GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 14, 2021

EIA and IEA are out with projections for emissions and fossil fuel consumption. And even though renewables will be the fastest-growing new source of energy, hydrocarbon liquid fuels will meet the majority of demand. The Energy Gang is brought to you by Hitachi ABB Power Grids. And they don’t look good.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

homes are built with air-source heat pumps instead of fossil-fuel burning systems. The next hurdle is to start electrifying buildings in parts of the country where it's been difficult to eliminate fossil fuel-burning building systems. Already, more than 40 percent of new U.S.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

At the core of this collaboration is Blooms high-temperature fuel cell technology. Unlike conventional gas turbines, which require combustion to produce electricity, Bloom’s fuel cells convert natural gas through an electrochemical process.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Some of its notable advancements in this field include: Residential Hydrogen Fuel Cells : Panasonic’s ENE-FARM, a household fuel cell, has been commercially available since 2009 in Japan and is now expanding to Europe. Another compelling aspect is scalability.

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The Verge: Energy

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Now, shoring up energy systems means bringing renewables online to prevent more extreme climate change — especially as climate-fueled disasters like heatwaves and storms increasingly threaten power grids across the world. Demand for coal, oil, and gas is expected to peak this decade, according to the IEA’s new Outlook.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 29, 2020

San Antonio municipal utility CPS Energy wants to replace aging fossil-fueled generation with more than a gigawatt of solar, energy storage and flexible capacity, and it’s asking for ideas on how to get there. Sommers natural-gas power plants. It’s also planning to retire the aging Braunig and O.W.

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Business Green

MAY 26, 2020

A previous report in Drax's Electric Insights series earlier this year noted that British power emissions had fallen by roughly two thirds between 2019 and 2010, or to 54 million tonnes from 161 million tonnes, as generators had shifted away from coal and natural gas to renewables.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 1, 2021

Green hydrogen is both an untested and a potentially vital way for renewable-energy-powered grids to store their intermittent power for later use, not just for hours at a time, but for days, weeks or even seasons ahead. That project envisions turning excess solar into hydrogen to augment the natural-gas supply for FPL’s 1.75-gigawatt

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The company's software allows the campuses to operate as Controllable Load Resources to the electrical grid, replacing reliability products often provided by fossil fuel plants. The study found that adding data center load to the grid incentivizes additional deployment of wind and solar energy.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

. “Wind power is the dominant source of renewable energy in the U.S., and it is helping to drive the transformation of the nation’s power grid away from fossil fuels,” S&P analysts Justin Horwath and Krizka Danielle Del Rosario wrote. wind power capacity pipeline includes 8.6

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 9, 2019

This enables minimization of use of fossil fuels and maximized reduction of emissions.” Power-to-gas involves using excess renewable power to manufacture carbon-neutral synthetic methane. This fuel is carbon-neutral and can be used in flexible gas generation in place of natural gas.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 4, 2020

Dominion Virginia’s new integrated resource plan (IRP), announced Friday, represents a potentially historic shift for the state’s largest utility, which has seen previous plans rejected by Virginia regulators for their over-reliance on fossil fuel power plants and infrastructure to be paid for by ratepayers.

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Business Green

MAY 18, 2021

The death knell is being sounded for fossil fuels. By far the most startling aspect of today's report is the outlook for fossil fuels. Crucially, by 2035, no cars powered purely by fossil fuels should be sold anywhere in the world, which would effectively remove a huge market for the oil industry.

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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. But in the high-wind and no-new-natural-gas scenarios, those costs increase to between $7.5 billion and nearly $9 billion.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 10, 2021

And unlike last month’s CPUC order to utilities to boost grid supply under short-term contracts, the new proposal might allow contracts of five years or longer to expand or repower natural gas-fired power plants, which environmental groups say could set California back on its aggressive carbon emissions reduction goals.

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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

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 4, 2019

In 2018, renewables accounted for 20 percent of Alliant’s portfolio while coal made up 31 percent and natural gas accounted for 42 percent. billion through 2020 on updating its power grid to interface more effectively with solar and other renewables as well as electric vehicles and batteries.

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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. This difference is mainly due to the Southeast’s reliance on electricity rather than natural gas for heating air and water in buildings, Snider explained.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Electrification is essential in the national strategy to transition away from fossil fuels , with buildings alone accounting for 35% of the countrys carbon emissions. based project is testing blending hydrogen with natural gas in local networks to minimize disruption while offering low-carbon heating. HyDeploy This U.K.-based

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 17, 2020

The San Francisco-based utility is emerging from bankruptcy with a massive debt load that could make it harder to raise the tens of billions of dollars of investment needed to prevent its power grid from causing more devastating wildfires. PG&E plans to invest about $40 billion over the next five years into its power grid.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

State regulators have proposed a major set of responses to what could be a looming grid reliability shortfall in Sothern California, including a 2.5-gigawatt SoCal's grid headaches. gigawatt reliability resources procurement between 2021 and 2023.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 23, 2023

The two corporations investing billions to build three new factories just outside Columbus, Ohio, have said that the facilities will be carbon neutral — despite Ohio’s near-total reliance on electricity from fossil fuels. The REC market is expected to grow to more than $26 billion by 2030 — more than double its current size.

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AutoGrid

MARCH 30, 2022

New York and Texas Offer Opportunities to Replace Fossil Fuel Peaker Plants. The emergence of virtual power plants (VPPs) as bona fide replacements for fossil fuel peaker plants has been discussed conceptually, but is there data to support this opportunity? By Peter Asmus. What are the alternatives?

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Smart Energy International

JULY 27, 2022

Have you read: Canada invests $8m into 3D vector mapping to expedite net zero efforts Canada pledges millions to support Atlin hydroelectric power expansion Kicking out coal and greening gas on the road to net zero. Unabated natural gas use also would be allowed during emergency circumstances.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 9, 2020

From 2025, all new boilers sold should be 'hydrogen-ready', before natural gas boilers are removed from sale altogether for homes and businesses by 2033 at the latest. The government's Future Homes Standard - which requires all new build homes to be free of fossil fuels for heating - should be in place for new build homes by 2023.

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Climate Tech VC

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Longtime transmission guru Carl Zichella once called the American electric grid the “most complicated machine we’ve ever built”, and with $1T of IRA-driven renewable investments in the pipeline, it’s only going to get more complex. In other locations, grids stretch across international borders.

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

still obtained 63% of its electricity from fossil fuels. How feasible is the objective of completely decarbonizing the power sector by 2035? power grid by 2050. The power generated last year from coal and natural gas was respectively 1,054 TWh and 1,700 TWh. trillion through 2035.

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Business Green

JULY 17, 2020

It is energy-efficient, abundant and an environmentally friendly alternative to natural gas. Clean hydrogen could cut greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel by up to 34 per cent, reported Bloomberg New Energy Finance. And it could be cheaper than producing hydrogen from natural gas.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Forced outages are a tool of last resort, employed in circumstances of incredible stress to the grid and done to protect against more widespread outages. Record heat for several days across parts of the state strained the power grid so much that it started rationing electricity, for the first time in almost 20 years.

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Smart Energy International

JULY 5, 2022

The issue with power grids stems when providing multiple functions. We currently do have storage, but we have it in the form of burning gas, or coal or oil when we need it. What is your opinion on the policy side of things? Policy plays a crucial role. For long duration storage, things like capacity markets are really important.

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Vote Solar

AUGUST 17, 2017

In fact, the California Independent System Operator, the managers of our statewide power grid, say they have been planning for this event for over a year and are confident that our power won’t be interrupted. In fact, solar is already proving more reliable than California’s traditional power plants during summer heat waves.

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Eco-Business

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Besides use of the fossil fuel, the city-state plans to boost solar adoption, tap regional power grids and other low-carbon alternatives, and manage energy consumption.

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GreenTech Gazette

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

While a small minority in Congress is calling for green alternatives to carbon-producing energy products like coal and oil, the reusable energy market is still in its infant stages and nowhere near replacing fossil fuels. Geothermal Expense. Since it is born of the earth, geothermal ground source energy is free.

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Martin LaMonica

DECEMBER 30, 2015

Indeed, moments after the gavel went down in Paris amid much celebration, a number of questions arose, including how accountable countries will be to their commitments and whether there will be sufficient money to help developing countries adapt to the effects of climate change and move off of fossil fuels.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 20, 2021

” Achieving India’s target to deploy 450 gigawatts of renewable energy by 2030 is critical if the country is going to succeed in displacing coal generation on the power grid as overall energy consumption grows. Source: Brookings Institute " Coal in India " report. “Coal will no longer be the king.”

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MARCH 5, 2019

Coal Closure & Reliability Upgrades: Enough spare natural gas capacity exists within the Pacific Northwest region to substitute completely for coal on average. Doing so means slightly higher costs, as existing coal can be run more economically absent a price on carbon than existing natural gas.

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