MIT study: Quebec hydro reservoirs provide valuable energy storage for U.S. northeast - Hydro Review. US to pursue 30% biofuel blend by 2050. German PV tender delivers record low solar power price of $0.038/kwh. From pv magazine Germany Germany’s Federal Network Agency, the Bundesnetzagentur, has announced 18 solar projects with a combined generation capacity of 100.6 MW were allocated in the latest tender held for PV projects ranging in size from 750 kW to 10 MW.
The tender was almost five times oversubscribed as the agency fielded proposals for 493 MW of project capacity. The lowest winning bid accepted for the solar power to be generated by the new facilities was $0.038/kwh – a German record. The highest successful bid was for $0.056/kwh. Average price The average final price in the procurement round was $0.054/kWh, significantly less than the $0.061/kWh average delivered by the previous tender of the same kind, in December. The southern German region of Bavaria secured 13 of the 18 projects allocated in the latest tender, for a total capacity of 75 MW. Le premier avion électrique d'EasyJet bientôt prêt à décoller. D’ici 2030, vous pourrez dire au revoir au "flygskam".
L’aviation commerciale électrique se précise. La compagnie aérienne low cost EasyJet, associée à la startup américaine Wright Electric, vient de dévoiler le calendrier d’un projet d’avion 100% électrique capable de transporter 186 passagers d’ici 2030. Objectif : être les premiers à proposer des vols courts – un peu moins d’une heure – entièrement propres. Si le programme est tenu, à la fin de la décennie, nous pourrons effectuer par les airs des Londres-Amsterdam, Paris-Genève ou Lyon Bordeaux avec une faible empreinte carbone. Sous le capot, Wright Electric a élaboré un moteur baptisé « Wright 1 » dont la puissance équivaut à 1,5 MW associé à un onduleur de 3 kV. Voitures à hydrogène : Hyundai détrône Toyota. Warren Buffett Has Started The Biggest Energy Revolution.
Did you hear the news about a “breed” of stocks that made investors the richest in 2019?
It’s not housing stocks, which enjoyed a record rally last year. It’s not even everyone’s beloved tech stocks like Netflix or Facebook. This may sound like a joke if you’ve followed this sector for long, but the hands-down winner of 2019 was solar stocks. Invesco Solar ETF (TAN) ran up 51% in just a year, becoming last year’s best-performing ETF. This ETF holds a basket of stocks that build solar parks, make solar panels and other components, all to produce solar energy. Last September, Warren Buffett struck a historic deal marking the beginning of the biggest disruption in energy since the First Industrial Revolution. Delta commits $1 billion to become first carbon neutral airline globally. 10-year commitment to mitigate all emissions from March 2020 forward Strategy will mitigate emissions across Delta’s business globally – in the air and on the ground Efforts will drive innovation, clean air tech, emissions and waste reduction Starting March 1, 2020, Delta Air Lines is committing $1 billion over the next 10 years on its journey to mitigate all emissions from its global business going forward.
The airline will invest in driving innovation, advancing clean air travel technologies, accelerating the reduction of carbon emissions and waste, and establishing new projects to mitigate the balance of emissions. Company to harvest green hydrogen by igniting oil fires underground. This month, on the frozen plains of Saskatchewan in Canada, workers began to inject steam and air into the Superb field, a layer of sand 700 meters down that holds 200 million barrels of thick, viscous oil.
Their goal was not to pump out the oil, but to set it on fire—spurring underground chemical reactions that churn out hydrogen gas, along with carbon dioxide (CO2). Eventually the company conducting the $3 million field test plans to plug its wells with membranes that would allow only the clean-burning hydrogen to reach the surface. The CO2, and all of its power to warm the climate, would remain sequestered deep in the earth. “We want to launch the idea that you can get energy from petroleum resources and it can be zero carbon emissions,” says Ian Gates, a chemical engineer at the University of Calgary and co-founder of the startup, called Proton Technologies.
Xebec announces first Canadian RNG plant - Canadian Biomass Magazine. Xebec Adsorption Inc. announced today that Xebec and Bähler Biogas Inc. have signed an agreement to develop an integrated facility to process various organic wastes for the production of renewable natural gas (RNG) and biofertilizer.
Located in Quebec, this facility will process over 45,000 metric tons of organic waste per year through an anaerobic digestion process. This process will produce biogas that is upgraded into renewable natural gas (RNG) by a turnkey biogas upgrading equipment package supplied by Xebec. The facility will contribute to the circular economy in Quebec, producing over 150,000 gigajoule (GJ) of RNG and 7,500 metric tons of biofertilizer annually. Colloque du printemps de CanWEA 2020 - Canadian Wind Energy Association.