Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Preliminary findings of a joint investigation into the freeze that left millions in Texas without power for days last February highlighted an increasing frequency of extreme cold weather events, as well as the devastation caused by the failure of natural gas-fired plants. — Jeff Dennis (@EnergyLawJeff) September 23, 2021.

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R-Squared Energy

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Secretary of Energy Chris Wright issued his first secretarial order titled Unleashing the Golden Era of American Energy Dominance. The order outlines a comprehensive plan to accelerate domestic energy production, modernize critical infrastructure, and simplify regulatory processes. On February 5, 2025, U.S.

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R-Squared Energy

JUNE 4, 2020

Last week the Energy Information Administration (EIA) reported something extraordinary. The brief was based on the EIA’s Monthly Energy Review. The Monthly Energy Review highlights all categories of U.S. energy consumption. Further, it shows that fossil fuels still dominate our energy consumption. consumed 80.5

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POWER Magazine

JULY 25, 2024

who is now a senior policy advisor for the law firm Van Ness Feldman and co-chair of the Natural Allies Leadership Council, is keen […] The post Landrieu: Natural Gas Is ‘Not the Enemy, It Is Part of the Solution’ to Achieving Climate Goals appeared first on POWER Magazine. Mary Landrieu (D-La.),

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

million customers by 2025, adding nearly 700 megawatts of wind power, plus more solar and battery storage systems to boost rural reliability. Ameren’s “ Smart Energy Plan ,” filed Wednesday with the Missouri Public Service Commission, will direct most of its spending — $5.3 Missouri's lagging wind market.

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Science Daily: Renewable Energy

APRIL 10, 2023

nuclear power plants are retired, the burning of coal, oil, and natural gas to fill the energy gap could cause more than 5,000 premature deaths. A new study shows that if U.S.

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Solar Power World

MARCH 6, 2020

FERC released its year-end energy infrastructure report today, and initial analysis by the SUN DAY Campaign finds that renewable energy sources provided 57.26% of new U.S. electrical generating capacity added in 2019 — swamping new additions provided by coal, natural gas, oil and nuclear power combined.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

MARCH 28, 2025

Developed in collaboration with Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP) and other partners, this innovation captures over 90% of the carbon dioxide (CO2) generated during hydrogen production from natural gas. Its not just a step towards eco-friendly power plants; its a leap. And it gets better.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union on February 2 proposed including nuclear energy and natural gas in its plans for building a climate-friendly future, dividing member countries and drawing outcry from environmentalists as “greenwashing.” New nuclear plants producing electricity or heat are allowed until 2045.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Pacific Gas & Electric is asking state regulators to approve another massive round of energy storage procurements, including its first large-scale contract for behind-the-meter batteries to serve grid needs. gigawatt-hours, of energy storage projects. The leading U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 29, 2020

Two more utilities in Arizona and Colorado are moving to accelerate closure of coal plants and replace them with renewable energy backed by batteries, joining a broader push in both states to shift to more cost-effective clean energy options even in the absence of state mandates. gigawatts of energy storage by 2035.

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R-Squared Energy

AUGUST 17, 2024

In June, the Energy Institute released the 2024 Statistical Review of World Energy. The Review provides a comprehensive picture of supply and demand for major energy sources on a country-level basis. Overview In 2023, nuclear power generation increased by 2% despite a slight decrease in total installed capacity.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 17, 2020

California was beset by its first rolling blackouts since the 2001 energy crisis, as a heatwave slammed the Western U.S. Electricity demand for air conditioning throughout the region stretched California's power capacity and limited the state's ability to import power from nearby states. Friday and Saturday.

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 29, 2021

according to the Energy Information Administration , coming in second to natural gas at 1,617 billion kWh. Renewable energy sources include wind, hydroelectric, solar, biomass and geothermal energy. Only natural gas produced more electricity than renewables in the U.S.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 17, 2022

How are European policymakers dealing with the energy crisis? On behalf of environmental group RePlanet, energy specialist Joris van Dorp offers a deep analysis of the key messages in Europe’s policy. For much of the past decade, they have barely been breaking even as energy prices have been at historic lows.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Hydrogen is increasingly seen as an important component of efforts to decarbonise the global energy system, providing a potential means of eradicating emissions from "difficult to decarbonise" sectors such as aviation, shipping, heating, and heavy industries such as cement manufacture.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Washington DC — Driven by strong solar and wind power growth, electrical generation by renewable energy sources (i.e., Energy Information Administration (EIA). Renewable sources also expanded their lead over nuclear power, providing 10.72% more electricity than the nation’s atomic power plants (18.47% of the total).

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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. million-customer utility, said in a Tuesday interview.

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The is the sixth article in a series on the recently released 2023 Statistical Review of World Energy. Previous articles discussed the trends in global carbon dioxide emissions , the overall highlights of the Review, the production and consumption of petroleum, natural gas production and consumption, and coal production and consumption.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 5, 2020

utility group Dominion Energy agreed Sunday to sell most of its natural gas business and abandon its multi-billion dollar Atlantic Coast Pipeline project with Duke Energy meant to supply its home-state market of Virginia. a natural gas utility serving Utah. gigawatts of energy storage over the next 15 years.

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Solar Power World

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

According to a review by the SUN DAY Campaign of data just released by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), the agency has once again revised its three-year forecast for changes in the U.S. electrical generating capacity mix.

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R-Squared Energy

JULY 15, 2019

This is the final article in a series based on BP’s recently-released Statistical Review of World Energy 2019. Increases Its Dominance In Natural Gas Production. Renewables Catching Nuclear Power In Global Energy Race. Today, I want to discuss nuclear energy. In 2018, the U.S. with 15.3%

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 25, 2021

Washington DC – According to a review by the SUN DAY Campaign of data recently released by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), renewable energy sources (i.e., Energy Information Administration (EIA), renewable energy sources (i.e., ”

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R-Squared Energy

JULY 11, 2019

This article is the fifth in a series on BP’s recently-released Statistical Review of World Energy 2019. Previous articles in this series covered carbon dioxide emissions, petroleum supply and demand, the production and consumption of coal, and global natural gas trends: BP Warns Of An Unsustainable Path. Renewables.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

While small modular reactors have powered naval ships for decades and are also in use in other military applications, they’ve yet to be approved for use in commercial power generation. In terms of cost, NuScale is targeting a levelized cost of energy of $65 per megawatt-hour and a cost to build that would equate to $2.9

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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. To be sure, no U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

The Texas energy system is having a wintry moment of reckoning. million utility customers, approximately one-third of the state’s electric customers, were without power in Texas as of Tuesday morning, up from about 2.5 million on Monday morning, according to data from PowerOutage.US.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 4, 2020

Utility Dominion Energy is planning a major shift toward renewable energy and batteries as it looks to comply with Virginia's ambitious new clean energy law. gigawatts of energy storage over the next 15 years. Credit: Dominion Energy). Under the law, Dominion Virginia and the smaller Appalachian Power Co.

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R-Squared Energy

JUNE 15, 2023

This transition is being driven by several factors, including environmental regulations, competition from natural gas, and the declining cost of renewable energy. As coal-fired power plants are retired, there is a need for reliable and affordable zero-emission power replacements. Department of Energy.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

AUGUST 31, 2023

The US Department of Energy (DOE) is placing a major focus on nuclear hydrogen as a component of the US government’s proposed $7 billion push for clean H2 production. The idea is to be able to focus on carbon emission-free production powered by energy already installed.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

confirmed Tuesday that it is exploring a plan to separate its multi-state utilities businesses from its generation business, which is preparing to close two of its 21 nuclear power plants due to money-losing market conditions. State support for zero-carbon nuclear scrambled by bribery scandal. Exelon Corp.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Entergy Mississippi plans to replace some aging natural gas plants with 1,000 megawatts of renewable energy by 2027, the largest ever expansion of renewable energy in the state's history. The plan calls for Entergy Mississippi to add 500 MW of renewable power to its portfolio by 2025 and another 500 MW by 2027.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

power forecast , the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ( FERC ) has predicted major declines for fossil fuels and nuclear power alongside strong growth in renewables by 2022, according to a review of the data by the SUN DAY Campaign, a pro-renewables research and education nonprofit.

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R-Squared Energy

JUNE 28, 2020

This week BP released its Statistical Review of World Energy 2020. The Review covers energy data through 2019, and provides a comprehensive picture of supply and demand for major energy sources on a country-level basis. This annual report is one of the most important sources of global energy data.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Washington DC – According to a review by the SUN DAY Campaign of data recently released by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), solar, wind, and other renewable energy sources (i.e., Most of the balance was provided by natural gas (2,327 MW) coupled with very small contributions from oil (19 MW) and coal (11 MW).

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R-Squared Energy

JULY 26, 2021

Earlier this month the BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2o21 was released, covering energy data through 2020. The Review provides a comprehensive picture of supply and demand for major energy sources on a country-level basis. Typically, the Review gives us a comprehensive summary of energy trends. Energy Overview.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

In a groundbreaking study, experts from the National Nuclear Laboratory (NNL) have unveiled a promising vision for the future of clean energy. This innovative approach not only promises economic viability but also underscores the role of nuclear energy as a sustainable, low-carbon power source.

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