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<font size="+2"><font face="Calibri"><i><b>June</b></i></font></font><font
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[ Churches suddenly getting religion ] </i><br>
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over climate concerns</b><br>
Anglican Church announces its endowment and pension funds plan to
sell out of 11 groups, including Shell and BP<br>
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<font face="Calibri">Attracta Mooney and Tom Wilson in London June
22, 2030 <br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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<br>
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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”...<br>
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<font face="Calibri"></font><font face="Calibri"><b>Virtual Power
Plants Are Coming to Save the Grid, Sooner Than You Might Think</b><br>
Networks of thousands of home-based batteries could be key to a
cleaner, more reliable electricity system.<br>
By Dan Gearino<br>
June 22, 2023<br>
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<font face="Calibri">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.<br>
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After years of pilot projects, utilities and battery companies now
have networks with thousands of participants in California, Utah
and Vermont, among others.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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<font face="Calibri">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.<br>
<br>
After years of pilot projects, utilities and battery companies now
have networks with thousands of participants in California, Utah
and Vermont, among others.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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<font face="Calibri">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.<br>
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“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.<br>
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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.<br>
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If virtual power plants come anywhere close to that kind of
growth, sonnen is among the companies that stand to benefit the
most...</font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/22062023/inside-clean-energy-virtual-power-plants/">https://insideclimatenews.org/news/22062023/inside-clean-energy-virtual-power-plants/</a><br>
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<p><font face="Calibri"><i>{From May}</i><br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><b> </b><b>Nick Breeze ClimateGenn</b><br>
27,047 views May 28, 2023 ClimateGenn #podcast produced by
Nick Breeze<br>
Full article: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://genn.cc/jennifer-francis-2023/">https://genn.cc/jennifer-francis-2023/</a><br>
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<p><font face="Calibri">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.<br>
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<p><font face="Calibri">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.<br>
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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....<br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ccw6Ss0knbw&t=9s">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ccw6Ss0knbw&t=9s</a></font><br>
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<font face="Calibri"> <i>[ The news archive - looking back at the
take-off and rise of the hockey-stick shape on a graph ]</i><br>
<font size="+2"><i><b>June 22, 2006</b></i></font> <br>
June 22, 2006: <br>
The New York Times reports on the National Academy of Sciences'
affirmation of Michael Mann's 1999 "hockey stick" paper.<br>
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href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/22/science/22cnd-climate.html?_r=0">http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/22/science/22cnd-climate.html?_r=0</a>
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