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Kenya Electricity Generating Company Plans To Install 3000 MW of Additional Renewable Generation Capacity

January 9, 2023 admin africa, clean power, geothermal energy, hydroelectric, Kenya

Credit to Author: Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai| Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2023 23:15:56 +0000

Kenya Electricity Generating Company PLC (KenGen) has an installed generation capacity of 1,904 MW, of which over 86% is drawn from green sources, namely: hydro (826 MW), geothermal (799 MW), and wind (25.5 MW). The rest (253 MW), is generated from fossil fuels at its thermal power plants. KenGen is the largest power generating company […]

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Globeleq Signs Financing Agreement On $108M Menengai Geothermal Project In Kenya

December 20, 2022 admin africa, clean power, geothermal energy, globeleq, green economy, investment, Kenya

Credit to Author: Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai| Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2022 21:00:09 +0000

Kenya is in the top ten in the world when it comes to installed geothermal electricity generation capacity. Kenya’s installed capacity for geothermal is about 1,000MW now. This dependable geothermal capacity is the main anchor of Kenya’s renewable energy success story. Along with wind, hydro, and some utility-scale solar, last year, these renewables were responsible […]

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Witness The Other Side Of Geothermal Energy In “The Volcano”

December 19, 2022 admin clean power, Energy, enhanced geothermal, enhanced geothermal systems, geothermal energy, NEW ZEALAND, renewable energy, rory kennedy, rosaly lopes, us department of energy (doe), usa, utah forge, Volcano, volcanoes, wakhaari, white island

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2022 16:46:15 +0000

“The Volcano” captures geothermal energy in full dramatic, destructive mode, with eyewitness accounts from survivors of the 2019 Whakaari eruption in New Zealand.

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Dandelion Energy Ready To Expand Ground Source Heat Pumps

November 26, 2022 admin buildings, clean power, dandelion energy, energy efficiency, geothermal energy, green economy, ground source heat pumps, heat pumps

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2022 22:00:38 +0000

There are two types of heat pumps — air source and ground source. Air source heat pumps have to be able to work with outside air temperatures that can vary between -20 degrees to +120 degrees F. Ground source heat pumps work with the temperature of the Earth hundreds of feet below the surface. Typically […]

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Deep Geothermal — One Renewable Energy Source To Rule Them All?

November 16, 2022 admin clean power, geothermal energy, mit

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2022 15:15:28 +0000

Deep geothermal technology can harness the heat stored beneath the Earth’s crust to make abundant zero emissions energy.

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Clean Energy Supply Chain Analyses

November 10, 2022 admin batteries, clean power, energy efficiency, Energy Storage, geothermal energy, grid, hydroelectric, lithium-ion batteries, national renewable energy laboratory (nrel), pumped hydro storage, Solar energy, wind energy

Credit to Author: U.S. Department of Energy| Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2022 18:30:39 +0000

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) acted as lead authors on five reports in a larger series designed to strengthen America’s clean energy supply chains. The following NREL-authored, topic-specific “deep-dive” studies are intended to inform national policy at the highest level. Solar Photovoltaics (PV) [PDF] Solar power could supply 40% […]

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Tenerife’s Barriers To Renewable Energy Are Substantial But Not Insurmountable

November 1, 2022 admin batteries, canary islands, clean power, Energy Storage, Europe, Fossil Fuels, geothermal energy, hydroelectric, lithium-ion batteries, Solar energy, Tenerife, wind energy

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2022 22:10:49 +0000

Renewable energy development in the Canary Islands will need to transform the existing conventional infrastructure while creating interconnections with the mainland and neighboring islands.

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Your Rechargeable Batteries Need Lithium. Geothermal Energy Could Soon Help. (Surprise Video)

September 28, 2022 admin batteries, clean power, clean transport, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, geothermal energy, geothermal lithium, lithium, lithium-ion batteries, Salton Sea

Credit to Author: U.S. Department of Energy| Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2022 11:36:11 +0000

As product managers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Nicholas Gilroy and Haiku Sky help turn complex information into a compelling journey on the web. Their work allows users to interact with data and even download information as the story of research unfolds. Working closely with user experience researchers and engineers, the two helped […]

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On the Road to 100% Clean Electricity: 6 Potential Strategies To Break Through Last Few Percent

September 19, 2022 admin biomass, clean power, geothermal energy, hydroelectric, national renewable energy laboratory (nrel), nuclear energy, research, Solar energy, us 100% renewable energy, wind energy

Credit to Author: U.S. Department of Energy| Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2022 13:29:18 +0000

Study Surveys Trade-Offs of Technology Options To Overcome Challenging Last Few Percent to Zero-Emissions U.S. Power Grid A growing body of research has demonstrated that cost-effective high-renewable power systems are possible, but costs increase as systems approach 100% carbon-free electricity—what has become known as the “last 10% problem.” The increase in costs is largely driven […]

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When Is Geothermal As Bad As Coal?

September 16, 2022 admin air quality, clean power, climate change, Coal, Energy Storage, equinor, exxonmobil, Fossil Fuels, geothermal energy, green economy, grid, investment, natural gas, NEW ZEALAND, Solar energy, Uncategorized, wind energy

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2022 20:30:50 +0000

0.6 million tons of CO2 are escaping through the holes they’ve drilled to create energy, so they are going to try to capture some of it at great expense and pump it back into the same place it’s escaping from.