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Ana Maria Jaller-Makarewicz
Stability of renewables an antidote to the volatility of gas and coal
While volatile energy commodity prices have been sharply increasing globally, renewable technologies have been steadily decreasing. Over the last decade, the cost of electricity from utility-scale solar PV has fallen by 85 percent, concentrating solar power (CSP) by 68 percent, onshore wind by 56 percent and 48 percent for offshore wind, according to the International […]
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E&E News ($): The Bureau of Land Management currently has more than 40 renewable energy projects in the permitting pipeline, making significant inroads toward meeting President Biden’s onshore green energy goal, a senior Interior Department official said today. These proposals comprise 23 solar, four wind and five geothermal power projects, as well as five transmission […]
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The Hill: While some politicians sought to blame renewable energy for deadly power disruptions in February, a new report from two key agencies shows that natural gas was also a major factor. The new preliminary report found that of the 1,045 generators that experienced outages, reductions or failures to start, 604 of them — or […]
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S&P Capital IQ ($): Ørsted A/S signed a memorandum of understanding with Williams Cos. Inc. to explore the viability of developing hydrogen or synthetic natural gas projects powered by renewable energy, also known as power-to-x projects. Particularly, the companies will look into developing utility-scale wind projects, electrolysis, and synthetic gas-via-methanation co-development projects in western Wyoming […]
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Nikkei Asia ($): Power plant operator CLP Holdings pledged on Thursday to phase coal out of its Asian operations by 2040, accelerating its previous commitment by a decade. The Hong Kong-based group also said it aims to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, in line with the decarbonization goal established by the city’s government. […]
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Bloomberg ($): Seven countries have signed a pledge initiated by the United Nations to stop building new coal power plants, with the aim to gather more signatures before the global climate summit COP26 in Glasgow next month. The No New Coal agreement is the latest attempt to try and piece together a global phase-out of […]
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Renew Economy: Just before state and federal energy ministers met on Friday to discuss the future design of Australia’s electricity market, records continued to tumble with renewables setting new benchmarks for total output and the biggest percentage to date. At 1.15pm on Friday, according to OpenNEM, the share of renewables on Australia’s main grid, the […]
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ReNews.biz: The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) and the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) have launched an agenda targeting 380GW of offshore wind, installed worldwide by 2030. By 2050 the target is for 2000GW of offshore wind installed worldwide. The compact sets out a clear route to help governments “make the fundamental changes required to […]
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The Scotland Herald: AN ABERDEEN-based renewables firm has hailed the completion of what is claimed to be the world’s largest floating windfarm. Kincardine Offshore Windfarm Ltd (KOWL) said the milestone also marks the start of the long-term Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) signed in 2018 with Oslo-based Statkraft, which will purchase the electrical output from the […]
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PV Tech: Oil and gas major Shell has launched the Shell Energy brand in Brazil and has committed to investing R$3 billion (US$570 million) in renewables in the country by the end of 2025. With Shell’s division focused on decarbonisation and renewables, Shell Energy will provide clean electricity from solar and wind power plants as […]
IEEFA Australia: Reviewing access, pricing and incentive arrangements for distributed energy resources
Planning must begin for a zero-inertia zero-emissions electricity systemThe Australian Energy Market Commission (AMEC) has sought assistance to make distributed energy resources an integrated part of the national electricity market (NEM) for the benefit of everyone. When the NEM operating on the east coast of Australia was designed, there was almost no rooftop solar or other small generation, demand response or storage in […]