Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2023

During the month more than 50 per cent of the country's power came from zero carbon sources, a feat also achieved in May, October, November and December, the operator said. Still, National Grid ESO data today shows zero carbon sources of electricity continued to outperform traditional fossil fuel generation in 2022.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 6, 2023

In recent years, there has been a growing concern about the impact of human activity on the environment, and the need to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels in order to combat climate change. This means that, by using solar panels, we can reduce our dependence on fossil fuels and the damaging effects they have on the environment.

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The Verge: Energy

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Now, shoring up energy systems means bringing renewables online to prevent more extreme climate change — especially as climate-fueled disasters like heatwaves and storms increasingly threaten power grids across the world. Demand for coal, oil, and gas is expected to peak this decade, according to the IEA’s new Outlook.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Hitachi Energy acquires eks Energy Tech major Hitachi Energy has announced a strategic acquisition of eks Energy, adding its advanced power electronics and energy management software capabilities to Hitachi’s growing portfolio. Skoon Energy Raises €5 million to expand software platform powering on-site customers and grid operators.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 26, 2021

This week, Clime Capital, a Singapore-based investment management company that manages funds from SEACEF, announced that it has invested in an innovative floating solar and storage project in Dong Nai Province, Vietnam, currently under development by Blueleaf Energy.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 24, 2024

But fully realizing its promise demands balancing tech innovation with collaboration across industry, says Massimo Muzzì, head of strategy, business development and sustainability at ABB Electrification. Significantly increasing renewables in the energy mix, while meeting growing demand for power, requires greater innovation.

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Business Green

MAY 19, 2021

Nuclear Industry Association (NIA), RenewableUK and Solar Energy UK team up to demand clearer, ambitious clean energy goals. The UK recently set a new goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 78 per cent against 1990 levels by 2035, by which date the government has also said sales of all new cars fossil fuelled cars must end.

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Demand Power grid Climate change Government 101

Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

According to analysis from consultancy DNV between now and 2050 a staggering $12 trillion will be invested in doubling power grid capacity and renewables technologies in the US and Canada. Electrification is predicted to double by 2050, constituting 41% of the region’s total energy demand.

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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%). “Spectacular investments in Eastern Europe are the reason to be proud of us”, says Miros?aw And this is only the beginning. awski, Electrum’s CEO.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The latest update from Imperial College London for Drax Electric Insights also confirmed that clean, or low-carbon, power including biomass, hydro, wind, solar and nuclear provided a record 2.9GW of clean surplus power during December.

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Fossil fuels Power grid Carbon Demand 101

Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

“The conclusion is very simple: without a power network fit for purpose, we will not achieve our REPowerEU goal to replace Russian fossil fuels, nor will we reach our net-zero targets,” stated the European Commissioner for Energy during the first High-Level Electricity Grid Forum hosted by ENTSO-E. This is huge.

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Investment Europe Fossil fuels Power grid 57

GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

“The math doesn’t yet add up,” the report finds, citing “significant gaps” between the decarbonization targets of major utilities and their current plans for retiring fossil-fuel plants. electric grid relies on fossil fuels for 63 percent of its generation, and according to the U.S.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

Lawmakers and regulators, including the PUC and the industry-friendly Texas Railroad Commission, which regulates the oil and gas industry, have repeatedly ignored, dismissed or watered down efforts to address weaknesses in the state’s sprawling electric grid, which is isolated from the rest of the country.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

His] ambitious actions at home now need to be matched by equally robust investments to advance climate action abroad. Biden's address also set out his administration's plans to crackdown on methane leaks in the US' fossil fuel industry.

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Business Green

JULY 27, 2020

In addition, National Grid's analysis, which is updated each year with several potential scenarios for how the UK could feasibly decarbonise its energy system, estimates that roughly 3GW of wind and 1.4GW of solar power would also need to be installed annually until mid-century to keep up with power demand.

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Power grid Carbon-negative Fossil fuels Electric vehicle 82

Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 20, 2023

ubitricity, a UK-based EV charge point operator with a network of more than 7,000 public charge points, is partnering with UK Power Networks (UKPN), the UK’s largest electricity distribution network, to shift charging demand away from periods of peak demand on the power grid.

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Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring Fossil fuels Demand 57

Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

The UK's growing sources of wind, solar and hydro power served to significantly curb millions of households' reliance on expensive, carbon-intensive fossil fuels last month, further underscoring the benefits of expanding clean, renewable electricity sources to tackle the ongoing energy crisis. per cent of annual UK gas demand.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 23, 2021

has built systems of transportation, heating, cooling, manufacturing and agriculture that rely primarily on fossil fuels. The greenhouse gas emissions those fossil fuels release when burned have raised global temperature by about 1.1°C It initially included $157 billion for EVs and $82 billion for power grid upgrades.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Yet many are still struggling to understand how to value energy storage as an investment. Global investments of $374 billion a year will be needed to upgrade the grid with enough flexibility to account for the variable power generation profiles of renewable technologies like solar and wind.

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Business Green

JUNE 30, 2022

Five-year plan aims to frontload investment in boosting grid capacity and resilience while paving way for huge influx in renewable power sources.

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The Verge: Energy

MAY 10, 2024

We are excited about this both because it’s very high growth, in demand, but also because it [comes from] companies that generally are very committed to the transformation of their [carbon] footprint.” Google, in its “ Gemini era ,” announced its biggest offshore wind deal yet in February to power data centers in Europe.

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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

DECEMBER 18, 2020

The European Union wants to build 40 gigawatts of green hydrogen electrolyzers by 2030, and estimates that 80 to 120 gigawatts of solar and wind will be needed to power them. That’s a fresh headache for Europe’s grid operators. Taking hydrogen production off the power grid could be a win-win solution to these problems.

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 24, 2021

Most hydrogen is produced from fossil fuels, but projections suggest renewable and low-carbon green hydrogen could grow dramatically and play a key role on the path to net zero. Looking ahead hydropower could potentially supply at least 1,000 TWh of the additional electricity demand required in IRENA’s 2050 scenario.

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Climate Tech VC

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Longtime transmission guru Carl Zichella once called the American electric grid the “most complicated machine we’ve ever built”, and with $1T of IRA-driven renewable investments in the pipeline, it’s only going to get more complex. Transmission Grids come in all shapes and sizes.

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Business Green

MAY 18, 2021

It provides direct advice to governments and its annual World Energy Outlook reports, which offer projections for future energy sources and demand, have provided the bedrock for major energy investment and policy decisions that help shape the trajectory of the global market. The death knell is being sounded for fossil fuels.

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Fossil fuels Natural gas Demand Government 89

Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Such 24/7 hourly matching yields multiple benefits from increasing corporate sustainability claims’ transparency, thanks to more granular carbon accounting, to incentivising investments in renewables and storage technologies, to decarbonising and digitalising the power grid, states the study.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Cheap finance and maturing technology mean solar will be cheaper than both new coal or gas power plants from now onward. Power grids remain the weak link. Still, it warns that the industry's growth could be undermined by grid investment, which it calls “the weak link” in the transformation of the power market.

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Business Green

JULY 17, 2020

Clean hydrogen could cut greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel by up to 34 per cent, reported Bloomberg New Energy Finance. The annual demand could reach 19,120,458,891 tons by then, representing a tenfold increase from 2015 to 2050. Technology & Investment Solutions is among those doing research for California.

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Hydrogen Demand Technology Energy 69

Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 17, 2022

In the summer of 1988, scientist James Hansen testified to Congress that carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels was dangerously warming the planet. Beginning in 1958, these were augmented by nuclear power plants, which have operated nearly continuously to pay off their large capital investments. electricity.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 5, 2020

Most buildings run on multiple fuels. 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. Can the grid handle a widespread shift to all-electric buildings?

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Using advanced AI , the Capalo platform attempts to optimise the use of flexible energy assets, such as energy storage systems and EV charging stations, allowing the commissioning of weather-dependent renewable energy sources to grow by coordinating with the flexibility of the energy grid to adjust to production and demand fluctuations.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 10, 2024

The Electric Thames project, a collaboration between UK Power Networks, LCP Delta and Marine Zero, is assessing the viability of using electric vessels to feed stored electricity back into London’s power grid.

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Innovation Power grid Fossil fuels Electricity 48

Clean Energy Canada

AUGUST 8, 2023

The federal government has released a new paper, Powering Canada Forward , which lays out the federal government’s vision for a 100% clean power grid by 2035. Canada’s grid is already 84% emissions free, but as the energy transition progresses, more homes, vehicles, and industries will be plugging into the grid.

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The Verge: Energy

MARCH 6, 2024

Caitlin O’Hara/Bloomberg via Getty Images A new report warns that a boom in computer chip manufacturing in the US could fuel demand for dirty energy, despite companies’ environmental claims. gigawatts in new electricity demand. The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Cumulatively, nine facilities could eventually add 2.1

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Electric trucks and buses may be approaching cost parity with their fossil-fueled counterparts, and they’re certainly cheaper to fuel over the long run — and that’s not counting their carbon and pollution emissions benefits.

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