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

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

TenerifeRenewable 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)

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

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?

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. 

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President William Ruto Sworn In, Reaffirms Kenya’s Commitment To Transition To 100% Clean Energy By 2030

Credit to Author: Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai| Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2022 17:00:29 +0000

CleanTechnica-Solar-Panel-Farm-1-scaled watermarkPresident William Ruto was sworn in as the 5th president of the Republic of Kenya. In his address soon after being sworn in as president, he reaffirmed Kenya’s commitment to transition to 100% clean energy by 2030. Kenya has already done really well when it comes to increasing the share of renewable energy in its […]

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New Lithium StoryMap & the Future of Electrification

Credit to Author: U.S. Department of Energy| Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2022 03:57:04 +0000

Explore the Potential of Geothermal in Developing Domestic Sources of Lithium Check out an outstanding new resource recently unveiled by the Geothermal Technologies Office (GTO), available on the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) website! A new Lithium StoryMap lays out the relationship between geothermal energy and lithium while exploring why the DOE is investing in technologies supporting […]

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Decarbonizing Data Centers — It’s Fun!

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2022 17:10:42 +0000

Hitachi data decarbonization CleanTech TalkDecarbonizing data centers is a topic we’ve covered for many years. Just doing a quick search, I found several articles I wrote about data center decarbonization efforts back in 2011, more than a decade ago. However, discussion of the topic is normally kept quite simple, with the focus being on how much a company or […]

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Most Renewables Now Cheaper Than Cheapest Coal

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2022 02:50:01 +0000

The idea that it costs a premium to go green and clean is long expired in the electricity industry. A new report from the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) indicates that most of the renewable energy installed in G20 countries last year had lower costs than the absolute cheapest coal power in the world. Despite […]

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Kenya Elections: Electric Mobility, Utility Scale Battery Storage, Energy Efficiency & Green Hydrogen Feature Prominently

Credit to Author: Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai| Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2022 14:43:14 +0000

Kenya has done really well when it comes to increasing the share of renewable energy in its electricity generation mix. According to the latest Economic Survey from the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS), in 2021, Kenya’s total installed electricity generation capacity increased by 5.4% to 2,990 MW. The total effective capacity rose by 5.6% […]

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