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What’s Driving Wholesale Power Price Changes? Not What You Think

November 27, 2019 admin Business, Coal, coal retirements, Gas, Hydro, lbnl, market drivers, Markets, news, Nuclear, nuclear retirements, Renewables, report, Solar, Technology, variable renewable energy, wholesale power price, Wind

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2019 15:10:43 +0000

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Falling natural gas prices tamped down annual U.S. wholesale power prices over the last decade by $7/MWh to $53/MWh—to a much higher degree compared to the impact of wind and solar growth—a new report from Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (LBNL) suggests. The Nov. 20–published report, The Impact of Wind, Solar, and Other Factors on Wholesale Power […]

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‘GREEN Act of 2019’ Extends Tax Credits for Renewables

November 19, 2019 admin americans for prosperity, americans for tax reform, awea, California, climate change, Coal, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, Environmental, freedomworks, Gas, heritage action, House Ways and Means committee, Hydro, Legislative, national taxpayers union, New Jersey, New York, news, Nuclear, Renewables, seia, Solar, tesla, the center for a free economy, union of concerned scientists, Wind

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2019 18:41:57 +0000

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The Ways and Means Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives on Nov. 19 released a draft tax package for clean energy projects that includes a five-year extension of the 30% solar Investment Tax Credit (ITC), along with new incentives for energy storage. The legislation also supports incentives for electric vehicles (EVs), offshore and onshore […]

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Ritter’s Message: Market Forces Drive Growth in Distributed Generation

October 31, 2019 admin bill ritter, biomass, Business, Carbon Capture, climate change, Coal, Cybersecurity, distributed energy, distributed energy conference, Distributed Generation, distributed power, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, firm generation, fuel cells, Gas, geothermal, Hydro, hydrogen, keynote, Legislative, Markets, Nuclear, Renewables, Solar, waste to energy, Wind

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2019 16:26:07 +0000

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Market forces are playing as much if not more of a role than regulatory policy in the transition from fossil-fueled power generation to renewables, as utilities in the U.S. and worldwide establish decarbonization goals. That was the message from Bill Ritter Jr., former governor of Colorado, during his keynote address at POWER’s Distributed Energy Conference […]

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Four Projects Picked to Speed Up Pumped Storage Hydro Construction

October 9, 2019 admin Business, DOE, fast competition, Hydro, modular hydro, news, Plant Design, pumped-storage hydro, Renewables, Technology

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2019 14:24:39 +0000

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Four projects have won a competition launched by the Department of Energy (DOE) in April 2019 to help shorten the commissioning time for pumped storage hydropower projects and revitalize the hydropower industry. The grand prize winners or the Furthering Advancements to Shorten Time (FAST) Prize competition were selected by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) […]

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EIA: Renewables Will Account for Half of Global Power Generation by 2050

October 2, 2019 admin China, Coal, distributed energy, EIA, Energy Storage, Gas, Hydro, hydropower, India, International, nasew, news, Nuclear, oecd, oecd europe, Renewables, seia, sepa, Solar, Technology, Wind

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2019 15:27:12 +0000

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Solar power is expected to take a larger share of global power generation across the next 30 years, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), as renewable energy continues to be adopted worldwide. The EIA’s International Energy Outlook 2019 (IEO2019), released Oct. 2, shows 28% of the world’s power came from renewables in 2018, […]

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How Net Generation Has Changed in States with Renewable Portfolio Standards

September 4, 2019 admin biomass, Business, Coal, data, EIA, Gas, general, geothermal, Hydro, infographic, Infographics, interactive, net generation, news, Nuclear, Renewables, Solar, Technology, Wind

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2019 12:48:26 +0000

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As of August 2019, 29 U.S. states and the District of Columbia had renewable portfolio standards (RPSs), and eight others had non-binding renewable portfolio goals. Three states also had clean energy standards, which set targets for low-carbon non-renewables, like nuclear, and two had clean energy goals. Our monthly infographic in September 2019 shows how shares for each […]

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POWER Digest [August 2019]

August 1, 2019 admin Abu Dhabi, african development bank, Business, Coal, cogeneration, ewec, Gas, General Electric, Guam, guam power authority, Hydro, hydropower, iiot, iiot power, International, kepco, mitsubishi hitachi power systems europe, news, noor abu dhabi, Norway, Nuclear, Renewables, Solar, statera energy, statkraft, steam, United Arab Emirates, Volkswagen

Credit to Author: POWER| Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2019 00:00:00 +0000

VW Chooses MHPS to Modernize Cogen Plant. Volkswagen AG (VW) in early July said it chose Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems Europe (MHPS Europe) to build a gas-and-steam power plant in Wolfsburg, as part of the

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Regulators Back Georgia Power Plan to Close Coal Units, Add Renewables

July 17, 2019 admin biomass, Coal, Energy Storage, Gas, Georgia Power, georgia psc, Hydro, irp, Legal & Regulatory, news, Nuclear, plant hammond, plant mcintosh, Renewables, Solar, Wind

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2019 17:07:27 +0000

The Georgia Public Service Commission (PSC) on July 16 threw its support behind Georgia Power’s plan to add 2,260 MW of new renewable power generation to the utility’s portfolio, on the same day the PSC signed off on the company’s effort to decommission its long-running coal-fired Plant Hammond. Georgia Power earlier this year submitted a […]

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POWER Notebook: Ohio Gas Plant Project in Jeopardy if Nuclear Bill Passes

July 15, 2019 admin algeria, Business, China, Coal, Davis-Besse, fes, FirstEnergy, Gas, Hydro, hydropower, International, kafue gorge lower, Legislative, merchant, natural gas, news, Nuclear, Ohio, perry nuclear power plant, Renewables, scatec solar, sinohydro, Solar, zambia

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2019 00:39:26 +0000

New York City-based LS Power on July 15 said it would end a project to expand its natural gas-fired Troy power plant in Ohio if state lawmakers pass legislation to subsidize the state’s two nuclear power plants. LS Power in a news release Monday said, “Handouts to nuclear plants jeopardize the economics of the other […]

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Chile Presents a Coal Exit Plan

June 30, 2019 admin acciona, Argentina, Business, chile, climate change, Coal, coal retirements, engie, Gas, geothermal, Hydro, International, Markets, news, Power Demand, Renewables, Solar, solar thermal, T&D, Technology, transmission, Wind

Credit to Author: POWER| Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Chile, a country that relied on coal for about two-fifths of its power generation in 2016, in June announced it would mothball eight coal plants, totaling 23 GW, of its existing 28-plant coal fleet over the

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