DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Tomlinson’s race car-building company Ginetta, which he purchased in 2005, built a successful electric race car prototype as early as 2008, but plans for a wider release of the vehicle were shelved due to a lack of funds.

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Clean Energy Canada

MAY 6, 2020

Following the 2008 financial crisis, countries around the world put together stimulus packages with varying emphasis on clean energy. Building retrofits and solar panel installation programs re-employed construction workers laid off during the housing crash. These investments also paid off in reduced carbon pollution: since 2008, U.S.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

OCTOBER 27, 2023

A few weeks ago, a geothermal project at the site of waste incineration plant by Lounavoima set a new record with the drilling of a thermal well to a depth of 2008 meters. In the future, the Geomachine drilling solution will be marketed to real estate investors, district heating developers, construction companies, and large property owners.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 25, 2021

For example, in 2018, the International Maritime Organization (“IMO”) adopted a goal of reducing greenhouse gas (“GHG”) emissions 50% below 2008 levels by 2050. And, unlike electric-powered alternatives, hydrogen has a relatively quick refueling time on the scale needed for global voyages. This pressure comes from a variety of sources.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Any one of these three shocks alone "is enough to force fresh thinking" and as such the UK's economic plans must be "more like 1945 than 2008", Danker will say, highlighting the creation of the NHS and welfare state after the Second World War as key examples of the radical policy moves that helped drive post-war reconstruction.

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Business Green

APRIL 6, 2020

Key architect of the 2008 Climate Change Act returns to frontline politics, as Sir Keir Starmer unveils Labour's new front bench team. As such, Miliband was instrumental in passing the 2008 Climate Change Act, which set UK decarbonisation targets into law and established the Committee on Climate Change (CCC).

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Business Green

JULY 20, 2022

The two-reactor plant, mainly funded by the French company EDF, is expected to cost in the region of £20bn to build and supply roughly seven per cent of the UK's electricity needs once operational.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Such moves form part of its wider commitment to providing £100bn in climate and sustainable financing from 2021 to 2025, which includes plans to establish a pilot project to enable green home retrofitting at scale alongside Centrica, Schneider Electric, and Places for People. In addition, Rose received a £5.2m

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

The oldest of the batch originally started generating power in 2008. In 2019, about 2 gigawatts — or one-fifth of all wind projects constructed in the United States — were repowering projects, according to the American Clean Power Association. Repowering represents a substantial chunk of the wind industry’s growth.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 2, 2021

Solar+storage can keep critical devices powered, protecting vulnerable populations during outages that may imperil their lives by leaving them too hot, too cold, or without needed medical devices that require electricity. Construction on the nuclear reactors – the first in the U.S.

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Sustainability Consulting

APRIL 8, 2020

Manufacturing and construction make up 20% of CO2 emissions. It’s too early to know how much carbon will be reduced globally due to COVID-19, but if we look at the global recession of 2008-09, the last year in which carbon emissions went down, it caused a small reduction of 1.4% Air travel makes up 2.5% of global carbon emissions. ?

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 1, 2020

ComEd has defended EIMA, noting that it has led to a 70 percent improvement in grid reliability since 2012, and has allowed energy efficiency programs that have delivered $5 billion in savings to customers since 2008. Pritzker and legislators’ goals of decarbonizing its electricity system by mid-decade. ComEd’s current $9.53

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

When we started Sol Systems around a dinner table in 2008, PV modules cost $3/watt — and that was a recent breakthrough. Solar is now the least expensive source of electricity in two-thirds of the world. Those same modules now cost 30-40 cents/watt and they are significantly more efficient. The times, they are a changing.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 21, 2020

electricity consumption. Bulk electricity usage by commercial businesses and industrial manufacturing has given way to increased household electricity consumption as the general population isolates at home. In turn, this economic slowdown has shifted electricity generation to rely more on the renewable energy sector.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 21, 2020

electricity consumption. Bulk electricity usage by commercial businesses and industrial manufacturing has given way to increased household electricity consumption as the general population isolates at home. In turn, this economic slowdown has shifted electricity generation to rely more on the renewable energy sector.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 23, 2020

“Even Sunrun wasn’t public in 2008.” Halted permitting and construction could impact 10 to 30 percent of the company’s 200-megawatt pipeline. Some may not require as much electricity, with workers continuing to telecommute.

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Business Green

MAY 31, 2022

Slow UK growth in output and real wages over the past lost decade-and-a-half has meant these metrics are barely any better than they were prior to the 2008 financial crisis. Yet if real wages had grown at the same rate as they did before 2008, we would be on average almost £200 per week better off.

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Mr. Sustainability

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Until now, this money has mainly gone to the construction of solar meadows and wind turbines. Last summer, Minister Eric Wiebes of Dutch Economic Affairs and Climate Policy wrote that since 2008 the government has paid out approximately € 4.5 The production of green electricity and the capture of CO? The idea is to prevent CO?

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Jigar Shah

MAY 14, 2019

That has been true since the 2008 financial crisis. Clean energy companies today are building and installing solar panels, wind turbines, and electric vehicles. In 2018, 1 out of every 23 people that found new work chose the clean energy industry. They’re composting food and green waste, recycling, and turning waste to value.

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The Environmental Blog

MARCH 21, 2022

It gave rise to an era of unprecedented groundwater pumping fueled by free and subsidized electricity. The state government must make it mandatory for construction of harvesting structures in every major institution, top of the buildings, in schools, colleges etc. kms of area holding approx 26.12-million-acre million-acre feet of wate.

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Business Green

MAY 6, 2020

In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis calls went up for green stimulus plans, but while they gained some traction support was largely confined to environmental campaigners and clean tech industries and the opportunity to deliver sweeping climate-focused recovery packages was ultimately squandered.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 29, 2019

” Under a 2008 state law, Massachusetts is required to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 80 percent below 1990 levels by midcentury. The state now gets 11 percent of its electricity from the resource, compared to just 2 percent nationally. Some had already been constructed.

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Jigar Shah

MAY 14, 2019

That has been true since the 2008 financial crisis. Clean energy companies today are building and installing solar panels, wind turbines, and electric vehicles. whether that’s in electricity, mechanics, or construction?—?as In 2018, 1 out of every 23 people that found new work chose the clean energy industry.

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Business Green

JULY 17, 2020

Of the 1,000 plus green projects identified, EY claims around 30 per cent are being developed by start-ups and small and medium businesses (SMEs), with many working on innovative schemes in areas such as sustainable transport, green hydrogen, nature restoration, and low carbon construction materials.

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Business Green

JANUARY 20, 2022

For context, 100GW is more than the UK's entire current electricity capacity, which stands at around 75GW from both clean and fossil fuel sources. But beyond the continued expansion of its renewable electricity portfolio, the new frontier for Masdar, and much of the region, is green hydrogen. Green hydrogen.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 23, 2024

” Source: Bolloré Logistics YouTube account Currently, Bolloré Logistics is “supporting the construction” of LNG Canada, a massive liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facility in the province of British Columbia. The Bolloré Group as a whole reported company-wide carbon emissions of 34.8 Shell remains a notorious greenwasher.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 29, 2020

We are using the newly developed Embodied Carbon for Construction Calculator (EC3) to support low-carbon procurement on structural steel, piles, rebar and concrete. airline to announce a carbon-neutral domestic operation, purchasing sustainable aviation fuel and rolling out fleets of airport electric ground vehicles, to name a few.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 16, 2020

Industrial output and electricity demand were far below usual levels, including a 36% drop in coal consumption, a 34% drop in utilization of oil refining capacity and a 5% to 10% rate of flight cancellations globally. Shops close, construction sites take a break and many industries cut back on operations. During this time, U.S.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 4, 2021

The most dependent industries: construction, agriculture and food and beverage. To receive a lower rate the company must show a net-positive impact on biodiversity in its forests in Finland and a 65 percent reduction in CO2 emissions from fuels and purchased electricity between 2015 and 2030.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

– CEO and Co-Founder, GRID Alternatives During the 2001 California energy crisis, Erica Mackie, a mechanical engineer, along with Tim Sears, had a vision for free, clean, solar-driven electricity that would be practical and accessible for the low-income communities that needed it the most. The outcomes were often tragic.

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Greentown Labs

APRIL 22, 2021

Reliant, an NRG company, is one of the largest electricity providers in Texas and is trusted to deliver innovative and reliable energy solutions to residents and businesses across the state. “As Since its founding in 2008, White Deer has raised capital in excess of $2.7 NRG Energy, Inc. ,

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Despite successful counterexamples like Tesla, Nest, Enphase and Silver Spring Networks, those failures, combined with the Great Recession starting in 2008, led to the loss of roughly half of the $25 billion in venture capital invested in the sector from 2006 to 2011, according to Pricewaterhouse Coopers.

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2022

As President Biden put it: "Transforming our economy to run on electric vehicles and clean energy, with tax credits to help American families winterise their homes and use less energy - that will help.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Reflective walls can prevent solar heat gain indoors during the summer, shaving electricity consumption in the building and lowering peak demand on the grid. buildings were constructed before 1980. The research team at Berkeley Lab found in a recent study that in much of the U.S., Around half of U.S.

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Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 22, 2024

A supply-demand chain reaction for uranium prices Uranium prices went nuclear on Monday, blasting past $100/lb for the first time since 2008. 60 reactors are currently under construction worldwide with 110 more planned. 💼 Find or share roles on our job board here. Although 1.5% of the U.K.’s

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Business Green

MARCH 28, 2023

As Gideon Henderson, chief scientific officer at Defra, explains the 2008 Climate Change Act represented a "big step change" in the government's approach to climate change, introducing long term emissions goals, the system of five yearly Carbon Budgets that require governments to develop credible decarbonisation plans, and the CCC.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 16, 2020

After visiting in 2008, the couple immediately fell in love with the community’s progressive, laid-back style and history of sustainable living. The couple did most of the construction work themselves over the span of 2.5 The sustainable permaculture farm and off-grid home are located in a community called Puna.

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