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Monitoring grid stability with hydropower signals

Smart Energy International

US researchers have created a new method to predict electric grid stability in real time using signals from pumped storage hydropower facilities. With increasing intermittent renewable generation, such real-time situational awareness is increasingly critical for grid stability. Have you read?

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Improving the efficiency of the hydropower network

Envirotec Magazine

Hydropower is an extremely old source of energy, whose provenance extends back to the watermills that were relied upon by ancient civilisations. Hydroelectricity remains an attractive renewable energy source today, especially in Europe which has a large network of small and large hydropower plants. WEG installation.

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IHA paper: Couple green hydrogen with hydropower to create a net-zero future

Renewable Energy World

The International Hydropower Association (IHA) has released a research and policy paper that outlines how hydropower could be pivotal in supporting growth in green hydrogen. Looking ahead hydropower could potentially supply at least 1,000 TWh of the additional electricity demand required in IRENA’s 2050 scenario.

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Low carbon generation set to meet electricity demand growth – IEA

Smart Energy International

The IEA’s Electricity 2024 report records electricity demand growth easing in 2023 but is projected to accelerate over the next three years through 2026. The update finds that world demand for electricity grew by 2.2% The update finds that world demand for electricity grew by 2.2% in 2023, less than the 2.4% Have you read?

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Britain's power grid celebrates greenest day and month on record in 2022

Business Green

More than half of the UK's electricity came from zero carbon sources across five months last year, as Britain celebrated a flurry of fresh green grid records in 2022, according to National Grid ESO. Renewables, nuclear, hydropower and other clean power sources provided a total of 48.5

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What happens after your country runs on 99 percent renewable electricity?

The Verge: Energy

Climate change poses new risks to the power grid, and Costa Rica has a lot of work left to do to get more solar and wind farms online. In the winter, like a six-month period from June to December, many of the hydropower plants get surplus flows. That’s when we have low wind, but we have more hydropower.

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Renewables overtake fossil fuels in 2020 as Britain's power grid enjoys 'greenest year' yet

Business Green

That is the conclusion of new research released today by Imperial College London on behalf of energy firm Drax, which estimates that carbon emissions from Britain's grid fell by 16 per cent last year as a result of the growth of green power and plummeting energy demand during Covid-19 lockdowns.