Charged

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Using hydrogen or an LNG/H 2 mixture instead of connecting to the power grid connection is the most efficient way to provide power on-site,” says L-Charge CEO Dmitry Lashin. Customers can call for a charge via a mobile app, and can book charging in advance at pre-scheduled times.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 5, 2020

They use electricity to power lights, refrigerators and electronic devices. And they consume fossil fuels such as natural gas or propane to power furnaces, boilers, and water heaters. Gas-powered water heaters can be replaced with heat pump water heaters. “The grid could evolve to handle this.

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GreenBiz

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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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Natural gas is the second-most confused fuel in Europe — and prices are 6 times higher than they were in the spring. The Energy Gang is brought to you by Hitachi ABB Power Grids. Most of that growth is coming from America and China, which account for 70% of installations. What does your energy future look like?

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Charged

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

The National Science Foundation has awarded $39 million to a team of engineers and computer scientists at the University of California San Diego to build a test bed to better understand how to integrate distributed energy sources and EV batteries into the power grid. “We

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

But in the Midwest, with the harshest winters in the lower 48, it has been cheaper to stick with natural gas as a heating source. Previously, natural gas accounted for about 65 percent of the building’s $65,000 annual energy costs. But even in colder climates, the outlook is starting to change.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

The new centre, which is based at the University’s Ralph O’Connor Sustainable Energy Institute (ROSEI) and launched formally on November 1, brings together partners from the UK and Australia as well as others in the US to undertake research towards the delivery of 100% renewable energy power grids across the world.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 26, 2019

Meanwhile, local governments across California are moving to adopt bans on new natural-gas hookups, grabbing the attention of the state’s powerful oil and gas industry. At the time, natural gas was viewed as the cleaner fuel for appliances. Wave of natural-gas bans.

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 10, 2022

power grid this year. GW (21%) from natural gas projects and 7.6 GW of expected new natural gas-fired capacity, combined-cycle plants represent 8.1 Around 88% of the planned natural gas capacity additions are located in Ohio, Florida, Michigan and Illinois. EIA said it expects 46.1 Of the 9.6

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Hydrogen Fuel News

DECEMBER 9, 2024

It uses hydrogen extracted from natural gas to generate electricity and hot water for homes, with over 200,000 units in use globally. By shifting from traditional fossil fuels to renewable sources like hydrogen and solar, industries can reduce greenhouse gas emissions, paving the way for a cleaner future.

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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

JULY 29, 2020

Responses will help inform options to meet its FlexPower Bundle plan, which envisions adding about 900 megawatts of solar, 50 megawatts of energy storage and 500 megawatts of “new technology solutions” to replace the need for buying natural-gas-fired power from outside power plants.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 27, 2024

Batteries in ERCOT (Electric Reliability Council of Texas) played an essential part in keeping the lights on during extreme 2023 summer heat, freeing up more than 3GW of natural gas power plants during critical hours, finds research from Aurora Energy. Interestingly, this has not come at the expense of gas-fired generation.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 9, 2021

It’s been a very intense year for America’s power grid. Across the country, the electricity system just faced another stress-test as extreme heat taxed power plants and grid operators in the Pacific Northwest , Texas , and New York. Is the power system ready for tomorrow’s extreme weather -- today?

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Hydrogen Fuel News

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

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

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Charged

MAY 4, 2021

L-Charge’s system offers a charging power range of 250-600 kW, and comes in two versions—stationary and mobile. Designed for highways, gas stations, and parking lots, L-Charge’s stationary charger requires no connection to an external power grid—it runs on an internal supply of liquefied natural gas (LNG) or an LNG/hydrogen mixture.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Wärtsilä defines the goal of 100 percent decarbonization as a carbon-neutral power grid with a combination of generation resources — the vast majority of which would be wind and solar — as well as ample amounts of battery storage, demand response and flexible gas power, which will ultimately run on carbon-free renewable fuels.

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Canary Media

JANUARY 7, 2025

A planned 325-megawatt battery energy storage system at a key location on New Englands power grid could boost Connecticuts access to carbon-free power but only if it can overcome complicated legal and political barriers. An Israeli firm, Sunflower Sustainable Investments, filed an application in October for the

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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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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Enel X and power equipment and management company Eaton will partner on a solar-and-storage microgrid in Puerto Rico, one of the largest yet built on an island struggling to restructure its hurricane-battered power grid. Once a combined-heat-and-power project, it now relies on natural gas. megawatt/2.2

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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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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 25, 2020

A new study by Aurora Energy Research, released Wednesday, claims that hydrogen generated from renewable energy and natural gas could provide more than 45 percent of the U.K.’s Aurora’s projections are based on a combination of "blue" and "green" hydrogen, derived from natural gas and renewable electricity, respectively.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

It also gives us clearer insight to the power grid and how it is operating, ultimately creating a smarter energy future for our customers and communities.”. Our team is refining ways to integrate advanced energy technologies into the power grid and provide clean energy solutions for our customers.”.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

The largest natural gas infrastructure firm in Europe has launched a new hydrogen business and increased its financing for low carbon projects. Snam, which runs the Italian gas grid and is active in France, Greece and the U.K., Snam is working with Italy’s power grid Terna on this possibility.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 19, 2020

gigawatts of carbon-free resources to help meet grid reliability needs that will arise when four natural gas-fired power plants retire next year to reduce their environmental harm to coastal waters. It’s the second major procurement from a California utility meant to comply with the CPUC’s order for 3.3

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

A recent study conducted by energy research firm IdeaSmiths, sponsored by Lancium, analyzed the impact of large, flexible data center operations on the Texas power grid. 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 ” The U.S.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 31, 2023

For Xcel Energy, the rollout marks the next step in the modernisation of its power grid, which so far has focussed primarily on boosting the capacity and reliability of the system through new and improved lines and substations. million natural gas customers across the eight service territories. million electricity and 2.1

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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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Solar Industry

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Results show the technology is cost-competitive with lithium-ion batteries, pumped storage hydropower and natural gas peaker plants. It also is competitive with natural gas peaker plants, providing a cleaner option for providing ancillary services, black start services and/or redistributing curtailed energy during peak demand periods.

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 24, 2021

But what if an attack like this happens again and it affects our power grid? Whether you use gas or another source of electricity to power your home, you are probably aware that your consumption (and your energy bills) has two seasonal peaks. When it comes to natural gas in particular, the U.S.

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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. The transition to clean energy is happening worldwide and it’s unstoppable. degrees of global warming this century.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The ninth edition of the Sustainable Energy in America Factbook tells the story of American energy efficiency, natural gas and renewable energy in a volatile year. Figure 2 shows that natural gas and renewable generation continued to expand their share of the resource mix. power in 2020. A record 33.6

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Smart Energy International

MAY 25, 2022

Have you read: Network solutions to guide Peachtree Corners infrastructure communications Virginia Natural Gas to inspect natural gas infrastructure with UAVs The grid needs long-duration energy storage. “This new programme figured in annual increases of 4.5%

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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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ThinkGeoEnergy

AUGUST 13, 2024

“Once operational, our EarthStore facility in Christine will be the first geothermal energy storage system to store potential energy deep in the earth and supply electrons to a power grid,” said Cindy Taff, CEO of Sage Geosystems.

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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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