Edouard Stenger
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
Renewables now account for 44% of the EU electricity mix and wind power is now producing more electricity than natural gas. Spain reached this milestone with solar PV accounting for 14 %, solar thermal, 1,8 % ; wind power 23,5% ; hydro 9,5 % and other renewables : 1,4 %.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JUNE 12, 2023
The same scenario has played out with the power plants that use fossil fuels, predominantly methane (“natural”) gas, delivered by pipelines. The electric power system is trapped by gas-dependent power plants that cannot obtain gas when it needs it to keep the lights on.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 6, 2023
The self-governing PJM stakeholders put this in place after so many supposedly “firm” generators failed to perform in 2014. PJM stakeholders voted on this policy to penalize energy suppliers who merely claim to be reliable and to use that money to reward the suppliers that actually exceed their expected performance.
Edouard Stenger
SEPTEMBER 30, 2018
Back in 2014 I had written two articles on how doing so could make a lot of economic sense despite what one would think. For utilities, this enables them to reduce the need for costly interconnection with neighbouring grids and expensive peaker natural gas plants. But that is another story altogether.
Edouard Stenger
SEPTEMBER 27, 2017
Despite the fact that Puerto Rico does not have any coal, natural gas, or oil reserves, the quasi totality of its electricity is produced by such means. ( As per official EIA statistics , almost half of the electricity is still coming from oil. Natural gas covers a third and coal one sixth.) — Solar and wind.
A Greener Life
JULY 9, 2021
As oil and gas prices fell, the company was dragged down by its “money pit” investment. billion) over the three years 2014–16. But as far as the Inner Mongolian government is concerned, its coal power , coal-chemical, steel and aluminium plants have been built in response to national policies. billion yuan (US$1.7
Legal Planet
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
Higher prices for oil, natural gas, coal, and electricity are all pushing up inflation across the economy, dampening consumer demand, canceling out wage gains, and compounding the burdens facing working families and the poor as they seek to recover from the pandemic.
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