of fluctuating rainfall on hydropower generation at Garafiri. EPC procurement is at a mature stage, and initial discussions with lenders have begun. Guinea’s energy plan.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Solar power is the "new king" of global electricity markets, with the International Energy Agency calling it the cheapest form of electricity in history in its annual centerpiece World Energy Outlook report. Solar's ascent and coal's decline have been rapid by the standards of the electricity industry.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 29, 2019

Department of Water and Power Board of Commissioners voted 2-1 in favor of the Eland solar project, but with one member abstaining and one absent, it failed to clear the majority needed to approve. City officials insist nobody will lose their job due to the plant closures, and power will stay affordable and reliable.

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Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Current nuclear and large hydropower capacity add up to around 50 GW. Most of the new transmission buildout is projected to be driven by a near doubling of electricity demand between 2020 and 2030. . That’s because the price of electricity from solar plants has fallen below the variable cost of most existing coal units. .

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R-Squared Energy

JULY 26, 2021

The Review provides a comprehensive picture of supply and demand for major energy sources on a country-level basis. For example, as I will detail below, oil demand fell dramatically last year, but we already know that it has largely recovered in 2021. Renewables and Nuclear Power. share of all energy consumption.

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Business Green

MAY 11, 2021

Renewable electricity expanded at its fastest pace in two decades last year with demand for clean energy skyrocketing, as coal plants shuttered and companies and governments embraced tougher climate goals. Last year the increase in renewable capacity accounted for 90 per cent of the entire global power sector's expansion".

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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. Rev is the latest effort by LS Power to support the commercialization and deployment at-scale of clean energy technologies.”. Rev has a 2.4-GW

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Millions of retail electricity customers in the United States buy voluntary clean power, meaning renewable energy beyond what load-serving entities such as utilities otherwise provide. Utility "green" pricing programs are the bread and butter of utility voluntary clean power. Utility "green" pricing programs.

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Retail Demand Electricity Energy 227

GreenTech Gazette

JULY 1, 2023

Indonesia hosted a 145-megawatt floating solar power plant on the Cirata reservoir. Nonetheless, energy planners in the United States are also embracing the floating solar trend. They’re anchored to the bottom of the water body by cables, which send electricity to a transmission tower. megawatts, went live in 2019.

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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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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 3, 2021

New research by Drax Electric Insights shows that the UK broke all records last year for renewable energy consumption. 42% of all energy used across the country through 2020 came from wind, solar, tidal and hydro. Covid19 created a fall in generation demand. At a first glance, the figures might not be too surprising.

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The Verge: Energy

APRIL 24, 2024

Kenneth Lobo Méndez, director of planning and sustainability in electricity management, and Marco Jiménez Chavez, an engineer, at the state-run electricity utility Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE). For comparison, the US generates just over 20 percent of its electricity from renewable sources.

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Energy Innovation

JULY 2, 2021

Providing reliable, affordable, and low-carbon electricity in a warming world requires careful consideration of evolving electric energy supplies and demands. For instance, energy demands are likely to shift, reducing the need to heat in the winter and increasing the need to cool in the summer. Southeast in 2050.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Last summer saw the second consecutive August my home state of California has faced a strained electric grid and associated grid outages. By transitioning to a 100% renewable energy grid with a sustainable hydropower backbone, we can curb the worst effects of climate change. How hydropower balances a renewable energy grid.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 25, 2020

is one of the last parts of the country that lacks an integrated market for transmitting electricity across utility and state boundaries. The modeling highlighted this discrepancy in the form of planning reserve margins, or the amount of generation required to meet peak grid demand in emergencies. The Southeast U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 15, 2020

America's rural electric cooperative utilities are more reliant on coal than the U.S. electricity industry at large. electricity, don’t often have the political sway or capital to direct a push towards more renewables. In recent years, the pace of U.S. coal retirements has quickened.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 1, 2021

Their research reveals that by 2035, we could be generating over 100 times the amount of electricity that we need to meet global demand, purely from wind and solar. We now know, courtesy of the International Energy Agency, that solar power has indeed become the cheapest form of electricity in history for most countries.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

The plans, available at The Solutions Project’s “ Clean Energy ” link, reveal the unique mix of wind, water and sun technologies capable of powering states, countries and even select U.S. Wind, Water and Sun (aka WWS) include wind power; waterpower from tides, rivers, and subsurface water (geothermal water); and solar power.

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Business Green

MARCH 6, 2023

Carbon Brief said the decline in greenhouse gases was largely due to increases in power generation from renewables such as wind and solar, combined with declines in the use of fossil fuels across the economy. Coal demand for power generation fell 15 per cent in 2022, reaching its lowest level for 266 years, according to the analysis.

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Business Green

MAY 11, 2022

However, the IEA also warned that renewable power's growth is on track to lose momentum in 2023, predicting that global additions to the clean power fleet will plateau as solar power's continued acceleration is offset by "little change" in wind additions and a 40 per cent decline in hydropower expansion.

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Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 22, 2021

In the European Union, the rate of electricity generation from renewable energy sources amounted to 38%, ahead of fossil fuels (37%), and nuclear energy (25%). Consequently, the growth of the RES share in final electricity consumption was also much weaker (+8 vs. +17 percentage points). . +17 An engine for change.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Department of Energy that found that solar power could generate up to 45% of the U.S. electricity supply by 2050, compared to less than 4% today. Why such a heavy focus on solar power? million solar panels or 364 large-scale wind turbines. can generate at least some solar power year-round.

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Business Green

AUGUST 16, 2022

And so, the organisation's projection of "little change" in wind deployment next year does not bode well, nor does its prediction that ever-rising solar capacity will not be able to "fully compensate" for lower hydropower and flatlining wind additions. And then, on top of that, everyone is trying to decarbonise right now.

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EDF + Business

MARCH 28, 2023

Decreased Renewables Cost: Levelized Cost of Electricity (LCOE) to project sponsors is expected to decrease by 40-60%, which will likely result in cost reductions for commercial electricity users. Notes: PTC stands for Production Tax Credit. ITC stands for investment tax credit. Sources: Deloitte Analysis, H.R.5376

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Von der Leyen announced a plan to collect up to 140 billion euros in windfall profit taxes from energy companies that produce electricity at low cost, e.g. wind, solar, hydro and nuclear. Also, electricity companies aren’t likely to be generous. Electricity markets reform. Skimming off windfall profits.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Alstom to deliver new battery electric trains for Chemnitz-Leipzig line. Engineering giant Alstom has signed a landmark deal with two German rail operators that will see it manufacture, deliver and maintain eleven Coradia Continental battery-electric trains for the Leipzig-Chemnitz route.

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Business Green

JUNE 19, 2022

The report warns that not only do 600 million Africans now have access to electricity, but around 25 million more people in Africa are living without electricity compared with before the pandemic. The report emphasises how Africa has huge untapped renewables potential. per cent.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 6, 2022

This is concerning when we think about the scale of the solar power industry, and how much this industry is expected to grow. In 2020, solar power accounted for 3.1% of the global electricity generation, making it the third-largest renewable energy technology (behind hydropower and wind respectively).

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 20, 2021

Renewable energy’s rapid growth is accelerating a national shift to a carbon-free electric power system. and Puerto Rico have adopted laws or executive orders setting goals for reaching 100% clean electricity by 2050 or sooner. electricity sector has managed to march halfway to zero in just 15 years. And 46 U.S.

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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. will need to nearly triple its 2020 growth rate for the grid to be 80% powered by clean energy by 2030. 3 ways to bring wind and solar into the grid.

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