GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 7, 2020

California’s two days of rolling blackouts in August were the result of disconnects between its existing grid reliability constructs and the needs of an increasingly solar-powered grid, and its failure to prepare for a Western U.S.-wide wide heatwave that undermined its reliance on out-of-state resources.

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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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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Pacific Gas & Electric’s bankruptcy has already threatened the credit ratings of some of the solar and wind farms, cogeneration plants, and other independent power generators that rely on the utility to buy their electricity through power purchase agreements.

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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. event hosted by the Electric Power Research Institute and utility Duke Energy.

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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. Whether other U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 19, 2020

Several out-of-state power grids also reported emergency conditions on Monday and Tuesday. Newsom’s office and California energy regulators are investigating why some key power plants went offline during Friday's and Saturday’s emergencies. On Friday, the loss of a 475-megawatt power plant around 3 p.m.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 3, 2022

It said the plan offered a blueprint for how it aims to strengthen and modernise the grid to accept more intermittent renewable energy and withstand the more severe weather events it is expected to experience as a consequence of climate change. This article was originally published on Power Grid.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 4, 2022

I am confident that the upward trends we saw in 2021 will continue and that long-term investment in the clean energy portfolio of energy efficiency, natural gas, and renewable energy will yield powerful dividends in terms of energy security, economic benefit to our country and emission reductions.”. Have you read?

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 19, 2020

Residential demand response and energy efficiency are one way to mitigate these impacts, giving utilities and technology vendors an incentive to find ways to expand their scope and effectiveness before summer arrives to stress power grids and customer utility bills alike. Avoiding the AC "snapback effect".

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

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. Record heat for several days across parts of the state strained the power grid so much that it started rationing electricity, for the first time in almost 20 years.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 29, 2020

Pacific Gas & Electric is on the cusp of ending its year-and-a-half stint in bankruptcy. But whether it can successfully rebuild its finances and make its power grid safer without drastically raising rates on millions of customers is far from clear.

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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. In fact, solar is already proving more reliable than California’s traditional power plants during summer heat waves.

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GreenBiz

JULY 2, 2021

Even without extreme weather events, the power grid needs love. The grid was largely built in the 1950s and 1960s with a 35- to 80-year life expectancy , meaning much of it should have been retired and replaced by now. The alternative could be power outages, which is more than inconvenient, it’s dangerous.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

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. Record heat for several days across parts of the state strained the power grid so much that it started rationing electricity, for the first time in almost 20 years.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 5, 2020

They use electricity to power lights, refrigerators and electronic devices. And they consume fossil fuels such as natural gas or propane to power furnaces, boilers, and water heaters. Gas-powered water heaters can be replaced with heat pump water heaters. Most buildings run on multiple fuels. It depends.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

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. Record heat for several days across parts of the state strained the power grid so much that it started rationing electricity, for the first time in almost 20 years.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

A number of oil and gas firms have been announced as the hosts of stands and events at this year’s Conservative Party conference. Events hosted by the companies will cover a range of energy and climate issues, and will feature senior Conservative MPs and ministers. French gas giant EDF and German-owned energy firm E.ON

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Business Green

DECEMBER 2, 2022

The building's gas line was removed due to new equipment specifications. Using a microgrid controller and WattTime software that can track grid emissions and identify times of peak demand or high carbon intensity the building can also place power back onto the grid to reduce its dependency on fossil fuel power plants.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 20, 2023

Green hydrogen” is made from solar and wind power, while “blue hydrogen” is made using natural gas, in a process that involves capturing and storing methane’s carbon dioxide emissions (CCS), however this technology was described as “minimal or non-existent” in a 2021 report by Manchester University’s Tyndall Centre.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 19, 2023

We’ve all just been party to an Earth-shaking, world-changing event that will fall on the other side of the ledger, generating lots of tears of the unhappy kind. On Monday, July 3, the U.S. National Centers for Environmental Prediction reported an average global temperature of 17.01°C,

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 26, 2019

” Recent events underscore this sentiment. Meanwhile, local governments across California are moving to adopt bans on new natural-gas hookups, grabbing the attention of the state’s powerful oil and gas industry. At the time, natural gas was viewed as the cleaner fuel for appliances.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

DECEMBER 17, 2019

The electric power grid is subject to escalating threats of attack by foreign adversaries and individual bad actors. utilities have been seriously compromised to date, in 2015, Ukraine’s electric grid was hit by a cyberattack that led to a lengthy blackout affecting approximately 250,000 people. While no U.S.

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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.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 8, 2021

These results come from a linear optimization model that uses hourly weather data from 2007 to 2013, encompassing heat waves, winter storms and other weather events that can disrupt renewable power supply, Brown noted. Another study led by Princeton University released last month, which charts a $2.5

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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. CCAs procure large-scale power resources for their customers, but they also have access to their customers' billing and smart metering data.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Limited regulations on companies that generate power and a history of isolating Texas from federal oversight help explain the crisis, energy and policy experts told The Texas Tribune. In 2011, Texas faced a very similar storm that froze natural gas wells and affected coal plants and wind turbines, leading to power outages across the state.

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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. That loss of generation capacity forced state grid operator ERCOT to institute rolling blackouts to prevent a broader grid collapse.

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Charged

OCTOBER 6, 2019

Some years ago, Slutzky read an article that said that if you electrified a quarter of the vehicles on the roads of America, you would have energy storage roughly equal to the entire output of the US power grid in those batteries. We can participate in critical peaking events. That’s when the light went on, so to speak.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2020

This online event can be attended from anywhere, The central theme at VERGE 20 will focus on how energy systems can be decarbonized, decentralized, digitized and democratized. The State of Vehicle-Grid Integration (Panel Discussion): The vehicle-to-grid market is finally about to kick off in earnest. How will this market unfold?

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

A day before the blueprint launch event, the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) sent a report to Congress on carbon capture and its associated infrastructure. That’s roughly the net worth of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos — or twice the $100 billion that Biden has proposed spending to upgrade the nation’s electrical power grid.

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Grist

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The stakes are clear in the string of extreme warming-driven catastrophes that battered Cascadia this year — events that rattled even experts and activists who’ve spent their entire careers working on climate change. “I Ensuring a cleaner and reliable grid. I am deeply sobered,” says Eileen V.

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

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

This would dramatically reduce the possibility of eliminating carbon emissions from the region’s power grid before 2050.” ” In order to meet Biden’s 2035 target for decarbonizing the power sector, WoodMac says the U.S. “If Biden’s bid fails, the U.S. Biden has pledged to put the U.S.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

Each weather event [is] dynamic,” company representatives told regulators. Instead of identifying all possible failure points in their equipment, power companies would need only to address any that were previously known. Any engineering analysis that attempted to identify a specific weather design limit would be rendered meaningless.”.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 16, 2024

Federal agencies are still investigating “unusual mortality events” for three whale species, but regulators and academic researchers say there’s no evidence of a link to wind development. In the storm’s aftermath, the city came out in staunch opposition to a proposed liquefied natural gas terminal off its coastline.

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