Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Renewables’ contribution to the power grid set another record, rising 11% year-on-year. power in 2020. Power from all zero-carbon sources (renewables plus nuclear power) set another record, meeting 40% of demand. This was despite a decline in nuclear output. year-on-year, the first decline since 2009.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Stem was founded in 2009 as power electronics startup Powergetics and rebranded as Stem in 2012 , becoming one of the first pure-play providers of batteries to help building owners and operators shave peak-demand usage and cut back on their utility bills. ” Stem’s role in opening up the behind-the-meter battery market.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Indeed, part of the land that the Micmac obtained in 2009 was previously used as a firefighting testing area. In states like Maine and New Mexico , where PFAS have been detected in soil, milk, and vegetables, they have been traced to “biosolids” — byproducts from sewage treatment plants that are sometimes used as fertilizers.

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Business Green

JUNE 18, 2020

The IEA said its plan was designed to avoid the kind of sharp rebound in carbon emissions that accompanied the economic recovery from the 2008-2009 financial crisis and instead put global emissions into structural decline.

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Jigar Shah

MARCH 29, 2019

or, just save the nuclear power plant currently slated to be shutdown in Ohio. Walmart led this effort through The Sustainability Consortium in 2009. More importantly, Amazon has over 200 million devices running around the world, with more being sold every day. Such an investment would only be about 21% of the $11.2

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 17, 2022

Then, beginning around 2009, first wind turbines and then solar photovoltaic panels decreased enough in cost to become competitive in electricity markets. Beginning in 1958, these were augmented by nuclear power plants, which have operated nearly continuously to pay off their large capital investments.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 28, 2021

In 2010, solar power was just 4 percent of new electric generating capacity and there was a patchwork of state solar policies and renewable portfolio standards. [1] The 2009 U.S. These dramatic changes did not happen in a vacuum. These dramatic changes did not happen in a vacuum.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 23, 2020

2009's Greener, Greater Buildings Plan included requirements for energy-use data reporting, regular energy audits and retro-commissioning, and lighting upgrades. The proposed Champlain Hudson Power Express transmission line would carry hydropower from Quebec south to New York City. But the impact has been modest.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 14, 2020

” Brouillette's comments are a nod to the United States’ relatively slow progress in advanced nuclear power compared to countries like Russia, which has the world’s only full-scale testing platform for smaller-scale nuclear reactors, and China, which is building units today, albeit with less modern designs.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 24, 2019

The bill, which went into effect on Tuesday, slashes the state’s existing efficiency and renewable energy mandates, a long-term goal of the Ohio GOP, and redirects the hundreds of millions of dollars a year to support bankrupt utility FirstEnergy Solutions’ nuclear power plants. These programs have saved Ohio customers $5.1

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

Much later, the unit would be embroiled in the manufactured “ ClimateGate ” scandal, after an unknown hacker published a cache of emails from its scientists in November, 2009. All shared Wilson’s goal of producing an authoritative account for governments on how the world could power itself to the end of the century. “New

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

During the discussion, he touched on the huge potential for renewables and hydrogen, the role for nuclear power, the human rights challenges facing the industry, and the disruption resulting from the energy supply crunch that is currently shaking the global economy. world alive, he said.

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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 7, 2023

The US grid got its first new nuclear power in nearly seven years last week. Plant Vogtle began commercial operations from the first of two new reactors, but the over-budget and years-delayed project could be the last hurrah for big nuclear construction in America. Happy Monday!

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 12, 2021

Two months later, Barack Obama was elected president and began work on the stimulus package, passed in February 2009, that reinjected life into the faltering clean energy sector. I came to GTM in the fall of 2008, just in time to catch the start of the cleantech VC bubble bursting around our San Francisco Bay Area editorial offices.

Building Energy Monitoring 130

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

The EU, on the other hand, has maintained since 2009 that pipeline operators, in order to encourage market competition, cannot own the gas they carry. With the decommissioning of coal and nuclear power stations, utilities turned to natural gas. It is also the world’s largest gas supplier, with a gas pipeline monopoly in Russia.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The oil major’s “Princeton Carbon Mitigation Initiative” document from April 2016 also concedes that CCS is not faring as well as renewable energy, noting that wind, solar, and vehicle fuel efficiency are taking off while carbon capture, hydrogen, and nuclear power are “faltering.”

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

electricity system to roughly 80 percent carbon-free power by 2030, a definition that includes hydro and nuclear power, up from around 40 percent today. The Democrats in Congress are working on legislation that would push the U.S.

Energy 98

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 8, 2021

While names like Tesla and Solyndra gather the most media attention, the Obama-administration-era loan program office also made “many, many loan guarantees for wind and solar projects in 2009 [and] 2010, when, frankly, Wall Street did not believe that wind and solar projects were bankable.” and around the world, he said.

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