Next Steps in Electricity Markets and Planning
Tuesday, 18 October 2022
by sakudarte
Optimizing Electricity Markets for Renewable Energy Development Electricity markets are pivotal in shaping the global energy landscape, responsible for about half of the world’s electricity supply. These markets play a crucial role in resource allocation, competition, and investment in the power sector. However, the need to reduce carbon emissions is driving the imperative for change.
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The Need for Flexibility and Innovation in the Storage Industry
Wednesday, 05 October 2022
by sakudarte
The strong expansion of variable renewables, which are projected to make up more than half of global capacity additions to 2040 in the IEA’s New Policies Scenario (NPS), has major implications for electricity, first among them is the need for increased flexibility in the storage industry. Globally, electricity demand is projected to grow by over
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renewable energy, energy, energy storage, storage, energy transition, battery storage, flexibility
The Central Role of ESGs in Critical Minerals for the Energy Transition
Wednesday, 21 September 2022
by sakudarte
High Mineral Requirements The amount of minerals needed to construct solar photovoltaic (PV) facilities, wind farms, and electric vehicles (EVs) is typically substantially higher than conventional technologies. A typical electric vehicle needs six times as much mineral input as a conventional vehicle, and an onshore wind farm needs nine times as much mineral input per
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The Future Price of Electricity in Europe
Wednesday, 07 September 2022
by sakudarte
Due to the shrinking of the fossil fuel markets, the wholesale price of electricity rose significantly in many countries in the first half of 2022, especially in Europe. As a result of gas prices rising to over five times the value of the reference period, power prices in many European markets reached three to four
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wind, energy, electricity, price, european commission, merit-order, market design, electricity market
The Case for New Electric Interconnectors
Wednesday, 31 August 2022
by sakudarte
In October 2014, the European Council endorsed the European Commission’s proposal to extend the electric interconnectors target from 10% to 15% by 2030, considering cost factors and potential commercial exchanges. Electric Interconnectors: Facilitating Renewable Energy Exchange Across Europe Our energy production and consumption increasingly rely on interconnectors. Renewable sources like offshore wind and solar replace
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The Global Picture of Energy Investments
Wednesday, 20 July 2022
by sakudarte
High prices, rising costs, economic uncertainty, energy security concerns, and climate imperatives amount to a powerful cocktail of factors bearing on global energy investments. IEA´s tracking and forecast estimate that global energy investments are expected to rise 8% in 2022, reaching around 2.4 trillion. However, around 200 billion is being driven up by higher costs
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wind, transactions, renewable energy, battery, storage, investments, oil&gas, minerals
The Current PV Global Supply Chain
Friday, 08 July 2022
by sakudarte
The global solar PV supply chain has seen a big shift in geographical hubs in the last 10 years with Europe, the USA, and Japan being overtaken by Chinese production. In 12 years, the PV cells global manufacturing capacity jumped from almost 25 GW (2010) to more than 220 GW (2022), with China currently weighing up
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The Ultimate Guide on Agrivoltaics in Italy
Wednesday, 06 July 2022
by sakudarte
The Italian authority has published the formal general guidelines regarding agrivoltaics. This document was developed and published within a working group coordinated by the ministry of ecological transition – the department for energy and provides precise definitions of agrivoltaic systems, separating agrivoltaics from advanced agrivoltaics. Agrivoltaic plant is the one which: i) adopts innovative integrative
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The Future of Energy Storage
Wednesday, 29 June 2022
by sakudarte
In May 2022 the Massachusetts Institute of Technology published the report “The Future of Energy Storage”, founded by The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and The Heising-Simons Foundation.Energy storage enables cost-effective deep decarbonization of electric power systems with high wind and solar penetration. Deep decarbonization will require massive investments in multiple energy storage technologies, as well
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Airborne Wind Energy: Q&A With a Developer
Wednesday, 08 June 2022
by sakudarte
Airborne wind energy (AWE) is “the conversion of wind energy into electricity using tethered flying devices”. The research began in 1980, in 40 years interest and investment in AWE have grown substantially, especially in the last decade, with approximately 70 active research entities including over 20 technology developers globally. Research found “potential for, and technical viability of,
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