GreenTechMedia

JULY 9, 2020

gigawatts of solar, wind and battery storage projects, part of a massive clean energy growth plan that will open the utility's six-state territory to third-party renewable energy developers. Its solar power is being largely targeted for Utah, Wyoming, Oregon and Washington.

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 11, 2022

Battery storage is having its moment in the sun. Energy Information Administration said that when it totals up the numbers for 2021, it expects they will show that battery storage capacity grew by 4.5 Vistra says the facility, which uses technology from LG Energy Solution, is the largest lithium-ion battery storage system in the world.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 19, 2020

CAISO also was able to secure some scarce imported power, and wind power coming on late in the day helped too. This chart of CAISO demand on Tuesday indicates that “actual loads were cruising along at a record pace,” Wade Schauer, Americas research director at Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables, said.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 11, 2020

PacifiCorp’s IRP preferred portfolio includes 1,823 megawatts of new solar resources co-located with 595 megawatts of new battery energy storage system capacity, and 1,920 megawatts of new wind resources — all by the end of 2023. ” More coal-fired power plants to close region in the region.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

The Earth acts as a giant thermal battery to store excess renewable energy like solar and wind. For example, solar energy production typically peaks in the summer when daylight is the longest, which often leads to surplus electricity generation. How ResStor works The ResStor system operates as a thermal energy battery.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 19, 2020

It builds on scores of projects across the country combining high efficiency, electrification, and distributed energy resources (DERs) like rooftop or community solar, battery and thermal energy storage, and electric vehicle charging. event hosted by the Electric Power Research Institute and utility Duke Energy.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The commissioning of new, low marginal cost solar and offshore wind power, alongside increased battery storage, are forecast to help lower winter energy prices below the pre-2021 historical average from 2027 onwards, with solar power becoming nearly a fifth of the energy capacity by the middle of the decade.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 19, 2019

megawatt solar system is paired with a 30 megawatt-hour battery (from Samsung). megawatt sister project is being developed in Hull and will provide power exclusively for the council’s use. A battery could be retrofitted later down the line. solar projects over 5 megawatts ended in 2015. A second 25.7-megawatt

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 30, 2021

In recent decades the cost of wind and solar power generation has dropped dramatically. And since renewable energy generation isn’t available all the time – it happens when the wind blows or the sun shines – storage is essential. Right now there are very few such batteries in use. Safer batteries.

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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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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 10, 2020

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. Larger-scale transmission projects aimed at carrying Canadian hydropower and wind power downstate, such as the $2.2

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 27, 2020

Green hydrogen could one day play a similar role as batteries for Microsoft, Janous said, keeping data centers online and running smoothly amid a rising tide of intermittent renewables or in parts of the world where the electric grid is unreliable. Hydrogen vs. batteries? Last week NextEra Energy , the largest U.S.

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R-Squared Energy

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

This rapid increase in renewable power has been driven by falling cost curves, and aided by legislation directed at reducing air emissions like carbon dioxide. But it has also required utilities to accommodate this influx of intermittent renewable power. Storing Power. The Carbon Emission Footprint of Battery Storage.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 27, 2021

Where they are emerging as innovators is with new models and technology for managing electric grid loads — from load-shifting water heaters to a giant experimental battery made of iron. The cooperative’s path to clean power could become clearer if its experimental iron-air battery project is successful.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 10, 2020

Solar-battery systems may be useful for providing backup power during power outages. But many of the systems on the market today don’t pack enough punch to start up power-hungry air conditioner or pumps, or store enough power to run an entire home’s electricity load for more than a handful of hours at a time.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 4, 2020

Utility Dominion Energy is planning a major shift toward renewable energy and batteries as it looks to comply with Virginia's ambitious new clean energy law. Under the law, Dominion Virginia and the smaller Appalachian Power Co.

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 19, 2022

Appalachian Power issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) for up to 1,000 MW of wind and 100 MW of solar generation resources with optional battery energy-storage systems. The RFP is its largest to date for wind energy resources. Solar project bidders may also include an option for a battery-energy storage system.

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CleanTech San Diego

MARCH 6, 2025

Their friendly and helpful staff have been instrumental in guiding our growth, connecting us with advisors and partners who understand our technology, and opening doors that have helped accelerate our mission of delivering mobile wind power solutions to communities worldwide. quick-serve markets.

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Business Green

JUNE 7, 2021

The UK's windy weather means that offshore wind energy, backed by energy storage, provides the best value route to a decarbonised grid, the report concludes, arguing that solar power is set to play a relatively "small role" in the transition to a zero-emission UK energy system.

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Clean Energy Canada

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Feb 2, 2023 OTTAWA — In Alberta and Ontario, wind can now produce electricity at lower costs than natural-gas-fired power—with even more reductions on the horizon, according to a new report from Clean Energy Canada, which was informed by research commissioned from Dunsky Energy + Climate Advisors.

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Solar Industry

OCTOBER 1, 2024

In total, the projects would add 500 MW of solar power and 180 MW of wind power to the grid. Also included is 100 MW of battery storage. We Energies filed plans with the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin to build five new large-scale renewable energy projects.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Out in Utah, a coal-fired power plant supplying electricity to Los Angeles is being outfitted with natural-gas-fired turbines that will eventually be able to run on hydrogen, created via electrolysis with wind and solar power and stored in massive underground caverns for use when that clean energy isn’t available for the grid.

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 25, 2021

Burns & McDonnell said on Monday that it was selected by LG Energy Solution and Sustainable Environmental Renewable (SER) Capital Partners to provide engineer-procure-construct (EPC) services for three 10-MW/20-MWh lithium-ion, stand-alone battery energy storage systems. The three facilities are located in the West Texas region.

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 19, 2022

Engineering consulting firm Burns & McDonnell completed construction of three 10 MW/20 MWh lithium-ion battery energy storage systems in West Texas. Kansas City-based Burns & McDonnell tapped its direct-hire subsidiary Ref-Chem to complete construction and installation of the batteries. According to a new report from the U.S.

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Global renewable power generation is growing at an unprecedented rate , driven by the favourable economics of wind and solar along with energy security concerns around oil and gas (largely caused by recent wars), and emissions goals. Again, results for the U.S. Looking ahead, the U.S.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 13, 2021

Since its inception in 1990, LS Power has developed, constructed, managed or acquired more than 45,000 MW of power generation, including utility-scale solar, wind, hydro , natural gas-fired and battery energy storage projects. Rev has a 2.4-GW

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Broad Reach Power announced this week that its North Fork and Bat Cave battery storage projects in Central Texas have been placed into service with ERCOT, each bringing online 100 MW/100 MWh. Broad Reach Power now has 300 MW of dispatchable storage resources in ERCOT. Source: Broad Reach Power). Comically full.

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The Guardian: Energy

MARCH 6, 2024

Potential investment by NatPower would create largest portfolio of battery storage projects in Britain Britain’s under-pressure green power industry has received a surprise fillip after a renewables developer pledged to plough £10bn into what would become the largest portfolio of battery storage projects in the country.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 10, 2022

Off-grid EV charger manufacturer Beam has now installed solar-powered off-grid EV chargers in more than 100 municipalities in the U.S. Beam Global CEO Desmond Wheatley told CleanTechnica in May 2021 that his EV charger company had fulfilled an order from the state of California for 52 off-grid solar-powered EV chargers.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

This means that in the event of a heatwave, a spike in electricity use would ultimately test the power grid’s ability to meet supply with demand, potentially resulting in summer brownouts or blackouts. Solar peaks in the middle of the day, when demand is at its lowest and hours before demand peaks in the late afternoon and evening.

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Business Green

APRIL 1, 2020

BloombergNEF downgrades its 2020 growth forecasts for global wind power capacity as pandemic disrupts supply chains. It follows similarly dampened expectations unveiled last month by BNEF for the solar, battery, and electric vehicles sectors in 2020 in the wake of the Covid-19 crisis.

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The Verge: Energy

APRIL 24, 2024

That’s when we have low wind, but we have more hydropower. And then in the summer, like from December to May perhaps, we get low hydropower, so the other sources of energy complement that electricity supply — mainly wind power, biomass, and geothermal. And that’s where batteries are also important.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 23, 2021

Combined, China and India account for 62% of all coal-fired power capacity worldwide. gigatons of CO2 annually, or 44% of global power sector emissions. The economic incentive to deploy large amounts of solar power just got stronger in India, China and most of Europe. Together the two countries produce around 5.5

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Business Green

MAY 22, 2020

It also argued wind and solar power would be more cost-effective for bill payers compared to new gas power capacity. Leadsom, however, argued the country would still need fossil fuel power in the future, and that it was not the job of the planning system to block individual projects on climate grounds.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

And while the state’s 22-gigawatt wind power fleet has faced problems stemming from icing of wind turbine blades and relatively low wind conditions that have reduced its ability to contribute to the grid, the primary failure is from the state’s natural-gas, coal and nuclear generator fleet, according to ERCOT data.

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Business Green

JANUARY 20, 2022

Since 2010, wind power has grown from providing under one per cent to providing 10 per cent of electricity in Brazil, and provided 15 per cent of the EU's electricity demand in 2019. For example, continued improvements in battery technology are making electric vehicles (EVs) increasingly competitive with gasoline cars.

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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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