Charged

DECEMBER 29, 2021

How many times this week have you read that renewable energy is unreliable, and will never be able to completely replace fossil fuels on the electrical grid? This means no fossil fuels, carbon capture, direct air capture, bioenergy, blue hydrogen or nuclear power.”. This could reduce average annual household energy costs by 63%.

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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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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 10, 2020

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 The COVID-19 pandemic has lowered commercial and industrial energy demand this year and led NYISO to revise its 2020 and 2021 energy consumption forecasts downward.

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Business Green

JUNE 7, 2021

The UK will need roughly 108GW of offshore wind capacity by 2035 - more than 10 times current capacity - to achieve a net zero electricity system by the middle of the next decade, researchers from Imperial College London have warned.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Pacific Gas & Electric is asking state regulators to approve another massive round of energy storage procurements, including its first large-scale contract for behind-the-meter batteries to serve grid needs. Last year, the CPUC ordered the state’s utilities and community-choice aggregators to procure a total of 3.3

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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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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 17, 2020

Electricity demand for air conditioning throughout the region stretched California's power capacity and limited the state's ability to import power from nearby states. Why more solar can't help solve California's "net peak" problem. Friday and Saturday.

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Business Green

JANUARY 31, 2023

The findings, published by energy think tank Ember, suggest Europe weathered a "triple crisis" in the energy sector last year, as the industry faced soaring costs, a scramble to wean the continent off Russian gas supplies, and the lowest levels of hydro and nuclear generation in two decades.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

While small modular reactors have powered naval ships for decades and are also in use in other military applications, they’ve yet to be approved for use in commercial power generation. NuScale still has multiple steps ahead of it before it can build its first commercial reactor.

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Business Green

APRIL 25, 2022

Fossil gas' share of electricity supplies shrinks to less than 15 per cent over weekend as wind power meets more than half of UK demand. Just shy of 80 per cent of Great Britain's electricity generation was produced by low carbon sources on Saturday, according to the latest stats from the electricity system operator.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 16, 2020

Those include major expansions of wind and solar power , more energy storage to manage that intermittent supply — and, on the demand side of the equation, programs that can turn utility customers from passive consumers into active grid-balancing participants. “We’re deploying to where the load has shifted.”

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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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R-Squared Energy

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Nine months later that value is $140 billion as the company grapples with the decline in energy demand brought on by the pandemic. Over the past 15 years, the world has moved to cleaner electricity. In the process, it became the largest electric utility in the world. What did NextEra do right? better than NextEra.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

She was invited on the show (1:24) to discuss the National Grid’s ‘demand flexibility service’ scheme, under which households and some businesses receive payments for using less energy at times of peak demand. Rosenow pointed out that the overall reliability of power supply has improved in the last decade.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Nationally, wind and solar made up a slightly smaller share of new generating capacity -- 41% and 36%, respectively -- of the 27,959 MW of capacity added. He added that broad electrification, including within the transportation sector, offers opportunities for even more growth.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 30, 2020

billion in new wind and solar investments in the next 12 months and is outlining plans for electric vehicle charging, energy storage and green hydrogen production pilot programs to meet its goal to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. The new wind and solar plans announced Thursday are additions to a $22.6 In Minnesota, Gov.

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

He said his administration would “build and install a network of 500,000 charging stations along our existing and new highways” so electric vehicles (EVs) can displace gasoline. This is notable because it would actually boost the demands on the power sector, which will increase the challenges of decarbonizing the sector.

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Natural gas Demand Solar Power Batteries 60

GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Although the proposed ‘all-source’ procurement would allow existing natural gas-fired peaker plants to compete, it could also open a massive new market for renewable energy, energy storage, demand response and other preferred alternatives to fossil fuels. Fitch wrote in Thursday’s proposed decision. gigawatts by 2023.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 14, 2020

Southeastern utilities including Duke Energy, Dominion and Southern Company unveiled plans to create the region’s first market for trading electricity across interstate transmission lines, a move that could lead to lower wholesale energy costs as similar markets have accomplished in other parts of the country. Eight more Western U.S.

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Business Green

JULY 19, 2022

What could the UK's energy system look like in 2050, once offshore wind energy is the backbone of the electricity grid, fossil fuel vehicles are increasingly scarce, hydrogen fuel has gone from vision to reality, and energy efficiency is an everyday consideration for families and businesses alike?

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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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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 22, 2020

The world’s leading nuclear power generator is betting big on a future of small-scale, distributed energy. Électricité de France operates 58 nuclear reactors in its home country and owns stakes in several U.S. nuclear plants that it's now moving to sell.

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Business Green

JANUARY 19, 2021

But the Business Secretary emphasised that the Cumbria mine would produce coking coal for use in industrial manufacturing, and not for generating electricity from coal power plants, arguing steelmaking required coal in the short term and that it would be better for the climate to source such coal from the UK rather than abroad.

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Business Green

APRIL 7, 2022

"For perhaps the first time, the government has made commitments that clearly go beyond CCC proposals in key low-carbon technologies: offshore wind, nuclear, hydrogen. The new commitments are hugely ambitious - they would see the UK produce more electricity from offshore wind in 2030 than it has produced from gas in any year in history.

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Business Green

MARCH 10, 2022

From home energy efficiency to onshore and offshore wind, hydrogen and tidal to solar and nuclear power, it is time to turbocharge the shift to green energy," he said. A new study from the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU) today calculated that the deployment of insulation and electric heat pumps in 6.5

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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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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 7, 2020

The new projects will help meet both short- and long-term goals for California’s only electric-only investor-owned utility. Pacific Gas & Electric is contracting seven battery projects totaling 423 megawatts , or nearly 1.7 Municipal utility Los Angeles Department of Water and Power has contracted for up to 300 megawatts/1.2

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 19, 2021

West pushed electricity demand past available supply, and problems with California’s resource adequacy program and market practices for ensuring adequate grid capacity failed to correct the imbalance. Simply put, the heat waves that blanketed the U.S.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

electricity supply from solar by 2050. to install an average of 30 GW of solar capacity per year between now and 2025, then 60 GW per year from 2025. The following is a list of the 10 largest utility-scale solar projects completed in the first half of 2021 (through May 31) based on S&P analysis. A pipeline of 17.4

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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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Business Green

JANUARY 4, 2023

Fossil fuels have helped keep our homes warm, power our cars and generate the majority of our electricity," he said. In addition, the committee recommends that the Department for Transport consults on measures to improve energy security, reduce oil demand, and cut climate-changing emissions from transport.

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Business Green

APRIL 6, 2022

"Scaling up cheap renewables and new nuclear, while maximising North Sea production, is the best and only way to ensure our energy independence over the coming years.". As expected, the nuclear and offshore wind industries are set to emerge as the big winners, with the Strategy proposing a series of reforms designed to accelerate development.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The falling costs of wind and solar power are pushing utilities to find ways to incorporate them into their long-range plans, even as they struggle to define what resources can be relied on to provide the dispatchable power they need. Its 2020 integrated resource plan (IRP) sets a goal of nearly 16 gigawatts of solar, 5.1

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

million utility customers, approximately one-third of the state’s electric customers, were without power in Texas as of Tuesday morning, up from about 2.5 Winter electricity demand hit record highs of more than 69 gigawatts on Sunday evening, spiking pressure on the grid.

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Clean Energy Canada

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Canada is an electricity heavyweight. In addition to being the world’s sixth-largest electricity producer and third-largest electricity exporter, Canada can boast an electricity grid that is now 83 per cent emission-free , not to mention residential electricity rates that are the cheapest in the Group of Seven countries.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2023

BusinessGreen rounds up the critical lessons for business, investors, and the government if the UK is to build a decarbonised power system by 2035 When the Climate Change Committee (CCC) has something to say, it is usually well worth listening. The CCC's analysis tested the resilience of a zero carbon grid very strenuously indeed.

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Business Green

MARCH 26, 2020

But as ever, progress in cutting emissions in the UK last year was driven by decarbonisation from the power sector, which saw a 13.2 per cent annual fall in emissions last year as more coal-fired power stations closed and renewables capacity - largely from offshore wind - continued to grow. per cent last year.

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