Charged

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Ford says its plan to build two new manufacturing complexes in Tennessee and Kentucky represents “the largest ever manufacturing investment at one time by any automotive manufacturer in the US.” The Chattanooga Times Free Press calls the deal “the biggest single business investment in Tennessee history.”. It’s big, oh it’s big.

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Business Green

MARCH 14, 2022

As a result, the cost-benefit analysis for green energy solutions is likely to tilt further in favour of renewable electricity, heat pump, and energy efficiency technologies, which will see the time it takes to deliver a return on investment shorten significantly as energy prices rise, according to ECIU. million installs in 2012.

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The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2023

This article delves into the details of the Gansu Wind Complex, highlighting its significance, the technologies it employs, its environmental impact, and its role in China’s ambitious green energy strategy. With its staggering scale, it comprises numerous interconnected wind farms, each with a sea of towering wind turbines.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Global turbine leader Vestas has taken sole control of its offshore wind joint venture, a move that says a lot about Vestas' current standing in the sector and even more about where wind power is headed. Vestas posted losses in 2011, 2012 and 2013, with its 2012 loss a staggering €963 million.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 9, 2020

Additional financing for Talayuela comes from the European Investment Bank and Deutsche Bank. headquartered Green Investment Group (GIG). cable company win offshore wind contracts in Europe in 2012 and 2014. The fresh funds for Solarcentury’s Spanish portfolio are coming from a €27.7

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 4, 2019

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. Finn-Foley displayed the Energy Information Administration's projections for national solar deployment from 2011, 2012 and 2013.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 23, 2021

This type of coordinated energy systems approach can use hydrogen to simultaneously decarbonize transport, industry and heat by identifying and involving regional industry and consumer demand and matching this to energy supply opportunities and industry investment. Production costs. Investors are typically risk-averse and need to feel secure.

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Business Green

MAY 11, 2020

Rockefeller Brothers Fund announces that its investment portfolio has exceeded expectations and industry averages in the five years since it divested from fossil fuels. Following its high-profile decision to divest its endowment from coal, tar sands, and oil and gas in 2014, RBF's investment portfolio is now 99 per cent fossil fuel free.

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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 23, 2020

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, introduced in early 2009, increased GDP 2% to 3% above what it would have been and supported over 6 million job-years (a full-time job for one year) from 2009 to 2012. Following this, wind and solar were some the fastest-growing industries in the U.S. and, in 2019, employed 350,000 Americans.

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Terra Infirma

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Next up was similarly newly elected Liberal Democrat Leader Ed Davey, who served as Energy and Climate Change Secretary 2012-2015, so you would expect a substantial Sustainability passage and he didn’t disappoint.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 21, 2023

‘Next Steps for Levelling Up’ The NRG claims that its goal is to “pressure government for greater investment in the north”. The group’s former chair, Jake Berry MP, was previously the Northern Powerhouse minister, a role which focused on boosting economic investment in the north of England.

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Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2023

In November, thanks to windy conditions, the country also generated more than 20GW of power from wind turbines for the first time ever, representing more than 70 per cent of all electricity generated on that day in Britain, it said. Nuclear power plants, meanwhile, provided 15.5 per cent, National Grid ESO's data shows.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

In 2012 she tweeted that “climate change policies are pushing up domestic gas & elec prices” and wrote a Telegraph article that year headlined “Green policies are costing Britons the earth” making the same point and citing IEA research. Huge investment in renewables etc -> higher profits -> higher prices.”.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The collapse of the Hitachi and Toshiba projects raises questions as to whether the government's current approach to nuclear power development will be sufficient. In 2012, the Coalition Government published plans for 16GW of new nuclear energy to be generated by 2030 , including the now abandoned Hitachi and Toshiba sites.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

million natural-gas customers across six states, with a 51,000-megawatt generation portfolio that’s roughly 42 percent natural gas, 33 percent coal, 18 percent nuclear and 7 percent hydro and solar power. The latter category has grown by about 6,500 megawatts since 2012. It’s also investing in Ørsted’s 1.1-gigawatt

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Community renewables — particularly community solar — have proliferated over the past five years, allowing customers to “subscribe” to a portion of a solar or wind project and receive bill credits for its output as a return on their investment. Utility voluntary procurement.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

The plans, available at The Solutions Project’s “ Clean Energy ” link, reveal the unique mix of wind, water and sun technologies capable of powering states, countries and even select U.S. Wind, Water and Sun (aka WWS) include wind power; waterpower from tides, rivers, and subsurface water (geothermal water); and solar power.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

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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Business Green

OCTOBER 8, 2020

But while emissions from heating have fallen 11 per cent since 1990 in the UK, the research body points out that much of this success was achieved by efficiency programmes from 2002-2012, and that progress since then has been moving at a snail's pace. million units installed in British homes, a rise of 1.8 per cent from 2018, UKERC said.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

solar industry was in the midst of “ jockeying ” to attach an investment tax credit (ITC) extension — the industry’s “most important public policy” — to whatever legislation lawmakers deemed appropriate. Between 2012 and 2018, single-axis utility-scale prices dropped from $2.48

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 7, 2020

billion) to invest in its switch to electric vehicles. Longer-term targets for onshore wind deployment were also scaled back from 80 gigawatts by 2030 to a target range of 67 to 71 gigawatts. The wind lobby is furious. As for solar, Germany added 4 gigawatts in 2019, its best year since 2012. Germany recently hit its 6.5-gigawatt

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Business Green

JULY 7, 2020

The bus manufacturer, best known for producing the hybrid 'Boris buses' launched across the capital in 2012, was in some ways familiar territory to Bamford, anyway. Besides, he adds, it makes economic sense to invest in an industry where Britain has a competitive edge. We could be world class, financing green hydrogen," he contends. "We

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 17, 2021

No one would buy the power if it was just a market choice.”. A new report by the Rocky Mountain Institute shows that Illinois customers paid near market rates for power from Prairie State since it was built in 2012, but the contracts have also saddled them with debt far beyond the norm. million in the project. A mine in the mix.

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Grist

DECEMBER 8, 2021

When InvestigateWest launched the Getting to Zero: Decarbonizing Cascadia series in January 2021, the latest official data showed that emissions of carbon dioxide, methane, and other greenhouse gases had risen steadily from 2012 to 2018, and the region wasn’t on track to make big cuts this decade. “We Ensuring a cleaner and reliable grid.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The report notes that the cost of solar energy has fallen 90 percent in the last decade, and the cost of wind power has dropped 70 percent. West Virginia Large and deadly storms, like Superstorm Sandy in 2012, have hastened efforts to bolster infrastructure in the Northeast in preparation for the more severe impacts of climate change.

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Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 18, 2021

Shell has been using this process in their Pearl installation since 2012. The investment costs for the eelctrolyzers alone are in the order of €2.5 That leaves us with one question: how high an impact do these CAPEX investments have on the fuel costs? We have ourselves quite the circular investment paradox here.

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Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 18, 2021

Shell has been using this process in their Pearl installation since 2012. That leaves us with one question: how much would that be of the fuel costs be with these CAPEX investments? This initial investment only gets you the electrolyzers, now you need to convert green electricity into hydrogen itself. The reason? Or maybe not?

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