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This carbon challenge is bigger than cars, aviation and shipping combined

GreenBiz

The credits let a business in, say, Pittsburgh buy wind power generated in California, even before renewables were yet available on Pennsylvania’s grid. . What’s more, RECs allow a wind farm to sell both the power it generated and the renewable attributes of that power. Covering the U.S. The urgency is growing.

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The Stretch of River Holding Spain’s Pumped Hydro Future

GreenTechMedia

” Furthermore, said the developer, the Riba-roja is part of the Natura 2000 European network of core breeding and resting sites for rare and threatened species. Neither developer responded to requests for information from GTM. Pumped hydro is going to ease the closing of the nuclear plants.”

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US Voluntary Clean Power Sales Keep Surging, With More Than a Little Help From Utilities

GreenTechMedia

Large customers have also developed a variety of power-purchase agreement (PPA) structures that have become the fastest-growing source of voluntary clean power demand, according to NREL data, reaching about 42 million MWh of sales last year. The emergence of community-choice aggregators has also been pivotal.

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The Corona Virus Reduces China's Emissions by 25 Percent

Green Market Oracle

This duality is evident in Shanxi, which is both China's coal mining region and the location of some of the country's largest solar and wind power projects. Their coal powered economic growth has unleashed a carbon bomb. China is both a clean energy leader and a dirty energy behemoth.

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'Grounds for optimism': Global CO2 emissions flatlined in 2019, data indicates

Business Green

The data lays bare the rapidly declining importance of coal power in advanced economies, where the use of the carbon-intensive fossil fuel fell almost 15 per cent last year. US energy-related emissions are now down almost one gigatonne from their peak in 2000, it added.

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The carbon challenge that is bigger than cars, aviation, and shipping combined

Business Green

The credits let a business in, say, Pittsburgh buy wind power generated in California, even before renewables were yet available on Pennsylvania's grid. What's more, RECs allow a wind farm to sell both the power it generated and the renewable attributes of that power. Covering the U.S. The urgency is growing.

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A decidedly impartial review of Mark Jacobson’s 100% Clean, Renewable Energy and Storage for Everything

Renewable Energy World

The plans, available at The Solutions Project’s “ Clean Energy ” link, reveal the unique mix of wind, water and sun technologies capable of powering states, countries and even select U.S. Wind, Water and Sun (aka WWS) include wind power; waterpower from tides, rivers, and subsurface water (geothermal water); and solar power.