March 27 Green Energy News

Headline News:

• “Battery And Offshore Wind Costs ‘Tumble’” • Prices for lithium-ion battery storage as well as offshore wind have fallen more sharply than other clean generation technologies in the past year, according to BloombergNEF. The price for energy from lithium-ion batteries has fallen 35% since the first half of 2018, to $187/MWh. [reNEWS]

Wind turbines (reNEWS image)

• “Germany’s Uniper Feeds Wind Power-To-Methane Into Gas Grid” • German utility Uniper has started producing methane gas derived from wind power and feeding it into the gas pipeline networks at its Falkenhagen site as the country seeks wider uses for renewable energy. The green methane is a replacement for natural gas. [Reuters]
• “Green New Deal Stalls In Senate After Largely Political Debate” • Senators had a spirited debate over the merits of the Green New Deal, a broad policy proposal from liberal Democrats to battle climate change and other social ills. But no one was willing to vote to advance the measure before final legislative language was written, and it stalled. [CNN]
• “‘Doomsday Vault’ Town Warming Faster Than Any Other On Earth” • Longyearbyen is the world’s northernmost town, just 800 miles from the North Pole. It is the capital of a cluster of Norwegian islands called Svalbard and home to the “Doomsday Vault.” It is warming faster than any other town on Earth, and the warming is a problem. [CNN]
• “Utilities ‘Driving’ US Solar-Storage Growth” • Electricity produced by storage-plus-renewables plants is now cheaper in some states than natural gas, with utilities driving adoption of the technology, a report from Navigant Research says. Renewables combined with storage have become competitive with combined cycle gas plants. [reNEWS]

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