GreenTechMedia

MARCH 1, 2021

Green hydrogen is both an untested and a potentially vital way for renewable-energy-powered grids to store their intermittent power for later use, not just for hours at a time, but for days, weeks or even seasons ahead. On Monday, Siemens Energy announced a U.S.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

According to analysis from consultancy DNV between now and 2050 a staggering $12 trillion will be invested in doubling power grid capacity and renewables technologies in the US and Canada. Overall energy expenditure is projected by the report to decrease from the current 4% of GDP to 2.5% times by 2050, states DNV.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 29, 2020

San Antonio municipal utility CPS Energy wants to replace aging fossil-fueled generation with more than a gigawatt of solar, energy storage and flexible capacity, and it’s asking for ideas on how to get there. Sommers natural-gas power plants. “We are looking at this capacity.to

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Laura Sherman is president of the Michigan Energy Innovation Business Council. Building electrification is a potential game-changer for energy efficiency, demand management, distributed energy and other advanced energy industries, as well as for the broader task of reducing emissions.

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Clean Energy Canada

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Then there’s energy: whether it’s $2 gas or higher home heating bills , powering our lives has gotten pricier. These two realities, climate change and volatile energy prices, have a common denominator in fossil fuels. For starters, Alberta and Ontario are in the midst of transforming their power grids.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

. “Wind power is the dominant source of renewable energy in the U.S., and it is helping to drive the transformation of the nation’s power grid away from fossil fuels,” S&P analysts Justin Horwath and Krizka Danielle Del Rosario wrote. wind power capacity pipeline includes 8.6

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 4, 2020

Utility Dominion Energy is planning a major shift toward renewable energy and batteries as it looks to comply with Virginia's ambitious new clean energy law. gigawatts of energy storage over the next 15 years. Credit: Dominion Energy). Under the law, Dominion Virginia and the smaller Appalachian Power Co.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Duke Energy has detailed the various paths its utilities in the Carolinas could take over the next 15 years, a choice that will determine how quickly Duke cuts its carbon footprint and how much it will cost. All of the scenarios go well beyond Duke’s previous IRPs in leaning more heavily on solar, onshore wind and energy storage.

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Clean Energy Canada

AUGUST 8, 2023

Through media briefs, we aim to provide useful factual and contextual information related to Canada’s clean energy transition. The federal government has released a new paper, Powering Canada Forward , which lays out the federal government’s vision for a 100% clean power grid by 2035.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

A Texas-based energy technology firm has raised $150 million to develop Bitcoin mining campuses powered by renewable energy sources. Lancium's growth strategy includes 2,000 megawatts of capacity in development across its Clean Campuses, which are placed in areas overwhelmed by renewable energy. (Courtesy: Lancium).

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Clean Energy Canada

AUGUST 23, 2019

When you ask people to imagine clean energy in Canada, most will picture spinning wind turbines, fields covered in solar panels or rushing dams. To which our organization, Clean Energy Canada, so often replies: actually, the clean-energy sector is bigger and broader than that. We’ve talked about energy efficiency.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Duke Energy’s options for reaching net-zero carbon by midcentury will look a lot different than those being pursued by utilities in the sun-soaked Western U.S., Duke's new IRP presents six very different pathways toward greening its energy mix over the next 15 years, all of them reaching at least 50 percent carbon reduction by 2030.

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Clean Energy Canada

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The proposed regulations would establish performance standards to reduce GHG emissions from fossil-fuel-generated electricity starting in 2035. Such regulations are critical to reaching our energy-transition targets and paving the way to a net-zero future. This would undermine grid reliability.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Midwestern utility Alliant Energy plans to build up to 1 gigawatt of solar in its Wisconsin service territory by 2023, according to a plan it released last week. In 2018, renewables accounted for 20 percent of Alliant’s portfolio while coal made up 31 percent and natural gas accounted for 42 percent.

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Business Green

JUNE 23, 2022

The typical family of four in the world's most developed nations could save $2,000 (£1,574) a year on their energy bills if economies engineer a rapid switch to clean energy sources, a major new report released today suggests. This report highlights for the G7 leaders that an accelerated transition to clean energy is achievable.

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The Environmental Blog

MARCH 4, 2020

Foregoing fossil fuels, these vehicles are charged directly through a power outlet, generating no harmful emissions, and offering savings in the long run, despite their higher initial price. Well, the answer to that question greatly depends on the type of energy fuelling them in the first place.

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Smart Energy International

JULY 27, 2022

It also aims to encourage the use of interties from provinces and territories with an abundance of hydroelectric power; incentivise increased use of hydrogen, battery storage and carbon capture and storage; and help to set the stage for the increased use of demand-side management and distributed energy in Canada.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

But the gas industry would stand to lose billions of dollars in stranded assets if the UK and other countries no longer needed its pipelines, city-wide grids and other infrastructure to pipe natural gas to heat millions of homes. But these boilers would still mostly run on natural gas – even if hydrogen was available.

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Business Green

MAY 18, 2021

The International Energy Agency has set out a vision for a major transformation of the global economy – here are its top conclusions. Since it was first set up in the wake of the 1973 oil crisis, the International Energy Agency (IEA) has been a hugely influential player in world energy politics.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The conference, which is being held from 1 to 4 October in Manchester, will play host to the likes of BP, British Gas’ parent company Centrica, petrochemical giant Valero, and Drax – the UK’s largest CO2 emitter. Dozens of organisations will be running stalls at the Tory conference, including a number of fossil fuel firms and major polluters.

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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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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 10, 2021

” That’s how a range of clean energy advocates and demand response providers are describing the California Public Utilities Commission’s latest plan to prevent a repeat of the state’s August 2020 rolling blackouts this coming summer. “Disappointing.”

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 9, 2019

“They are donating all of this electricity they paid highly for in subsidies to other countries, often with negative prices,” said Jussi Heikkinen, director of growth and development for the Americas at Wärtsilä, a Finnish company that manufactures battery storage and flexible gas power plants.

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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. In other locations, grids stretch across international borders.

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Eco-Business

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Besides use of the fossil fuel, the city-state plans to boost solar adoption, tap regional power grids and other low-carbon alternatives, and manage energy consumption.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 19, 2023

This story was originally published by The Energy Mix Weekender , and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate crisis. But you wouldn’t know it from the way the fossil fuel industry has responded.

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AutoGrid

MARCH 30, 2022

New York and Texas Offer Opportunities to Replace Fossil Fuel Peaker Plants. The emergence of virtual power plants (VPPs) as bona fide replacements for fossil fuel peaker plants has been discussed conceptually, but is there data to support this opportunity? By Peter Asmus. In both New York and Texas.

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Business Green

JULY 17, 2020

One novel spin on emerging hydrogen fuel options is "clean hydrogen" made from trash. Green hydrogen - made by splitting water's hydrogen and oxygen using electricity produced by renewable sources - is a small fish in the "energies pond." Today, more than 95 per cent of hydrogen is fossil-based and does not rely on renewables.

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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 biggest is the Clean Power Alliance of Southern California, formerly Los Angeles Community Choice Energy, which has been adding cities across L.A. and Ventura counties.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Bryn Baker of the Renewable Energy Buyers Alliance argues much of the finger-pointing in the wake of the recent Californian blackouts has been wide of the mark. Forced outages are a tool of last resort, employed in circumstances of incredible stress to the grid and done to protect against more widespread outages.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 17, 2020

The San Francisco-based utility is emerging from bankruptcy with a massive debt load that could make it harder to raise the tens of billions of dollars of investment needed to prevent its power grid from causing more devastating wildfires. PG&E plans to invest about $40 billion over the next five years into its power grid.

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Business Green

JULY 8, 2022

UK energy regulator sets out potential energy market reforms aimed at weaning country off expensive, volatile, and risky fossil gas. As well as doing everything we can to protect customers now, we must diversify Britain's energy supplies away from gas as soon as possible," he said.

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Last week’s article focused on the nine key elements of Joe Biden’s plan for a Clean Energy Revolution and Environmental Justice. power sector by 2035. million new energy efficient homes.”. million new energy efficient homes.”. Energy efficiency will help, but in 2019 the U.S. power grid by 2050.

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Vote Solar

AUGUST 17, 2017

And when it moves across California, this rare celestial event will shine light on the fact that our increasingly clean energy mix can reliably meet the power needs of the world’s sixth largest economy. California is building a 21st century clean energy system that’s better for our communities, our economy and our planet.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 20, 2023

An energy trade association that represents and promotes gas boilers and manufacturers is behind a barrage of negative press attacking heat pumps, DeSmog has learned. Much of the media coverage about heat pumps features Mike Foster, a former Labour MP and the chief executive of the Energy and Utilities Association trade body.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 5, 2020

So, why is it that “building electrification” is now among the energy industry’s most popular buzzwords? Most buildings run on multiple fuels. They use electricity to power lights, refrigerators and electronic devices. Gas-powered water heaters can be replaced with heat pump water heaters.

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Business Green

MARCH 31, 2020

Energy Networks Association and National Grid reveal plans to harness green and flexible energy technologies through latest innovation strategies. The effective lockdown on economies throughout Europe, including the UK's, presents major challenges for energy companies in the immediate term, of course.

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