GreenTechMedia

MAY 19, 2020

Pacific Gas & Electric has asked California regulators to approve seven battery projects totaling 423 megawatts, or nearly 1.7 gigawatt-hours of energy storage capacity, to meet its share of a statewide procurement that must be brought online by late next year to assure statewide grid stability.

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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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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Hydrogen Economy” report forecasts that hydrogen from low-carbon sources could supply roughly 14 percent of the country’s energy needs by 2050, including hard-to-electrify sectors now dependent on natural gas such as high-heat industrial processes or manufacturing fertilizer.

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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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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. Grid operators can’t be replaced easily.

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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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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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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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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 20, 2021

Despite market turbulence brought by the coronavirus pandemic, 2020 proved to be a formative year for India’s clean energy transition. The government held creative auctions designed to facilitate adding greater amounts of intermittent renewables on the grid. It is impossible to ignore the role of coal.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Georgia Power owns an additional 120 MW of utility-scale solar projects at Georgia military bases, located at Fort Benning, Fort Gordon, Fort Stewart, and SUBASE Kings Bay. Hardin Solar Energy Center Facility - Hardin, OH. Most of the energy generated by the project goes to bp through a power purchase agreement.

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2023

Renewables has overtaken gas to become the biggest single source of power on the UK grid so far this winter, with power generated by wind, hydro and solar reaching a record 34TWh from 1 October 2022 to 13 January 2023. million homes' gas use for the entire winter, or 78 tankers of liquified natural gas (LNG).

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 8, 2021

to meet the study’s assumptions of doubling its transmission network capacity and creating new interregional and cross-country links to shift clean energy from where it’s most efficiently generated to where it’s needed remains an open question. Whether it’s politically possible for the U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Early this month, three community-choice aggregators and one municipal utility serving much of California’s San Francisco Bay Area launched a 30-megawatt distributed energy storage-plus-solar solicitation. Ross, East Bay Community Energy’s senior director of local development, electrification and innovation.

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R-Squared Energy

MARCH 3, 2021

In a recent article for WIRED — The Energy Sector Must Prepare for More Extreme Weather — I detailed some of the primary causes behind the recent power outages in Texas. Tucker Carlson blamed wind turbines for the power outages. If you only look at this graphic, then natural gas is the hero of the story.

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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.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 21, 2020

These clean energy provisions are included in a $1.4 These clean energy provisions are included in a $1.4 Summaries of the energy provisions included in the bill were provided by the office of Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-New York), and Schumer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.)

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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.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 21, 2021

President Joe Biden has named Richard Glick to chair the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, giving leadership and agenda-setting authority to the agency’s longest-running Democratic member, and a key opponent to some of FERC’s most clean energy-unfriendly decisions under the Trump administration.

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