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Why Flexible Gas Generation Must Be Part of Deep Decarbonization

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But given technology and market conditions, a substantial portion of renewable power, primarily wind, is pushed to other European countries at peak times as baseload coal must stay online. For example, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and SoCalGas launched a new bioreactor in 2019 that turns renewable power into renewable methane.

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Storage Supplier Fluence Acquires AMS for Power Market Dispatch Software

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The goal of these pairings is to make battery plants, and clean energy plants more broadly, more profitable and efficient in power markets, thereby hastening the acceleration of a lower carbon power grid. Sometimes that means pulling out of markets , to avoid committing to negative pricing.

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The case for raising up women in climate tech

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That’s equivalent to roughly 10 years’ worth of China’s annual emissions as of 2014 — an amount that far surpasses the 90 billion ton avoidance potential of Drawdown’s top-ranked solution, refrigerant management. Carbon removal. From classrooms to boardrooms. 47 — Bioplastics. 36 — Alternative Cement.

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DOE Quietly Backs Plan for Carbon Capture Network Larger Than Entire Oil Pipeline System

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An organization run by former Obama-era Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz, with the backing of the AFL-CIO, a federation of 56 labor unions, has created a policy “blueprint” to build a nationwide pipeline network capable of carrying a gigaton of captured carbon dioxide (CO2). Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) data from 2019.