GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 7, 2020

We also discuss the collapse of incumbents and the impact this will have on societies around the world, and what policy leaders can do to get out ahead of these changes. Vice : How Solar Power Could Slay the Fossil Fuel Empire by 2030. Political Climate is produced in partnership with the USC Schwarzenegger Institute.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 16, 2020

In this week's episode of Political Climate , we discuss what the latest headlines mean for climate and energy policy. Recharge : French solar power charity wins Zayed Sustainability Prize. Political Climate is produced in partnership with the USC Schwarzenegger Institute. Here's what you need to know.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 30, 2020

This crisis has exposed preexisting racial disparities created by deep-seated social, economic and political factors. In this episode of Political Climate , the fifth in our " Path to Zero " series with Third Way, we look at how COVID-19 and climate change are affecting Black communities, and how these issues can be tackled in tandem.

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Energy Innovation

JULY 14, 2020

In April, daily emissions fell by as much as 17 percent , and total 2020 emissions may be 7-11 percent lower than 2019 (as projected by the Energy Policy Simulator , and a new opinion piece in Nature by Hanna et al., Figure 2 Mean survey results of recovery policy archetypes (2008-2020) aggregated using relativity-adjusted scores.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

But that doesn’t mean that states most reliant on fossil fuel extraction or industries powered by them must lose out in the transition. That’s a key finding of the Decarb America report released Thursday by Third Way, Clean Air Task Force and the Bipartisan Policy Center. That’s where the state-by-state data comes in.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 6, 2020

And to help balance intermittent wind and solar power, it calls for Dominion to procure at least 2.7 “The thing that’s notable here is the speed at which we’re changing this policy.” ” Wind and solar energy to expand, with more third-party options. For example, Dominion’s 2.6-gigawatt

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Clean Energy Trust

AUGUST 5, 2020

July 2020 Cleantech Roundup: Electric Vehicles Go Public | Energy Policy Scandals | SunRun Acquires Vivint Solar Clean Energy Trust’s cleantech roundup highlights interesting cleantech news and perspective, across industry, technology, policy, and investing. Hint: it is not sales.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 24, 2020

Through its Florida Power & Light utility, NextEra will propose a $65 million pilot in the Sunshine State that will use a 20-megawatt electrolyzer to produce 100 percent green hydrogen from solar power, the company revealed on Friday. power supply by 2035 and the Democratic platform promising a near-term surge of renewables.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 26, 2022

The finding sheds new light on a network of PR agencies, right-wing politicians and think-tanks working to drum up opposition to climate policies as part of a broader drive to cut regulation and boost production of fossil fuels. We are seeing a coordinated set of campaigns attempting to influence climate policy,” he said.

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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2022

It would be easy at this point to simply list the litany of policy failures and the paucity of political leadership documented by the CCC's almost satirically titled progress report. The renewables-hostile planning system, grid bottlenecks, and glacially-paced nuclear pipeline. We know what is needed.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 22, 2020

The APS commitment is notable in that Arizona has not passed sweeping climate or carbon policy at the state level. Yet clean energy policy has gained traction in other forums, like a recent unsuccessful ballot initiative and in deliberations at the Arizona Corporation Commission, the elected utility regulatory body. Guldner asked.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

For clean energy resources — solar, wind and energy storage — the range of possibilities over the next four years runs from the merely good to the incredible. Renewables will continue to thrive regardless of the final results on November 3, driven by their cost-competitiveness and broad political support, experts say.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 22, 2020

Before the stimulus was signed off, a leaked document by the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Energy (DG Energy) ran through a serious of policy plans to marry the European Green Deal and the COVID-19 recovery effort. A rebounding European solar market. The EU is currently working through the details of a €1.85

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 24, 2020

Thanks to continuing cost declines, strong demand for renewable power from businesses and residential electricity consumers, and supportive state energy policies, those who know the industry best believe its brightest days are yet to come. What the renewables industry needs right now. Unfortunately, time is not on our side.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 19, 2020

Originally posted here: How to make solar power work for all. Three stories and three approaches to equitable clean energy, and we’re just getting started. The first in a series.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 21, 2021

Under the Republican majority in place at FERC since 2017, Glick has been a consistent, and often sole, vote against a string of policy decisions that have been seen as undermining state-subsidized clean energy and carbon reduction policies. ” Transmission policy, carbon pricing.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 4, 2019

DENVER — It's become a cliche to compare today's energy storage market to where the solar industry was a certain number of years ago. It does not rely on a geographically specific weather pattern or any one set of state policies to become valuable, and it's already asserting itself across the U.S.,

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Others have attacked climate policies and blamed high energy bills on renewable power. These climate-wrecking policies won’t help our efforts to tackle the cost of living scandal and the energy crisis, they’ll totally undermine them. She has blamed previous energy bill rises on renewables. Let Them Eat Carbon’.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 11, 2023

The founder and honorary president of the Global Warming Policy Foundation has announced he will be retiring from parliament. The article neglects to mention that Lawson also set up the influential Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) think tank, a major source of climate science denial and unwavering supporter of fossil fuels.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

The solar industry met in Salt Lake City with a more sweeping and disciplined message than in some years past : Rally to extend the federal investment tax credit and buckle up for a decade of massive industry growth. The Solar Energy Industries Association industry group published a roadmap Monday to increase solar power to 20 percent of U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 30, 2020

This year marked some key turns toward capturing the value of DERs, both in terms of public policy and private investment. transmission grid investment and policy have been failing to keep up with the need for power networks to enable a clean-powered electric system. For years, U.S. East Coast.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Jeff Dennis, managing director and general counsel for the Advanced Energy Economy association, provided a live tweet summary of FERC/NERC's presentation of the report, noting FERC Chair Richard Glick's opposition to political rhetoric that renewables were the source of the problems. — Jeff Dennis (@EnergyLawJeff) September 23, 2021.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 26, 2021

The analysis underscores the gap between the policy imperatives of the environmental community and the Biden-Harris administration, which has set a goal of zero carbon emissions from the U.S. Wind and solar power accounted for just above 10 percent of U.S. electricity sector by 2035, and the cost imperatives of U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Congress is under pressure to pass both bills Monday to ensure continued funding of the federal government and complete a politically pressing extension of coronavirus pandemic relief measures passed in March. energy sector, said Ravi Manghani, head of solar research for Wood Mackenzie. Solar power will get $1.5

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 26, 2022

About 50 years ago, Costa Rica began to promote a series of novel environmental policies. Sustainability policies established. It was not until the early 1990s that political leaders realized the need for change, to significantly improve the environmental and social systems that the country’s economy relied on.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 12, 2021

It was a set of circumstances that bears some resemblance to where the United States finds itself today, with the Biden administration pledging to invigorate clean energy and decarbonization efforts that have faced four years of hostile policy from the Trump administration.

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Business Green

JANUARY 18, 2024

But if complaining that the Conservatives get to play politics on easy mode proves cathartic for Labour activists, it is an ultimately pointless exercise. As the guide states: "Gone are the days when we can afford to be complacent and fail to use the power of government to back British business with a proper strategy.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 28, 2021

The policy steps the administration has proposed provide clarity on the path forward, helping households, businesses and investors plan and invest. These climate policies largely involve existing technologies, but we know we are also going to have to innovate new ones to meet the climate challenge.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 17, 2022

On behalf of environmental group RePlanet, energy specialist Joris van Dorp offers a deep analysis of the key messages in Europe’s policy. Since these issues are so important, it’s worthwhile addressing some of the key messages of this historic speech, as these will serve as the basis for EU policy in the years ahead.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 31, 2023

She is the latest high profile figure to ally with NZW’s parent organisation, the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) , which is the UK’s principal climate science denial group and part of the Tufton Street network of free market think tanks. It’s time to kick dirty fossil fuel-aligned interests out of our politics once and for all.”

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GreenBiz

MARCH 17, 2021

By contrast, sites primarily consisting of Bureau of Land Management projects — an Interior-managed department — produce only 1 percent of the country’s wind and virtually none of its solar power. Policy & Politics. Social Justice. Environmental Responsibility. Equity & Inclusion. Indigenous People.

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Terra Infirma

OCTOBER 10, 2022

As a political geek, every year I watch the leaders’ speeches from all the major UK political party conferences. This was not only nailing his colours to the green economy mast, but was also clever politics. So, to the speech… and frankly, it didn’t contain anything very much in the way of policy.

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Business Green

JUNE 22, 2022

Confidence in Europe and the UK's ability build a net zero energy system in little over a decade continues to build among investors, engineers, and energy policy wonks - even if it remains to be seen whether political decision makers are willing to deliver the policy frameworks necessary to turbocharge the roll out of clean technologies.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 28, 2021

A poll showing public support for a referendum on the UK’s net zero goal covered on the front page of yesterday’s Telegraph was paid for by a newly-launched climate science denial group run by a leading figure in actor Laurence Fox’s political party. Anti-Net Zero Campaign.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

The UK should end sales of fossil fuel cars within 15 years, rapidly scale up wind and solar power capacity, curb growth in air passenger numbers, use carbon labelling on consumer products, and encourage people to eat less meat and dairy in order to achieve its 2050 net zero emissions goal.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 28, 2023

Chris Stark, chief executive of the CCC, has said that political leadership was “missing” in the pursuit of net zero. NZSG chair Craig Mackinlay’s has employed GWPF and NZW head of policy Harry Wilkinson , a former researcher for GWPF founder Nigel Lawson , as a parliamentary aide. He received another £10,000 from Record in February.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 7, 2020

Public Service Company of New Mexico, a utility owned by PNM Resources, will build 650 megawatts of solar power and 300 megawatts of battery capacity to divest its share of the San Juan coal plant in 2022. gigawatts of coal power in favor of solar by 2025, while saving money for their customers.

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