The Guardian: Energy

MARCH 24, 2024

tonnes of carbon dioxide-equivalent, or about 20% above 2005 levels. Modelling results presented to the state government late last year and obtained by Guardian Australia showed that the state’s carbon emissions in 2024 are on track to reach 91.5m

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The Guardian: Energy

APRIL 4, 2024

Country needs to speed up environmental response to protect its ageing population, multinational study finds In 2005 Beijing was crowned the smog capital of the world. They found that particle pollution deaths in China were increasing at about 213,000 a year and peaked at 2.6mn people in 2005. Continue reading.

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The Verge: Energy

APRIL 8, 2024

. | Photo by Lori Van Buren / Albany Times Union via Getty Images You don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone, and the total eclipse is a stark reminder of that adage when it comes to the key role solar energy currently plays in the US. Grid managers have had to find backup sources of energy to cope with the eclipse.

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R-Squared Energy

JANUARY 11, 2024

In 2003, the late author and investment banker Matther Simmons predicted that with “certainty,” by 2005 the U.S. Boone Pickens and a number of high-profile energy insiders concurred. By 2005, U.S. natural gas producers, but it is even more impressive when you consider the state of the industry in 2005.

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Solar Industry

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Rooftop solar and storage installations on Prologis buildings can now generate 500 MW of energy, the company claims, putting the logistics real estate company halfway to its goal of 1 GW of storage-supported solar by 2025. “With 1.2 was activated.

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Clean Energy Canada

MAY 2, 2024

VICTORIA — Mark Zacharias, executive director at Clean Energy Canada, made the following statement in response to the latest emissions data from Canada’s National Inventory Report: “The latest emissions report shows Canada is moving in the right direction. below 2005 levels and 5.9% While carbon pollution increased by 1.3%

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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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GreenBiz

JUNE 4, 2021

It takes into account factors such as energy efficiency within its design. . Carbon-efficient applications that more efficiently use resources linked to carbon emissions, (such as energy, hardware and networking bandwidth). . Want more great analysis of the clean energy transition? Data centers are energy hogs.

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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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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

If Duke Energy avoids natural gas capacity additions and adds renewable energy and energy storage under a proposed North Carolina law, the utility could reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 74% over the next decade, according to a study. Combined greenhouse gas emissions throughout the Duke Energy system would decrease to 20.4

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Energy Central

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

It’s just the fourth such goal nationwide with interim targets of 28% carbon reductions compared to 2005 by 2025, 52% by 2030, and carbon neutrality by 2050, going net negative thereafter. The MI Healthy Climate Plan draft aims for 50% renewable energy by 2030.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

The solar industry is still growing — the International Energy Agency predicts that total renewable based power capacity will grow by 50 percent between now and 2024, and 60 percent of that rise will be attributed to solar. As Andreas Wade of First Solar explained, the energy-resource nexus is a top priority at First Solar. Pull Quote.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 23, 2020

Wisconsin-based utility Alliant Energy has joined the ranks of U.S. Alliant joins a long list of utilities that have set 2050 net-zero carbon goals prior to being forced into them by state mandate, including Southern Company , Duke Energy , Arizona Public Service , NRG, PSEG and, in the Midwest, Xcel Energy and Consumers Energy.

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R-Squared Energy

MARCH 15, 2024

set a new annual oil production record on December 15, based on data from the Energy Information Administration. ENERGY INFORMATION ADMINISTRATION One notable difference between the U.S. However, that was down from more than 10 million BPD in 2005 and 2006 and was the lowest level since 1972. and global record of 12.3

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Business Green

OCTOBER 26, 2022

State-owned firm targeting 1GW of clean power capacity by 2030 with surplus revenues reinvested in rolling out home energy efficiency measures. We will set up a publicly-owned renewable energy developer. We want to harvest our wind and use it to produce power that directly benefits people in Wales," she said. "We

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altenergymag

APRIL 22, 2021

The Biden administration announced today a new Paris Climate Agreement target that would cut greenhouse gas emissions in the United States 50-52% below 2005 levels by 2030. Following is a statement from Gregory Wetstone, President and CEO of the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE):

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Energy Central

APRIL 3, 2023

EIA has published the March 2023 Monthly Energy Review, with its first, preliminary data for calendar year 2022. peak CO2 peak years 2005-2007. Today, let's look at U.S. CO2 emissions. First estimates for 2022 CO2 emissions are 4,969.9 million metric tons (MMT). The electric power sector.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Duke Energy has detailed the various paths its utilities in the Carolinas could take over the next 15 years, a choice that will determine how quickly Duke cuts its carbon footprint and how much it will cost. All of the scenarios go well beyond Duke’s previous IRPs in leaning more heavily on solar, onshore wind and energy storage.

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Solar Power World

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Duke Energy announced an updated climate strategy with a new goal of net-zero carbon emissions from electric generation by midcentury. The company is also accelerating its near-term goal by cutting its carbon dioxide emissions by half or more from 2005 levels by 2030.

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The City Fix

JANUARY 3, 2024

India aims to reduce the emissions intensity of its economy by 45% by 2030, compared to 2005 levels, and to achieve net-zero emissions by 2070. The country can’t achieve either goal without a radical transformation in its buildings and construction sector, which was responsible for around 17% of the nation’s.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

On Friday, the 1-million-customer utility, formed last year by the merger of Westar Energy and Kansas City Power & Light parent company Great Plains Energy, announced plans to cut carbon emission by 80 percent from 2005 levels by 2050. Since 2005, Evergy has reduced the share of coal-fired power in its 6.2-gigawatt

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Solar Industry

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Department of Energy (DOE) and the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) have reached a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to facilitate clean energy financing for large-scale renewable projects. We must pave a clear path forward for clean energy.” Kathy Hochul, the U.S.

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Clean Energy Canada

DECEMBER 7, 2023

As a result of government action, Canada is now set to cut emissions by 36% below 2005 levels by the end of the decade—a significant shift from the 9% increase by 2030 projected back in 2015 before the Trudeau government’s first climate plan was introduced. “To

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 6, 2022

SN Aboitiz Power Group (SNAP), a joint venture between Scatec and AboitizPower (AP), has made the final investment decision for the 20MW battery energy storage system (BESS) project. The energy storage project is in final preparations for construction, which will start in 2022, with a targeted commercial operation date in 2024.

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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. Pisgah Energy supported local community engagement and permitting efforts. Oriden is funded and backed by Mitsubishi Power Americas.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 8, 2021

It was founded in 2005 as a biofuels company. Looking for a battery energy storage system? If you can produce the same thing in the same cost range -- but you can do so in a CO2-free or carbon-negative -- you'll reap the rewards. And she explains why the Lanzatech team decided not to ask their bacteria to do cartwheels.

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Energy Central

AUGUST 1, 2023

ANNOUNCEMENT: For just over three years now I have been working on three manuscripts, named CLIMATE DRAGON and CLOUD DRAGON and FLAMING DRAGON, in the genre of climate fiction, a genre which came into its own in about 2005. Kim Stanley Robinson is considered by many to be the dean of this field, with works such as TheMinistry of the Future.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Ørsted acquired the project from Longroad Energy last year. The utility has already reduced emissions by 63% since 2005. Green Invest is helping us build the clean, low-cost energy system of the future that's essential to achieving our environmental goals and competing for jobs in the new clean economy.".

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Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 13, 2023

.” With the smart meters, consumers can monitor their energy profile and adjust electricity consumption, without E-REDES technicians having to travel to the site to execute work orders or collect readings. Primary energy consumption also must be reduced by 35% for better energy efficiency.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

It was Ross’s books and journalism that sparked the flames of outrage and opportunity that inspired Jim Hoggan to create the DeSmogBlog in late 2005. Without Ross Gelbspan, DeSmog may have never existed. Richard Littlemore provided another bit of early history.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

clean energy sectors showed strong resilience in 2020, continuing a decade-long growth trend, BloombergNEF (BNEF) and the Business Council for Sustainable Energy (BCSE) find in their annual joint report. Energy demand for electricity and transportation fell by 3.8% Energy demand for electricity and transportation fell by 3.8%

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Duke Energy is the latest major utility to commit to a carbon-free future, with a plan to cut its emissions in half by 2030 and eliminate them completely by midcentury. utility, due to the company’s size. Even so, other utilities have been moving toward long-range carbon reduction goals in anticipation of regulatory action.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 8, 2021

It was founded in 2005 as a biofuels company. Looking for a battery energy storage system? If you can produce the same thing in the same cost range -- but you can do so in a CO2-free or carbon-negative -- you'll reap the rewards. And she explains why the Lanzatech team decided not to ask their bacteria to do cartwheels.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

AUGUST 23, 2023

Moreover, the piece argues that the length and multi-step permitting process of geothermal projects leave them open to counter-action by opponents of renewable energy and NIMBY groups. These CEs have been perpetuated as part of Section 390 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Initiative that invites businesses to double their energy productivity reveals huge scale of emissions and energy cost savings already being realised. However, despite the encouraging progress Helen Clarkson, CEO at the Climate Group, warned the cohort of companies committed to delivering energy efficiency savings needed to expand.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 6, 2021

And India’s clean energy transition went on pause. Looking back, however, 2020 proved to be a decisive year for clean energy in India. Cheap renewables were favored on the grid last year, which caused coal use to fall as energy demand plummeted amid the economic slowdown. Businesses closed. Workers fled from cities.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

built by Shell, back in 2005. The realities for hydrogen are very different than back in 2005, however. ” “Combine all of that with a desire for cleaner cities, lower emissions, reduced air pollution [and] job creation, energy security and you can see why many governments are favorable for this.”

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