Solar Power World

MARCH 6, 2020

electrical generating capacity added in 2019 — swamping new additions provided by coal, natural gas, oil and nuclear power combined. FERC released its year-end energy infrastructure report today, and initial analysis by the SUN DAY Campaign finds that renewable energy sources provided 57.26% of new U.S.

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R-Squared Energy

JULY 13, 2022

The remaining share of primary energy use consisted of hydroelectric power (6.8%), renewables (6.7%), and nuclear power (4.3%). Natural Gas. Natural gas has been the fastest-growing fossil fuel in recent years, with a global 2.2% After falling in 2020, global natural gas consumption grew by 5.3%

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Previous topics covered were: Global carbon dioxide emissions Overall highlights Oil production and consumption Natural gas production and consumption Coal production and consumption Global nuclear power trends Today, I will cover renewable energy in detail. Wind and solar reached a record 14.4% exajoules, up 0.7%

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 14, 2020

Energy Information Administration has confirmed what it and industry watchers predicted a year ago—that wind and solar power will expand on their already-large share of new U.S. gigawatts of natural gas-fired plants to come online this year. generation capacity in 2020. gigawatts of capacity.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 29, 2020

gigawatts of solar, 850 megawatts of wind and nearly 1.4 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 energy storage by 2035.

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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. To be sure, no U.S.

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R-Squared Energy

JULY 26, 2021

Small declines were also reported in coal, natural gas, and nuclear consumption, while renewables and hydropower recorded gains. The remainder of global energy consumption came from coal (27.2%), natural gas (24.7%), hydropower (6.9%), renewables (5.7%), and nuclear power (4.3%). Natural Gas.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 12, 2020

power utilities, with 7.4 million natural-gas customers across six states in the Southeast and Midwest. Despite near-term headwinds, Duke stood behind its long-term plan to reach net-zero emissions by 2050, starting with a target of 50 percent greenhouse gas reductions by 2030. Duke is among the largest U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 23, 2020

This foray into behind-the-meter battery aggregation comes as part of PG&E’s efforts to meet the California Public Utilities Commission’s call for energy storage to help balance the state’s increasingly solar power-influenced grid.

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R-Squared Energy

AUGUST 26, 2022

Previous articles were: Wind And Solar Provided A Record 10% Of The World’s Power Generation In 2021. Natural Gas Production Set A New Record In 2021. Hydroelectricity, which the Review reports as a separate category is growing globally at a much slower rate than modern renewables like solar power.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

While small modular reactors have powered naval ships for decades and are also in use in other military applications, they’ve yet to be approved for use in commercial power generation. In terms of cost, NuScale is targeting a levelized cost of energy of $65 per megawatt-hour and a cost to build that would equate to $2.9

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 4, 2020

Under the law, Dominion Virginia and the smaller Appalachian Power Co. must supply 30 percent of their power from renewables by 2030, and Dominion must close all carbon-emitting power plants by 2045. Retreat from natural gas not enough for environmental advocates.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

S&P Global Market Intelligence notes that power plant operators added 8,139 MW of new generating capacity to the ERCOT market last year -- 42% came from wind and 40% from solar. Natural gas-fired additions made up 13% of the new capacity.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 6, 2021

California and other states are pushing to use clean electricity to power vehicles and buildings to cut carbon, which will increase demand. And the state’s last nuclear power plant and numerous coastal gas power plants are facing retirement. THE BIG RETHINK.

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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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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 30, 2021

In recent decades the cost of wind and solar power generation has dropped dramatically. For example, high-capacity batteries with long discharge times – up to 10 hours – could be valuable for storing solar power at night or increasing the range of electric vehicles. Concentrating solar power is still relatively expensive.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

gigawatt "all-source" procurement that will pit new renewables, energy storage, demand response and other clean resources against natural gas-fired power plants in a race to meet what could be a major shortfall in grid capacity in the next four years. The all-source procurement is technically open to existing natural gas plants.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Although the proposed ‘all-source’ procurement would allow existing natural gas-fired peaker plants to compete, it could also open a massive new market for renewable energy, energy storage, demand response and other preferred alternatives to fossil fuels. gigawatt reliability resources procurement between 2021 and 2023.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 30, 2020

But they’re also part of a broader Upper Midwest Energy Plan that includes increasing its wind portfolio by about 3,700 MW, or about 55 percent, by 2022, and adding about 3,000 MW of solar to its current 750 MW by 2030. Xcel made waves in late 2018 by setting its own net-zero carbon plans in advance of state mandates.

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

He didn’t mention nuclear power or carbon sequestration in this speech, but his website does mention them among four specific goals designed to decarbonize the power sector. Since 2005, combined power generation from wind and solar power have increased by a factor of 22, to 411 terawatt-hours (TWh) as costs fell dramatically.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 24, 2021

The company recorded profits of $2.74bn in 2020, with many new projects in the pipeline in the coming decade - including large developments in solar power, onshore wind and green hydrogen. "I France built nuclear power. Even in the 2000s, Denmark remained dependent on its fruitful offshore oil and gas reserves.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

Year on year our underlying risk of blackouts is actually increasing, and this is because we’re replacing generation we can control – such as gas, coal, and nuclear power stations – with generation that’s dependent on the weather, primarily wind.” Another of her sources, Paul Homewood, has written for the GWPF.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The falling costs of wind and solar power are pushing utilities to find ways to incorporate them into their long-range plans, even as they struggle to define what resources can be relied on to provide the dispatchable power they need. Its 2020 integrated resource plan (IRP) sets a goal of nearly 16 gigawatts of solar, 5.1

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 17, 2022

After all, consumer prices have become much higher than the cost of producing wind and solar power. As long as there are enough suppliers (such as renewables and nuclear) with low marginal costs, the price paid for electricity by consumers also remains low. Source: World Nuclear Association).

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The Environmental Blog

JUNE 24, 2022

About 77% of the citizens agree that a more important energy priority should be developing alternative energy resources like wind and solar power and hydrogen technology instead of increasing fossil fuel production. The gas can act as a fuel for cars, trucks and ships and also for the production of fertilizers and oil refining.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Pacific Gas & Electric is contracting seven battery projects totaling 423 megawatts , or nearly 1.7 Municipal utility Los Angeles Department of Water and Power has contracted for up to 300 megawatts/1.2 gigawatt-hours of storage being built alongside 400 megawatts of solar power being built by 8Minute Energy.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

And while the state’s 22-gigawatt wind power fleet has faced problems stemming from icing of wind turbine blades and relatively low wind conditions that have reduced its ability to contribute to the grid, the primary failure is from the state’s natural-gas, coal and nuclear generator fleet, according to ERCOT data.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

This marks Dominion Energy’s first solar energy investment in Ohio, where the company owns and operates a Cleveland-based natural gas local distribution company serving 1.2 Impact Solar Project (G.S.E. Impact Solar Project (Courtesy: Lightsource bp). Eunice Solar Project (Permian Energy Center) - Andrews, Texas.

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Business Green

JULY 19, 2022

Technically, National Grid ESO's remit is "networked energy" - the electricity, natural gas and future hydrogen networks that share a grid network and are considered part of one overarching system. The ESO hailed this as evidence of just how far decarbonisation ambition and technical feasibility had progressed in recent years.

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R-Squared Energy

JULY 14, 2020

To recap, the carbon footprint of hydrogen production from natural gas in a steam methane reformer (SMR) is higher than from directly burning the natural gas. Renewable power has grown rapidly in the past decade. In some places, it has created intermittent periods of excess power. On a mass basis, it is 9.3

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 19, 2021

California’s utilities and community choice aggregators (CCAs) underestimated how much demand they would need in the midst of a record-breaking heatwave, leaving CAISO’s markets without the day-ahead commitments to make up for unexpected loss of generation from natural gas plants during the days of the emergencies.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 10, 2021

In July, Abbott directed the PUC to “allocate reliability costs to generation resources that cannot guarantee their own availability, such as wind or solar power” and to “streamline incentives within the ERCOT market to foster the development and maintenance of adequate and reliable sources of power, like natural gas, coal, and nuclear power.”.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 20, 2021

Many devices that power our lives, such as LED lights , get more performance from a kilowatt-hour of electricity now than they did 15 years ago. Wind and solar power dramatically outperformed expectations, delivering 13 times more generation in 2020 than projected. Emission-free nuclear generation largely held steady.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 28, 2021

In 2010, solar power was just 4 percent of new electric generating capacity and there was a patchwork of state solar policies and renewable portfolio standards. [1] Asaf Nagler, Senior Director, Government Relations, ABB Inc.

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Business Green

MARCH 26, 2020

It means generation from renewables such as bioenergy, waste, wind, solar and hydro is now 15 times that of coal, when as recently as 2012 coal output was greater. Electricity generation from natural gas fired power plants also fell back slightly by 2.2

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R-Squared Energy

MARCH 3, 2021

This first graphic shows how one can conclude that freezing wind turbines were the problem, while natural gas was called upon to fill a huge demand surge. Keep in mind that the natural gas demand below is only from electric utilities, but demand for home heating was simultaneously surging.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 5, 2020

utility group Dominion Energy agreed Sunday to sell most of its natural gas business and abandon its multi-billion dollar Atlantic Coast Pipeline project with Duke Energy meant to supply its home-state market of Virginia. a natural gas utility serving Utah. for about $9.7 for about $9.7

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