GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 21, 2020

The full investment for the project is estimated to be 1.7 Qatar, whose natural-gas exports trail only those of Russia, will host the FIFA World Cup in 2022 and has pledged to make the event carbon-neutral. It bought a 60 percent stake in SunPower in 2011 and plans to retain a share of the manufacturing spinoff company Maxeon.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2022

The European Union’s scientific and political communities are locked in a battle over whether gas and nuclear can be considered green investments. It’s a “green investment guidebook,” said Henry Eviston, spokesperson on sustainable finance at WWF European Policy Office. Like Greece, Italy has a huge stake in gas.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

playing Sherlock Holmes in the 2011 movie "Sherlock Holmes: Game of Shadows," is asked what he sees. The trucks need energy, whether diesel, gasoline, natural gas, electricity, hydrogen, propane, etc. There is a phenomenal amount of money invested, profits made and infrastructure tied to transportation related energy.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

The incident was the second in three years for North Texas-based Luminant, whose equipment malfunctions during a more severe storm in 2011 resulted in a $750,000 fine from state energy regulators for failing to deliver promised power to the grid. The agency declined to comment, saying it doesn’t discuss investigations.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The fracked natural gas industry has never been the most responsible or efficient consumer of resources. Drillers are using ever-increasing amounts of water and sand in order to produce the same volume of gas, with a corresponding rise in the levels of solid and liquid waste created. But what does RSG really mean? What Is RSG?

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 4, 2019

But these tools proved unexpectedly useful when the Aliso Canyon natural-gas leak jeopardized fuel supplies for Southern California power plants. But developers have found business cases worth investing in, such as saving clipped solar power , arbitraging wind power and hitting peaks in the energy market.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 28, 2023

The lonely well pad houses four natural gas wells that records show were initially drilled in 2011 but sat inactive for years after that. The Internal Revenue Service defines a marginal, or low-producing, natural gas well to be one that generates less than 90,000 cubic feet per day.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 1, 2021

In June, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) narrowly approved the construction of a new 42” diameter gas pipeline that will connect shale wells in Louisiana, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Ohio to a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal on the Gulf Coast, carrying over a billion cubic feet of fracked gas to be transported overseas every day.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Unsurprisingly, perhaps, Looney is a big believer in the future role of natural gas. One obvious way to deliver more energy with less carbon, Looney said, is "more renewables and gas, pushing coal out of power.". Back in 2011, BP closed its solar manufacturing business, known as BP Solar, when it couldn't make a profit.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

AUGUST 9, 2022

Notably, the proposal includes mandates that will facilitate the completion of the Mountain Valley Pipeline – a major natural gas pipeline in Manchin’s own West Virginia that has been tied up in court battles for years. The Act includes $27 billion for a National Climate Bank that would act to spur investment in clean technologies. $8

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Greentown Labs

MAY 24, 2022

and an incubator in Houston, TX, Greentown Labs is home to 200 startups and has supported more than 450 startups since the incubator’s founding in 2011. We look forward to the next step of this endeavor.” With its headquarters in Somerville, Mass. billion in funding. MCA is the holding company for MC group companies in North America.

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2021

French global energy giant Total recently announced it had delivered its first shipment of ' carbon neutral liquid natural gas '. Natural gas is, of course, a fossil fuel and so can't itself be carbon neutral. Instead, emissions from transporting the cargo were partly "offset" by investing in a wind farm in China.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 3, 2024

Both are fund managers that invest heavily in fossil fuel infrastructure, such as pipeline and refinery projects. No Appetite for Change New York-based IPG followed closely behind Omnicom in DeSmog’s analysis, with six of its 10 board members having experience in polluting industries such as natural gas, shipping, and plastics.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 1, 2020

That’s when Lightsource recognized that the sector was ready to industrialize and that it would need a partner to do so, which led it to approach the investment bank Rothschild. Boyle said the company received 14 bids, seven of them from oil and gas companies. But BP’s Sanyal told GTM it never lost its interest in solar.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

In 2011, the United States generated less than 2 million megawatt-hours of electricity from solar power. Competition also affects how much any power plant runs, and natural gas has been edging out coal on price. The fast growth of solar capacity also fits with the national trend. million short tons last year.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 23, 2021

With increased access comes increased adoption rates, subsequently driving down initial investment costs and generating cost savings in the long run. The cost-effective nature of RTE technologies make them especially attractive in addressing the need for stronger environmental justice policies.

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Greentown Labs

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Today, Greentown Houston is fortunate to welcome three new Founding Partners to its ecosystem: As the only investor-owned electric and gas utility based in Texas, CenterPoint Energy, Inc. Williams manages 30 percent of the nation’s natural gas used for clean-power generation, heating, and industrial use. As of Sept. As of Sept.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

"We have an opportunity to extend the recent response of regulators, businesses and investors on climate change to nature; both are interrelated and both pose a systemic risk to the global economy.". Mellody Hobson, Co-CEO and President, Ariel Investments. Its partner is JPMorgan Chase, which has committed to co-investing $200 million.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

” Europe, which has an economy saddled with high energy prices and is heavily dependent on Russian natural gas, is embracing green hydrogen by providing funding for construction of electrolysis plants and other hydrogen infrastructure. hydrogen is a lot more expensive than other fuels such as natural gas.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 22, 2021

However, if there are no willing buyers, these investors will find themselves “holding the bag” — essentially stuck with a worthless investment. That’s far less than what Equinor paid when it first entered the Bakken in 2011 with an investment of $3.8 However, it was a great price for the owners of XTO. The Return of Liar Loans.

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Business Green

JULY 15, 2021

The Whitetail facility is expected to harness the Allam-Fetvedt Cycle (AFC), pioneered by NET Power and 8 Rivers Capital, which combusts natural gas with oxygen, rather than air, and uses supercritical carbon dioxide as a working fluid to drive a turbine instead of steam. Paul's Cathedral.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

This is where Jacobson’s story takes on a cinematic glow, which I wrote about for HuffPost in 2011. On the evening of July 10, 2011, Jacobson attended a swanky event in San Francisco. It would be the first clean energy roadmap that Jacobson would draft, and he did it on the evening of September 13, 2011. The Solutions Project.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The facility, called Clearwater, was built by the Denver, Colorado-based oil and gas extraction company, Antero Resources, and an affiliate of Veolia, the multinational French waste, water and energy management company. Analyses of the water produced with the gas commonly show elevated levels of salinity and radium,” a 2011 U.S.

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Green Market Oracle

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

In 1992 carbon emission hit a 20-year low due to three factors: A mild winter, reduced demand for gasoline and, most significantly, a drop in coal-fired electricity generation because of historically low natural gas prices. The negative values in 1996 are due to a slowing economy associated with the Asian financial crisis.

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Grist

APRIL 14, 2021

In the late 2000s, the fossil fuel conglomerate Woodside Energy petitioned to build a liquid natural gas processing plant 30 miles north of Broome, on a peninsula known in English as James Price Point, and to the Goolarabooloo as Walmadany. Broome residents attend a 2011 protest rally against the proposed natural gas plant.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

One other item on Truss’s itinerary was a trip to a multi-million pound research institute jointly-funded by Anglo-Dutch oil giant Shell that promotes natural gas and biofuels as sustainable, followed by a visit to an oil rig “simulator” run by Petrobras. Pedro Allemand, a Ph.D.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

playing Sherlock Holmes in the 2011 movie “Sherlock Holmes: Game of Shadows,” is asked what he sees. The trucks need energy, whether diesel, gasoline, natural gas, electricity, hydrogen, propane, etc. Venture capitalists also are everywhere seeking the next great investment. Robert Downey Jr.,

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 14, 2022

The complex contains a circuit board of pipes and steel tanks that cough out steam, flames and toxic substances as it creates the building blocks for plastic from natural gas liquids. SABIC was owned at the time by the Saudi Public Investment Fund (PIF), whose board chairman is the crown prince. Credit: Julie Dermansky.

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Greentown Labs

APRIL 22, 2021

Houston is buzzing with incredible climatetech startups, world-leading energy organizations, and a thriving investment community. At Shell, we see the energy transition as a collaborative effort that requires innovation, investment, and partnership across sectors, industries, and society.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The research reveals that 53 percent of these directors have a combined 499 past or current connections to industries that could be considered potentially climate-conflicted including polluting energy, mining, manufacturing, along with banks and investment vehicles known to support the fossil fuel industry. . of its P&C premiums.”

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Energy Innovation

JANUARY 31, 2019

The standard equivalence for utilities between batteries and natural-gas peakers seems to require a 1-to-4 power ratio (i.e., Incremental Peak Demand Reduction Credit as a Function of Storage Capacity in California, 2011. These attributes provide grid benefits but need revised power market rules for properly valuation.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

A little over a decade ago, Gary Dye, then a gas measurement engineer at NW Natural, Oregon’s largest gas utility, lost faith in his employer to responsibly deal with what he believed to be systematic inaccuracies among the company’s hundreds of thousands of gas meters.

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AutoGrid

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

During another heat wave in 2011, ERCOT declared several emergencies in an effort to reduce electric demand. That forces energy companies to rely on natural gas peaker plants and other traditional power sources to keep pace. Now, as solar generation fades toward evening, the peak has shifted to between 5 and 9 p.m.

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Greentown Labs

OCTOBER 22, 2020

It generates electricity and provides energy solutions and natural gas to residential, small business, commercial, and industrial customers through a diverse portfolio of retail brands. .” NRG Energy, Inc brings the power of energy to people and organizations by putting customers at the center of its business.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Betting on rising oil demand growth is now effectively saying that global vehicle makers will fail in their multi-billion dollar investments to shift to electric cars and trucks, that renewables won’t continue to get cheaper and easier to store, that carbon taxes won’t continue to rise or become more widespread. From oil to energy majors.

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