Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

MW hydropower facility the company will construct on the Ohio River. The hydropower facility will be located at the existing Emsworth Main Channel Dam. The hydropower project is scheduled to begin construction in late 2021 and is expected to be operational as early as mid-2023. Allegheny, Pa., Rye has collaborated with the U.S.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 20, 2021

The push to quickly transition carbon-intensive activities away from fossil fuels while meeting the world’s growing energy needs has put electricity producers and consumers squarely in the forefront of the emerging clean economy. And the era of fossil fuels is hardly over. Subscribe here.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 1, 2021

The energy transition isn’t just sounding the death knell for fossil fuels. According to some experts, it has also revealed flaws in an idea that has bugged some academics for decades: As we move to less energy-dense fuels, could we end up without enough surplus for society? In other words, you would need to get 1.1

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Business Green

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Hundreds of billions of dollars-worth of current and planned global hydropower facilities are dependent on water provided by threatened tropical cloud forests that remain largely unprotected worldwide. The International Hydropower Association was considering a request for comment at the time of going to press.

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 22, 2019

Fossil fuels, long regarded for their high-energy return on investment, are not as efficient as once thought. In fact, their final yields are not much better than those of renewable options, according to a new study.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 13, 2021

The cost of new wind and solar generation, on a levelized cost of energy basis, is now lower than that of new thermal and hydropower generation, and increasingly below the operating cost of existing thermal plants. Existing hydropower plants can also help with this large ramp up power.

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Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 22, 2021

In the European Union, the rate of electricity generation from renewable energy sources amounted to 38%, ahead of fossil fuels (37%), and nuclear energy (25%). “Spectacular investments in Eastern Europe are the reason to be proud of us”, says Miros?aw And this is only the beginning. awski, Electrum’s CEO.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 31, 2020

The best option of today and tomorrow is the nation’s first renewable resource — hydropower — a flexible and reliable clean resource that helps to integrate other renewables onto the grid. Under New York's RPS, only hydropower under 30 megawatts is eligible for certain renewable energy credits (RECs).

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 13, 2021

The world’s hugely encouraging clean energy-momentum is running up against the stubborn incumbency of fossil fuels in our energy systems,” said Fatih Birol, the IEA Executive Director. The world is not investing enough, the authors wrote, to meet future energy needs, which could lead to prolonged volatility in energy markets.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Renewable energy sources are often cheaper than traditional fossil fuels, and we can use them to generate jobs and economic growth.  As the Water Flows:  Water flow, such as in rivers, can produce electricity using hydropower. And the best part is that we can always use it, and it doesn’t harm the Earth.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 6, 2021

However, hydropower still accounts for the largest share of renewables in the total mix. Renewables’ rising share of the total is partly attributable to net decommissioning of fossil fuel power generation in Europe, North America and for the first time across Eurasia (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Russian Federation and Turkey).

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 4, 2021

Frequently, these combinations occur at the same time as a private investment by institutional investors in the SPAC. As the recent experience at ExxonMobile has shown, investors are eager to invest in, and accelerate the migration toward, energy production that does not rely on fossil fuels. SPAC” transaction.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 16, 2019

Energy Vault, the creator of a new way to perform utility-scale energy storage, announced that SoftBank Vision Fund (Vision Fund) invested $110 million in its Series B funding round. As part of the investment, Andreas Hansson, Partner for SoftBank Investment Advisers, will join the Energy Vault board of directors.

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Clean Energy Canada

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Alberta, the solar capital of Canada, slapped a moratorium on new renewable development, putting at risk both jobs and investment. It’s also true that Canada comes to this conversation with a noteworthy headstart: our grid is hydropower-rich and thus already 84% non-emitting.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 10, 2020

To fill this gap, NYISO is working toward growing transmission capacity for its ample upstate hydropower and wind power resources to reach New York City and downstate population centers, which will also be served by the 9 gigawatts of offshore wind the state is seeking by 2035. Source: NYISO. Source: NYISO.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Liquid air energy storage could play an important role in supporting the UK’s transition away from using fossil fuels for electricity generation. If the UK is to move away from a baseload of electricity generated by reliable fossil fuels, the variable nature of renewable energy must be addressed. Energy storage.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

Russia has sent dozens of executives from the country’s vast fossil fuel industry to COP27, including two sanctioned oligarchs with significant interests in coal. The oligarch also has a major stake in EuroSibEnergo, a subsidiary of En+ with coal and hydropower assets that was previously subject to U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Smith continued: “I’ll tell you what I know about batteries, because I talked to somebody who was thinking of investing in a 200-megawatt plant, $1 million to be able to get each megawatt stored. She never met a fossil fuel lobbyist she didn’t love.” ”She That’s $200 million for his plant alone.

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Business Green

MAY 16, 2022

Only by investing in long-duration storage technologies can the UK reach its full renewable potential, and Drax is ready to move mountains to do just that.". This major infrastructure project will support hundreds of jobs and provide a real boost to the Scottish economy.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 4, 2022

A new report from think tank Ember, published this morning, has revealed that solar, wind, and hydropower additions around the world between January and June outpaced demand growth across the electricity sector. And the same fossil fuels pushing us into a climate crisis are also causing the global energy crisis.

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Business Green

JULY 15, 2021

Global demand for electricity is also growing faster than renewables capacity post-pandemic, opening the door to more fossil fuel energy in many parts of the world. Nature has been particularly neglected, with fewer than ten of the countries we studied investing in nature-based solutions such as reforestation or wetland restoration.

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Business Green

APRIL 6, 2020

Data from International Renewable Energy Association points to slight slowdown in capacity growth last year, but clean energy sector still outpaced fossil fuels. In what must be the decade of action, enabling policies are needed to increase investments and accelerate renewables adoption.". according to IRENA.

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Canada’s hydropower-rich grid is 84% non-emitting with variable renewables (essentially wind and solar) currently making up 7% of the country’s total electricity generation. In May 2023, wind and solar produced more electricity than fossil fuels in the European Union for the first full month on record.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 15, 2021

The company that owns Ravenswood rebranded itself Thursday as Rise Light & Power, and it will not be building any new fossil-fueled generation, CEO Clint Plummer told Greentech Media. The owners want to maintain that leadership position but make the power differently. A setback for battery plan.

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Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 10, 2021

billion annual investment. That spend would be around 20% lower than what was invested across all of the country’s generation resources between 2015 and 2019. . Current nuclear and large hydropower capacity add up to around 50 GW. Installing 450 GW of renewables by 2030 could help meet Modi’s target, the report said.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 8, 2021

That water will then be released to flow through two hydropower systems, one with 4 megawatts and the other with 20 megawatts of generation capacity, converting that stored energy back to electricity. A small battery next to the solar facility will keep the pumps running smoothly when clouds are blocking the sun. Graphic courtesy of KIUC).

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 13, 2020

” Hydropower will continue as the largest source of renewable power, according to the IEA. Still, it warns that the industry's growth could be undermined by grid investment, which it calls “the weak link” in the transformation of the power market. Grid operators in China, the U.S. Grid operators in China, the U.S.

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Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2023

In fresh statistics released today, Britain's grid operator said more than 50 per cent of the nation's power mix came from a wind, solar, nuclear, hydropower and other zero carbon sources for extended periods of 2022, helping to significantly drive down carbon emissions from UK energy generation.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Significant research, development, and investment are needed in hard-to-decarbonize sectors, the report argues, and scaling of hydrogen technologies won’t arrive soon enough to make an impact under current investment. The report estimates a global temperature increase of 2.3°C C by the end of the century.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

and hydropower employed around 1.95 For comparison, in the fossil fuel sectors women make up around 21 per cent of the workforce. million transition-related jobs could be created if annual investment in renewable technologies is ramped up from $824bn to $3tn during the 2021 to 2023 recovery phase, it said. "The

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Commercializing chargers with rated power of 1 MW will require significant investment, as stations with such high-power needs will incur significant installation and grid upgrade costs. The fact that businesses who have supported MCS, like Daimler Trucks, are now also investing in hydrogen fuelling is perplexing to many.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

In hydro-heavy markets such as South China and Brazil, climate change can impact hydropower supply and strain the system. In the past, these high prices would naturally lead to more supply in gas and coal, but energy transition pressure has broken that market linkage as investors shun new investments in fossil fuel production.

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Business Green

APRIL 13, 2022

Geothermal energy also enjoyed "exceptional growth" having added 1.6GW of capacity last year, while hydropower also appears to be steadily growing around the world, after a number of large projects that were delayed were finally commissioned, according to the report. climate goal," he writes.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 12, 2022

The UN agency warned that water stress could jeopardise low carbon energy sources such as nuclear power plants and hydropower, both of which rely heavily on water supplies in order to operate, while rising sea levels and extreme weather are also posing a growing threat to energy infrastructure. Net zero by 2050 is the aim," he said.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 3, 2021

Annual figures show that renewable supply outpaced fossil fuels for the first time. Conversely, energy produced by fossil fuels fell to just 39.6%, marking the first time that clean energy has consistently outperformed legacy sources.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 18, 2023

In news this week, COP28 wraps up with a landmark agreement on transitioning away from fossil fuels, DOE announces a new office focused on AI, and over 2M Teslas were recalled.  And below we start the week off with a walk down memory lane of the year’s top CTVC headlines.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Total has struck a three-year deal to supply BT with 100 per cent renewable electricity from a mix of sources including solar, wind and hydropower from across the UK, the French oil and gas giant announced today.

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