DeSmogBlog

JUNE 8, 2023

Austin Wall was attending an environmental law conference at the University of Tennessee not long ago when, during a discussion of natural gas pipeline projects, a map appeared on the screen and gave him a surprise. I’m like, hold up, that Google Maps looks really familiar to me,” the 25-year-old law student said.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

A new report argues that with demand for clean hydrogen set to boom, the nascent mocular reactor industry could have a key role to play in meeting surging demand. Highly productive shipyards can manufacture hundreds of units to power up the clean hydrogen economy and rapidly replace fossil fuels in shipping, aviation, and industry.".

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 22, 2020

The time is therefore now to plan an orderly wind-down of fossil fuel assets and manage the impact on the global economy rather than try to sustain the unsustainable. The worst year for oil ever Oil fueled the 20th century. Many of us now believe it is not a matter of if, but when we will transition away from fossil fuels.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Von der Leyen announced a plan to collect up to 140 billion euros in windfall profit taxes from energy companies that produce electricity at low cost, e.g. wind, solar, hydro and nuclear. All suppliers bidding in this auction get paid the same price, namely the price that balances demand and supply.

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R-Squared Energy

JULY 13, 2022

The Review provides a comprehensive picture of supply and demand for major energy sources on a country-level basis. Energy consumption and production dramatically dropped in 2020, but since then demand has rebounded. Natural Gas. Natural gas has been the fastest-growing fossil fuel in recent years, with a global 2.2%

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R-Squared Energy

AUGUST 10, 2023

Overview The newest Review shows the world remains heavily reliant on fossil fuels for energy needs, even as renewables like solar and wind continue rapid growth. While renewable power expanded at record rates, fossil fuels maintained an 82% share of total primary energy consumption. Oil demand grew by 3.1%

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R-Squared Energy

AUGUST 14, 2022

The Review provides a comprehensive picture of supply and demand for major energy sources on a country-level basis. Previous articles covered overall energy consumption , carbon dioxide emissions , petroleum supply and demand, and global natural gas trends. Coal is the most polluting fossil fuel.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Democratic presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, want grid operator New England ISO to give renewable energy a bigger role and fossil-fuel-fired generators a smaller one. The program was approved by FERC in March 2018, and ISO-NE held its first auction under the CASPR rules in February.

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R-Squared Energy

JULY 26, 2021

The Review provides a comprehensive picture of supply and demand for major energy sources on a country-level basis. For example, as I will detail below, oil demand fell dramatically last year, but we already know that it has largely recovered in 2021. Natural Gas. Global natural gas consumption declined by 2.3%.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

AUGUST 31, 2023

This step is viewed by many as a considerably cleaner option than the current conventional methods of H2 production in the United States, which use natural gas reforming in large central plants without any carbon emission mitigation. Nuclear energy can provide the consistent, high-temperature heat needed for efficient electrolysis.

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R-Squared Energy

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Last month the Akademik Lomonosov, a first-of-its-kind floating nuclear plant built by Russian state nuclear energy corporation, Rosatom, arrived at Pevek, a port town on the remote Chukotka Peninsula in the Russian Arctic. There, the plant is expected to provide power to about 100,000 homes. No Free Lunch.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

At the very least, utilities will need plans that can get them most of the way there, while rushing ahead with next-generation technologies: long-duration energy storage, small modular nuclear reactors or green hydrogen and methane to fuel natural gas peaker plants. Here's a look at the five largest U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

utility can reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 while still keeping natural gas as a central part of its business, both to generate electricity and to sell to its customers. utility has yet fully fleshed out how it intends to eliminate natural gas power plants from its generation portfolio. To be sure, no U.S.

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2022

It argued that investments in renewables, energy efficiency, and smart grid solutions should be at the heart of any response to the crisis, noting how these green investments will enable nations to drastically reduce their reliance on polluting and volatile fossil fuel markets.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 30, 2020

Arizona Public Service released its plan for reaching zero-carbon by 2050 , with multiple options to balance the costs and carbon benefits of switching from coal and natural gas to renewables, batteries, distributed energy resources and as-yet-untested technologies. ” Short-term goals: Lots of new renewables, no new natural gas.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 11, 2021

of Energy to demonstrate technology that produces clean hydrogen energy from nuclear power, as part of the agency's goal of reducing the cost of clean hydrogen production by 80%. due to its high cost, while the remaining 95% is produced using fossil fuels.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 26, 2021

New research asserts most have undermined those goals by keeping coal plants running and building new natural gas plants meant to operate for decades to come. utilities that still rely on coal and natural gas for most of their generation capacity. All but one call for new natural gas plants.

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R-Squared Energy

DECEMBER 27, 2023

should also set a natural gas production record this year, and exports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) will reach a new high. .” should also set a natural gas production record this year, and exports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) will reach a new high. Growth in U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 12, 2020

Senate confirmed James Danly to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Thursday, stacking a third Republican against the lone Democrat on the board of a federal agency that has increasingly been seen as using its authority over interstate energy markets to privilege fossil fuels over renewables.

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R-Squared Energy

AUGUST 22, 2021

Previous articles provided an overview of this year’s Review, an examination of the data on carbon emissions, a look at oil supply and demand trends, and an examination of natural gas trends. Coal is the most polluting fossil fuel. Fossil fuels are composed of carbon and hydrogen.

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Previous topics covered were: Global carbon dioxide emissions Overall highlights Oil production and consumption Natural gas production and consumption Coal production and consumption Global nuclear power trends Today, I will cover renewable energy in detail. However, the 5.2 exajoules in 2022.

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Clean Energy Canada

MARCH 25, 2024

LNG in the coming years and decades as forecasts for future LNG demand vary significantly. Japan’s LNG imports, for one, have steadily declined over the last decade and fallen to their lowest level in 14 years as the country restarts nuclear power plants and builds out renewables. s intended export markets.

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Clean Energy Canada

MARCH 25, 2024

s proposed LNG projects would come online in a global LNG market anticipated to see export capacity increase by 43 per cent by 2030, but there is no consensus from governments or industry on future global demand. s LNG industry is the question of where the electricity will come from to power new projects. Many of B.C.’s

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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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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 20, 2020

Wednesday’s filing from PJM lays out how the 11-state grid operator will comply with FERC’s order to assign a minimum bidding price to all state-subsidized resources, including new solar and wind projects and existing nuclear power plants.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 7, 2020

August’s rolling blackouts during a regionwide heatwave highlighted the state’s need for grid resources that can store and shift its growing share of generation to serve demand peaks coming later in the day, as the sun goes down and solar power fades. became the first to do so last year.

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R-Squared Energy

JULY 27, 2020

The Review provides a comprehensive picture of supply and demand for major energy sources on a country-level basis. Previous articles covered overall energy consumption , petroleum supply and demand, and natural gas. Coal is often called the dirtiest fossil fuel. What is meant by that?

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R-Squared Energy

MARCH 4, 2022

and Germany will continue to rapidly deploy renewable power and electric vehicles. Fossil fuel usage will plummet. No need for Germany to rely on Russian gas. If ultimately oil demand falls and Keystone XL isn’t needed, then that’s on the company that owns the pipeline. That brings me to Russia’s natural gas.

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R-Squared Energy

MAY 7, 2023

energy production and demand numbers here in the Primary Energy Overview table. It would require quite a large conspiracy to game the system on such a scale that you are literally reporting false energy production and demand numbers. Yes, the categories are fossil fuels, nuclear power, and renewable energy.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 23, 2020

gigawatts of new resources by 2023 to help make up for the capacity to be lost from the pending closure of natural-gas-fired power plants along Southern California’s coast. megawatt/730-megawatt-hour project from Tesla being built near a natural-gas plant in the Monterey County community of Moss Landing.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2022

It also has set and met ambitious clean energy and has the potential to produce an enormous amount of clean electricity, heat, and hydrogen with offshore wind and nuclear power. By our model’s estimates, UK electricity demand will increase by approximately 240% compared to current demand.

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Business Green

AUGUST 16, 2021

Earlier this month, government figures confirmed that renewables ousted fossil fuels as the dominant source of power on Britain's grid for the first time ever in 2020, supplying 38 per cent of the island's power.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 23, 2020

FERC lost its quorum through much of 2017, leaving the agency unable to vote on key decisions for interstate electricity transmission and natural gas projects. continued to publicly defend a Trump administration plan to use national emergency designations to keep power plants open.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Utilities operating fossil-fueled power plants, and the low-income and disadvantaged communities that face the brunt of their pollution, may have a new model for resolving their differences. More recent decisions have replaced new California gas plants with clean energy portfolios.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

She was invited on the show (1:24) to discuss the National Grid’s ‘demand flexibility service’ scheme, under which households and some businesses receive payments for using less energy at times of peak demand. She added: “And so whenever it isn’t windy we’re starting to get into issues of the grid being stressed”.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

That’s greater than its previous commitment to reduce net carbon emissions from its power sector by 80 percent by 2050 and methane emissions from its natural-gas operations by 65% by 2030 and 80% by 2040. gigawatt offshore wind project off the Virginia coast.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Although the proposed ‘all-source’ procurement would allow existing natural gas-fired peaker plants to compete, it could also open a massive new market for renewable energy, energy storage, demand response and other preferred alternatives to fossil fuels.

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