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Media Brief: Addressing common myths around renewable power

Clean Energy Canada

When Canada’s carbon price is also included, both wind and solar are significantly cheaper than natural gas already today. Both find wind and solar to be cost-competitive with natural gas-fired electricity in the U.S. Analyses for the U.S. Analyses for the U.S. even without a carbon price.

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Minnesota utility co-op sees big battery as piece of grid reliability puzzle

Renewable Energy World

Great River Energy, a Minnesota generation and transmission cooperative that serves 28 member utilities, had been in discussions with the Massachusetts startup company for several years before committing to the pilot project, according to Jon Brekke, its vice president and chief power supply officer.

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How Duke’s Unique Energy Landscape Dictates Its Path to Net Zero

GreenTechMedia

Some of those pathways move more dramatically toward closing coal plants or halting new natural gas power plants. Others rely on options like offshore wind that are untested in the U.S., or next-generation modular nuclear reactors which have yet to be proven in any market. While most U.S.

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Could this be the turning point for green hydrogen?

Business Green

My biggest geek-out moment during the COP26 gathering in Glasgow, Scotland, last week came in the central train station, where I had the opportunity to briefly tour a 30-year-old passenger train retrofitted to run on hydrogen fuel cells and lithium-ion batteries - up to 300 miles at speeds of up to 100 miles per hour.

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‘Math Doesn’t Yet Add Up’ for Utility Decarbonization Goals: Deloitte

GreenTechMedia

Each still plans to build new natural gas power plants in the near term, despite the additional emissions they will cause. The first stage, dubbed “renew,” concentrates on replacing coal and natural gas with renewables and energy storage.

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How to Build a Green Hydrogen Economy for the US West

GreenTechMedia

Out in Utah, a coal-fired power plant supplying electricity to Los Angeles is being outfitted with natural-gas-fired turbines that will eventually be able to run on hydrogen, created via electrolysis with wind and solar power and stored in massive underground caverns for use when that clean energy isn’t available for the grid.

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Global Briefing: Australian Government agrees to cap greenhouse gas emissions

Business Green

However, the EIA also revealed that while the use of renewables was rising, so too is the country's reliance on natural gas, which generated 39 per cent of US electricity last year. WindEurope CEO, Giles Dickinson, said: "The EU needs to build 31 GW of new wind turbines every year to reach its 2030 targets.