DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

The communications were sent by Beyond2050, a PR agency and consultancy, which represents the UK’s biggest gas distributors and will be coordinating a “Hydrogen Zone” at the Labour and Conservative party conferences. It comes after campaigners last year accused the hydrogen lobby of targeting the Labour conference with false solutions.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 3, 2021

Many towns, cities, counties and states offer a local green certification program. Green Building Council (USGBC) Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) is the most well-known and prolific green building certification system in the United States. Step 10: Sustainability Certification.

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Clean Energy Trust

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

founders who understood technology and markets, but maybe weren’t expert storytellers, didn’t yet have media and PR experience, and didn’t have the network that Marc and Ben had. But Andreessen Horowitz made its mark by defining what a “value-add” investor is. What are the current Climate Tech funders doing? Today a16z manages around $10B.

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Low Impact

JULY 26, 2020

This is part 2 of an interview with Brian Czech ( part 1 is here ), the president of CASSE (Centre for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy). Plus they seem to have forgotten that recycling takes energy – and even renewable energy needs factories producing solar panels, and trucks to deliver them, and mines for the materials.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Decision making in the sector has already been woefully delayed over the last few years, and a joined-up approach across these new departments is essential, as well as implementing the recommendations from Chris Skidmore's Mission Zero, which clearly stated that 'Net zero is the largest growth opportunity of the 21st century'.

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Charged

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

The more capacitance in the DC link, the more energy can be stored, and the lower the ripple, but what if the energy source is already DC—like a battery, fuel cell, solar panel, etc? by 50x) or less. For example, if a 500 uF DC link capacitor needs to be brought up to 350 V within 2 seconds (storing 30.6

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E8 Cleantech Angels

JANUARY 31, 2019

Originally posted on the website of Michael Marc Grossman , local cleantech PR maven. On the power side, the intermittency of our cheapest renewable sources-wind and solar requires energy storage to operate 24/7. On the bright side state regulatory enthusiasm for energy storage is high because it is the “lid-lifter.”

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2022

Heads of state in Europe, North America, and beyond have taken the sudden rise in oil and gas prices as a signal to accelerate the nascent transformation of our energy and transportation system away from fossil fuels, and towards clean energy. By the middle of this decade, global automakers have committed to debuting dozens of full EVs.

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Clean Energy Trust

MAY 11, 2020

while some of this is PR, some of it is a recognition that to get to net-zero emissions (or to offset legacy emissions in the case of Microsoft), eventually investments have to grow beyond just switching to zero-carbon electricity. These examples from Amazon and Microsoft offer a taste of long term thinking and planning?—?while

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

GAF Energy is transforming the rooftop solar industry to generate “Energy from every roof”. As a Standard Industries company, GAF Energy works in partnership with North America’s largest roofing and waterproofing manufacturer, GAF, offering homeowners elegant, roof-integrated solar options.

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GreenBiz

MAY 14, 2021

Two years ago, I regularly saw headlines about corporate renewable energy targets in my daily diet of newsletters and PR pitches. Corporations have long been a driving force in spurring solar and wind installations. "Net zero" is eating all other corporate climate language. . Now those announcements are rare.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 6, 2021

If you live in Oregon, it’s likely you’ve been bombarded with misleading PR from the local utility company, Northwest Natural, about the potential for what the industry is calling renewable natural gas (RNG) — methane captured from places like landfills and repurposed into energy for homes.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2021

It has confused the public about climate science, bought the eternal gratitude of one of America’s two main political parties, and repeatedly out-maneuvered regulatory efforts. And it has done all this in part by thinking ahead and then acting ruthlessly. Say It Ain’t So, Dr. Seuss! Other scientists had been saying so since the 1960s.)

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 23, 2022

When Russia invaded Crimea, the EU and United States issued a joint statement stressing the importance of promoting U.S. We’ve seen a PR blip of executives and representatives [from the fossil fuel industry] claiming that the U.S. Have a tip or idea? Get in touch. liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports for Europe.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 6, 2022

Here in New Mexico — the fastest-warming and most water-stressed state in the continental United States, where wildfires have recently devoured over 120,000 acres and remain uncontained — the oil and gas industry is coming out in force to deepen the region’s dependence on fossil fuels. By Leanna First-Arai, The Guardian.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Campaigns of misinformation and misleading PR continue to characterize public discourse around energy and climate change, even as those corporate strategies and tactics evolve. But 2021 also saw a significant number of victories against the expansion of the fossil fuel industry in the U.S. Biden Administration Actions.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 12, 2021

Since its 2007 founding, this site you’re on now grew from a slim-staffed startup with a flair for incisive coverage of the then-fledgling solar, smart grid and energy storage industries, to the news arm of a global energy industry research and analysis firm. Looking back, it all seems inevitable.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 18, 2020

While this anomaly was a confluence of many specific factors - plummeting oil demand, geopolitical rivalry between oil-producing states, full oil storage facilities - and the price of oil steadily recovered for the next several months, the world realized the oil market is unpredictably volatile. That time NextEra was worth more than Exxon.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Other sources are stating it even more bluntly. Carbon Tracker states that the world is “witnessing the decline and fall of the fossil fuel system”. Now the world is in the midst of an energy shock that is unprecedented. This meant oil prices could not be kept at moderate level and started declining. This may prove to be terminal.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 16, 2024

Morano and company’s mission failed, as construction continued on the 12 turbines that now compose one of the largest offshore wind farms built to date in the United States. In December, New York flipped the switch on South Fork Wind , which will deliver renewable power to some 70,000 homes in the state.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 10, 2022

CAR26 director Lois Perry is a PR executive and South West Representative of the pro-Brexit and Covid-sceptic Reclaim Party run by Laurence Fox, who has campaigned against low-traffic neighbourhoods. Perry has said the climate crisis is a “con” designed by “elites” to make people poor and hungry. Richard Tice and Climate Science Denial.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 4, 2023

Now, they say, fossil fuel use in the power sector has likely peaked, wind and solar are adding more capacity to the grid annually than natural gas has in any previous year, renewables as a source of energy will pass coal by 2025 , and total fossil fuel use across the economy will peak in the 2030s. It puts the U.S. energy production.”.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 22, 2023

With money and jobs flowing to red states would Trump pull the plug on climate policy? 500b in Solar investments in 2023 (up 75% y/y in US), 50% y/y growth in EVs in the US, and battery prices continuing their downward march another 50% by 2030 means many $1t industries are ripe for disruption. Uncertainty for the IRA.

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CleanTechnica

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

A North State Journal article on Duke Energy and solar was an anti-renewables PR hit piece funded by anti-renewables fossil fuel industry money in an outlet that is a right-wing broadsheet that pretends to have journalist standards. Yet it pretended to be otherwise.

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