AutoGrid

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Hey, Europe: You Can’t Get to 100% Renewables Without Demand Side Flexibility. But the next lap in this race requires a different muscle: Demand Side Flexibility (DSF) or the capacity to throttle electricity consumption by end customers as needed. Demand Side Flexibility Answers the Call. By Amit Narayan, CEO AutoGrid.

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Green Market Oracle

APRIL 27, 2020

The oil crash of 2020 is driving down prices and contributing to the demise of the fossil fuel industry. In the face of oversupply and falling demand due to the cornavirus the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and Russia agreed to cut oil output by 10 percent but this did not stop the free-fall.

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R-Squared Energy

AUGUST 10, 2023

Overview The newest Review shows the world remains heavily reliant on fossil fuels for energy needs, even as renewables like solar and wind continue rapid growth. While renewable power expanded at record rates, fossil fuels maintained an 82% share of total primary energy consumption. Global coal demand grew by 0.6%

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 13, 2020

2020: Fossil fuels are dead, long live the sun Hunter Lovins Thu, 08/13/2020 – 00:15 We’re female entrepreneurs and environmentalists. In this strangest of all years, as the death toll mounts from a disease caused by human incursions into once intact ecosystems, we’re observing another death — the demise of fossil fuels.

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R-Squared Energy

JUNE 3, 2022

Because I had already seen gasoline prices approach that level when I was living in the Netherlands in 2008, and the roads were still packed with cars. Energy demand just isn’t that elastic in the short term, so people pay what they have to pay to get to work. That it will simply continue our addiction to fossil fuels?

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

It also means industries like utilities and auto manufacturers that make up the bulk of demand for oil and gas. That means midstream and downstream infrastructure like pipelines, liquefied natural gas terminals and a wave of ethane crackers driving a global plastic pollution crisis. Indeed, it’s why U.S.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 21, 2021

natural gas prices to remain elevated between October and March -- the highest winter price since 2007-2008. Corbeau added that governments must anticipate more frequent extreme weather risks and the impact on variable renewable energy systems. Energy Information Administration expects U.S.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 23, 2020

To rebuild the economy, the United States government so far seems to choose to deploy the same playbook it did in 2008: funding legacy companies in industries such as oil and gas. . The price of oil plunged below zero on some days, and customer demand remains at an all-time low. Don't bet against America.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Major fossil fuel firms have committed tens of millions in finance to UK universities since 2022, DeSmog can reveal. Previous reporting from openDemocracy and the Guardian found that, between 2017 and December 2021, £89 million had been given to UK universities from some of the world’s biggest fossil fuel companies.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 20, 2023

On top of that, add in the switch to electric heating, stoves, and other appliances, and we have even higher demand. The grid is designed to take electricity from places with the highest capacity factors and deliver it to the places with the highest demand. It takes years to permit and build new transmission lines.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 7, 2022

A media blitz by backbench Tory MPs calling for cuts to green taxes, more North Sea oil and gas extraction, and the return of fracking, is led by politicians with close links to the UK’s main climate science denial group and reflects many of its demands. ‘Politically-Motivated Climate Deniers’.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 5, 2021

In fact, green energy has been more resilient against COVID-19 impacts than fossil fuels. They have experienced less supply chain disruptions than fossil fuels. Further, the wind and solar industries can create more jobs than their fossil counterparts. Lessons from the 2008 financial crisis.

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Energy Energy Fossil fuels Packaging 82

R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

The net impact of growing natural gas supplies and conversion of power plants has caused natural gas to become the fastest-growing fossil fuel. Global natural gas demand fell in 2022. demand grew by a robust 5.4% Over the past decade, global natural gas consumption has grown at an average annual rate of 2.0%, versus 0.9%

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Natural gas Energy Monitor Fossil fuels Demand 78

Business Green

JULY 26, 2022

Greenpeace claims government failed to assess full environmental impacts of Shell fossil fuel project in the North Sea. Evans said Greenpeace stood ready to fight all future approvals of new UK fossil fuel projects in the courts.

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Business Green

MAY 4, 2021

Carbon prices on the European Union's emissions trading scheme (ETS) have topped €50 per tonne for the first time, according to reports, as tightening climate policies and growing demand from investors continues to push the cost of pollution to record highs. European Carbon price ??

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Carbon Fossil fuels Europe Pollution 87

Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 2, 2021

As states and the federal government take steps to transition away from fossil fuel generation, it is important to pay attention to recent clean energy developments in states where energy legislation has historically been less proactive, and the traditional integrated utility monopoly model has held influence over the policymaking process.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 16, 2021

Only the final one disclosed that Shell would be a “major sponsor” Campaigners say oil and gas companies overstate their reliance on technologies such as CCS to justify their continued use of fossil fuels. The Science Museum Group has worked closely with BP, Shell and Equinor since the early 2000s.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 16, 2021

Only the final one disclosed that Shell would be a “major sponsor” Campaigners say oil and gas companies overstate their reliance on technologies such as CCS to justify their continued use of fossil fuels. The Science Museum Group has worked closely with BP, Shell and Equinor since the early 2000s.

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R-Squared Energy

JULY 27, 2020

The Review provides a comprehensive picture of supply and demand for major energy sources on a country-level basis. Previous articles covered overall energy consumption , petroleum supply and demand, and natural gas. Coal is often called the dirtiest fossil fuel. Fossil fuels are composed of carbon and hydrogen.

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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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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

Editor’s Note: This is part of a regular column, Gaslit , which navigates society’s dysfunctional relationship with fossil fuel disinformation. He was basically demanding that they start to talk about climate change on TV,” Davies said. Al Gore at the World Economic Forum in 2008. Have a tip or idea? Get in touch.

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Business Green

APRIL 29, 2020

Global Energy Review notes that renewables will be the only energy source to expand in 2020 despite a dramatic nosedive in energy demand worldwide caused by Covid-19's shutdown of economic and public life. The report notes that renewables are the only energy source expected to grow against a backdrop of overall reduced electricity demand.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Global greenhouse gas emissions from electricity generation are on course for a dramatic seven per cent drop in 2020 due to plummeting economic activity caused by the coronavirus crisis, setting the scene for renewables to dominate the recovery at the expense of fossil fuels. per cent today.

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Business Green

MARCH 2, 2022

The High Court has granted the environmental campaign group a hearing over its push for a Judicial Review of the Net Zero Strategy, which Friends of the Earth argues breaches the Climate Change Act 2008 for failing to quantify how or by when its policies would reduce emissions in line with binding goals.

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Government Climate change Fossil fuels Law 69

R-Squared Energy

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

In 2008 — his last full year in office — production averaged 5.0 In 2008 gasoline futures averaged $2.45 Why did President Obama’s tenure see such an explosion in fossil fuel production? oil production declined all eight years they were in office. The year before Bush was inaugurated U.S. oil production averaged 5.8

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Business Green

JANUARY 16, 2023

The firm said its aim was to support enough solar and clean technology assets through the fund to power the equivalent of up to 746,000 households per year, which it estimated would help avoid an estimated fossil fuel consumption of up to 145.4 million cubic metres of fossil gas per year.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 12, 2022

The global stampede to develop clean energy sources has prompted a demand for ammonia analysers from the developers of engines that will be capable of using ammonia as a fuel. Historically, this process has been employed to manufacture agricultural fertilizers using natural gas (fossil fuel) as the source of hydrogen.

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Business Green

APRIL 19, 2021

The rhetoric has been hugely welcome and has contrasted positively with the months and years following the financial crash of 2008, during which proposals for green stimulus packages struggled to secure meaningful traction and a wave of new fossil fuel investment locked in another decade of rising global emissions.

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Business Green

APRIL 23, 2020

Group led by Transport & Environment urges EU to prioritise green investment in coronavirus response, as new report slams scale of British banks' interest in fossil fuels. org, which lays bare private banks' continued heavy investment in fossil fuels in the five years since the historic 2015 Paris climate change agreement.

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Fossil fuels Transportation Europe Investment 76

EDF + Business

OCTOBER 24, 2023

If financial institutions ignore the green economy transition, the cost of stranded fossil fuel assets could be $9tn to $12tn by 2035 , a loss comparable to the 2008 financial crisis. The window of opportunity to achieve net-zero carbon emissions and secure a livable future for all is narrow and rapidly closing.

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Policy Climate change Methane Politics 52

Clean Energy Canada

AUGUST 23, 2019

Since 2008, the carbon price has substantially reduced the consumption and demand for fossil fuels including: Reducing demand for gasoline by between7% and 17% by 2011. In fact, in a 2015 survey completed by 365 economists, 81% said that pricing carbon is the most efficient way to cut pollution. by 2014.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 23, 2023

And some strains produce large amounts of lipids – fatty acids that can produce an oil, which can be turned into fuel relatively easily. But competing with abundantly available and heavily subsidized fossil fuels, particularly gas, was not so easy. When the bottom dropped out of the oil market in the 1980s, all of that stopped.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2021

If so, it would mark a notable shift from the situation after the last global financial crisis in 2008, when many businesses, investors and governments prioritised swift, and often high carbon recovery investments, leading to soaring greenhouse gas emissions in the following years.

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Sustainability Electricity Real Estate Investment 95

R-Squared Energy

AUGUST 11, 2021

Previous articles provided an overview of this year’s Review, an examination of the data on carbon emissions, and a look at oil supply and demand trends. The net impact of growing natural gas supplies and conversion of power plants has caused natural gas to become the fastest-growing fossil fuel. for oil and 0.9%

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Business Green

JUNE 8, 2021

There are hopes the much-delayed Buildings and Heat Strategy, which is expected to emerge over the coming weeks, will offer a bold vision that could kick-start the decarbonisation of the UK's 29 million homes, which remain largely heated by fossil fuels and are notoriously inefficient.

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Business Green

JUNE 8, 2021

There are hopes the much-delayed Buildings and Heat Strategy, which is expected to emerge over the coming weeks, will offer a bold vision that could kick-start the decarbonisation of the UK's 29 million homes, which remain largely heated by fossil fuels and are notoriously inefficient.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

After the painful financial crash of 2008/9, the political atmosphere in Ireland ahead of the lifting of quotas was febrile. Given the increasing demand on electricity from data centres, and the uptake of heat pumps and electric vehicles, hitting this target will take a herculean effort. Irish Agriculture.

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