DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

A little over a decade ago, Gary Dye, then a gas measurement engineer at NW Natural, Oregon’s largest gas utility, lost faith in his employer to responsibly deal with what he believed to be systematic inaccuracies among the company’s hundreds of thousands of gas meters.

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GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

The 2021 GreenBiz 30 Under 30. Mon, 05/17/2021 - 00:01. Clean energy for Native American communities. Our honorees for 2021 are intrepid startup founders, tenacious corporate innovators and determined public servants. Others have lost their own homes to natural disasters. GreenBiz Editors.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021. Mon, 01/11/2021 - 02:15. These 20 C-suite executives have steered their companies forward through much disruption, providing inspiration for the possibilities of advancing sustainability, social responsibility and circular business models — sometimes all at once. Elsa Wenzel.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 6, 2021

Last summer’s record heat waves triggered a surge in power demand that maxed out supplies and led to outages across the West. California and other states are pushing to use clean electricity to power vehicles and buildings to cut carbon, which will increase demand. THE BIG RETHINK.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 31, 2021

Wed, 03/31/2021 - 01:00. From cardboard boxes delivered to our doors to home appliances, nearly everything comes from industrial processes. Those processes use a lot of energy and largely come from fossil fuels; one-third of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions come from industry. Optimize electric energy efficiency.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Upgrading to the latest resource efficient appliances and equipment is a great way to green your home, lower utility bills and minimize your environmental impact. Below you will find several sustainable home products that can bring long-term cost savings and help preserve our resources and planet health. total energy consumption.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 25, 2020

DISTRIBUTECH International 2021 will take place on MARCH 30 - APRIL 1, 2021 in Orlando Florida. It will occur side by side with POWERGEN International 2021. This track will provide an in-depth analysis of end-use commercial and industrial (C&I) and residential customer smart grid technologies, services and solutions.

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Bidgely

APRIL 21, 2024

The most-forward thinking utilities are embracing the power of AI and big data to chart the most efficient and effective path to achieve future readiness. In 2021 we worked with Bidgely to analyze our AMI data to detect just over 600 accounts. Bidgely has been with Avista Utilities on its AI journey from the start.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 19, 2021

West pushed electricity demand past available supply, and problems with California’s resource adequacy program and market practices for ensuring adequate grid capacity failed to correct the imbalance. Simply put, the heat waves that blanketed the U.S.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 3, 2022

Investor-owned utility, Consumers Energy has proposed a $272 million investment in Michigan’s electric grid in what it said is a bid to increase reliability and prepare the grid for more renewable energy. In the second half of 2021, Consumers Energy filed a five-year, $5.4 per month.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Duke Energy’s third-quarter earnings report on Thursday revealed success in managing the effects of the coronavirus pandemic on its multistate utility operations. Historically, energy policy in North Carolina has moved in a bipartisan way," she said. Duke’s long-range plans and looming home-state political decisions.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 14, 2020

this weekend will push California’s grid to the limits, as the state charts a course to eliminating fossil fuel power. To prepare, grid operator CAISO issued a Flex Alert , asking customers to reduce electricity consumption during the late afternoon and evening Friday as the grid copes with “near-record or record-breaking heat.”

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 19, 2020

After a massive heat wave in California that led grid operator CAISO to order its first rolling blackouts since the 2001 energy crisis on Friday and Saturday, the state has thus far managed to avoid further forced outages. CAISO has issued a "Flex Alert" asking Californians to conserve energy from 3 p.m. through at least Wednesday.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Over the course of the year, previous entrants such as Xcel Energy , Duke Energy and National Grid were joined by utilities including Dominion Energy , Southern Company , Arizona Public Service , Ameren , Entergy , Consumers Energy , Alliant Energy , Public Service Enterprise Group and even FirstEnergy.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 5, 2024

As part of its “Sustainable Gas Program,” the Virginia-based private utility wanted to purchase what it calls “Next Generation Natural Gas.” But it needed the state’s blessing in order to pass on to customers a 15 percent premium for buying this specially certified gas. And Virginia is not alone.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Even though each investor-owned utility is different, if all utilities move in this direction, distributed solar would be at a disadvantage to access energy market benefits outlined in Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Order 2222 because of delays in the MISO generator interconnection queue.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Early this month, three community-choice aggregators and one municipal utility serving much of California’s San Francisco Bay Area launched a 30-megawatt distributed energy storage-plus-solar solicitation. Half of the new systems are to come from single-family homes, and the other half from multifamily and small commercial customers.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

Happy Earth Day 2021! When you’ve followed the evolving research of a leading clean energy expert and become a supporter of his vision for a global clean energy transition, it should come as no surprise that I was eager to crack open Mark Jacobson’s 2021 book release, 100% Clean, Renewable Energy and Storage for Everything.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 29, 2022

The push to sell “blue hydrogen” as a clean energy fuel — which experts have called a misleading rebrand of fossil fuels — hit another setback this month. Climate provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 are bringing new economic headwinds to the gas-derived hydrogen fuel’s prospects. per million British thermal units (MMBtu).

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Climate Tech VC

OCTOBER 23, 2023

More than 20 leading investors, corporates, and governments already use the platform including the US Department of Energy, BHP, and Galvanize Climate. Clean energy chills 30% this year What goes up must come down. Unpacking clean energy woes  Higher interest rates = higher cost of capital. Plus, the US funds $3.5B

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 16, 2020

Last year, utilities, grid operators and grid edge vendors all continued to grapple with their evolving roles in delivering and managing power. million electric vehicle charging points were installed globally in 2019, Wood Mackenzie found in Q4, with another 18.3 Technical hurdles for residential flexibility. A total of 4.8

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Energy and Cleantech Council

JANUARY 5, 2021

The 2050 goal itself had already been adopted by the secretary of energy and environmental affairs under preexisting law. Not surprisingly, many of the levers the new act pulls are embedded within familiar state energy policies. or otherwise shake things up.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 10, 2020

California regulators and utilities want to build microgrids for communities most at threat from the state’s increasingly deadly wildfires, and the widespread public safety power shutoff (PSPS) grid outages meant to prevent them. That would be too expensive for backup power that has to last for up to three days in a row.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Indian state owned natural gas company GAIL has started the country’s first hydrogen blending with natural gas in Madhya Pradesh state. The hydrogen blended natural gas is supplied to the Indore headquartered Avantika Gas, one of GAILs’ joint venture companies with the Hindustan Petroleum Corporation.

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Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 16, 2024

  Ship Orders  Yara Eyde, a joint venture between Yara Clean Ammonia and North Sea Container Line, aims to be the  world’s first clean ammonia-powered container ship. Saudi Arabian ACWA Power outlined a $4bn green hydrogen and ammonia facility in Egypt that could produce up to 600,000 tons of green ammonia per year.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 14, 2020

After several delays spanning at least a year, the government has finally unveiled vision for a future net zero energy system - here are the eight things you need to know about the long-awaited Energy White Paper. To describe autumn 2020 as a busy period for green economy policy in the UK would be an understatement.

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Grist

DECEMBER 15, 2021

This story is part of the series Getting to Zero: Decarbonizing Cascadia , which explores the path to low-carbon energy for British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon. You’ve got plenty of company after the events of 2021: Heat waves, hurricanes, fires, and floods hit new and deadly extremes. Worried about the climate crisis?

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

There, he met with OPUC staff in person and exchanged emails with Lori Koho, then OPUC’s senior official overseeing natural gas utilities. He hoped that his list of complaints would show “how the unethical culture [at NW Natural] goes all the way to the top,” as one of his emails to Koho explains.

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 21, 2020

Now that millions of Americans are isolated in their homes, everyone is using more energy during off-peak hours. Americans are getting more concerned with paying their growing electricity bills. Inhabitat has rounded up some tips and tricks to help readers save energy (and money) at home during this time.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 1, 2021

In June, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) narrowly approved the construction of a new 42” diameter gas pipeline that will connect shale wells in Louisiana, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Ohio to a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal on the Gulf Coast, carrying over a billion cubic feet of fracked gas to be transported overseas every day.

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Business Green

MAY 28, 2021

Remember how the nation mobilised seemingly overnight for the Allied Powers 80 years ago? Griffith, an engineer, entrepreneur and MacArthur "Genius Grant" winner, took a new tack Tuesday at the VERGE Electrify 2021 virtual event. Sixty-nine million US homes have a gas meter, feeding water heaters, cooking appliances and so on. "So

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

A Public Health Watch analysis of TCEQ pollution data shows that between 2019 and 2021, annual readings soared as high as 2.1 The EPA’s National Air Toxics Assessment tool is based on weaker monitoring data from a few years back. Children return home from school in Channelview, Texas.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 17, 2020

Pacific Gas & Electric is on the verge of escaping from its 18-month bankruptcy , only to begin a years-long effort to prevent a repeat of the disasters that pushed it into insolvency in the first place. PG&E must keep up with the state’s ambitious clean energy, environmental and electrification goals.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 2, 2021

By Shelley Robbins, Clean Energy Group. In those states, where clean energy is now gaining a stronger foothold, valuable lessons can be found. Actions by these states to change the direction of energy policy are a powerful confirmation that clean energy is a viable, cost-effective alternative to fossil fuels.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 20, 2023

On my lastest flight surveying fossil fuel industry sites in southwest Louisiana at the end of September, I photographed liquified natural gas (LNG) export facilities, signs of drought, fire-scarred stretches of marsh, and a salt dome site at risk of collapsing. billion CP2 site and other LNG export facilities in the area.

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Business Green

AUGUST 24, 2022

BP, Shell, Total Energies, and Equinor were all found to be investing the vast majority of their profits back into fossil fuel projects. per cent of its £17.1bn profits into low carbon energy, while it invested more than three times more into oil and gas. And ultimately, we are in an energy affordability crisis.".

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Greentown Labs

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

North America’s largest climatetech incubator is on track to open its second-ever location in Houston’s Innovation District in Spring 2021. These partners—from energy providers to financial services organizations—will play a pivotal role in enabling the success of both our operations and the Houston startup community.”.

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