The Verge: Energy

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Renewable energy is finally starting to take over the power grid. Carbon-pollution-free power generation — which includes renewables and nuclear energy — made up more than two-thirds of the electricity mix, and twice as much as fossil fuels. Electricity demand actually fell by 3.4 Electricity demand actually fell by 3.4

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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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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

The non-profit Solar Foundation will soon become part of the Interstate Renewable Energy Council, merging two groups with a common vision for an increasingly clean-powered grid.

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 16, 2021

Long-duration energy storage – defined as systems that can store energy for more than 10 hours at a time – would support a low-cost, reliable, carbon-free electric grid. And energy storage can increase local control of the power system and build resilience for communities, including by minimizing power grid disruptions.

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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

Solar's new status as the dominant leader of the power markets is not being driven by only a handful of markets, but rather is a global phenomenon on multiple continents, a development Birol calls “extremely impressive.” ” Hydropower will continue as the largest source of renewable power, according to the IEA.

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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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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Energy demand for electricity and transportation fell by 3.8% This fall in emissions (see Figure 1) is the most significant on record and puts the United States on track to meet its 2025 Paris Agreement commitment, though energy demand and emissions are expected to rebound with widespread vaccinations in 2021. power in 2020.

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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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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Toyota, one of the first major automakers to commit to fuel cell vehicles with its Mirai sedan, is also planning to expand production of hydrogen powered semi trucks now being tested at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, Senior Engineer Jackie Birdsall said.

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The Verge: Energy

APRIL 24, 2024

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. In the winter, like a six-month period from June to December, many of the hydropower plants get surplus flows. That’s when we have low wind, but we have more hydropower.

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Business Green

JULY 3, 2020

Price and demand projections have been trimmed and there is a real sense that the clean energy transition that much of the industry has tip-toed around for the past decade could be about to accelerate. "The However, the contention that the new price projections are more realistic is contestable.

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Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Eastern European countries differ strongly in their current share of RES in total electricity production (with a record 65% share in Romania, Latvia, and Croatia, which rely heavily on hydropower). These are underground control and power cables – including Europe’s longest high-voltage cable line in alternating current technology.

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Solar Industry

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Results show the technology is cost-competitive with lithium-ion batteries, pumped storage hydropower and natural gas peaker plants. The field results also demonstrated that Sage can alternatively provide high-powered, short-duration power (load-following) during peak demand. Sage Geosystems Inc. ,

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ThinkGeoEnergy

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Further, the results show Sage’s technology is cost-competitive with lithium-ion batteries, pumped storage hydropower, and natural gas peaker plants. Calculated LCOS that is cost-competitive to pumped storage hydropower and lithium-ion batteries. Measured fluid losses < 2%, decreasing to 1% by the end of the 5-week period.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

It concludes that the latter two scenarios would require approximately 1,050-1,570 gigawatts of solar power, which would meet about 44%-45% of expected electricity demand in 2050. One advantage solar power has over many other low-carbon technologies is that most of the U.S. can generate at least some solar power year-round.

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 17, 2022

Hailed as the greatest invention of the 20th century , our now-aging grid was based on fundamental concepts that made sense at the time it was developed. The original foundation was a combination of “base load” coal plants that operated 24 hours a day and large-scale hydropower. Innovations that make 100% clean power possible.

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 20, 2022

It involves pumping water uphill from one reservoir to another at a higher elevation for storage, then, when power is needed, releasing the water to flow downhill through turbines, generating electricity on its way to the lower reservoir. Two types of pumped-storage hydropower; one doesn’t require a river. Genex Power.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 8, 2021

First, nationwide transmission allows power-sharing across regions facing widely different weather systems that drive variation in wind and solar generation. All of these benefits can be captured with solar, wind, existing hydropower and lithium-ion battery technologies at projected 2030 prices, he added.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 13, 2020

“Now we’re looking to scale up to meet global demand.” Smart Wires is one of a handful of companies developing digital power flow control systems that could revolutionize how power grids function, compared to the mostly electromechanical system in place today.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Since twenty years, an electrical supply system that is intended to increase operational effectiveness and give possibilities for incorporating distributed resources is referred to as a smart grid. Energy demand response and supplementary services are the two main segments that make up a smart grid’s operation.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 26, 2021

Ivanhoe Mines Energy DRC is tasked with delivering reliable, clean, renewable hydropower to the Kamoa-Kakula Copper Mine. The financing agreement was entered into in connection with the joint rehabilitation of the Mwadingusha hydropower plant under the first public-private partnership with SNEL, where five of six turbines have been completed.

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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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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Developers in the space are concerned that the coronavirus pandemic’s impact on the economy will depress demand for tax equity investments, as banks and financial institutions will have less appetite for credits to offset tax liabilities in a year when profits were depressed. Solar tax credit impacts.

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CleanTechnica

DECEMBER 8, 2021

In most cases, these rural customers have low power demand, which presents a challenge to mini-grid developers due […]. Only 5% of this rural population has access to modern electricity services, without which sustainable development cannot take place.

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