DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Nearly two thirds of social media posts put out by six major European fossil fuel and energy companies since the end of 2019 present a “green” image of the company, despite the majority of their business activity remaining in fossil fuels, reveals new analysis by Desmog.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 20, 2021

The push to quickly transition carbon-intensive activities away from fossil fuels while meeting the world’s growing energy needs has put electricity producers and consumers squarely in the forefront of the emerging clean economy. And the era of fossil fuels is hardly over. Subscribe here.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Clean energy milestone signals renewable power sector is ready and able to keep up with growing electricity demand. Energy analysts are celebrating findings that show the renewable power sector has proved itself capable of expanding at a rate faster than increasing demand for electricity.

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The Verge: Energy

APRIL 8, 2024

While solar generation falls, electricity demand is expected to rise. That kind of mismatch in supply and demand is what can lead to outages. Hydropower and gas are supposed to make up for most of the the shortfall in solar energy. But a partial eclipse can persist for several hours. Put simply: more gas, more pollution.

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The Guardian: Energy

DECEMBER 27, 2023

It was the 2000s, and fossil fuel prices were rising worldwide. Demand for energy in the country had grown by 8.4% Stung by the 2008 oil price spike, Uruguay now produces up to 98% of its electricity from renewables. Can other countries follow suit? Uruguay imports its oil, so it had a problem.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 13, 2021

The cost of new wind and solar generation, on a levelized cost of energy basis, is now lower than that of new thermal and hydropower generation, and increasingly below the operating cost of existing thermal plants. Existing hydropower plants can also help with this large ramp up power.

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Clean Energy Canada

DECEMBER 5, 2023

And yet it would be a mistake to view renewables as an active battleground in the culture wars, losing sight of their real value as key technologies that can deliver low-cost electricity at a time when demand is growing. The move away from fossil fuel generation, meanwhile, has been slow, with its share falling only 3% between 2015 and 2021.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 24, 2023

This will be enabled by higher investment in robust and digitalised grid systems, accompanied by a role for batteries and demand response measures for short-term flexibility. ” The energy world will look very different by 2030, even under today's policy settings ?

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Liquid air energy storage could play an important role in supporting the UK’s transition away from using fossil fuels for electricity generation. If the UK is to move away from a baseload of electricity generated by reliable fossil fuels, the variable nature of renewable energy must be addressed. Energy storage.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 10, 2020

To fill this gap, NYISO is working toward growing transmission capacity for its ample upstate hydropower and wind power resources to reach New York City and downstate population centers, which will also be served by the 9 gigawatts of offshore wind the state is seeking by 2035. Source: NYISO. Source: NYISO.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 20, 2023

However, base load refers to the minimum amount of demand on an electrical grid over a given period of time, not a minimum level of constant supply. There are five countries in the world that run on 100 percent wind-water-solar (WWS) alone with zero batteries, zero nuclear, and zero fossil fuels. 100 percent WWS,” he said.

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

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. In May 2023, wind and solar produced more electricity than fossil fuels in the European Union for the first full month on record.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 13, 2021

The world’s hugely encouraging clean energy-momentum is running up against the stubborn incumbency of fossil fuels in our energy systems,” said Fatih Birol, the IEA Executive Director. The social and economic benefits of accelerating clean energy transitions are huge, and the costs of inaction are immense.”.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 27, 2022

Traditionally, wide scale system recovery in such a scenario has only been possible by utilising large fossil fuel power stations. In addition, a 33 kV loadbank was connected to the test network to simulate customer demand and allow the distributed energy resources (DER) to generate.

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Business Green

JULY 15, 2021

Global demand for electricity is also growing faster than renewables capacity post-pandemic, opening the door to more fossil fuel energy in many parts of the world. But the surge in renewables generation may still only be enough to meet around half of the projected increase in demand, the IEA said. per cent in 2022.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Low solar PV cost – A 28% increase in solar capacity is likely to result, whilst energy storage deployment will increase by 32% No new fossil fuel – In addition to reducing carbon emissions, this would expand energy storage capacity rollout by 52%.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 8, 2021

It got to the point where we just didn’t have any more room in our daytime demand to take more solar," Rockwell told Greentech Media on Thursday. The 20-megawatt powerhouse at the Mana Reservoir will serve most of the power to the grid, while a 4-megawatt generator up the mountain at Puu Opae adds incremental hydropower.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 15, 2021

The company that owns Ravenswood rebranded itself Thursday as Rise Light & Power, and it will not be building any new fossil-fueled generation, CEO Clint Plummer told Greentech Media. Upstate New York has more plentiful and affordable land but relatively little demand for electricity. A setback for battery plan.

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Business Green

MAY 16, 2022

Drax said the new plant could be operational by 2030, providing critical stability services to the grid by acting like a "giant water battery" that can store excess power at times of peak generation and dispatch it to the grid at times of peak demand.

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Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2023

In fresh statistics released today, Britain's grid operator said more than 50 per cent of the nation's power mix came from a wind, solar, nuclear, hydropower and other zero carbon sources for extended periods of 2022, helping to significantly drive down carbon emissions from UK energy generation.

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R-Squared Energy

AUGUST 26, 2021

pace the year before, but it’s remarkable given how significantly the pandemic impacted total energy demand. Global hydropower consumption in 2020 was 38.2 However, the 10-year average annual growth rate for hydropower is only 2.1%, versus 13.4% Despite the 4.5% That was a slight decline from its 12.2% for the other renewables.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Renewable power sources are expected to dominate almost all the growth in the world's electricity supplies through to 2025, according to the IEA, and together with nuclear power they are set to meet the vast majority of the increase in global power demand over the period. remains a hugely challenging prospect.

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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. Since its release, I have been busy analyzing the data and creating graphics.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 1, 2021

By enabling the trade of renewable energy between the two countries, says the utility, the North Sea Link will help reduce the burning of fossil fuels in the UK and avoid 23 million tonnes of carbon emissions by 2030. National Grid’s €1.6

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Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 10, 2021

India has a target ofd 500 GW of installed non-fossil fuel capacity by 2030, as announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP-26) in Glasgow in November. Current nuclear and large hydropower capacity add up to around 50 GW.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Very hot and cold conditions can result in increased energy demand for cooling and heating, respectively, and in turn affect wholesale power prices and even result in outages, according to the study. In hydro-heavy markets such as South China and Brazil, climate change can impact hydropower supply and strain the system. Have you read?

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Fossil fuels will continue to make up 50% of energy demand by 2050, with gas maintaining its position, according to the report. Efficiency gains will flatten energy demand over the next 30 years and present the greatest opportunity for companies and governments. Renewable energy forecasts.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 3, 2021

Annual figures show that renewable supply outpaced fossil fuels for the first time. Conversely, energy produced by fossil fuels fell to just 39.6%, marking the first time that clean energy has consistently outperformed legacy sources. Covid19 created a fall in generation demand. 19 lockdown measures.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 8, 2023

This latest briefing, “ Better, Faster, Cleaner: Securing clean energy technology supply chains”, makes the case that global supply of key materials and components is sufficient to meet growing demand for clean energy technologies (wind, solar, batteries, grids, heat pumps) over the medium- to long-term.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 13, 2020

” Hydropower will continue as the largest source of renewable power, according to the IEA. If existing fossil-fuel-based power infrastructure continues to operate as is, global warming would be locked in at 1.65 Total global primary energy demand has fallen by 5 percent in 2020 due to the pandemic. degrees Celsius.

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Business Green

JULY 3, 2020

Shell and BP are writing down assets while a raft of US fracking firms are entering bankruptcy protection – change is coming to the fossil fuel industry faster than anyone expected. The stranded asset hypothesis just got real. However, the contention that the new price projections are more realistic is contestable.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 6, 2021

Cheap renewables were favored on the grid last year, which caused coal use to fall as energy demand plummeted amid the economic slowdown. With power demand expected to triple by 2040 as India’s population continues to achieve upward mobility, fossil fuels are poised to see continued growth even as the clean energy market thrives.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 12, 2023

The need for on-site energy storage and solar-supplemented solutions is also emphasized to reduce demand charges. MCS can also draw power from various sources, including renewable energy such as wind, solar, and hydropower.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Global greenhouse gas emissions from electricity generation are on course for a dramatic seven per cent drop in 2020 due to plummeting economic activity caused by the coronavirus crisis, setting the scene for renewables to dominate the recovery at the expense of fossil fuels. per cent today.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 16, 2020

But downstate New York is facing significant supply-demand imbalances that will require large-scale energy storage to manage, he noted. At present, it’s not clear that these markets will offer the revenue to justify this business case, Daniel Finn-Foley, energy storage director at Wood Mackenzie, said in a Wednesday email.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 12, 2022

The UN agency warned that water stress could jeopardise low carbon energy sources such as nuclear power plants and hydropower, both of which rely heavily on water supplies in order to operate, while rising sea levels and extreme weather are also posing a growing threat to energy infrastructure. Net zero by 2050 is the aim," he said.

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Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2023

BloombergNEF also expects costs across the sector to remain high throughout 2023, due to high raw material and labour costs, soaring demand for battery packs from automakers, and cost increases across other parts of their supply chain, such as for power conversion systems and balancing services.

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