Smart Energy International

MARCH 4, 2022

Despite the Covid-19 pandemic, 2021 was a record-breaking year for investment in the energy transition and the deployment of renewable power, battery storage, and sustainable transportation, according to the 2022 Sustainable Energy in America Factbook published by BloombergNEF (BNEF) and the Business Council for Sustainable Energy (BCSE).

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 28, 2021

Florida Power & Light Company announced that construction has begun on the FPL Manatee Energy Storage Center , which is expected to become the world’s largest integrated solar-powered battery system, according to the company. FPL’s investments in battery storage technology directly complement the company’s expansion of solar energy.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 13, 2020

Another of the world’s largest battery projects is moving forward with construction in Southern California amid the coronavirus slowdown. Strata Solar will begin construction in July on its 100-megawatt/400-megawatt-hour battery plant in Ventura County, north of Los Angeles along the coast. It should be operational by early 2021.

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

With studies indicating that Canadian power demand could double between now and 2050, the federal government recently proposed the Clean Electricity Regulations to help ensure that Canada’s power system remains both clean and affordable in the years ahead. These options can enable relatively high shares of wind and solar on a grid.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2022

The study, published in the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) journal The Geographical Journal , highlights that global demand for sulphuric acid is set to rise significantly from ‘246 to 400 million tonnes’ by 2040 – a result of more intensive agriculture and the world moving away from fossil fuels.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 19, 2020

Pacific Gas & Electric has asked California regulators to approve seven battery projects totaling 423 megawatts, or nearly 1.7 gigawatts of carbon-free resources to help meet grid reliability needs that will arise when four natural gas-fired power plants retire next year to reduce their environmental harm to coastal waters.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Wind and solar accounted for nearly all new generating capacity added to the Texas grid in 2021, according to newly released market data. Natural gas-fired additions made up 13% of the new capacity. The California ISO region grabbed 55% of new energy storage capacity in 2021, while Texas took 38%.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 6, 2021

Last summer’s record heat waves triggered a surge in power demand that maxed out supplies and led to outages across the West. California and other states are pushing to use clean electricity to power vehicles and buildings to cut carbon, which will increase demand. Contributed by Ben Paulos. ROOT CAUSES. THE BIG RETHINK.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 2, 2021

Now, Duke Energy, one of the state’s vertically integrated investor-owned utilities, has worked with stakeholders to create a program that addresses winter peaking with a combination of solar, time-of-use rates, smart thermostats, and soon additional technologies that will likely include battery storage.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

GW of battery energy storage systems (BESS), with 3,000 to 4,000 MW expected to reach commercial operation by 2026. Advances in clean energy technology and strong market demand for renewables are positioning 2021 to be a record year,” said Steve Remen, NTE managing director of renewable energy resources. GW of solar and 3.9

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

gigawatt reliability resources procurement between 2021 and 2023. 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.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Building electrification is a potential game-changer for energy efficiency, demand management, distributed energy and other advanced energy industries, as well as for the broader task of reducing emissions. But in the Midwest, with the harshest winters in the lower 48, it has been cheaper to stick with natural gas as a heating source.

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Business Green

JULY 17, 2020

Other technologies are in the mix, such as battery electric vehicles. It is energy-efficient, abundant and an environmentally friendly alternative to natural gas. Clean hydrogen could cut greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel by up to 34 per cent, reported Bloomberg New Energy Finance. locations in 2021.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 19, 2020

Although temperatures dropped a bit on Monday, California still faces excessive heat warnings similar to those issued last week, driving air-conditioning demand. Conservation, demand response and backup generation. This indicates the potential for battery-equipped solar customers to help in offering grid support.

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Charged

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

According to a report by Smart Energy Decisions , there were more than one million electric vehicles (EVs) in commercial and government fleets in the United States as of 2021, up from just over 300,000 in 2019. Lower fuel and maintenance costs compared to diesel or natural gas vehicles.

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Clean Energy Trust

DECEMBER 6, 2021

NET Power is building a new type of natural gas power plant that uses oxy combustion (burning natural gas with pure oxygen) and supercritical CO2 instead of steam in its turbine. this technology could chip away at and then eventually replace industry standard combined cycle natural gas plants.

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2020

Green gas specialist planning nationwide network of renewable biomethane refuelling stations for trucks and heavy goods vehicles (HGVs) as firms seek alternatives to diesel for their fleets. Our customers ordered hundreds of new biomethane fuelled trucks in 2019 and that trend is only set to accelerate over the next decade.".

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Clean Energy Canada

MAY 18, 2021

In other words, growing Canada’s oil and gas sector is inconsistent with a net-zero 2050. Canada must plan for and invest in industries that will be growing in the coming decades, such as battery manufacturing, zero-emission vehicles, and hydrogen. Natural gas demand declines 55% and coal demand declines 90%.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

To be clear, even though natural gas continued to flow to homes and businesses during the power outages, Texans with natural gas heating weren’t at much of an advantage, since most gas-powered space heating systems require electricity to operate. Someone, please (sincerely, I’m all ears!), In the U.S.,

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Smart Energy International

MAY 25, 2022

Vistra has announced that its DeCordova battery energy storage system (BESS) in Granbury, Texas, is online and storing and releasing electricity to the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) grid. Aerial – battery containers. Project construction began in June 2021 and was finished in less than a year.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 25, 2020

DISTRIBUTECH International 2021 will take place on MARCH 30 - APRIL 1, 2021 in Orlando Florida. It will occur side by side with POWERGEN International 2021. This conference will feature 12 hand-selected, timely and relevant topical tracks designed to keep your experience organized and productive.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

megawatts of generating capacity, with 20 megawatts coming from natural gas-fired generators and 2.5 Construction of the microgrid is scheduled to take 19 months, with the system expected to be online and fully commissioned in June 2021. It does not include battery storage or a combined heat and power system.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 14, 2020

At the time of publication, CAISO expected peak demand of 47,641 megawatts, and counted 51,857 megawatts of capacity available. California grapples with this heat wave in the midst of a historic shift from a grid that depends on natural gas for capacity to a system that eliminates carbon emissions by 2045.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 26, 2020

Alliant, which serves about 1 million customers in the Midwestern states of Wisconsin and Iowa, currently relies on renewables for about 20 percent of its generation capacity, largely wind power in Iowa, with twice as much coming from natural gas plants.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

MARCH 2, 2024

Moreover, it must be scalable as the demand for H2 continues to climb.  Challenges in hydrogen storage Indeed, H2 or Hydrogen is a gaseous substance, necessitating larger storage areas compared to natural gas. The strategic location of Etzel offers connections to hydrogen markets in the Netherlands and Germany.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021. Mon, 01/11/2021 - 02:15. Less advertised around that time, the company unveiled details about its new modular vehicle platform and Ultium batteries , designed to lower EV prices and allow a 400-mile range fully charged. Elsa Wenzel. Christophe Beck, CEO, Ecolab; St. Paul, Minnesota.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 28, 2020

These disruptions will begin to ease in late 2021 as the pandemic comes under control and project developers and customers seek to take advantage of expiring federal tax credits for solar PV systems that are becoming more prevalent in microgrid projects.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 30, 2020

The solar project plan will be filed in early 2021, with a decision expected in the middle of next year. million electric and 2 million natural gas customers spread across eight states, are moving toward their own clean-energy and zero-carbon mandates. But at the same time, he added, “batteries can only do so much.

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Business Green

JUNE 21, 2021

The hydrogen automotive market received a blow late last week, after Honda announced it is to discontinue its flagship fuel cell model following disappointing demand. Consistent with this strategy, Honda will conclude production of the Clarity Plug-in Hybrid and Clarity Fuel Cell in August 2021.".

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Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Let’s hop in our electric-powered DeLorean and take a trip back to revisit 2021. EPRI also informed consumers through a new, interactive Electric Vehicle Consumer Guide, providing a searchable database for battery-electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles by make, model, electric range, and MSRP. government announced plans to reduce U.S.-economy-wide

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Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The nation added 2,835 MW of solar in the third quarter of 2021, up 14% compared to 2,488 MW installed in the second quarter. In the first nine months of 2021, India added more than 7.4 Most of the new transmission buildout is projected to be driven by a near doubling of electricity demand between 2020 and 2030. .

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 7, 2020

That's forced the state to confront flaws with its resource adequacy (RA) construct for securing the resources needed to meet grid demand peaks that are being pushed later into the day by the state's increasing share of solar power.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

The range of designs being pursued range from TerraPower’s traveling wave reactor and sodium fast reactor design to Terrestrial’s integral molten salt reactor and Hyperion’s “ fission battery ” concept. NuScale’s design doesn’t require some of the key safety features for large-scale reactors.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 16, 2020

had adopted some form of natural gas ban to either mandate or strongly encourage all-electric new construction. New England traditionally relies on fuel oil for heating, and the region is at a crossroads in deciding whether electricity or gas should replace fuel oil in the long term. Demand response needs outside peak seasons.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 15, 2020

Could trash-to-energy technology feed hydrogen demand? Other technologies are in the mix, such as battery electric vehicles. It is energy-efficient, abundant and an environmentally friendly alternative to natural gas. And it could be cheaper than producing hydrogen from natural gas. locations in 2021.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 19, 2021

Source: IEA World Energy Investment 2021 Note: Companies included are the Majors (Shell, BP, Total, Chevron, ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips) and selected others: ADNOC, CNPC, CNOOC, Equinor, Gazprom, Kuwait Petroleum, Lukoil, Petrobras, Repsol, Rosneft, Saudi Aramco, Sinopec and Sonatrach. The Oil and Gas Industry’s Eye for Hydrogen.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 2, 2020

To date, gigawatt-scale announcements in the hydrogen sector have been dominated by the likes of Shell, BP and Equinor, typically involving plans for meeting large sources of existing, gigawatt-scale demand in industrial clusters and in some cases their own oil refining operations. In the U.S.,

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