Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The ninth edition of the Sustainable Energy in America Factbook tells the story of American energy efficiency, natural gas and renewable energy in a volatile year. Greenhouse Gas Emissions Source: BloombergNEF estimate. The economic disruption caused a massive drop in national greenhouse gas emissions. power in 2020.

Sustainability 92

Sustainability Natural gas Energy Energy 92

GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

State regulators have proposed a major set of responses to what could be a looming grid reliability shortfall in Sothern California, including a 2.5-gigawatt The proposal follows a string of unusual orders from the state's regulator to deal with the ongoing reliability crises for Southern California’s power grid.

Solar Energy Monitor 100

Solar Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring 100

Climate Tech VC

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Longtime transmission guru Carl Zichella once called the American electric grid the “most complicated machine we’ve ever built”, and with $1T of IRA-driven renewable investments in the pipeline, it’s only going to get more complex.   Wholesale power markets serve two primary functions: 1.

Demand 72

Demand Power grid Electricity Innovation 72

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.

Hydrogen 130

Hydrogen Natural gas Wind power Investment 130

GreenTechMedia

MARCH 31, 2020

Last week, 37 employees of state grid operator NYISO — 33 grid operators and managers, plus two facilities workers and two food service staff — volunteered to sequester themselves at the state’s two grid control centers near the state capitol, Albany. Nuclear plants taking special precautions.

Power grid 130

Power grid Nuclear Power Natural gas Health 130

GreenTechMedia

JUNE 17, 2020

Pacific Gas & Electric is on the verge of escaping from its 18-month bankruptcy , only to begin a years-long effort to prevent a repeat of the disasters that pushed it into insolvency in the first place. PG&E plans to invest about $40 billion over the next five years into its power grid. Of that, about $7.8

Energy Monitor 130

Energy Monitor Solar Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring 130

R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

He said his administration would “build and install a network of 500,000 charging stations along our existing and new highways” so electric vehicles (EVs) can displace gasoline. This is notable because it would actually boost the demands on the power sector, which will increase the challenges of decarbonizing the sector.

Natural gas 60

Natural gas Demand Solar Power Batteries 60

GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 20, 2021

Solar prices hit record-lows, firmly ousting coal as the cheapest source of electricity. The government held creative auctions designed to facilitate adding greater amounts of intermittent renewables on the grid. “All of this will require substantial investment in a modern, flexible electricity system.”

Pollution 130

Pollution Demand Government Energy 130

Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2023

That is the headline finding from the latest edition of the Energy Climate and Intelligence Unit's (ECIU) Winter Power Tracker , which found that renewables have produced 2TWh more electricity than gas over the winter months to date. million homes' gas use for the entire winter, or 78 tankers of liquified natural gas (LNG).

Electricity 69

Electricity Europe Nuclear Power Batteries 69

GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 8, 2021

transmission grid will play a key role in decarbonizing the country’s electricity system. wide transmission build-out could also slash the costs of reaching a zero-carbon grid with wind, solar and battery technologies that are cost-effective today. ” Breaking down transmission’s costs and benefits.

Carbon-neutral 130

Carbon-neutral Carbon North America Electricity 130

Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

electricity supply from solar by 2050. Robins Air Force Base Solar Project - Bibb, GA. Robins Air Force Base Solar Project (Courtesy: E Light Electric). The 128 MW Robins Air Force Base Solar Project is owned by Georgia Power, a subsidiary of Southern Company, and is located adjacent to the Robins Air Force Base.

Solar Power 143

Solar Power Construction Nuclear Power Demand 143

GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

First, it’s one of the largest-ever efforts to aggregate distributed energy resources (DERs) at a scale that can help California’s power grid meet its capacity needs. It breaks ground on multiple fronts. Then, of course, there are the blackouts.

Solar Energy Monitor 130

Solar Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring 130

R-Squared Energy

MARCH 3, 2021

Our wind and our solar got shut down, and they were collectively more than 10 percent of our power grid, and that thrust Texas into a situation where it was lacking power on a statewide basis.”’ If you only look at this graphic, then natural gas is the hero of the story.

Natural gas 148

Natural gas Demand Nuclear Power Batteries 148

GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

The catastrophic breakdown of Texas’ natural gas and electricity system last week lacks a single villain to blame for it all. “We set up rules very deliberately to say, 'Give us the cheapest gas, power and water you can get, and don’t bother me about all that other stuff,'” she said.

Natural gas 130

Natural gas Power grid Retail Demand 130

GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Utility-scale solar power is already cost-competitive against coal-fired power across the world and with natural-gas-fired power in many markets. More states should be emboldened to join ranks with states that have adopted ambitious offshore wind mandates to support decarbonization of their power grids."

Packaging 130

Packaging Nuclear Power Energy Energy 130

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. “But this weather event was a lot more extreme than either of those.”

Power grid 130

Power grid Natural gas Cooling Investment 130

GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 21, 2021

Thursday’s appointment was welcomed by clean energy groups as a critical early step to put a supporter of Biden’s energy and climate push in charge of setting the agenda of the federal agency that holds regulatory authority over interstate electricity transmission and natural gas networks.

Policy 130

Policy Nuclear Power Natural gas Politics 130