DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

23,000 premature deaths These Asia-based energy and climate experts point to the landmark 2021 report from the International Energy Agency which concluded that the only way to stabilize atmospheric warming at the relatively safe threshold of 1.5°C I don’t believe gas is a climate solution,” she told DeSmog.

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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

Speeding up investment in our power grid will enable more of this cheap, natural energy to flow to homes, so bringing down bills.". The report estimated that the UK's grid battery capacity is now sufficient to provide support to the grid during times of tight supply equivalent to around two nuclear power stations.

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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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Business Green

JANUARY 19, 2021

Kwarteng today also confirmed an industrial decarbonisation strategy would be published in the first quarter of this year, as well as a "North Sea Transition Deal" early in 2021, likely in reference to the long-awaited oil and gas sector deal which has been beset by several delays. Nuclear power is essential," he told MPs.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 11, 2022

million) for nine projects to oversee the digitisation and modernisation of Romania’s transmission network and power grid. The contracts were signed yesterday between the country’s Ministry of Energy and the national electric power transport company, Transelectrica SA. Contracts have been signed valuing €424.4 million ($411.8

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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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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2023

A power system running solely on clean energy technologies is entirely feasible During a media briefing yesterday, CCC officials made a point of emphasising the huge amount of work it has put into producing its most detailed and comprehensive analysis of the UK's energy system to date.

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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. Follow @EngelsAngle. now has 53.7 GW of total solar capacity (including distributed generation).

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2022

Russia is a significant producer and exporter of oil and gas, with 32 per cent of the EU's gas demand in 2021 having come from Russia. Fully decarbonising the power grid by 2035 will be essential to reduce fossil fuel dependence and cut emissions in other parts of the economy.

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 17, 2022

With the planet facing increasingly intense heat waves, drought, wildfires and storms, a path to tackle the climate crisis became clear: Transition the electric grid to carbon-free wind and solar and convert most other fossil fuel users in transportation, buildings and industry to electricity. Innovations that make 100% clean power possible.

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Energy Innovation

JANUARY 17, 2025

An electrolyzers relationship with the power grid whether it causes fossil fuel power plants to increase their output affects the carbon intensity of hydrogen production. This design is far too lenient to capture specifically those power plants that face real retirement risk.

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Clean Energy Trust

MARCH 5, 2021

February 2021 Cleantech Roundup: Climate Software Gold Rush | Lone Star State Struggles | Jobs and the Energy Transition Credit: Poole Group This month, we’re covering the rush of investing into startups that quantify, manage, and verify carbon emissions reductions, Texas’ grid troubles, new research on transitioning fossil fuel workers, and more!

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Wind power will also benefit from the tax extensions provided for in the bill. The Production Tax Credit for wind power projects, usually claimed by onshore developers, will remain at 60 percent for projects that begin construction by the end of 2021, rather than being reduced to 40 percent as called for in previous law.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 21, 2021

Most notably, Glick has been vocal in his opposition to FERC’s minimum offer price rule (MOPR) order expected to reduce the competitiveness of state-subsidized energy resources in the capacity market operated by mid-Atlantic grid operator PJM. “Right now we don’t know where the third vote lies.”

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