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.

Energy 28

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Business Green

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Johnson's government is targeting 40GW of offshore wind and 1GW of floating wind capacity by 2030, and recently set an ambition for the UK's power grid to be net zero emission by 2035. RenewableUK is clearly not convinced those conditions and the strategic vision from government required to create them presently exist.

Hydrogen 41

Hydrogen Government Wind power Fossil fuels 41

Energy Innovation

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

If optimistic assessments of the future of electricity are accurate, power grid operators will have to learn to manage a much larger, more complex, and data-intensive system. Such critiques of the learning curve concept ultimately appear to be quite consistent with the findings of the Luderer et al. Learning from machine learning.

Energy 52

Energy Energy Fossil fuels Policy 52

Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Wind power turbines and home battery systems might have a little more industry wiggle room. In some countries, entire power grids are being overhauled as market restrictions eliminate some methods of energy production in favor of cleaner alternatives. Sustainable Agriculture. Here are a couple of companies doing it right.

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AutoGrid

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Yet without innovation now required by the climate crisis, our traditional power grids will fail us. These organizations do not substitute for the three large investor-owned utilities (IOUs) still operating in the state. But CCAs can decide where the power comes from through votes by county and city governments.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Belgian grid operator Elia has been testing it since 2008, and results indicate the 5 to 20 percent increase in ratings it can discover can improve market dispatch cost-effectiveness and increase integration and reduce curtailment of solar and wind power, according to a 2020 report from International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA).

Energy 130

Energy Energy Wind power Technology 130

Business Green

JULY 7, 2020

JCB heir Jo Bamford may be more frequently discussed alongside his billionaire industrialist father, but he says he owes a life-long interest in sustainability to his mother, who has run Daylesford Organic Farm in the Cotswolds for some 50 years.

Hydrogen 86

Hydrogen Batteries Government Technology 86

Grist

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

States, cities, businesses, and organizations across the country are taking increasingly large steps to reduce emissions — and those efforts are aided by the falling costs of renewable energy and other decarbonizing technologies. Fewer salmon, cod, and shellfish means less food and fewer jobs.

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Grist

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The region’s power grid — part of a larger Western grid — is too weak and fractured to reliably integrate the massive increase in renewable energy needed to decarbonize. Ensuring a cleaner and reliable grid. Cascadia’s rules don’t constrain highway expansion, which tends to increase driving and thus emissions.

Fossil fuels 90

Fossil fuels Natural gas Policy Law 90

Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Wind proponents say the way the bill is written would allow existing wind farms to be shut down over shadow flicker, something Anderson called “reckless” and said would threaten reliability of the power grid. The Kansas Reflector is a nonprofit news organization. We are at the mercy of these companies.”.

Energy 89

Energy Energy Health Policy 89

DeSmogBlog

MARCH 16, 2024

.” More recently, Morano has been talking about whales—specifically, the idea that the higher-than-usual number of dead ones washing ashore along the East Coast is the result of President Joe Biden’s push to develop 30 gigawatts of offshore wind power by the end of the decade.

Fossil fuels 144

Fossil fuels Energy Energy Construction 144

GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Murkowski is also the co-sponsor of the American Energy Innovation Act, a massive energy bill containing hundreds of millions of dollars in funding over the coming years to boost research and development for solar and wind power, energy storage, smart grid, electric vehicles and other key clean energy technologies.

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