Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Power grids globally must be upgraded by 2040 to keep the lights on. And while these upgrades will likely cost trillions, virtual power plants (VPPs), writes Autogrid’s Gisela Glandt , can curb these costs to the tune of $10B annually.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 15, 2020

Could trash-to-energy technology feed hydrogen demand? The annual demand could reach 19,120,458,891 tons by then, representing a tenfold increase from 2015 to 2050. Combined with a push for decarbonization, these economics could drive demand, project energy experts. The plan is to build more plants in California and other U.S.

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AutoGrid

JULY 5, 2023

They can help to balance the supply and demand of electricity by storing excess energy and providing services that help complement new or existing renewable generation deployments. Grid-Scale Batteries Grid-scale energy storage systems include batteries, flywheels, pumped hydro, and compressed air energy storage. Merchant Model.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

MARCH 4, 2022

In California alone, PG&E, Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas & Electric are expected to collectively spend more than $15 billion to reduce the threat of wildfires caused by their power grids through 2022, according to Greentech Media. the link between wildfires and grid resiliency. Timothy Barat.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 29, 2020

While India’s power grid is still dominated by coal, the country has been deploying wind and solar at a rapid pace to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s targets of 175 gigawatts of renewable energy capacity by 2022, and 450 gigawatts of non-fossil sources by 2030. The rapidly evolving country of nearly 1.4

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 20, 2021

” Achieving India’s target to deploy 450 gigawatts of renewable energy by 2030 is critical if the country is going to succeed in displacing coal generation on the power grid as overall energy consumption grows. But in absolute terms, coal use will increase as India’s overall energy demand grows.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 6, 2021

The country awarded landmark supply contracts for flexible renewable power, an important step in addressing the limitations of intermittent wind and solar. Cheap renewables were favored on the grid last year, which caused coal use to fall as energy demand plummeted amid the economic slowdown.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

With the insatiable global demand for cleaner energy solutions, solar farm land investment is no longer just an environmental statement; it’s a robust financial strategy. Proximity to power grids is another non-negotiable—without it, the solar farm’s potential remains untapped.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 18, 2021

A parked EV has the potential to be a connected car—a battery pack engaged with the power grid with opportunities for charge coordination, interactive intelligence, and dynamic energy management. A more sophisticated EV interface could support active demand response and take advantage of V2G exchange.

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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. Most fossil fuel majors are far behind the curve.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 26, 2021

Today’s grid was largely built in the 1950s and 1960s with a 50-year life expectancy. And when the grid fails, it has real implications for health and safety. In the last six months, we’ve seen two examples of how fragile the grid can be, especially with climate change making weather more unpredictable. Reimagine the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 19, 2023

“The idea that it’s a choice between our addiction to fossil fuels or working by candlelight is a gross misrepresentation of reality, when we know renewables are cleaner, cheaper, and better for public health,” retorted Claire Fyson, co-head of climate policy at Berlin-based Climate Analytics.

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Business Green

JUNE 11, 2021

Firstly, getting more people walking, on their bicycles, and onto trams and trains reduces demand for vehicles and vehicle miles, while also providing a health benefits through better air quality and exercise - after all, even EVs still produce particle pollution from brake and tyre wear.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 29, 2020

All National Grid's net zero pathways rely on significant BECCS capacity to generate 'negative emissions', claims think tank Ember. But proponents argue that properly managed forests and carefully assessed supply chains can ensure biomass energy is a key, renewable long-term power source for the future net zero economy.

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Business Green

MARCH 31, 2020

The strategy - comprising three separate roadmaps for gas, electricity, and a 'whole systems' networks plan - is aimed at finding new ways for the UK's gas and power grid infrastructure to work together in a more integrated way to expand the use of zero carbon technologies across the network.

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AutoGrid

MAY 3, 2023

Specifically, CLP’s “Energy-Saving Missions” demand-side flexibility program demonstrated the collective power of prosumers to help solve challenges to the power grid in the most efficient and sustainable way possible. Peaking power plants are common forms of backup to handle spikes in demand.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

This requires accelerating the roll out of low cost renewable technologies such as offshore wind, investing in the UK's power grid infrastructure and overseeing a much-needed mass insulation programme to upgrade UK's leaky housing stock.

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E2 Environmental Entrepreneurs

APRIL 15, 2020

Credit: Ricardo Esquivel But the analysis of clean energy unemployment data by E2 partner BW Research shows the crushing impact of the COVID-19 health and economic crises on one of the biggest, fastest-growing job sectors in America?—?one According to one recent study, our power grid needs $30 billion to $90 billion in upgrades.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 5, 2020

Yes, including public health and safety. RMI and several environmental and public interest advocacy groups recently published a report that surveys two decades of research into the links between combustion of gas indoors for cooking and negative effects to human health. “The grid could evolve to handle this.

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Energy Innovation

JUNE 5, 2024

Technology companies like Google are important to net-zero targets, as new data centers increase energy demand alongside the nascent U.S. Fortunately clean energy can meet growing electricity demand without gas through strategies like building new renewables to meet new load or reusing heat produced in data centers.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 10, 2020

PG&E, Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas & Electric are expected to collectively spend more than $15 billion to reduce the threat of wildfires caused by their power grids through 2022. These advanced materials also prevent sagging caused by increased power capacity on a line, which can cause wildfires.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

New demands on the network from the cars we drive, to the way we heat/cool, or power our homes will change the traditional power flows and role of the electricity network. The low-voltage electricity network delivers power to every home, and many businesses, and is fast becoming one of the most important parts of the power grid.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

– CEO and Co-Founder, GRID Alternatives During the 2001 California energy crisis, Erica Mackie, a mechanical engineer, along with Tim Sears, had a vision for free, clean, solar-driven electricity that would be practical and accessible for the low-income communities that needed it the most.

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Climate Tech VC

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

To get there, the grid requires constant attention to balance the flow of electrons. Ensuring grid reliability, resilience, and security is a balancing act between assets, systems, and participants. But how do grid operators know how to work with this additional flexibility and generation and pull these capabilities into the grid?

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Smart Energy International

JULY 29, 2022

Additionally, an AI-powered inspection platform bolsters electric asset health maintenance, Elia Group illustrates expedited energy transition investments and a politically charged interconnector reaches financial closure. 369 billion into US energy security and clean energy programmes.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 9, 2020

When taking into account wider societal benefits such as lower health costs from better diets and air quality, however, the cost is likely to be negligible, it predicts. That means a 70 per cent reduction in gas demand and an 85 per cent cut in oil demand by that date, according to the CCC. per cent by 2050.

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 26, 2021

State mandates and consumer choice have sparked a demand for clean and green energy. Wind power turbines and home battery systems might have a little more industry wiggle room. In some countries, entire power grids are being overhauled as market restrictions eliminate some methods of energy production in favor of cleaner alternatives.

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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. Ember calculates the bloc's share of clean electricity will need to reach 83 per cent by 2030 to meet its climate targets, up from 63 per cent today.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 26, 2021

Today’s grid was largely built in the 1950s and 1960s with a 50-year life expectancy. And when the grid fails, it has real implications for health and safety. In the last six months, we’ve seen two examples of how fragile the grid can be, especially with climate change making weather more unpredictable. Reimagine the U.S.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

But while such contracts may provide a short term economic boost for African nations with gas reserves to draw on, they could also result in stranded assets given demand for fossil gas will have to fall sharply in the coming decades if the goals of the Paris Agreement are to be met.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Below you will find several sustainable home products that can bring long-term cost savings and help preserve our resources and planet health. The Stick Up Cam comes with a free basic plan that gives you motion alerts and live on-demand video, but you’ll have to pay for a subscription if you want to view recorded video.

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Business Green

MAY 6, 2022

The impacts on health, crops, power grids, water supplies and other critical elements of human existence are growing, too. The scorching temperatures put more than a billion people at risk of heat-related health impacts, according to scientists.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 2, 2022

The case demands that fossil fuel companies pay for damages associated with catastrophic storms, beginning with the 2017 hurricanes, and their lingering impacts, arguing that these disasters are worsened by climate change.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

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. The environmental impacts of these facilities have contributed to negative health outcomes and lowered property values in the adjacent communities.”.

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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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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2020

How to Scale Regenerative Agriculture and Draw Down Carbon (Part 1) (Panel Discussion): Regenerative agriculture has the potential to draw down billions of tons of carbon dioxide while simultaneously restoring soil health.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Using DLR could reduce costly grid congestion and speed interconnection of renewables, according to a decade of pilot projects and studies. “The move to an electrified, renewable-powered future is going to put more demand on the grid,” Hudson Gilmer, CEO of DLR provider LineVision, told GTM.

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