Solar Power World

MARCH 6, 2020

electrical generating capacity added in 2019 — swamping new additions provided by coal, natural gas, oil and nuclear power combined. FERC released its year-end energy infrastructure report today, and initial analysis by the SUN DAY Campaign finds that renewable energy sources provided 57.26% of new U.S.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 3, 2021

Peninsula Clean Energy said it has begun providing 100 percent carbon-free electricity to all of its nearly 300,000 customers, which is ahead of California’s 2045 zero-emission power generation mandate and a step in helping the agency achieve its ultimate goal of providing all customers 100 percent renewable power on a 24/7 basis.

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Previous topics covered were: Global carbon dioxide emissions Overall highlights Oil production and consumption Natural gas production and consumption Coal production and consumption Global nuclear power trends Today, I will cover renewable energy in detail. Together, wind and solar power provided 3,428 TWh of electricity in 2022.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 30, 2021

In recent decades the cost of wind and solar power generation has dropped dramatically. For example, high-capacity batteries with long discharge times – up to 10 hours – could be valuable for storing solar power at night or increasing the range of electric vehicles. This is one reason that the U.S.

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Business Green

JUNE 30, 2022

International Energy Agency argues nuclear power can play a significant role in supporting transition to a renewables-dominated energy system worldwide. At present, nuclear is still the world's second largest source of low carbon power after hydro electricity, with atomic power plants spread across 32 countries.

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R-Squared Energy

JULY 13, 2022

The remaining share of primary energy use consisted of hydroelectric power (6.8%), renewables (6.7%), and nuclear power (4.3%). Coal remained the dominant fuel for global power generation in 2021, with its share increasing to 36%, up from 35.1% Renewables and Nuclear Power. Wind and solar reached a 10.2%

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Solar Power World

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

electrical generating capacity mix. Sharp declines are foreseen for fossil fuels and nuclear power while renewable energy is forecast to experience… The post Latest FERC three-year forecast shows no new coal and drops in oil and natural gas, while renewables soar appeared first on Solar Power World.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 29, 2020

Tucson Electric Power on Friday released a long-term energy plan that calls for closing its remaining coal plants by 2032, on the way to 70 percent renewables by 2035. Colorado wants to get half of its power from renewable by 2030 and 90 percent by 2050. Arizona’s transition from coal to renewables and batteries.

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Charged

DECEMBER 29, 2021

How many times this week have you read that renewable energy is unreliable, and will never be able to completely replace fossil fuels on the electrical grid? This means no fossil fuels, carbon capture, direct air capture, bioenergy, blue hydrogen or nuclear power.”. This could reduce average annual household energy costs by 63%.

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Business Green

JUNE 7, 2021

The UK will need roughly 108GW of offshore wind capacity by 2035 - more than 10 times current capacity - to achieve a net zero electricity system by the middle of the next decade, researchers from Imperial College London have warned.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

While small modular reactors have powered naval ships for decades and are also in use in other military applications, they’ve yet to be approved for use in commercial power generation. NuScale still has multiple steps ahead of it before it can build its first commercial reactor.

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R-Squared Energy

JULY 26, 2021

The remainder of global energy consumption came from coal (27.2%), natural gas (24.7%), hydropower (6.9%), renewables (5.7%), and nuclear power (4.3%). Renewables and Nuclear Power. Solar electricity consumption rose by a record 1.3 exajoules (EJ) — an increase of 20% — but wind power (+1.5

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Business Green

APRIL 25, 2022

Fossil gas' share of electricity supplies shrinks to less than 15 per cent over weekend as wind power meets more than half of UK demand. Just shy of 80 per cent of Great Britain's electricity generation was produced by low carbon sources on Saturday, according to the latest stats from the electricity system operator.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

That is the conclusion of new research released today by Imperial College London on behalf of energy firm Drax, which estimates that carbon emissions from Britain's grid fell by 16 per cent last year as a result of the growth of green power and plummeting energy demand during Covid-19 lockdowns. Nuclear power, meanwhile, provided 17.5

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 6, 2021

California and other states are pushing to use clean electricity to power vehicles and buildings to cut carbon, which will increase demand. And the state’s last nuclear power plant and numerous coastal gas power plants are facing retirement. THE BIG RETHINK.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Pacific Gas & Electric is asking state regulators to approve another massive round of energy storage procurements, including its first large-scale contract for behind-the-meter batteries to serve grid needs. Last year, the CPUC ordered the state’s utilities and community-choice aggregators to procure a total of 3.3

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 10, 2020

Last year’s Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA) calls for getting 70 percent of the state’s electricity from renewables by 2030, up from 26.8 But in the longer term, demand is expected to grow significantly as New York seeks to shift transportation and building heating from fossil fuels to electricity.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 10, 2021

However, the plant has faced a string of delays and has yet to produce any electricity. Since the MGT Teesside plant was awarded its CfD, the Government has agreed that this type of power plant does not meet the official definition of low-carbon electricity. Unlike cheap wind and solar power, biomass?power

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 12, 2020

In April the picture darkened further: Duke's total electricity sales fell 5 percent, dragged down by a 12 percent slide in demand from industrial customers that was only partially offset by higher-than-usual residential sales. power utilities, with 7.4 million electric and 1.4 Duke is among the largest U.S.

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R-Squared Energy

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Over the past 15 years, the world has moved to cleaner electricity. In the process, it became the largest electric utility in the world. In the process, NextEra became the largest producer of wind and solar power in the world. Arguably no company has navigated this transition in the U.S. better than NextEra.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

utility can reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 while still keeping natural gas as a central part of its business, both to generate electricity and to sell to its customers. That’s a different challenge than that faced by summer-peaking systems that can expect solar power and energy storage to help meet air conditioning demand.

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Business Green

JANUARY 31, 2023

This challenging backdrop created an energy supply deficit equal to seven per cent of Europe's total power demand in 2022, but a combination of lower electricity demand, mild weather, and record growth in wind and solar power helped avoid a major return to coal power generation, the report revealed.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Nationally, wind and solar made up a slightly smaller share of new generating capacity -- 41% and 36%, respectively -- of the 27,959 MW of capacity added. He added that broad electrification, including within the transportation sector, offers opportunities for even more growth.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 30, 2020

billion in new wind and solar investments in the next 12 months and is outlining plans for electric vehicle charging, energy storage and green hydrogen production pilot programs to meet its goal to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. The new wind and solar plans announced Thursday are additions to a $22.6 In Minnesota, Gov.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Preliminary findings of a joint investigation into the freeze that left millions in Texas without power for days last February highlighted an increasing frequency of extreme cold weather events, as well as the devastation caused by the failure of natural gas-fired plants.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 17, 2020

Electricity demand for air conditioning throughout the region stretched California's power capacity and limited the state's ability to import power from nearby states. “That solar resource is fading fast, and we have to ramp up other resources quickly to meet that net peak event.” Friday and Saturday.

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The Guardian: Energy

MARCH 21, 2024

Any call to go directly from coal to nuclear is effectively a call to delay decarbonisation of our electricity system by 20 years The battle lines have been drawn over Australia’s energy future. The Coalition wants nuclear. Continue reading.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 14, 2020

Southeastern utilities including Duke Energy, Dominion and Southern Company unveiled plans to create the region’s first market for trading electricity across interstate transmission lines, a move that could lead to lower wholesale energy costs as similar markets have accomplished in other parts of the country.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 16, 2020

Those include major expansions of wind and solar power , more energy storage to manage that intermittent supply — and, on the demand side of the equation, programs that can turn utility customers from passive consumers into active grid-balancing participants.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

The consultant was the sole interviewee in the segment, in which she claimed that the move to renewable energy, primarily wind power, was increasing the risk of blackouts. But various experts challenge this view and the National Grid, which runs the UK’s electricity network, is not anticipating outages this winter.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

According to forecasts from state grid operator CAISO, a combination of nuclear power plant closures , natural-gas system constraints , uncertainty over the value of solar power and electricity imports from other states in the coming years, and other factors, could leave the state with a capacity shortfall of at least 2.3

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

In that light, ordering an all-source procurement, backed by extending the lives of OTC plants, represents a “least regrets” strategy, “since electricity shortages would most certainly lead to regrets,” she wrote. Fitch wrote in Thursday’s proposed decision. Southern California Edison in the hot seat.

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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.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 24, 2021

The first, biggest step to slowing climate change is switching electricity generation from coal and gas to wind and sun. Once this largest source of carbon emissions is greened up, the second-largest, transportation, can tap renewable energy via electric vehicles. France built nuclear power. Iceland tapped geothermal.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 5, 2020

The government claims delivering the new goals will produce enough renewable electricity to power every home in the country through offshore wind by 2030, meeting the average electricity needs of up to 14 million homes.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 4, 2020

Dominion’s new IRP is driven by Virginia's Clean Economy Act passed earlier this year, which calls for 100 percent carbon-free electricity by 2045 and sets targets for energy efficiency, energy storage, and in-state solar and wind power. Under the law, Dominion Virginia and the smaller Appalachian Power Co.

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R-Squared Energy

MARCH 1, 2020

Natural gas and renewables complement each other well, because natural gas plants can be ramped up quickly to compensate for some of the intermittency of renewables like wind and solar power. The holy grail for renewable power is affordable backup power that would allow renewables to provide power whenever it is needed.

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