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Energy Storage News: FlexGen Power Systems will deploy 10 battery energy storage systems (BESS) for electric cooperatives in North Carolina, the energy storage technology provider and systems integrator’s home state. The systems, adding up to 40MW in total, will each be deployed for a different not-for-profit cooperative group and most will be in rural areas […]
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Bloomberg ($): The U.S. utilities sector could suffer annual losses of up to $4.1 billion as climate hazards threaten to batter the industry’s infrastructure, according to a new report. Roughly one in five global power lines are heavily exposed to rising sea levels, hurricanes, wildfires and storms, according to BloombergNEF data published Wednesday. In the […]
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PV Magazine: Peruvian consultancy Energy Partners has selected EDF Renewables, the renewable energy arm of French energy giant EDF, to develop, build and operate a 100 MW/100 MWh solar-plus-storage plant aimed at providing electricity to the city of Iquitos, the largest metropolis in the Peruvian Amazon. EDF Renewables secured a 20-year PPA for the project […]
Guest Contributor: Gabrielle Kuiper
Regulators and governments must increase pace to match market operator's vision of 100% renewables by 2025
George Orwell wrote “Our civilisation is founded on coal … The machines keep us alive and the machines that make machines, are all directly or indirectly dependent upon coal”. From colonisation until recently, Australia too has been dependent on coal and gas and the large spinning turbines that turn these ancient, buried resources into electrons. […]
Guest Contributor: Tim Finnigan
Exploring alternatives to ensure a stable power grid
Are we ready for a power grid without coal? Australia’s electricity grid still relies on coal-fired generation. But with coal plants retiring and more renewables coming into the mix, that needs to change. Liddell power station is closing in 2023, and Yallourn in 2028. The way things are going we should expect others to close […]
Press Release and Sara Jane Ahmed
Shift from diesel to renewables can save electric coops P1.4-1.7 billion over next decade
3 December 2020 (IEEFA Philippines): The record-breaking disasters in the Philippines this year highlight the potential for renewable energy to power small island and isolated power grids and save the country up to P13.5 billion per year, and electric cooperatives an additional P1.4 to P1.7 billion over the next decade, finds a new report from […]
José H. Román Morales
AEE está tratando de resolver problemas del siglo 21 con soluciones del siglo 20
Puerto Rico está en proceso de reformar su sistema de energía eléctrica: evaluar su plan integrado de recursos (PIR), aprobar las cambiantes regulaciones, adquirir un concesionario para la transmisión y distribución, y establecer la gerencia privada de plantas de generación de energía, entre otras actividades que afectarán el sistema eléctrico de la Isla en los […]
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Clean Technica: The small Filipino town of Paluan on the island of Mindoro has been electrified with the installation of its own Tesla battery powered solar plus storage minigrid. The new minigrid provides power to local residents who had been living on just a few hours of unstable electricity that came and went as inconsistently […]
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USA Today: Visitors to Casa Pueblo, a community center in this mountain hamlet, can tour the solar-powered meeting rooms, listen in on the solar-powered radio station or catch a documentary at the solar-powered movie theater. Later, they could lunch at one of Puerto Rico’s first fully solar-powered restaurants just down the street. On an island […]
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Quartz: Nigeria’s electricity problems mainly revolve around a power generating system that doesn’t produce enough to match demand and an ineffective tariff system that means power distributing companies can hardly make a profit. Just as crucial, there’s a significant infrastructure gap as more than half of Nigeria’s population lacks access to the national power grid. […]
IEEFA Philippines: NPC-SPUG shift can drive savings to P13.5 billion per year
Shift from diesel to renewables can save electric coops P1.4-1.7 billion over next decade3 December 2020 (IEEFA Philippines): The record-breaking disasters in the Philippines this year highlight the potential for renewable energy to power small island and isolated power grids and save the country up to P13.5 billion per year, and electric cooperatives an additional P1.4 to P1.7 billion over the next decade, finds a new report from […]