GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 7, 2020

California’s two days of rolling blackouts in August were the result of disconnects between its existing grid reliability constructs and the needs of an increasingly solar-powered grid, and its failure to prepare for a Western U.S.-wide wide heatwave that undermined its reliance on out-of-state resources.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 19, 2020

Several out-of-state power grids also reported emergency conditions on Monday and Tuesday. It ended the demand about 30 minutes later as demand began to fall and wind power ramped back up. High heat can cause problems for power plants that can force them to shut down.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

But the gas industry would stand to lose billions of dollars in stranded assets if the UK and other countries no longer needed its pipelines, city-wide grids and other infrastructure to pipe natural gas to heat millions of homes. But these boilers would still mostly run on natural gas – even if hydrogen was available.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 19, 2020

homes and commercial buildings consume roughly two-fifths of the country’s overall energy, three-fourths of all electricity, and account for most of the peak electricity demand that drives generation and power grid infrastructure costs. Balancing the grid impacts, costs of electrification and net-zero homes.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 25, 2020

A new study by Aurora Energy Research, released Wednesday, claims that hydrogen generated from renewable energy and natural gas could provide more than 45 percent of the U.K.’s Aurora’s projections are based on a combination of "blue" and "green" hydrogen, derived from natural gas and renewable electricity, respectively.

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The Environmental Blog

MARCH 4, 2020

Most electricity in the US is still produced by burning natural gas or coal, both of which are huge contributors to carbon dioxide emissions. Furthermore, there are alternatives to charging a vehicle through your city’s power grid. Lastly, try to limit using your car as much as you can.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

State regulators have proposed a major set of responses to what could be a looming grid reliability shortfall in Sothern California, including a 2.5-gigawatt SoCal's grid headaches. gigawatt reliability resources procurement between 2021 and 2023. gigawatts by 2021, and 2.2

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

How feasible is the objective of completely decarbonizing the power sector by 2035? power grid by 2050. 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. trillion through 2035.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

In the US, 25% of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions come from electricity generation. This is not surprising, with coal and natural gas representing about 60% of electrical supply. As more eco-invested consumers choose green power, it increases the demand for renewable energy sources. Have you read?

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Pacific Gas & Electric’s bankruptcy has already threatened the credit ratings of some of the solar and wind farms, cogeneration plants, and other independent power generators that rely on the utility to buy their electricity through power purchase agreements.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Forced outages are a tool of last resort, employed in circumstances of incredible stress to the grid and done to protect against more widespread outages. Record heat for several days across parts of the state strained the power grid so much that it started rationing electricity, for the first time in almost 20 years.

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Business Green

JULY 8, 2022

Ofgem has today unveiled a range of potential energy market reforms aimed at reducing Britain's reliance on expansive, risky fossil gas imports and paving the way for a rapid acceleration in domestic wind and solar power capacity over the coming decade and beyond.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Department of Energy that found that solar power could generate up to 45% of the U.S. Why such a heavy focus on solar power? The Energy Department’s Solar Futures Study lays out three future pathways for the U.S. million solar panels or 364 large-scale wind turbines. power grid. million to 11.5

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Forced outages are a tool of last resort, employed in circumstances of incredible stress to the grid and done to protect against more widespread outages. Record heat for several days across parts of the state strained the power grid so much that it started rationing electricity, for the first time in almost 20 years.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Forced outages are a tool of last resort, employed in circumstances of incredible stress to the grid and done to protect against more widespread outages. Record heat for several days across parts of the state strained the power grid so much that it started rationing electricity, for the first time in almost 20 years.

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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 Eunice Solar Project (Permian Energy Center) - Andrews, Texas. power grids," the researchers wrote. Courtesy: Ørsted). now has 53.8

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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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Hydrogen Fuel News

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Photoncycle claims it can store solar power from summer to winter cheaper than batteries. Photoncycle, a startup from Norway, is tackling interseason storage of solar energy, which could save the abundance of solar energy generated in sunny months to be used for heat and electricity in the winter.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

DECEMBER 18, 2023

These plants are in an arid region, with little access to water for power plant cooling. So, during the heat of the summer and without water cooling, binary power plants become less efficient. One binary plant in Nevada also uses solar thermal, which makes me think about companies like RayGen in Australia.

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R-Squared Energy

MARCH 3, 2021

Our wind and our solar got shut down, and they were collectively more than 10 percent of our power grid, and that thrust Texas into a situation where it was lacking power on a statewide basis.”’ If you only look at this graphic, then natural gas is the hero of the story.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2023

In Whitby, the 2,000 residents in the proposed trial area would have the choice to continue using natural gas or switch to hydrogen for heating. In contrast to Whitby, residents in Redcar have been told that they won’t be able to opt-out of the trial. All of these companies have advocated for the use of hydrogen in heating.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Investing in a solar-powered AC unit or whole system can offset these emissions. There are some options for solar AC units: direct current (DC) , alternating current (AC) and AC/DC hybrid units. AC solar air conditioners are designed to work with your home’s existing power grid but require an inverter.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 6, 2020

Various other pipelines, such as Permian Highway project in Texas, the Mountain Valley Pipeline from West Virginia to southern Virginia, and the PennEast project from Pennsylvania to New Jersey, may face legal challenges based on the Nationwide Permit 12 decision, said Dulles Wang, director with the North American gas team at Wood Mackenzie.

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Clean Energy Trust

JUNE 9, 2020

These deployments will help enable utilities to close natural gas plants as they work towards the state’s clean energy standard of 50% by 2030 and 100% by 2045. Link Meanwhile, some states are passing laws forbidding local bans on natural gas connections. Link Interesting autonomy application: the “middle mile.”

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 21, 2020

But the tax-credit extensions contained in the bill could provide a significant boost for the primary federal incentive structure for wind and solar power by extending the expiration dates set by Congress late last year. R&D for clean energy, energy storage, carbon capture and nuclear power. Solar power will get $1.5

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Plenty of industry observers and critics have pointed out the gaps between utilities’ 2050 net-zero carbon goals and their short- and long-term resource plans, many of which call for continued buildout of natural gas-fired power plants. Natural gas and oil pipelines also saw setbacks. East Coast.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 16, 2024

For fossil fuel ideologues, sowing misinformation about wind and solar power is proving to be an effective stall tactic. In order for the Biden administration to hit its goal of a 100 percent clean power grid by 2035, the nation needs to rapidly increase the rate of new wind and solar power installations.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 18, 2020

power grid, particularly if targeting a 10-year timeframe,” said Aaron Barr, the report’s author and principal consultant with WoodMac’s Energy Transition Practice. It also limits the addition of new natural gas-fired power plants which still play a role in many utilities long-term resource plans.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 21, 2021

Thursday’s appointment was welcomed by clean energy groups as a critical early step to put a supporter of Biden’s energy and climate push in charge of setting the agenda of the federal agency that holds regulatory authority over interstate electricity transmission and natural gas networks.

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CleanTechnica

AUGUST 11, 2023

power grid, according to our latest inventory of electric generators. Operating capacity: Solar power accounted for the largest share, […] In the first half of 2023, developers added 16.8 gigawatts (GW) of new utility-scale electric generating capacity to the U.S. Developers plan to bring an additional 35.2

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CleanTechnica

JANUARY 10, 2022

power grid, according to our Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory. Almost half of the planned 2022 capacity additions are solar, followed by natural gas at 21% and wind at 17%. Developers and power plant owners report […]. In 2022, we expect 46.1

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CleanTechnica

SEPTEMBER 14, 2019

Welcome to the inaugural issue of our new India x Cleantech series! On a monthly basis, we will pull news from across clean technology sectors in India into a single, concise summary article. Ongoing, this series will find a home over on CleanTechnica's “Future Trends” page.

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