The Verge: Energy

MARCH 1, 2024

Severe drought, particularly in the US and China, led to an “exceptional shortfall” in hydropower in 2023, the IEA found. Power grids usually tap fossil fuel power plants whenever hydropower runs low. That alone was enough to account for 40 percent of the rise in emissions last year.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

Wind and solar alone generated around 30 per cent of Britain's electricity in 2020, while biomass provided seven per cent, and hydropower made up 1.6 Nuclear power, meanwhile, provided 17.5 per cent of Britain's power last year, while imports accounted for just under seven per cent. In contrast, fossil fuel sources made up 39.6

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 7, 2022

Upon completion, the Tiantai station will mainly provide peak load regulation, valley filling, frequency regulation, phase modulation, power storage and emergency use for Zhejiang’s power grid, as well as offer flexible dispatching capacity for the East China Grid. CTG expects to record annual output of 1.7

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The Verge: Energy

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Renewable energy is finally starting to take over the power grid. Carbon-pollution-free power generation — which includes renewables and nuclear energy — made up more than two-thirds of the electricity mix, and twice as much as fossil fuels. Image: Ember An often unsung hero in this story is energy efficiency.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

The turbines are connected to the power grid and can generate electricity when the wind blows. As the Water Flows:  Water flow, such as in rivers, can produce electricity using hydropower. Dams are here to provide energy through water that helps in generating power.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

The non-profit Solar Foundation will soon become part of the Interstate Renewable Energy Council, merging two groups with a common vision for an increasingly clean-powered grid.

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 16, 2021

And energy storage can increase local control of the power system and build resilience for communities, including by minimizing power grid disruptions. -based manufacturing industry and union jobs for storage products, DOE said. Energy storage technology holds great promise in the fight against climate change.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 21, 2020

The need to rely on large synchronous generators for black-start capacity is one argument for keeping carbon-fueled assets on the grid, since black starts usually require gas turbines if no hydropower is available.

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Business Green

APRIL 13, 2022

It calculates that across all countries, renewable power grew by 9.1 per cent in 2021, bringing clean energy's share of global power capacity to 38 per cent.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Solar's new status as the dominant leader of the power markets is not being driven by only a handful of markets, but rather is a global phenomenon on multiple continents, a development Birol calls “extremely impressive.” ” Hydropower will continue as the largest source of renewable power, according to the IEA.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 24, 2024

Managing power grid complexity: The 5 biggest priorities for utilities in 2024 Energy Transitions Podcast: Accelerating decarbonised power generation at scale Notable expansion of the data centre sector also is likely, with consumption from data centres, AI and the cryptocurrency sector potentially doubling by 2026. .

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The Verge: Energy

APRIL 24, 2024

Climate change poses new risks to the power grid, and Costa Rica has a lot of work left to do to get more solar and wind farms online. In the winter, like a six-month period from June to December, many of the hydropower plants get surplus flows. That’s when we have low wind, but we have more hydropower.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 8, 2023

Manufacturing of cathode/anode materials, high-power grid transformers, vessels for offshore wind installations and sub-sea cable laying are highly specialised and difficult to scale. Overall supply chain concentration in China (particularly solar PV and batteries).

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 4, 2020

Dominion’s Virginia generation portfolio today is roughly one-third natural gas, one-third nuclear and one-quarter coal, with just over 5 percent ascribed to renewable energy, much of it hydropower and biomass. Major boosts for solar, offshore wind and energy storage.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 5, 2020

It’s also investing about $40 million to renovate a hydrogen facility in Quebec, Canada to double its capacity to convert renewable hydropower and wind power to green hydrogen to 20 megawatts by year’s end, she said.

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 18, 2021

The unit came online Saturday, according to power grid coordinator COES. The first of three units at the US$140 million, 84-MW La Virgen hydroelectric plant in Peru’s highland region of Junín has begun commercial operations. The units are equipped with Hisa turbines and Weg generators.

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 5, 2021

Our hope is that this model can be replicated to accelerate the clean energy transition, both for companies and, eventually, for power grids.”.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 6, 2021

” India’s total installed capacity renewable energy, not including hydropower, currently stands at 90 gigawatts. As the share of renewables on India’s power grid continues to grow, so too does the demand for new technologies to balance better integrate these intermittent resources.

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Business Green

APRIL 20, 2020

Recovery measures could help install flexible power grids, energy efficiency solutions, electric vehicle (EV) charging stations, energy storage, interconnected hydropower, green hydrogen, and multiple other clean energy technologies, while avoiding greater accumulation of carbon intensive stranded assets, according to the IRENA report.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Energy analysts are celebrating findings that show the renewable power sector has proved itself capable of expanding at a rate faster than increasing demand for electricity. But as we get through them, things are going to start moving extremely fast.".

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Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Eastern European countries differ strongly in their current share of RES in total electricity production (with a record 65% share in Romania, Latvia, and Croatia, which rely heavily on hydropower).

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Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2023

But batteries undeniably remain the most common form of energy storage and are widely regarded as a critical component of the net zero transition and an enabler of both vehicle electrification and cleaner, more efficient grids dominated by intermittent solar and wind power.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Notable clean energy statistics from the pandemic year include: Power Generation. Renewables’ contribution to the power grid set another record, rising 11% year-on-year. power in 2020. Power from all zero-carbon sources (renewables plus nuclear power) set another record, meeting 40% of demand.

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Solar Industry

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Results show the technology is cost-competitive with lithium-ion batteries, pumped storage hydropower and natural gas peaker plants. Calculated LCOS that is cost-competitive to pumped storage hydropower and lithium-ion batteries. Sage Geosystems Inc. , Measured fluid losses < 2%, decreasing to 1% by the end of the 5-week period.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Further, the results show Sage’s technology is cost-competitive with lithium-ion batteries, pumped storage hydropower, and natural gas peaker plants. Calculated LCOS that is cost-competitive to pumped storage hydropower and lithium-ion batteries. Measured fluid losses < 2%, decreasing to 1% by the end of the 5-week period.

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Business Green

JULY 3, 2020

This week alone Equinor has invested in carbon capture specialist Carbon Clean Solutions , British Gas parent company Centrica has issued a clarion call for a nationwide roll out of heat pumps , and engineering giants Hitachi and ABB formally launched their new smart grid focused joint venture Hitachi ABB Power Grids.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The rest would come mostly from a mix of other low- or zero-carbon sources, including wind, nuclear, hydropower, biopower, geothermal and combustion turbines run on zero-carbon synthetic fuels such as hydrogen. One advantage solar power has over many other low-carbon technologies is that most of the U.S. power grid.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 13, 2020

Smart Wires is one of a handful of companies developing digital power flow control systems that could revolutionize how power grids function, compared to the mostly electromechanical system in place today. While Smart Wires hasn’t yet named any U.S.

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 17, 2022

Hailed as the greatest invention of the 20th century , our now-aging grid was based on fundamental concepts that made sense at the time it was developed. The original foundation was a combination of “base load” coal plants that operated 24 hours a day and large-scale hydropower. Innovations that make 100% clean power possible.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 10, 2019

As the sun sets on California’s solar farms, a backup energy source deep in the Sierra Nevada Mountains springs to life.

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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. 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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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 20, 2022

It involves pumping water uphill from one reservoir to another at a higher elevation for storage, then, when power is needed, releasing the water to flow downhill through turbines, generating electricity on its way to the lower reservoir. Two types of pumped-storage hydropower; one doesn’t require a river. electricity system.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 11, 2021

The latest round of the clean power subsidy scheme is the UK's largest to date, with offshore wind set to take around £200m-worth of contracts to deliver an estimated 7GW of extra capacity, and emerging technologies handed £55m, with £24m ring-fenced for floating wind turbine projects.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The efficient management and delivery of conventional and renewable energy sources like solar, wind, hydropower and biomass can be made easier possible by advanced technologies. A rapidly increasing number of distributed energy resource assets are linked to the power grid through the smart grid.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 26, 2021

Ivanhoe Mines Energy DRC is tasked with delivering reliable, clean, renewable hydropower to the Kamoa-Kakula Copper Mine. The financing agreement was entered into in connection with the joint rehabilitation of the Mwadingusha hydropower plant under the first public-private partnership with SNEL, where five of six turbines have been completed.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 7, 2020

This is a valuable safety feature in a world where power grid failures are causing deadly wildfires , Gilmer noted. More than half the U.S. transmission infrastructure is more than 30 years old, and “utilities just don’t have good tools to deal with this.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 21, 2020

More states should be emboldened to join ranks with states that have adopted ambitious offshore wind mandates to support decarbonization of their power grids." R&D for clean energy, energy storage, carbon capture and nuclear power.

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