Green Energy
- Mahle CEO Arnd Franz says hydrogen will fail without fossil fuelselectrek.co Mahle CEO Arnd Franz says hydrogen will fail without fossil fuels
Mahle Chairman Arnd Franz says that building out a hydrogen infrastructure won't be possible without "blue" hydrogen made from fossil fuels.
I'm not convinced that hydrogen (green or otherwise) makes sense for powering transportation. I think it's best use case is in replacing fossil fuels in high-temperature industrial processes.
- ‘You basically have free hot water’: how Cyprus became a world leader in solar heatinggrist.org ‘You basically have free hot water’: how Cyprus became a world leader in solar heating
The country, which has more 300 days of sunshine a year, has embraced rooftop systems that harness the sun’s energy.
- Bidirectional charging may be required on EVs soon due to new CA lawelectrek.co Bidirectional charging may be required on EVs soon due to new CA law
Gov. Newsom signed a bill into law which will allow the CEC to require grid-saving bidirectional charging on EVs when it deems appropriate.
- How Germany outfitted half a million balconies with solar panelsgrist.org How Germany outfitted half a million balconies with solar panels
Meet balkonkraftwerk, the simple technology putting solar power in the hands of renters and nudging Germany toward its clean energy goals.
- Energy experts say U.S. policy must direct money to industries that really need clean hydrogen — and away from those that are better off using clean electricity.www.canarymedia.com The big unsettled policy question about clean hydrogen: How to use it.
Energy experts say U.S. policy must direct money to industries that really need clean hydrogen — and away from those that are better off using clean…
- Tripling renewables globally by 2030 is doable, says new IEA reportelectrek.co Tripling renewables globally by 2030 is doable, says new IEA report
A new IEA report roadmaps how it's feasible to triple renewables and double energy efficiency globally by 2030 "with the right enabling conditions."
- First-Of-Its-Kind Geothermal Energy System For US Air Force - CleanTechnicacleantechnica.com First-Of-Its-Kind Geothermal Energy System For US Air Force - CleanTechnica
Human-made enhanced geothermal energy systems can make 24/7, baseload, zero emission geothermal resources available across a wider range.
- Britain’s grid battery storage record is maddening | The UK is great at building renewables but not the batteries needed to use green electricity effectively
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- A $1 billion solar + battery storage project just broke ground in Utahelectrek.co A $1 billion solar + battery storage project just broke ground in Utah
Renewables developer rPlus Energies has broken ground on one of the largest solar + battery storage projects in the US, in east-central Utah.
- Grid-scale batteries: They’re not just lithiumarstechnica.com Grid-scale batteries: They’re not just lithium
When size and weight don't matter, lots of other battery chemistries can work.
- [SciShow] How To Make Buildings Into Batteries
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TL;DW: Incorporating pumped hydro storage into skyscrapers is a possibility. Not necessarily practical, but possible.
- Why millions of Americans give up control of their thermostatswapo.st Why millions of Americans give up control of their thermostats
Utilities are tapping into customers’ solar panels, home batteries and smart thermostats to avoid blackouts in a program establishing “virtual power plants.”
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- BYD and Grenergy Energy Storage Order Expanded to 3GWh - EnergyTrendwww.energytrend.com BYD and Grenergy Energy Storage Order Expanded to 3GWh - EnergyTrend
On September 13, independent power producer (IPP) Grenergy Renovables issued a statement saying that Grenergy has extended its strategic agreement wit...
- Applications Open for 6,200 Jobs in Egypt’s new Dabaa Nuclear Projectegyptianstreets.com Applications Open for 6,200 Jobs in Egypt’s Dabaa Nuclear Project | Egyptian Streets
Mohamed Gibran, Egypt’s Minister of Labor, announced on Saturday, September 21, the availability of 6,200 job opportunities for young Egyptians across multiple sectors as part of the Dabaa Nuclear Plant project in Marsa Matrouh. According to a press release, the job openings at the Dabaa Nuclear Pow...
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- The UK’s journey to a coal power phase-out. The UK’s era of coal-free power begins on the 1st October 2024ember-climate.org The UK’s journey to a coal power phase-out
The UK’s era of coal-free power begins on the 1st October 2024, after a rapid 12-year decline which has seen power sector emissions plummet by three quarters.
"The UK’s era of coal-free power begins on the 1st October 2024, following a rapid decline over the last 12 years which has seen power sector emissions plummet by three quarters."
"This report provides an overview of the UK coal power phase-out, looking at changes in electricity generation since 2012 when coal began to rapidly decline. It provides context on how phase-out was achieved through a mix of initiatives and policy frameworks, and considers how this can inform the next chapter of UK power sector decarbonisation."
"Coal power provided almost 40% of UK generation in 2012, shrinking to 2% by 2019, and finally falling to zero by October 2024. In 2012, coal generated 143 TWh of electricity, equivalent to Sweden’s total power demand in 2023."
- UK think tank predicts 593 GW of new global PV installations for 2024www.pv-magazine.com UK think tank predicts 593 GW of new global PV installations for 2024
UK-based energy think tank Ember says it expects 593 GW of solar to be added throughout the world this year – 29% more than in 2023. It says 292 GW were installed by the end of July.
- Silent Solarwww.resilience.org Silent Solar
Solar panels have, over the last months, suddenly gotten so cheap that they’re now appearing in massive numbers across much of the developing world.
- Chinese solar panel boom threatens Pakistan’s debt-ridden grid | Industry rushes to switch to clean energy as cost of state power network becomes cripplingwww.ft.com Chinese solar panel boom threatens Pakistan’s debt-ridden grid
Industry rushes to switch to clean energy as cost of state power network becomes crippling
basically:
Pakistan, with Chinese financing, solved a problem of frequent rotating blackouts by building coal-fired power plants. Those are more expensive than solar, so people are installing small-scale solar right and left...which means that the coal-fired power plants aren't financially viable.
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- Cheap solar power undercuts Pakistan’s state grid | Semaforwww.semafor.com Cheap solar power undercuts Pakistan’s state grid | Semafor
Factory owners in Pakistan are installing rooftop solar panels imported from China as a more affordable source of power.
- Donald Trump is wrong about the cost of wind energyyaleclimateconnections.org Donald Trump is wrong about the cost of wind energy » Yale Climate Connections
Wind and solar are the cheapest sources of new power in the U.S., data shows.
- BMW trials UK's first bladeless wind system at MINI plant in Oxfordinterestingengineering.com BMW trials UK's first bladeless wind system at MINI plant in Oxford
BMW and Aeromine trial the UK's first bladeless wind system at Oxford Plant, advancing clean energy innovation.
- Do renewable energy investments create local jobs? | Analyzing data from over 3900 Spanish municipalities (2017–2021), we find that new jobs frequently do not remain in the host communities
This means that it's not going to be possible to simply assume that jobs produced from renewables are going to able to drive public support for an energy transition; we're going to need to attach decarbonization policy to a broader guarantee of employment, wages, and working conditions.
- solar PV → heat pump → water heater; direct, no A/C or intermediate components. Practical? Feasible?
Heat pump water heaters already exist. These are hybrid things where a traditional electric water heater is fitted with a heat pump. The heat pump can increase the water temp but cannot deliver enough, so heating elements are still needed to reach a usable temp.
I’m wondering if that design can be improved on this way: instead of powering the heat pump from the wall, the heat pump can be connected directly to a PV. I think that would be more efficient and cheaper because PV output is not normally directly usable. IIUC, it’s variable D/C which must be regulated and/or inverted to A/C involving more hardware, conversion, and waste. But exceptionally, I’ve heard that a PV can directly power a compressor with no middleware. Any reasons this would be infeasible or uninteresting?
Of course the tank still needs wall power for the heating elements, but would use less wall power and entail less conversion loss.
- New solar carport opens at 4,300 meters on Mount Everestwww.pv-magazine.com New solar carport opens at 4,300 meters on Mount Everest
Chinese module maker Aiko Solar says it has built a 150 kW off-grid solar carport at an altitude of 4,300 meters on Mount Everest, featuring 645 W bifacial dual-glass modules and 200 kWh of battery storage.
- China connects its first large-scale flywheel storage project to grid - Energy Storagewww.ess-news.com China connects its first large-scale flywheel storage project to grid - Energy Storage
The 30 MW plant is the first utility-scale, grid-connected flywheel energy storage project in China and the largest one in the world.
- It's a pretty solarpunk fact that small, distributed wind turbines use steel more efficiently than big centralised onessolar.lowtechmagazine.com How to Escape From the Iron Age?
We cannot lower carbon emissions if we keep producing steel with fossil fuels.
The link is from the-most-solarpunk-website and is mostly about steel in general, but I wanted to pull out that one fact.
Wind and solar energy are not "good for the environment"; they pollute; it's just that we hope they pollute less than the alternative. One major reason they pollute is because they require a lot of steel to build. But the household-scale or village-scale ones use less
de Decker is citing: Topham, Eva, et al. “Recycling offshore wind farms at decommissioning stage.” Energy policy 129 (2019): 698-709.
- Interior Sec touts 'New ERA' loans to Southern Az electrical coopswww.tucsonsentinel.com Interior Sec touts 'New ERA' loans to Southern Az electrical coops
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack highlighed more than $600 million in recent financing to support renewable energy in rural Arizona, including $83.5 million to Trico Electric Cooperative to expand battery storage and increase the reliability of electricity for residents on the Pascua Yaqui Reservat...
cross-posted from: https://tucson.social/post/1067292 > > > > Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack highlighed more than $600 million in recent financing to support renewable energy in rural Arizona, including $83.5 million to Trico Electric Cooperative to expand battery storage and increase the reliability of electricity for residents on the Pascua Yaqui Reservation. >
- Scotland on ‘mission’ to pursue private finance for green projects says Forbes | Government in talks with investors in clean energy to fill gap left by declining North Sea oil sector
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- Here’s a blueprint for building virtual power plants in every statewww.canarymedia.com Here’s a blueprint for building virtual power plants in every state
Utilities could save billions by tapping customers’ solar systems, EVs, and electric appliances. These firms and advocates have a plan to make it happen.
- Wind powers a record summer for renewable energy in Britaintheconversation.com Wind powers a record summer for renewable energy in Britain
A blustery August saw gas generation more than halve compared with 2023.
- India’s solar pump market set to expandwww.pv-magazine.com India’s solar pump market set to expand
Gopal Kabra, the founder and CEO of GK Energy, speaks to <b>pv magazine</b> about India's solar pump market, its key drivers, and future outlook.
- China’s finance for African renewables rebounds after two-year lullwww.carbonbrief.org In-depth: China’s finance for African renewables rebounds after two-year lull - Carbon Brief
New data reveals a rebound in Chinese financing of renewable energy projects in Africa in...
- How China and a tariffs row cast a shadow over booming US solar power | The source of new renewable energy is also a battleground over China’s cheap exports of panels that has split US firmswww.theguardian.com How China and a tariffs row cast a shadow over booming US solar power
The source of new renewable energy is also a battleground over China’s cheap exports of panels that has split US firms
- Learning to love monsters | Windmills were once just machines on the land but now seem delightfully bucolic. Could wind turbines win us over too?aeon.co Could we learn to love the wind turbine as we did the windmill? | Aeon Essays
Windmills were once just machines on the land but now seem delightfully bucolic. Could wind turbines win us over too?
- US solar manufacturing capacity has quadrupled thanks to climate lawwww.canarymedia.com US solar manufacturing capacity has quadrupled thanks to climate law
The Inflation Reduction Act has sparked a boom in domestic solar panel manufacturing, though the U.S. still depends on China for certain steps of the supply chain.
- This Nightclub Turns Body Heat into Energy - YouTubeyoutube.com - YouTube
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- Elements of Renewable Energy
Renewable Energy has many parts, and some of them can do jobs that others cannot do. It is important to work together to bring the best renewable Energy to the world that we can hope to achieve.
This diagram represents a short overview over different elements of a renewable energy network, and what the different parts can do, and what not.
For example, Hydropower can be both an energy source (flowing water through a turbine) but also a means of energy storage (by keeping the water behind the dam). Renewable Biomass can be stored well, but can also be turned into a renewable source of energy. Batteries can store energy well, but cannot produce energy.
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