Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 28, 2021

Florida Power & Light Company announced that construction has begun on the FPL Manatee Energy Storage Center , which is expected to become the world’s largest integrated solar-powered battery system, according to the company. Located in Parrish, Fla.,

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

In fact, the heat wave last month shuttered a 500 megawatt natural gas unit and a 750 MW gas unit was unexpectedly out of service Aug. Outages of dispatchable fossil generation paired with reduced output from renewables, such as the 1,000 MW reduction in available wind power Aug.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

The German steel industry, a key player in Europes green hydrogen economy ambitions , has raised concerns about the timeline for adopting green hydrogen technology. ArcelorMittal’s Technological Innovations in Hydrogen ArcelorMittal, one of the worlds leading steelmakers, has been at the forefront of hydrogen-related technologies.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 9, 2025

With plans to establish a 525-kilometer hydrogen pipeline network by 2025, this initiative underscores Germanys commitment to integrating renewable technologies across multiple sectors. Industrial emissions even saw a slight increase of two percent, emphasizing the need for further structural changes and investment in clean technologies.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

The study specifically analyzes scenarios for a geothermal-natural gas hybrid plant, as wel as a “triple-hybrid” plant that combines natural gas, solar thermal, thermal energy storage, and geothermal. can be accessed via this link: [link].

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Hydrogen Fuel News

DECEMBER 18, 2024

By integrating solar cells from CTF Solar GmbH into its core technology, SunHydrogen has developed an innovative process to produce clean hydrogen and oxygen. Notably, the technology functioned effectively in subfreezing temperatures, reinforcing its resilience and versatility.

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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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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

It continues to refine its drilling technology to make residential drilling and heat pump installation easier and more competitive with incumbent fossil fuels. It partnered with utility Con Edison to install geothermal heat pumps in Westchester, where demand for natural gas has outstripped supply, leading to a moratorium on new hookups.

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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. Fast-acting battery technology performs many roles: frequency regulation, capacity, deferral of wires upgrades, resilience, firming renewable generation and more.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Depending on who you talk to, long-duration storage technology can knock out coal and gas peaker plants, turn renewables into round-the-clock resources and generally pave the way for a carbon-free grid. Wind and solar power are the fastest-growing sources of electricity globally, but they only produce at certain times.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 30, 2021

In recent decades the cost of wind and solar power generation has dropped dramatically. As a researcher at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, I work with the federal government and private industry to develop renewable energy storage technologies. Here are three emerging technologies that could help make this happen.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Innovation in Green Hydrogen Technology RWE is spearheading innovation across various facets of green energy, particularly in its approach to green hydrogen production. This technology has drawn attention for its ability to bypass the emissions associated with traditional hydrogen production.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

We know that imports were down, natural gas plants tripped off line, and wind generation fell. She’s going to help us understand the technology and market-design landscape for demand response. NEXTracker has more than 30 gigawatts of resilient and intelligent solar tracking systems across six continents.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

More immediately, Duke’s new plan improves on its 2017 goal to cut its 2030 carbon emissions by 40 percent, driven by “sustained low natural gas prices and declining costs for renewables and storage,” Tuesday’s press release noted. The gas question. This reliance on natural gas aligns Duke with most U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 1, 2021

Take the Intermountain Power Project , the coal-fired power plant in Utah converting to turbines that will use natural gas blended with 30 percent hydrogen, a proportion that will rise to 100 percent hydrogen over the coming decades. gigawatt Okeechobee power plant, and it could be online by 2023.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 26, 2024

Maintaining and improving global energy security; empowering Indigenous communities; seizing the global LNG opportunity — these were some of the talking points speakers were keen to discuss throughout the Canada Gas Exhibition & Conference, which took place in Vancouver in May.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Research institutions and technology companies are examining ways to safely and economically harness the subsurface as a storage medium, which has the potential to significantly accelerate the growth of energy storage and capacity in the coming years (Sharan et al., Still, this system is not without challenges. References Armstrong, R.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 26, 2019

Those original investors include some big names, too: Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Prelude Ventures, Macquarie Capital, Saudi Aramco (which didn't join the Series B), and Massachusetts Institute of Technology offshoot The Engine. You need to be compensated the same way natural-gas plants are being compensated.".

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R-Squared Energy

MAY 24, 2024

The changes reflect broader economic, technological, and policy trends that have influenced the nation’s energy mix. One area that has experience significant upheaval is the consumption patterns of coal, natural gas, and renewables. Natural gas consumption was also substantial at 23.3 quadrillion BTUs.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

AUGUST 13, 2024

Later this year, Sage will launch the EarthStore facility, the world’s first project to utilize the earth’s natural capacity for energy storage to produce clean, sustainable, and dispatchable electricity on demand. In addition, water losses are targeted to be less than 2 percent.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 30, 2020

oil producers lag their European rivals in making strategic investments into clean energy companies and technologies, but as voracious consumers of electricity — and often in remote areas — they have taken a growing interest in low-cost wind and solar power. offshore wind market.

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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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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

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

JULY 9, 2020

While the terms of the RFP allow for bids for different technologies, the solicitation is meant to support the long-range plans laid out in PacifiCorp’s integrated resource plan filed last year. Its solar power is being largely targeted for Utah, Wyoming, Oregon and Washington. That plan broke new ground for the 1.9

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Small-scale modular nuclear reactors have gone from being a technology that’s always a decade away from being built to one that may actually enter into commercial production in the next decade. In terms of cost, NuScale is targeting a levelized cost of energy of $65 per megawatt-hour and a cost to build that would equate to $2.9

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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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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 24, 2023

Hydropower, traditionally one of Africa’s most important sources of electricity, will rapidly fade in importance and cede its position to solar power. Kariba dam on the Zambezi river (image credit: DAFNE Project Politecnico di Milano).

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 25, 2020

The surge in spending on all-electric homes is expected even though many consumers are unfamiliar with the natural gas-displacing electric appliances on the market today. Around 70 million American homes burn natural gas, oil, or propane for home space and water heating, according to Navigant Research. billion in 2020.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JUNE 7, 2024

The method powered a water electrolyzer with the carbon-rich substance The UIC researchers were able to produce hydrogen fuel in its gas form using water, solar power, and manure, husks and other agricultural waste.  “This is a transformative technology.” ”

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 16, 2021

However, in recent years, their economic competitiveness has improved significantly due to government policies and incentives, as well as technological advances. This has incentivized oil and gas majors such as BP, Equinor and Shell to invest in wind power generation. over the same period.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2022

There is no magic solution, no single technology that can be applied. By developing and deploying a range of measures – including greater energy efficiency, avoiding waste and electrifying processes that currently use gas – it can be done. Some is generated on site and some at off-site solar farms. New approach.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 7, 2020

industrial gas giant, announced plans on Tuesday to build a green hydrogen plant in Saudi Arabia powered by 4 gigawatts of wind and solar power, the world's largest such project announced so far. Green hydrogen is currently uncompetitive with its gray cousin, which is produced using natural gas.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 9, 2020

A coalition of utilities and renewable developers, including Enel, RWE, Ørsted and First Solar, called for backing for green hydrogen, which would open a vast new market for cheap wind and solar power. Europe's gas sector strikes upbeat tone.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 19, 2020

” Brouillette toured a high-efficiency, all-electric home built by Meritage Homes, featuring high-efficiency insulation, thermal and battery storage, solar-powered heat pumps and appliances that can shift energy use based on homeowner or utility commands. Balancing the grid impacts, costs of electrification and net-zero homes.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

And while the state’s 22-gigawatt wind power fleet has faced problems stemming from icing of wind turbine blades and relatively low wind conditions that have reduced its ability to contribute to the grid, the primary failure is from the state’s natural-gas, coal and nuclear generator fleet, according to ERCOT data.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

megawatts of generating capacity, with 20 megawatts coming from natural gas-fired generators and 2.5 megawatts from a ground-mounted solar photovoltaic installation. Onsite access to plentiful, cheap gas helps to explain the project’s dependence on gas-fired power. megawatts of solar PV.

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