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Sonergy Brasil has been recognized as one of the Top Renewable Energy Services Companies In Latin America Providers by Energy Tech Review. Sonergy Brasil, a solar energy company renowned for its innovation, commitment to sustainability and a drive to expand its scope of services. It seeks to elevate Brazil's solar energy infrastructure and advance energy storage technologies, particularly in underserved urban and rural areas. “We have laid out a comprehensive growth strategy, recognizing the boundless potential of solar energy in a sun-rich country like Brazil,” says Maycon P. of Sonergy Brasil. The article will also be featured in the forthcoming special print edition on Renewable Energy 2024. Read More: https://lnkd.in/g5Xdf27G #SonergyBrasil #SolarEnergyGrowth #SolarExpansion #RenewableEnergy #SolarPower

🌬️ Selecting the Perfect Sites for Offshore Wind Farms 🌊 In our quest to expand renewable energy in Italy, we meticulously selected potential offshore wind farm sites based on several critical criteria: 1) Located within Italian territory and offshore 2) Outside protected areas 3) Water depths between 50-150 meters 4) Average wind speeds exceeding 7.5 m/s Our study identified five optimal locations for offshore wind farms in Italy, each evaluated for cost, capacity, and feasibility. These sites are projected to significantly enhance Italy's renewable energy mix. #GreenEnergy #ClimateAction #EnergyTransition #GIS

Slurry (farm yard manure) is on the move in Ireland right now with the weather so bad and tanks in farm sheds overflowing. but this is less fertiliser needed to be imported from Russia. personally, I'm benefiting from the extra slurry as organic farmers can use slurry from conventional farms. Are new gas pipelines a good thing or will they end up as stranded assets? who will pay the bill if they end up as white elephants? Green gas? is it not better used for planes if any is ever maid a volume? will a green gas power station help stimulate green gas or is it better to leave slurry for growing food and reduce fertiliser use which is just gas in a bag? open debate in my view will be the best way to get the future assets as close to right as could be expected. We all will end up funding these assets one way or another as I was shocked to hear my subcontractor saying in Sweden one day as her refused to my my life easy and take an extra cost on a lazy design on my side. Ireland could do with more of this attitude. "we will all end up funding it"

Emphasizing Brazil's pivotal role in the global solar energy landscape, the latest "Global Market Outlook For Solar Power 2024 – 2028" report by SolarPower Europe underscores Brazil's ascent to the third position among the world's largest solar markets, trailing only China and the United States. This significant milestone not only highlights Brazil's robust commitment to renewable energy but also its strategic advancements in harnessing solar power to meet growing energy demands sustainably. As we navigate the complexities of global energy transitions, Brazil stands poised to exemplify scalable solar integration and innovation. #SolarEnergy #RenewableEnergy #BrazilSolarMarket #EnergyTransition #GlobalSolar

Equinor and Rio Energy have made a major step towards a sustainable energy future in Brazil with the final investment decision for the Serra da Babilônia Solar Complex. This project will combine wind and solar energy production to maximize efficiency and contribute to the country's renewable energy goals. Learn more about this innovative approach and Equinor's commitment to expanding its renewable energy portfolio in Brazil. #RenewableEnergy #SustainableFuture 🌞🌿 https://lnkd.in/enJfY9hC #SolarPower #RenewableEnergy #GreenTech #SustainableLiving #EcoFriendlyInnovation

#RenewableEnergy | How is Brazil taking advantage of wind and solar energy? 🇧🇷   The NovaTech Climate Team thinks this is pretty awesome. Over the past two years, Brazil has added an impressive 18.5 GW of clean energy to its grid, thanks to significant contributions from onshore wind and solar PV sectors. This expansion has boosted Brazil’s overall generating capacity to nearly 204 GW, with renewable sources accounting for 171.8 GW. Key states like Bahia, Rio Grande do Norte, and Minas Gerais have led the charge, each incorporating over 3 GW of new capacity. This growth is a testament to Brazil’s long-standing energy diversification policies and strategic investments in renewable energy. You can read the full article here: 🔗 https://lnkd.in/eqnwd4tZ Learn more about what the NovaTech Climate Team is reading at keepitcool.earth #NetZero #Sustainability #CleanEnergy #Automation #Innovation

Plans have been unveiled for what would be – by some distance – the biggest wind project on Australia’s main grid, a five gigawatt (GW) proposal for north Queensland. The Bogunda wind farm has been unveiled by Australian developer Renewable Energy Partners (REP) and would be located in a region south-east of Hughenden, and would connect to the proposed new Copperstring transmission line that will link the coastal areas with the mineral-rich regions out towards Mount Isa. The project is very much in its early stages, but REP hopes to get a first 2 GW stage up and running by the end of the decade, at a cost of around $5 billion – although the timing will be dependent on progress with the Copperstring power line. #RenewableEnergy #CleanEnergy #Sustainability #GreenEnergy #SolarPower #WindEnergy #ClimateAction #EnergyEfficiency #Renewables #GreenTech

In an exciting development for Brazil's renewable energy sector, grid connection queues are creating new opportunities for energy storage and hybrid systems. Leading companies like Auren, Statkraft, and Casa dos Ventos are adding solar and batteries to their utility-scale wind power sites to optimize existing power transmission capacity. Key Highlights: 🔹 Innovative Solutions: Businesses are integrating batteries into small-scale, distributed generation to tackle connection shortages and power failures, particularly in São Paulo. 🔹 Zero-Grid Approach: France’s GreenYellow is pioneering a “zero-grid” model, focusing on on-site generation without grid injection, having already added over 200 MW of remote-generation solar capacity. 🔹 New Projects: Casa dos Ventos will start building 300 MW of solar in Bahia in 2024, enhancing their existing wind sites with hybrid capabilities. The solar plants will share transmission connections with turbines, operating under the “autoprodução” (self-production) model, offering tax discounts and stable energy prices. https://lnkd.in/dedj2r3J #RenewableEnergy #SolarPower #EnergyStorage 

Together with Gas Networks Ireland, today we announce a landmark development of gas infrastructure, connecting Bord na Móna’s Edenderry Renewable Energy Complex to the national gas network. The grid connection will enable the integration of both natural gas and renewable gas including biomethane and green hydrogen, into the fuel mix at the Co. Offaly renewable energy complex. On completion, the transmission connection project will immediately facilitate a reduction of approximately 40% in CO2 emissions, through the conversion of existing diesel generation assets to natural gas, supporting the national energy grid in times of high demand. This investment will see the construction of a steel transmission pipeline, approximately 22Km in length, that will connect Bord na Móna’s renewable energy complex in Edenderry, to Ireland's €2.8bn gas network. Furthermore, this connection will enable the effective transition to renewable gases in the future, complementing both companies’ renewable strategies.   #investment #development #decarbonise #gas #infrastructue #energy #demand 

Batteries are hyped as the "solution" to intermittent sources of energy, solar and wind, to overcome technological challenges and provide "baseload" power. 1. Batteries are competitors, not complementary to solar and wind. It has led to electricity arbitrage, buying low and selling high. Batteries are charged when energy is cheapest, and sells power when energy is is demand, when prices are higher. 2. Solar advocates have thought batteries/storage would solve the intermittency problem, less reliability of electricity generation by solar, but this is not the reality. 3. This has proven solar and wind are not central to the grid. What is central to the grid is consistent, baseload power, from nuclear, hydro, and coal power plants. 4. California has added 12 GW of grid batter storage in the last two years, 25% of peak power demand, hoping to overcome intermittency problems, meaning inconsistent electricity generation by solar and wind. 5. Advocates of solar in CA expected a reduction in curtailment, when a grid operator asks an electricity producer not to produce power, usually to avoid overloading the grid. But in CA, curtailments rose 62%, in spite of massive battery storage additions, in spite of solar and wind contributing the same 26% of electricity generation in CA since 2021. 6. Conclusion. Batteries finance themselves through energy arbitrage. The real beneficiary of intermittent solar and wind are natural gas turbines, which backup solar and wind. A more economic solution of clean energy would be electricity generation from nuclear, hydro, and geothermal, with less reliance on solar and wind, intermittent sources of electricity generation. I summarized Oscar Martin’s post about batteries. Here is the original post. https://loom.ly/99IJ8xw