GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

The commissioners cited multiple complementary benefits as justification for the decision: greenhouse gas emissions reductions, the ability to soak up surplus renewable electricity, and grid demand flexibility. Around 90 percent (PDF) of the furnaces and water heaters in California are fueled by natural gas or propane.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

San Francisco-based developer Plus Power won two bids in the latest capacity auction held by the New England ISO, which operates the transmission grid and competitive power markets in six northeastern states. You’re allowing for more clean electrons while replacing the need for gas to help balance that," Keefe said.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 30, 2020

Arizona Public Service released its plan for reaching zero-carbon by 2050 , with multiple options to balance the costs and carbon benefits of switching from coal and natural gas to renewables, batteries, distributed energy resources and as-yet-untested technologies. ” Short-term goals: Lots of new renewables, no new natural gas.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 20, 2021

A new report released last week by the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (ACEEE) outlines how better energy efficiency and a robust demand response program using distributed energy resources (DER) already on the grid could provide up to 11 GW of “flexible generation” to ERCOT, the Texas grid operator, when the grid is strained.

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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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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 5, 2019

They’re also important for states like Nevada and Arizona that are starting to see the same "duck curve" effects as nearby California, where solar generation is pushing cheap energy onto the grid at midday that fades away in the evening hours when electricity demand spikes. PacifiCorp, the 1.9-million-customer

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Record-high natural gas prices are fueling an energy crunch ahead of winter in the Northern Hemisphere, leading to power shortages in parts of the world. On one hand, developing countries eyeing a switch from coal to natural gas to support higher penetration of renewables may be dissuaded by higher gas prices.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 19, 2020

Although temperatures dropped a bit on Monday, California still faces excessive heat warnings similar to those issued last week, driving air-conditioning demand. Conservation, demand response and backup generation. CAISO also was able to secure some scarce imported power, and wind power coming on late in the day helped too.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 18, 2024

This project will store excess electricity generated by solar and wind farms in the spring and fall when demand is low. Then, it will use the stored energy in the summer when the demand for electricity is high. Initially, the plant will use a blend of H2 and natural gas and will burn it for electricity production.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Until those power plants can be brought back online, it’s unclear how many people will be left powerless and for how long. That’s the dire report from Texas grid operator ERCOT, after its supply-demand balance grew much worse than expected through Sunday evening and into Monday morning. gigawatts on Sunday evening.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Duke Energy’s newly formed Sustainable Solutions unit, merged from several entities only months ago, is building a 207-MW wind power project in Iowa. The non-regulated commercial brand of Duke was formed with the combination of several previous units, including REC Solar, Duke Energy Renewables Wind, and other subsidiaries.

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 8, 2019

In April 2019, in the heart of coal country, Indiana regulators rejected a proposal by its electric and gas utility, Vectren, to replace baseload coal plants with a new $900 million, 850 megawatt (MW) natural gas-fired power plant.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Winter electricity demand hit record highs of more than 69 gigawatts on Sunday evening, spiking pressure on the grid. However, the root cause of the grid emergency is not excess demand but rather lack of supply. “So effectively we are seeing 30 GW-plus of load curtailment at times,” he wrote.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Currently, thermal energy production (not storage) for electricity is still not competitive with natural gas and other renewables. Geothermal power is a low-carbon source of energy with no intermittent problems. Commercial (a) heating and (b) cooling demand by U.S. Renewable Energy , 164 , 777790. link] NREL. Porlles, J.,

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 16, 2021

The expected decreased demand for fossil fuels, coupled with the falling costs associated with renewable energy projects, are driving major oil and gas companies – including bp, Total and Shell – to actively restructure their businesses to add more renewable power projects to their portfolios. over the same period.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Some of those pathways move more dramatically toward closing coal plants or halting new natural gas power plants. Others rely on options like offshore wind that are untested in the U.S., ” That’s given Duke a “dual-peaking” system, with both summer and winter demand spikes to deal with.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

National Grid US had developed a vision highlighting Long Island as an ideal location to cluster hydrogen production, storage, and demand. It can be produced by electrolysis, separating the H2 from oxygen in water, and by the more carbon-intensive method of steam reforming of natural gas. Hydrogen has no carbon atom.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Virginia has inked a 420-megawatt solar and wind power contract, the largest single procurement of renewable energy to power U.S. Thursday’s deal with utility Dominion Virginia includes 75 megawatts of onshore wind power from Apex Clean Energy and 345 megawatts of solar projects.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

What would happen if you converted all the single-family homes in Texas from natural gas to electric heating? That if we electrify a lot of different end uses or sectors of the economy that power demand of the grid would double or something like that.” cents per therm for natural gas.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 19, 2024

Previously, the terms blue and green hydrogen were used to describe hydrogen derived from natural gas and electrolysis, respectively. Hydrogen derived from natural gas has been widely criticized as an ineffective greenwash that leaks planet-warming methane into the atmosphere.

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Clean Energy Canada

DECEMBER 5, 2023

And yet it would be a mistake to view renewables as an active battleground in the culture wars, losing sight of their real value as key technologies that can deliver low-cost electricity at a time when demand is growing. and Ontario have started advertising near-term procurements focused on new wind and solar resources. And both B.C.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 17, 2022

This system, in use since the start of the liberalisation of electricity markets in the 1990s, works as a continuous auction, ensuring that electricity sources with the lowest cost of production are used to meet demand first. All suppliers bidding in this auction get paid the same price, namely the price that balances demand and supply.

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

With studies indicating that Canadian power demand could double between now and 2050, the federal government recently proposed the Clean Electricity Regulations to help ensure that Canada’s power system remains both clean and affordable in the years ahead. Analyses for the U.S. Analyses for the U.S. even without a carbon price.

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R-Squared Energy

JULY 26, 2021

The Review provides a comprehensive picture of supply and demand for major energy sources on a country-level basis. For example, as I will detail below, oil demand fell dramatically last year, but we already know that it has largely recovered in 2021. Natural Gas. Global natural gas consumption declined by 2.3%.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 19, 2020

gigawatts of carbon-free resources to help meet grid reliability needs that will arise when four natural gas-fired power plants retire next year to reduce their environmental harm to coastal waters. It’s the second major procurement from a California utility meant to comply with the CPUC’s order for 3.3

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The ninth edition of the Sustainable Energy in America Factbook tells the story of American energy efficiency, natural gas and renewable energy in a volatile year. Greenhouse Gas Emissions Source: BloombergNEF estimate. The economic disruption caused a massive drop in national greenhouse gas emissions. Figure 1: U.S.

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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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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

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Hydrogen Economy” report forecasts that hydrogen from low-carbon sources could supply roughly 14 percent of the country’s energy needs by 2050, including hard-to-electrify sectors now dependent on natural gas such as high-heat industrial processes or manufacturing fertilizer.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 2, 2021

an Enbridge company, announced a green hydrogen project for injection into a natural gas distribution network in Quebec, Canada, to be powered by hydro. The plant will be built in the Masson sector of the City of Gatineau, adjacent to Evolugen’s hydroelectric facilities, which will power the electrolyzer.

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R-Squared Energy

JULY 13, 2022

The Review provides a comprehensive picture of supply and demand for major energy sources on a country-level basis. Energy consumption and production dramatically dropped in 2020, but since then demand has rebounded. Natural Gas. Natural gas has been the fastest-growing fossil fuel in recent years, with a global 2.2%

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 28, 2020

CPS closed two coal-fired power plants in 2018 and is examining the future of some of its single-cycle, natural-gas-fired power plants, Gold-Williams said. CPS serves more than 840,000 electric and 350,000 natural-gas customer accounts, or about 1.9

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R-Squared Energy

AUGUST 23, 2024

The Review provides a comprehensive picture of supply and demand for major energy sources on a country-level basis. Solar and wind power drove global renewable electricity generation to a record-breaking 4,748 TWh, marking a 13% increase from the previous year. Overview In 2023, renewable energy sources surged to new heights.

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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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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

That’s how much additional capacity Duke expects to need in the next 15 years to make up for the retirement of its coal-fired power plant fleet and aging natural-gas plants. All of the scenarios are less reliant on wind power, which plays little role in the Southeastern U.S. billion and nearly $9 billion.

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R-Squared Energy

AUGUST 10, 2023

While renewable power expanded at record rates, fossil fuels maintained an 82% share of total primary energy consumption. Natural gas and coal demand stayed nearly flat with oil rebounding close to pre-pandemic levels. Primary Global Energy Consumption 2022 ROBERT RAPIER Global energy demand grew by 1.1%

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Hydrogen Fuel News

MARCH 2, 2024

Moreover, it must be scalable as the demand for H2 continues to climb.  At the same time that H2 is a great way to store renewable energy such as solar and wind power, hydrogen storage isn’t necessarily simple. What makes it so important?

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