The Verge: Energy

APRIL 8, 2024

While solar generation falls, electricity demand is expected to rise. That kind of mismatch in supply and demand is what can lead to outages. On a national level, that’s not good for US climate goals, which aim to slash greenhouse gas emissions roughly in half by 2030 compared to 2005 levels.

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R-Squared Energy

MAY 24, 2024

Early 2000s: Dominance of Coal At the beginning of the 21st century, coal was the dominant energy source for electricity generation in the United States. However, it would soon be a rapidly growing fuel for electricity generation. By 2005, natural gas consumption stood at 22.7 This is the story of that transformation.

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Smart Energy International

JULY 4, 2024

The smart grid classification also provides a breakdown into three primary groupings – systems supporting electrical power generation, transmission or distribution, end user applications and complementary innovations supporting digitalisation of the power sector.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2021

Schneider Electric, Ørsted, and Banco de Brasil have been named the world's most environmentally-sustainable major companies, with sustainability having remained a top business priority in 2020 even despite the devastating impacts of the coronavirus crisis, fresh analysis today has found.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

The electric power industry is a long-standing partner in this push toward a clean energy future, as demonstrated by its significant CO2 emissions reductions. power sector were 33 percent below 2005 levels at the end of 2019, and a number of the nation’s largest utilities have committed to 80 percent or greater reductions by 2050.

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R-Squared Energy

APRIL 9, 2020

There were those who believed that oil production would peak and begin to decline in the face of high global demand. The idea was neatly summarized in 2005 when the late Matt Simmons published Twilight in the Desert , in which he argued that oil production in Saudi Arabia was nearing terminal decline. That outcome is very different.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 7, 2021

Blue Ridge Energy, a member-owned electric cooperative serving northwest North Carolina, said it picked Oriden LLC to develop an 11-MW solar project as part of its Brighter Future initiative. Oriden is leading the development and financing, while overseeing all project permitting, site diligence, engineering, and major equipment decisions.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Energy demand for electricity and transportation fell by 3.8% This fall in emissions (see Figure 1) is the most significant on record and puts the United States on track to meet its 2025 Paris Agreement commitment, though energy demand and emissions are expected to rebound with widespread vaccinations in 2021. Figure 1: U.S.

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Business Green

APRIL 13, 2021

Over 300 of America's largest firms back open letter to President Biden calling on him to set a 2030 target to cut emissions by at least 50 per cent against 2005 levels. To restore the standing of the US as a global leader, we need to address the climate crisis at the pace and scale it demands," the letter states.

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Smart Energy International

JULY 25, 2022

This decarbonisation demands above all a grid that is robust, resilient, and reliable, able to withstand both the internal impacts of constantly changing demand and supply patterns and bidirectional power flows as well as external impacts such as extreme weather events. Grid resilience and reliability.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The new interconnection bolsters the existing one, commissioned in 2005; a 66kV alternating current electricity link. which have proven essential to help cover electricity demand and integrate new renewable energy. Red Eléctrica invested €36 million ($35.5 Canary Islands interconnector.

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 28, 2021

and Canada committed to cut carbon emissions by approximately 30% between 2025 and 2030; Europe is aiming for a reduction of at least 40% below 1990 levels by 2030; and India has committed to cutting emissions intensity by 33%-35% below 2005 levels and generating 40% of its electricity from non-fossil fuel sources by 2030.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Xcel Energy – Colorado today announced details of its upcoming Clean Energy Plan that will result in an estimated 85% reduction in carbon dioxide emissions from 2005 levels by 2030. In 2018, Xcel Energy announced its vision of a carbon-free electricity system by 2050.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 7, 2022

That's more money for climate action than all of the renewable-energy tax credits from 2005 to 2019. A dozen states have adopted clean electricity targets over the last few years, covering areas that comprise more than half of the US population. electricity grid to 80 per cent carbon free power by 2030.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 30, 2020

billion in new wind and solar investments in the next 12 months and is outlining plans for electric vehicle charging, energy storage and green hydrogen production pilot programs to meet its goal to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. Xcel Energy is asking Minnesota regulators to approve $1.4 In Minnesota, Gov.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 4, 2022

This growth was fueled by strong consumer demand, unprecedented injection of new capital into companies, technologies, and projects, and a wave of supportive new policies. “As Still, there are plenty of open questions about future demand that clearer signals from Washington could resolve.”. below 2019 levels and 15% below 2005 levels.

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Business Green

JANUARY 22, 2021

The uptick in production was partly driven by the government's unofficial restriction of coal imports, but environmental campaigners are also concerned that a post-covid economic recovery could also see a surge in demand for coal power across the country. Over 90 top corporates call on Japan government to boost clean power goals. per cent.".

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Business Green

JUNE 4, 2021

For example, this could be software that directs a laptop to run off battery power instead of the wall socket when local electricity is dirtier. The foundation says that 20 per cent of electricity output will be consumed by information and communications technology by 2030.

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

He said his administration would “build and install a network of 500,000 charging stations along our existing and new highways” so electric vehicles (EVs) can displace gasoline. This is notable because it would actually boost the demands on the power sector, which will increase the challenges of decarbonizing the sector.

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Energy Innovation

AUGUST 17, 2021

Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) under the Paris Climate Agreement to cut greenhouse gas emissions 50-52 percent relative to 2005 levels by 2030. The NDC scenario has also been updated to include additional incentive policies for electric vehicles (EVs) and building efficiency. For example, the U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Even in Indiana, whose electricity generation is dominated by coal, utility regulators rejected a proposed new gas plant , citing “the potential risk that customers could sometime in the future be saddled with an uneconomic investment” if the plant were built. Cities in Massachusetts, Washington and Vermont could follow suit.

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Smart Energy International

JUNE 6, 2022

Over the past few years, we have seen an acceleration in the need for the deployment of renewables, the growth of storage, the emergence of widespread electric vehicle infrastructure, the mainstreaming of new enablers such as blockchain, the shift of intelligence to the edge, the race for hydrogen and more.

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

However, much work remains: coal still accounts for at least one-third of global electricity generation, and, in spite of the clear link between coal burning and higher temperatures, its use has increased in 2021 as economies reopened and energy demand shot up. Finance is shifting away from fossil fuels .

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Greentown Labs

AUGUST 19, 2021

Warning signs were dismissed, as they have been elsewhere: consider the Northeast’s heat-triggered cascading grid outages in 2003, grid failures resulting from hurricanes Katrina (2005), Sandy (2012), and Maria (2017), California’s rolling summer blackouts, and countless related incidents.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 6, 2021

Bids for new solar projects hit record lows last year, affirming that coal is no longer the cheapest source of electricity. Cheap renewables were favored on the grid last year, which caused coal use to fall as energy demand plummeted amid the economic slowdown. “Our renewable energy capacity is the fourth largest in the world.

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AutoGrid

MAY 27, 2021

GW renewable energy and 200 MW Demand Response capability. IEEE Standard 1547: “Standard for Interconnecting Distributed Resources with Electric Power Systems”. which presents guidelines related to voltage levels and the tolerances within which operators must maintain for the reliability of the electric system. Introduction.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MAY 21, 2023

More than $500 million to support the construction of charging stations for electric vehicles, as the government looks to bring the number of electric vehicles on Québec roads to two million. TWh produced Quebec is the largest producer of electricity in Canada and had an estimated generating capacity of 46,380 megawatts (MW) in 2019.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 10, 2024

Chris Stark, the former chief executive of the government’s advisory body, the Climate Change Committee, was on Tuesday appointed the head of Mission Control for Clean Power, in charge of decarbonising the UK’s electricity by 2030. The scale of the challenge is enormous. Ed has been here before.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 20, 2021

Renewable energy’s rapid growth is accelerating a national shift to a carbon-free electric power system. and Puerto Rico have adopted laws or executive orders setting goals for reaching 100% clean electricity by 2050 or sooner. electricity sector has managed to march halfway to zero in just 15 years. And 46 U.S.

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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 23, 2021

It’s easy enough to imagine what the energy transition will look like in your city or neighbourhood: electric cars and buses rolling through the streets, more people walking and biking, solar panels covering every roof, perhaps a spinning wind turbine or two cresting a hill on the horizon. the EU, the U.K.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

MISO’s primary reasoning for the long lead time is staging several enabling market systems, including automating the current Demand Response Tool. MISO is in the middle of the Market Systems Enhancement (MSE) project, taking a modular approach to market systems that have not been automated since the 2005 market start date.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

In 2005, Jacobson worked with Stanford students to begin mapping regions of the U.S. In 2008, Jacobson teamed up with student, Graeme Hoste, to assess whether California’s hourly demand for electricity could be satisfied with a combination of renewable power sources. (Photo Courtesy Mark Jacobson). Collaboration with Students.

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Energy Innovation

OCTOBER 7, 2019

EPS improvements: New fuels, imports and exports, hydrogen, electric vehicles. fuel demand affect fuel production and imports, and more detailed cash flows – who pays who more or less for goods and services. But energy production has additional environmental implications – in 2005, U.S.

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Business Green

MARCH 10, 2020

The report - titled Innovating to Net Zero - also argues all pathways to net zero emissions require major investments in CCUS, hydrogen, and low carbon electricity generation. Feeding the growth in CCUS, meanwhile, more land would also be needed for biomass crops capable of providing in the region of 120TWh of power a year.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Electric vehicle expansion, RWE emissions targets, and Brazilian net zero aspirations, all feature in this week's round up of global green business news. Electric van pioneer Arrival unveils US headquarters. Australia drops Kyoto carbon credit demand from Paris Agreement plan. Shah, President of The Rockefeller Foundation.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 28, 2023

This new use for old wells, which has in recent years proliferated in other major oil and gas states including Texas, could extend fossil fuel production in Pennsylvania — and threaten to stall progress toward its climate goals, including an aim to reduce the commonwealth’s greenhouse gas emissions by 26% below 2005 levels by 2025.

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Grist

JANUARY 10, 2022

In 2005, coal plants generated 2 trillion kilowatt-hours of American power; by 2020, that number had been cut by more than half. In response, utilities leaned more on coal to generate electricity across the country — and emissions climbed. . For the past seven years, coal use in America has been trending down. Last year, however, U.S.

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