GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

What will happen with natural gas? Download the free TrinaPro Solution Guide Book on how to optimize utility-scale solar projects. Every pathway toward economy-wide decarbonization drives straight through a dramatic transformation in the electricity sector. Consumers tend to be confusing when it comes to energy.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

MARCH 17, 2024

Naturally, there is enough information about each of these types to fill books, but the purpose of this list is to gain a brief understanding so you can keep up with some of the language used in recent news published online, and to simply become more familiar with some of these terms so you can look into them further if they are of interest to you.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

” But Sridhar placed even higher expectations on a longer-range plan to adapt Bloom’s solid-oxide fuel cell technology, originally designed to run on natural gas and emit carbon dioxide, to generate electricity from hydrogen, make "green" hydrogen via electrolysis or capture the carbon from "blue" hydrogen made from natural gas.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 24, 2024

When researching my book, Muddy Thinking in the Mississippi River Delta: A Call for Reclamation (University of California Press, 2024), I found myself wrestling with the river’s complex nature. Louisiana hosts a seafood industry dependent on a healthy estuary and an oil and gas industry threatening that ecosystem.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 12, 2023

A hydrogen industry lobby group has produced a comic book aimed at high schoolers that suggests solar and wind power are incapable of fueling decarbonization goals, and that only hydrogen fuel cells provide sufficient energy to eliminate fossil fuels.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 26, 2023

As I explain in my book, “ Confronting Climate Gridlock: How Diplomacy, Technology, and Policy Can Unlock a Clean Energy Future ,” gas stoves matter to climate and to the gas industry because they serve as gateway appliances to the dominant residential uses of natural gas: heating and hot water. In the U.S.,

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 7, 2020

utility record books. SCE has already contracted for hundreds of megawatts of front-of-meter storage under the state’s 2013 energy storage mandate , and to boost reliability after the closure of the Aliso Canyon natural gas storage facility. The four-hour duration 2.63 became the first to do so last year.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Trista Bridges and Donald Eubank, co-founders and principals of consultancy Read the Air, chat about their new book, "Leading Sustainably: The Path to Sustainable Business and how the SDGs Change Everything." Exploring the potential for fleet emissions reductions through renewable natural gas. Thoughts on leadership (25:37).

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Earlier this month, EU Commissioner Frans Timmermans told a leading Dutch newspaper this shouldn’t be too difficult: ‘You just go to energy companies and say, Show me your books, where is your profit? Add this all up, and we’re seeing a perfect storm of high energy prices for years to come – unless Russian gas supplies resume.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

natural gas production comes from federal leases in the Gulf of Mexico, according to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management. gas is produced, have been surprised to find that about 4 percent of the natural gas they pulled from the ground was leaking into the atmosphere. oil production and 1 percent of U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 28, 2020

microgrid market since 2016, with only 58 megawatts of projects on the books, according to WoodMac’s survey of projects of at least 100 kilowatts in size. The coronavirus pandemic has thrown a wrench into U.S. The first half of 2020 was the slowest for the U.S.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

DECEMBER 3, 2023

” After all, H2 produced using electrolysis powered by solar energy is considered green and does not result in greenhouse gas emissions. On the other hand, the most common method of producing H2 involves fossil fuels such as natural gas. Making hydrogen fuel at home requires only the most basic materials.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 10, 2020

The 17 non-customer developers with multiple projects on the books all employ either a technology-neutral or a product-led strategy.  These companies can be organized based on the type of product they provide: natural gas fueled products, diesel or solar-plus-storage. Strategy and scale.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 27, 2022

A new book, Unconventional Water Resources , published by Springer and compiled by experts at various UN organizations*, says these potential supplies can help many of the 1 in 4 people on Earth who face shortages of water for drinking, sanitation, agriculture and economic development. This water could be sold to port cities in arid regions.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 9, 2024

is exporting natural gas, and importing price volatility.” In 2022, American consumers spent $269 billion on natural gas supplies, up sharply from $150 billion in 2019, according to the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA). is exporting natural gas, and importing price volatility.”

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Since the 1960s when Europe first began importing Russian gas, Washington perceived Russian energy as a threat to U.S. More recently, with fracking, the United States has become the world’s largest gas producer and a major exporter of liquefied natural gas (LNG). leadership and Europe’s energy security.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 28, 2024

If the price you paid [to buy into National gas] was driven by hydrogen for space heating, then this will end up as one for the history books — and not in a good way,” snarked back Bloomberg New Energy Finance founder Michael Liebreich, in an early February LinkedIn post aimed at Price.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

Canada border, and publishing a book about that experience. The main lesson of that book was that the regulatory process in America is deeply flawed and controlled by industry — both rail and oil interests. But Earthjustice and other organizations sued the administration over this move, citing the perils.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2023

It’s perhaps fortuitous that natural gas was coming online at the time. Mostly forgotten today, Beaver was a well-known figure of the period, who is also credited with the creation of the town of Milton Keynes, and the founding of The Guinness Book of Records. Political will.

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Business Green

JULY 7, 2022

MSC said liquified natural gas (LNG) was currently the cleanest marine fuel available at scale on the market today, claiming it "virtually eliminates" air pollutant emissions such as sulphur oxides, nitrogen oxides, and particles.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Canada’s governments — both federal and provincial — are second globally in providing public subsidies to carbon capture efforts , which experts argue is exacerbating climate change.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 1, 2021

Supreme Court this week ruled in favor of a natural gas pipeline taking state land for the project’s construction. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit resulted in the court shooting down a FERC permit for a natural gas pipeline that would run from Illinois to Missouri.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 18, 2023

But Pierce’s previous institutional connections to the Fraser Institute are yet more evidence that Shell Canada’s insistence on being a climate leader is “b t,” argues Donald Gutstein, an adjunct professor in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University and author of several books about corporate power and the media.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2023

So, “we still have parts of HB 6 on the books that have been shown by a court of law to not only have been moved forward illegally — but that remain in place because of the party in power — which are harming human health,” Leppla said. The group has also promoted state and local legislation labeling natural gas as “ green energy.”

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Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 16, 2024

The current Haber Bosch process relies on fossil fuels (~ 70% natural gas, 30% coal) and emits 2.4 Direct use in turbines: Japanese firm IHI and GE are retrofitting liquid natural gas power plant turbines to run on ammonia. Our favorite data vis wizard Hannah Ritchie’s new book is Not the end of the world. 

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Grist

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Washington Governor Jay Inslee acknowledged a shortfall during a press conference last month: “Even with our best-in-the-nation laws, and even with federal action, we don’t have enough on the books today to actually reduce carbon at the pace we need to.”. Stepping off the gas. Activists say the gaps may be larger still.

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R-Squared Energy

DECEMBER 20, 2021

In a nutshell, although fracking has proven to be a highly effective means of boosting oil and natural gas production, the process requires millions of gallons of water. Conventional fracking uses water at high pressure to break open channels that then enable the flow of oil or natural gas into the well.

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The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

And yet the Paris Agreement manages to omit the words coal, oil, natural gas, and fossil fuels. degrees of warming today, 2023 marks the hottest year on the books and greenhouse gas emissions are still rising. degrees of warming today, 2023 marks the hottest year on the books and greenhouse gas emissions are still rising.

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Mr. Sustainability

MAY 30, 2021

In the book “The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Duelling Visions to Shape Tomorrow’s World” two scientists present two different paths to escape a humanitarian crisis. The book is divided into chapters on each of the central issues, consistently presenting the opposite views per problem area.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2021

In 19 articles that became a widely read book, History of the Standard Oil Company , published in 1904, she exposed its unsavory practices. At the time, the public (and even many scientists) didn’t appreciate the deadly nature of DDT. That didn’t come until the 1962 publication of Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring.

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Business Green

APRIL 22, 2021

The taxonomy rule book, which has long been in development as a core pillar of the EU's aim to build a net zero economy by 2050, is designed as a labelling system for investment which the Commission hopes can divert hundreds of billions of euros towards the green economy. A version of this article originally appeared at Investment Week.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

An analysis by Research Triangle Park-based think tank RTI shows the expenditures helped avoid over $4 billion in natural gas-fired electricity. New competition for natural gas. The Synapse report shows that renewables, storage and efficiency — as a portfolio — are already cost-competitive with new gas,” Thompson said.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Late last year, NW Natural, a gas utility that serves roughly 2.5 DeSmog covered this rate request in May when a coalition of community and environmental groups formally opposed many of NW Natural’s justifications for passing on higher costs to customers.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

This makes it ripe for disaster capitalism, a phrase Naomi Klein coined in her book “The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism.” Both are reliant on a steady stream of cheap natural gas. While natural gas burns cleaner than coal, the advantage of using it is negated by the methane emitted in its production.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 22, 2020

Last year saw major carbon-free targets set by utilities like Duke Energy and Xcel Energy ; this week, Arizona's APS made its own carbon-free pledge in a state without big climate legislation on the books. Dominion's generation fleet centers around nuclear and gas.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 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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Business Green

MAY 28, 2021

In the style of so many viral videos, Griffith stood in a leafy thicket flipping through page after page of black-and-white line sketches of trucks, tankers, turbines and other machines (the basis for a soon-to-be grownup coloring book), footnoted with government-agency numbers.

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