GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

utility can reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 while still keeping natural gas as a central part of its business, both to generate electricity and to sell to its customers. utility has yet fully fleshed out how it intends to eliminate natural gas power plants from its generation portfolio.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 5, 2021

California is facing a major decision under a tight deadline — whether it should push for large-scale power plants and batteries to prevent a repeat of its August 2020 rolling blackouts this coming summer, or turn to behind-the-meter resources like batteries and demand response. 14 and 15 last year. 14 and 15 last year.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Six months after inking California’s largest single energy storage procurement, utility Southern California Edison has added another three massive utility-scale battery projects to its portfolio—plus a behind-the-meter battery project with Sunrun. gigawatt-hours of energy storage capacity, for August 2021 delivery.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 21, 2020

Total and Marubeni will own a 40 percent stake in the project with Siraj Energy, a joint venture between Qatar Petroleum and Qatar Electricity & Water Company, owning the remainder. Qatari national power firm Kahramaa has signed a 25-year power-purchase agreement for the output of the project. Kahramaa President H.E.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Those include a deal with state power agency Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems to build 12 of its 50-megawatt modules by 2030 to deliver power across the Intermountain West as part of UAMPS’ Carbon Free Power Project. NuScale says it has also signed agreements with entities in the U.S.,

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

The energy and utilities industries play a significant role in carbon emissions. In the US, 25% of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions come from electricity generation. This is not surprising, with coal and natural gas representing about 60% of electrical supply. Energy Transition for Sustainability.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Reaching Net Zero operations by 2050 will require huge changes in industrial practices – such as how we use energy and source raw materials – but despite all the challenges, the target is achievable writes Rob Jenkinson. After all, manufacturers are typically energy-intensive businesses. This is a tough challenge.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 23, 2020

market for distributed energy resources will look very different in five years than it does today. And electric vehicles will give utilities and regulators the opportunity to promote pricing regimes to encourage charging when electricity is abundant — or suffer potentially grid-destabilizing consequences.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 16, 2020

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Thursday rejected requests to reconsider its controversial orders that will upend the $10 billion-per-year capacity market of mid-Atlantic grid operator PJM by forcing state-subsidized renewable energy resources to bid at higher prices that could render them uncompetitive.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Duke Energy is the latest major utility to commit to a carbon-free future, with a plan to cut its emissions in half by 2030 and eliminate them completely by midcentury. The gas question. This reliance on natural gas aligns Duke with most U.S. utility, due to the company’s size.

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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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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 6, 2021

Last summer’s record heat waves triggered a surge in power demand that maxed out supplies and led to outages across the West. California and other states are pushing to use clean electricity to power vehicles and buildings to cut carbon, which will increase demand. THE BIG RETHINK.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 19, 2021

West pushed electricity demand past available supply, and problems with California’s resource adequacy program and market practices for ensuring adequate grid capacity failed to correct the imbalance. Simply put, the heat waves that blanketed the U.S.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Photoncycle claims it can store solar power from summer to winter cheaper than batteries. Photoncycle, a startup from Norway, is tackling interseason storage of solar energy, which could save the abundance of solar energy generated in sunny months to be used for heat and electricity in the winter.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JULY 13, 2024

In a recent open letter, 120 scientists and academics have called on the organizers of the Paris 2024 Olympics to reconsider the use of Toyota’s Mirai hydrogen-powered vehicles as the official fleet. This method utilizes water, solar power, and agricultural waste to reduce the energy required for hydrogen production by 600 percent.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 19, 2020

After a massive heat wave in California that led grid operator CAISO to order its first rolling blackouts since the 2001 energy crisis on Friday and Saturday, the state has thus far managed to avoid further forced outages. CAISO has issued a "Flex Alert" asking Californians to conserve energy from 3 p.m. through at least Wednesday.

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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. That plan broke new ground for the 1.9

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Beyond the environmental benefits and lower electric bills, it turns out installing solar panels on your house actually benefits your whole community. For years some utility companies have worried that solar panels drive up electric costs for people without panels. Value of Solar. Sunny Savings.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Our customers can be proud their products are made in facilities that use 100% renewable energy. 2) Direct Renewable Energy Projects : As a result, 70% of the company’s facilities have on-site clean energy projects. The project is the largest commercial solar array in Kentucky and the largest worldwide by tonnage produced.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

One of the nation’s largest coal plants permanently powered down this week after the owners determined it would be uneconomical to continue operating the facility as natural gas and renewable energy prices continue to drop. Other partial owners include Arizona Public Service, NV Energy and Tucson Electric Power.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 3, 2021

As of 2020, it was responsible for the transmission of that 450 GW of installed wind and solar power. Solar-rich Xinjiang Province, in the country’s northwest, saw curtailment in excess of 30 percent in 2016, according to official data. That solar surge saw the country’s cumulative installed PV capacity go from 6.5

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 14, 2020

this weekend will push California’s grid to the limits, as the state charts a course to eliminating fossil fuel power. To prepare, grid operator CAISO issued a Flex Alert , asking customers to reduce electricity consumption during the late afternoon and evening Friday as the grid copes with “near-record or record-breaking heat.”

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R-Squared Energy

JULY 13, 2022

Last week the BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2022 was released, covering energy data through 2021. The Review provides a comprehensive picture of supply and demand for major energy sources on a country-level basis. Energy usage and consumption statistics continue to be dominated by the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 12, 2020

Engie is on the lookout for more clean energy acquisitions in the U.S., With a long history in fossil fuels and nuclear energy, Engie has pivoted dramatically toward renewables over the past few years — a strategy that included the U.S. gas plants — no small thing for a company once known as Gaz de France (GDF). "My

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 16, 2024

A major cold snap led to record electricity usage in the Canadian province of Alberta over the weekend, culminating in demands from provincial utilities to limit consumption. The extreme cold and record-setting electrical consumption has reignited local debates about whether heat pumps are a viable option in the province.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Century-old electric technology company GE kicked off 2019 with yet another reorg. The workhorse Power division was split up, to start. Though still a top supplier of the world's natural gas turbines, the division had turned into a money-loser as renewable adoption surged. Doubling down on inverters.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 13, 2021

The proportion of global power generation represented by VRE, such as wind and solar power, has been rising rapidly since 2007. And according to IEA’ Renewables 2020, Launch Presentation from November 10, 2020, global wind and solar PV’s combined installed capacity will surpass that of natural gas in 2023 and coal in 2024.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Although the proposed ‘all-source’ procurement would allow existing natural gas-fired peaker plants to compete, it could also open a massive new market for renewable energy, energy storage, demand response and other preferred alternatives to fossil fuels. Fitch wrote in Thursday’s proposed decision.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

The solar industry met in Salt Lake City with a more sweeping and disciplined message than in some years past : Rally to extend the federal investment tax credit and buckle up for a decade of massive industry growth. The Solar Energy Industries Association industry group published a roadmap Monday to increase solar power to 20 percent of U.S.

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 11, 2022

Concept drawing of an energy storage system. In its most recent Electricity Monthly Update , the U.S. 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 Source: FirmoGraphs Power Mart ; reproduced from Qlik Sense Enterprise.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

The falling cost of wind and solar power significantly reduces the need for carbon capture and storage technology to tackle climate change, a new paper has argued. Cheap, abundant renewable energy reduces the value of CCS in all areas.”. by the end of the century. Renewables. The Right Kind of CCS’.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 22, 2024

and other fossil fuel companies are urging the European Union to relax targets to boost climate-friendly “green” hydrogen, hoping to win greater support for projects to manufacture the fuel using natural gas. Spanish and Portuguese energy companies are beginning to shift into green hydrogen production. ExxonMobil Corp.

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Grist

MARCH 9, 2020

billion — Fortune Magazine published a more-alarming statistic : Streaming the nearly five-minute video that many times required as much computing power “as 40,000 U.S. And all that computational activity takes energy. That’s mainly thanks to improvements in energy efficiency. Curbing energy use. homes use in a year.”.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 13, 2024

To save you the trouble of opening marketing emails, we’ve curated a list of noteworthy announcements relevant to the renewable energy sector, including new EV charging solutions, clean energy storage, and electric Caterpillar vehicles. Bosch is investing in technologies along the hydrogen value chain. Have you read?

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 13, 2024

To save you the trouble of opening marketing emails, we’ve curated a list of noteworthy announcements relevant to the renewable energy sector, including new EV charging solutions, clean energy storage, and electric Caterpillar vehicles. Bosch is investing in technologies along the hydrogen value chain. Have you read?

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Energy and Water Efficient Sustainable Home Products. When it comes to sustainable home products, you should be looking for home appliances designed for energy and water efficiency, such as those certified by credible organizations like ENERGY STAR and WaterSense. total energy consumption. ENERGY STAR certified LG 7.4

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Hydrogen Fuel News

DECEMBER 18, 2024

has made significant strides in green hydrogen production, showcasing how sunlight and water can be harnessed to pave the way for a sustainable energy future. By integrating solar cells from CTF Solar GmbH into its core technology, SunHydrogen has developed an innovative process to produce clean hydrogen and oxygen.

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