Business Green

OCTOBER 29, 2020

It heralded the achievement as major milestone in the UK's plans to develop a nuclear fusion power plant that can provide a new source of clean energy to the power grid within the next 20 years. "We Unlike nuclear fission power plants commonplace today, nuclear fusion does not emit high-activity toxic waste.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

That puts the Southeast ahead of other regions of the country in terms of transitioning heating loads from fossil fuels to electricity, but it also puts a strain on the power grid to meet peak heating needs. Pumped hydro storage, but how much?

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Wärtsilä defines the goal of 100 percent decarbonization as a carbon-neutral power grid with a combination of generation resources — the vast majority of which would be wind and solar — as well as ample amounts of battery storage, demand response and flexible gas power, which will ultimately run on carbon-free renewable fuels.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 27, 2019

According to a report this year by BloombergNEF , the levelized cost of electricity from lithium-ion batteries, the technology currently leading the sector, dropped by 35 percent from mid-2018 to 2019, to $187 per megawatt-hour. Energy storage can also provide backup power during events that disrupt the power grid.

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

still obtained 63% of its electricity from fossil fuels. He didn’t mention nuclear power or carbon sequestration in this speech, but his website does mention them among four specific goals designed to decarbonize the power sector. Biden’s plan calls for: Grid-scale storage at one-tenth the cost of lithium-ion batteries.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

Over the years, there have been accusations of poor treatment of the Indigenous population surrounding a lithium mine in Argentina, a dirty source of graphite from China and cobalt mined under harsh conditions. Charging stations One of the prevalent arguments regarding EVs is the fact that they charge using electrical power.

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AutoGrid

OCTOBER 15, 2021

If we could deploy solar and wind, and use this renewable energy to power our cars and homes, we would make a big dent in the problem. However, I soon realized that the architecture of our power grid would need to be reimagined. These peaker plants are disproportionately dirty even by fossil-fuel standards.

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Business Green

JUNE 11, 2021

Sales continue to surge in key markets, while scores of producers and users of cars, buses, trucks, and even scooters are now pushing towards ridding their operations of fossil fuel vehicles altogether. But BNEF insists recycling can serve to address any supply concerns.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

“The math doesn’t yet add up,” the report finds, citing “significant gaps” between the decarbonization targets of major utilities and their current plans for retiring fossil-fuel plants. electric grid relies on fossil fuels for 63 percent of its generation, and according to the U.S.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2023

A power system running solely on clean energy technologies is entirely feasible During a media briefing yesterday, CCC officials made a point of emphasising the huge amount of work it has put into producing its most detailed and comprehensive analysis of the UK's energy system to date.

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 17, 2022

In the summer of 1988, scientist James Hansen testified to Congress that carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels was dangerously warming the planet. Storage is now largely being provided by lithium-ion batteries. Making buildings more efficient and controlling their demand can also play a big role in cleaning up the grid.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

” Long-duration energy storage is crucial to maximizing reliance on renewable energy resources over fossil fuels. And unlike lithium-ion batteries, the materials to make iron flow batteries are cheap and easy to find. The ESS system will offer a combined capacity of 8 MWh to provide resilience for the local power grid.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MARCH 5, 2019

kWh, a 90% GHG-free system with no coal could fuel and electric car with one-sixth the fossil fuel emissions per mile driven at a fueling cost of less than 30% that of a 30 mpg gasoline car running on $3/gallon gasoline. The average IOU residential customer might see rate increases double that.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

ACES will provide up to 150,000 megawatt-hours of energy storage capacity, a scale that dwarfs the lithium-ion battery capacity being installed in California and across the Intermountain West. Mitsubishi also makes lithium-ion batteries for the rapidly growing global market, said Paul Browning, CEO of Mitsubishi Power America.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 8, 2021

All of these benefits can be captured with solar, wind, existing hydropower and lithium-ion battery technologies at projected 2030 prices, he added. transmission grid. Another study led by Princeton University released last month, which charts a $2.5 trillion pathway to a zero-carbon U.S.

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Climate Tech VC

MARCH 4, 2024

Compared with CIM’s previous analyses, the current clean investment boom indicates a disproportionately positive impact on underserved and historically fossil fuel-dependent communities.   Equity. Despite record investment, deployment is lagging behind.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 20, 2021

To electrify many of the world's vehicles in the coming years, the EV industry will need to procure a massive amount of lithium-ion batteries. And that will require brand-new sources and technologies to find, extract and process battery materials such as lithium, cobalt and nickel. It’s a one-time trip.". Transportation & Mobility.

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R-Squared Energy

MARCH 16, 2021

That pattern has long held true for fossil fuels, with OPEC maintaining a stranglehold on the world’s oil supplies until the U.S. As a result, Beijing invested aggressively in renewables and has now achieved predominant market shares in solar photovoltaics as well as lithium-ion batteries, another key renewable technology. .

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 20, 2021

The electric revolution needs sustainable battery materials Katie Fehrenbacher Wed, 01/20/2021 – 00:15 To electrify many of the world’s vehicles in the coming years, the EV industry will need to procure a massive amount of lithium-ion batteries. These materials currently are extracted from beneath the earth through mining.

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Climate Tech VC

OCTOBER 2, 2023

⚒️ Cornish Lithium , a Penryn, UK-based lithium exploration and development platform, raised $6M in Crowdfunding from Crowdcube. ⚡ Greenwood Power , a Brunn am Gebirge, Austria-based medium voltage power grid sensors developer, raised $5M in Growth funding from eQventure and tecnet equity.

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Business Green

JUNE 7, 2022

President Joe Biden yesterday responded to rising fossil fuel costs and the continued Congressional deadlock that is blocking White House efforts to pass climate legislation by approving a package of emergency measures designed to accelerate US clean energy technology manufacturing.

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Grist

MARCH 12, 2021

When Edward Bartell first learned that a lithium mine might be moving into his remote corner of northern Nevada, the longtime cattle rancher wasn’t upset. “I He knew that lithium is a key metal used in batteries for electric vehicles and the power grid, and he knew the United States is going to need a lot of it to transition off fossil fuels.

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CleanTechnica

AUGUST 22, 2023

In 2023, Non-Fossil Fuel Sources Will Account for 86% of New Electric Utility Generation Capacity in the United States Amid the transition to an electrified transportation sector, efforts to decarbonize the U.S. power grid are evident in the planned additions and retirement of utility-scale electricity generating capacity.

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CleanTechnica

AUGUST 11, 2023

power grid, according to our latest inventory of electric generators. Operating capacity: Solar power accounted for the largest share, […] In the first half of 2023, developers added 16.8 gigawatts (GW) of new utility-scale electric generating capacity to the U.S. Developers plan to bring an additional 35.2

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CleanTechnica

SEPTEMBER 14, 2019

Welcome to the inaugural issue of our new India x Cleantech series! On a monthly basis, we will pull news from across clean technology sectors in India into a single, concise summary article. Ongoing, this series will find a home over on CleanTechnica's “Future Trends” page.

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