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.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 4, 2020

Dominion’s new IRP is driven by Virginia's Clean Economy Act passed earlier this year, which calls for 100 percent carbon-free electricity by 2045 and sets targets for energy efficiency, energy storage, and in-state solar and wind power. Under the law, Dominion Virginia and the smaller Appalachian Power Co.

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 5, 2021

The portfolio assembled by AES is expected to require approximately $600 million of investment and generate 1,200 jobs, both permanent and construction, in the host communities. Our hope is that this model can be replicated to accelerate the clean energy transition, both for companies and, eventually, for power grids.”.

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Business Green

JANUARY 22, 2021

The latest milestone means National Grid's portfolio now has four operational interconnectors - two to France in the form of IFA and IFA2, one to the Netherlands called BritNed, and one to Belgium known as Nemo Link. Our first interconnector together, IFA, has been successfully operating for more than 30 years.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 19, 2020

homes and commercial buildings consume roughly two-fifths of the country’s overall energy, three-fourths of all electricity, and account for most of the peak electricity demand that drives generation and power grid infrastructure costs. Shifting heating from fossil fuels to electricity can cut direct emissions.

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Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 22, 2021

The construction of D?bsk bsk Wind Farm by Electrum, which is the largest Polenergia wind farm, and one of the largest in Poland, also deserves special attention. As Marek Marzec, Renewable Energy Projects Development Director at Polenergia S.A., the investor of D?bsk

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Smart Energy International

MAY 20, 2024

Danish TSO Energinet has signed an agreement with Siemens Energy on a comprehensive expansion of the power grid in Western Denmark. By 2030, Denmark must quadruple its electricity generation from wind and solar power, with more to come in the following decades. That would compromise the green transition.

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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 23, 2020

Building retrofits and solar panel installation programs re-employed construction workers laid off during the 2007-2008 housing crash. Following this, wind and solar were some the fastest-growing industries in the U.S. including California and Texas, solar and wind power is cheaper than natural gas and coal.

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Energy Refuge

APRIL 17, 2020

It’s the most common renewable energy source in many countries around the world and although many of their installations are found in wind farms, which connect directly to the power grid, more and more users are turning their attention to this energy type for their home or business.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 16, 2024

million) to municipal energy supplier Thüringer Energie AG (TEAG) to upgrade and digitise the electricity grid in Thuringia, Germany. The project will upgrade and expand the grid in rural areas to meet the needs of the energy transition. Sign up to our newsletter and stay informed €3 billion ($3.2

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Notable clean energy statistics from the pandemic year include: Power Generation. Renewables’ contribution to the power grid set another record, rising 11% year-on-year. power in 2020. Power from all zero-carbon sources (renewables plus nuclear power) set another record, meeting 40% of demand.

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Smart Energy International

JULY 16, 2024

They enable the efficient utilisation and distribution of very large amounts of wind power from the North Sea coast by linking direct current lines and flexibly transporting the energy to where it is needed. Additionally, the partners call the DC circuit breakers as part of the DC switchgear a technical innovation.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 21, 2022

The European Investment Bank (EIB) is providing Dutch-German TSO TenneT with a loan of €450 million ($440 million) for the construction of a 185km electricity transmission corridor — the Ostbayernring — connecting Redwitz to Schwandorf in the south-east of Germany.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Statkraft has sold the 36MW Andershaw wind farm in South Lanarkshire to wind power specialist Greencoat UK Wind plc for £120m, with the European renewables major planning to use all of the proceeds from the sale to fund further renewables projects, it announced today.

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Business Green

JULY 21, 2022

These include setting a clear target date to phase-out fossil gas power by 2035, in line with the government's stated ambitions to deliver a net zero power grid by the same date, which the report argues could be driven by giving energy regulator Ofgem a statutory duty for net zero.

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Business Green

AUGUST 2, 2022

The rollout of biomass, wind and solar power has enabled the UK to decarbonise its power grid at a faster rate than any other major economy. And in order to reduce energy bills in the years ahead we need to have more clean, green, renewable power, which is generated in the UK for the UK.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Johnson's government is targeting 40GW of offshore wind and 1GW of floating wind capacity by 2030, and recently set an ambition for the UK's power grid to be net zero emission by 2035.

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Climate Tech VC

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

☔ Neara , a Sydney, Australia-based power grid modeling and digital twin software provider, raised $45m in Series C funding from EQT, Partners Group, Prosus Ventures, Skip Capital, and Square Peg Capital.  Sweden received court approval to construct a permanent burial site for radioactive waste.

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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. Read the original article. To cut U.S.

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 17, 2022

And, with more transmission, the large wind resources in the center of the country can send electricity toward both coasts. Transmission studies have shown that stronger interconnections among the country’s three power grids are highly beneficial. Innovations that make 100% clean power possible. Buildings use 74% of U.S.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 12, 2021

million workers in everything from manufacturing all-electric vehicles and modernizing the power grid to building solar farms and maintaining wind turbines. Those who work in the industry feel the excitement, with new companies, products, services and opportunities. Currently, the U.S. employs nearly 3.4

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Business Green

JULY 7, 2020

It would allow Wrightbus to keep manufacturing costs down and sell cheaper buses, while justifying the construction of five new wind-powered hydrogen production plants in coastal regions of the UK. An order of 3,000 buses, which is roughly 10 per cent of the UK's operational bus fleet, creates demand and volume, he says.

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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 best way to eliminate this risk, though, is to unwind the decades of construction that created it. Between 2005 and 2019, greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. decreased by 12 percent.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Trump also went on to make a series of bizarre claims about renewables and energy efficiency, arguing Biden wanted to construct new buildings "with little tiny windows" to drive down emissions, and that wind turbines were expensive, kill birds, and produce more emissions than fossil fuels such as gas power.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

After a week of the country’s worst power grid collapse in decades — an event that's taken a dreadful toll in dozens of lives lost and billions of dollars in economic damage — the lights are back on in Texas.

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Grist

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The region’s power grid — part of a larger Western grid — is too weak and fractured to reliably integrate the massive increase in renewable energy needed to decarbonize. Ensuring a cleaner and reliable grid. Cascadia’s rules don’t constrain highway expansion, which tends to increase driving and thus emissions.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Schumer’s office, the two-year extension of the federal Investment Tax Credit for solar projects will retain the current 26 percent credit for projects that begin construction through the end of 2022, rather than expiring at the end of 2020 as they would have under existing law. ” Wind tax credit impacts.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 16, 2024

They were headed for the massive floating construction site of an offshore wind farm 35 miles from the eastern tip of Long Island, New York. But no matter—video of Morano’s boat protest landed on Fox News and spread like a ripple through the social media groups that have sprouted to oppose offshore wind.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 18, 2020

power grid, particularly if targeting a 10-year timeframe,” said Aaron Barr, the report’s author and principal consultant with WoodMac’s Energy Transition Practice. That’s not quite as aggressive as President-elect Joe Biden’s goal of a zero-carbon U.S. Absent the expanded use of new gas plants, the U.S

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 23, 2020

But solar and wind power groups and energy storage advocates didn’t get all they’ve been asking for from Congress in the bill — and they’re seeking support for those additional policies from the incoming Biden-Harris administration and lawmakers from both parties.

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