ThinkGeoEnergy

AUGUST 29, 2023

Between 2021 and 2022, the global weighted average levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) of ten newly commissioned geothermal projects fell by 22% to USD 0.056 kWh. This statistic was reported by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) in their newly published document, “Renewable Power Generation Costs in 2022.”

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 16, 2024

A major cold snap led to record electricity usage in the Canadian province of Alberta over the weekend, culminating in demands from provincial utilities to limit consumption. The extreme cold and record-setting electrical consumption has reignited local debates about whether heat pumps are a viable option in the province.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 12, 2020

Engie is on the lookout for more clean energy acquisitions in the U.S., With a long history in fossil fuels and nuclear energy, Engie has pivoted dramatically toward renewables over the past few years — a strategy that included the U.S. “Do we want to continue with acquisitions? ” Avice-Huet said.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

It requires a lot of energy to run capture facilities and compress the carbon dioxide gas for transportation to where it is injected underground or used in other processes,” said Stockman. “It It is, therefore, both an energy and money drain on our economy that is unnecessary for most of the energy services we require.”

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 10, 2020

The French city of Nîmes recently welcomed the Ada Lovelace Secondary School, Occitania’s first-ever clean-energy school that’s earned both BEPOS energy level certification and a sustainability rating of Silver-level BDM (Bâtiments Durables Méditerranéens). A clean-energy school in southern France draws power from the sun.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

When you’ve followed the evolving research of a leading clean energy expert and become a supporter of his vision for a global clean energy transition, it should come as no surprise that I was eager to crack open Mark Jacobson’s 2021 book release, 100% Clean, Renewable Energy and Storage for Everything. Jacobson’s Early Story.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 13, 2021

New solid fuel local space heaters will have to be type-tested to measure the environmental performance of the devices, under regulations coming into effect at the start of the new year. From 1st January 2022, a new regulation will impose Ecodesign requirements for solid fuel local space heaters. g/kg (dry matter) for biomass or 5.0

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Business Green

APRIL 25, 2022

Two reports out this week have highlighted how developments across 2021 are set to catalyse policy and technological trends that could catalyse the retreat of fossil fuels across the global energy system. At times the fossil fuel economy can seem indefatigable.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2021

These revelations quickly spurred calls for Congress to investigate Exxon’s and other fossil fuel companies’ efforts to obstruct climate action. For years, academics, journalists, and activists have been unearthing documents proving that the fossil fuel industry knew about the dangers of climate change since the late 1950s.

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Business Green

JULY 1, 2022

Iceland's start-up community is looking to go global with its efforts to bolster the clean energy transition. The island nation has adopted an incredible goal of being fossil fuel-free by 2040 , which would be a global first. That means there is no need for an external power source, such as a diesel generator, solar or wind.

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Greentown Labs

AUGUST 20, 2021

Throughout the years, DEMO Day grew into an event that featured lab tours, dynamic speaking programs featuring industry leaders and elected officials, popcorn pitches from our members, and, most crucially, opportunities for the entire climatetech and cleantech ecosystem to connect with our startups. Massachusetts Clean Energy Center.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Trade body Energy UK becomes latest influential group to endorse plans to shrink electricity bills by reducing the costs paid to legacy low carbon electricity generators.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 19, 2021

Local community solar projects enhanced by one-stop shop digital systems are set to play a crucial role in the global energy transition. The History of Civilization is in many ways the History of Energy. The control of energy has been a key – some say the key – factor in geopolitics and capitalism.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Industry Voice: From UNFCCC to NDCs and IPCC to 1.5°C, This is the global temperature rise above pre-industrial levels targeted by the 2015 Paris Agreement. This is the global temperature rise above pre-industrial levels targeted by the 2015 Paris Agreement. Energy transition. Energy transition.

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Business Green

AUGUST 19, 2020

The government has offered the firmest indication yet of its vision for the development of carbon capture storage and utilisation (CCUS) over the next decade, as it this week fired the starting gun towards building what will be key pillar of the UK's 2050 net zero strategy.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 25, 2022

The data was collected by instruments on board a special aircraft that flew over the Manaus pollution plume for about 100 kilometers (km) in 2014 and 2015 during the Green Ocean Amazon (GOAmazon) scientific project. They can also be produced by human activities such as the burning of fossil fuels.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

But in the intervening decades, the region’s rivers were dammed or channeled and the fossil fuel era dawned across Appalachia. Satellite data crunched by SkyTruth reveal how much of the land in Appalachia has been directly affected by surface mining from 1985 to 2015 (in yellow). Mountaintop Mining. Image Credit: SkyTruth.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Dr Azad Camyab, founder and CEO of the London-based company Pearlstone Energy, talks about the challenges and opportunities of virtual power plants (VPPs) in the burgeoning UK market with Smart Energy International. The cleanest and greenest energy is the energy not used!”. Have you read?

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2023

“I am here to sound the alarm alongside my German colleagues: This is destruction masked as economic development, and we will do everything we can to protect our homes and to stop it,” said Anne Rolfes, director of the Louisiana Bucket Brigade , a New Orleans nonprofit working with communities affected by the fossil fuel industry.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 22, 2021

NOx gases are mostly produced by the combustion of hydrocarbons in vehicles and engines, as well as industrial processes such as power generation and cement manufacture. NO2 is generated by industrial processes including cement manufacture. Why are NOx emissions a problem? Chemiluminescent photon detector.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 11, 2023

The WSPA’s description of its dinner says that “nothing is off the table” — adding that “we want to hear from you and answer any questions you may have about the oil and gas industry’s role in the energy transition.” To get there, industries need to lead the way with innovative technologies and solutions.”

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Grist

MAY 18, 2022

The progress update builds on previous data compiled by the Lancet commission, which showed that pollution was responsible for 9 million deaths in 2015. Some of the biggest global health projects tend to be oriented toward infectious diseases, leaving pollution mitigation up to less powerful departments of the environment.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

DECEMBER 15, 2015

All eyes are on Paris for the 2015 U.N. But today, the solar industry employs 174,000 people , more than Google, Apple, Facebook and Twitter combined , and job growth is 20 times higher than the rest of the U.S. The energy sector, worth trillions of dollars, is the second-largest economic sector in the world, behind the military.

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Business Green

JANUARY 22, 2021

This is a serious departure from the past, but without the end to the use of unabated fossil fuels, we will not be able to reach the climate targets," said Dr Werner Hoyer, as he presented the bank's annual results for 2020. Hamburg coal power plant to be converted into mega-electrolyser for green hydrogen.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

BASF’s wine tasting is just one example of many such pandemic-style lobbying efforts by the European agriculture industry since the EU has attempted to pass sweeping new policies to combat climate change through measures included in its “Green Deal,” first presented in December 2019. Meet the Industry Trade Groups.

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Smart Energy International

JULY 19, 2022

Taking the ‘human factor’ into consideration when designing and implementing energy policy is crucial to achieving energy transition goals, writes Dr Rosa Garcia-Verdugo. Have you read: PG&E implements behavioural Energy Efficiency Programme National Grid – Scaling demand response with behavioural outreach.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 30, 2021

2019 was the first full year that the data was reported under 2015 EPA regulations requiring refineries to install benzene monitors at the outer edges of their plants. In a few cases, the report points to spills or other incidents that may have occurred outside a refinery’s boundaries but were captured by the fenceline monitors.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Clean & Prosperous Institute (CaPI) believes it’s important to establish a baseline expectation as we continue to monitor the evolution of allowance prices and compliance costs. The majority of compliance obligation falls on transportation fuel suppliers. The fossil fuel supply chain involves many steps, each with embedded profits.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Clean and Prosperous Institute (CaPI) believes it’s important to establish a baseline expectation as we continue to monitor the evolution of allowance prices and compliance costs. The majority of compliance obligation falls on transportation fuel suppliers. The fossil fuel supply chain involves many steps, each with embedded profits.

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R-Squared Energy

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

The court rejected an appeal by French energy company Total, which had invested 300 million euros to convert a crude oil refinery into a biofuel plant that would use palm oil feedstock. of transport’s energy mix would need to be composed of biofuels. A powerful economic driver. C by 2100, at least 26.3%

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

Each of these individuals is playing the long game and is in a strong position to move their companies and industries into what could be a more hopeful period of reconciliation, recovery and repair. Most support science-based targets and sit on multiple boards, collaborations and advocacy groups to further industry-level sustainability goals.

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Green Tech Challenge

DECEMBER 17, 2018

UK to Reduce Plastic Waste Plastic waste is a burning issue in the UK, as its recycling industry is largely affected by China’s new ban on foreign waste. Our alumni Bluebenu is developing a lead technology that transforms the plastic pollution rescued from the oceans into eco-fuel.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Castillo clarified that the “barbecue” was a ground flare at the $10 billion manufacturing complex — a joint venture between ExxonMobil and Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC) known as Gulf Coast Growth Ventures (GCGV). The industry claims ground flares can be cleaner than tower flares. Credit: Julie Dermansky.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

As such, in 2022 81% of S&P 500 companies reported their own emissions (scope 1), and the emissions of the electricity they bought (scope 2). The Paris Climate Agreement : COP21 took place in Paris 2015, and marked a new momentum for climate action. The EU also expects claimed GHG emissions to be both audited and validated.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Analysis by E3G and Global Energy Monitor calculates pipeline for pre-construction coal plants has plummeted 76 per cent since 2015. Moreover, it claims a further 16 countries only have one new coal power plant each in development, putting them just "one project away from a future without coal".

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

By the late 1970s, the petroleum industry had spent about two decades collecting information from their own scientists and outside experts and knew that burning fossil fuels would create catastrophic climate change. Man’s use of fossil fuels and exploitation of the land,” federal scientists concluded.

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Business Green

JUNE 2, 2020

The dramatic decline in demand for oil products as lockdown measures kicked in around the world has brutally exposed the dangers of making fossil fuels the global economy's most influential commodity. The UK's Green Building Council has called for all buildings and infrastructure to be made climate resilient by 2030.

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