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An increased supply of lithium will be needed to meet future expected demand growth for lithium-ion batteries for transportation and energy storage. Lithium demand has tripled since 2017 and is set to grow tenfold by 2050 under the International Energy Agency’s (IEA) Net Zero Emissions by 2050 Scenario. Leading experts estimate a supply deficit by the 2030s, creating pressure to increase lithium production and processing.…
View Full ResourceThe global energy transition can only succeed through innovation. From technology adoption to sustainability strategy to new operating models, innovative thinking will unlock transition success. In this report, Reuters Events examines 100 disruptors and change-makers demonstrating transition excellence, including forward-thinking strategy, novel technology integration, and digital transformation. …
View Full ResourceIn recent decades, the U.S. has not been able to construct the volume of high-voltage backbone transmission facilities needed to support the country’s move to a ‘greener’ power system. The fact remains, though, that power generation infrastructure in the U.S. is changing fast with the growth of technologies including solar and wind power generation, as well as energy storage. Facilitating that change will require a grid that is able to reliably and cost-effectively deliver power to users. The inability to build backbone transmission infrastructure thwarts customer demands for a ‘greener’ power mix.
This report offers perspectives from a range of …
Energy investors are increasingly questioning the fate of new U.S. laws designed to accelerate cleantech deployment as the country enters a highly contentious 2024 national election cycle. The response by the U.S. financial sector to the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and the clean energy provisions of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and the Chips Act has been extraordinary in scale yet lopsided in impact.
The future of sectors such as renewable power, batteries, electric vehicles, advanced nuclear, and low-carbon hydrogen or carbon capture and storage (CCUS) could hinge on what happens to the IRA and the clean energy provisions of the …
The energy transition towards a more sustainable and renewable future is a pivotal global endeavor. Central to this shift for the United States is the critical role of domestically sourced lithium, a key mineral in the production of high-performance batteries essential for electric vehicles and renewable energy storage systems. This has driven the United States to invest heavily in a domestic supply chain for battery-grade lithium to enhance energy security, reduce supply chain vulnerabilities, and foster economic growth by tapping into local resources. The “Salton Sea Known Geothermal Resource Area” in Imperial County, California has been identified as a potential …
View Full ResourceThe distributed energy resource landscape is continuously expanding and broadening its reach. Technology that started as mainly niche rooftop solar installations has now expanded to include heat pump water heaters, intelligent thermostats, battery energy storage, intelligent vehicle charging, and other devices. Increasingly, utilities have opted to deploy a software solution that can interact with these grid-edge technologies called a distributed energy resource management system (DERMS).
Evaluating, selecting, and justifying DERMS remains challenging due to the high cost of the solution and complexities in integrations, cybersecurity, and implementation timelines. SEPA and a task force of 12 utilities used insights from 11 …
View Full ResourceThe Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) proposed “111 rules” restricting greenhouse gas emissions have sparked debate about whether they will create consequences that threaten grid reliability. However, rather than raising new concerns, these objections principally raise issues already facing the power sector. The Inflation Reduction Act has made low-carbon resources including wind, solar, and storage the cheapest new resources in the U.S., but system planners worry we cannot add them fast enough to make up for fossil retirements. New Energy Innovation research details the potential impacts of the EPA rules, investigates their effects on the electricity system, and evaluates potential changes …
View Full ResourceThe report provides a guiding framework for planning and implementing solar-plus-storage projects, while leveraging private investments. The report’s framework outlines four-phases covering the identification and planning of a project, selection, and adaptation of a business model from three pre-set configurations, and finally utilizing complementary PPA template resources in a competitive procurement process.
The report aims to streamline adoption and deployment of IPP-owned solar-plus-storage hybrid generation projects, especially in countries where reliance on fuel-based thermal generation is deepening their vulnerability and deficits, accelerating a much-needed transition.…
View Full ResourceCustomer interest in onsite solar photovoltaic and energy storage systems (PVESS) is being driven in part by customer demand for backup power. While that demand may be fueled by increasing frequency and severity of long, multi-day power interruptions, most power interruptions are relatively short duration, typically lasting minutes to hours. They are also unpredictable, and the ability of a PVESS to provide backup power during any particular interruption event partly depends on how fully charged the battery happens to be at the beginning of the event.
This technical brief estimates the expected performance of a PVESS for providing backup power …
View Full ResourceThermal batteries present the opportunity to reduce nearly all greenhouse gas emissions from industrial heat, a sizable portion of overall U.S. emissions, by drawing from increasingly abundant renewable electricity sources. Thermal batteries use simple components and storage materials to take clean electricity from grid and off-grid sources and convert it into continuous industrial heat, helping to balance the power grid in the process.
To better understand the potential benefits of and barriers to the use of this technology for decarbonization, the RTC created this report in partnership with The Brattle Group. The report finds that thermal batteries can be cost-competitive …
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