GreenTechMedia
MAY 29, 2020
Pacific Gas & Electric is on the cusp of ending its year-and-a-half stint in bankruptcy. But whether it can successfully rebuild its finances and make its power grid safer without drastically raising rates on millions of customers is far from clear.
GreenTechMedia
JUNE 17, 2020
The San Francisco-based utility is emerging from bankruptcy with a massive debt load that could make it harder to raise the tens of billions of dollars of investment needed to prevent its power grid from causing more devastating wildfires. PG&E plans to invest about $40 billion over the next five years into its power grid.
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GreenBiz
JULY 2, 2021
Even without extreme weather events, the power grid needs love. The grid was largely built in the 1950s and 1960s with a 35- to 80-year life expectancy , meaning much of it should have been retired and replaced by now. As a result, transmission lines swell and sag and, in some cases, can topple infrastructure. .
GreenBiz
MARCH 26, 2021
power system is primarily three separate regions that operate independently: One for the west (the Western Interconnection); one for the east (the Eastern Interconnection); and one for Texas (the Electric Reliability Council of Texas). . since 2010 and is set to decline further. We’ve known this to be true for several years.
Business Green
MAY 26, 2020
A previous report in Drax's Electric Insights series earlier this year noted that British power emissions had fallen by roughly two thirds between 2019 and 2010, or to 54 million tonnes from 161 million tonnes, as generators had shifted away from coal and natural gas to renewables.
DeSmogBlog
JULY 20, 2023
Green hydrogen” is made from solar and wind power, while “blue hydrogen” is made using natural gas, in a process that involves capturing and storing methane’s carbon dioxide emissions (CCS), however this technology was described as “minimal or non-existent” in a 2021 report by Manchester University’s Tyndall Centre.
Business Green
DECEMBER 9, 2020
It would mean emissions would fall by 54 per cent from 2010 to 2030, compared to the 45 per cent the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) identifies as necessary for the world as a whole. Bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) could also help provide both power generation and CO2 removal, it states.
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