Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 6, 2021

Last summer’s record heat waves triggered a surge in power demand that maxed out supplies and led to outages across the West. California and other states are pushing to use clean electricity to power vehicles and buildings to cut carbon, which will increase demand. Contributed by Ben Paulos.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

utility has yet fully fleshed out how it intends to eliminate natural gas power plants from its generation portfolio. That’s because those plants provide critical flexibility to meet peaks in grid demand and deliver power when wind and solar resources may not be reliably producing enough to meet customers’ needs.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 17, 2022

After all, consumer prices have become much higher than the cost of producing wind and solar power. This system, in use since the start of the liberalisation of electricity markets in the 1990s, works as a continuous auction, ensuring that electricity sources with the lowest cost of production are used to meet demand first.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The falling costs of wind and solar power are pushing utilities to find ways to incorporate them into their long-range plans, even as they struggle to define what resources can be relied on to provide the dispatchable power they need. Nuclear power plays a large role in PSEG’s carbon-reduction plans.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 20, 2021

Overall demand for electricity in 2020 was almost exactly the same as in 2005, and 24% lower than projected by federal energy forecasters. Many devices that power our lives, such as LED lights , get more performance from a kilowatt-hour of electricity now than they did 15 years ago. Emission-free nuclear generation largely held steady.

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 17, 2022

Then, beginning around 2009, first wind turbines and then solar photovoltaic panels decreased enough in cost to become competitive in electricity markets. The original foundation was a combination of “base load” coal plants that operated 24 hours a day and large-scale hydropower. However, new nuclear plants in the U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 21, 2020

But the tax-credit extensions contained in the bill could provide a significant boost for the primary federal incentive structure for wind and solar power by extending the expiration dates set by Congress late last year. Solar tax credit impacts. R&D for clean energy, energy storage, carbon capture and nuclear power.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 26, 2021

The gas-free scenario is also reliant on the greatest mix of as-yet untested technologies such as long-duration energy storage or small modular nuclear reactors — and it would involve keeping some of its coal plants open past 2030, to ensure it can provide reliable power in the winter when solar power is scarce.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 6, 2020

Dominion also gets more than one-third of its energy from nuclear power. Those existing renewables are largely hydropower and biomass. And to help balance intermittent wind and solar power, it calls for Dominion to procure at least 2.7

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 22, 2020

As the coronavirus struck the global economy earlier this year, demand for oil dropped by more than a fifth and prices collapsed. Many sources now suggest that oil demand has already passed its peak. I do not expect oil prices or demand for our products to recover in the medium term." The industry as we once knew it, is gone.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Its carbon-free portfolio includes nuclear power supplying about one-third of its generation needs, and just over 5 percent renewable, most of that hydropower and biomass. At the same time, the utility has been pushing forward with significant investments into renewable energy — most notably, its massive, 2.6-gigawatt

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