Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The utility, which provides electricity to more than 13 million industrial, commercial and residential customers, is concerned about grid stability due to decommissioned traditional fossil fuel plants and increased levels of renewable energy coming online. Sign up to our newsletter and stay informed

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The replacement of fossil fuels by green energy is bringing about a revolution in electricity generation and expanding its role across economies. The modern grid will encounter some typical challenges associated with renewable energy. It can even help balancing the grid in case of outages and regulate supply and demand.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 19, 2020

homes and commercial buildings consume roughly two-fifths of the country’s overall energy, three-fourths of all electricity, and account for most of the peak electricity demand that drives generation and power grid infrastructure costs. Shifting heating from fossil fuels to electricity can cut direct emissions.

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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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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Solar power is the "new king" of global electricity markets, with the International Energy Agency calling it the cheapest form of electricity in history in its annual centerpiece World Energy Outlook report. Solar's ascent and coal's decline have been rapid by the standards of the electricity industry. degrees Celsius.

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Business Green

JANUARY 12, 2021

Britain also chalked up a number of green electricity records last year as record levels of wind and solar generation dominated the power grid during periods of low demand thanks to lockdown measures spurred by the coronavirus crisis, and several of the UK's remaining coal plants shuttered.­

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

This is notable because it would actually boost the demands on the power sector, which will increase the challenges of decarbonizing the sector. still obtained 63% of its electricity from fossil fuels. power grid by 2050. solar module supply is about 4.7 million new energy efficient homes.”.

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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%). The main drivers of growth in the industry in previous years were wind and solar power. For Europe, 2020 represented a historic year for renewable energy sources.

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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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Business Green

MARCH 8, 2023

The UK's climate advisory body latest report provides an in-depth assessment of the mix of renewable, flexible grid, hydrogen, nuclear, and carbon capture technologies that will need to be in place by the middle of the 2030s if the government is to deliver on its stated goal of operating a nearly completely decarbonised power grid by 2035.

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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. gigawatts by 2021, and 2.2

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Department of Energy that found that solar power could generate up to 45% of the U.S. Why such a heavy focus on solar power? The Energy Department’s Solar Futures Study lays out three future pathways for the U.S. million solar panels or 364 large-scale wind turbines. power grid. million to 11.5

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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.

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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.

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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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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

The Greasewood Solar Project has long-term power purchase agreements with the City of Garland, New Braunfels Utilities, and the Kerrville Public Utility Board in Texas. Eunice Solar Project (Permian Energy Center) - Andrews, Texas. But, researchers wrote, demand is strong with 17.4 power grids," the researchers wrote.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

APRIL 3, 2024

The research indicated that using solar power and the H2 battery would help to reduce energy costs by about 61 percent per year. Furthermore, it also reduces fossil fuel powered grid dependence by an additional 38 percent. On top of that, there is an 11.3

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 20, 2022

is going to need a lot more solar and wind power generation, and lots of cheap energy storage. Wind and solar power vary over the course of a day, so energy storage is essential to provide a continuous flow of electricity. To rely more on wind and solar power, the U.S. Genex Power. To cut U.S.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2023

A power system running solely on clean energy technologies is entirely feasible During a media briefing yesterday, CCC officials made a point of emphasising the huge amount of work it has put into producing its most detailed and comprehensive analysis of the UK's energy system to date.

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The Verge: Energy

APRIL 24, 2024

While most of the world still runs on dirty fossil fuels, Costa Rica has generated nearly all of its electricity from renewable sources of energy for nearly a decade. Climate change poses new risks to the power grid, and Costa Rica has a lot of work left to do to get more solar and wind farms online.

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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. Then, beginning around 2009, first wind turbines and then solar photovoltaic panels decreased enough in cost to become competitive in electricity markets. Dennis Schroeder/NREL.

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Business Green

JULY 28, 2021

UK and EU electricity demand may have nearly recovered from the pandemic, but the disruption has fundamentally blighted economics of fossil gas power, analysis suggests. temperature goal of the Paris Ageement within reach.

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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2022

Among a handful of "bright spots" highlighted in the CCC's report are electric car sales, which have soared over the past few years as more and more automotive firms expand their line up of battery-powered passenger vehicles in response to growing demand and tightening regulations. Credit: Climate Change Committee.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

As such, the COP Presidency should presumably welcome mounting calls for a new era of public-private cooperation on the financial packages that can help developing and emerging economies wean themselves off fossil fuels.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 27, 2019

The network of batteries, dubbed a virtual power plant in industry parlance, will shift the community's solar production to serve the evening peak, incrementally reducing the utility’s need to run fossil fueled plants during the hours of highest electricity demand.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Out in Utah, a coal-fired power plant supplying electricity to Los Angeles is being outfitted with natural-gas-fired turbines that will eventually be able to run on hydrogen, created via electrolysis with wind and solar power and stored in massive underground caverns for use when that clean energy isn’t available for the grid.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 6, 2020

utility industry: the rise of renewables as a potentially less costly and risky alternative to fossil fuels. even when there is actual consumer demand that supports these projects,” Wang said. power grid through this replacement strategy could cost up to $4.5 Completely decarbonizing the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2023

The Redcar survey was conducted by Explain Market Research, a Newcastle-based company whose clients include major electricity and gas distributors National Grid, Cadent, Northern Power Grid, SGN, Wales and West Utilities, and UK Power Networks. All of these companies have advocated for the use of hydrogen in heating.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

But to deliver this scenario requires investment of around five per cent global GDP each year, amounting to an additional $33tr of additional investment in energy efficiency, renewables, end-use electrification, power grids, flexibility, hydrogen infrastructure, and myriad other clean tech innovations, it said.

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Business Green

JUNE 7, 2022

White House announces sweeping package of executive orders designed to turbocharge US and global solar and heat pump development. The tariff exemption was welcomed by many green industry groups, who argued it would help boost US solar capacity.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 30, 2020

And almost all of the utilities on this list plan to rely on as-yet untested technologies such as carbon capture and storage, power-to-low-carbon fuels or advanced nuclear reactors. Even so, lower-carbon goal-setting was accompanied by a continued collapse in fossil fuel projects in real time.

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