Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

If government ramps up investments, next winter could be less challenging for the grid and less worrying for households.". As the weather gets colder and demand for both heat and electricity increase the savings delivered by renewable generation is also expected to grow further. per cent of annual UK gas demand.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

utilities have to plan for an electricity peak driven by summer air conditioning and cooling demand, Duke and other Southeastern utilities face an equally daunting winter peak driven by a reliance on electric heating and unpredictable cold snaps, as this U.S. While most U.S. Energy Information Administration data illustrates.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Smart grids are a new generation of electric power grids that use digital technology to improve the reliability, efficiency, and sustainability of the grid. Smart grids can help to reduce outages, improve power quality, and enable new services such as demand-side management and renewable energy integration.

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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. lags behind China, Japan and the European Union in infrastructure and research investments to reach this potential.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Here’s how: Firstly, having more renewable energy sources can increase the demand for green energy. As more wind turbines, solar arrays, and other renewable energy installations are built, they generate a larger proportion of energy on the grid. As noted, the utilities industry is shifting to more sustainable practices.

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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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Renewable Energy World

MAY 25, 2021

When construction is finished, the batteries on the site will have the capability to store up to 10 MW of electricity for two hours, taking power from times when generation is plentiful and then discharging the power back onto the grid during times of shortage. There is a lot of renewable generation, particularly in West Texas.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

To reach such a level, Duke fleshed out two possible options: The first is a “high wind” path that would capture the offshore wind potential of the Carolinas coastal waters, but it would require policy changes in both states and increased investment in supply chain and transmission capacity.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Regional power grids are like highway systems, moving power to where it’s needed and keeping electrons flowing to homes and businesses around the clock,” said ACORE President and CEO Gregory Wetstone. She likened them to the cost of adding a driveway to a road. The costs would be around $10-50 per kW.

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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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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

DECEMBER 18, 2020

The European Union wants to build 40 gigawatts of green hydrogen electrolyzers by 2030, and estimates that 80 to 120 gigawatts of solar and wind will be needed to power them. That’s a fresh headache for Europe’s grid operators. Industry will be a big source of demand for hydrogen, even more so in the early days.

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Business Green

APRIL 9, 2020

The good news is many of the biggest cloud computing and data center providers have continued to focus on improving energy efficiency alongside their investments in sourcing renewable energy. However, the company just secured its fifth patent for its Smart Response power management software. How much more efficient?

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

They’re also a key dispatchable assets to help meet peak grid demand. Stage 2: ‘reshape’ the demand side of the grid.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 20, 2023

Green hydrogen” is made from solar and wind power, while “blue hydrogen” is made using natural gas, in a process that involves capturing and storing methane’s carbon dioxide emissions (CCS), however this technology was described as “minimal or non-existent” in a 2021 report by Manchester University’s Tyndall Centre.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

At least $14 trillion needs to be invested in the grid worldwide by 2050 to support an evolved power system, according to BloombergNEF’s new Power Grid Long-Term Outlook 2021 published this week. Without adequate investment, the grid could become a bottleneck, slowing progress, said BNEF.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 13, 2020

In December, Smart Wires raised $75 million in growth equity financing led by Lime Rock New Energy, adding to previous investments of $54.6 “Now we’re looking to scale up to meet global demand.” EirGrid’s transmission networks are struggling to integrate that power efficiently, O’Sullivan said.

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 17, 2022

Beginning in 1958, these were augmented by nuclear power plants, which have operated nearly continuously to pay off their large capital investments. Unlike coal and nuclear, solar and wind are variable; they provide power only when the sun and wind are available. Innovations that make 100% clean power possible.

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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. However, it’s Tesla’s power wall battery storage for homes that may have the most profound market impacts for consumers. Sustainable Agriculture.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

President Joe Biden has called for major clean energy investments as a way to curb climate change and generate jobs. Department of Energy that found that solar power could generate up to 45% of the U.S. million solar panels or 364 large-scale wind turbines. power grid. Rhodes , University of Texas at Austin.

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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

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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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

By 2025, Intermountain will be converted to turbines to supply 840 megawatts of power using natural gas blended with 30 percent hydrogen, a proportion that will rise to 100 percent hydrogen over the coming decades. How do you aggregate that demand to create sufficient momentum in the market to drive investment?".

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 12, 2021

economy is gathering steam, as the Biden Administration commits to creating 10 million green jobs to help address climate change and consumer demand for it swells. For example, the need for wind turbine service technicians is predicted to grow by 96%, second only to installers of solar photovoltaic systems (105%), the BLS reports.

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AutoGrid

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Yet without innovation now required by the climate crisis, our traditional power grids will fail us. In the case of the Bay Area CCAs, Pacific Gas & Electric still manages the poles and wires that connect us all to the power grid. From Volunteers to Virtual Power Plants.

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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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Business Green

OCTOBER 23, 2020

At present 80 per cent of PGE's business is based on hard coal and lignite power generation, and the company will therefore need to invest significantly in low and zero carbon energy sources, as well as network infrastructure, in order to deliver its net zero transition, D?browski browski explained.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Denmark was its first European target, with pilot projects leading to a commercial V2G operation that’s been running for four years , using fleet vehicle battery flexibility to provide frequency regulation services to grid operator Energinet to help it manage its wind-power-heavy grid. Trahand said. In the U.S.,

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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. ” Wind tax credit impacts.

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Business Green

JULY 7, 2020

A dozen of Wrightbus' hydrogen buses have operated around London for years and Bamford saw an opportunity to complement his hydrogen production and refuelling business, which won a major contract to supply fuel to Transport for London in 2019, with a firm whose product offering could stimulate demand for the green fuel.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

After a week of the country’s worst power grid collapse in decades — an event that's taken a dreadful toll in dozens of lives lost and billions of dollars in economic damage — the lights are back on in Texas. In different ways, the very cold weather and snow has impacted every type of generator.”

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Grist

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The report notes that the cost of solar energy has fallen 90 percent in the last decade, and the cost of wind power has dropped 70 percent. And the biochar industry still faces hurdles in scaling up production and demand. Between 2005 and 2019, greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. decreased by 12 percent.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 23, 2020

But solar and wind power groups and energy storage advocates didn’t get all they’ve been asking for from Congress in the bill — and they’re seeking support for those additional policies from the incoming Biden-Harris administration and lawmakers from both parties.

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