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BNEF ups forecast for global investment in stationary energy storage, sees majority of capacity likely to be grid-scale

Green Car Congress

These include energy shifting (moving in time the dispatch of electricity to the grid, often from times of excess solar and wind generation), peaking in the bulk power system (to deal with demand spikes), as well as for customers looking to save on their energy bills by buying electricity at cheap hours and using it later.

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Utility solar dethrones coal as the cheapest power source in Asia

Baua Electric

Solar is cheapest and falling The significant drop in solar power costs, by 23% in 2023, signals the end of supply chain disruptions and inflationary pressures. However, there will be less of an impact on markets with limited uptake of Chinese turbines such as Japan and South Korea, which focus more on domestic supply chains.

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Naysayer Alert – the hydrogen red herring

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Hence its supply would not be cheap, renewable nor sustainable in the long term. Why not simply use the electricity directly to charge electric cars via the already available distribution network – the electricity grid? Again, the hydrogen pathway represents a stupid energy pathway. 2015, p127) [1]. .

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2020 Top 10 Countries in the Global EV Revolution

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In October, our relatives in Israel bought this amazing Hyundai Ioniq BEV, designed and built in Korea. This paid back in spades, with EV share flying from 700k EVs globally in 2020, supplying over one-third of global demand outside of China. It was one of only 30 sold in Israel last year (out of ~1500 BEV sales there in 2020).

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