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Timberline Solar Roof, EV Battery Reuse in Madrid, 1000 Illuminators Jobs — Clean News Roundup

August 12, 2024 admin batteries, battery reuse, California, clean power, dead zones, electric vehicle battery reuse, Energy Storage, ev batteries, gaf energy, green economy, green jobs, grid, gulf of mexico, investment, lithium-ion batteries, Madrid, Manufacturing, microsoft, Minnesota, NOAA, pivot energy, sodium-ion batteries, Solar energy, us department of energy (doe), virtual power plants

Credit to Author: Cynthia Shahan| Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2024 02:29:43 +0000

In addition to our electric vehicle news roundup, here’s a new roundup on clean energy and energy storage stories. From solar roofs to EV battery reuse for stationary storage in Spain to community solar and virtual power plants — there’s a lot to share. Read on for all the fun! … [continued]

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Community Solar Is Coming For Your Fossil Fuels

August 11, 2024 admin agrivoltaics, clean power, community solar, corporate social responsibility, esg, esg investments, green economy, microsoft, pivot energy, Solar energy, usa

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2024 19:11:13 +0000

Microsoft and Pivot Energy have joined forces to pump up to 500 megawatts into the rapidly expanding community solar market.

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Weird & Wacky Ways Of Powering Data Centers Are Under Consideration

June 27, 2024 admin AI, amazon (amzn), Artificial Intelligence, clean power, Coal, data centers, Fossil Fuels, fusion, google, green economy, green energy, meta, microsoft, natural gas, nuclear energy

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2024 15:55:01 +0000

Data centers consume enormous amounts of electricity. They promise to use only renewable energy, but is that realistic?

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No, AI Queries & Images Aren’t Carbon Bombs, So Stop Hyperventilating

June 17, 2024 admin AI, Artificial Intelligence, California, Canada, carbon emissions, chatgpt, clean power, clean transport, climate change, energy efficiency, green economy, grid, investment, Manufacturing, microsoft, microsoft azure, openai

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2024 16:05:37 +0000

Regular readers will either appreciate or hate that for roughly 20 months I’ve been decorating my articles and presentations with images generated by artificial intelligence algorithms. I’m not going to address the full range of reasons, but will just do some basic math on the electricity use to get a … [continued]

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Data Centers & AI Are Sucking Up Huge Amounts Of Renewable Energy

June 6, 2024 admin AI, Amazon, clean power, data center, data centers, google, green economy, grid, microsoft, Solar energy, wind energy

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2024 15:08:51 +0000

Mention electric cars, and some people will go off on a tirade about how there is not enough electricity to charge them all, and if they happened to be charging at the same time, the electrical grid will implode as transmission wires melt and transformers self-destruct in a shower of … [continued]

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Industry Exec: Data Centers Will Drive Demand for Natural Gas

May 7, 2024 admin aws, Business, data centers, enverus, Gas, microsoft, natural gas, news, nuclear power, pipelines, Power Demand, tc energy, Technology

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Tue, 07 May 2024 14:42:15 +0000

An executive with the TC Energy, a group that is among the largest operators of natural gas pipelines in North America, said electricity demand from energy-intensive data centers will support […]

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Hydrogen Fuel Cell Provides Backup Power for Microsoft Data Center

January 21, 2024 admin ballard power systems, caterpillar, data center, distributed energy, engineering, fuel cells, hydrogen, hydrogen fuel cell, microsoft, news, power, Technology, Wyoming

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2024 15:11:16 +0000

A demonstration project led by Caterpillar at a Wyoming site showed that large-format hydrogen fuel cells could be used to supply backup power to a data center. Caterpillar on Jan. […]

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Bill Gates-Backed Group Supporting New Energy Storage Technology

December 12, 2023 admin battery energy storage, Bill Gates, black venture capital consortium, breakthrough energy ventures, California, dcvc, Energy Storage, fourth power, Massachusetts, microsoft, news, power, Renewables, reuters, Solar, thermal energy storage, Wind

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2023 12:48:00 +0000

A Massachusetts-based group developing an energy storage system to support renewable energy resources is moving forward with plans for a prototype facility outside Boston. Fourth Power on Dec. 12 said […]

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Microsoft Has Deal to Buy Fusion Power from Helion

May 12, 2023 admin Electricity, fusion, helion energy, microsoft, news, Nuclear, Research and Development

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Wed, 10 May 2023 15:46:40 +0000

Software giant Microsoft on May 10 announced it has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) with nuclear fusion startup Helion Energy to buy electricity from Helion as soon as 2028. […]

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Waste Heat From Data Centers Can Bolster District Heat Systems

January 1, 2023 admin alphabet, Amazon, apple, buildings, data centers, Europe, green economy, meta, microsoft, waste heat

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2022 22:05:06 +0000

Globally, data centers are estimated to account for 1 to 2% of electricity usage. The percentage is higher in Europe, where data centers there consumed 104 TWh of electricity in 2020 — about 3% of all the electricity consumed within the EU. Those data centers create a lot of waste heat. Some of it could […]