You may have caught wind about head winds in the U.S. offshore wind development arena this week.

Anyways, a VP at Ørsted wrote this:

"Offshore wind is said to be in the middle of a perfect storm for exactly the reasons that all hit our US projects: supply chain delays, increasing interest rates and tax regimes that continue to support fossil fuel and are at best neutral to, but often detrimental to, the development, construction and operation of renewable energy." #MastodonEnergy

In the models with only short-duration lithium-ion batteries available, over 60 GW of battery capacity is built by 2040 to shift renewable generation and meet peak demand. However, this capacity only provides 538 GWh of energy storage.

Whereas when long-duration and multi-day storage are available, total storage capacity needs drop to around 40 GW. But critically, total energy storage capacity grows nearly 10x to over 5,000 GWh. #LDES #Batteries #MastodonEnergy
https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2023/08/21/multi-day-energy-storage-increases-grid-capacity-by-factor-of-ten/

Stellantis N.V. and Controlled Thermal Resources Holdings, Inc. (CTR) has announced a major investment of over $100 million from Stellantis to advance the development of CTR’s Hell’s Kitchen project, the world’s largest geothermal lithium project with a total resource capacity to produce up to 300,000 metric tons of lithium carbonate equivalent each year. #MastodonEnergy

The 35-MW geothermal power plant of Sosian Energy in the Menengai geothermal field in Kenya has started supplying electricity to the national grid. Menengai hopes to develop a combined capacity of 105 MW.

Electricity from it is being sold at a rate 6.9 US cents per kWh. This is a competitive price and is expected to help displace expensive power generating capacity mostly from thermal plants.
#geothermal #CleanEnergy #MastodonEnergy https://www.thinkgeoenergy.com/35-mw-menengai-geothermal-power-plant-kenya-starts-grid-supply/

The German government is looking at further developing deep geothermal energy to create a nationwide climate-neutral heat supply by 2045. According to studies, deep geothermal energy could generate around 300 terawatt hours of heat annually from an installed capacity of 70 GW -- more than half the future heat demand of all buildings.

Geothermal and ground coupled heat pumps use in the U.S.is growing too.
#geothermal #HeatPumps #MastodonEnergy

The price of solar modules reached "a record low of 17.1 cents per watt in July, according to Bloomberg NEF’s Jenny Chase." @solar_chase
#ClimateSolutions #ClimateProgress #CleanEnergy #MastodonEnergy #Solar

@matthewtoad43 @ShredderFeeder @Pomegracias @LightFIAR @WizardBear @Mary625 @ArenaCops @Beachbum @tdwllms1 @curtisysmith
y'all know that most production is done on private lands don't you?

Why won't y'all accept that the fossil fuel industry wants for you to be opposed to Biden?
#climate #ClimateAction #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #USPolitics
#MastodonEnergy

@CaroltheCrone @SeanCasten
Thanks for highlighting @SeanCasten
He is one of the most influential voices on #MastodonEnergy and we're lucky he's posting on the Fediverse.

This looks to me like they've just drilled about a 10 megawatt well in Kenya! #ClimateProgress #Geothermal #MastodonEnergy

I like how Sankey diagrams can highlight how much wasted energy there is but this one that Mark Z. Jackson lumps #nuclear in with #renewables.

Isn't that a mistake since the nuclear is the heat-based system of producing electricity so therefore accounts for almost all of that wasted energy (pollution)?

After posting this I thought I should add the #MastodonEnergy tag as well as wondering about adding a third level of info that adds the energy used to create the energy generators too?

@DanaBlankenhorn
If there's not energy in the air, as all actual physicists are of course aware, than everything is frozen since that would mean it's absolute zero, but whatever since I don't really know what your point is related to our atmosphere being polluted by far too much greenhouse gas. #MastodonEnergy

I so wish that #EnergyTwitter would migrate to #MastodonEnergy because of the discussion going on around Sammy Roth's nice new article in the @latimes on rooftop solar in relation to solar farms.

Anyways, my 2 cents is that building out our distribution grid requires the political will to combat entrenched and powerful forces along with a lot of NIMBYism which is impacting the solar farm industry significantly too. So, I like reducing demand on the grid by adding #Solar and #Batteries at POU.

Back onto the subject of the new disruptive arbitrage industry in #CleanEnergy

Battery storage capacity for
California ISO is now over 5GW.

Report for end of May showed 4,885 MW of installed storage.
http://caiso.com/Documents/Key-Statistics-May-2023.pdf

Another 548 MW came online in June - so total is now 5,433 MW.

And since the capacity is near 4 hours, that's potentially 21 GWHs of clean electricity being time shifted - often twice a day. h/t @CommercialSolarGuy #MastodonEnergy #ClimateProgress

Welcome to the Fediverse from that foul site. We don't have an algorithm determining what we see so we have to create our timelines ourselves by following plenty of other posters.

If you understand this reference you might consider following this account for example, ELoon runs his network as bad as does #ERCOT or at least check the #MastodonEnergy hashtag occasionally.

Starting my first post with this graphic: Haters gonna hate, but the reality is that #renewable technologies have the least emissions during their entire life cycle, and yes, yes, the use and extraction of minerals is being contemplated 😉

#climate #energy #mastodonenergy

Source: https://www.iea.org/reports/energy-technology-perspectives-2023

@janrosenow today i heard a very interesting #Podcast on a paper that tries to answer the question why certain #energy #technologies get very cheap over time and some not . @energy #mastodonenergy https://www.volts.wtf/p/which-technologies-get-cheaper-over#details

Gas is ‘green’ energy under new Ohio law

#MastodonEnergy

https://www.cleveland.com/open/2023/01/house-bill-6-left-ohio-with-least-stringent-clean-energy-program-in-us-study-shows.html

@ArkadyMartine

Not sure why a hashtag search on your instance doesn't return off instance posts but #MastodonEnergy #Energy #EnergyTransition #Regulation are some you might pin in a feed with the advanced UI enabled.

You can also go to the profile directory of any instance i.e. https://mastodon.energy/directory to find folks.

Welcome @mpi_grav - it is not just journalists making #mastodonmigration we can build strong #mastodonenergy #MastodonScience & #MastodonClimate communities

Ladies and gentlemen of #MastodonEnergy, please welcome the one, the only, the unflappable, the inimitable @liamdenning, who once upon a time wrote many words about $TSLA and its mad king.