GreenBiz

MAY 18, 2020

Let’s get together: Intel’s 2030 commitments include ‘shared’ climate and social goals. Tis the season for new corporate social and climate commitments, especially at the start of this decade of action and despite the COVID-19 pandemic, which requires short-term prioritization from responsible companies around the world. . 'Tis

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 3, 2021

Peninsula Clean Energy said it has begun providing 100 percent carbon-free electricity to all of its nearly 300,000 customers, which is ahead of California’s 2045 zero-emission power generation mandate and a step in helping the agency achieve its ultimate goal of providing all customers 100 percent renewable power on a 24/7 basis.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 30, 2019

With increasing climate change impacts and decades of power infrastructure neglect, we can lose sight of the extraordinary progress we are making with renewables and energy storage to build a clean energy future, healthier planet and more efficient grid. By 2025, we will be well on our way to the clean energy future that we need.

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The Verge: Energy

MARCH 6, 2024

The solution for manufacturers, surprisingly, might be to act more like other big tech companies chasing climate goals. And unless companies turn to clean energy, they could wind up driving up greenhouse gas emissions as domestic chip manufacturing makes a comeback. billion in funding for domestic chip manufacturing.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 31, 2020

Yet, as the original purposes of these laws has been largely achieved, states can now accelerate deeper progress towards want we really what: a 100 percent clean electricity grid that is also affordable and reliable. Why the new RPS wave is different. California is in a similar position.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Smith was the keynote speaker addressing the Pembina Institute’s Alberta Climate Summit in Calgary on October 26th. The Pembina Institute is a Canadian think tank and registered charity that focuses on clean energy and energy policy. 100 percent WWS,” he said. percent WWS for the electric power sector,” said Jacobson.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2024

The message forms the name of the campaign by Climate Resistance, a new collective that aims “to push the fossil fuel lobby out of Westminster and stop polluters from bankrolling political parties”. But since making that commitment in 2019, the party has been criticised for dramatically weakening key climate policies. million in 2022.

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The Verge: Energy

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Photo by Christoph Dernbach / picture alliance via Getty Images A new report compares climate initiatives by Apple, Dell, Google, HP, Microsoft, and Nvidia. Stand.earth’s new report, however, puts Apple’s broader climate initiatives in perspective by scrutinizing several tech companies at once.

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E2 Environmental Entrepreneurs

AUGUST 31, 2022

By E2/NRDC interns Niaz Jamshidi & Arely Ortiz This blog discusses findings from a new independent analysis by ERM, California Clean Trucks Program , analyzing the impacts of cleaner medium- and heavy-duty trucks on the environment, public health, industry, and the economy. What is the ACF rule?

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

A transition toward 100 percent clean electricity is underway in the United States, led by cities and states across the country. Not all 100 percent targets are alike, however. 100% targets come in different forms. One key attribute is whether a target is based on renewable or clean energy resources.

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GreenBiz

JULY 15, 2020

One novel spin on emerging hydrogen fuel options is "clean hydrogen" made from trash. . Today, more than 95 percent of hydrogen is fossil-based and does not rely on renewables. Still, there is potential for clean — low- or zero-carbon — hydrogen to take off, energy experts believe. Arlene Karidis. Wed, 07/15/2020 - 01:00.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 12, 2020

cities and counties transition to clean energy for their own operations and communities, many are finding that stakeholders and policies beyond their jurisdictions affect their ability to purchase clean energy. Here are four ways local governments are engaging with stakeholders to decarbonize their electricity supply: 1.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

The last 15 percent of the economy is hard to clean up — aviation, shipping, manufacturing, long-distance trucking," Fakhry said in an interview. Germany has allocated the largest share of its clean energy stimulus funds to green hydrogen. "It Green hydrogen can do that.". Then the hydrogen can be stored or sent down a pipeline.

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The Verge: Energy

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Stressed power grids need the money badly, both to prevent blackouts and bring more clean energy online. Weather disasters supercharged by climate change have already led to more power outages in the US. Stressed power grids need the money badly “Much of [the grid] was built nearly a century ago.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Investors call on major US polluters to clean up lobbying activities. portfolio companies, in a move spearheaded by the Climate Action 100+ initiative. portfolio companies, in a move spearheaded by the Climate Action 100+ initiative. Cecilia Keating. Thu, 10/29/2020 - 00:10. Carbon intensive companies in the U.S.

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GreenBiz

JULY 21, 2020

Apple already has ventured far beyond most other companies when it comes to pushing for climate action within its supply chain. . By driving this scale of climate ambition through its supply chain, Apple is making a big, global contribution to the move to clean energy, transport and manufacturing. 35 percent.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 21, 2020

but a state law passed last year that requires 100 percent clean energy by 2045 should further boost that trend by encouraging development there. On Thursday, Amazon suggested it may be able to reach 100 percent renewable energy by 2025, which would outpace its goal to meet that target by 2030.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 9, 2019

“Coal plants can only ramp down to minimum load, which is typically 50 percent of full output, and that is where you stay,” said Heikkinen. But 100 percent clean energy targets vary widely among the 13 states and 200+ cities and counties that have adopted them in the U.S., ” Storage is not enough.

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The Verge: Energy

OCTOBER 23, 2023

. | Photographer: Krisztian Bocsi / Bloomberg via Getty Images More than 130 companies, including Volvo Cars, Ikea, Unilever, Nestlé, and AstraZeneca, signed a letter calling on governments to adopt a global plan to phase out fossil fuels without carbon capture during upcoming international climate negotiations.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 11, 2021

Cities are home to more than 50 percent of the global population and as a result are presented with ever-growing challenges, including finding a balance between social equity, economic vitality and environmental sustainability. Orlando's journey to accelerate sustainability and resilience. Chris Castro. Thu, 03/11/2021 - 01:00.

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GreenBiz

JULY 28, 2020

That conviction resulted in the company’s decision to adopt a series of new policies designed to shore up its environmental, social and governance (ESG) story, including a commitment to use 100 percent renewable energy worldwide by 2030 (by 2022 for its U.S. Pull Quote.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 8, 2020

What's more, the incorporation of storage indicates a growing interest among large corporate buyers to shape clean electricity purchases to round-the-clock demand. Many want to match their real-time consumption to 100 percent renewables; Google has so far done so only on an annual basis.*.

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Energy Innovation

JULY 28, 2020

Much of this beautiful, prosperous, and bountiful country will become unrecognizable unless we act, promptly and seriously, to limit climate change. It is keenly attuned to the health benefits of a clean energy future. greenhouse gas reductions by policy under Select Committee on the Climate Crisis Action Plan.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

The promise commits the tech giant to an even more aggressive program of sourcing clean energy and enabling the infrastructure to make it available even when the sun isn’t shining and the wind isn’t blowing. West driven by increased heat and dry conditions linked to global warming from human carbon emissions. Europe and Chile.

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The Verge: Energy

DECEMBER 12, 2023

DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - DECEMBER 11: Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber (C), President of the COP28 UNFCCC Climate Conference, emerges from negotiations over the wording of the Presidential draft on day eleven of the UNFCCC COP28 Climate Conference. The beginning of the end for fossil fuels?

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 22, 2024

In a joint effort to deliver more clean energy at a lower cost to customers, a consortium of Californian energy stakeholders, such as CEC, CPUC, CAISO, PG&E, SCE, and the California-Berkeley Energy Institute have submitted a grant application to the GRIP programme. The DOE’s GRIP Program is administering $10.5 Have you read?

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Arizona may soon join a lengthening list of states pledging to reach 100 percent carbon-free power by 2050, although a final decision on its plan to get there won’t be made until after Tuesday’s election. By midcentury, these utilities will be required to phase out all fossil-fueled generation.

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Energy Innovation

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

The free, open-source, peer-reviewed, and nonpartisan EPS model empowers users to analyze the effects of hundreds of climate policies. This analysis can help policymakers in any state, regardless of emissions profile, design and implement climate policy. climate goals. climate goals. With the release of the U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 24, 2020

Interestingly, in a handful of states, regulators are linking recovery efforts from the impending COVID-19 economic slowdown directly to existing or new clean energy commitments, signaling and reaffirming their focus on advancing the energy transition as a stabilizing force in these uncertain times. “The commission remains committed.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 10, 2023

A judge in Hawaii has cleared the way for a youth climate case challenging the state’s fossil fuel-dependent transportation system to proceed to trial. The case, which invokes the Hawaiian constitution’s environmental guarantees, will be the second climate trial based on constitutional claims in U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

On Friday, the 1-million-customer utility, formed last year by the merger of Westar Energy and Kansas City Power & Light parent company Great Plains Energy, announced plans to cut carbon emission by 80 percent from 2005 levels by 2050. These changes have already gotten Evergy to a 40 percent reduction in emissions from 2005 levels.

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The Verge: Energy

JANUARY 17, 2024

. | Image courtesy of Capture6 A startup developing technology to take planet-heating carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere just signed a deal with a state-owned water utility in South Korea to build a pilot project that combines the new climate tech with seawater desalination. DAC and desalination plants both use a lot of energy.

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Energy Innovation

MARCH 9, 2022

This week, Energy Innovation launched the Oregon Energy Policy Simulator (EPS) , our newest state-specific, open-source, peer-reviewed, and nonpartisan model that estimates the environmental, economic, and public health impacts of hundreds of climate and energy policies. The modeled CPP Scenario does not explicitly include the ~2.5

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 20, 2021

Clean Path New York today announced a $270 million fund to provide an opportunity for all New Yorkers to thrive in the new green economy. in state and local tax revenue over 25 years 10,500 clean energy and construction jobs exclusively to New York State.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 1, 2024

The new rules followed a seven month moratorium that halted development of more than 100 wind and solar projects in the province, worth an estimated $33 billion. According to the CBC, 92 percent of all new renewable energy generation and capacity built in Canada in 2023 took place in Alberta. “By

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The Verge: Energy

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Preventing methane pollution can have a large and immediate impact on climate change “Infrastructure changes rapidly, and keeping a map like this up to date requires constant input. Since it’s a powerful but short-lived climate pollutant, preventing methane pollution can have a large and immediate impact on climate change.

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Energy Innovation

AUGUST 14, 2023

5] Globally, transportation – cars, trucks, planes, trains, and ships – are responsible for around 360,00 deaths each year, where diesel-fueled vehicles are responsible for almost half (47 percent) of this premature death toll. [6] percent of sales, [9] and are expected to double again in 2023. [10]

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