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Montel Weekly: Germany Will Need 18 GW of Gas Power Capacities By 2030

Germany will need around 18 GW of new gas power capacities by 2030 due to the country’s exit from both coal-fired and nuclear power generation in order not to endanger the security of supply, according to Konstantin Lenz, business development manager at Volue....

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Study: Slovenia's HESS Could Produce Green Hydrogen at 3.86 EUR/kg

April 9, 2021 | Tanja Srnovršnik
Electricity | RES and EE | Hydrogen

The installation of a 1 MW device for producing green hydrogen at one of the hydropower plants (HPPs) on the lower course of river Sava would cost around EUR 2 million, while the device could produce 30 kg of hydrogen per hour at a price of 3.86 EUR/kg, concluded the experts from Slovenia’s Jožef Štefan Institute (JSI)....

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European TSOs Consult on More Future-proof Power Market Design

April 6, 2021 | Tanja Srnovršnik
Electricity | RES and EE | Energy policy | New technologies

As the current electricity market design “does not appear fully future-proof for 2030 and beyond,” the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity (ENTSO-E) has launched a consultation on options for the design of European electricity markets in 2030....

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OIES: Gas to Remain Robust Until 2030 Due to Coal and Nuclear Decline

Despite the growth in renewables, natural gas could still play a robust role in Europe until 2030, because coal and nuclear are declining fast enough to allow gas to maintain its position, said James Henderson, director of the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies (OIES)....

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EVs and Heat Pumps to Increase Slovenia’s Power Demand By 6% By 2030

Electric vehicles (EVs) and heat pumps are expected to increase power consumption in Slovenia by about 900 GWh, which equates to around 6%, by 2030, Boštjan Blažič from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the University of Ljubljana told Energetika.NET....

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Slovenian TSO: Sector Coupling to Also Keep Energy Prices Lower in Long Term

Sector coupling will be the key to keeping energy prices low in the long run, said Uroš Salobir, Director of the Strategic Innovation Department at the Slovenian electricity TSO, ELES, on Tuesday....

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Without Blue Hydrogen It Will Not Be Possible to Decarbonise Quickly Enough

It will be impossible to build out green hydrogen production with the speed and scale needed in order to decarbonise our economy without the participation of blue hydrogen, according to Helge Haugane from Equinor....

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IRENA: Albania Can Deploy Over 600 MW of Wind Energy By 2030

March 24, 2021 | Tanja Srnovršnik
Electricity | RES and EE | Energy policy

Albania should tap into its over 7 GW of cost-effective solar and wind potential in order to reduce its high dependence on hydro power production and thus also reduce the vulnerability of the energy system to climate impacts, said the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) on Wednesday....

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Annual European Energy Storage Market to Reach 3 GWh in 2021

March 23, 2021 | Peter Palčec
Electricity | RES and EE | Energy policy

The total annual energy storage market in Europe is expected to reach 3 GWh in 2021, almost double the annual storage deployments seen in 2020, states the recently published fifth European Market Monitor on Energy Storage (EMMES) report....

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Montel Weekly: Corporates Increasingly Interested in Decarbonisation via PPAs

March 19, 2021 | Peter Palčec
Electricity | RES and EE

Corporates are increasingly interested in the decarbonisation of their activities via power purchase agreements (PPAs), according to Thekla von Bulow from Aurora Energy Research. ...