DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 28, 2022

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. He argued that warming caused by greenhouse gas emissions was “trivial”.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Europe is still plotting the course towards being net-zero by 2050, but no matter the shape it takes, it will surely involve hundreds of gigawatts of new renewable power capacity. In 2014, EMEA, dominated by Europe, represented 44 percent of global energy storage deployment. By the end of 2019, the total tally (plus the U.K.)

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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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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

The Central Coast holds particularly strong appeal for developers because of its abundant offshore wind resource and the availability of onshore grid interconnection points. In that region, the Morro Bay Power Plant, a large gas-fired facility, closed in 2014. An important step". Only enough space for "one small project".

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Business Green

MAY 11, 2020

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. The divestment movement has matured somewhat since RBF signed on, Valerie Rockefeller noted.

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R-Squared Energy

AUGUST 10, 2023

Renewable power (excluding hydro) grew 14% in 2022, slightly below the previous year’s growth rate of 16%. in 2022, to the highest level of coal consumption since 2014. Wind and solar reached a record high of 12% share of power generation with solar recording 25% and wind power 13.5% growth in output.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The MGT Teesside plant – which is the largest dedicated biomass-burning power station in the world – will burn over one million tonnes of imported wood pellets a year. The UK Government awarded it subsidies under the Contract for Difference (CfD) scheme in April 2014, and it was to start running by September 2018.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

These clean power sales have surged in the past decade: According to data collected and published annually by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, they doubled from 2010 to 2014 and doubled again from 2014 to 2019. Offerings could become more common, and more diverse, as grids get cleaner.

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 20, 2021

Since 2014, Generate has built a portfolio of about $2 billion in sustainable infrastructure assets across the energy, waste, water and transport markets, deploying solutions that redue greenhouse gas emissions and improve resource efficiency, it said in a press release.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Without their generation during this latest extreme cold event (and the 2014 and 2018 and 2019 polar vortex events), the gas network could have been greatly exceeded. wasn't experiencing icing problems like those that reduce wind power output in Texas. Meanwhile, U.S. It's important to note that most of the U.S.

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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. Yet in many places, transitions to clean energy technologies have succeeded far beyond expectations.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

While ERCOT hasn’t yet collected the data to determine precise causes of those generator outages, a previous report from a 2014 cold snap suggests a range of causes, from natural gas pipelines freezing up , to equipment failing that's needed to keep power plants operating safely. Monday, he said.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Vortex Bladeless: wind power without blades. While debate rumbles on over the relative merits of vertical-axis wind turbines versus horizontal-axis machines, Spanish firm Vortex Bladeless thinks it can do away with axes altogether.

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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 23, 2020

The overnight capital cost of utility-scale photovoltaic systems halved between 2008 and 2014. including California and Texas, solar and wind power is cheaper than natural gas and coal. wind generation has tripled and solar generation has increased over 80 times. And these prices continue to fall. Impact on emissions.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

MidAmerican has made major investments in wind farms in recent years and expects to soon offset 100% of its electricity sales with wind power. However, it continues to burn coal and natural gas for baseload power and has not announced plans to phase out those power plants.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

In 2016, he blamed high energy prices on solar and wind power, saying on Twitter: “This is how UK climate policy works. He has also expressed doubts about climate science, tweeting in 2014: “I miss all those crazy articles about why we should fear climate change (burning too much) and peak oil (not enough to burn).”.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The UK's energy mix has transformed dramatically over the last decade as its fleet of clean energy generators has expanded, in large part powered by the CfD scheme since its launch in 2014. Clean energy delivered 43.1

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 23, 2021

It has come down by an average of 78% across the continent since 2014. This is much lower than typical running costs for coal and gas-fired power plants in the region, which we estimate at above $70/MWh in 2021. In Europe, the levelized cost of new-build solar ranges from $33/MWh in Spain and $41/MWh in France, to $50/MWh in Germany.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 19, 2020

But by collecting data on how they can align the incentives of homebuilders, home buyers and utilities, projects like these are important steps toward expanding these techniques across the country, said Ram Narayanamurthy, technical lead for EPRI’s Advanced Energy Communities program, which has done dozens of these projects since 2014.

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Business Green

MARCH 23, 2022

Jack Richardson, climate programmes manager at the Conservative Environment Network (CEN), said attitudes towards onshore wind had changed in the eight years that had passed since Cameron's government first announced the effective ban. We're not in 2014 anymore and it's great to have a Business Secretary who knows that," he wrote.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 10, 2021

A lot of the hard work has come from decarbonising the grid and the shift to renewable power. In 2020, the UK went without coal power for 180 of the 366 days. Wind power contributed 25% of electricity generation, with bioenergy providing 13% and nuclear 16%. However, while a lot has changed, not much has changed.

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Greentown Labs

AUGUST 20, 2021

The 2014 DEMO Day was hosted in partnership with Global Cleantech Meetup Week, which was organized by the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center and ACTION New England. Onvector , which provides industrial water treatment technology powered by lightning. . SolarKal , which advises organizations looking to implement solar power. .

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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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R-Squared Energy

JULY 26, 2021

Global coal consumption has been on a downward trend since peaking in 2014. 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 U.S. Solar electricity consumption rose by a record 1.3

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 1, 2021

In a 2014 review , Hall, Lambert and Stephen Balogh of State University of New York found that PV had a mean EROI of around 10:1. Onshore wind fared better, at 18:1, but the authors noted that “the value in practice may be less due to the need for backup facilities. If that sounds alarming, there’s worse to come.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 17, 2021

SEEM is a good first step towards organized markets for renewables Energy Imbalance Market (EIM) in the west is a work in progress that started in 2014. Transmission Owners (TOs) in the Midwest, power pool participants in New England and the Mid-Atlantic area took this step almost 20 years ago.

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Energy Innovation

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

The inset in the upper right compares observed rates of improvement to the distribution of projected improvement rates provided by IAMs in 2014. Jonas Grafström and Rahmatallah Poudineh, “A Critical Assessment of Learning Curves for Solar and Wind Power Technologies” (Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, 2021), [link].

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Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 1, 2021

The power purchase agreement, or PPA, allows a corporation to match its annual energy consumption with clean energy produced elsewhere. The price of solar and wind power purchase agreements in North America increased 4.3% in the second quarter of 2021, and is up 14.4% year-over-year, according to an analysis by LevelTen Energy.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

The price of solar and wind power purchase agreements in North America increased 4.3% Solar prices increased quarter-over-quarter and year-over-year in Q2 2021 for the first time since Wood Mackenzie began modeling solar market prices in 2014. While PPA prices are trending upward, LevelTen doesn't expect demand to soften.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 4, 2021

The company acquired the 80,000-acre federal lease are off the coast of Maryland in 2014. gigawatts of offshore wind energy capacity. The entire lease area can support approximately 1.5

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 21, 2022

Leveraging the MISO SPP Interregional Planning Stakeholder Advisory Committee (IPSAC) process established in 2014, MISO and SPP CEOs announced the JTIQ study in 2020. So, the seeds for coordination were set in motion in 2011 and formalized in 2014 via IPSAC.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

OCTOBER 17, 2018

million tCO2e decrease in statewide fossil fuel emissions from 2014 to 2035. At the program level, California is the largest economy-wide carbon reduction program in the United states, having managed auction proceeds and investments since 2014. 9 The PERI report evaluates a 30.5 LCPI projects a 30.5 million ($12 CDN/ tCO2e).

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

And while the state’s 22-gigawatt wind power fleet has faced problems stemming from icing of wind turbine blades and relatively low wind conditions that have reduced its ability to contribute to the grid, the primary failure is from the state’s natural-gas, coal and nuclear generator fleet, according to ERCOT data.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 16, 2020

According to Khan by 2030, 60 percent of all energy produced in the country will come from clean energy sources including renewables and almost one third of all vehicles in the country will be powered by electricity. Pakistan currently has 18 wind power projects generating 937MW of electricity and six solar projects generating 418MW.

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 26, 2021

A review of EIA’s end-of-year data reveals strong annual growth rates for wind and solar during each of the last six years (it is difficult to evaluate earlier years because of changes in EIA’s reporting methodology). On average, electrical generation by wind has grown by just over 10% per year since the end of 2014.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 20, 2019

This mechanical power can be used for specific tasks (such as grinding grain or pumping water) in the turbines generator or can be convert this mechanical power into useful power like electricity. Now wind power technology is showing rapid growth and much more helpful than conventional power generation.by

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