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Wind-to-Hydrogen Tech Goes to Sea

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Wind and solar parks produce a large portion of their energy. Then, as now, wind farms are operating off the world’s coasts—but not all of these offshore sites are connected to the mainland via underwater power cables. Some of the wind farms instead sit in clusters more than 100 kilometers out at sea.

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3 Oil Majors That Bet Big On Renewables

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Despite the much-vaunted megatrend involving the global electrification drive and shift to renewable energy , the most ambitious pledges by Big Oil to pursue net-zero agendas remain weak at best. Equinor has announced plans to invest $10B into clean energy by 2025, mostly through its offshore wind portfolio. 2 Total SA.

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HVDC Networks Come to Europe

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Starting around the middle of 2024, the Shetlands—and also part of mainland Scotland—will be powered by the 443-megawatt Viking wind farm , consisting of 103 wind turbines on the main island of Shetland. This article is part of our special report Top Tech 2024. An inverter there can feed into the mainland AC grid.

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The Staggering Scale of the EV Transition

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So when he called me on a Friday afternoon in the summer of 2021 to propose an article delving into the complexities of the global transition to electric vehicles, I knew that he’d do the research at a deeper level than any tech journalist, and that he’d explore angles that wouldn’t even occur to them. Take power-grid transformers.

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China’s battery storage capacity growth likely to slow in 2024 – ET Auto

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That estimate lags the expected growth in sales of energy storage products, which will rise 35% year-on-year globally, according to the white paper. Grid-connected battery farms back up renewables when the sun is not shining or the wind is not blowing and are considered important to help integrate clean energy into power grids.

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The Complex Calculus of Clean Energy and Zero Emissions

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These investments are one reason why the International Energy Agency (IEA) in September insisted that there’s still hope to hold global temperature rise to 1.5 °C Jenkins: Energy systems became globalized in the middle of the 20th century and then encountered global supply shocks, like the oil embargoes of the ’70s.

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China’s battery storage capacity growth likely to slow in 2024 – ET Auto

Baua Electric

That estimate lags the expected growth in sales of energy storage products, which will rise 35% year-on-year globally, according to the white paper. Grid-connected battery farms back up renewables when the sun is not shining or the wind is not blowing and are considered important to help integrate clean energy into power grids.

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