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ENGIE: 1 Gigawatt of Battery Storage Capacity Added In USA This Year

September 27, 2024 admin batteries, clean power, Energy Storage, engie, ercot, grid, grid storage, lithium-ion batteries, Solar energy, texas, wind energy

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2024 20:29:09 +0000

I just wrote about how battery energy storage is massively helping to extend the usefulness of solar energy into the evening in California. It is quickly transforming the California electricity grid. Then I saw this news from ENGIE, thanks to one of our content curators. ENGIE has now reached more … [continued]

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Solar Power Surges In Europe, The UK, & Texas

August 27, 2024 admin clean power, ercot, GERMANY, germany solar, germany solar energy, Solar energy, texas, texas solar energy, uk, uk solar, uk solar energy

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2024 13:50:35 +0000

The energy the Earth gets from the sun every day could generate enough electricity to meet the needs of humanity for a year. All we have to do is harvest it wisely and efficiently. [Note: that assumes we don’t use it all to power data centers.] The tools we use … [continued]

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Sage’s First 3-MW Geothermal Power and Energy Storage Project Will Feed ERCOT

August 15, 2024 admin baseload, Business, egs, Energy Storage, engineering, ercot, geothermal, news, oil and gas, pelton turbine, pioneering, Renewables, Research and Development, sage geosystems, supercritical carbon dioxide, Technology

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2024 20:24:15 +0000

Sage Geosystems will build a first-of-its-kind 3-MW geothermal baseload power and energy storage system on land owned by San Miguel Electric Cooperative (SMECI) in Christine, Texas. The company plans to […]

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The POWER Interview: Using Home Batteries to Support the Grid

August 13, 2024 admin base power, Business, dell, ders, distributed energy, Distributed Generation, distributed power, electrification, energy security, Energy Storage, engineering, ercot, home battery, Interview, justin lopas, michael dell, power, Renewables, Technology, texas, virtual power plant, vpp, zach dell

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2024 16:53:47 +0000

The Dell name is synonymous with technology and innovation, so perhaps it’s not surprising that a member of that famous computing family is working to solve the challenge of making […]

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Building a Better Grid—Infrastructure Upgrades Require Ingenuity, Innovation, and Investment

June 27, 2024 admin AI, bureau veritas, Business, caiso, Cybersecurity, der, dlr, DOE, dynamic line rating, ercot, full coverage, ge vernova, great river energy, gridmetrics, heimdall power, Infrastructure, International, iso-ne, machine learning, MISO, new york power authority, news, nexans, power, power grid, prisma photonics, scada, Smart Grid, T&D, tantalus systems, Technology, ts conductor, upgrades, vpp, west monroe

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2024 12:31:28 +0000

The need for more reliability and resilience of power delivery, both in the U.S. and worldwide, has utilities and grid operators looking for solutions to the challenge of bolstering the […]

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Filings Support 41 GW of New Gas-Fired Generation Across Texas

June 3, 2024 admin cpv, Dan Patrick, eagle pines, engie, ercot, fge power, Gas, ge vernova, natural gas, news, power, texas, texas energy fund, vistra

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2024 17:48:27 +0000

Texas’ plan to add more natural gas-fired power generation capacity, supported by money from a newly created energy fund, received a boost when several companies announced their intention to file […]

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Startup Gets $10 Million To Pump More Energy Storage Into Texas Grid

June 2, 2024 admin arpa-e, clean power, compressed air energy storage, Energy Storage, ercot, gravity energy storage, pumped hydro storage, renewable energy, Solar energy, texas, us department of energy (doe), usa, water battery, water resources, wind energy

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Thu, 30 May 2024 16:05:26 +0000

The US startup Quidnet Energy is leveraging oilfield know-how to bring a new underground pumped hydro energy storage system to Texas.

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Exploring Wholesale Energy Price Trends: The Renewables & Wholesale Electricity Prices (ReWEP) Tool, Version 2024.1

May 20, 2024 admin berkeley lab, caiso, california independent system operator (caiso), clean power, electric reliability council of texas (ercot), electricity prices, energy efficiency, ercot, green economy, market research, policy research, research

Credit to Author: US Department of Energy| Date: Fri, 17 May 2024 23:23:47 +0000

The Renewables and Wholesale Electricity Prices (ReWEP) visualization tool from Berkeley Lab has been updated with nodal electricity pricing and wind and solar generation data through the end of 2023: https://emp.lbl.gov/renewables-and-wholesale-electricity-prices-rewep. ReWEP users can explore trends in wholesale electricity prices and their relationship to wind and solar generation. ReWEP includes … [continued]

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How the Massive Growth in Solar Power Is Affecting Power Grids

May 2, 2024 admin Business, California, duck curve, ercot, full coverage, Markets, news, power, power grid, seia, Solar, Solar energy, T&D, texas

Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Wed, 01 May 2024 10:07:47 +0000

The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) reported in March that the U.S. solar industry installed 32.4 GWdc of capacity in 2023, a remarkable 51% increase compared to 2022. It was the industry’s

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Grids Brace for Solar Eclipse, Totality Poised to Test Ramping

April 15, 2024 admin caiso, energy security, ercot, full coverage, grid ramping, ISO New England, MISO, news, NYISO, pjm, reliability, Solar, Solar eclipse, solar generation, solar output, solar pv, SPP, sustainability, Technology, trends, weim, Wind

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2024 13:30:51 +0000

Grid operators across the U.S. report they are largely prepared for the total solar eclipse that will pass over a large swath of North America on April 8, though they […]

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