GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

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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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 17, 2022

Then, beginning around 2009, first wind turbines and then solar photovoltaic panels decreased enough in cost to become competitive in electricity markets. Storage is now largely being provided by lithium-ion batteries. These are all sources of flexibility. Expanded transmission is especially valuable.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 17, 2020

All also envision shuttering all coal-fired power plants in the country by decade’s end, something only some of the country’s utilities have committed to doing. Solar and wind power are already cheaper than electricity generated by coal and natural gas-fired power plants, according to the International Energy Agency.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 20, 2020

This annual update will focus on solar power, battery storage, EVs and self-driving technology. 2020 is the year that solar will surpass the global wind market on a cumulative installed basis. Solar power generated about 2.8 No one expects or wants solar to be our only generation source.

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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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CleanTechnica

AUGUST 10, 2023

The renewable energy, battery, and electric vehicle world in Brisbane is still very small. It seems everybody knows everybody else. So, when Francisco Shi suggested I visit Rikesh at Zekitek, I drove down for a visit. Standing outside and occupying only half of a parking spot was the Zekigen. Why Zeki,” I asked? Apparently, it […]

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CleanTechnica

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

NREL Performed a First-of-Its-Kind Assessment of Opportunities for Grid-Scale Energy Storage in South Asia Over the Next Three Decades.

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CleanTechnica

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

The vast majority of the power plants that went offline were thermal power plants (mostly natural gas). A number of wind turbines were […]. Clearly, the news story of the week — well beyond CleanTechnica — has been Texas and some neighboring regions freezing over and losing electricity.

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CleanTechnica

JULY 12, 2020

I was discussing the dramatic drop in coal use in the US and the dramatic rise in renewable energy production and one of my many conservative friends* referred me to this report to explain why physics proves that there is no way we can transition to renewable sources affordably, that all the innovation is coming on the fossil fuel side, and that renewables (..)

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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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