ThinkGeoEnergy

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The Energy Development Corporation (EDC) recently celebrated the 40th year anniversary of the Palinpinon-1 geothermal power facility located in the island of Negros in the Philippines.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Have you read: Urgent measures announced as Dutch grid creeps to capacity US Department of Energy announces $3.5bn for grid resilience Another potential roadblock is the structure in infrastructure. Also of interest: Global leaders call for unprecedented unity to tackle critical minerals crisis Is the energy transition in stall mode?

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

The Government has exceeded its powers under Section 44 Climate Change Act 2008, by which it is able to set up the emissions trading scheme and is required to make rational decisions. The omission of municipal waste incinerators is irrational.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 13, 2020

renewable energy market’s biggest deals in a challenging year, Masdar is set to acquire a 50 percent stake in a 1.6-gigawatt gigawatt portfolio of advanced wind, solar and energy storage projects from EDF Renewables North America. 2008 Great Recession when] renewables were still on the fringe,” Declercq said.

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Clean Energy Canada

MAY 6, 2020

With a growing chorus of voices calling for—and more and more governments committing to—putting clean energy and climate action at the heart of economic recovery, one can’t help but wonder if a cleaner approach has been pursued before. These investments also paid off in reduced carbon pollution: since 2008, U.S. The answer?

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Business Green

JANUARY 19, 2021

Norwegian investor snaps up 75 per cent stake in wind and solar developer providing boost for plans to establish global renewable energy major. We plan to bring 5.5GW of renewable assets to financial close globally by 2023, which sets us firmly on track to becoming one of the world's first pure-play renewable energy majors.".

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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. Our product is clean heating energy. Drilling to this depth allows for much greater thermal output and thermal storage capacity for the waste incineration plant.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 25, 2021

As part of the increasing global push to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, significant attention has been paid to the energy and power sectors. For example, in 2018, the International Maritime Organization (“IMO”) adopted a goal of reducing greenhouse gas (“GHG”) emissions 50% below 2008 levels by 2050.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Xcel Energy recently received approval to repower a pair of wind farms originally built in 2015 to take advantage of improved technology and expiring tax credits. Xcel Energy recently won approval for a $750 million plan to retrofit four wind farms in Minnesota and North Dakota, two of which were built in 2015.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 21, 2020

In a joint announcement on Saturday, non-profit group the Good Law Project and green entrepreneur Dale Vince, founder and CEO of renewable energy firm Ecotricity, said they had written to the government threatening legal action unless Ministers agreed to revise the UK's Airports National Policy Statement (NPS). We think that's unlawful.

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2021

A report published this morning by the select committee warns the UK's legally enshrined target to achieve net zero emissions will "hit a roadblock" unless urgent action is taken to improve the energy efficiency of the UK's homes, which are responsible for 19 per cent of the UK's greenhouse gas emissions and 30 per cent of energy use.

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Business Green

AUGUST 18, 2021

Around 270,000 homes in the North of England need retrofitting annually over the next 15 years if government energy efficiency targets are to be met, research warns.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 2, 2021

By Shelley Robbins, Clean Energy Group. In those states, where clean energy is now gaining a stronger foothold, valuable lessons can be found. Actions by these states to change the direction of energy policy are a powerful confirmation that clean energy is a viable, cost-effective alternative to fossil fuels.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

But a piece of it lives on with founder John Schaeffer, who left the company in 2013 and bought back control of the Solar Living Center, a lush compound in Mendocino dedicated to teaching sustainable lifestyles, including solar power, permaculture and natural construction techniques. "I Photo courtesy of John Shaeffer). Growth before a fall.

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Business Green

APRIL 28, 2020

We've dealt with the financial crisis of 2008, supply issues, government policy u-turns, Minimum Import Pricing, and now we're proving our salt in the midst of a global pandemic. When times are tough, we've always had our sights firmly focused on the bigger picture; building a global energy infrastructure that is free from fossil fuels.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Meanwhile, a Whitehall reorganisation earlier this month saw the establishment of a new Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, which has been given specific priorities to drive decarbonisation and boost energy efficiency among homes and businesses, prompting hopes of a clearer policy focus on net zero going forward.

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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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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 1, 2020

The consumer watchdog group says that should start with reforming the regulatory structure set in place by 2011’s Energy Infrastructure Modernization Act (EIMA). The workings of the 2011 Energy Infrastructure Modernization Act. EIMA was framed by ComEd and its backers as providing certainty to recovering the costs of a $2.6

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Business Green

MARCH 4, 2020

So her Energy and Clean Growth Minister Claire Perry - now Claire O'Neill - went on air to promise that "all housing stock must be to level C by 2035". The absence of progress has prompted, Lord Foster of Bath, to launch a Private Members Bill called the Domestic Premises (Energy Performance) Bill. Amber Rudd's broken promise.

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Business Green

JANUARY 20, 2022

Abu Dhabi's state-owned renewable energy giant Masdar is undergoing a restructure of its ownership, while ramping up its overall clean energy goal to 100GW by 2030. Masdar, Abu Dhabi's state-owned clean energy company, harbours some seriously lofty ambitions. The aspiration is to move to 100GW within 10 years so it's huge.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 6, 2023

While fossil fuel firms claim that shifting to renewable energy would mean significantly shrinking their labor force, the survey by True Transition — a worker advocacy and public policy collaborative — found that fossil fuel firms have laid off workers and decreased their pay while raking in profits. If I sued, well, I’d never work again.”

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 23, 2020

Others have started giving solar energy away for next to nothing. Sustainable Capital Finance, a California-based financier of commercial and industrial projects, recently unveiled its "Solar Stimulus PPA," which charges nothing for solar energy for the first year of its 15 to 30-year term. NextEra Energy, the largest U.S.

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Mr. Sustainability

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

To this end, they will claim subsidies from the Dutch energy facilities (SDE). 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

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Business Green

JULY 20, 2022

Government approves plans for controversial project on energy security and climate grounds. The construction of the proposed development will be damaging and it has been granted with insufficient consideration for the effects on nature as described by the governments own experts.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The Taxonomy utilises a “transition” category, acknowledging the unique challenges and needs of Asia’s shift towards a net zero economy amidst economic growth and increasing energy demands. These credits are generated by reducing emissions when a CFPP is retired early and replaced with clean energy.

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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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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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Jigar Shah

MAY 14, 2019

The clean energy sector. Clean energy as an industry is uniquely equipped to provide stable careers because it’s essentially infrastructure. The clean energy industry is, in essence, an industry rooted in infrastructure. In 2018, 1 out of every 23 people that found new work chose the clean energy industry. Here’s why.

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Business Green

APRIL 2, 2020

The current crisis may shine a light on the government's unique role in tackling a national emergency, argues Good Energy CEO Juliet Davenport. In the short term, Covid-19 will have a serious and immediate impact on the levels of investment in new renewable energy projects. To reverse this progress will only drive us backwards.

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Jigar Shah

MAY 14, 2019

The clean energy sector. Clean energy as an industry is uniquely equipped to provide stable careers because it’s essentially infrastructure. The clean energy industry is, in essence, an industry rooted in infrastructure. In 2018, 1 out of every 23 people that found new work chose the clean energy industry. Here’s why.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 29, 2019

“The transmission study is kind of an after-the-fact reaction to the absence of proactive policies to build out the grid to accommodate higher levels of renewable energy. “That’s essentially what we have here: The state has a functioning incentive program and ambitious goals for clean energy and solar.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 23, 2024

According to the advocacy group Clean Creatives, which publishes a yearly “F-list” of ad and PR agencies that work with the fossil fuel industry, other Havas Group companies have worked with Exxon Mobil, BP , Total Energies, and Phoenix Petroleum Philippines.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 21, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted nationwide energy supply-and-demand patterns. In turn, this economic slowdown has shifted electricity generation to rely more on the renewable energy sector. In turn, this economic slowdown has shifted electricity generation to rely more on the renewable energy sector.

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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. As we noted last year , solar energy technology continues its path to global dominance. Those same modules now cost 30-40 cents/watt and they are significantly more efficient.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

In the same month, the High Court ruled that the government’s net zero strategy did not meet its obligations under the 2008 Climate Change Act. Bridgemere, a group of companies owned by construction magnate Steve Morgan that advertises a private jet for charter on its website as part of its business, donated £62,500 in May.

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Business Green

MAY 6, 2020

Backed by high and low carbon businesses alike, the Energy Transitions Commission has outlined seven key priorities for delivering credible, net zero-focused recovery packages. Boost the construction sector via green buildings and green infrastructure - Again the case for "massive investment" in greener buildings is obvious.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 21, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted nationwide energy supply-and-demand patterns. In turn, this economic slowdown has shifted electricity generation to rely more on the renewable energy sector. In turn, this economic slowdown has shifted electricity generation to rely more on the renewable energy sector. Continued here:Â .

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