GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 4, 2019

DENVER — It's become a cliche to compare today's energy storage market to where the solar industry was a certain number of years ago. Hawaii hit on storage because solar installations were flooding its isolated island grids: Batteries offered a way to store that power for the evening peaks when it was more useful.

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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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GreenTechMedia

JULY 9, 2020

PacifiCorp’s integrated resource plan identifies Wyoming as the likely site of most of its new wind power, where new transmission lines are being built to capture the state’s high wind potential, including Rocky Mountain Power's Gateway West project.

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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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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 1, 2021

has made the case for why utilities, not customers, should be responsible for the cost of retiring fossil fuel assets. Securitization: One Tool for Early Fossil Fuel Retirement. Securitization is a cheaper way to retire fossil fuel plants early. Originally published at ILSR.org.

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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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Business Green

JULY 21, 2022

A new report by the think tank maps out the green energy jobs potential across England and Wales, estimating that low carbon power sources such as renewables and nuclear could create three times more secure, skilled jobs than gas power, while the wind and solar sectors hold potential to deliver five times more employment than fossil fuel plants.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 21, 2021

It goes without saying that buyers are looking for sustainable companies to do business with and a big part of going green involves reducing fossil fuel use and cutting down your carbon emissions. The private sector is accountable for two-thirds of the world’s electricity demand , majority of which is generated from fossil fuels.

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The Guardian: Energy

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Exclusive: Reliance on fossil fuels fell in August to less than one-fifth of all electricity generated across country Great Britain’s electricity system has recorded its greenest ever summer after growing numbers of wind and solar farms cut the need for gas power plants to fresh lows. Continue reading.

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The Guardian: Energy

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

The energy secretary used his first big public address on Tuesday to argue in favour of speedy consent for new energy infrastructure to break the UK’s reliance on fossil fuels and avoid a repeat of “a crisis of the scale we have been through, with such devastating effects” in future. Continue reading.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Regarding grid stability, ResStor can act as a buffer for the electricity grid, providing a reliable power source during peak demand periods or unexpected outages, which helps to stabilize the grid and reduce reliance on fossil fuel backup generators. In GRC Transactions (Vol. McTigue, J., & Zhu, G. link] Soroush, H.,

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R-Squared Energy

AUGUST 23, 2024

In previous articles, I discussed: Overall highlights Trends in global carbon dioxide emissions Global production and consumption of petroleum Global production and consumption of natural gas Global production and consumption of coal Trends in nuclear power Today I will discuss renewable energy, with a focus on the growth of wind and solar power.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

AUGUST 30, 2024

The traditional focus on fossil fuels is continuing, but as a part of a growing mix that includes low-carbon and zero-carbon electricity production alternatives. “This mega-scale renewable-power-to-hydrogen project includes approximately 1.4

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R-Squared Energy

AUGUST 9, 2020

The “Renewables” category consists of wind power, solar power, biofuels. The category “Other” includes geothermal energy and power produced from biomass. Within this category, wind (51%) and solar (26%) accounted for most of the consumption. In 2019, that had nearly quadrupled to 29.0

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 11, 2020

Through its two utility subsidiaries, Pacific Power and Rocky Mountain Power, PacifiCorp claims to be the largest grid operator in the Western U.S., PacifiCorp's utilities have long relied on federally operated hydropower or utility-owned fossil-fueled generation for their electricity. million customers in six states.

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R-Squared Energy

AUGUST 26, 2021

The “Renewables” category above consists of wind power, solar power, biofuels, geothermal energy, and power produced from biomass. The report further breaks down renewable energy consumption into just power production (i.e., exajoules, which is still more than the category that contains wind and solar.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

This means that in the event of a heatwave, a spike in electricity use would ultimately test the power grid’s ability to meet supply with demand, potentially resulting in summer brownouts or blackouts. This means that, especially in the case of extreme weather events, more wind and solar generation is needed to meet the grids power demands.

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R-Squared Energy

JUNE 4, 2020

This surge is better shown by the following graphic, which highlights the three categories of modern renewables that have driven the consumption surge: Wind power, solar power, and biofuels. Further, it shows that fossil fuels still dominate our energy consumption. quads of fossil fuels, 11.5

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 3, 2021

Annual figures show that renewable supply outpaced fossil fuels for the first time. 42% of all energy used across the country through 2020 came from wind, solar, tidal and hydro. New research by Drax Electric Insights shows that the UK broke all records last year for renewable energy consumption.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Shifting heating from fossil fuels to electricity can cut direct emissions. And managing electricity use to match grid needs can help utilities control the costliest part of decarbonizing their systems — reducing reliance on dispatchable fossil-fueled power. Another project in Clovis, Calif.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Green energy solutions such as solar and wind power can power modern industries. Renewable energy sources are often cheaper than traditional fossil fuels, and we can use them to generate jobs and economic growth.  Solar panels are placed on roofs and fields to capture the sun’s energy.

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Solar Industry

OCTOBER 1, 2024

In total, the projects would add 500 MW of solar power and 180 MW of wind power to the grid. As we close our older, less-efficient fossil fuel plants, projects like these — along with our proposed highly efficient natural gas plants — will help power the grid and make sure customers have the energy they depend on.”

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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. However, the variable nature of generation from wind and solar can pose challenges to grids.

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The Guardian: Energy

OCTOBER 8, 2024

IEA says faster clean energy rollout being led by solar power in China with country set to boast half of world’s renewables by 2030 China is expected to account for almost 60% of all renewable energy capacity installed worldwide between now and 2030, according to the International Energy Agency.

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The Guardian: Energy

MARCH 11, 2024

The government will on Tuesday announce a plan to increase gas power capacity by providing extra certainty to investors that plants have a long-term future, even as Britain moves away from fossil fuels. Continue reading.

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Business Green

MAY 22, 2020

It also argued wind and solar power would be more cost-effective for bill payers compared to new gas power capacity. Leadsom, however, argued the country would still need fossil fuel power in the future, and that it was not the job of the planning system to block individual projects on climate grounds.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 15, 2020

In simple terms, the cheapest wind power is from the Great Plains and Intermountain West , and the cheapest solar power is from the Southwest and Southeast regions, and both need a way to reach faraway coastal markets.

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Business Green

APRIL 13, 2022

Clean energy now comprises 38 per cent of global power capacity after another record year of additions driven largely by wind and solar, latest figures reveal. The report notes that solar capacity grew by 19 per cent in 2021 on the year before, and wind energy increased its generating capacity by 13 per cent.

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The Verge: Energy

APRIL 24, 2024

While most of the world still runs on dirty fossil fuels, Costa Rica has generated nearly all of its electricity from renewable sources of energy for nearly a decade. That’s when we have low wind, but we have more hydropower. We’ve got a problem because hydropower does not have the same variability as solar wind.

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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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The Guardian: Energy

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Increase the rate of growth of solar and wind power from its current high of 14% a year to 24% a year. Construct the equivalent of three New Yorks’ worth of public transport systems in cities around the world each year this decade.

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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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The Guardian: Energy

DECEMBER 9, 2023

The prospect of halving demand for coal is a goal worth striving for, but governments must stay the course In the past week almost 120 global leaders have pledged to triple the world’s renewable energy capacity before 2030 in a bold attempt to slash the global consumption of fossil fuels.

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Business Green

MARCH 30, 2022

Average growth of wind and solar power generation over last 10 years suggest the clean energy sources can grow enough to steer a 1.5C Last year saw record increases in coal power generation, the report notes, with power from the fossil fuel hitting an all-time high to take a 36 per cent share of overall electricity generation.

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R-Squared Energy

JULY 26, 2021

The remainder of global energy consumption came from coal (27.2%), natural gas (24.7%), hydropower (6.9%), renewables (5.7%), and nuclear power (4.3%). Cumulatively, fossil fuels — shown below in shades of gray — still accounted for 83.1% Natural gas has been the fastest-growing fossil fuel in recent years, with a global 2.9%

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 30, 2021

In recent decades the cost of wind and solar power generation has dropped dramatically. And since renewable energy generation isn’t available all the time – it happens when the wind blows or the sun shines – storage is essential. This approach allows concentrated solar power to work around the clock.

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R-Squared Energy

JULY 13, 2022

Fossil fuels accounted for 82% of primary energy use last year, essentially the same as in 2020, but down from 83% in 2019 and 85% five years ago. The remaining share of primary energy use consisted of hydroelectric power (6.8%), renewables (6.7%), and nuclear power (4.3%). Wind and solar reached a 10.2%

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