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. Without adequate investment, the grid could become a bottleneck, slowing progress, said BNEF.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 13, 2020

Smart Wires is one of a handful of companies developing digital power flow control systems that could revolutionize how power grids function, compared to the mostly electromechanical system in place today. Deployments in Europe, Australia to test power flow capabilities. In the U.K.,

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Certification and compliance with the standards will enable Siemens Gamesa to deploy its turbines across the markets and Europe, according to a statement. The wind energy sector has been expanding rapidly over the past decade ender efforts by governments and utilities to decarbonize power generation and economies.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Andy Marsh, CEO of report sponsor Plug Power, noted Monday that the company’s hydrogen fuel cell-powered forklifts and distribution center vehicles used by customers like Amazon, Walmart, Home Depot and Lowe’s are using about 27 million tons of hydrogen per day, supplied by its more than 100 fueling stations across the country.

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Business Green

JANUARY 22, 2021

As with the rest of the growing fleet of UK interconnectors the cable is designed to expediate trade in power between different countries, making it easier for grid operators to balance grids across northern Europe that are increasingly reliant on intermittent renewable power generation.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 13, 2023

According to the startup, with the popularity and commissioning of renewable energy rising globally, the role of energy storage and flexible demand will be crucial, necessitating the balance of consumption and production of electricity to ensure grid stability. A subsidiary of E.ON Essent has 2.3

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 19, 2024

The technologies, which can be integrated into existing wind turbine control systems, are aimed to address the two major issues identified with the rapid growth of wind farms globally – namely power system frequency control and forced oscillations, which can cause widespread disruption over entire power grids.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

The WGHI plans a regional approach "that's taking a page from the playbook" of green hydrogen plans being put f orward in Europe and Asia, said Laura Nelson, executive director of the Green Hydrogen Coalition advocacy group. and Europe.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

These PV systems with a total capacity of 690kWp are now connected to the power grid without their own inverters, but via an existing 2MW wind turbine. Technically sophisticated, it represents a plant combination of wind and solar energy including battery storage , which is said to be unique in Europe in this form.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 20, 2024

Danish TSO Energinet has signed an agreement with Siemens Energy on a comprehensive expansion of the power grid in Western Denmark. By 2030, Denmark must quadruple its electricity generation from wind and solar power, with more to come in the following decades.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 21, 2022

The project is part of the federal grid expansion plan that aims to increase the grid’s capacity and prepare it for better integration of renewable energy. Along its route, there is already significantly more energy produced from wind power and photovoltaic plants than is needed locally.

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Clean Energy Canada

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Even without carbon pricing, wind power is set to be 40 per cent cheaper than gas-fired power in Alberta and Ontario by 2030. Our analysis also explores the costs of using battery storage to complement wind and solar power, finding that, even with storage included, both are still highly cost-competitive.

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Smart Energy International

JULY 16, 2024

Germany’s four TSOs are partnering with Siemens Energy, GE Vernova and Hitachi Energy to develop multiterminal hubs with direct current circuit breakers for the first time, a concept they believe is unique in Europe, to link the new extra-high voltage direct current connections.

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Business Green

JANUARY 18, 2021

The world is expecting a turning point in support for a green economy this year, writes National Grid's COP26 director Duncan Burt. Last year we saw a genuine step change in ambitions to tackle climate change globally crowned by net zero commitments from Europe and China.

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Business Green

AUGUST 2, 2022

For many years energy security was an issue resolved by complex, continent-wide gas pipelines which stretched from Russia into the heart of Europe. We now know this reliance on Russian gas didn't strengthen Europe's energy security - in fact it weakened it.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Also on the financial radar this week, two separate green bonds have been announced in different parts of Europe. Enel signed, through Enel Grids S.r.l., The company operates four hydro power plants, and the only wind power plant in Georgia with a combined capacity of 71MW. Enel sells 50% stake in Gridspertise.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

The National Grid also pays gas fired power stations to stay on standby during the winter as a precaution for any faults or shutdowns, but this role is increasingly being taken on by low carbon technologies such as battery storage, the capacity for which has surged to 2.5GW this year, ECIU said.

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Business Green

MARCH 30, 2022

A Polestar 2 charged with wind power, for instance, will have a carbon footprint of 27 tonnes over its lifetime use compared to 42 tonnes when charged with the typical energy mix from the power grid in Europe. But to use them to their full sustainability potential they must be charged with renewable energy.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Smart grids are a new generation of electric power grids that use digital technology to improve the reliability, efficiency, and sustainability of the grid. Smart grids can help to reduce outages, improve power quality, and enable new services such as demand-side management and renewable energy integration.

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Business Green

JULY 7, 2020

It would allow Wrightbus to keep manufacturing costs down and sell cheaper buses, while justifying the construction of five new wind-powered hydrogen production plants in coastal regions of the UK. An order of 3,000 buses, which is roughly 10 per cent of the UK's operational bus fleet, creates demand and volume, he says.

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Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2023

But batteries undeniably remain the most common form of energy storage and are widely regarded as a critical component of the net zero transition and an enabler of both vehicle electrification and cleaner, more efficient grids dominated by intermittent solar and wind power.

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Climate Tech VC

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

☔ Neara , a Sydney, Australia-based power grid modeling and digital twin software provider, raised $45m in Series C funding from EQT, Partners Group, Prosus Ventures, Skip Capital, and Square Peg Capital.  The IEA renewed its Energy Technology Perspectives , a guidebook to clean energy technology, for 2024.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

Major investment is urgently needed to roll out up to 24GW of long-duration energy storage over the next 15 years to help smooth operation of the grid as it contends with a rapid influx of intermittent wind power capacity, Aurora Energy Research has warned.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 20, 2023

With targets now set for the phase-out of gas boilers in countries across Europe, in recent years, gas companies in the UK and the EU have lobbied hard for hydrogen over heat pumps – the model which offers the least disruption to their business model. Hydrogen can be made in a number of ways – some of which are more polluting than others.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Johnson's government is targeting 40GW of offshore wind and 1GW of floating wind capacity by 2030, and recently set an ambition for the UK's power grid to be net zero emission by 2035.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Britain added more onshore and offshore wind capacity than any other country in Europe last year at 2.8GW, latest industry figures show. Climate neutrality and the Green Deal require Europe to install over twice as much new wind energy each year as it managed in 2019," said WindEurope CEO Giles Dickson.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Denmark was its first European target, with pilot projects leading to a commercial V2G operation that’s been running for four years , using fleet vehicle battery flexibility to provide frequency regulation services to grid operator Energinet to help it manage its wind-power-heavy grid. Trahand said.

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Wind power turbines and home battery systems might have a little more industry wiggle room. In some countries, entire power grids are being overhauled as market restrictions eliminate some methods of energy production in favor of cleaner alternatives. Sustainable Agriculture.

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Grist

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The region’s power grid — part of a larger Western grid — is too weak and fractured to reliably integrate the massive increase in renewable energy needed to decarbonize. Ensuring a cleaner and reliable grid. Cascadia’s rules don’t constrain highway expansion, which tends to increase driving and thus emissions.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 12, 2021

million workers in everything from manufacturing all-electric vehicles and modernizing the power grid to building solar farms and maintaining wind turbines. which sources and recruits candidates in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Central America, Europe, and Asia. Currently, the U.S. employs nearly 3.4

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 7, 2020

A big part of the world’s electricity decarbonization challenge lies in expanding transmission capacity for wind and solar power — and according to energy experts, Europe and the U.S. But using existing grid infrastructure more efficiently could help as well. are falling behind on that task.

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Business Green

AUGUST 13, 2020

Myriad other issues also compete for voters' attention, and climate change often takes lower billing on the US political agenda than it does in Europe. This incorporates roads and bridges, but also a green power grid and improved water infrastructure. Ending subsidies for fossil fuels is part of Biden's proposal.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Europe's second-largest coal power operator PGE is planning to ditch fossil fuels altogether, unveiling a transformation plan on Monday to become a 100 per cent renewable electricity company by 2050. China urged to target 3TW of wind power to reach 2060 net zero goal.

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