Smart Energy International

APRIL 26, 2024

Growth in batteries outpaced almost all other clean energy technologies in 2023 as falling costs, advancing innovation and supportive industrial policies helped drive up demand for the crucial technology, finds the IEA’s Batteries and Secure Energy Transitions World Energy Outlook Special Report.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 28, 2024

Moreover, many challenges in the energy and transport sectors are closely interlinked and must be addressed in a holistic, inclusive and mission-driven approach. Thus, R&I actions will advance the technological readiness of demand side response and energy storage solutions for industrial-scale and domestic applications.

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Business Green

MAY 16, 2022

Drax said the new plant could be operational by 2030, providing critical stability services to the grid by acting like a "giant water battery" that can store excess power at times of peak generation and dispatch it to the grid at times of peak demand.

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R-Squared Energy

JULY 26, 2021

The Review provides a comprehensive picture of supply and demand for major energy sources on a country-level basis. For example, as I will detail below, oil demand fell dramatically last year, but we already know that it has largely recovered in 2021. Since its release, I have been busy analyzing the data and creating graphics.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 2, 2024

DOE is accelerating its AI work on multiple fronts to not only keep the US globally competitive but also to manage AI’s increasing energy demand so we can maintain our goal of a reliable, affordable and clean energy future.”

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Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 20, 2023

From solar and wind to hydropower and beyond, the discussions revolved around harnessing the potential of renewable sources, overcoming challenges, and paving the way for a greener future. Energy storage and grid flexibility As the demand for clean energy grows, so does the need for effective energy storage solutions and grid flexibility.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 27, 2022

Scott Mathieson, Network Planning and Regulation Director at SP Energy Networks, said: “The increasingly complex needs of our energy system, coupled with the significant increase in both demand for green electricity and generation our networks need to accommodate, means it is crucial we ensure its continued security and resilience.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 12, 2023

The need for on-site energy storage and solar-supplemented solutions is also emphasized to reduce demand charges. In contrast, hydrogen production, transportation, and conversion in fuel cell trucks involve multiple energy conversion steps, leading to greater energy losses.

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R-Squared Energy

MAY 23, 2021

Minimizing energy demand growth through improvements in energy efficiency makes a critical contribution in the NZE. Many efficiency measures in industry, buildings, appliances and transport can be put into effect and scaled up very quickly. Huge changes are needed in the transportation sector. Transport mode switching.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 16, 2020

But downstate New York is facing significant supply-demand imbalances that will require large-scale energy storage to manage, he noted. At present, it’s not clear that these markets will offer the revenue to justify this business case, Daniel Finn-Foley, energy storage director at Wood Mackenzie, said in a Wednesday email.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 12, 2019

liquefied natural gas], will be eager to understand the potential impact of the EU’s momentous announcement — both in terms of the diminishing demand outlook and impact on their revenues through carbon taxes.". “Oil and gas exporters to Europe, including Russian gas and U.S.

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Business Green

JULY 15, 2021

Global demand for electricity is also growing faster than renewables capacity post-pandemic, opening the door to more fossil fuel energy in many parts of the world. But the surge in renewables generation may still only be enough to meet around half of the projected increase in demand, the IEA said. Only around 10.6 per cent in 2022.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Climate change-induced heat waves are once again increasing demand for electricity just as the impacts of wildfires, drought and a diminished snowpack have coalesced to reduce electricity supplies and disrupt critical transmission and distribution systems. How hydropower balances a renewable energy grid.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 5, 2020

needs a massive green hydrogen industry to decarbonize its electricity, transportation and industrial sectors, and major investments and policy changes today to enable it to grow to its full potential in the decades to come. A roadmap for green hydrogen expansion. The report doesn’t set specific dollar targets for U.S. investment.

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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. Figure 1: U.S.

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Energy Innovation

JULY 2, 2021

Providing reliable, affordable, and low-carbon electricity in a warming world requires careful consideration of evolving electric energy supplies and demands. For instance, energy demands are likely to shift, reducing the need to heat in the winter and increasing the need to cool in the summer. Southeast in 2050. Figure 1. (a)

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MAY 21, 2023

Transportation remains the largest contributor of greenhouse gas emissions in Washington showing a slight increase from 2018 to 2019 of less than 3%, or 4.8 Overall, transportation’s share of statewide emissions dropped from 44.9% Quebec’s GHG emissions in 2020 were 76.2 megatonnes (MT) of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e).

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Business Green

MARCH 6, 2023

Coal demand for power generation fell 15 per cent in 2022, reaching its lowest level for 266 years, according to the analysis. above normal, which led to a reduction in demand for heat and power from buildings in 2022, and therefore emissions.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Michael Matheson MSP, Cabinet Secretary for Net Zero, Energy and Transport, gave a keynote address highlighting the important role renewable energy will play in Scotland’s journey to net-zero. in community benefit payments.

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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). As Marek Marzec, Renewable Energy Projects Development Director at Polenergia S.A., the investor of D?bsk

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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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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 12, 2022

SEFE’s business areas currently include energy trading, gas transport and the operation of gas storage facilities. The Austrian government aims to generate 100% of electricity from wind, solar and hydropower by 2030. These goals have created a high demand for new, climate-friendly energy projects in Austria.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 29, 2021

Since 2011, annual global energy transition investment (renewable energy, CCS, electrified transport, hydrogen, electrified heat, energy storage) has almost doubled, from $290b to $501b. By Sarah Casey, Portfolio Director, Climate Council.

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Mosaic

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

as well as wind, hydropower, and bioenergy can replace coal, gas, and oil for power generation. A wide variety of zero-carbon renewable energy sources including solar (our favorite!) Tripling the share of renewables in our energy supply is a tall order, but energy efficiency can make achieving that goal a lot easier.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

And if the facility can use cheap, plentiful renewable electricity, perhaps from a hydropower plant, its steel would cost less than the competition. “At Building a hydrogen-based steel industry will require significant spending to not only build new plants but also produce, transport, and store green hydrogen.

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Business Green

MARCH 27, 2020

The move came in the same week as European NGO Transport & Environment warned leading auto industry lobby groups were calling on the EU to now delay new emissions rules. Any incentives to boost demand once normal life resumes should be targeted at zero-emissions cars. What matters is the type of car you sell.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 2, 2021

With the production, transportation and distribution of green hydrogen, Gazifère has the ambition to provide its customers with an increasingly diversified portfolio of renewable natural gas options.

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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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Business Green

AUGUST 16, 2022

And so, the organisation's projection of "little change" in wind deployment next year does not bode well, nor does its prediction that ever-rising solar capacity will not be able to "fully compensate" for lower hydropower and flatlining wind additions. And then, on top of that, everyone is trying to decarbonise right now.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

In 2008, Jacobson teamed up with student, Graeme Hoste, to assess whether California’s hourly demand for electricity could be satisfied with a combination of renewable power sources. Hydropower electricity produced in the Pacific Northwest would be imported to fill in the gaps.

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Business Green

AUGUST 13, 2021

He is confident its technology can support a massive jump in demand and commercialisation. A World Wildlife study that compared the life cycle assessment of lettuce grown traditionally in California and transported to St. Rosenberg also hopes AeroFarms will start to focus on places and cities that have access to hydropower.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2021

However, 13 percent of Shell’s posts focussed specifically on renewable energies such as wind, solar, and hydropower. He continued: “The millions spent on sophisticated marketing and advertising campaigns are about shaping public opinion and maintaining demand for fossil fuels. ” Jonathan White, a lawyer at ClientEarth.

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Mr. Sustainability

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Hardly anyone in Sweden wears a mask, not even in public transport. That battery factory, with a planned capacity of 40 gigawatt hours, will run on clean and cheap hydropower starting next year. The demand for lithium-ion batteries is therefore going to 'explode', says Carlsson. It feels like a little Silicon Valley.

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Business Green

JULY 1, 2022

WWF predicts a 40 per cent gap between the global water supply and demand by 2030, and climate change is likely to increase water shortages and competition. California agriculture lands are straining to access groundwater that used to be plentiful. Where are you going to get water from is somewhere far away.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Much in the line with the traditional light-touch regulatory ethos of the City of London, it has historically preferred a hands-off approach to regulation or pre-emptive market intervention, avoiding caps or constraints on the grounds that supply and demand is the best arbiter of metals prices. Metals contracts for modern times.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

And while renewables are now extremely competitive for electricity production, they cannot (yet) fulfil the needs from industrial and manufacturing demand. Steel is made using incredibly high heats that demand incredibly high quantities of energy throughout the production process. Heavy-duty transport.

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