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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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5-Step Plan to Support Smooth Transitions in the Hydropower Workforce

July 4, 2024 admin clean power, hydroelectric, research, us hydropower, Water

Credit to Author: US Department of Energy| Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2024 21:09:56 +0000

A New Resource is Equipping Hydropower Organizations With Tools That Can Facilitate Seamless Succession Planning and Promote Robust Knowledge Sharing Practices The good news: Hydropower’s reliability means it plays—and will continue to play—an important role in the electrical grid, supporting variable renewable energy sources like solar and wind. And existing … [continued]

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U.S. Hydropower Generation Expected to Increase by 6% in 2024 Following Last Year’s Lows

April 20, 2024 admin clean power, hydroelectric, market research, research, us hydropower

Credit to Author: US Energy Information Administration| Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2024 13:11:21 +0000

Last year, U.S. hydropower electricity generation fell to its lowest since 2001. This year, we expect hydropower to increase 6% and account for 250 billion kilowatthours of electricity generation in the power sector, based on forecasts in our Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO). We expect hydropower to increase in nearly every part of the … [continued]

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Renewables to Equal 22% of U.S. Electricity Generation in 2022 — U.S. EIA Forecast

August 17, 2022 admin California, clean power, electric reliability council of texas (ercot), Florida, florida reliability coordinating council, hydroelectric, market research, pjm interconnection, research, short-term energy outlook (steo), Solar energy, Southwest Power Pool, us hydropower, us solar energy, us wind energy, wind energy

Credit to Author: U.S. Energy Information Administration| Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2022 12:30:29 +0000

U.S. electricity generation from renewable sources, such as hydropower, wind, and solar, accounted for 20% of electricity generation both in 2020 and in 2021. We expect that share to increase to 22% in 2022 and to 24% in 2023 as more generating capacity from wind and solar come online and other generation sources, such as […]

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25.5% of US Electricity Coming from Renewable Energy

July 15, 2022 admin clean power, cleantechnica, cleantechnica exclusive, cleantechnica reports, Coal, Fossil Fuels, hydroelectric, market research, natural gas, nuclear energy, research, Solar energy, us biomass, us coal, us electricity generation reports, us geothermal energy, us hydropower, us natural gas, us nuclear energy, us renewable energy, us solar energy, us wind energy, wind 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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Renewable Generation Surpassed Nuclear in the U.S. Electric Power Sector in 2021

April 27, 2022 admin clean power, geothermal energy, hydroelectric, market research, nuclear energy, research, Solar energy, us hydropower, us natural gas, us nuclear energy, us renewable energy, wind energy

Credit to Author: U.S. Energy Information Administration| Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2022 11:00:43 +0000

Electric power sector generation from renewable sources totaled 795 million megawatt-hours (MWh) in the United States during 2021, surpassing nuclear generation, which totaled 778 million MWh. The U.S. electric power sector does not include electricity generators in the industrial, commercial, or residential sectors, such as small-scale solar or wind or some combined-heat-and-power systems. Renewable generation […]

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Renewable Energy Provided 24% of US Electricity in December

March 30, 2022 admin clean power, cleantechnica, cleantechnica exclusive, cleantechnica reports, market research, research, Solar energy, us biomass, us coal, us electricity generation reports, us geothermal energy, us hydropower, us natural gas, us nuclear energy, us renewable energy, us solar energy, us wind energy, wind energy

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2022 02:45:55 +0000

Renewable energy sources — particularly solar and wind energy — now dominate new US power capacity installations. But they don’t dominate electricity generation in the country. December 2021 Renewable Energy Generation In the month of December 2021, renewable energy sources accounted for 23.8% of electricity generation across the United States. Wind energy alone accounted for […]