Renewable Energy World

MARCH 12, 2021

Empresas Públicas de Medellín (EPM) in Colombia will hold a public auction to sell 2 million certificates of carbon credits from three hydroelectric plants and one wind farm. A carbon credit is equivalent to 1 ton of CO2 that is no longer emitted into the atmosphere.

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Mr. Sustainability

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Back in 2015 it managed to generate 100 per cent of its electricity from renewable energy sources for 299 days, and in 2016, it ran for 271 days on everything but fossil fuels. And furthermore, it's aided by its natural resources, namely hydropower and geothermal sources, which many western nations don't have access to.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 4, 2020

Dominion’s new IRP is driven by Virginia's Clean Economy Act passed earlier this year, which calls for 100 percent carbon-free electricity by 2045 and sets targets for energy efficiency, energy storage, and in-state solar and wind power. Under the law, Dominion Virginia and the smaller Appalachian Power Co.

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Business Green

MAY 22, 2020

With financial and technical support from richer nations, the country's government said its headline goal could also rise to 38 per cent cut in emissions by the end of the decade, whereas on its current trajectory Rwanda's emissions are forecast to more than double between 2015 and 2030, reports Climate Home News.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Yet recurrent shortages of hydropower and a shift away from financing coal by such backers as the African Development Bank are increasing the attractiveness of clean energy.". In 2015, Total set an ambition to become the responsible energy major," said Patrick Pouyanné, CEO at the oil giant.

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Grist

JULY 31, 2020

When Apple announced new climate goals last week, the tech giant revealed that some of its sleek, silvery laptops will include a novel material: “low-carbon” aluminum. Apple is poised to become the first company to include some of this low-carbon aluminum in its products.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

generation in 2018, compared to wind and hydropower at around 7 percent each, nuclear at 19 percent, coal at 27 percent, and natural gas at 35 percent. Defend it, that is, from the scheduled annual decline slated to start next year according to the 2015 compromise deal that extended the tax credit last time.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

NREL estimates that voluntary clean power sales reached 164 million megawatt-hours in 2019, accounting for around 32 percent of all non-hydropower renewable electricity sales, or just over 4 percent of all retail electricity sales in the United States. This is a recent phenomenon, and NREL has yet to collect data to track its impact.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

Their report revealed that by combining wind, solar, geothermal and hydropower sources, California could, theoretically, meet 100% of its electricity demand with WWS. Hydropower electricity produced in the Pacific Northwest would be imported to fill in the gaps. Congress between 2015 and 2019. Companion Report.

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Mr. Sustainability

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

That battery factory, with a planned capacity of 40 gigawatt hours, will run on clean and cheap hydropower starting next year. A Time For Growth The need to reduce carbon emissions has enormous consequences for Europe, explains Carlsson. At the end of 2015, Carlsson had enough of the hard work and left. In Skellefteå.,

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Energy Innovation

JULY 2, 2021

Providing reliable, affordable, and low-carbon electricity in a warming world requires careful consideration of evolving electric energy supplies and demands. They use a series of models to explore energy mixes that include coal, hydropower, nuclear, solar, natural gas, and wind in the future relative to today. Southeast in 2050.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 29, 2021

Between 2015 and 2018, emerging markets accounted for an increasingly larger share of this investment, yet high-income economies have accounted for the majority since 2018. Clearly the green finance revolution has taken the world by storm, with investment in low-carbon energy remaining robust throughout the pandemic.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MARCH 10, 2021

Carbon trading, co-pollutants, and environmental equity: Evidence from California’s cap-and-trade program (2011-2015) ) In this Part 2, I provide some extended details on the assessments presented in Part I. Evidence from California’s carbon market emissions data 2012-2017 (2020).

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MARCH 10, 2021

Carbon trading, co-pollutants, and environmental equity: Evidence from California’s cap-and-trade program (2011-2015) ) In this Part 2, I provide some extended details on the assessments presented in Part I. Evidence from California’s carbon market emissions data 2012-2017 (2020).

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MARCH 9, 2021

Likely the most widely-cited and influential analysis of California’s pollution-equity trends in the first several years of its Cap-and-Invest program is a 2018 paper led by Lara Cushing and Rachel Morello-Frosch titled Carbon trading, co-pollutants, and environmental equity: Evidence from California’s cap-and-trade program (2011-2015).

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MARCH 9, 2021

Likely the most widely-cited and influential analysis of California’s pollution-equity trends in the first several years of its Cap-and-Invest program is a 2018 paper led by Lara Cushing and Rachel Morello-Frosch titled Carbon trading, co-pollutants, and environmental equity: Evidence from California’s cap-and-trade program (2011-2015).

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 7, 2021

Indeed, new energy jobs from 2015 through 2019 accounted for almost 11 percent of total job growth in the nation, according to the report. In the five years preceding the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. energy sector grew by 12 percent, adding almost one million jobs (915,000 said the report), which was double the growth of the overall U.S.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 25, 2020

Schools give us a glimpse into what carbon neutrality looks like. Dickinson College Score: 80.67 | Carlisle, Pennsylvania The very green Red Devils became carbon-neutral this past school year, with help from an LED lighting retrofit, the installation of a three-megawatt solar field on campus, and a campus-wide behavior change campaign.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

In 2015 the solar and wind industries bargained for extensions by agreeing to allow the credits to phase down, but they have since changed their tune: The wind and solar industries have both been publicly lobbying for continued tax credits. Despite that support, renewable energy tax credits face an uphill battle to be passed.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2022

IEA reports that global energy-related carbon emissions set to rise by under one per cent this year, fuelling hopes peak emissions could be close. Experts will be wary of predicting a global emissions peak given emissions fell in marginally 2015 and 2019 before plummeting during a covid-afflicted 2020. Could it finally be happening?

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 22, 2020

Utilities will be front and center in America's efforts to combat global warming, from drastically cutting their own carbon emissions to assisting other sectors, like transportation, in cutting theirs. Such slow growth in one of the country's sunniest states could be seen as a lost opportunity to reduce carbon emissions.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 2, 2020

Senate will consider a bipartisan energy package this week that could be this year’s best legislative hope to increase federal funding for a number of energy technologies, from solar, wind and batteries, to more efficient fossil fuel-fired power and carbon capture. The American Energy Innovation Act, introduced Thursday by Sens.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 11, 2020

The bill has come under fire from clean energy groups for its lack of targets or mandates for reducing carbon emissions, as well as provisions to direct billions of dollars to fossil fuel research. Energy storage. Several of the storage provisions were introduced by Sen.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

His administration dismantled the Clean Power Plan , Obama's signature energy-sector carbon-reduction policy, and replaced it with a much weaker standard called the Affordable Clean Energy rule. Meanwhile, the federal government’s carbon-reduction policy abdication has been counteracted by state-level action.

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