R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

with electricity from solar photovoltaic (PV) power. on solar power would require a substantial amount of backup power or storage for when the sun isn’t shining. I also knew that my solar PV calculation was subject to many assumptions, and the answer could therefore be 50% too large or 50% too small.

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Any time I write about nuclear power, it evokes passionate responses from readers. That was certainly the case following my previous article, Nuclear Power Could Cut The World’s Carbon Emissions In Half. There is always a contingent who are convinced that all we need is solar power. China — 16.7%.

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R-Squared Energy

MAY 4, 2021

Depending on the process, blue hydrogen can be produced from fossil fuels, but it can also be produced from nuclear power. For example, electricity from solar power can be used to electrolyze water into its constituents, hydrogen and water. The Nuclear Option. This is where nuclear power can make a huge impact.

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R-Squared Energy

JUNE 15, 2023

Renewables sources like wind and solar power are scaling rapidly, but there are several challenges in using them to displace coal-fired power. First, these sources tend to be decentralized, and require a lot of area for the power they produce. However, nuclear power is a viable option for meeting this need.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

While small modular reactors have powered naval ships for decades and are also in use in other military applications, they’ve yet to be approved for use in commercial power generation. NuScale still has multiple steps ahead of it before it can build its first commercial reactor.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 29, 2020

APS has committed to 100-percent clean power by 2050 , including an interim target of 65 percent by 2030. That target will make use of the roughly 25 percent of its capacity provided by the Palo Verde nuclear power plant, as well as 45 percent renewable energy, largely solar power.

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R-Squared Energy

JULY 11, 2019

Hydropower still produces more electricity globally than the Renewables category, which consists primarily of rapidly-growing wind and solar power, as well as more mature renewable technologies like geothermal power and power produced from biomass. The former consists of hydropower, which has been around for a long time.

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The Verge: Energy

OCTOBER 5, 2024

. | Photo: Getty Images Major tech firms, in search of carbon pollution-free electricity for data centers, are helping to revive nuclear energy in the US. Tech giants are increasingly eyeing nuclear reactors to power their energy-hungry data centers. Nuclear power plants typically provide steady “baseload” power.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 23, 2020

This foray into behind-the-meter battery aggregation comes as part of PG&E’s efforts to meet the California Public Utilities Commission’s call for energy storage to help balance the state’s increasingly solar power-influenced grid.

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Solar Power World

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Sharp declines are foreseen for fossil fuels and nuclear power while renewable energy is forecast to experience… The post Latest FERC three-year forecast shows no new coal and drops in oil and natural gas, while renewables soar appeared first on Solar Power World. electrical generating capacity mix.

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The Guardian: Energy

JUNE 5, 2024

Low-carbon electricity investment driven by solar projects but oil and gas spending still too high to meet climate goals Global investment in low-carbon electricity will rise to 10 times as much as fossil fuel power this year due to an increase in spending on solar projects, according to the International Energy Agency.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 14, 2020

Energy Information Administration has confirmed what it and industry watchers predicted a year ago—that wind and solar power will expand on their already-large share of new U.S. EIA’s latest data also puts the focus on coal’s continued decline , with coal-fired power plants making up 5.8

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Charged

DECEMBER 29, 2021

“This means no fossil fuels, carbon capture, direct air capture, bioenergy, blue hydrogen or nuclear power.”. The scenarios modeled a massive scale-up of offshore wind turbines and rooftop solar panels—none of which take up new land—as well as onshore wind turbines, utility-scale solar farms and concentrated solar power plants.

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The Guardian: Energy

MARCH 18, 2024

We should focus on rooftop solar – Australians love it A missing element from much of the debate about whether Australia should embrace nuclear power is that – unless the Labor rank-and-file have an extraordinary change of heart – the issue is already dead on arrival. John Howard and Scott Morrison knew the score on this.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Municipal utility Los Angeles Department of Water and Power has contracted for up to 300 megawatts/1.2 gigawatt-hours of storage being built alongside 400 megawatts of solar power being built by 8Minute Energy. Pacific Gas & Electric is contracting seven battery projects totaling 423 megawatts , or nearly 1.7

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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. Source: World Nuclear Association). The French responded by launching a plan to build dozens of nuclear power stations. Within 15 years they had all but eliminated their dependence on oil power.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 3, 2021

None of that generation in 2021 will stem from nuclear power. The agency’s 2020 power mix was 95 percent carbon-free. Peninsula Clean Energy customers will continue to receive this clean power at rates lower than those charged by PG&E, it said.

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Business Green

JUNE 30, 2022

International Energy Agency argues nuclear power can play a significant role in supporting transition to a renewables-dominated energy system worldwide. At present, nuclear is still the world's second largest source of low carbon power after hydro electricity, with atomic power plants spread across 32 countries.

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EnergyTrend

SEPTEMBER 14, 2024

Vietnam government: Power generation cannot keep up with economic growth, solar power generation should be accelerated AccordingtoastatementontheeveningofSeptember12,theVietnamesecentralgovernmentissuedinstructionsatarecentmeeting,requiringtheMinistryofIndustryandTrade.

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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. So, how does the consumption of renewables and coal compare to our consumption of petroleum, natural gas, and nuclear power?

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R-Squared Energy

JULY 13, 2022

The remaining share of primary energy use consisted of hydroelectric power (6.8%), renewables (6.7%), and nuclear power (4.3%). Coal remained the dominant fuel for global power generation in 2021, with its share increasing to 36%, up from 35.1% Renewables and Nuclear Power. Wind and solar reached a 10.2%

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 12, 2020

In Florida, a state that allows utilities to build their own solar power plants , Duke has about 300 megawatts of solar operating and another 200 megawatts under construction, part of a plan to reach 1,500 megawatts by 2028. That has brought opposition from environmental groups.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

Wind and solar alone generated around 30 per cent of Britain's electricity in 2020, while biomass provided seven per cent, and hydropower made up 1.6 Nuclear power, meanwhile, provided 17.5 per cent of Britain's power last year, while imports accounted for just under seven per cent.

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Previous topics covered were: Global carbon dioxide emissions Overall highlights Oil production and consumption Natural gas production and consumption Coal production and consumption Global nuclear power trends Today, I will cover renewable energy in detail. Together, wind and solar power provided 3,428 TWh of electricity in 2022.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 10, 2020

That leaves a massive gap to be filled by clean energy, since more than half of the state’s carbon-free emissions today come from nuclear power, as shown in the chart below. percent in 2018, and hitting 100 percent zero-carbon emissions by 2040. Source: NYISO. Source: NYISO.

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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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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%). Renewables and Nuclear Power. Solar capacity increased by 127 gigawatts (GW), while wind capacity grew 111 GW. share of all energy consumption.

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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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R-Squared Energy

OCTOBER 13, 2020

In the process, NextEra became the largest producer of wind and solar power in the world. NextEra’s renewables unit, NextEra Energy Resources, is primarily oriented toward wind power (58% of this unit’s fuel mix) and is the largest generator of wind power in North America.

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R-Squared Energy

AUGUST 26, 2022

Hydroelectricity, which the Review reports as a separate category is growing globally at a much slower rate than modern renewables like solar power. exajoules, which is still more than wind and solar. for modern renewables like wind and solar power. Global hydropower consumption in 2021 was 40.3

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 17, 2020

Electricity demand for air conditioning throughout the region stretched California's power capacity and limited the state's ability to import power from nearby states. “That solar resource is fading fast, and we have to ramp up other resources quickly to meet that net peak event.”

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 30, 2021

In recent decades the cost of wind and solar power generation has dropped dramatically. For example, high-capacity batteries with long discharge times – up to 10 hours – could be valuable for storing solar power at night or increasing the range of electric vehicles. Concentrating solar power is still relatively expensive.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

That’s a different challenge than that faced by summer-peaking systems that can expect solar power and energy storage to help meet air conditioning demand. Department of Energy.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 16, 2020

Those include major expansions of wind and solar power , more energy storage to manage that intermittent supply — and, on the demand side of the equation, programs that can turn utility customers from passive consumers into active grid-balancing participants.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 19, 2021

“Our responsibility and commitment going forward is to be better prepared for extreme climate change-induced weather events and other operational challenges facing our evolving power system,” the report authors wrote.

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Business Green

APRIL 25, 2022

National Grid ESO data published yesterday reveals that wind power produced more than half of British electricity generation on Saturday, bringing renewables' share of overall supplies to 60 per cent. With nuclear power providing 18.3 per cent of electricity generation throughout the day, and solar power 5.8

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

In July, Abbott directed the PUC to “allocate reliability costs to generation resources that cannot guarantee their own availability, such as wind or solar power” and to “streamline incentives within the ERCOT market to foster the development and maintenance of adequate and reliable sources of power, like natural gas, coal, and nuclear power.”.

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