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Contributed by Philip T. Krein, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Zhejiang University, China The impact of electric transportation on pollution and reduced carbon emissions and fossil-fuel consumption is complicated. On the one hand, well-designed electric vehicles (EVs) use much less energy per mile than conventionally-fueled vehicles. For passenger cars, good all-electric designs use roughly…

Follow @EngelsAngle</scrip German energy titan RWE plans to invest €50 billion in renewable energy technologies by 2030 as part of a new strategy to deploy an additional 25 gigawatts of clean energy generating capacity. The plan, announced Monday, would bring RWE’s total green generation to 50 GW by the end of the decade. The corporation will…

Contributed by Hans Maghon, Head of Energy Storage at Siemens Energy Understanding the different methods of energy storage allows us to glimpse the shape of our future energy system. As we head towards a decarbonized energy future, it’s becoming more and more clear that energy storage systems will form not just building blocks, but be…

Bitfarms Ltd., a Bitcoin self-mining company, has acquired a 24-MW hydro power plant in Washington State, U.S., and entered into a memorandum of understanding with the seller to co-develop additional farms in the area, increasing total mining capacity in Washington to 99 MW. Neither the name of the hydro plant nor the company from which…

Financial services firm, JPMorgan Chase and energy company, EDF, have announced a collaboration to help power JPMorgan Chase’s UK offices with 100% renewable electricity. EDF will provide JPMorgan Chase with approximately 120,000 MWh of renewable electricity each year to power more than 3 million square feet of offices across the UK, which is the equivalent…

Follow @EngelsAngle</scrip A subsidiary of NextEra Energy has submitted transmission proposals to support the buildout of offshore wind projects in New York and New Jersey. NextEra Energy Transmission submitted the New York Renewable Connect and New Jersey Seawind Connector proposals with PJM and NYISO regulators, respectively. Regulators in New York and New Jersey are expected…

Destination 2050 is focus of DISTRIBUTECH / POWERGEN conference and leadership summit By 2050, if all of the climate-change related pledges and regulations take effect as currently planned, we should be living in a clean-energy powered world with a fully carbon-free electricity system powering fully electrified transportation, industrial and building sectors. But we certainly have…

By David Stent — Climate Council Digital Producer & Content Manager Our emissions crisis is often defined in simplistic terms, often focusing on the more obvious carbon-intensive sectors of oil and gas production, shipping and aviation or the ‘carbon footprint’ of the individual. Intentional or not, this fails to provide a full picture of the…

Follow @EngelsAngle</scrip Houston-based Broad Reach Power has added two new stand-alone battery storage projects to the Texas grid. The company announced this week that its North Fork and Bat Cave battery storage projects in Central Texas have been placed into service with ERCOT, each bringing online 100 MW/100 MWh. Broad Reach Power now has 300…

Follow @EngelsAngle</scrip Normally competitors in the quest to deploy long-duration energy storage, and replace fossil fuels with dispatchable clean energy at all hours of the day, 24 companies joined forces at the COP26 United Nations climate summit to form the Long Duration Energy Storage Council. ESS, Form Energy, and Ambri are among the founding members…