GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Amid a historic economic contraction, renewable resources grew to account for a fifth of electricity produced in 2020, according to newly released data from Bloomberg New Energy Finance and the Business Council for Sustainable Energy, a coalition of clean energy, utility and natural gas companies.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 24, 2021

This needs to happen fast, with coal phased out no later than 2030 and gas not far behind. Once this largest source of carbon emissions is greened up, the second-largest, transportation, can tap renewable energy via electric vehicles. A carbon tax followed the next year, helping wind become cost-competitive with fossil fuels.

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 13, 2021

But last year, Holsum Dairies changed course, upgraded the two digesters and began producing renewable natural gas for California’s burgeoning renewable fuels market. The California Air Resources Board adopted the Low Carbon Fuel Standard in 2009.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 28, 2023

A Pathways’ advertisement on a Bixi docking station read “Le captage du carbone est une étape importante vers des activités d’exploitation carboneutre,” or “Carbon capture is an important step towards carbon neutral resource extraction.” The wrap ads had been cut to show the streetcar’s TTC logo, he said.

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R-Squared Energy

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Both were aided by legislation aimed at reducing carbon dioxide emissions from power plants. The first was that the shale gas boom in the U.S. unleashed massive new supplies of cheap natural gas. This made it economical for power plants to switch from coal to natural gas. carbon dioxide emissions.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The ninth edition of the Sustainable Energy in America Factbook tells the story of American energy efficiency, natural gas and renewable energy in a volatile year. Figure 2 shows that natural gas and renewable generation continued to expand their share of the resource mix. Natural gas remained the largest source of U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 21, 2022

The science could not be more clear: We must eliminate carbon pollution as soon as possible — nearly 50% this decade, and fully by 2050. August 18, 2009. Another ad features miniature power plants to promote “cleaner electricity” from natural gas, whose methane emissions are a major driver of rising global temperatures.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 1, 2024

Oil and gas companies and their top trade groups were aware for decades that carbon emissions contribute to climate change, according to a scathing new report from congressional investigators. Ron Johnson (R-WI) read into the record debunked right-wing claims that carbon dioxide is good for the climate because it is “plant food.”

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Canada is the world’s second leading source of public funding for carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology, according to a new report, even though many experts say CCS is a greenwashing cover to pump more oil. It is, therefore, both an energy and money drain on our economy that is unnecessary for most of the energy services we require.”

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38 North Solutions

MAY 3, 2024

Overview When Congress passed the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA), it reinstated (and expanded) the Section 48C tax credit from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. property designed to capture, remove, use or sequester carbon dioxide emissions; e. low- or zero-carbon process heat systems; b.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Many of the utilities setting net-zero carbon goals by midcentury are relying on advanced nuclear reactors to provide carbon-free energy to replace closing coal and natural gas plants. ” TerraPower’s molten salt reactor with thermal storage. X-energy’s advanced pebble-bed reactor.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Could green hydrogen be key to a carbon-free economy? The Saudis are going big on something called green hydrogen — a carbon-free fuel made from water by using renewably produced electricity to split hydrogen molecules from oxygen molecules. hydrogen is a lot more expensive than other fuels such as natural gas.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 14, 2019

for the whole of the third quarter, the first time that has happened, according to research by the Carbon Brief. Fossil fuels’ share of the electricity mix was 10 times larger than renewables’ a decade ago, Carbon Brief's data shows. Biomass grew from 285 megawatts in 2009 to almost 4.5 gigawatts in 2018.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

OCTOBER 3, 2019

While the initial RGGI cap for 2009 was much higher than emissions ended up being, there is peer-reviewed research that estimates power sector emission would have been 24% higher without RGGI. [1] The cap was established in 2005 at expected levels for 2009 emissions, while actual emissions in 2009 turned out to be substantially lower.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Danly has voted against Chatterjee and Democrat Richard Glick on some decisions this year, including FERC’s Order 2222 , which opens interstate energy markets to distributed energy resources, and a policy statement that offers grid operators the option to propose carbon pricing in their wholesale electricity markets.

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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 23, 2020

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, introduced in early 2009, increased GDP 2% to 3% above what it would have been and supported over 6 million job-years (a full-time job for one year) from 2009 to 2012. including California and Texas, solar and wind power is cheaper than natural gas and coal. Impact on emissions.

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R-Squared Energy

AUGUST 9, 2020

Previous articles covered overall energy consumption , petroleum supply and demand, natural gas , and coal. For perspective, in 2009 the world consumed 8.2 The Review provides a comprehensive picture of supply and demand for major energy sources on a country-level basis. exajoules of renewable energy.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 9, 2021

The poster child for this is Solyndra , a solar company that received federal grant money from the 2009 stimulus bill and later went bankrupt. . Progressives point to these investments as an important part of spurring forward other burgeoning technologies, from smartphones to natural gas and the internet. .

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

electric sector reduced its carbon emissions by 26 percent from 2005 to 2018. In order to bend that curve and cut direct building emissions, states and cities will have to pursue policies that end the expansion of new gas infrastructure and accelerate the transition to electric heating and cooking. As a result, the U.S.

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Green Market Oracle

MAY 12, 2020

As reported by The Guardian , countries that have imposed strict lockdowns have seen a 25 percent drop in week-to-week energy demand and a 25 percent reduction in carbon emissions. billion tonne decrease in carbon emissions. gigatons or 8 percent decline in global carbon emissions in 2020 compared with 2019. percent of U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Edelman is also working with Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company (Masdar), a renewable energy company which featured prominently in a campaign Edelman undertook from 2007 to 2009 to boost the climate credentials of Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, the head of Abu Dhabi’s state oil company ADNOC. Al Jaber is now president of COP28, the annual U.N.

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Greentown Labs

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Multi-year initiative seeks carbon-to-value startups and welcomes first Carbontech Leadership Council members. The C2V Initiative is a unique, multi-year program driving the creation of a thriving innovation ecosystem for the commercialization of carbontech—technologies that capture and convert carbon dioxide (CO?) New York City, N.Y.,

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Business Green

MAY 7, 2021

The firm said it expected to increase investment in "important emerging transition opportunities" such as zero emissions transport, hydrogen, carbon sequestration, nature-based solutions, and climate resilient infrastructure, and that it expects its coal-related lending exposures to "run off" by 2024.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

OCTOBER 17, 2018

In this Low Carbon Prosperity Institute (LCPI) analysis, we explore scenarios of carbon reduction investment performance based on the revenue allocation described in Initiative 1631. The measure is intended, but not required, to reduce carbon emissions in 2035 to 25% below 1990 levels, consistent with the state’s legislated target.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JUNE 1, 2022

Our first post in this series discusses CARB’s Proposed Scenario to achieve the state’s GHG targets, which adopts a carbon neutrality target for 2045. In this third post, we examine how California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) Program factors into the state’s GHG reduction goals and how the LCFS Program may be amended in the near future.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

An analysis by Research Triangle Park-based think tank RTI shows the expenditures helped avoid over $4 billion in natural gas-fired electricity. According to asset management firm Lazard , the levelized cost of energy — the price per megawatt-hour over a project’s lifetime — has fallen 71% for land-based wind power since 2009.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 23, 2022

liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports for Europe. It was 2014 and “American gas” would save Europe from being dependent on Russian gas imports. Gas is not as easily transportable as oil. Pipelines further entrench energy dependence and are indicative of how susceptible gas is to being monopolized.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The company, an early partner with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, has positioned water and carbon emissions as equally critical in the climate crisis. Last year, Ecolab set a goal for net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, getting halfway there by 2030. No doubt those conversations will be at play in Starbucks’ 50th year.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

In-state emissions were offset by purchasing cleaner power and carbon credits from other projects that reduced emissions elsewhere.). A 2019 report by the environmental group Food and Water Watch found similar results for the East Coast’s Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative — a cap-and-trade program that regulates the power sector.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 26, 2021

One key goal of COP26 is to ratchet up these targets to reach net-zero carbon emissions by the middle of the century. Wealthy countries promised in 2009 to contribute $100 billion a year by 2020 to help developing nations, a goal that has not been reached. degrees Celsius. The U.S. , The U.S. , Courtesy: Johannes Plenio /Unsplash.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 4, 2021

Now, companies such as ExxonMobil are lobbying against transparency efforts when it comes to reporting their emissions for an existing carbon capture tax credit. And the industry is also increasingly calling for a national carbon tax to be introduced. And the clean coal tax credit is up for renewal at the end of 2021.

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Business Green

MARCH 31, 2023

Under the deal, emissions are to be capped at 1,233 million tonnes of carbon dioxide by 2030, effectively instituting a declining annual limit of 140 million tonnes for the rest of the decade. If successful, the aviation firm plans to launch its first commercial zero-carbon flight from Skelleftea in 2025.

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Business Green

AUGUST 17, 2020

Frugalpac, a UK-based company that makes paper-based packaging for liquids that cut carbon footprints, received £2m investment during the pandemic - a time when most other companies were struggling for finance. This success followed from its transformation to a green energy supplier - which went hand in hand with accelerated profits.

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

At COP15 in Copenhagen in 2009, richer countries pledged that they would collectively provide US$100 billion (CA$123 billion) per year by 2020. CARBON MARKETS. Overview: Article 6 of the Paris Agreement sets up the guidelines for an international carbon market, where emission reductions can be traded across countries.

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Green Market Oracle

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

There have been at least three times that we have seen reductions in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in recent years. The virus has caused a 17 percent reduction in atmospheric carbon during parts of this year and may decrease CO2 emissions by 4.2-7.5 The COVID-19 pandemic is also expected to cause a decrement in emissions.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

In addition, vast quantities of carbon and methane pollution are released into the atmosphere. But after 2009, after which the fracking boom really took off, the Pennsylvania sample saw a sharp increase in heart attacks and heart failure. “It That pollution finds its way to people who live nearby. It was a really clear trend.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

Drawing on that mandate, Ardern declared a "climate emergency" and set the wheels in motion for New Zealand’s public sector to become carbon neutral by 2025. She passed a Zero Carbon Bill during her first term that mandates net-zero emissions by 2050 and campaigned on tougher action this term. . percent of its GDP.

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