The New bp Statistical Review of World Energy — What Does It Mean?

Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2022 09:50:24 +0000

The bp Statistical Review of World Energy is a venerable survey of the world’s energy production and consumption — the oil giant has been publishing it yearly since 1952. It’s an extremely detailed report — it lists the amounts of energy generated and consumed, as well as the means of generation, for just about every country […]

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The Solution to Grid Reliability? Go Bigger & Bolder on Renewables & Energy Storage

Credit to Author: RMI| Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2022 04:30:20 +0000

Texas renewable energy solar wind hydrogenOn Sunday, the Texas electric grid operator, ERCOT, requested that consumers conserve energy on Monday for fear that the electric grid would not be able to meet the demand during an extremely hot day. In doing so, ERCOT downplayed the fact that “dispatchable” coal and gas were offline and suggested that wind energy “not showing […]

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Jigar Shah Talks About $504 Million Hydrogen Facility, Small Nuclear, & US Challenges

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2022 17:05:12 +0000

Podcast Jigar ShahShah’s perspective is that we don’t have the ability to go into Sim City and design whatever we want. We have to work with pre-existing facilities.

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25.5% of US Electricity Coming from Renewable Energy

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2022 07:30:07 +0000

Renewable Energy Keeps Growing in USA Electricity generated by renewable energy sources continues to grow month over month and year over year in the United States. In April 2022, the share of US electricity coming from renewable energy was up to 29.3%. That was up from 24.8% in April 2020 and 25.7% in April 2021. […]

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Hydrogen Pipelines Studies Keep Making The Same Mistakes

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2022 17:45:57 +0000

We will manufacture hydrogen on site with firmed, high-exergy electricity that powers the rest of the industrial facility as well, not build a massive hydrogen distribution system that is also massively redundant with just moving electrons.

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Studies Showing Hydrogen Pipelines Carry Far More Energy Keep Making The Same Mistakes

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2022 17:47:57 +0000

We will manufacture hydrogen on site with firmed, high-exergy electricity that powers the rest of the industrial facility as well, not build a massive hydrogen distribution system that is also massively redundant with just moving electrons.

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Big Hike In Natural Gas Prices Will Accelerate Change In Utility Industry

Credit to Author: Paul Fosse| Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2022 11:10:14 +0000

The economics of providing electricity to consumers using wind & solar has changed in the last year with soaring natural gas prices. This piece was inspired by a Facebook post by the Sierra Club that pointed me the the NextEra Investor Conference a couple of weeks ago. There has been a lot written about the […]

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GE Touts Ramp Rate for Gas Turbine at New Polish Power Plant

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2022 16:05:47 +0000

A new 745-MW natural gas-fired power plant in Poland will feature General Electric’s (GE’s) 9HA.02 gas turbine, a model the company said “has the quickest ramp rate in the industry” at 88 MW per minute, and with a DLN 2.6e combustion system “capable of burning up to 50% by volume of hydrogen when blended with […]

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