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New York?s Energy Transition (and Challenges) in 5 Charts

GreenTechMedia

Grid operators around the world are unusually busy these days, but few have quite as much on their minds as NYISO, the independent system operator that manages New York state's bulk power system and wholesale energy market. percent in 2018, and hitting 100 percent zero-carbon emissions by 2040. Source: NYISO. Source: NYISO.

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Europe’s Energy Storage Market Is Fading, Right When It’s Needed Most

GreenTechMedia

European energy storage deployment is set to shrink compared to other global markets, even as the need for flexibility on the grid increases, according to new research from Wood Mackenzie. In 2014, EMEA, dominated by Europe, represented 44 percent of global energy storage deployment. By the end of 2019, the total tally (plus the U.K.)

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More wind and solar capacity could save some of the world’s most important rivers

Renewable Energy World

The proportion of global power generation represented by VRE, such as wind and solar power, has been rising rapidly since 2007. And according to IEA’ Renewables 2020, Launch Presentation from November 10, 2020, global wind and solar PV’s combined installed capacity will surpass that of natural gas in 2023 and coal in 2024.

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A decidedly impartial review of Mark Jacobson’s 100% Clean, Renewable Energy and Storage for Everything

Renewable Energy World

When you’ve followed the evolving research of a leading clean energy expert and become a supporter of his vision for a global clean energy transition, it should come as no surprise that I was eager to crack open Mark Jacobson’s 2021 book release, 100% Clean, Renewable Energy and Storage for Everything. Jacobson’s Early Story.

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Avangrid Withdraws Guidance on Coronavirus, Vineyard Wind Uncertainty

GreenTechMedia

gigawatt onshore wind power fleet. In a Wednesday conference call, CEO James Torgerson credited the improved performance to better wind production from its huge base of existing U.S. renewables capacity, including 831 megawatts of onshore wind built last year by its Oregon-based Avangrid Renewables subsidiary.

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GOs and REGOs: Corporate demand for renewables rose across Europe in 2019, data confirms

Business Green

Strong growth in corporate demand for renewable energy backed by European certificates of origin outpaced supply in 2019, data shows. The uptick marks a 61TWh rise in demand for renewable electricity last year compared to 2018, far outpacing the growth in supply of GOs, which is estimated to have grown by only 3.5

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Are we finally in the death-throes of the fossil fuel era?

Renewable Energy World

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. If powered by solar alone, they write, we’d need just 450,000 km2 – just 0.3% of the world’s total land area.