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Italy: 71 GWh of additional Grid Storage required by 2030 says Terna

November 28, 2023 by Sara Stefanini

Italy needs 71 GWh of new utility-scale electricity storage capacity by 2030 to meet EU targets to cut emissions by at least 55% by 2030, according to Terna which manages Italy’s transmission grid. ***STOP PRESS*** This Friday at 11:00 CET, Energy Post is exclusive media partner to a dedicated webinar (organised by ATA Insights/RENMAD) on the topic REGISTER FREE HERE. In this article, Sara Stefanini summarises the Terna study, along with others, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Storage Tagged With: batteries, EU, Italy, mechanicalstorage, power2gas, PumpedHydro, renewables, solar, storage, Terna, wind

Clean energy is driving job growth, but skills shortages are a major barrier

November 24, 2023 by IEA

The second edition of the IEA’s annual World Energy Employment report measures energy sector employment by region, fuel, technology, and value chain. Globally, energy employment rose to 67m people in 2022. Over half of employment growth since before the pandemic was in just five sectors: solar, wind, EVs, batteries, heat pumps, and critical minerals mining. In fact, clean energy jobs overtook fossil fuels in 2021. But skilled labour shortages are … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Renewables Tagged With: batteries, CriticalMinerals, employment, EVs, HeatPumps, IEA, jobs, mining, solar, training, wind

EU legislators must avoid crippling clean tech with a blanket ban on PFAS (per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances)

October 26, 2023 by Daniel Fraile

A blanket ban on all types of PFAS (per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances), or ‘forever chemicals’, is currently being considered by the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA). PFAS are used in cleaning products, non-stick pans, personal care products and more, so a ban on these will save lives and deliver sustainable practices. But, as Daniel Fraile at Hydrogen Europe explains, the PFAS subgroups of fluoropolymers and perfluoropolyethers are used in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Policies, Renewables Tagged With: batteries, ECHA, EU, EVs, fluoropolymers, HeatPumps, hydrogen, perfluoropolyethers, PFAS, semiconductors, wind

Make EV batteries bidirectional, get GWs of storage for the Grid

October 17, 2023 by Mark Specht

How to cope with the hourly, daily and seasonal variation in demand as regions electrify more, depend more on variable renewables like wind and solar, and cut baseload fossil generation? Storage shifts load nicely. But why build grid-scale batteries when millions of little batteries in our EVs are sitting idle in our driveways for most of the time? As Mark Specht at the Union of Concerned Scientists explains, it’s why in California a bill is … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Grids, Storage Tagged With: batteries, bidirectional, California, charging, demand, discharge, Distribution, electricity, EVs, generation, grids, infrastructure, load, storage, Transmission, US

IRENA’s Innovation Week 2023: Renewable solutions to decarbonise end-use sectors

October 12, 2023 by Arasan Aruliah

At the end of September IRENA held a four-day event “Innovation Week 2023: Renewable solutions to decarbonise end-use sectors” in Bonn, Germany. A wide range of speakers discussed tangible solutions to decarbonise energy intensive sectors such as transportation, buildings and industry, informed by first-hand project experiences and supported by insights from IRENA’s in-depth analyses. Topics included direct and indirect electrification, green … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Innovations Tagged With: batteries, buildings, chemicals, Digitalisation, direct, electrification, EVs, hydrogen, indirect, industry, innovation, SectorCoupling, steel, storage, transport

Scaling up global grid-scale Storage to 80GW/year (it was 16GW in 2022)

October 3, 2023 by Amit Jain, Gabriela Elizondo Azuela and Aakarshan Vaid

Globally, annual additions of grid-scale battery storage must rise to 80GW between now and 2030, explain Amit Jain, Gabriela Elizondo Azuela and Aakarshan Vaid at the World Bank, writing for WEF. In 2022 it was only 16GW. The biggest gap, perhaps understandably, is in developing countries. It’s in these regions where renewables auctions for deployment – primarily solar and wind – need to start including hybrid storage as part of the package. The … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Grids, Storage Tagged With: batteries, grids, hybrids, PPAs, solar, storage, VRE, wind

Concrete supercapacitor: works like a battery, much cheaper, easy to make

September 27, 2023 by David Chandler

Capacitors work like batteries. They store and discharge electricity. David Chandler at MIT explains how researchers there have designed a supercapacitor from concrete and carbon black, two cheap and common materials. The beauty of the idea is that they can be incorporated into building foundations, thus installing a battery virtually for free. A concrete capacitor cube 3.5m wide can store 10kwh, enough for a household. Similarly, concrete … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Innovations, Storage Tagged With: batteries, buildings, capacitor, carbonblack, charging, concrete, electricity, EVs, roads, storage, supercapacitor

Rooftop Solar: will subsidies benefit wealthy early adopters, while grid limits lock out the latecomers?

September 14, 2023 by Juan Jose Cuenca Silva, Barry Hayes and Hannah Daly

Subsidies encouraging homeowners to install rooftop solar are being won by the affluent who can afford to be first movers. And when the technology has come down in price, the remaining majority of households will be shut out of the benefits of own-generation because the grid won’t have the capacity to integrate everyone. That’s the argument made by Juan Jose Cuenca Silva, Barry Hayes and Hannah Daly at the University College Cork who summarise … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Grids, Renewables Tagged With: batteries, California, Germany, grids, integration, Ireland, JustTransition, renewables, rooftop, solar, spain, storage, subsidies

Sodium-ion batteries ready for commercialisation: for grids, homes, even compact EVs

September 11, 2023 by Carlos Ruiz, Martina Lyons, Isaac Elizondo Garcia and Zhaoyu Wu

Sodium-ion (Na-ion) batteries, a much more abundant and cheaper alternative to the standard Lithium-ion, are on the verge of commercialisation, explain Carlos Ruiz, Martina Lyons, Isaac Elizondo Garcia and Zhaoyu Wu at IRENA. Though there’s enough Lithium in the world to support global electrification targets, tightening demand and supply chain constraints point at the urgent need for an alternative. The cost of a Na-ion battery cell is expected … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Storage Tagged With: batteries, China, costs, demand, distributed, grids, innovation, lithium, prices, Sodium, storage, supply

Circular Battery Economy: what policies and processes can accelerate recycling and reuse?

July 18, 2023 by Marie McNamara

As battery production scales up so do the risks of the long global supply chain failing, or causing more emissions, damaging the environment, and breaching human rights. A circular battery economy should greatly reduce those risks. Yet the U.S. has no federal recycling mandates or requirements for lithium-ion batteries, and state policies are inconsistent. Marie McNamara at RMI maps out the five critical issues that must be dealt with. Before … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Storage Tagged With: batteries, circular, cobalt, Environment, EU, humanrights, lithium, nickel, recycling, reuse, SKorea, storage, transparency, transport, US, waste

Draft EU rules on Battery lifecycle decarbonisation: close the loopholes!

July 17, 2023 by Transport & Environment

Draft rules mean battery manufacturers selling into Europe will have to report the product’s entire carbon footprint, from mining to production to recycling, as early as July 2024. That data will then be used to set a maximum CO2 limit for batteries to apply from the end of 2027. This is a big step forward, says T&E, addressing concerns over battery carbon footprint and recycling, and it also covers environment and human rights. But T&E … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Storage, Transport and energy Tagged With: batteries, carbon, EU, Europe, EVs, footprint, greenwashing, manufacturing, PPAs, recycling

“Battery Passports”: ensuring environmental sustainability, decarbonisation and mining labour rights

July 13, 2023 by Benedikt Sobotka and Robin Zeng

With battery production taking off, concerns are focussed on environmental sustainability, carbon footprint and labour rights where the raw materials are mined. Benedikt Sobotka, Co-Chair at the Global Battery Alliance and Robin Zeng, CEO at Chinese manufacturer Contemporary Amperex Technology, writing for WEF, describe the concept of the digital “battery passport” where compliance with the rules is certified and monitored throughout the life … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Storage Tagged With: batteries, certification, China, cobalt, copper, digital, EU, EVs, industry, JustTransition, lithium, mining, sustainability, transport

Only certain types of Hybridisation (Wind or Solar + Storage) beat building expensive transmission lines

July 10, 2023 by Julie Mulvaney Kemp

In some regions, the roll out of new wind and solar has outpaced new transmission. That causes “congestion” at times when the variable renewables are producing too much power locally, and cannot sell the excess, which squeezes profitability. That’s certainly the case in the U.S. now. One answer is “hybridisation” where storage is built alongside the renewables, to save that excess power for when it can be sold later. Julie Mulvaney Kemp at … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Grids, Renewables, Storage Tagged With: batteries, congestion, electricity, grids, hybrids, power, renewables, solar, storage, Transmission, US, VRE, wind

EU’s 40% domestic Cleantech ambition: same target for Wind (easy) and Solar (hard) doesn’t make sense

June 12, 2023 by Giovanni Sgaravatti, Simone Tagliapietra and Cecilia Trasi

The proposed Net Zero Industry Act includes a target for the EU to manufacture domestically at least 40% of its cleantech deployment needs by 2030. That includes the key technologies of solar PV panels, wind turbines (onshore and offshore), EV batteries, heat pumps and hydrogen electrolysers. But it doesn’t make sense to have the same 40% target for all, explain Giovanni Sgaravatti, Simone Tagliapietra and Cecilia Trasi at Bruegel. The main … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, HVAC, Hydrogen, Renewables, Storage Tagged With: batteries, cleantech, electrolysers, EU, EVs, GreenDeal, HeatPumps, hydrogen, NetZeroIndustryAct, offshore, onshore, panels, PV, solar, turbines, wind

How will China respond to the EU’s “40% made at home” clean energy tech ambition

June 9, 2023 by You Xiaoying

The EU’s Net Zero Industry Act wants to drive home-grown production of eight “strategic” net-zero technologies, including solar, wind, batteries and CCS. The target is 40% made at home, though the policy is yet to be worked out. You Xiaoying writing for China Dialogue talks to experts in China and the EU for their predictions. Most say that Chinese firms are not very worried. Firstly, they can – and are already making moves to – set up production … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Carbon Capture, Energy, Renewables, Storage Tagged With: batteries, CCS, China, decarbonisation, EU, GreenDeal, international, NetZeroIndustryAct, production, solar, targets, trade, US, wind

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