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Climate-Science Deniers, Right-Wing Think Tanks, and Fossil Fuel Shills Are Plotting Against the Clean Energy Transition

DeSmogBlog

As the boats motored through the swells, the self-styled activists broke into a chorus of pleas for the wind farm construction to cease—chants likely intended less for the still-faraway workers than for the camera there to capture footage. “If you were a fossil fuel project, you would have been shut down long ago.”

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Are we finally in the death-throes of the fossil fuel era?

Renewable Energy World

Global efforts to curb the use of fossil fuels are being made by all of the world’s leading nations, but occasionally, despite the genuine momentum, it can still feel like everything is moving a bit too slowly. If powered by solar alone, they write, we’d need just 450,000 km2 – just 0.3% The fossil fuel era is over”.

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'Oil has no place in our future': Rockefeller fund returns shine after ditching fossil fuels

Business Green

Rockefeller Brothers Fund announces that its investment portfolio has exceeded expectations and industry averages in the five years since it divested from fossil fuels. According to the study, the RBF posted an average annual net return of 7.76 per cent over the five-year period that ended in December last year.

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Renewable Generators Are the UK’s Latest Tool to Smooth Out Renewable Generation

GreenTechMedia

This was the final piece of the puzzle required to enable wind farms to participate in those flexibility markets. All this is part of National Grid ESO's plans to be able to support a fossil-fuel-free network by 2025. In 2012, a proposal was made to change the grid code to include the development of a power-available signal.

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'It's really not that hard to grasp': How wind farms and insulation are saving UK bill-payers billions of pounds

Business Green

Jess Ralston, an analyst at ECIU, hailed the multiple benefits of investing in home insulation, including reduced greenhouse gas emissions, lower bills, and reduced UK exposure to volatile global fossil fuel markets, including Russian gas. million installs in 2012.

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Climate Sceptic Goes Unchallenged on BBC’s Today Programme

DeSmogBlog

The consultant was the sole interviewee in the segment, in which she claimed that the move to renewable energy, primarily wind power, was increasing the risk of blackouts. Wind Power ‘Blackout’ Risk Porter told BBC Radio 4 listeners in the interview: “There were risks around blackouts this winter.

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How Energy Storage’s Growth Trajectory Differs From the Early Days of Solar

GreenTechMedia

Hawaii hit on storage because solar installations were flooding its isolated island grids: Batteries offered a way to store that power for the evening peaks when it was more useful. Hawaii also faces unusually high fuel costs because fossil fuels must be shipped there; solar-plus-storage beat incumbent power sooner there than on the mainland.

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