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Rio Tinto signs Australia’s biggest renewable power deal as it works to repower its Gladstone operations

March 18, 2024 admin clean power, press releases, rio tinto, wind energy

Credit to Author: Press Release| Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2024 20:35:36 +0000

Rio Tinto has signed Australia’s largest renewable power purchase agreement (PPA) to date to supply its Gladstone operations in Queensland, agreeing to buy the majority of electricity from Windlab’s planned 1.4GW Bungaban wind energy project. The agreement, which follows the announcement last month of a PPA for the Upper Calliope solar … [continued]

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Baseload Power Doesn’t Make Sense Anymore

March 18, 2024 admin baseload power, batteries, clean power, grid, inflexible, rigid, Solar, Solar energy, storage, Wind, wind energy

Credit to Author: George Harvey| Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2024 20:18:55 +0000

The compelling complaint about baseload power is that while it did save money in the past, it doesn’t any more. Sun and wind are cheaper than this “cheap” power source, AND backup battery power is cheaper than the backup plants needed for baseload power.

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CCS Redux: Carbon Engineering’s Diesel? Just Put Electricity Into Tesla Semi Instead

March 18, 2024 admin biofuels, Canada, Carbon Capture, carbon capture (ccs), carbon emissions, carbon engineering, clean power, clean transport, climate change, electric trucks, Electric vehicles, Energy, Fossil Fuels, green economy, investment, Oil, renewable energy, Shipping, Solar energy, tesla, tesla semi, wind energy

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2024 17:44:35 +0000

For the same energy inputs you could travel 3 times as far for a 5th the CO2 emissions and well under half the cost in an electric truck.

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Empire Wind 1 Awarded Offtake Contract in New York’s 4th Offshore Wind Solicitation Round

March 17, 2024 admin clean power, equinor, New York, new york state energy research and development authority (nyserda), nyserda, policy & politics, press releases, wind energy

Credit to Author: Press Release| Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2024 15:19:39 +0000

New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) today announced Equinor’s Empire Wind 1 project one of the conditional winners in its fourth offshore wind solicitation round. The award is an important milestone for the advancement of the project, which can deliver 810 megawatts (MW) of renewable energy to … [continued]

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Avangrid Announces Construction of Its 5th Wind Farm in Illinois

March 15, 2024 admin avangrid, clean power, iberdrola group, Illinois, press releases, wind energy

Credit to Author: Press Release| Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2024 03:53:09 +0000

The 153 Megawatt (MW) wind farm, Osagrove Flats, will be built in La Salle County and demonstrates company’s continued investment in Illinois PORTLAND, Oregon — Avangrid, Inc. (NYSE: AGR), a leading sustainable energy company and member of the Iberdrola Group, this week announced the construction of what will be the … [continued]

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5 Signs To Spot Anti-Cleantech Propaganda From Seemingly Innocuous Sources

March 14, 2024 admin Fossil Fuels, fud, Media, wind energy

Credit to Author: Scott Cooney| Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2024 19:47:46 +0000

It’s an election year, so, well, everything must be viewed skeptically. So it was that recently an ad popped up purporting to stand up for free speech, which, according to the ad, knows no political colors. Hm. Cool. Seems innocuous. What could possibly go wrong, right? I checked out their … [continued]

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Secretary Granholm on President Biden’s Fiscal Year 2025 Budget

March 14, 2024 admin clean power, jennifer granholm, Joe Biden, policy & politics, press releases, Solar energy, subsidies, us department of energy (doe), wind energy

Credit to Author: US Department of Energy| Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2024 03:57:31 +0000

President Biden’s Budget Reinforces Commitment to Address Climate, Energy, Environmental, and Nuclear Security Challenges Through Transformative Science and Technological Solutions WASHINGTON, D.C.-The Biden-Harris Administration today released the President’s Budget for Fiscal Year 2025. Following historic progress made since the President took office—with nearly 15 million jobs created and inflation down two-thirds—the … [continued]

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Can We Connect Renewable Energy Hubs With Electricity Consumption Hubs?

March 13, 2024 admin clean power, grid, high voltage transmission lines, hvdc, national renewable energy laboratory (nrel), nrel, pacific northwest national, pacific northwest national laboratory (pnnl), Solar energy, wind energy

Credit to Author: US Energy Information Administration| Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2024 03:20:57 +0000

New Approach to Transmission Planning Links Renewable Energy Zones to Major Load Centers via Longer, High-Voltage Transmission A new approach … [continued]

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Biden–Harris Admin Announces $425 Million to Decarbonize & Manufacture Clean Energy Products in Former Coal Communities as Part of Investing in America Agenda

March 11, 2024 admin bipartisan infrastructure law, clean power, green economy, investing in america, jennifer granholm, Joe Biden, Manufacturing, press releases, recycling, Solar energy, solar panel recycling, us coal, us department of energy (doe), wind energy

Credit to Author: US Department of Energy| Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2024 22:04:38 +0000

Funding from President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Will Create Good-Paying Manufacturing Jobs, Build Clean Energy Supply Chains, and Reduce Industrial … [continued]

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