Smart Energy International

MARCH 4, 2022

Despite the Covid-19 pandemic, 2021 was a record-breaking year for investment in the energy transition and the deployment of renewable power, battery storage, and sustainable transportation, according to the 2022 Sustainable Energy in America Factbook published by BloombergNEF (BNEF) and the Business Council for Sustainable Energy (BCSE).

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Pacific Gas & Electric’s bankruptcy has already threatened the credit ratings of some of the solar and wind farms, cogeneration plants, and other independent power generators that rely on the utility to buy their electricity through power purchase agreements.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Forced outages are a tool of last resort, employed in circumstances of incredible stress to the grid and done to protect against more widespread outages. Record heat for several days across parts of the state strained the power grid so much that it started rationing electricity, for the first time in almost 20 years.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 17, 2020

The San Francisco-based utility is emerging from bankruptcy with a massive debt load that could make it harder to raise the tens of billions of dollars of investment needed to prevent its power grid from causing more devastating wildfires. PG&E plans to invest about $40 billion over the next five years into its power grid.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 3, 2022

It said the plan offered a blueprint for how it aims to strengthen and modernise the grid to accept more intermittent renewable energy and withstand the more severe weather events it is expected to experience as a consequence of climate change. This article was originally published on Power Grid.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 29, 2020

Pacific Gas & Electric is on the cusp of ending its year-and-a-half stint in bankruptcy. But whether it can successfully rebuild its finances and make its power grid safer without drastically raising rates on millions of customers is far from clear.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Forced outages are a tool of last resort, employed in circumstances of incredible stress to the grid and done to protect against more widespread outages. Record heat for several days across parts of the state strained the power grid so much that it started rationing electricity, for the first time in almost 20 years.

Energy 28

Energy Energy Climate change Demand 28

AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Forced outages are a tool of last resort, employed in circumstances of incredible stress to the grid and done to protect against more widespread outages. Record heat for several days across parts of the state strained the power grid so much that it started rationing electricity, for the first time in almost 20 years.

Energy 28

Energy Energy Demand Climate change 28

GreenBiz

JULY 2, 2021

Even without extreme weather events, the power grid needs love. The grid was largely built in the 1950s and 1960s with a 35- to 80-year life expectancy , meaning much of it should have been retired and replaced by now. Make the grid smarter and more flexible. Society of Civil Engineers’ quadrennial report card. .

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Business Green

DECEMBER 2, 2022

The building's gas line was removed due to new equipment specifications. Using a microgrid controller and WattTime software that can track grid emissions and identify times of peak demand or high carbon intensity the building can also place power back onto the grid to reduce its dependency on fossil fuel power plants.

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Electricity Carbon-neutral HVAC Cooling 36

GreenTechMedia

JUNE 5, 2020

They use electricity to power lights, refrigerators and electronic devices. And they consume fossil fuels such as natural gas or propane to power furnaces, boilers, and water heaters. Gas-powered water heaters can be replaced with heat pump water heaters. Most buildings run on multiple fuels. It depends.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 19, 2023

We’ve all just been party to an Earth-shaking, world-changing event that will fall on the other side of the ledger, generating lots of tears of the unhappy kind. On Monday, July 3, the U.S. National Centers for Environmental Prediction reported an average global temperature of 17.01°C,

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 20, 2023

Green hydrogen” is made from solar and wind power, while “blue hydrogen” is made using natural gas, in a process that involves capturing and storing methane’s carbon dioxide emissions (CCS), however this technology was described as “minimal or non-existent” in a 2021 report by Manchester University’s Tyndall Centre.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

First, it’s one of the largest-ever efforts to aggregate distributed energy resources (DERs) at a scale that can help California’s power grid meet its capacity needs. What are the models for how behind-the-meter solar-battery systems can serve grid needs? It breaks ground on multiple fronts.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 8, 2021

First, nationwide transmission allows power-sharing across regions facing widely different weather systems that drive variation in wind and solar generation. It co-optimizes grid capacity investments and hourly operations costs of generation, storage, and transmission to meet projected electricity demand in 2040.

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R-Squared Energy

MARCH 3, 2021

Our wind and our solar got shut down, and they were collectively more than 10 percent of our power grid, and that thrust Texas into a situation where it was lacking power on a statewide basis.”’ If you only look at this graphic, then natural gas is the hero of the story.

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Charged

OCTOBER 6, 2019

Some years ago, Slutzky read an article that said that if you electrified a quarter of the vehicles on the roads of America, you would have energy storage roughly equal to the entire output of the US power grid in those batteries. We can participate in critical peaking events. That’s when the light went on, so to speak.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Limited regulations on companies that generate power and a history of isolating Texas from federal oversight help explain the crisis, energy and policy experts told The Texas Tribune. In 2011, Texas faced a very similar storm that froze natural gas wells and affected coal plants and wind turbines, leading to power outages across the state.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

The catastrophic breakdown of Texas’ natural gas and electricity system last week lacks a single villain to blame for it all. That loss of generation capacity forced state grid operator ERCOT to institute rolling blackouts to prevent a broader grid collapse.

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Natural gas Power grid Retail Demand 130

Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2020

This online event can be attended from anywhere, The central theme at VERGE 20 will focus on how energy systems can be decarbonized, decentralized, digitized and democratized. The State of Vehicle-Grid Integration (Panel Discussion): The vehicle-to-grid market is finally about to kick off in earnest. How will this market unfold?

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

A day before the blueprint launch event, the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) sent a report to Congress on carbon capture and its associated infrastructure. That’s roughly the net worth of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos — or twice the $100 billion that Biden has proposed spending to upgrade the nation’s electrical power grid.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

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. “But this weather event was a lot more extreme than either of those.”

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Grist

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

Each weather event [is] dynamic,” company representatives told regulators. Instead of identifying all possible failure points in their equipment, power companies would need only to address any that were previously known. Any engineering analysis that attempted to identify a specific weather design limit would be rendered meaningless.”.

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