Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2022 04:14:00 +0000
Governments and power generators continue to work to improve access to electricity on the African continent. Engie Energy Access, a subsidiary of French energy major Engie, recently signed a $60 million
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2022 04:19:00 +0000
When Swedish company Vattenfall in 2018 set out to combine wind, solar, and battery storage resources at this pioneering energy park in the Netherlands, its foremost focus was to demonstrate a clean energy
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Read moreCredit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2022 04:13:00 +0000
An Australia-based company is designing a project that combines multiple power generation technologies into a system that not only creates electricity but also can result in production of hydrogen. Sunshine
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Read moreCredit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2022 16:29:23 +0000
Hybrid power plants continue to be deployed across the U.S., with almost 300 such facilities (all with 1 MW or more of generation capacity) operating at the end of last year. An August 2022 report from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California, based on research funded by the U.S. Dept. of Energy (DOE) and […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2022 15:43:22 +0000
Renewable energy in Turkey will get a boost from a hybrid wind and solar power installation led by GE Renewable Energy. The project will integrate a 30-MW solar array with a 32-MW wind farm that was commissioned in 2020 by Sertavul, a Turkish energy company. Sertavul chose GE and Inogen, GE’s regional partner, to build […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Bill Derasmo| Date: Sat, 21 May 2022 12:44:32 +0000
The perfect storm of crises and policy directives have converged to create the energy storage moment. Between the drive to reduce carbon output to “net zero” over the coming decades and the commodity crisis created by the conflict in Ukraine (including its impact on the supply and price of oil and natural gas), the pressure […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Mary Hutzler| Date: Mon, 02 May 2022 04:11:00 +0000
Major cities including San Francisco, Seattle, Denver, and New York have either enacted or proposed measures to ban or discourage the use of natural gas in new homes and buildings, just a few years after
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Read moreCredit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2022 18:42:08 +0000
A study conducted by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) shows more than 1.1 TW of solar and energy storage capacity were in the U.S. power grid’s interconnection queue at the end of 2021. Notably, that total is more than the currently existing capacity in the U.S. power fleet. Additionally, Berkeley Lab researchers found […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2022 04:11:00 +0000
Electrification—replacing fossil fuels with electricity to provide power—is a major part of the global effort toward decarbonization. It touches many sectors, and is sparking even more discussion about its
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Read moreCredit to Author: POWER| Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2022 13:48:39 +0000
Construction of a power plant in Turkey that will demonstrate a stand-alone “triple hybrid” system featuring renewable power sources, a reciprocating engine generator, and a battery has been completed. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) Group subsidiary Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Engine & Turbocharger, Ltd. (MHIET) and Calik Enerji Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S., a subsidiary of Turkish energy […]
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