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Britain has designated a plan to build a subsea cable carrying renewable energy from Morocco as a project of 'national significance', which could help smooth planning hurdles. (zawya.com)

Vodafone today confirmed that its entire European operations - including mobile and fixed networks, data centres, retail and offices - will be 100% powered by electricity from renewable sources from 1 July 2021, marking a key step towards Vodafone's goal of reducing its own carbon emissions to 'net zero' by 2030 and across the company's entire value chain by 2040. (vodafone.co.uk)
In July 2020, Vodafone brought forward its plan to purchase 100% renewable electricity in Europe to July 2021 from its previous target of 2025 and is committed to achieving the same step-change in Africa by 2025. (vodafone.co.uk)
Vodafone Group CEO Nick Read said: "From 1 July 2021, Vodafone's customers across Europe can be reassured that the connectivity they use is entirely powered by electricity from renewable sources. (vodafone.co.uk)
Under Senate Bill 271 , a 15% renewable mandate, which ended in 2021, would be reinstated and rise to 50% in 2030 and 60% in 2035, when a concurrent 80% "clean energy" requirement would kick in before going to 100% in 2040. (crainsdetroit.com)

An electrolyzer (Nel Hydrogen's C30 hydrogen generator) consumes only renewable hydro power and water, and generates hydrogen to serve a wide range of local industrial applications as well as fueling stations. (azocleantech.com)
During an electricity surplus or at times of low electricity prices, renewable energy can be converted into hydrogen. (azocleantech.com)
The hydro power plant generates renewable electricity that is fed into the electrolyzer to produce hydrogen. (azocleantech.com)
We are responsible for developing new business opportunities for Hydro within both renewable energy, hydrogen and batteries, and we provide support to the rest of Hydro's business areas on contracts, security of supply and energy framework conditions. (hydro.com)
Professor Bill Nimmo hopes the increased use of renewable energy sources, with wind being the main focus, will generate spare capacity which can be turned into hydrogen for use in steel production. (sheffield.ac.uk)
Other options into the future could include the production of hydrogen using the same technique, utilising excess power from tidal or ocean power generators. (sheffield.ac.uk)
The key to getting the power to make the hydrogen is getting enough spare capacity in the power generation systems through renewables including wind. (sheffield.ac.uk)

The latest Energy Infrastructure Update released yesterday by the Office of Energy Projects at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission reports that the US had 1,231 megawatts (MW) of new in-service generating capacity come online in January of 2013 â€" all of it from renewable sources including wind, solar and biomass. (enn.com)
By now, renewable energies like hydropower, wind energy, photovoltaics, solar and geothermal energy as well as the use of biomass are highly developed and widespread. (prognos.com)
One hundred percent of the electricity powering Vermont's largest city will come from wind, water, biomass and other sources of renewable energy. (vice.com)
One hundred percent of the electricity powering Burlington - Vermont's largest city - will come from wind, water, biomass, and other sources of renewable energy, bringing the city to the forefront of a nationwide movement to make businesses and cities more environmentally-friendly. (vice.com)
In fact, the total amount of biomass, waste heat, solar and wind power comprised over 60 percent of new power generation last year. (triplepundit.com)
There are three product lines for Efirec, including recycled fuel production plants, power plants using biomass, and power plants using processed waste for energy production. (power-technology.com)
Many factors are contributing to this increase, including reliance on fossil fuels such as coal fired power plants, dependence on private transport motor vehicles, inefficient use of energy in buildings, biomass use for cooking and heating. (who.int)
What factors stand in the way for a global power transition to competitive, industrial-scale biomass conversion? (lu.se)
Find the optimal combination of biomass with other renewable resources and forms of energy (e.g. solar power). (lu.se)

In 2022, renewable energies covered 46 percent of electricity consumption in Germany. (prognos.com)

ORPC pursued and won the first contract with the Maine Public Utilities Commission to provide up to 5 megawatts of tidal power in April 2012. (wikipedia.org)
As the key to modern society, the power, utilities and renewables sector is driving the energy transition not only through technology innovation, but also through policy vision and new business models. (deloitte.com)
Our specialists' goal is to help not only power, utilities and renewables companies, but many sectors, transform their business models, develop and scale their solutions to bring electrification and low-carbon technologies to everyday life. (deloitte.com)
Our specialists deeply understand the role that power, utilities and renewables needs to play in other sectors to accelerate the world towards a low-carbon future. (deloitte.com)
EnBW takes the risks of intermittent production and our retail partners supply this renewable energy with a convenient consumption profile to municipal utilities, SME customers and retail suppliers. (enbw.com)
Combining onshore and offshore wind, blades, hydro, storage, utility-scale solar, and grid solutions as well as hybrid renewables and digital services offerings, GE Renewable Energy has installed more than 400+ gigawatts of clean renewable energy and equipped more than 90 percent of utilities worldwide with its grid solutions. (ge.com)
Utilities and alternative suppliers could seek an extension from a renewable or clean energy deadline if they show that complying would be practically infeasible, excessively costly to customers, not produce enough electricity or cause reliability issues. (crainsdetroit.com)
Computers would let the utilities predict and manage system-wide demand and capacity, with batteries and other storage mechanisms-plug-in hybrids, for instance-ensuring that there would always be enough power to handle consumers' needs. (good.is)
Voters are beginning to understand the potential economic implications of forcing electric utilities to integrate renewable energy into the electricity grid. (heartland.org)

US-headquartered BlackRock, which has more than $US5 trillion of assets under management and claims to be the world's largest investment group, is actively looking for Australian renewable energy investments to add to its new global renewable power fund, which is expected to reach about US$1.7 billion. (afr.com)
Apricum reports that, with its "exceptional availability of solar and wind resources," Egypt has earned "a spot on the global renewable power development hot list. (planetsave.com)
Mitscher reports, "Egypt is definitely on the hot list of global renewable power developers at the moment. (planetsave.com)

ORPC was the first marine renewable company to receive the Outstanding Stewards of America's Waters Award for Operational Excellence from the National Hydropower Association in 2016. (wikipedia.org)
The New Energy Finance figures exclude investment that merely replaces existing plants, and its renewables tally excludes money spent on building large hydropower projects. (latimes.com)
China's hydropower, wind and photovoltaic installed power capacity ranked first in the world last year, the report said. (chinadaily.com.cn)
The United States generates less than 13 percent of its electricity with renewable energy sources, and less than 6 percent, if one doesn't count large hydropower. (vice.com)
Add the 314 megawatts of new hydropower, and 61.5 percent of the country's increase in electrical power came from renewable sources. (triplepundit.com)

Due to its topography and substantial average precipitation, the country has ideal conditions for the use of hydro power. (azocleantech.com)
The 'run-of-the-river plant' of IBAarau in Aarau, CH is recognized as a main hydro power plant in the area, producing electricity at the site since 1895. (azocleantech.com)
The new plant is one of a kind, as it is directly linked to a hydro power plant in Switzerland. (azocleantech.com)
Although different forms of electrolysis technology are available, the electricity produced at the IBAarau hydro power plant is fed directly to an electrolyzer that uses Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) technology. (azocleantech.com)
This course begins with an overview of global energy systems based on oil, carbon, nuclear and hydro power as well as supplementary systems. (lu.se)

The installed capacity of renewable energy came in at around 730 million kilowatts by the end of 2018, up 76.44 million kilowatts from the previous year, according to the report by the China Renewable Energy Engineering Institute. (chinadaily.com.cn)
Data from GenCost 2018, combined with some of our previous research, indicates we may need additional flexible technologies - such as energy storage, demand management, and peaking gas plants - if the share of variable renewables increases beyond 50 per cent. (www.csiro.au)
This technical and engaging webinar on women in solar energy is following up the introduction of the IRENA study on gender and renewables in our webinar in November 2018 as the second installment in this series. (ises.org)

Idaho Power has contracts with two independent geothermal producers: Neal Hot Springs in Malheur County, Oregon, with a nameplate capacity (highest possible amount of energy) of 22 MW, and Raft River Geothermal in Cassia County, Idaho, with a nameplate capacity of 13 MW. (idahopower.com)
There's enough energy in solar, wind, geothermal, and tidal sources to power the planet many times over. (good.is)
Geothermal generation is similar to other steam turbine thermal power stations, however the heat is derived from the earth's core to heat water or another working fluid, which in turn spins a turbine of a generator, producing electricity. (auc.ab.ca)
The largest conventional resources for geothermal power in Canada are in British Columbia, the Yukon and Alberta. (auc.ab.ca)
A new geothermal plant, using naturally-existing superheated water to power steam turbines, is also scheduled to be producing electricity in 2010 near Rincón de la Vieja Volcano, in the province of Guanacaste. (metaefficient.com)

The good news is that renewable energy and energy storage is now the cheapest, cleanest and most reliable form of electricity generation that can be built today,' he said, adding the council backs a national target of at least 50 per cent renewable energy by 2030. (smh.com.au)
Tesco has become the latest high profile name to join the growing list of major corporations pledging to source 100 per cent of their electricity from renewable sources by 2030 as part of the global RE100. (businessgreen.com)
Last year, Boris Johnson said offshore wind farms will generate enough electricity to power every home in the UK within a decade, as he raised the Government's target for offshore wind power capacity by 2030 from 30 gigawatts to 40 gigawatts. (sheffield.ac.uk)

The expansion of renewable energies in Germany is central to achieving global and national climate targets. (prognos.com)
In other sectors, the use of renewable energies was less advanced: In the heating market, the share of renewable energies was 17 percent, in transport 7 percent. (prognos.com)
The transformation of the energy system towards the exclusive use of renewable energies is a major challenge. (prognos.com)
Based on the Prognos electricity market model we answer key questions related to the future development of the electricity system with regard to electricity generation, CO 2 and greenhouse gas emissions, export balance, power plant park, expansion renewable energies and the future electricity market design. (prognos.com)
We perform profitability analyses for assets (wind onshore, wind offshore, photovoltaics, hydroelectric power plants, CHP plants, renewable heat generation, storage, heat supply plants), mergers and acquisitions (M&A) as well as the calculation of market value factors or capture rates of renewable energies and contribution margins. (prognos.com)
Our data shows: As the expansion of renewable energies has been particularly paralysed, a lot still needs to happen in the coming years if Germany is to achieve its energy and climate goals. (prognos.com)

The increasing share of renewable energy will be a major factor in the turmoil. (physicsforums.com)

BEIJING - China is seeing a rapid expansion of renewable energy in its improving energy structure, which accounted for 38.4 percent of the total power capacity, data from an industry report showed. (chinadaily.com.cn)

keywords = "Central Asia, renewables, sustainability. (lu.se)

As water flows, the turbine foils spin in the same direction, producing mechanical power that a permanent magnet generator converts to electricity, and then sends to the electrical grid via an underwater power cable and onshore power station. (wikipedia.org)
Combining onshore and offshore wind, hydro and innovative technologies, GE Renewable Energy has installed more than 400 GW capacity globally. (ge.com)

The release of the jobs figures comes as one of the country's biggest banks, Westpac, said on Wednesday it would source all of its electricity from renewable energy by 2025. (smh.com.au)
Michigan currently has a goal that 35% of electric needs me met through renewable energy and energy waste reduction by 2025. (crainsdetroit.com)
Michigan voters sent a strong message to the U.S. renewable energy industry, rejecting a proposed state constitutional amendment that would have forced consumers to purchase 25 percent of their electricity from so-called renewable sources by the year 2025. (heartland.org)

LANSING - Michigan power providers would have to reach a 100% clean energy standard by 2040 under sweeping climate bills approved late Thursday and early Friday in the Democratic-led House. (crainsdetroit.com)
The overview includes resources/reserves of non-renewable energy sources, carbon capture and storage, climate and energy politics. (lu.se)

Accelerating installations of solar- and wind-power plants led to lower equipment prices, making clean energy more competitive with coal. (latimes.com)
Australia is 'denying gravity' by continuing to encourage coal investments because renewable energy is now competing 'head to head' with coal on cost, the global head of BlackRock's infrastructure investment group, Jim Barry, says. (afr.com)
Mr Barry, who plans to start investing in Australian renewable energy projects, acknowledged it was hard for politicians 'not to do something' with resources like coal when they were available, but said he did not think there was 'long-term potential' in Indian conglomerate Adani's proposed $16.5 billion Carmichael coal mine. (afr.com)
Electricity demand from data centers in Virginia continues to grow at a dramatic rate, with the total power demand of existing data centers and those under development approaching 4.5 gigawatts, or roughly the same power output as nine large (500-megawatt) coal power plants. (greenpeace.org)
The legislation, she said, would help the state capitalize on federal funds available through the Inflation Reduction Act, reduce costs because "if we're powered by the sun and we're powered by the wind, we are not sending money back out to Wyoming to pay for coal or to Texas to pay for natural gas. (crainsdetroit.com)
In contrast, a third of all new power generation came from natural gas, which continued to be the largest factor causing the decline of coal-fired power plants. (triplepundit.com)
Research comparing the direct LCOE of new renewables to existing generators has found that, on average, renewables remain more expensive than the coal, natural gas, and nuclear generation they would replace. (americaspower.org)
America's Power is a partnership of industries involved in producing electricity from coal. (americaspower.org)
But notable improvements in some major cities demonstrate that air quality can be improved when policy measures such as banning the use of coal for space heating, using renewable/clean fuels for electricity production, improved efficiency of motor vehicle engines are put into place. (who.int)

Renewable energy is surpassing fossil fuels for the first time in new power-plant investments, shaking off setbacks from the financial crisis and an impasse at the United Nations global warming talks. (latimes.com)
The tumbling price of renewable energy provided 'a great opportunity' to transition away from fossil fuels in 'a cost-effective way', he said. (smh.com.au)
Large units also have an advantage over the marketing of end-products, renewable fuels or composting plants. (power-technology.com)
Vehicles and machinery primarily powered by renewable organic matter, a resource far better for the planet's health than today's predominate fossil fuels. (lu.se)

ORPC is developing the autonomous turbine generator unit (ATGU), a roving subsea power generation module capable of self-propelling, self-deploying and retrieving, and providing a power supply to subsea vehicles and monitoring systems, and performing underwater missions such as heavy lifts, inspections, and robotic operations. (wikipedia.org)
This internationally significant project will be invaluable to job creation, renewable energy generation and greenhouse gas reduction. (inhabitat.com)
Following today's announcement, 100% of Vodafone's purchased electricity in Europe is now from renewable generation sources including where Vodafone is a tenant on other landlord's sites. (vodafone.co.uk)
Actual net generation from all renewable sources now totals approximately 13 percent, according to the US Energy Information Administration. (enn.com)
Increasingly renewable electricity generation is the basis for the decarbonisation of the heating market and the transport sector. (prognos.com)
Technological advances and economies of scale have reduced generation costs: For example, ground-mounted solar and wind power plants have no cost disadvantages compared to fossil power plants. (prognos.com)
Natural gas is still the leader in new power generation across the U.S., with 8.8 GW of new capacity launched last year. (triplepundit.com)
And according to the U.S. Department of Energy's latest industry employment report, the difference is stark when looking at electric power generation. (triplepundit.com)
Employment within the renewable power generation sector now outpaces fossil fuel energy jobs by almost by 5 to 1, according to the DOE. (triplepundit.com)
Our data confirms that while existing fossil fuel power plants are competitive due to their sunk capital costs, solar and wind generation technologies are currently the lowest-cost ways to generate electricity for Australia, compared to any other new-build technology. (www.csiro.au)
At a global level, the investment costs of a wide range of low emission generation technologies are projected to continue to fall, and we found new-build renewable generation to be least cost, including when we add the cost of two or six hours of energy storage to wind and solar. (www.csiro.au)
Research in 2019 will identify in more detail the least cost set of balancing solutions required by variable renewables once they represent a significantly larger share of the generation portfolio. (www.csiro.au)
What is renewable power generation? (auc.ab.ca)
Renewable power generation is electrical energy obtained from natural resources that can be naturally replenished or renewed within a human lifespan. (auc.ab.ca)
There are many types and classes of renewable power generation. (auc.ab.ca)
Wind-powered generation is achieved through the use of wind turbines. (auc.ab.ca)
Decisions to replace existing generation with new renewable power projects should take into account the full range of costs attributable to renewables, and to compare their total costs to that of the generation they might replace. (americaspower.org)
Without subsidies, the levelized cost of wind generation built in 2019 would be $6.10/MWh higher, and the cost of solar power would be $11.10/MWh higher (17% and 30%, respectively). (americaspower.org)
Appalachian Power has issued a request for proposals (RFP) for up to 300 MW of solar and/or wind generation resources. (nawindpower.com)
Increasing the amount of renewable generation in distribution networks is a fundamental part of the energy transition. (lu.se)
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Power generation for renewable energy sources increased rapidly during last few years. (bvsalud.org)

The momentum toward 100 percent renewable energy targets is already underway in the US," Diane Moss, the founding director of the Southern California-based Renewables 100 Policy Institute, told VICE News. (vice.com)
Under the VCEA, Appalachian Power must meet annual targets as it works toward 100% carbon-free energy in its Virginia service territory by 2050. (nawindpower.com)

The power generated by renewable energy reached 1.87 trillion kilowatt-hours, accounting for 26.7 percent of the country's total power output. (chinadaily.com.cn)

SCE has various contracting programs available, such as the 2009 Renewable RFP, the Standard Contracts Programs, and the up-coming solar photovoltaic program (SPVP) for rooftop solar projects. (sce.com)
If we could solve this problem, we could use existing technology-the photovoltaic panels and concentrated-solar-power plants and wind farms we already see spreading around the country-to convert enough clean energy into electricity to satisfy our nation's thirst for juice. (good.is)
Electricity may be supplied either by a mains power system, by an electric generator, or from renewable energy sources, typically solar power supplied from a photovoltaic array (with or without storage batteries). (who.int)
Similarly, the high gain dc-dc boost choppers are taking place of conventional power converters used for photovoltaic (PV) appliances. (bvsalud.org)

This is Appalachian Power's largest request yet in a single year for renewable energy bids," says Chris Beam, president and COO of Appalachian Power. (nawindpower.com)

The (renewables) charge has been at the current 0.189-cent rate at various points in the past, and it would have been again at various points in the future, dependent on market factors and (renewables-use) targets which preceded the Future Energy Jobs Act," a ComEd spokeswoman emailed. (chicagobusiness.com)

The renewables boom, spurred by about $66 billion of subsidies last year, intensified competition between wind- turbine and solar-panel manufacturers, gutting margins from the biggest producers led by Vestas Wind Systems A/S and First Solar Inc. The 95-member WilderHill New Energy Index of renewable- energy stocks has tumbled 40 percent this year, steeper than the 14 percent drop in the MSCI World Index. (latimes.com)
The previous mentality around renewable energy, that it was expensive and 'all about subsidies', had now been 'turned on its head' as prices, particularly in solar energy, had fallen, Mr Barry said. (afr.com)
The reported cost of recent renewable projects will underestimate the cost of future projects, as federal tax subsidies for wind and solar are now being phased out. (americaspower.org)
That will nearly offset the cost of the renewable and nuclear subsidies through September. (chicagobusiness.com)

Amazon Web Services has built the core of its global infrastructure in Virginia, now with 1.7 gigawatts of power demand across 55 Virginia data centers operating or under construction, representing an increase of nearly 60 percent in the past two years alone. (greenpeace.org)
Of the over 26 gigawatts of new energy capacity added throughout the United States last year, the vast majority of it came from renewables, the FERC found. (triplepundit.com)

We harness the earth's most abundant resources - the strength of the wind, the heat of the sun and the force of water - to power the world's biggest economies and the most remote communities. (ge.com)
New hydroelectric technologies are also being developed to harness tidal power, where tides exist. (auc.ab.ca)

The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy and the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) helped to fund the $12 million design project. (inhabitat.com)
Besides that, the buoy has the capacity to greatly reduce greenhouse gas emissions, making it a cleaner, more sustainable source of renewable energy . (inhabitat.com)
This first-of-its kind wave energy convertor is scalable, reliable and capable of generating sustainable power to facilitate a range of use-cases that were previously unimaginable or just impractical," said John McCarthy, CEO of Ocean Energy. (inhabitat.com)
Due to recent developments, this sustainable power source was taken a step further. (azocleantech.com)
Governments in the region can seize the opportunities for introducing a more sustainable energy mix during the major modernization and replacement of power generating capacity expected in the coming years. (lu.se)

The initiative is part of a state-wide effort to get 90 percent of Vermont to be powered by renewable sources by 2050. (vice.com)
We want to contribute to creating a fair society and circular economy by producing responsibly, delivering circular solutions, making net-zero aluminium by 2050 or earlier, and producing and using more renewable energy. (hydro.com)
By 2050, the Swedish Government wants our energy supply to come mainly from renewable sources, which do not deplete natural resources or pollute our environment. (lu.se)

We saw large scale solar projects - systems with an installed capacity of 100 kilowatts or greater - overtake hydroelectric power to become the second-largest creator of renewable jobs', accounting for a sixth of them, Jonathon Khoo, ABS's director for the centre of environmental and satellite accounts, said in a statement. (smh.com.au)
Iceland has an interesting set up as well with their use of hydroelectric power. (metaefficient.com)

Katie Tubb, a researcher at the Heritage Foundation, says Michigan energy providers are having a difficult time meeting the existing mandate, especially with renewable power already pushing energy prices higher. (heartland.org)
The Michigan-based Mackinac Center for Public Policy, a nonpartisan research and educational institute, reports the existing renewable power mandate is already killing jobs in the state due to higher energy prices. (heartland.org)

The energy production proposed in this legislation being labeled as a transition to clean, renewable and affordable energy is a proven falsehood," said Republican Rep. Mike Hoadley of Au Gres. (crainsdetroit.com)
In this webinar, the results of this important study will be presented and discussed and speakers from IRENA (International Renewable Energy Agency) GWNET (Global Women's Network for the Energy Transition) and REDMEREE (Red Mujeres en Energía Renovalbe y Efficiencia Energética) will join to add important perspectives from women in the renewables all around the world. (ises.org)
The commissioning of such big projects within a stipulated time frame reaffirms Tata Power Renewable's commitment of making substantial contributions towards the green energy transition in the country,' said Ashish Khanna, CEO, Tata Power Renewable Energy Limited. (outlookindia.com)

Legislators also voted to let renewable developers seek state permits to site large-scale wind and solar farms in communities that block the projects. (crainsdetroit.com)
Wynn predicts citizens and legislators will begin to push back against existing renewable energy mandates and repeal rather than expand them. (heartland.org)
I hope Proposition 3's defeat will send a signal to state legislators that the tide has turned and the public has awakened to the high costs of renewable energy mandates. (heartland.org)

NYT ran a story on the front of the business section last week that dances around the question of whether labor unions are abusing their organizing potential and raising or modulating available environmental objections based on the level to which the developers commit to utilize union labor in renewable power projects. (cleantechies.com)
According to the story, " As California moves to license dozens of huge solar power plants to meet the state's renewable energy goals, some developers contend they are being pressured to sign agreements pledging to use union labor. (cleantechies.com)

It will be the first time that BlackRock, which has previously invested in solar projects in Japan, will have renewable energy specialists based in Australia. (afr.com)
Foreign investors and specialists in installing renewables capacity can benefit from the planned expansions in the wind and solar facilities in Central Asia. (lu.se)

But renewable sources continue to enjoy strong growth, now accounting for 15.66 percent of total installed U.S. generating capacity. (enn.com)
We're now in a position where we're supplying Burlington residents with sources that are renewable," Ken Nolan, manager of power resources for Burlington Electric Department, said at a press conference earlier this month, in which he announced the deal. (vice.com)
When renewable energy sources produce a surplus, however, the city will sell the extra to traditional suppliers, eventually selling more than it buys, officials said. (vice.com)
Year-after-year, renewables are proving themselves to be the energy sources making America great again. (triplepundit.com)
Power from distributed (ideally carbon-free) sources like a rooftop solar panel or a wind turbine on a ranch could feed into the grid without causing breakdowns. (good.is)
Costa Rica is a great example of utilizing renewable energy sources! (metaefficient.com)
Currently, these expensive sources power only 4 percent of Michigan's electricity. (heartland.org)
By law, Michigan consumers will have to purchase 10 percent of their power from renewable sources by 2015. (heartland.org)
Power from these sources would be more predictable than wind but could come with challenging locations and have possible environmental issues. (sheffield.ac.uk)
Professor Nimmo said other sources of renewable power would be needed when the wind doesn't blow, with development work still needed on utilising the power of ocean currents to produce energy. (sheffield.ac.uk)
These solutions may offer the opportunities to reduce pressure on raw materials trading on renewable energy, to improve power delivery systems to be more reliable, efficient and safe as well as to use unconventional water sources or nano-enabled construction products therefore providing better ecosystem and livelihood conditions. (cdc.gov)

Growth in large-scale renewables provided Victoria with a big jump in jobs. (smh.com.au)
Dominion Energy, the dominant local utility which has one of the lowest percentages of renewable electricity in the country, is using the rapid data center growth in Virginia from Amazon and other tech giants as an excuse to build more fossil fuel infrastructure like the $7 billion Atlantic Coast Pipeline. (greenpeace.org)

Two companies have jointly completed a marine hydrokinetic convertor, the OE Buoy, to leverage wave power as a renewable, green energy source. (inhabitat.com)
The plant is a key tool for stakeholders who leverage renewable power. (azocleantech.com)

As the initial 2.0 GW target for wind power on the first procurement round was not fully reached, a second procurement round is expected sometime before July, 2015. (planetsave.com)

In California, the city of Palo Alto is on track to achieve the same goal by 2017 and Lancaster, which has a population of about 160,000, expects to be able to meet 100 percent of its citizens' power demand with renewables in the next few years. (vice.com)
Among 3,572 workers constructing 2 solar power-generating facilities in San Luis Obispo County, California, USA, we identified 44 patients with symptom onset during October 2011-April 2014 (attack rate 1.2 cases/100 workers). (cdc.gov)
According to the experience in eastern San Luis Obispo County, California, construction of large-scale solar power-generating facilities (solar farms) in low-population rural areas may often require recruiting skilled laborers from outside the county or state. (cdc.gov)

But there's a caveat: renewable energy alone won't always be enough to power the city - for instance when wind is scarce and water levels low. (vice.com)

Despite Amazon's public commitment to renewable energy, the world's largest cloud computing company is hoping no one will notice that it's still powering its corner of the internet with dirty energy," said Greenpeace USA Senior Corporate Campaigner Elizabeth Jardim. (greenpeace.org)

The IBAarau plant features 11 Kaplan turbines that generate 108 million KWh per year (12,500 KW is the average power capacity of each generator). (azocleantech.com)
The electrical supply may come from the main power grid, from a generator or from a renewable energy source such as solar power, with or without a battery pack. (who.int)

Said Jose Zayas, director of the Wind and Water Power Technologies Office at the Department of Energy, "These first pioneering projects are complicated (and) really breaking new ground. (wikipedia.org)
Projects like Bomen - in Wagga Wagga - are showing the way for the future, by using localised labour, and it paves the way for how the renewable workforce is used in the future," Mr Currie said. (smh.com.au)
Vodafone has invested €65m during the last year in energy efficiency and on-site renewable projects, leading to annual energy savings of 135 GWh. (vodafone.co.uk)
Australia's 'prevarication' on renewables meant it could benefit from lower prices as large-scale renewable energy projects, including battery storage, were developed, he said. (afr.com)
The investment group prefers to invest in brand-new renewable energy projects or within the first six months of a project's operation, believing it can make more money than by investing in mature assets. (afr.com)
Construction of renewable projects was typically 'straightforward' and not as complicated or risky as construction of transport projects, Mr Reid said. (afr.com)
We purchase energy from wind and solar producers as well, and there are numerous other renewable projects that sell energy to Idaho Power, either through a negotiated contract arrangement or under a contract required by the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act (PURPA). (idahopower.com)
These are small-scale projects that collect gas, usually from dairy waste or a landfill, to operate a turbine and sell the electricity to Idaho Power. (idahopower.com)
More than 60 small hydro projects, using the power of water from canals, springs or small dams, generate electricity across our service area. (idahopower.com)
Yes, SCE's evaluation criteria will consider the benefit to projects of locating near approved transmission infrastructure, such as the Sunrise Powerlink Transmission Project and the Tehachapi Renewable Transmission Project. (sce.com)
And for those who insist the renewables debate is marked by a red state-blue state divide, think again: Some of the largest renewable energy projects were installed in America's heartland. (triplepundit.com)
The AUC has a map for central Alberta and for southern Alberta that indicates the location of wind and solar projects that have been approved, constructed and operating, have been approved by the AUC and not yet constructed, or where applicants have applied to the AUC for approval of these types of power plants. (auc.ab.ca)
Although dwarfed by the big renewable energy projects that many industrialized countries are embracing to rein in greenhouse gas emissions, these tiny systems are playing an epic, transformative role. (nextbillion.net)
There is no reliable data on the spread of off-grid renewable energy on a small scale, in part because the projects are often installed by individuals or tiny nongovernmental organizations. (nextbillion.net)
For example, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory estimates a range of costs from $33/MWh to $59/MWh for new solar projects, and $30/MWh to $143/MWh for new land-based wind farms. (americaspower.org)
In a filing with the Illinois Commerce Commission, ComEd established a 0.189-cent-per-kilowatt-hour charge for households to finance long-term state power-purchase contracts for new wind and solar projects. (chicagobusiness.com)

The company installed an underwater turbine to use tidal currents to generate renewable energy. (wikipedia.org)
The buoy has the potential to generate up to 1.25 megawatts of electrical power. (inhabitat.com)
We can and we do generate electricity near Hudson's Bay in Canada that is consumed in NYC, but we can't do it as reliably as power generated locally on the island of Manhattan. (physicsforums.com)

With today's renewables market rapidly expanding, it's no wonder then that wave energy has recently gained traction as a contemporary, clean energy source. (inhabitat.com)
Poised to grow a significant renewable energy market in the near term, Mitscher believes Egypt is "exhibiting the necessary key drivers of rapidly growing power demand, exceptional availability of solar and wind resources, and the need to reduce domestic fossil fuel consumption. (planetsave.com)

The intermittent nature of wind and solar power requires other resources on the grid to operate less efficiently than they otherwise would in order to support the renewable output and maintain reliability, increasing the cost of the rest of the system. (americaspower.org)
A new charge on Commonwealth Edison customer bills to support development of wind and solar power in Illinois nearly equals a separate fee to bail out two money-losing nuclear plants. (chicagobusiness.com)
While there was obvious progress in renewables elsewhere in the post-Soviet area, Central Asia until recently has not shown adequate levels of interest in developing wind and solar power. (lu.se)
Counter)mapping renewables: Space, justice, and politics of wind and solar power in Mexico. (lu.se)

Solar and wind power in Egypt are anticipated to greatly help relieve this pressure. (planetsave.com)
Thanks to a generous feed-in tariff (FIT) announced in September 2014, Egypt will procure 4.3 GW of solar and wind power production by 2017. (planetsave.com)

The findings indicate the world is shifting toward consuming more renewable energy even without a global agreement on limiting greenhouse gases. (latimes.com)
During the last year, Vodafone reduced its total Scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions by 30% year on year, to 1.37 million tonnes of CO2e (carbon dioxide equivalent), driven by Vodafone's ongoing focus on energy efficiency and an increase in the proportion of renewable electricity purchased in Europe from 33% in FY20 to 80% in FY21. (vodafone.co.uk)

According to the Clean Energy Council, the renewables sector employed 20,105 total jobs by the end of last year - taking into account another half year of rapid expansion in the industry. (smh.com.au)
Electric providers would have to achieve a portfolio of 100% clean or renewable energy. (crainsdetroit.com)
Our planet is awash in clean, renewable energy. (good.is)
Despite common arguments that renewable energy technology simply isn't ready to carry our nation's electrical load, the technologies exist to capture and convert plenty of clean energy-like solar and wind-into electricity. (good.is)
Over time, clean power ought to save the public money, especially when combined with energy efficiency," he said. (chicagobusiness.com)
The request for bids is the first in a series of RFPs Appalachian Power will issue this year to comply with provisions of the Virginia Clean Economy Act (VCEA). (nawindpower.com)

It would connect 6,000 megawatts of wind capacity-enough to power 1.9 million households-to high-demand areas on the East Coast. (good.is)

EnBW operates across the renewable sector and offers a wide range of products to its partners. (enbw.com)
Jobs in large-scale solar farms tripled last financial year, overtaking the hydro sector for the first time, and helping to drive an overall expansion of employment in the renewable energy sector. (smh.com.au)

If renewables are to dominate the future, then renewables much take over these necessary functions. (physicsforums.com)
With ample natural resources to supply the renewable energy market, Egypt is finally finding its way to a cleantech future. (planetsave.com)
Released recently by Apricum-The Cleantech Advisory, a renewable energy market briefing anticipates Egypt assuming a position as a "renewable energy powerhouse" in the near future. (planetsave.com)
In this future scenario, wind power is an important player. (lu.se)

In other words, it has enough utility-quality electricity supply to support marine-based data centers, desalination plants, naval autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) power platforms, offshore fish farming and off-grid applications for remote island communities. (inhabitat.com)
GE Renewable Energy has revealed the first manufactured components of the Haliade-X 12 MW offshore wind turbine at its production site in Saint-Nazaire, France. (ge.com)

As well as renewables spending exceeding that on new fossil plants, last year also was the first time expenditure in developing countries, mainly China, exceeded that in the industrialized world, Sawyer said, predicting both trends will continue. (latimes.com)
With just 21 per cent of our electricity coming from renewables last year, the task of transforming our energy system is really just beginning,' Darren Gladman, the council's Director of Smart Energy, said. (smh.com.au)
London-based BlackRock director Charlie Reid will move to Sydney at the end of the year to head an Asia-Pacific team focused on renewable power equity investments. (afr.com)
The energy required to power all of Amazon's Virginia data centers at full capacity 24/7 for a year is equivalent to the electricity required to power 1.4 million U.S. homes annually, more than all the homes in Chicago. (greenpeace.org)
The purchase led the city to join the Washington Electric Co-operative, an energy system that already powers thousands of households across northern and central Vermont - an area that went 100 percent green earlier this year. (vice.com)
Wind power, which was the largest source of new power in 2015, witnessed a remarkable decline, with an 11 percent decrease in new capacity last year compared to the year before. (triplepundit.com)
The green-power cost has gone up 45 percent from earlier this year, when it was 0.13 cents and embedded within the energy charge, according to ComEd. (chicagobusiness.com)

When the percentage contributions of solar & wind to the power grid were small enough, it didn't matter how they behaved. (physicsforums.com)
My approach is to describe the essential properties of a reliable power grid that must remain invariant despite turmoil, conflict, and invention. (physicsforums.com)
Design and operation of the bulk power grid have been my career. (physicsforums.com)
The power grid is demand-driven. (physicsforums.com)
The power grid stores no energy, so this balance must apply instantaneously. (physicsforums.com)
The nonlinear boundary conditions are the power flows entering/leaving the grid at each node. (physicsforums.com)
Our current grid is dumb-a blind system of transmission lines and converters that funnel electricity one way from big centralized power plants to our factories, streetlights, shops, and homes. (good.is)
Just like solar electric systems, wind powered systems can be used in two ways: off-grid or on-grid. (altestore.com)
A grid tie wind power system sends all of its electricity back into the public electrical network (grid) which the electric company gives you credits for. (altestore.com)
A grid-tied wind power system can have almost exactly the same components as the off-grid system except that inverter is a special inverter which connects directly to a utility meter (5) the public utility grid (6). (altestore.com)

Said Paul Jacobson, an ocean energy expert at the Palo Alto, Calif.-based Electric Power Research Institute. (wikipedia.org)
The electric power industry faces much turmoil in the coming decades. (physicsforums.com)
But in the case of electric power, we must never stumble in the reliable supply of electricity, not even for brief periods. (physicsforums.com)
Burlington's move is not only better for the environment - it's also cost-effective for the city's 42,000 residents and was the results of years of work by the state and Washington Electric to go renewable. (vice.com)
American Electric Power, a major utility, and the American Wind Energy Association have partnered to map out how these high-voltage wires-19,000 miles of cutting-edge 765-kilovolt transmission lines-could allow the United States to get 20 percent of its electricity from wind. (good.is)
For a decade, ratepayers have covered the cost of subsidizing green power through the overall cost of energy on their electric bills. (chicagobusiness.com)
It is possible to have a system that only gets its power from wind, however, many people combine getting power from a wind turbine with getting power from a solar electric system. (altestore.com)
This applies to electric cars, but also other renewable energy technologies", says Hana Nielsen. (lu.se)

Wind and solar have low operating costs and can distort electricity prices in power markets. (americaspower.org)

New technological breakthroughs from DOE's Pacific Northwest (PNNL) and Oak Ridge (ORNL) national laboratories have made removing uranium from seawater within economic reach and the only question is - when will the source of uranium for our nuclear power plants change from mined ore to seawater extraction? (forbes.com)
It's not just that the 4 billion tons of uranium in seawater now would fuel a thousand 1,000-MW nuclear power plants for a 100,000 years. (forbes.com)
We directly procures renewable energy from utility-sized plants as well as smaller local producers. (enbw.com)
Concentrated-solar-power plants use mirrors to focus the sun's rays on a small point, where the intense heat drives a steam turbine and produces electricity. (good.is)

We will achieve the major increase in efficiency by including electrical power, which in its pure form does not produce any carbon dioxide emissions at all. (lu.se)

The TidGen® Power System (for tidal currents) and RivGen® Power System (for river and shallow tidal currents) are the company's trademarked systems. (wikipedia.org)
This article discusses the bulk power system and the wholesale markets, not distribution not retail, not personal use or personal costs, or personal production. (physicsforums.com)
On the downside, if there's a blackout then your wind turbine system will also shutdown and not be able to provide power to your home or business. (altestore.com)
By reducing your electrical demand you reduce the size of renewable energy system you'd need to purchase. (altestore.com)
This study proposes a two-stage converter for a freestanding water pumping motor drive power by solar PV system. (bvsalud.org)

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