Energy storage appears to be fully charged for exponential growth
Wednesday, 26 January 2022
by John Fitzgerald Weaver
Lithium-based energy storage volumes in the U.S. are expected to grow by multiple orders of magnitude in the coming years, with a 1000% capacity increase by 2023. You can see the original article here. Lithium-based energy storage volumes deployed to the United States will grow by multiple orders of magnitude in the coming years, with
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Thermal Energy Storage Technologies
Monday, 06 December 2021
by sakudarte
One of the greatest barriers to the green energy transition is storing surplus power generation from renewables. Many technologies are capable of this, and many others are coming into the market as well. In the figure below is possible to have an overview of the whole spectrum of storage technologies. Figure 1: Energy Storage Technologies (source) A type of technology that has not been already exploited much consists of thermal energy storage. The plants that go under that category have very high energy and power capacities, allowing them to contribute significantly to a cleaner electricity mix. In fact, due to the increasing need of storing excess electricity from renewable sources, scalable and high efficient solutions have a big potential in the future. Thermal energy storage can store energy in form of heat thanks to an electricity-to-heat system, like a heat pump, for periods of
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The Irish Energy Roadmap Towards 2030
Wednesday, 01 December 2021
by sakudarte
Ireland’s Energy Roadmap: Charting a Course for a Renewable Future Ireland has set an ambitious goal: to generate 70% of its electricity from renewable sources by 2030. This aligns with the objectives outlined in the Government’s Climate Action Plan (2019). Achieving this target will require a significant transformation of the Irish energy landscape. The Challenge:
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Scientists Mapped Every Large Solar Plant
Tuesday, 16 November 2021
by Lucas Kruitwagen
An astonishing 82% decrease in the cost of solar photovoltaic (PV) energy since 2010 has given the world a fighting chance to build a zero-emissions energy system which might be less costly than the fossil-fuelled system it replaces. The International Energy Agency projects that PV solar generating capacity must grow ten-fold by 2040 if we are to meet the dual tasks
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The growing Storage Market
Tuesday, 02 November 2021
by sakudarte
The storage market is expected to play a critical role in facilitating the integration of intermittent renewables into power systems and the energy transition. More specifically, variability and uncertainty related to solar and wind resources pose technical challenges for the process of balancing supply and demand, which in turn increases the need for system flexibility. Both stand-alone
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Agro-voltaic plants in Italy: news about the incentive tariffs
Wednesday, 06 October 2021
by Tommaso Tomaiuolo
The agro-voltaic sector is characterized by a hybrid use of agricultural lands, which are exploited both for agricultural production and for the production of electricity from renewable sources (particularly, photovoltaic sources). Following the goals set out by the National Integrated Plan for Energy and Climate (“PNIEC”), the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (“PNRR”) has expressly included the
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UK price spikes reveal the need to accelerate the energy transition
Thursday, 23 September 2021
by sakudarte
A few months before the electricity and gas UK price spike – a joint publication by the UK government and Ofgem was published. The energy regulators set out a work program to deliver an intelligent and highly flexible energy system that will sustain the country’s energy security and the transition to net zero. The plan aims to
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Speeding up the Italian Green Revolution
Wednesday, 04 August 2021
by sakudarte
Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction: A Key Objective In the period 1990-2019, total greenhouse gas emissions in Italy fell by 19% (Total CO2 equivalent emissions without land use, land-use change, and forestry), going from 519 Mt CO2eq to 418 Mt CO2eq. A significant part of these comes from transportation (25%), energy production (22%), and residential and agricultural consumption (19%). The reduction represents
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Power-to-X: Decarbonizing Everything
Wednesday, 28 July 2021
by sakudarte
So, what is precisely Power-to-X and how it was picked up mainstream renewable energy community and media? This brief article explains how it started and what it is, and its applications in practice and progress on the frontier so far. Power-to-X (PtX) has been in the spotlight in the energy community ever since the Danish Energy
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The Baltic tigers in renewable energy
Wednesday, 30 June 2021
by Rytis Kevelaitis
Overview of the Baltic Energy Landscape Renewable energies in the Baltic region is oftentimes overlooked by international investments, but the outstanding performance of the market in the past two years, is generating more interest. Rytis Kėvelaitis is the advisor for renewable energy project development in the Baltics and he introduces us to the energy market of the Baltic region. Economic Resilience and
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