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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R-Squared Energy

AUGUST 26, 2022

Previous articles were: Wind And Solar Provided A Record 10% Of The World’s Power Generation In 2021. Natural Gas Production Set A New Record In 2021. Hydroelectricity, which the Review reports as a separate category is growing globally at a much slower rate than modern renewables like solar power.

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R-Squared Energy

JULY 26, 2021

Small declines were also reported in coal, natural gas, and nuclear consumption, while renewables and hydropower recorded gains. 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%). Natural Gas.

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R-Squared Energy

AUGUST 26, 2021

Maintains Its Natural Gas Dominance. 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., A Record Decline In Carbon Emissions.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 17, 2022

After all, consumer prices have become much higher than the cost of producing wind and solar power. But as soon as demand outstrips the capacity of these low-cost producers, prices jump to the price bid by gas-fired generators, which depends largely on the price of natural gas. Source: IEA).

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 4, 2020

Under the law, Dominion Virginia and the smaller Appalachian Power Co. must supply 30 percent of their power from renewables by 2030, and Dominion must close all carbon-emitting power plants by 2045. Retreat from natural gas not enough for environmental advocates.

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POWER Magazine

MAY 8, 2024

A UK- based global research group said continued growth in wind and solar power increased power generation from renewable energy to nearly a third of worldwide electricity output last year. […] The post Report: Renewables Generating Nearly One-Third of Global Electricity appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 13, 2021

LS Power announces the formation of Rev Renewables LLC to develop, acquire and operate energy storage and renewable projects, including conventional hydropower and pumped storage. Rev has a 2.4-GW Subscribe to Renewable Energy World’s free, weekly newsletter for more stories like this.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 24, 2020

” New York’s upstate region already gets about 90 percent of its power from hydropower and wind resources and is adding wind and solar power at a rapid clip.

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Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Current nuclear and large hydropower capacity add up to around 50 GW. The researchers said that using domestically manufactured solar panels instead of imported panels may increase solar power purchase agreement (PPA) prices by about 10%–15% in the mid-term.

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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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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 6, 2021

California and other states are pushing to use clean electricity to power vehicles and buildings to cut carbon, which will increase demand. And the state’s last nuclear power plant and numerous coastal gas power plants are facing retirement. THE BIG RETHINK.

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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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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 25, 2020

That’s primarily because renewable energy’s growth will remain challenging without a more flexible and regionally coordinated system to balance the intermittency of wind and solar power through geographic diversity and a broader range of hydropower dams, new battery storage and other balancing resources.

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Green Living Guy

DECEMBER 30, 2020

These are power sources like crude oil and natural gas that we use to sustain ourselves. What’s one significant contributor to climate change? They’re called fossil fuels. Fortunately, we can turn to renewable energy alternatives that work similarly — and are better for the planet. Take a look to see.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

These back-to-back summers of extreme weather underscore the need for a more robust and resilient electric grid capable of delivering the reliable power that ultimately underpins our health and wellbeing, from communication and transportation infrastructure to broader economic growth and physical security.

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Business Green

MARCH 25, 2021

Natural gas was found to be the biggest contributor to power sector externalities at £34bn, followed by nuclear energy at £24bn, coal at £8.3bn and oil at £600m, according to the research.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Department of Energy that found that solar power could generate up to 45% of the U.S. Why such a heavy focus on solar power? It concludes that the latter two scenarios would require approximately 1,050-1,570 gigawatts of solar power, which would meet about 44%-45% of expected electricity demand in 2050.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

The plans, available at The Solutions Project’s “ Clean Energy ” link, reveal the unique mix of wind, water and sun technologies capable of powering states, countries and even select U.S. Wind, Water and Sun (aka WWS) include wind power; waterpower from tides, rivers, and subsurface water (geothermal water); and solar power.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The falling costs of wind and solar power are pushing utilities to find ways to incorporate them into their long-range plans, even as they struggle to define what resources can be relied on to provide the dispatchable power they need. Its 2020 integrated resource plan (IRP) sets a goal of nearly 16 gigawatts of solar, 5.1

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Energy Innovation

JULY 2, 2021

They use a series of models to explore energy mixes that include coal, hydropower, nuclear, solar, natural gas, and wind in the future relative to today. In this study, Fonseca and 10 co-authors evaluate planning for capacity expansion in the U.S. Southeast in 2050. Featured Research. Craig, M.T., Macknick, J.,

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 20, 2019

One of the beneficial factors for the use of the renewable energy is that it is naturally generated. The common energy sources are Hydropower, Biomass, Biofuels, Wind, Geothermal and Solar Energy. The sources of renewable energy are present in the natural environment comprising the largest component of ecosystem.

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Clean Energy Canada

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The International Energy Agency’s 2024 World Energy Outlook described renewables expanding at record pace, led by solar, and generating just under half of the world’s electricity in 2030, ahead of power from fossil fuels. Both find wind and solar to be cost-competitive with natural gas-fired electricity in the U.S.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 20, 2021

Many devices that power our lives, such as LED lights , get more performance from a kilowatt-hour of electricity now than they did 15 years ago. Wind and solar power dramatically outperformed expectations, delivering 13 times more generation in 2020 than projected. Emission-free nuclear generation largely held steady.

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Global renewable power generation is growing at an unprecedented rate , driven by the favourable economics of wind and solar along with energy security concerns around oil and gas (largely caused by recent wars), and emissions goals. Both find wind and solar to be cost-competitive with natural gas-fired electricity in the U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

The Tennessee Valley Authority announced this week that it has contracted for 484 megawatts of solar power in the past two months, part of its push to expand its clean energy portfolio and reduce its reliance on coal power.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 22, 2020

They plan to combine green energy provided by wind turbines, biomass, solar panels and hydropower, with agricultural waste and grasses from the Northern provinces in the Netherlands as feedstock for the chemical cluster. Their goal is to create synthetic fuel by directly capturing CO2¬ and water from the air using solar power.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 26, 2021

New research asserts most have undermined those goals by keeping coal plants running and building new natural gas plants meant to operate for decades to come. utilities that still rely on coal and natural gas for most of their generation capacity. All but one call for new natural gas plants.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 21, 2020

But the tax-credit extensions contained in the bill could provide a significant boost for the primary federal incentive structure for wind and solar power by extending the expiration dates set by Congress late last year. Solar power will get $1.5 The massive spending bill awaiting passage by the U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 22, 2020

But Dominion, which has operations in 18 states and a major stake in natural gas infrastructure, has also been holding back Virginia's renewable energy potential, according to critics. Dominion's generation fleet centers around nuclear and gas.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

That’s greater than its previous commitment to reduce net carbon emissions from its power sector by 80 percent by 2050 and methane emissions from its natural-gas operations by 65% by 2030 and 80% by 2040.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 6, 2020

For Dominion Virginia, this will mean securing enough renewables to replace coal plants that supply roughly one-quarter of its electricity, and natural gas plants that supply about another third. Dominion also gets more than one-third of its energy from nuclear power. Those existing renewables are largely hydropower and biomass.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Biden would do his best to find a compromise or, barring that, force change through executive orders, making it easier to build renewables projects on federal land and waters, for instance, or requiring government agencies to procure more wind and solar power. Wind power’s reign as the leading source of U.S.

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CleanTechnica

DECEMBER 31, 2023

Looking at official figures from Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and adding in a CleanTechnica estimate for small-scale solar power. continued] The post Solar & Wind = 71% of New Power Capacity in USA in October appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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CleanTechnica

DECEMBER 26, 2021

In October 2019, wind power and solar power accounted for 11.3% This shows steady growth of solar and wind power in the United […]. of US electricity generation. In October 2020, they accounted for 12.4% of US electricity generation.

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CleanTechnica

MARCH 7, 2021

That was led by wind power, which accounted for 8.3% of US electricity generation, followed by hydropower at 7.2% and solar power at 3.3%. Crunching the numbers, renewable energy accounted for 20.6% of US electricity generation last year. As reported last month, […].

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CleanTechnica

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

The US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) expects that slightly more than 50% of new US power capacity in the next 3 years will come from solar power — and that’s just considering large-scale solar power projects, not small-scale/rooftop solar power installations.

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