Smart Energy International

MARCH 15, 2024

Reflecting on a week of record finance results from German and Dutch utilities, Smart Energy’s Power Playbook column sees Yusuf Latief discuss grid investment plans and whether they are indicative of grid planning finally going right. billion, highlighting the role of the grid in minimising economic loss.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 19, 2020

Several out-of-state power grids also reported emergency conditions on Monday and Tuesday. CAISO also was able to secure some scarce imported power, and wind power coming on late in the day helped too. It ended the demand about 30 minutes later as demand began to fall and wind power ramped back up.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 19, 2020

PG&E’s 2020 System Reliability Request for Offers, filed Monday with the California Public Utilities Commission, represents a huge new addition to the utility's battery fleet to meet the state’s resource adequacy (RA) needs starting in 2021. gigawatt total online by August 2021.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

At least $14 trillion needs to be invested in the grid worldwide by 2050 to support an evolved power system, according to BloombergNEF’s new Power Grid Long-Term Outlook 2021 published this week. Without adequate investment, the grid could become a bottleneck, slowing progress, said BNEF.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 29, 2020

Responses will help inform options to meet its FlexPower Bundle plan, which envisions adding about 900 megawatts of solar, 50 megawatts of energy storage and 500 megawatts of “new technology solutions” to replace the need for buying natural-gas-fired power from outside power plants.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Kai Grigutsch, head of wind certification for UL, said: “Confirming that new turbine technologies can support the power grid while optimizing energy production is crucial to accelerating the development of wind farms and Europe’s green energy transition.”. X onshore platform worldwide.

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 25, 2021

The batteries will also provide support services for the Texas power grid to respond to fluctuations in supply and demand. Project construction is expected to be complete by June 2021.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

The preferred system plan portfolio differs from one previously adopted by including more solar and battery storage, as well as new long-duration storage, out-of-state wind, and offshore wind resources.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

As more eco-invested consumers choose green power, it increases the demand for renewable energy sources. For example, the UK recorded its greenest day ever on April 5, 2021 , with electricity usage and associated carbon pollution levels the lowest ever recorded for the power grid. Have you read?

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

This fall in emissions (see Figure 1) is the most significant on record and puts the United States on track to meet its 2025 Paris Agreement commitment, though energy demand and emissions are expected to rebound with widespread vaccinations in 2021. GW of wind and solar capacity was added to the grid this year. power in 2020.

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Business Green

JANUARY 18, 2021

2021 must be the year to pick up the pace on progress - there's ample opportunity, and we can't afford to stall. To date, much of the progress has hinged on a combination of increasing wind power alongside existing nuclear within the power grid. Duncan Burt is COIP26 director at National Grid.

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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. Our analysis also explores the costs of using battery storage to complement wind and solar power, finding that, even with storage included, both are still highly cost-competitive.

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Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2023

It will take four more years for costs to fall back to 2021 levels. But batteries undeniably remain the most common form of energy storage and are widely regarded as a critical component of the net zero transition and an enabler of both vehicle electrification and cleaner, more efficient grids dominated by intermittent solar and wind power.

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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.

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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. Note: Y-axis scale is logarithmic to help illustrate the many leaps in order of magnitude for cost decline and deployment growth. Source: Way et al.

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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. Solar and wind power will dominate the net zero economy.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Gridspertise , which states as its mission the digital transformation of power grids through advanced network technologies and solutions, was launched just over a year ago, in September 2021. The company operates four hydro power plants, and the only wind power plant in Georgia with a combined capacity of 71MW.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 20, 2023

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). Foster acknowledges a limited role for heat pumps in just one post, in October 2021, for homes that already run solely on electricity. Foster is quoted in 90 percent of this coverage.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Namely, no new sources of fossil fuels worldwide after 2021, and a massive, accelerated ramp up of renewable energy capacity, including 390GW of new onshore and offshore wind each year by 2030. by the end of the century.

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 20, 2022

is going to need a lot more solar and wind power generation, and lots of cheap energy storage. Wind and solar power vary over the course of a day, so energy storage is essential to provide a continuous flow of electricity. Why wind and solar need long-term storage. In 2021, the U.S. To cut U.S.

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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. is headed in that direction. electricity.

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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. opts to rely on a solar-heavy, decarbonized electricity grid to cost-effectively meet future demand. Rhodes , University of Texas at Austin.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Pending approval from stockholders in both companies and regulatory approval, the merger is set to close in the first quarter of 2021. Under the deal announced Thursday , Nuvve will merge with Nasdaq-listed SPAC Newborn Acquisition Corp. to form Nuvve Holdings, which will be incorporated in Delaware. million EV chargers across U.S.,

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Grist

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The report notes that the cost of solar energy has fallen 90 percent in the last decade, and the cost of wind power has dropped 70 percent. The Hawaiian island of Kauaʻi is occasionally powered only by clean energy during the day, and in 2021 nearly 70 percent of the island was powered by renewable energy.

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Grist

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Just look at what Cascadia woke up to on New Year’s Day 2021: Our supposedly “green” corner of the world came nowhere near to meeting the ambitious climate action goals for 2020 that politicians set a decade earlier, earning themselves accolades and admiration — not to mention talking points for the campaign trail.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 21, 2020

” Wind tax credit impacts. Wind power will also benefit from the tax extensions provided for in the bill. State governments and utility ratepayers will be able to take advantage of lower delivered energy costs as a result of the extension," Dan Shreve, WoodMac's head of global wind research, said in an email.

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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.

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Business Green

AUGUST 13, 2020

This incorporates roads and bridges, but also a green power grid and improved water infrastructure. Simple economics, rather than deliberate climate policy, is seeing states in the blustery Midwest turn increasingly to wind power as the cost continues to fall, leaving wind cheaper than other power sources.

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