GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 16, 2020

New York utility Con Edison has signed its biggest energy storage contract to date, a 100-megawatt/400-megawatt-hour lithium-ion battery project that will help balance a grid facing rising levels of offshore wind and other renewable power in the years to come. It has already awarded 1.7 GW more this summer.

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

China burns about half the coal used globally while at the same time it is the leading market for solar panels, wind turbines and electric vehicles. This duality is evident in Shanxi, which is both China's coal mining region and the location of some of the country's largest solar and wind power projects.

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 25, 2021

Burns & McDonnell said on Monday that it was selected by LG Energy Solution and Sustainable Environmental Renewable (SER) Capital Partners to provide engineer-procure-construct (EPC) services for three 10-MW/20-MWh lithium-ion, stand-alone battery energy storage systems. The three facilities are located in the West Texas region.

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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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Business Green

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

Market reforms needed to stimulate investment in projects capable of storing electricity for four hours or longer, according to Aurora Energy Research. Mark Wilson, CEO of clean energy developer ILI Group, said market reforms would unlock the investment case for a raft of LDES projects across the UK.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 18, 2019

For now, traders are maximizing the company’s onshore wind power by reducing the company’s merchant risk. As Ørsted's American offshore wind portfolio starts to deliver significant amounts of power in the early to mid-2020s, the company will rise rapidly up the rankings of U.S. A sizeable 5.1-gigawatt

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Business Green

AUGUST 17, 2022

Moreover, the study warns that renewables are on track to make up less than one fifth of primary global power demand globally by 2030, despite significant momentum being seen in the decarbonisation of many electricity markets.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 12, 2022

Iberdrola has over 170 years of history and is now a global energy leader, the number one producer of wind power, and one of the world’s biggest electricity utilities in terms of market capitalisation. Also, the building blocks and investment areas look very different to countries 2000km to the east, for example.

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

For example, analysis from BloombergNEF shows a near-80% decline in lithium-ion battery prices over the last 10 years across applications ranging from vehicles to stationary storage. Highlights include on-shore wind potential in Newfoundland and Labrador and Saskatchewan, off-shore wind potential in B.C. Looking ahead, the U.S.

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EDF + Business

MAY 2, 2023

Key Takeaways Covers a variety of investments (incl. Incentive Type: Allocated investment credit. Battery Joint Venture In January 2023, Ford Motor Company announced an investment of $3.5 billion to build a lithium iron phosphate (LFP) EV battery plant in Marshall, Michigan. announced plans to invest up to $1.2

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

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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Business Green

APRIL 9, 2020

The good news is many of the biggest cloud computing and data center providers have continued to focus on improving energy efficiency alongside their investments in sourcing renewable energy. It's moving to lithium-ion battery technologies and deploying artificial intelligence to help with that mission, he said. A model for the future?

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Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 8, 2024

Overwhelmed by your new year inbox and missed our Friday 2023 Investment Trends report? Or if you’d rather that we read to you, save the date for Jan 25th and join us for a webinar on Sightline Climate’s 2023 investment trends, insights, and discussion. Be sure to skim here , or download it directly. in Seed funding. 

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

While lithium-ion batteries paired with new solar and wind is a cost-effective solution in many markets today, closing the remaining storage capacity gap will require “additional revenue streams,” from wholesale market participation to tighter integration of behind-the-meter batteries.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

The second project is the Advanced Clean Energy Storage project, which will invest roughly $1 billion to develop a nearby underground salt dome to store compressed hydrogen. How do you aggregate that demand to create sufficient momentum in the market to drive investment?".

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Business Green

MARCH 31, 2023

The US renewables industry's hopes are now pinned on the Inflation Reduction Act, which has already boosted the number of renewable electricity projects in the pipeline and is set to deliver a surge in investment in the coming years. Last year's investments in new wind farms only add up to 10 GW.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JANUARY 19, 2021

So my advice – don’t be patient, look for solutions; find them; invest in them and put your personal efforts, motivation and passion for clean tech and energy into working on solutions. Given the impact of transportation related GHG emissions, investments in clean transportation need to happen now.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

DECEMBER 16, 2020

So my advice – don’t be patient, look for solutions; find them; invest in them and put your personal efforts, motivation and passion for clean tech and energy into working on solutions. Given the impact of transportation related GHG emissions, investments in clean transportation need to happen now.

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 17, 2022

Beginning in 1958, these were augmented by nuclear power plants, which have operated nearly continuously to pay off their large capital investments. Unlike coal and nuclear, solar and wind are variable; they provide power only when the sun and wind are available. These are all sources of flexibility.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

So my advice – don’t be patient, look for solutions; find them; invest in them and put your personal efforts, motivation and passion for clean tech and energy into working on solutions. Given the impact of transportation related GHG emissions, investments in clean transportation need to happen now. Regarding micro grids.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 17, 2020

trillion in additional investments will be needed over the next decade, on top of an estimated $9.4 trillion the country would be expected to invest in energy over the next decade under a “business-as-usual” pathway. ” (Princeton study's breakdown of investments needed across different industry sectors).

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Business Green

JULY 7, 2020

After more than a decade of being overshadowed by lithium-ion battery technology - a phenomenon Bamford pins on Tesla founder Elon Musk, a man he stresses is "not an engineer or a manufacturer" - hydrogen cell technology is having a moment. He may be in luck. We could be world class, financing green hydrogen," he contends. "We

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Mr. Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

With bold action, renewable electricity such as solar and wind power could rise from 5% of supply today to 25% in 2035, and nearly 50% by 2050. Today Chinese firms produce 72% of the world’s solar modules, 69% of its lithium-ion batteries and 45% of its wind turbines. This architecture will ultimately bring huge benefits.

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Climate Tech VC

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

  This week, we get nerdy mining ExxonMobil’s lithium announcement - is this lithium’s shale moment? Lithium Mobil-ization Source: Company presentations, Bloomberg Last week, ExxonMobil unveiled its first-ever lithium mining operation in Arkansas, marking its first major foray into lithium production.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 20, 2020

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden released a surprisingly ambitious climate-mitigation plan investing $2 trillion over a span of four years. Wind power, geothermal, hydro and biomass will provide substantial power in the coming decades. percent end of 2019).

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

If you listen to Joe Biden on climate change, you might feel the urge to junk your car and invest in wind power. As the U.S. has grown increasingly polarized, it seems more and more like the two presidential candidates inhabit different planets. Meanwhile, the incumbent’s message seems to be that fossil fuels are A-OK.

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CleanTechnica

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

A brief decade held considerable cost-efficiency gains in wind and solar. These sustainable technologies are now more cost-effective than any other power generation technologies in general, according to Lazard. Solar and wind technologies simply make more sense.

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