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Why Lots Of Rabbits Have To Be Harnessed To Keep Grid Clocks Aligned

March 14, 2025 admin batteries, carbon emissions, clean power, climate change, electric grid, Energy, Energy Storage, flywheel, Fossil Fuels, green economy, grid, pumped hydro storage, renewable energy, Smart Grid, Solar energy, wind energy

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2025 16:37:01 +0000

The UK now has an active market for grid inertia, marking a significant step toward ensuring stability in an electricity grid increasingly reliant on intermittent renewable energy sources. The first successful bidder to provide this inertia service was a notably straightforward yet effective technology: an electric motor spinning a massive … [continued]

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Fossil Fuelers Bet $10 Million On Long-Duration Energy Storage

March 11, 2025 admin clean power, Energy, Energy Storage, hunt energy, investing, investors, long-duration energy storage, pumped hydro storage, quidnet energy, renewable energy, Solar energy, usa, water battery, wind energy

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2025 15:37:28 +0000

The energy storage startup Quidnet Energy is ready to bring its long duration, underground “water battery” system to market.

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OCED Announces up to $31 Million for Small Businesses to Innovate American Energy Technologies

January 18, 2025 admin Energy Storage, green economy, green jobs, policy & politics, pumped hydro storage, subsidies, us department of energy (doe)

Credit to Author: US Department of Energy| Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2025 23:00:21 +0000

OCED Announces up to $31 Million for Small Businesses to Innovate American Energy Technologies The Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations (OCED) today released a new funding solicitation for up to $31 million to validate in operational conditions new energy technology components or systems to be integrated in larger-scale … [continued]

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POWER Digest [January 2025]

January 2, 2025 admin Brazil, China, Coal, Gas, geothermal, news and notes, Nuclear, nuclear power, offshore wind, power, pumped hydro storage, Renewables, South korea, Turkey

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2025 12:10:00 +0000

First Hualong One at Zhangzhou No. 1 Mega-Nuclear Plant Powers Up in China. China National Nuclear Corp. (CNNC), on Nov. 28, successfully connected Zhangzhou Nuclear Power Plant No. 1, a 1.1-GW Hualong One

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China Hits EV Target 10 Years Early, Still Hasn’t Reached 2020 Nuclear Target

December 28, 2024 admin carbon emissions, China, clean power, clean transport, climate change, electric cars, electric trucks, Electric vehicles, Energy, Energy Storage, ev sales, green economy, green jobs, hydroelectric, investment, Manufacturing, Nuclear, nuclear energy, policy & politics, pumped hydro storage, renewable energy, Solar energy, wind energy

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2024 21:20:27 +0000

On October 27th of 2020, the China Society of Automotive Engineers laid out a roadmap for how the country was going to achieve 50% of all cars sold in 2035 being fully electric, plug-in hybrid, or hydrogen, with 95% of them of course being fully electric. Per projections from HSBC, … [continued]

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Draft US Energy Storage Strategy & Roadmap Update Released, Input Requested

December 24, 2024 admin batteries, Energy Storage, energy storage grand challenge, lithium-ion batteries, pumped hydro storage, us department of energy (doe)

Credit to Author: US Department of Energy| Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2024 04:06:10 +0000

Today, the U.S. Department of Energy released its draft Energy Storage Strategy and Roadmap and a Notice of Availability seeking stakeholder input on the draft Strategy and Roadmap. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today released its draft Energy Storage Strategy and Roadmap (SRM), a plan that provides strategic direction and identifies … [continued]

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A Case for Small Hydro

December 7, 2024 admin 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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Finnish GTK Risks Credibility By Publishing Bad Minerals Study In Peer-Reviewed House Journal

December 6, 2024 admin 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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