GreenTechMedia

JULY 30, 2020

Chevron will work with Canada’s Algonquin Power & Utilities, a growing global renewables developer, to build the plants over the next four years in Permian Basin of Texas and New Mexico, Argentina, Kazakhstan and Western Australia. The initial projects will be sited on Chevron-owned land, with construction to begin in 2021.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The ninth edition of the Sustainable Energy in America Factbook tells the story of American energy efficiency, natural gas and renewable energy in a volatile year. Figure 2 shows that natural gas and renewable generation continued to expand their share of the resource mix. power in 2020. power in 2020.

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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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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 gigawatt reliability resources procurement between 2021 and 2023. gigawatts by 2021, and 2.2 Fitch wrote in Thursday’s proposed decision.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Oil and gas companies have for years marketed fracked gas from B.C. But an impending flood of liquefied natural gas exports from western Canada to Asia could make it harder for countries there to achieve their national climate targets and contribute to tens of thousands of additional deaths due to air pollution.

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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

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

In 2018, renewables accounted for 20 percent of Alliant’s portfolio while coal made up 31 percent and natural gas accounted for 42 percent. “If not this year to capture the 30 percent [ITC], definitely in 2020 and 2021.” In addition to big buildouts of renewables, Alliant plans to spend $1.8

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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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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 17, 2020

The San Francisco-based utility is emerging from bankruptcy with a massive debt load that could make it harder to raise the tens of billions of dollars of investment needed to prevent its power grid from causing more devastating wildfires. PG&E plans to invest about $40 billion over the next five years into its power grid.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 19, 2020

Residential demand response and energy efficiency are one way to mitigate these impacts, giving utilities and technology vendors an incentive to find ways to expand their scope and effectiveness before summer arrives to stress power grids and customer utility bills alike. Avoiding the AC "snapback effect".

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Clean Energy Canada

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Even without carbon pricing, wind power is set to be 40 per cent cheaper than gas-fired power in Alberta and Ontario by 2030. For starters, Alberta and Ontario are in the midst of transforming their power grids. These results are important for a few reasons.

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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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Smart Energy International

MAY 25, 2022

The batteries capture excess electricity from the grid , primarily overnight during high wind-output hours, and can release the power when customer demand is highest. Project construction began in June 2021 and was finished in less than a year. Aerial – battery containers. Courtesy of Vistra.

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Smart Energy International

JULY 19, 2024

Compared with 2022, 2023 saw steep declines in natural gas prices, naturally followed by declines in wholesale electricity prices and transmission value. Multiple events in 2023 (high natural gas prices in the western US, and high summer temperatures in Texas and the Southwest) were observed to have driven this high value.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

First, it’s one of the largest-ever efforts to aggregate distributed energy resources (DERs) at a scale that can help California’s power grid meet its capacity needs. EBCE has done some advance work to prepare for integrating DERs at grid scale, Ross said. It breaks ground on multiple fronts.

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2023

According to the analysis, generating the same amount of power using gas power stations alone would have required an additional 68TWh of gas, which is equivalent to 7.4 million homes' gas use for the entire winter, or 78 tankers of liquified natural gas (LNG).

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Smart Energy International

MAY 3, 2022

In the second half of 2021, Consumers Energy filed a five-year, $5.4 It said the plan offered a blueprint for how it aims to strengthen and modernise the grid to accept more intermittent renewable energy and withstand the more severe weather events it is expected to experience as a consequence of climate change.

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Business Green

MAY 18, 2021

And on this point the IEA is perfectly clear: if the world is to achieve net zero emissions by 2050, there should be no new investments in oil and gas production fields, coal mines, or unabated coal power plants beyond 2021. A 'wake-up call' for natural gas.

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Business Green

JULY 17, 2020

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. And it could be cheaper than producing hydrogen from natural gas. locations in 2021.

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GreenBiz

JULY 2, 2021

Lessons from inside the heat dome about the future of the electric grid. Fri, 07/02/2021 - 02:00. Even without extreme weather events, the power grid needs love. The grid was largely built in the 1950s and 1960s with a 35- to 80-year life expectancy , meaning much of it should have been retired and replaced by now.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 20, 2021

” Achieving India’s target to deploy 450 gigawatts of renewable energy by 2030 is critical if the country is going to succeed in displacing coal generation on the power grid as overall energy consumption grows. Source: Brookings Institute " Coal in India " report.

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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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Business Green

DECEMBER 9, 2020

The government is legally required to formally respond to - and potentially endorse - the CCC's Sixth Carbon Budget advice by June 2021. From 2025, all new boilers sold should be 'hydrogen-ready', before natural gas boilers are removed from sale altogether for homes and businesses by 2033 at the latest.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 26, 2021

The time is right to rethink the grid. Fri, 03/26/2021 - 00:45. The grid faces twin challenges: It needs to become resilient and clean. electrical grid playing a central role. . cmrtyz) February 16, 2021. grid for the 21st century. Sarah Golden. Alone, either would be daunting. CM Guatemalan Chkn Wings??

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 20, 2023

The vast majority of these are for gas boilers, though some of its members have also branched out into heat pumps. The agency takes credit on its website for 32 media hits criticising heat pumps since June 2021 (described as a ‘snapshot’ of results by the firm). WPR has sought to enhance both the image of Foster and EUA.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

2021 ENERGY STAR Emerging Technology Award winner, the Samsung Smart Induction Cooktop with Wi-Fi is one of the top energy efficient induction stoves with 5-10% greater efficiency than conventional electric cooktops and 3 times greater efficiency than gas cooktops. The downside is that this model is not app controlled.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

gigawatts of utility-scale solar capacity in the first half of 2021, a 15% increase from the first half of 2020 and nearly halfway to the total capacity added in 2020, according to an analysis by S&P Global Market Intelligence. Robins Air Force Base Solar Project - Bibb, GA. Follow @EngelsAngle. now has 53.7 Courtesy: Ørsted).

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Energy Innovation

JUNE 28, 2024

In Fall 2023, Georgia Power filed an updated integrated resource plan with the Georgia Public Service Commission, warning dramatic near-term load growth predictions from data centers required “immediate action” to meet capacity needs by the end of 2025. But these fossil intensive supply side solutions are inherently slow and costly.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 15, 2020

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 percent, reported Bloomberg New Energy Finance. And it could be cheaper than producing hydrogen from natural gas. locations in 2021.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Bloom Energy reported record fourth-quarter and annual revenue on Wednesday and upped its target to reach profitability to 2021, a year ahead of schedule. megawatts of hydrogen-powered fuel cells through late 2021 to 2022, and Bloom’s analyst day presentation in December set a 2022 delivery date for its electrolyzers.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

8, 2021, the White House released a report produced by the U.S. Department of Energy that found that solar power could generate up to 45% of the U.S. power grid. Natural gas, coal, and oil provided almost 80% of primary energy input to the U.S. economy in 2020, including electric power generation.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Global LCOE from newly commissioned, utility-scale renewable power technologies, 2021-2022 (source: IRENA) The drive for electrification includes electric vehicles. Maybe it’s going to be natural gas with CCS, maybe it’s going to be geothermal, whether conventional or unconventional (in the form of EGS or AGS).

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

That’s roughly the net worth of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos — or twice the $100 billion that Biden has proposed spending to upgrade the nation’s electrical power grid. An air inversion traps fumes around the Clairton Coke Works on May 15, 2021. For example, the EPA’s greenhouse gas inventory lists 41.3

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Business Green

JUNE 7, 2021

He called on developed economies and international finance organisations to commit to excluding new oil and gas funding in line with the Paris Agreement's goals and use their significant role as development financiers to shift investment into clean energy, enabling power grids that integrate renewables and promoting technology sharing. "As

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Grist

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Limited regulations on companies that generate power and a history of isolating Texas from federal oversight help explain the crisis, energy and policy experts told The Texas Tribune. In 2011, Texas faced a very similar storm that froze natural gas wells and affected coal plants and wind turbines, leading to power outages across the state.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 26, 2021

The time is right to rethink the grid Sarah Golden Fri, 03/26/2021 – 00:45 The grid faces twin challenges: It needs to become resilient and clean. electrical grid playing a central role. cmrtyz) February 16, 2021 So it’s the perfect time for big ideas to reimagine the U.S. grid for the 21st century.

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