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Monitoring grid stability with hydropower signals

Smart Energy International

US researchers have created a new method to predict electric grid stability in real time using signals from pumped storage hydropower facilities. Yilu Liu, UT-ORNL Governor’s Chair for power grids who has led the project, explains that when the hydropower facility pumps shut down, they almost always stop at a fixed power level.

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Brookfield Renewable, Plug Power partner on hydropower-fueled hydrogen plant

Renewable Energy World

As one of the first industrial-scale green hydrogen facilities in North America, the plant represents a significant milestone in Plug Power’s plan to establish the first North American green hydrogen network and to produce over 500 tons per day of hydrogen by 2025.

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Duke Plans Largest Floating PV Project in the Southeast

GreenTechMedia

By contrast, North America accounted for less than 1 percent of floating PV capacity installed last year. electricity if installations were plopped on just over a quarter of the country’s existing human-made water bodies where FPV is feasible. Eighty-seven percent of 2019 installations were located in that region.

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The COP28 pledge to triple up by 2030 and implications for geothermal

ThinkGeoEnergy

Global installed renewable electricity generation capacity in the 1.5°C The GRA represents the leading international industry players and provides a unified renewable energy voice. To rapidly accelerate deployment, permitting must be streamlined, supply chains strengthened, grids expanded, and finance must be unlocked.

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Low carbon generation set to meet electricity demand growth – IEA

Smart Energy International

The IEA’s Electricity 2024 report records electricity demand growth easing in 2023 but is projected to accelerate over the next three years through 2026. The update finds that world demand for electricity grew by 2.2% Growing weather impacts on power systems highlight the importance of investing in electricity security.

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World adds record new renewable energy capacity in 2020

Renewable Energy World

More than 80% of all new electricity capacity added last year was renewable, with solar and wind accounting for 91% of new renewables. However, hydropower still accounts for the largest share of renewables in the total mix. rise in installed capacity represents expansion that beats long-term trends of more modest growth year-on-year.

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Soaring electricity demand must be ‘good citizen of the grid’ says California energy chief

Smart Energy International

And he added a year later, droughts dried up reservoirs of hydropower plants. Last week, the state celebrated a clean energy milestone: the installation of 10,000 direct current fast chargers for electric vehicles. And Gunda said that by 2030 there will be seven million electric vehicles on the road in California.

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