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Ameren Missouri Looks to Harness Wind, Solar and Batteries With $7.6B ‘Smart Energy Plan’

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billion grid modernization plan that includes smart meters for its nearly 1.3 million customers by 2025, adding nearly 700 megawatts of wind power, plus more solar and battery storage systems to boost rural reliability. Missouri's lagging wind market. About half of Ameren Missouri’s existing 10.3-gigawatt

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New York?s Energy Transition (and Challenges) in 5 Charts

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Grid operators around the world are unusually busy these days, but few have quite as much on their minds as NYISO, the independent system operator that manages New York state's bulk power system and wholesale energy market. percent in 2018, and hitting 100 percent zero-carbon emissions by 2040. Source: NYISO. Source: NYISO.

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DistribuTech 2020 Kicks Off With Look at Host Utility CPS Energy’s Transition Plans

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DistribuTech, the country’s biggest annual grid technology trade show, is a good place to get caught up on the latest developments in grid edge evolution, from integrating distributed energy resources to planning for a low-carbon future. “Solar’s great — you just have to wrap something around it to make it effective.”

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A decidedly impartial review of Mark Jacobson’s 100% Clean, Renewable Energy and Storage for Everything

Renewable Energy World

When you’ve followed the evolving research of a leading clean energy expert and become a supporter of his vision for a global clean energy transition, it should come as no surprise that I was eager to crack open Mark Jacobson’s 2021 book release, 100% Clean, Renewable Energy and Storage for Everything.

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The Texas Polar Vortex Resurrects the Question of Fuel Diversity for the Decarbonized Grid

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The record gas demand would have been even higher without the rolling blackouts, because more homes with central heat would have run either gas-fired heaters or electric heat pumps, which would have been powered mostly by coal or gas-fired generators if those weren't on outage. Based upon data from the U.S. Meanwhile, U.S.

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Acciona Supersizes Solar and Storage Efforts With Big US Acquisition

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Spanish renewables developer Acciona has acquired 3 gigawatts of solar and 1 gigawatt of storage projects currently under development in the U.S. Tenaska Solar Ventures will provide Acciona with “development services” during the build-out of the pipeline. Acciona only began dabbling in energy storage in 2018.

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The Corona Virus Reduces China's Emissions by 25 Percent

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China burns about half the coal used globally while at the same time it is the leading market for solar panels, wind turbines and electric vehicles. This duality is evident in Shanxi, which is both China's coal mining region and the location of some of the country's largest solar and wind power projects.