GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 5, 2019

This massive solar procurement includes Quinbrook and Arevia’s newly approved Gemini project, at 690 megawatts, which is tied with the Misae 2 project in Texas as the country’s largest single solar PV array. Gemini’s 690 megawatts of solar will be matched by a 380-megawatt battery array with about 1.5

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The Guardian: Energy

MAY 7, 2024

Report says humans may be on brink of cutting fossil fuel generation, even as demand for electricity rises Renewable energy accounted for more than 30% of the world’s electricity for the first time last year following a rapid rise in wind and solar power, according to new figures. Continue reading.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 10, 2020

To fill this gap, NYISO is working toward growing transmission capacity for its ample upstate hydropower and wind power resources to reach New York City and downstate population centers, which will also be served by the 9 gigawatts of offshore wind the state is seeking by 2035.

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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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ThinkGeoEnergy

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

To understand the size of the industrial heat market, the Figure below shows the data for heat and cooling demand for the US.? For heat use in the moderate temperature range (125 250 F / 52 – 121 C), there is a market demand of 350+ trillion BTUs per year. Commercial (a) heating and (b) cooling demand by U.S. link] NREL.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 24, 2023

Hydropower, traditionally one of Africa’s most important sources of electricity, will rapidly fade in importance and cede its position to solar power. Kariba dam on the Zambezi river (image credit: DAFNE Project Politecnico di Milano).

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Midwest has massive wind power potential, and it’s a growing target for solar power projects as well. That seam cuts from north to south across the country’s wind-rich Great Plains , making it a key barrier to transmission lines that could carry wind power to eastern markets hungry for carbon-free energy.

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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

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Large customers have also developed a variety of power-purchase agreement (PPA) structures that have become the fastest-growing source of voluntary clean power demand, according to NREL data, reaching about 42 million MWh of sales last year. The emergence of community-choice aggregators has also been pivotal.

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R-Squared Energy

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Nine months later that value is $140 billion as the company grapples with the decline in energy demand brought on by the pandemic. The company has used the stable cash flows from its regulated Florida power utility (70% of revenue) to help finance its investments in renewables (30% of revenue). What did NextEra do right?

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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. above the previous year.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Jeff Perry, executive vice president of Asset Management for Agilitas Energy, writes on how energy storage technology can improve grid and renewables reliability, taking pressure off grid operators at peak demand periods. Yet, solar, in particular, is saturating some US markets.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 15, 2020

Demand for renewables from the growing number of states and utilities with 100 percent clean energy goals is almost certain to outpace their ability to supply it from within their own borders. But the time needed to build transmission lines to move the power around is running out. transmission grid.

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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 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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R-Squared Energy

AUGUST 9, 2020

The Review provides a comprehensive picture of supply and demand for major energy sources on a country-level basis. Previous articles covered overall energy consumption , petroleum supply and demand, natural gas , and coal. The “Renewables” category consists of wind power, solar power, biofuels.

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Business Green

APRIL 25, 2022

Fossil gas' share of electricity supplies shrinks to less than 15 per cent over weekend as wind power meets more than half of UK demand. With nuclear power providing 18.3 per cent of electricity generation throughout the day, and solar power 5.8 Meanwhile, fossil gas and coal produced just 14.5

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R-Squared Energy

AUGUST 26, 2022

That was remarkable given how significantly the pandemic impacted total energy demand. Hydroelectricity, which the Review reports as a separate category is growing globally at a much slower rate than modern renewables like solar power. exajoules, which is still more than wind and solar.

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R-Squared Energy

AUGUST 26, 2021

pace the year before, but it’s remarkable given how significantly the pandemic impacted total energy demand. The “Renewables” category above consists of wind power, solar power, biofuels, geothermal energy, and power produced from biomass. Despite the 4.5% That was a slight decline from its 12.2%

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

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.” All the scenarios resulted in annual household utility bill savings — including the two in which annual electricity demand increased — ranging from $57.82

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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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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. China is the single largest grid market in the world between 2020 and 2050, despite an eventual slowdown in demand growth.

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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. coal demand in 2021 also rebounded, but was still the second-lowest level since the Review began tracking it in 1965.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 3, 2021

Covid19 created a fall in generation demand. By late Spring, we were receiving reports that the UK’s coal-powered energy had fallen to ‘ pre-industrial revolution levels ’, and by the summer, that pollution levels had dropped by half. The authors of the report also showed that carbon emissions fell by 16% compared to figures from 2019.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 27, 2020

Green hydrogen is produced using solar and wind power to electrolyze water; the resulting hydrogen can later be converted back into electricity by fuel cells. generator of wind and solar power, revealed plans to build its first green hydrogen facility in Florida, to be fueled by solar power.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 17, 2022

After all, consumer prices have become much higher than the cost of producing wind and solar power. 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.

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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. These options can enable relatively high shares of wind and solar on a grid.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Here’s how: Firstly, having more renewable energy sources can increase the demand for green energy. As more wind turbines, solar arrays, and other renewable energy installations are built, they generate a larger proportion of energy on the grid. As noted, the utilities industry is shifting to more sustainable practices.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

MARCH 6, 2024

The proximity to these markets is crucial as demand for green hydrogen – a cleaner energy alternative – grows globally. High Solar and Wind Potential A significant factor in the production of green hydrogen is the availability of renewable energy sources like solar and wind power.

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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. Renewables and Nuclear Power. average annual growth rate over the past decade.

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Mr. Sustainability

AUGUST 26, 2020

Big time investments in Solar China has been by far the most active investor in solar and wind power, topping world charts for years. In fact, the Merkel government last year removed a cap on solar power subsidies to boost capacity faster. billion this year (200 billion yuan), he told Bloomberg.

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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. A similar question arises for demand response in Texas , which has largely been designed to reduce summer peaks, Goel said.

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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. You can avoid that risk and share the risk with the other energy sources.

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The Guardian: Energy

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

But a global shortage of components and skills means efforts to meet climate targets will go down to the wire From next year, engineers will need to roll out more than 100km (62 miles) of electric cabling every day until 2040 if the government hopes to power the UK towards its climate goals, according to new data. Continue reading.

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Business Green

MARCH 14, 2021

There was £95m for two massive port upgrades , confirmation GE is to open a major new turbine blade factory on Teesside, and to top it off wind power was meeting over 50 per cent of demand as the day started. While we're at it with all the good wind news - it's another 50:50 night. 50% wind power.

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The Guardian: Energy

JUNE 19, 2024

Report finds developing countries are increasing reliance on coal, gas and oil as overall demand for energy rises The world’s consumption of fossil fuels climbed to a record high last year, driving emissions to more than 40 gigatonnes of CO 2 for the first time, according to a global energy report.

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 7, 2021

coal plants are either scheduled to close by 2025 or now cost more to operate than new nearby solar or wind power would, new research shows. New solar power would have a slight edge over wind for more locations in Ohio, although there are about half a dozen places where costs for solar and wind would be within 10% of each other.

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