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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

announced plans to build a green hydrogen production plant, which would use 100% renewable energy from Brookfield Renewable’s 252-MW Holtwood hydroelectric facility. It is also expected to create more than 25 green energy jobs in Pennsylvania. Plug Power Inc. and Brookfield Renewable Partners L.P.

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Sappi North America selling hydroelectric assets to Dichotomy Power

Renewable Energy World

Sappi North America Inc., “We are happy to have found a strategic buyer in Dichotomy Power, a company with a wealth of expertise in this area, so that Sappi can continue to focus on its core competencies,” said Mike Haws, president and chief executive officer, Sappi North America. principally in the Northeast.

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World adds record new renewable energy capacity in 2020

Renewable Energy World

The world added more than 260 GW of renewable energy capacity last year, exceeding expansion in 2019 by close to 50%, despite the economic slowdown that resulted from the COVID-19 pandemic, according to data from the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). These numbers tell a remarkable story of resilience and hope.

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Duke Plans Largest Floating PV Project in the Southeast

GreenTechMedia

Duke Energy will build its first floating solar array at Fort Bragg, a U.S. Army base in North Carolina, the company said on Wednesday. Ameresco, a Massachusetts-based renewables developer and energy efficiency company, will build the project on a lake at the base. MW, the Duke project is no record by average solar standards.

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

ThinkGeoEnergy

One of the biggest stories and most widely supported initiatives coming out of the 2023 UN Climate Change Conference (CO28) in Dubai, UAE is the pledge to triple the world’s installed renewable energy capacity by 2030 to limit global temperature rise to 1.5°C. Global installed renewable electricity generation capacity in the 1.5°C

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Voith Hydro to supply pumped storage equipment for Idaho combined energy project

Renewable Energy World

Cat Creek Energy and Water has chosen Voith Hydro to design, manufacture and install 720 MW of ternary pumped storage equipment for the Cat Creek Energy and Water (CCEW) Project planned near Mountain Home, Idaho. When completed, the CCEW Project will have a capacity of 1,100 MW of clean, renewable energy.

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