Turkey reached new all-time high records on September 3 for for daily electricity production and hourly electricity consumption, Energy and Natural Resources Minister Fatih Donmez reported from his Twitter account.
"Turkey's energy production continues to rise, breaking records. Despite the Covid-19 outbreak we have new record on daily energy production," Donmez said.
According to the data shared by Donmez, an all-time high daily generation was recorded on Sept. 3 with 1.07 billion kilowatt-hours, breaking the previous record of 1.06 billion kilowatt-hours set on August 2, 2018.
The highest hourly electricity consumption of all time was also recorded on September 3 with 49.6 million kilowatt-hours.
Source: Anadolu Agency
Turkish companies Naturel Enerji and Berkteks Insaat have signed a project development and turnkey engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract for an 11-megawatt (MW) solar power plant project in Italy, Naturel Enerji said in a statement Tuesday.
The total value of the contract is 12 million euros ($14 million), excluding value-added tax (VAT), with Naturel Enerji providing funding for the project.
According to the statement, the project is considered to be one of the important solar power plants in Italy and Europe and is also significant for Turkish investors and EPC contractors in terms of its size, characteristics and location.
The companies will undertake project development, EPC, power purchase agreements (PPAs) and project financing on a turnkey basis.
The plant will be built on solar tracker systems, and the electricity produced will be sold to private consumers through PPAs.
Source: Daily Sabah
Transforming the power sector alone will only get the world one-third of the way to net-zero emissions, new IEA report says, highlighting the need for greater efforts in other key sectors 10 September 2020.
A major effort to develop and deploy clean energy technologies worldwide is urgently needed to meet international energy and climate goals, particularly in order to reduce carbon emissions from areas beyond the power sector such as transport, buildings and industry, according to a new IEA report released today. With global carbon emissions at unacceptably high levels, structural changes to the energy system are required to achieve the rapid and lasting decline in emissions called for by the world’s shared climate targets. The IEA’s Energy Technology Perspectives 2020 – the first core ETP report for three years following a revamp of the series – analyses more than 800 different technology options to assess what would need to happen to reach net-zero emissions by 2070 while ensuring a resilient and secure energy system.
It finds that transitioning just the power sector to clean energy would get the world only one-third of the way to net-zero emissions. Completing the journey will require devoting far more attention to the transport, industry and buildings sectors, which today account for about 55% of CO2 emissions from the energy system.
Much greater use of electricity in these sectors – for powering electric vehicles, recycling metals, heating buildings and many other tasks – can make the single largest contribution to reaching net-zero emissions, according to the report, although many more technologies will be needed.
“Despite the difficulties caused by the Covid-19 crisis, several recent developments give us grounds for increasing optimism about the world’s ability to accelerate clean energy transitions and reach its energy and climate goals.
Still, major issues remain. This new IEA report not only shows the scale of the challenge but also offers vital guidance for overcoming it,” said Dr Fatih Birol, the IEA’s Executive Director. “Solar is leading renewables to new heights in markets across the globe, ultralow interest rates can help finance a growing number of clean energy projects, more governments and companies are throwing their weight behind these critical technologies, and all-important energy innovation may be about to take off,” Dr Birol said.
“However, we need even more countries and businesses to get on board, we need to redouble efforts to bring energy access to all those who currently lack it, and we need to tackle emissions from the vast amounts of existing energy infrastructure in use worldwide that threaten to put our shared goals out of reach.” Energy Technology Perspectives 2020 (ETP 2020) examines how to address the challenge of longlasting energy assets already operating around the world – including inefficient coal power plants, steel mills and cement kilns, most of which were recently built in emerging Asian economies and could operate for decades to come. It finds that the power sector and heavy industry sectors together account for about 60% of emissions today from existing energy infrastructure. That share climbs to nearly 100% in 2050 if no action is taken to manage the existing assets’ emissions, underscoring the need for the rapid development of technologies such as hydrogen and carbon capture.
Source: IEA
The behavioural and economic ramifications of COVID-19 will permanently reduce global energy demand, according to DNV GL’s newly published Energy Transition Outlook.
Compared to the pre-pandemic forecast, energy demand will be lowered 6-8% each year to the middle of the century.
COVID-19 has prompted major behavioral shifts important to energy consumption, as demonstrated by reduction in long-distance travel and the increase in home office, both of which are responsible for the peak in transport energy demand and oil demand in 2019.
DNV GL believes these trends are likely to have lasting societal effects, which have a major impact on energy demand from transport and commercial buildings.
Carbon dioxide emissions are set to fall 8% this year, making 2019 the year of peak carbon dioxide emissions. However, we will still blow past the carbon budget for a 1.5-degree future in 2028, and if we are to meet this target, we must repeat the 2020 emissions saving every year until the middle of the century.
Remi Eriksen, Group President and CEO of DNV GL, said: “COVID-19 has changed the global energy outlook, yet the global climate crisis remains as urgent as before the pandemic.
“Early optimism about decreased air pollution has been replaced by the cold reality that it is not because of a more decarbonized energy mix but because of short term changes unique to the pandemic. We can transition faster with the technology at hand, but now more than ever before, we require national and sectorial policy incentives to bring us to the ambitions of Paris.”
The technology exists to create a Paris compliant future. With gas set to become the largest energy source in 2026, it has a crucial role to play, yet DNV GL forecasts only 13% of the gas will be decarbonised by the middle of the century. Hydrogen has been given a boost by policy developments in the European Union, but it will still only contribute 6% of energy demand by 2050. Decarbonized gas, including hydrogen, is vitally important for reducing emissions from hard to abate industries, such as building heating and industries with high heating demand, but requires a massive boost from policy to achieve a meaningful impact.
Whilst we must transition faster to create to a more sustainable future, it should be noted that the current pace of the energy transition is already fast. Within a generation, renewables and fossil fuels will have roughly an equal share of the energy mix compared to an approximately 20-80 split today.
The share of electricity in the final energy mix is expected to double by mid-century, with solar PV and wind contributing 31% each. Floating offshore wind will grow rapidly, by 2050 DNV GL expects a large new industry with 250GW installed.
And despite these significant shifts in the energy system, the transition is affordable; as a proportion of GDP, humanity will be spending less on energy in 2050 (1.6% of global GDP) compared to 2018 (3% of GDP). As the world will spend an ever-smaller share of GDP on energy, it allows policy makers additional room to take the extraordinary actions required to decarbonize the energy mix.
Source: Smart Energy International
Building an indigenous green hydrogen industry in the UK could deliver a cumulative gross value added (GVA) of between GBP 160 billion (USD 207.4 bn/EUR 176bn) and GBP 320 billion by 2050, says a new report.
The Offshore Wind and Hydrogen: Solving the Integration Challenge Report by the Offshore Wind Industry Council (OWIC) and the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult was released on Tuesday. It evaluates hydrogen’s potential to help provide the flexibility, and short and long-term energy balancing, needed for the integration of greater percentages of offshore wind into the UK energy mix and achieving the country’s net-zero climate change targets.
In the report’s low scenario, the UK’s capacity to produce green hydrogen from offshore wind reaches 24 GW by 2050 and the GVA over the period surpasses GBP 160 billion. In the high scenario, the capacity is 58 GW and the cumulative GVA is about GBP 320 billion.
The authors of the report urge the government to act now and prepare a national strategy to support the creation of supply and demand in the new industry. It calls for an integrated approach to deliver accelerated deployment, supported by appropriate regulation and policy, targeted R&D, and the infrastructure to carry out full-scale demonstration and validation projects for new products and services.
“Offshore wind is on track to become the backbone of our electricity system and that role will become even more important as it becomes the power source to make low-cost renewable hydrogen at scale. The UK needs to build full-size pathfinder projects as soon as possible to secure our position as a world leader in this exciting new combination of innovative technologies,” said Benj Sykes, Industry Chair of OWIC.
According to ORE Catapult chief executive Andrew Jamieson, the same forces of rapid innovation and scale-up that made possible the sharp drop in the offshore wind cost we have witnessed will also apply to hydrogen technologies, such as electrolysers. The report says that by 2050, green hydrogen produced from offshore wind in the UK can be cheaper than blue hydrogen produced from methane using carbon capture and storage.
Source: Renewables Now
Home energy storage devices, which house electricity locally for later consumption, are at their essence rechargeable batteries. They’re controlled by computers with intelligent software to handle charging and discharging cycles and are instrumental in the performance and economy of smart homes featuring renewable energy.
Certainly, there are both challenges and opportunities associated with sustainable energy supplies and energy storage. Let’s look at some of the newest research on home energy storage to see what’s happening in the field and what’s likely to emerge in this area of clean consumer tech in the near future.
Household renewable energy generation through the use of solar panels is becoming more commonplace as installation costs are lessening and electricity prices are rising. Solar energy is an intermittent source, only generated during the day and subject to interference from weather and seasonal variation.
The feasibility and limitations of various renewable energy, energy storage, grid-tied and off the grid systems are ripe research topics in academia and tech.
Recognizing that a smart home energy management system is critical for consumers to intelligently and conveniently manage the use of an energy storage system (ESS) alongside domestic appliances, renewable energy (RES) generation, and electric vehicles (EVs), Huan Hou and associates propose a holistic model to center the preference of users when scheduling the involved physical equipment of different natures.
They also describe the advantages of a dedicated charging and discharging strategy for both the ESS and an EV, taking into account capital costs to provide better flexibility and economic advantages as well as to prolong the life of the batteries. They conclude, based on mixed integer linear programming, that the energy schedule of a smart home can be accommodated to guarantee both the lowest cost and the comfort for the users.
A paper by Schmidt and associates proposes a mathematical model for home energy storage management that enhances the home’s resilience in the face of severe weather events. The model automatically decides in advance when to start the ESS recharging. To do so, it formulates the operational condition of the local distribution network, estimates the probability of a power outage associated with the incidence of strong winds, and monitors the meteorological parameters and state of charge of the local ESS. Results show contributions to increasing the home’s electric resilience, with little interference in the standard operation of the ESS.
Source: Clean Technica
G20 Analysis
Since the beginning of the COVID19 pandemic in early 2020, G20 has committed at least $374.82 billion to supporting different energy types through new or amended policies, according to official government sources and other publicly available information
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