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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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Industry leaders have paved the way, with Google having been carbon-neutral since 2007 and Microsoft since 2012. Generate “green” electricity on site, which involves power generation with low-carbon technologies like solar PV, wind power, bioenergy, etc. Now it’s time for other businesses to follow suit, says the group.

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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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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 28, 2022

Singer was a speaker at a 2012 Heartland conference where sponsors received $67 million from Exxon, Koch and the Scaife Family Foundations. In 2014 DeSmog revealed that Singer received $5,000 a month from US right-wing think tank the Heartland Institute , which has taken donations from oil interests including ExxonMobil and the Koch family.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 9, 2020

cable company win offshore wind contracts in Europe in 2012 and 2014. A report by the wind and marine energy trade group RenewableUK found the sector was exporting to 37 countries, while the official stats put the value of exports of wind power products and services at more than £525 million ($684 million) a year.

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Business Green

JANUARY 20, 2022

Since 2010, wind power has grown from providing under one per cent to providing 10 per cent of electricity in Brazil, and provided 15 per cent of the EU's electricity demand in 2019. Many leaders still assume that reducing emissions and growing their countries' economies aren't compatible goals.

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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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Business Green

JUNE 16, 2021

The green banking specialist, which is owned by Australian banking giant Macquarie, announced today that it has teamed up with TotalEnergies and Renewable Infrastructure Development Group (RIDG) to bid for sites in Scotland's forthcoming offshore wind leasing round.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 23, 2020

The grid operator has been forced to curtail wind power in huge volumes this summer due to a lack of fossil-fuel generators to provide essential flexibility. In 2012, a proposal was made to change the grid code to include the development of a power-available signal. The latest solution comes just in time.

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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. including California and Texas, solar and wind power is cheaper than natural gas and coal. In many parts of the U.S.,

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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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DeSmogBlog

JULY 21, 2023

The subsidies granted to Drax were “a clear waste of public money, when we should be funding businesses and initiatives that improve people’s lives, like home insulation and wind power,” said Merry Dickinson from campaign group Biofuelwatch. Drax did not respond to our requests for comment.

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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. She has blamed previous energy bill rises on renewables.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 23, 2021

Green hydrogen, produced using renewable energy sources such as solar or wind power and electrolysis, is more costly to produce than its dirtier equivalents, and is dependent on the cost of electricity and available water. He joined Logan Energy Limited in 2008 as Director of Operations and became Managing Director and CEO in 2012.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

To meet the entire region’s needs with 100 percent renewable energy by 2040, endeavors are underway to cultivate and integrate clean energy sources like biomass, geothermal, hydropower, solar and wind. The Japanese are optimistic about the electrical power that will be generated, given the region’s current trajectory.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 11, 2021

GW of new wind capacity last year, as developers prepared for a phase-out of the production tax credit. GW higher than the country’s previous record in 2012. commissioned 16.5 This was 77% more than in 2019 and 2.6 GE supplied 57% (9.4 GW across 14 U.S.

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Business Green

MAY 11, 2020

In related news, a new study from the Global Sustainable Investment Alliance this week reported that global sustainable assets currently stand at over $30trn, having doubled between 2012 and 2018.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 2, 2020

In the European Union, the setup and financing of take-back and recycling schemes for solar modules and inverters is mandatory under the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Directive of 2012. Solving wind power's blade problem. The same cannot be said for fiberglass-based wind turbine blades, though.

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R-Squared Energy

JULY 26, 2021

lower than consumption in 2019, and was approximately equivalent to 2012 oil consumption levels. exajoules (EJ) — an increase of 20% — but wind power (+1.5 Last year’s increase in solar and wind capacity was staggering, particularly in light of the pandemic. In 2020, the world consumed 88.5 This was 9.3%

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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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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

For example, Michigan’s DTE Energy used this model to build several wind projects for large in-state customers including Ford, General Motors and the University of Michigan. NREL estimates these voluntary clean power sales have grown from virtually nothing in 2012 to 4.4 Utility voluntary procurement.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 1, 2021

Between 2012 and 2020, fossil fuel companies have lost £123bn of their value, demonstrating that they are losing their footing as a dominant market force. Each year we are fuelling the climate crisis by burning three million years of fossilised sunshine in coal, oil and gas while we use just 0.01% of daily sunshine.”.

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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

MARCH 1, 2021

Hall, who retired from a full-time professorship in 2012, said most attacks on the EROI concept “are specious and due to incomplete or deliberately distorted knowledge,” and have been rebutted in past research. “That is another way of saying 'energy payback time.'”

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 1, 2021

In Taiwan, the Changfang and Xaido projects reached FID having signed power purchase agreements (PPAs) with an associated feed-in-tariff (FiT) as part of the Zonal Application planning process, allowing 589 MW to move to the pre-construction phase.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

The 2012 closure of Clipper, once a major wind manufacturer, also fueled at least a few of the repowering projects, Hensley said, as owners looked to replace Clipper equipment and rotors with newer models from existing manufacturers, Hensley said. In December, Congress voted to extend it one year as part of the COVID-19 stimulus bill.

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Business Green

JANUARY 19, 2021

The sun isn't always shining for solar power generation, nor is the wind always blowing for offshore wind and some onshore wind power generation. Because clearly, if have a system which is solely reliant on renewables, that's intermittent technology.

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The site will include “the potential to use local renewable energy sources such as geothermal, solar and wind power.” Nissan began building the LEAF in Smyrna in 2012. Ford says the Tennessee plant is designed to be carbon-neutral once fully operational. Another 43 GWh will be produced at the Tennessee site.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 4, 2021

According to data released earlier this year by the Energy Information Administration (EIA), in both 2019 and 2020, project developers in the United States installed more wind power capacity than any other generating technology. GW added in 2012. gigawatts (GW) and surpassing the previous record of 13.2

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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. Duke's utilities serve 7.7

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Business Green

AUGUST 21, 2022

Installations might have dropped below 10 per cent of their 2012 peak, a result of inconsistent policy roll backs from successive governments, but eight in 10 people are now more keen to insulate than they were last year, and a Public First poll showed over half of households want some, or more, insulation. Energy efficiency is an open goal.

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Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 18, 2021

Shell has been using this process in their Pearl installation since 2012. Apparently they aim to produce 60,000 kg of green hydrogen on the Tweede Maasvlakte using green electricity from offshore wind. As the technology is almost a century-old, there are many oil and gas majors who have great experience with it. The reason?

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Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 18, 2021

Shell has been using this process in their Pearl installation since 2012. Apparently they aim to produce 60,000 kg of green hydrogen on the Tweede Maasvlakte using green electricity from offshore wind. As it is almost a century-old technology, there are many oil and gas majors who have great experience with it. The reason?

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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. So, from a sustainability point of view it was a bit underwhelming. Lastly the Prime Minister, Boris Johnson.

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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. An order of 3,000 buses, which is roughly 10 per cent of the UK's operational bus fleet, creates demand and volume, he says.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 7, 2020

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 gigawatt offshore target for 2020.

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