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Dam Removal Revitalizes Salmon In Win For Native Tribes

December 13, 2024 admin 0 Comments Agriculture, clean power, dam removal, dams, hydroelectric, klamath river, policy & politics, usfws, Water

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2024 23:45:14 +0000

If you read One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest years ago, you may recall how Chief Bromden’s psychosis originated with the loss of his people’s fishing habitat due to the construction of a monstrous dam. Ken Kesey brought the loss of annual fish runs of the Columbia River, estimated at … [continued]

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A Case for Small Hydro

December 7, 2024 admin 0 Comments clean power, Energy Storage, hydroelectric, pumped hydro storage, small hydro, small hydropower

Credit to Author: Letters to the Editor| Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2024 04:58:06 +0000

Harnessing renewable energy is a crucial step in building sustainable communities, and as climate change accelerates, finding carbon-free energy sources that are affordable, reliable, and can handle changes in policy, extreme weather events, and rising demand is more important than ever. One often-overlooked solution? Our rivers. Small hydroelectric turbines (“Small … [continued]

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Lessons For Europe & North America From Northvolt Collapse

December 6, 2024 admin 0 Comments batteries, carbon emissions, China, clean power, clean transport, climate change, Electric vehicles, Energy, Energy Storage, Europe, ev batteries, green economy, green jobs, hydroelectric, investment, Manufacturing, northvolt, policy & politics, subsidies, Sweden, usa

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2024 04:50:39 +0000

The European Union lost a few things in the past week. The least of them was a couple of billion euros of loans and grants. A big one was a new supply of fresh and shiny Europe-made batteries. The biggest was a belief that anything China could do, they could … [continued]

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Finnish GTK Risks Credibility By Publishing Bad Minerals Study In Peer-Reviewed House Journal

December 6, 2024 admin 0 Comments batteries, battery minerals, carbon emissions, clean power, clean transport, climate change, Coal, Electric vehicles, Energy, Energy Storage, Fossil Fuels, grid, hydroelectric, lithium-ion batteries, natural gas, Oil, policy research, pumped hydro storage, renewable energy, research, SCIENCE, Shipping, Solar energy, trains / rail, wind energy

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2024 03:02:17 +0000

A year ago I published an assessment of a quite remarkably bad, non-peer-reviewed paper by one of the Geological Survey of Finland’s (GTK) associate professors, Simon Michaux. The paper’s quite risible conclusions were that there wasn’t nearly enough metal in the ground to be able to electrify everything with renewables. … [continued]

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Drought Causes Renewable Energy Generation to Drop Again

November 11, 2024 admin clean power, climate change, energy information administration (eia), hydroelectric, us hydropower

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2024 03:26:04 +0000

Climate change grows year after year. Climate disruption becomes the norm, and then more disruption comes. We’re in a race against time, and time is winning. The good news is that renewable energy dominates new power capacity installations and new electricity generation. However, sometimes, renewable energy generation goes down, because … [continued]

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$81 Million For Gigantic Energy Storage Showcase In Kentucky

November 9, 2024 admin clean power, edf group, Energy, Energy Storage, green economy, grid, hydroelectric, hydropower, kentucky, pumped hydro, pumped hydro storage, renewable energy, us department of energy (doe), us hydropower, usa

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2024 13:58:06 +0000

Pumped hydropower is the basis for 96% of utility-scale energy storage capacity in the US, and it is ripe with potential for expansion.

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China Will Electrify & Decarbonize Much Faster Than Europe Unless EU Puts Act In Action

November 3, 2024 admin carbon emissions, China, clean power, climate change, Energy, Europe, events, green economy, green jobs, hydroelectric, India, investment, Manufacturing, Solar energy, wind energy

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2024 16:15:47 +0000

This week I had the privilege of speaking in Brussels, steps from the European Parliament, among a group of speakers that included the Belgian energy minister and a member of European parliament, then participating in a panel discussion. The event was a launch of the second edition of Supergrid Super … [continued]

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Centragrid’s New 25MW Solar PV Plant Shows A Way To Help Quickly Address Zimbabwe’s Electricity Rationing

October 23, 2024 admin africa, clean power, grid, hydroelectric, Solar energy, Zimbabwe

Credit to Author: Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai| Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2024 15:28:08 +0000

In August, there was a big summit for the Southern African Development Community (SADC) in Harare, Zimbabwe. It was the 44th edition of this summit, with heads of state for 13 out of the 16 member states attending. In preparation for this big summit, the Zimbabwe government spent close to … [continued]

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US Hydroelectric Infrastructure Is Getting $430M In Upgrades

October 18, 2024 admin bipartisan infrastructure law, clean power, hydroelectric, investing in america, us department of energy (doe)

Credit to Author: Derek Markham| Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2024 20:07:25 +0000

Hydropower, the old-school method of renewable energy generation in the US, is getting a $430 million shot in the arm for funding hydroelectric infrastructure upgrades which aim to improve grid resilience, improve safety, and facilitate “environmental and recreational improvements” at hydro facilities across 33 states. This round of hydro facility … [continued]

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China Likely To Have Lower GHG Emissions Than USA By 2035

October 3, 2024 admin buildings, carbon pricing, China, clean power, clean transport, climate change, Coal, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, Fossil Fuels, ghg emissions, green economy, green jobs, greenhouse gases (ghgs), grid, hydroelectric, investment, Manufacturing, mass transit / public transit, policy & politics, Shipping, Solar energy, trains / rail, usa, wind energy

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2024 22:37:08 +0000

China’s electrification, renewables, and infrastructure trajectories mean coal demand is going to plummet, and emissions with it. The USA? Not so much.

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