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Watt It Takes: Building Climate-Resilient, Restorative Hydropower

GreenTechMedia

Gia Schneider and her brother Abe started Natel Energy based on a hydropower turbine their father designed. It’s designed to protect wildlife and drastically cut the ecological impact of hydropower. And in 2009, she launched Natel with her brother Abe. “Our objectives have actually not wavered.

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New Sustainable Energy Factbook shows 2020 was ‘blockbuster’ year for renewables in America

Renewable Energy World

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. year-on-year, the first decline since 2009. Faced with COVID-19 pandemic and sharp economic contraction, the U.S.

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IEA sketches out vision for $1tr a year global green stimulus

Business Green

IEA Executive Director Dr Fatih Birol said the coronavirus crisis had presented governments with "a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to reboot their economies and bring a wave of new employment opportunities while accelerating the shift to a more resilient and cleaner energy future".

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Global Briefing: Australian Government agrees to cap greenhouse gas emissions

Business Green

Wind and solar accounted for 14 per cent of US electricity, with hydropower accounting for six per cent, and geothermal sources just under one per cent. European wind power investment lowest since 2009 European investment in wind power hit its lowest point since 2009 last year, according to a sobering update from the WindEurope trade body.

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Massive Senate Energy Bill Falters

GreenTechMedia

Murkowski, chair of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, called it “our best chance to modernize our nation's energy policies in more than 12 years,” or since the passage of the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009. industry and jobs. Energy storage.

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Sweeping Senate Energy Bill Could Come to a Vote This Week

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Murkowski, chairwoman of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, called it “our best chance to modernize our nation's energy policies in more than 12 years,” or since the passage of the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009. industry and jobs. Energy storage.