[✔️] June 22 , 2023- Global Warming News Digest |

Thu Jun 22 19:04:11 EDT 2023

/*June*//*22, 2023*/

/[ Churches suddenly getting religion ] /
*Church of England dumps oil majors over climate concerns*
Anglican Church announces its endowment and pension funds plan to sell 
out of 11 groups, including Shell and BP

Attracta Mooney and Tom Wilson in London June 22, 2030

The Church of England is selling its investments in Shell, BP, Exxon and 
Total and seven other big oil and gas companies, after concluding none 
were aligned with efforts to halt global warming.

The decision follows a vote by the General Synod, the church’s 
parliament, in 2018 to sell out of fossil fuel companies that were 
failing to take sufficient action to tackle climate change by 2023.

The church’s £10.3bn endowment fund and its £3.2bn pension scheme have 
spent the years since urging big fossil fuel companies to overhaul their 
businesses in response to climate change, or risk divestment. It said it 
had already excluded 20 oil and gas companies from its investment 
portfolio in 2021

The church said it had taken the decision to sell down its holdings in 
the remaining 11 oil and gas companies by the end of the year “after 
concluding that none are aligned with the goals of the Paris climate 
agreement, as assessed by the Transition Pathway Initiative”...
https://www.ft.com/content/9af6184a-ed15-4ef4-9c26-d0a9c5c39c1f?accessToken=zwAF_r5wdZ4YkdOa9hhK7RVO9NOcJtCpxcOcHw.MEUCIFOJH8aROOFHK7vcsZRs5wI0n89JkT9kpPd3AaAld55LAiEAv-i39iPh_4mMNRhOhcWkR1vCemQTA_FHqUd-MCJtOPw&sharetype=gift&token=ebc11ea9-95fb-472f-b1fd-8bf1275e494f

*Virtual Power Plants Are Coming to Save the Grid, Sooner Than You Might 
Think*
Networks of thousands of home-based batteries could be key to a cleaner, 
more reliable electricity system.
By Dan Gearino
June 22, 2023

This summer could be the first one in which virtual power 
plants—networks of small batteries that work in tandem to function like 
power plants—are large enough to make their presence felt by helping to 
keep the lights on during the hottest days.

After years of pilot projects, utilities and battery companies now have 
networks with thousands of participants in California, Utah and Vermont, 
among others.

The batteries in virtual power plants add megawatts of capacity to the 
grid when electricity demand is at its highest. And most of the 
electricity from the batteries is generated by rooftop solar.

This combination of renewable energy and groups of batteries is “a 
recipe for the grid of the future,” said Blake Richetta, CEO of U.S. 
operations for the battery maker sonnen.

Yes, sonnen has a lowercase “s,” the kind of frustrating—at least for 
copy editors—branding that seems appropriate for virtual power plants, a 
concept whose name does little to explain what it is.

So what is it? A virtual power plant is like a swarm of bees or the 
Power Rangers’ Megazord or any other group of parts that join forces to 
do big things, which in this case means stabilizing the grid.
- -
This summer could be the first one in which virtual power 
plants—networks of small batteries that work in tandem to function like 
power plants—are large enough to make their presence felt by helping to 
keep the lights on during the hottest days.

After years of pilot projects, utilities and battery companies now have 
networks with thousands of participants in California, Utah and Vermont, 
among others.

The batteries in virtual power plants add megawatts of capacity to the 
grid when electricity demand is at its highest. And most of the 
electricity from the batteries is generated by rooftop solar.

This combination of renewable energy and groups of batteries is “a 
recipe for the grid of the future,” said Blake Richetta, CEO of U.S. 
operations for the battery maker sonnen.

Yes, sonnen has a lowercase “s,” the kind of frustrating—at least for 
copy editors—branding that seems appropriate for virtual power plants, a 
concept whose name does little to explain what it is.

So what is it? A virtual power plant is like a swarm of bees or the 
Power Rangers’ Megazord or any other group of parts that join forces to 
do big things, which in this case means stabilizing the grid.
- -
Mark Dyson, a managing director at RMI, told me that he and the other 
co-authors of the report were deliberately broad in defining what a 
virtual power plant can be, including resources that can send 
electricity to the grid and those that can reduce demand. The common 
element is that all of the resources are located at homes and businesses 
and have the ability to work in tandem to make the grid more reliable.

“Virtual power plants can help us keep the lights on and keep 
electricity affordable, using devices we’ve already bought and paid for, 
without building new power plants,” he said.

Even if you don’t define it so broadly and focus just on batteries, 9.9 
gigawatts, or 9,900 megawatts, is huge, like a dozen natural gas power 
plants. I don’t have a good number on how that compares to current 
virtual power plant capacity, which is likely less than 1 gigawatt.

If virtual power plants come anywhere close to that kind of growth, 
sonnen is among the companies that stand to benefit the most...
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/22062023/inside-clean-energy-virtual-power-plants/

/{From May}/
***Nick Breeze ClimateGenn*
27,047 views  May 28, 2023  ClimateGenn #podcast  produced by Nick Breeze
Full article: https://genn.cc/jennifer-francis-2023/

In this ClimateGenn episode I am speaking with Dr Jennifer Francis, a 
senior scientist at the Woodwell Climate Research Center, in the US. 
2023 has already seen record breaking temperatures in the atmosphere, 
land and oceans, with horrific impacts to human life, communities and 
ecology.

Here we focus on three factors in the climate system that drive these 
extremes and are still set to break more records, creating a great deal 
more destruction this year. We focus on the forming El Niño climate 
phenomenon, as well as ocean heatwaves, impacting the Atlantic and the 
North Pacific.

Finally, we also discuss the role of the thinning sea ice that is 
accelerating change in the Arctic region. These changes drive up heat in 
the Arctic faster, impacting ecosystems and altering the jet stream, 
these latter impacts being the focus of Dr Francis’s research for over a 
decade....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ccw6Ss0knbw&t=9s

/[ The news archive - looking back at the take-off and rise of the 
hockey-stick shape on a graph ]/
/*June 22, 2006*/
June 22, 2006:
The New York Times reports on the National Academy of Sciences' 
affirmation of Michael Mann's 1999 "hockey stick" paper.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/22/science/22cnd-climate.html?_r=0

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