DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2020

City leaders touted the new law , which is intended to tightly restrict future use of natural gas-powered heating and cooling in new construction, as an important part of the city’s plan to slash greenhouse gas emissions 80 percent by 2030.

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Science Daily: Renewable Energy

APRIL 5, 2023

About 12% of the total global energy demand comes from heating and cooling homes and businesses. A new study suggests that using underground water to maintain comfortable temperatures could reduce consumption of natural gas and electricity in this sector by 40% in the United States.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

This annual licensing round will only take place if a couple of key tests are met, namely: (1) that the UK is projected to import more oil and gas from other countries than it produces at home, and (2) that the carbon emissions arising from the production of UK gas are lower than the equivalent emissions from imported liquified natural gas (LNG).

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Municipality of Amsterdam and Eneco have signed an agreement for the construction of a sustainable heating and cooling project for new homes in the Netherlands. Touted by Eneco as one of the largest projects of its kind, the system will heat and cool 8,000 houses in the Netherlands. Courtesy Eneco.

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Canary Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The liquefied natural gas, or LNG, industry has exploded across the U.S. Gulf Coast over the past decade, burying once-remote shorelines under hundreds of acres of concrete and steel where the fossil fuel is cooled so it can be shipped across the globe. This story was first published by Grist. The war in Ukraine…

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 13, 2020

To transform basic inputs into stuff we need, manufacturers constantly heat (and cool) minerals, ores and other raw materials to extreme temperatures. The options include biodiesel, renewable electricity, renewable natural gas, solar thermal, geothermal, thermal storage and hydrogen. Making natural gas renewable .

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 26, 2020

Thursday’s letter from PG&E vice president Robert Kenney to the California Energy Commission is a notable concession by the state’s largest utility to the constraints its natural gas operations will face under California’s push to attain zero-carbon emissions by 2045. Southern California Gas Co.,

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Clean Energy Canada

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The first household heats their home and water with natural gas, cools it with a central air conditioning system, and cooks on a gas stove. In their driveway is a Ford F-150 truck and a gas-powered Hyundai Kona. This family decides to keep a natural gas furnace as a back-up for the coldest days.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 20, 2021

Buildings are similarly opening their doors to being powered entirely by electricity, supplanting natural gas and other fuels for heating and cooling. Local jurisdictions are banning the use of natural gas in newly constructed (and, in some places, renovated) homes and commercial buildings.

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Energy Transition

JUNE 22, 2023

For Germany this has meant not only finding new sources of liquified natural gas (LNG), but also spurred the government to establish several new LNG terminals. However, LNG, which is mainly cooled and compressed methane.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

JANUARY 11, 2024

Decarbonizing the snowmelt system The snowmelt system is currently running using natural gas boilers. This has made the snowmelt system the largest producer of greenhouse gas emission in Vail’s operations, annual emitting between 5,500 to 6,500 metric tons of carbon dioxide.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

OCTOBER 18, 2023

The geothermal heating and cooling system has been designed to entirely replace the use of natural gas by Schneider Electric Bulgaria in their smart factory. Schneider Electric Bulgaria , a subsidiary of the French energy management and automation company Schneider Electric, has invested EUR 1.8

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 25, 2020

Despite the additional complications posed by the coronavirus pandemic a record 312 institutions participated in Sierra's annual Cool Schools rankings in 2020. Here is a countdown of Sierra's top 20 Cool Schools as described by Katie: 20. Sierra has been ranking the environmental performance of colleges since 2006.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

The GF77 from FLIR Systems is said to be an affordable, handheld methane detection camera allowing inspection professionals to actually see invisible methane leaks and other industrial gases at natural gas power plants, renewable energy production facilities, and other locations.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 5, 2020

And they consume fossil fuels such as natural gas or propane to power furnaces, boilers, and water heaters. In the United States, buildings account for roughly 40 percent of the country’s energy use and greenhouse gas emissions, and nearly half of homes rely on natural gas as their primary heating fuel.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 6, 2020

In June, Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey asked the state's Department of Public Utilities to open an investigation into the future of natural gas companies in the state. ” Schulman asks. The GeoMicroDistrict concept.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Department of Energy study indicates that geothermal heat pumps, which capture the steady temperatures of underground air to heat homes in winter and cool them in summer, could cost-effectively replace fossil-fuel- and electric-powered heating and air conditioning in up to 28 million homes. About three-quarters of U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

But in the Midwest, with the harshest winters in the lower 48, it has been cheaper to stick with natural gas as a heating source. The 33,000-square-foot building now sports solar panels that drive mechanical heat pumps, which work in tandem with a closed-loop ground heat exchange system to provide all-electric heating and cooling.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 18, 2024

The energy conservation measures include the installation of LED lighting, boiler plant and heating system upgrades, converting fuel sources from natural gas to electric heat pump systems, upgrading electrical distribution systems and installing a geothermal ground source heat pump system.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

But these attacks have run up against the cold fact that the state’s natural gas infrastructure was central to its broader grid failure. Similar cold-weather failures in 1989 and 2011 led to investigations that cited the state’s lack of insulation or heating for key control and cooling systems as a cause of the failures.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Natural-gas consumption is set for a sharp drop in California as the state pushes to achieve carbon neutrality by midcentury, according to utility Southern California Edison. “We see 70+ percent of building heating and cooling and water heating and cooling coming from electricity by 2045.”

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ThinkGeoEnergy

MARCH 26, 2024

Drying of agricultural products, heating and cooling of households, cold storage, and tourism are among the applications being considered under the study. The goal of the field exploration and subsequent analyses is to demonstrate the feasibility of the utilization of geothermal energy across a spectrum of applications.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

AUGUST 16, 2023

The first-of-its-kind network geothermal system in the City of Framingham will run through two full heating and cooling seasons and will help Eversource evaluate the viability of the technology as a means for clean energy transition in Massachusetts. We had first reported on the proposed Framingham geothermal heating project back in 2022.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 1, 2020

WoodMac’s case study highlights heat pumps as a key technology for SMUD’s and other utilities’ decarbonization efforts, since home heating is a major source of emissions from natural gas. Heat pumps also bring the added benefit of increasing the efficiency of cooling, in addition to decarbonizing heating.

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Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The latest company to investigate its use is Uniper, which is partnering with Terra Quantum to explore a range of real world use cases including liquefied natural gas (LNG) scheduling and forecasting and the optimisation of biomass plant processes through improved CO2 emission predictions. Sign up to our newsletter and stay informed.

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The Environmental Blog

JUNE 3, 2021

You should also look at improving your insulation, this will reduce the amount of energy you need to use to heat or cool your home. Another 16% is created using natural gas. In addition, you should consider what electricity you use regularly and how it can be reduced, such as turning your heating down a degree or cooling up.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 25, 2019

Read time: 8 mins President Trump has made clear that he wants to move the nation's glut of fracked natural gas onto trains and then to ships for sale abroad. Tags: LNG By Rail Bomb Trains PHMSA Trump Administration Federal Railroad Administration liquefied natural gas (LNG)

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ThinkGeoEnergy

JANUARY 25, 2024

Editor’s note: The Southampton District Energy Scheme , which pre-dates the United Downs project by several decades, taps into a geothermal aquifer to provide heating, cooling, and power to Southampton City. However, the energy scheme is a combination of geothermal, natural gas, and fuel oil.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The community currently uses natural gas for heating and to produce electricity in its Combined Heat and Power (CHP) plant. Penn South first engaged Egg Geo to explore strategies for building decarbonization in an urban environment that would reduce greenhouse gas emissions and help achieve compliance with Local Law 97.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 9, 2022

Most Russian gas reaches Europe via pipeline, so getting U.S. gas to Europe will involve liquifying it and then shipping it across the Atlantic. About 40 percent of natural gas produced in the United States comes from these formations, and, according to the U.S. Radioactive Natural Gas’s Journey to Europe.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 12, 2021

Then someone chimed in, “Demand response, EVs, flow batteries — those are cool subjects. By 2029, utility solar will see more annual capacity additions than onshore wind, offshore wind, natural gas, battery storage, and all other capacity generation sources combined. We are big, but boring.”

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

At the same time, it's already adopting renewable natural gas to power its natural gas trucks in its short-haul fleet. . It's got close to 300 alternative-fueled vehicles, including electric, hybrid and natural gas buses, sweepers and light-duty vehicles. Just a short five years away. Media Source.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

For one, it uses mechanical water-cooling systems that don’t require additional water, pumps and valves or backup generators or batteries to run those systems in event of emergency. NuScale’s design doesn’t require some of the key safety features for large-scale reactors.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 1, 2021

Freezing temperatures caused cascading problems in the state’s natural-gas production and delivery network that restricted fuel supply to the power plants relied upon for about two-thirds of wintertime electricity supply. “In some cases, these costs are reported to be in the hundreds of millions of dollars.

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Solar Industry

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

With a reduced need to self-supply auxiliary energy with natural gas and related cooling water, the project will also offset the power plant’s water consumption. The project will serve to offset Griffith’s auxiliary electricity requirements, online or offline. KW of rooftop-mounted solar panels.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

gigawatt "all-source" procurement that will pit new renewables, energy storage, demand response and other clean resources against natural gas-fired power plants in a race to meet what could be a major shortfall in grid capacity in the next four years. The all-source procurement is technically open to existing natural gas plants.

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Clean Energy Canada

JANUARY 14, 2022

Europe’s skyrocketing natural gas prices have brought energy costs to the forefront of public debate. Through media briefs, we aim to provide journalists with useful factual and contextual information related to Canada’s clean energy transition.

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