wind and solar photovoltaic News
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A 50% share of variable renewables can save up to 6% on system costs
The REserviceS project - led by the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) and involving other stakeholders from across the electricity system and academia - also found that creating markets to trade grid support services (GSS) can provide revenue streams for generators, in addition to energy-only markets. Wind and solar photovoltaic (PV) energy is capable of providing GSS such as frequency and ...
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The international launch of The Power of Transformation Wind, Sun and the Economics of Flexible Power Systems
Wind power and solar photovoltaics (PV) are crucial to meeting future energy needs while decarbonising the power sector. Deployment of both technologies has expanded rapidly in recent years, one of the few bright spots in an otherwise bleak picture of clean energy progress. However, the inherent variability of wind power and solar PV raises unique and pressing questions: Can power systems remain ...
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Green industries employ more than polluters, says WWF
With over three million jobs across Europe, green economic activities are overtaking polluting industries in terms of employment, says a new WWF study. “Low carbon jobs for Europe” shows that at least 3.4 million European jobs are directly related to renewable energy, sustainable transport and energy efficient goods and services. This compares with 2.8 million jobs in polluting industries, such ...
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The international launch of The Power of Transformation Wind, Sun and the Economics of Flexible Power Systems on 26 February
Press webinar on Wednesday 26 February 2014; 15:00 - 16:00 Paris time Maria van der Hoeven Executive Director, International Energy Agency (IEA) Paolo Frankl Head of the Renewable Energy Division Simon Müller Energy analyst in the Renewable Energy Division Wind power and solar photovoltaics (PV) are crucial to meeting future energy needs while decarbonising the power sector. Deployment of ...
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EDF Renewable Energy Announces Operation of the 161 Megawatt Spinning Spur Wind Project
EDF Renewable Energy, formerly enXco, today announced that the 161 megawatt Spinning Spur Wind Project, located in Oldham County, Texas approximately 30 miles west of Amarillo, is operational and supplying electricity to the regional transmission grid. The project, comprised of 70 Siemens 2.3 MW turbines, will deliver carbon-free electricity for the benefit of Southwestern Public Service ...
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Renewable energy boosts economy and brings new jobs
Renewable energy policy aims to decrease greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions whilst stimulating the economy and employment. The first study to assess the economic effects of supporting renewable energy indicates that meeting the EU renewable targets could provide about 410,000 new jobs and 0.24 per cent additional GDP for the EU. In December 2008, the EU passed the Renewable Energy Directive to set ...
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ASU helps re-engineer power grid for renewable energy
Arizona State University researchers will help create a framework for re-engineering the nation’s power grid to make it adaptable to renewable electric-energy technologies such as solar and wind power. A team of faculty members in ASU’s Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering and School of Sustainability are part of a new National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Research Center formed to ...
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NREL Releases Renewable Energy Data Book Detailing Growing Industry in 2012
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has released the 2012 Renewable Energy Data Book on behalf of the Energy Department’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. The annual report is an important assessment of U.S. energy statistics for 2012, including renewable electricity, worldwide renewable energy development, clean energy investments, and data on specific ...
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Tumbling Costs for Wind, Solar, Batteries Are Squeezing Fossil Fuels
Coal and gas are facing a mounting threat to their position in the world’s electricity generation mix, as a result of the spectacular reductions in cost not just for wind and solar technologies, but also for batteries – according to research from Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF). BNEF’s latest report on the levelized costs of electricity, or LCOE, for all the leading technologies finds that ...
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New DNV GL Research Sees Long-Term Expansion of Hydrogen Use for Energy
'Hydrogen as an energy carrier' predicts demand for hydrogen for heating residential and commercial space, heat for industry, and transport to reach between 39 and 161 million tonnes of hydrogen per annum (Mtpa) in 2050, under various modelled scenarios. Currently, only about 1,000 tonnes of hydrogen production is for energy each year, mostly for hydrogen fuel-cell electric vehicles. This ...
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IEA sees renewable energy growth accelerating over next 5 years
Renewable power generation is expected to continue its rapid growth over the next five years, according to a new report from the International Energy Agency<http://www.iea.org/> (IEA) that acknowledges the coming-of-age of the renewable energy sector. The report says that despite economic uncertainties in many countries, global power generation from hydropower, solar, wind and other ...
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2012: A breakthrough for renewable energy?
In his annual State of the Union address, President Obama declared: “I will not walk away from clean energy.” His words were a sharp rebuttal to critics harping on the Solyndra bankruptcy and others making dire predictions about the downfall of the renewable energy industry. So, who is right? Will 2012 be a breakthrough year for renewable, or will it collapse? Despite conventional ...
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FERC Proposes IBR Standards, Registration to Improve Grid Reliability
FERC took several actions on Nov 17 focused on inverter-based resources (IBRs), including proposing that new mandatory standards be developed to enhance the reliability of the bulk electric system. IBRs are solar photovoltaic, wind, fuel cell and battery storage resources that use power electronic devices to change direct current power, produced by generators, to alternating current power, to be ...
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Wärtsilä Report: Accelerated Adoption of Renewables Can Reduce Electricity Production by 50%
The technology group Wärtsilä has issued a report ahead of COP26, the UN’s Climate Change Conference to be held in Glasgow this autumn, demonstrating the environmental and economic opportunities for states that decarbonise rapidly. The report was presented at the Economist Sustainability Week event on 6 October. The ‘Front-Loading Net Zero’ report states that electricity production costs could be ...
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NERC Disturbance Report Emphasizes Continued Need for Industry Action, Provides Recommendations
As inverter-based resources, including modern wind turbines, solar photovoltaic and battery energy storage systems, continue to drive grid transformation, they may also introduce potential risks to the system, as documented by NERC in multiple disturbance reports. As part of its Inverter-Based Resource Strategy, NERC is dedicated to identifying and addressing these challenges, sharing risk ...
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IEA press conference “Harnessing Variable Renewables”
Harnessing Variable Renewables: a Guide to the Balancing Challenge sheds light on managing power systems with large shares of variable renewables such as wind and solar PV, with focus on strategies to maintain the reliable balance of supply and demand. It presents a new, step-by-step approach developed by the IEA to assess the flexibility of power systems, which identifies the already present ...
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One step at a time: IRP 2019
The IRP 2019 is the latest addition to the array of legal instruments South Africa has adopted to transition to a low carbon economy and as part of its commitment to adapt to and mitigate against climate change under the international climate change framework. We have seen a marked increase in climate change-related legislation and regulations in recent years, including the mandatory greenhouse ...
By VUKA Group
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Russia Can Nearly Quadruple Share of Renewable Energy by 2030
Russia can increase the share of renewables in its energy mix from roughly 3 per cent today to more than 11 per cent by 2030, according to new findings by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). The growth in renewable energy use would represent nearly a fourfold increase in the share of renewables between 2014 and 2030. Renewable Energy Prospects for the Russian Federation, was ...
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Capital Dynamics US Solar Energy Fund Acquires 12.8 MWp Solar PV Portfolio From EDF Renewable Energy
Capital Dynamics, a global private asset manager, and EDF Renewable Energy are pleased to announce that the Capital Dynamics US Solar Energy Fund has acquired a 12.8 megawatt peak (MWp) portfolio of solar energy projects in Long Island, New York from EDF Renewable Energy (formerly known as enXco). The 12.8 MWp portfolio of seven solar photovoltaic (PV) projects, in both operation and advanced ...
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NREL Supercomputing Model Provides Insights from Higher Wind and Solar Generation in the Eastern Power Grid
A new study from the United States Department of Energy's (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) used high-performance computing capabilities and innovative visualization tools to model, in unprecedented detail, how the power grid of the eastern United States could operationally accommodate higher levels of wind and solar photovoltaic generation. The analysis considered scenarios of up ...
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