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Watching The Baseload Paradigm Fail

August 4, 2020 admin 0 Comments baseload power, batteries, Coal, cost of nuclear power, Energy Storage, Fossil Fuels, grid, grid storage, highview power storage, load-following, natural gas, natural gas power plants, nuclear energy, Oil, peaker plants, renewable energy, xcel energy

Credit to Author: George Harvey| Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2020 19:50:20 +0000

Because of the nature of baseload power plants, only supplying enough to cover the base load, other plants have to be put online to cover any demand above the base load. These include load-following plants, which are more costly to run. In the old days, many of these ran on oil. Nowadays, the fuel of choice is natural gas, though the design of the plant is a different from that of a gas-fired baseload plant

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Holy Floating Solar With Green Hydrogen Offshore Wind Farm, Batman

August 4, 2020 admin 0 Comments clean power, Electricity, eneco, Energy, green hydrogen, hydrogen, microsoft, offshore wind energy, offshore wind farms, renewable energy, shell, Solar energy, The Netherlands, wind energy

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2020 15:53:04 +0000

Green hydrogen is in the mix for a new offshore wind farm that will double as a demonstration site for emerging clean tech

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New Perovskite Solar Cell Puts Another Nail In The Natural Gas Coffin

August 2, 2020 admin 0 Comments clean power, DOE, Electricity, Energy, jacobs school of engineering, professor sheng xu, renewable energy, solar cells, Solar energy, uc san diego, United States, university of california, yusheng lei

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Sat, 01 Aug 2020 18:12:41 +0000

A new efficient perovskite solar cell plus low cost, high volume manufacturing spells more bad news for the natural gas industry

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100% Renewable Energy For 2,700 New EV Fast Charging Stations In USA

August 1, 2020 admin 0 Comments cars, clean power, clean transport, electric cars, Electric vehicles, Electricity, Energy, ev charging, ev charging stations, evgo, gm, Michigan, reba, renewable energy, United States, US

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2020 16:56:59 +0000

A new GM-EVgo mashup enlists EV drivers in the renewable energy race with plans for 2,700 new public fast chargers across the

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Bribery! Corruption! Renewable Energy! (Whelp, 2 Of 3 Ain’t Bad)

July 23, 2020 admin clean power, Electricity, Energy, FirstEnergy, gm, john kasich, nuclear energy, Ohio, ohio citizen action, renewable energy, United States, US

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2020 16:52:55 +0000

Crazy state of play in Ohio for renewable energy stakeholders, as accused nuclear power schemers pull a fast one with $60 million in bribes

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Renewable Energy Growth Stymied by Pandemic, but Optimism Is High

July 16, 2020 admin Business, covid-19, Energy Storage, finance, Legislative, renewable energy, Renewables, Solar, stimulus, workforce

Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2020 12:45:03 +0000

The post Renewable Energy Growth Stymied by Pandemic, but Optimism Is High appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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The renewable energy sector was on a steep growth curve entering 2020 with a lot of experts predicting a record year. Then COVID-19 disrupted the entire world, causing trouble in supply chains and putting millions of workers in unemployment lines. However, a new report released by the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE), a renewable […]

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