GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

utility can reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 while still keeping natural gas as a central part of its business, both to generate electricity and to sell to its customers. utility has yet fully fleshed out how it intends to eliminate natural gas power plants from its generation portfolio. The natural gas conundrum.

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Charged

MARCH 30, 2021

“To date, the equipment and infrastructure in place at the site includes nearly 60 tractors, box trucks, yard trucks or forklifts powered by electric, lithium-ion technologies or natural gas with renewable attributes, with the remaining 15 electric tractors expected to deploy later this year,” says Pepsico.

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

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. from Lazard and the Energy Information Administration show similar results.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 21, 2019

If built as described, this project would mark a milestone for the exotic technologies challenging mass-market lithium-ion batteries for longer duration grid storage. Highview's announcement puts it on track to claim the largest storage plant among the lithium-ion alternatives, if another company doesn't get there first.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 29, 2020

Alongside a big boost in its energy efficiency efforts, TEP says the plan would allow it to avoid building any new natural gas plants. At the same time, the plan would see TEP adding 1.7 gigawatts of solar, 850 megawatts of wind and nearly 1.4 gigawatts of energy storage by 2035.

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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 26, 2023

In response to the federal government’s new plan to prepare workers for the energy transition , Premier Danielle Smith replied , “We are not going to be shutting down our oil and natural gas industry. The problem is that, while such words may pay lip service to Albertan oil and gas workers, they don’t serve them in reality.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

This apparatus, in theory, allows for storing power economically on much longer timescales than is feasible with the lithium-ion batteries prevalent today. That Cambridge-based startup similarly tackles storage for days on end but does so with a stealthy "aqueous air" electrochemical design.

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R-Squared Energy

AUGUST 10, 2023

Natural gas and coal demand stayed nearly flat with oil rebounding close to pre-pandemic levels. Global natural gas demand declined by 3% in 2022 dropping just below the 4 trillion cubic meter mark achieved for the first time in 2021. Natural gas-fired power generation remained stable in 2022 with a share of around 23%.

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Charged

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

The rapidly increasing penetration of stationary storage will begin to make natural gas plants uneconomical, and much fossil fuel-related infrastructure will become stranded. According to RMI, declining battery costs are already causing cancellations of planned natural gas generation.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Companies interested in this process cover a range of technologies, including pumped hydro, gravity-based, compressed air and flow batteries, as well as current market leader lithium-ion batteries. Lithium-ion batteries have absolutely dominated new storage construction in recent years. Delivering peak power is one promising role.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 7, 2020

While it's common for lithium-ion batteries on the market today to discharge their full power capacity for up to four hours, Form's 1-megawatt project will do so for up to 150 hours, an unprecedented achievement for the storage industry. Competing with lithium-ion. The system is designed to operate for at least 20 years.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 26, 2019

Today's lithium-ion batteries can shift solar power into the evening for a few hours, but they become prohibitively expensive as a tool for weeks or months of guaranteed power delivery. You need to be compensated the same way natural-gas plants are being compensated.". Market for baseload renewables coming soon.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

We’re interested in pursuing long-duration storage because it gives us reliability advantages over traditional lithium-ion batteries,” Brekke said. “We Nearly all utilities today use lithium-ion energy storage solutions that discharge backup electricity over four hours. A future installation could happen in the state’s Iron Range.

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Charged

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Tesla is also slated to supply “electric truck charging infrastructure, a large-scale solar PV system, and two energy storage systems for facility peak shaving and heavy-duty electric truck charging,” according to PepsiCo’s filing with Valley Air.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 1, 2021

Take the Intermountain Power Project , the coal-fired power plant in Utah converting to turbines that will use natural gas blended with 30 percent hydrogen, a proportion that will rise to 100 percent hydrogen over the coming decades. does have a few projects taking steps toward proving out the concept.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 30, 2021

From alkaline batteries for small electronics to lithium-ion batteries for cars and laptops, most people already use batteries in many aspects of their daily lives. One of the biggest obstacles is limited supplies of lithium and cobalt, which currently are essential for making lightweight, powerful batteries. Longer charges.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 30, 2020

million electric and 2 million natural gas customers spread across eight states, are moving toward their own clean-energy and zero-carbon mandates. As for other forms of energy storage, Xcel in Colorado has already contracted for hundreds of megawatts of lithium-ion batteries alongside wind and solar power projects.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 23, 2020

gigawatts of new resources by 2023 to help make up for the capacity to be lost from the pending closure of natural-gas-fired power plants along Southern California’s coast. megawatt/730-megawatt-hour project from Tesla being built near a natural-gas plant in the Monterey County community of Moss Landing.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 28, 2022

In the era of artificial intelligence, the demand growth of the natural gas consumption market in China is bound to drive the continuous and rapid growth of the smart gas meters market. According to projections, it is expected that the market for smart gas meters will maintain a growth rate of 25% in the future.

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R-Squared Energy

MARCH 1, 2020

The primary culprits that add carbon dioxide to the atmosphere are the coal, oil, and natural gas — the fossil fuels — we consume for energy. There are two drivers behind coal’s decline: Natural gas and renewables. Low natural gas prices have made it economically attractive to shift to natural gas for baseload power.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

The newly created independent power producer has already acquired a portfolio of small solar projects in the Pacific Northwest, but it’s primarily targeting California and Texas for a much bigger push into lithium-ion battery energy storage systems, CEO Steve Vavrik said in an interview.

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Charged

MAY 10, 2022

The latest spurious sensation was a natural gas-powered bus that caught fire in Italy— a video of the catastrophic conflagration was posted online, and within hours, it had travelled around the world and back again, falsely described as an EV fire. False or misleading posts about EV fires flood the internet on a daily basis.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 9, 2019

“If you look across storage [technologies such as] lithium-ion and pumped hydro, there are few commercial projects with a duration of more than 12 hours,” he said. Power-to-gas involves using excess renewable power to manufacture carbon-neutral synthetic methane. “It’s not economical today.”

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Smart Energy International

MAY 25, 2022

The facility utilises lithium-ion technology housed in containers that, in addition to project inverters, were supplied by Sungrow, the project integrator. Jim Burke, Vistra president and chief financial officer, added: “DeCordova…is also co-located on the same site as our quick-start DeCordova natural gas-fueled power plant.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2022

Currently, over 80% of the global sulphur supply is in the form of sulphur waste from the desulphurisation of crude oil and natural gas that reduces the sulphur dioxide gas emissions that cause acid rain.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 8, 2021

With several lithium-ion battery installations to shift solar generation into later parts of the day, Kauai has gone for as long as nine hours in a day on entirely renewable electricity production. "Now, The state has committed to 100 percent renewable electricity by midcentury. We need long-duration storage.".

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 30, 2021

MW/625-kWh lithium-ion battery storage, the microgrid has approximately 5-MW total capacity with provisions to add additional renewables, including more solar and renewable natural gas. Combining 3.6 MW cogeneration firm power with 120-kW solar and 1.25-MW/625-kWh

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 7, 2020

” Technologists working on long-duration storage, which proposes to complement wind and solar plants by storing power for many more hours than lithium-ion batteries can handle cost-effectively, have raised hundreds of millions of venture dollars and grant funding and produced an eclectic mix of plausible technologies.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Some of those pathways move more dramatically toward closing coal plants or halting new natural gas power plants. This difference is mainly due to the Southeast’s reliance on electricity rather than natural gas for heating air and water in buildings, Snider explained. While most U.S.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 17, 2021

Mature Thermochemical technologies include steam methane reforming (SMR) which relies on natural gas as an input and coal gasification which relies on coal. There remain serious sustainability challenges to broad adoption of lithium batteries. Gas prices currently remain high compared to some overseas markets.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Power producer AES is installing a 100-megawatt/400-megawatt-hour battery at its Alamitos power plant as it reduces the scale of its gas-fired generation there. Today’s lithium-ion batteries can cost-effectively provide energy storage for between four to eight hours at a time, with costs rising as durations grow.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JANUARY 16, 2022

In this cleantech materials discussion, industry leaders will share insights on the economic mechanics of recycling solar panels, lithium-ion, and electronics. We will discuss both the global problem of end-of-life lithium-ion and the development of secondary supply of critical commodities that fuel the circular economy.

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Biden’s plan calls for: Grid-scale storage at one-tenth the cost of lithium-ion batteries. Using renewables to produce carbon-free hydrogen at the same cost as that from shale gas. The power generated last year from coal and natural gas was respectively 1,054 TWh and 1,700 TWh.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The economic tailwinds include the falling costs of lithium-ion batteries and the need for energy sources to replace retiring coal plants that do not emit greenhouse gases but are still available around the clock. While an improvement compared to coal, natural gas is still carbon-intensive.

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Clean Energy Trust

DECEMBER 6, 2021

NET Power is building a new type of natural gas power plant that uses oxy combustion (burning natural gas with pure oxygen) and supercritical CO2 instead of steam in its turbine. this technology could chip away at and then eventually replace industry standard combined cycle natural gas plants.

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The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Such reductions require massive infrastructural changes, especially in our homes, where water and food are often warmed with what is known as “natural gas” but is better understood as methane gas, a potent greenhouse gas that contributes to climate change.

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 11, 2022

Vistra says the facility, which uses technology from LG Energy Solution, is the largest lithium-ion battery storage system in the world. Strata Clean Energy originally conceived of and developed the 100-MW/400-MWh system after Oxnard residents prevented the construction of a natural gas-fired peaker plant.

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