Forbes Green Tech

JUNE 19, 2020

“If governments take advantage of the ever-falling price tag of renewables to put clean energy at the heart of COVID-19 economic recovery, they can take a big step towards a healthy natural world, which is the best insurance policy against global pandemics.”.

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

US Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm recently took an EV road trip from Charlotte, North Carolina to Memphis, Tennessee in order to draw attention to the billions of dollars in funding the White House is making available to promote electric vehicles. Imagine how big clean energy industries will be in 13 years.

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Green Technology

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Improving energy efficiency isn’t just a matter of replacing equipment. As a step toward this transformation, Stockton Unified School District has engaged students as energy monitors. The impact on the district’s ROI from its energy upgrades has been significant. Bookmark the permalink.

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Financial Times: Energy

JANUARY 30, 2024

French government in push to ease financing pressure on state-owned EDF from rising price tag

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 6, 2024

Eurelectric’s Kristian Ruby urges a ‘European way’ to tackle mass uptake of electric vehicles Enabling a mass uptake of electric vehicles is “one of the critical litmus tests” for the energy transition in Europe, according to Kristian Ruby, secretary-general of electricity association Eurelectric. We have to build gigafactories.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 11, 2020

Read time: 7 mins The huge bipartisan energy bill currently stalled in the Senate would fast-track exports of fracked gas , offer over a billion dollars in subsidies to “clean coal” efforts and make available hundreds of millions in tax dollars for a geoengineering pilot project.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 9, 2020

However, Energy Transfer, the pipeline's parent company, later revealed that the company was continuing to offer deals to oil companies to ship their product on DAPL during times when the pipeline is slated to be shut down. Tags: Dakota Access Pipeline energy transfer oil pipelines Standing Rock

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Read time: 7 mins This month, the energy consulting firm Wood MacKenzie gave an online presentation that basically debunked the whole business model of the shale industry. Tags: fracking frack finances child wells Permian Basin Aubrey McClendon Wood Mackenzie Chesapeake Energy (NYSE:CHK) David Hughes

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 14, 2020

Read time: 6 mins By Joe Smyth, Energy and Policy Institute. This was originally posted on the Energy and Policy Institute. In a research report last month titled “The Second Wave of Clean Energy,” analysts at Morgan Stanley explained how “the surprisingly low cost of renewables” will drive utilities to close most of the remaining U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 13, 2020

oil majors like Exxon and Chevron are failing to grapple with the energy sector’s transition away from polluting fossil fuels and refusing to disclose potential risks to their portfolios from assets that may become “stranded,” or uneconomical to develop, in a low-carbon world, new research from the London-based think tank Carbon Tracker shows.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2020

But the key player in implementing the Alamo City’s energy transition — the local energy utility CPS Energy — remains committed to carbon-based fuels like coal and natural gas, even while it begins to invest more in renewable alternatives.

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Charged

JANUARY 5, 2024

Sodium-ion batteries have long been touted as a possible successor to the lithium-ion kind—they may have lower energy density, but they rely on more abundant sodium rather than lithium, perform better in cold temperatures, and above all, tend to be cheaper. kWh and a range of 301 km (CLTC).

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Hydrogen Fuel News

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

The technology involved in using H2 as an energy source can be costly for several reasons. Beyond its applications, it has substantial potential to support energy security, public health, and the environment.  That said, the most common production method currently used involves burning natural gas, a fossil fuel.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 24, 2020

But major labor unions and President Barack Obama’s Energy Secretary have far different plans. On the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, the AFL - CIO and the Energy Futures Initiative ( EFI ) — a nonprofit founded and run by former Obama Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz — launched the Labor Energy Partnership.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 30, 2020

Read time: 6 mins By Dave Anderson , Energy and Policy Institute. Originally posted on Energy and Policy Institute. Some of those same energy companies, and their trade associations, have for years lobbied for the use of the Defense Production Act to bail out struggling coal plants.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 20, 2021

On President Donald Trump’s last full day in office, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ( FERC ) met with a packed agenda , making key decisions on multiple pipeline projects and other matters affecting electricity markets. Tags: Jordan Cove LNG Kalama methanol federal energy regulatory commission (FERC)

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 5, 2021

Read time: 10 mins Energy companies are increasingly having to face the unprofitable reality of fracking, and some executives are now starting to admit that publicly. Tags: shale fracking But the question is whether the industry will listen — or continue to gamble with shale gas and oil.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Read time: 7 mins The recent deluge of pro-hydrogen stories in the media that tout hydrogen as a climate solution and clean form of energy can now be linked in part to FTI Consulting — one of the most notorious oil and gas industry public relations firms. Tags: Hydrogen FTI Consulting Bridge Fuel Green hydrogen

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Energy Central

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

7) face contested energy-related ballot initiatives with billion dollar price tags. Texas and Maine voters tomorrow (Nov.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Tags: Permian Basin facebook shell Occidental Petroleum Chevron (NYSE: CVX) renewable energy Read time: 10 mins In the heart of the Permian oil patch in West Texas, a massive $416 million solar array began converting sunshine to electricity this summer. One of the project’s main financiers has a very familiar name — Facebook.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 5, 2021

To the wind industry, to the energy transition, and perhaps most of all, to the sustainability of the planet. Downtime, maintenance, deratings, and other issues all result in lost energy and the industry has been trying to reduce these losses for many years. Why is so much energy being lost, and what can be done to minimize it?

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 5, 2024

Off-grid charging to fuel vehicles constrained by access and supply Overview of the different energy pathways for off-grid/grid-tied and a hybrid grid solution. These technologies connect an EV directly to an energy source (via battery storage) bypassing the electricity grid. Source: IDTechEx.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 24, 2020

A tie-up between Vodafone and Energy Web is evidence that an emerging flexibility services opportunity is luring new players to the energy sector, insiders believe. The endgame is to give an even wider range of devices access to future flexibility services markets, said Energy Web chief executive officer Walter Kok. In the U.K.,

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 30, 2020

Tags: ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM) chris horner Energy Policy Advocates climate liability ExxonMobil has itself argued that attorneys general and municipal officials that have sued the company are engaged in a conspiracy to take down Big Oil.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2020

In a clear signal of how the fossil fuel industry feels about efforts to enact Rights of Nature protections that safeguard communities and the environment from the impacts of coal, gas, and oil development, an energy company has — yet again — filed a federal lawsuit challenging a local law in Grant Township, Pennsylvania.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Tags: electric utilities Energy and Policy Institute Sabin Center for Climate Change Law environmental defense fund Duke Energy American Electric Power Southern Company

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 26, 2019

Tags: kochvsclean David Koch Kochland Charles Koch Jane Mayer Christopher Leonard Kochtopus

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2021

trillion infrastructure package, which would include enormous investments in renewable energy, electric vehicles, and public transit, along with roads, bridges, and water infrastructure. Tags: Enbridge Line 3 pipeline Dakota Access Pipeline Indigenous Environmental Network Biden administration

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 20, 2020

With two turbines, the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind pilot is tiny; and with a price tag of $300 million, it’s very expensive for a generation facility of its size. Four years after the Block Island project first put wind turbines in American waters, the second U.S. A tiny project in a market obsessed with scale. offshore wind market.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 5, 2020

Read time: 11 mins In a 2016 interview with Fraud Magazine , former Enron CFO Andrew Fastow explained what he thought made him so successful while at the former energy corporation that's now infamous for financial scandal. “I Tags: Enron fracking finances Alta Mesa Bethany McLean Fraud And that may be something the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 28, 2020

Tags: Gas Industry building electrification berkeley Climate Investigations Center American Public Gas Association SoCalGas C4BES Partnership for Energy Progress Hawaii Gas Consumer Energy Alliance Mass Coalition for Sustainable Energy

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 11, 2020

Tags: LNG Exports natural gas Chesapeake Energy (NYSE:CHK) Tellurian Warren Buffett Read time: 7 mins Last year, the financial prospects for the North American natural gas market were looking grim , as nervous investors started pulling back and producers announced big spending cuts and layoffs.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 10, 2020

Read time: 5 mins As California works to shift away from fossil fuels to meet its climate goals , one of the state's largest suppliers of fossil energy is fighting tooth-and-nail against this energy transition, even to the point of taking California to court over its energy policy.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 27, 2021

For this episode of the Local Energy Rul es Podcast, host John Farrell speaks with City Administrator Shannon Mortenson of Warren, Minnesota. Mortenson and the city partnered with a community college to pilot a novel project; the college, using drones and thermal cameras, captures images that display energy leaks in homes and businesses.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 19, 2022

How can predictive data enable utilities to improve energy savings? Utilities typically have plenty of energy and it’s during peak hours or when they have commercial industrial loads, that they become concerned. By monitoring assets, energy consumption can be more readily controlled. By Yusuf Latief.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 7, 2019

Read time: 8 mins A scheme to abolish the Department of Energy ( DOE ) helped spur a failed 1980 Libertarian Party presidential bid — and in the process laid the groundwork for Charles and David Koch's powerful network of influence — as documents from a newly published archive show.

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Planet Pulse

JANUARY 11, 2024

In this week’s issue : We kick off our energy series with the top dog: fossil fuels Orange rivers in Alaska A river mystery in Colombia Feature Story: Energy: Fossil Fuels If you’re reading this then you owe gratitude to fossil fuels. All of yesterday’s growth and fun came with a steep price tag. But you can’t really blame them.

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