DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 20, 2022

When she returned in 2018, long after the war had ended, a journalist encouraged her to go into the hills and take a look at some new hydropower plants on the river Lumbardhi i Deçanit. An area called ‘Zalli i Rupes, where environmental campaigners say gravel was dug for the construction of hydropower plants further down the river.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

AUGUST 29, 2023

Almost all forms of renewable power became more competitive in 2022, with offshore wind and hydropower as the only exceptions. This was lower than the 279 MW of 2021, about a quarter of the decade’s record deployment of 661 MW back in 2015, and is the lowest annual deployment since 2011.

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 8, 2021

The drought conditions have affected California’s water supply levels and hydropower plants. California’s previous drought, which lasted from 2012 to 2016, led to significant declines in hydroelectric generation and the state’s first-ever mandatory water restrictions in 2015.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

In June, AWEA along with solar, hydropower and storage industry trade groups also introduced a joint vision to achieve “majority renewables” by 2030.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 29, 2020

The biggest long-term challenges for Renewable Energy look to be its businesses in hydropower and electrical grid equipment, both taken on as part of GE’s ill-considered acquisition of France’s Alstom in 2015. "But in the near term, [offshore wind] is an earnings and cash drag for us," Culp said.

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Renewables-Info

OCTOBER 21, 2020

biomass, geothermal, hydropower, solar, wind) dominated new U.S. June, July, August) was provided by solar (1,448 MW), wind (1,309 MW), and hydropower (24 MW). By comparison, in August 2015, coal's share was 26.5% (now 20.1%), nuclear was 9.2% (now 8.7%), and oil was 3.9% (now 3.3%). rooftop) solar. share five years ago to 44.6%

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Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2023

In fresh statistics released today, Britain's grid operator said more than 50 per cent of the nation's power mix came from a wind, solar, nuclear, hydropower and other zero carbon sources for extended periods of 2022, helping to significantly drive down carbon emissions from UK energy generation. per cent.

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Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 10, 2021

That spend would be around 20% lower than what was invested across all of the country’s generation resources between 2015 and 2019. . Current nuclear and large hydropower capacity add up to around 50 GW. billion annual investment. Installing 450 GW of renewables by 2030 could help meet Modi’s target, the report said.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

China alone is forecast to account for a third of the world's entire electricity consumption by 2025, up from a quarter in 2015, although the IEA said there remain uncertainties about the country's future power growth due to ongoing Covid-19 restrictions and global economic headwinds.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 15, 2021

A partial eclipse in March of 2015 reduced output by 15 GW in Germany, according to Reuters, and a 2017 total eclipse in the United States reduced output at utility-scale PV installations across the country, according to the United States Energy Information Administration. However, it only lasted about two hours.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

According to new research , the global average project size of floating solar projects has been climbing steadily since 2015 and is expected to continue rising. If the floating solar array capacity is large enough, it can operate in hybrid fashion with the hydroelectric plant, providing energy when hydropower production is low.

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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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Business Green

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

At the end of 2015, cumulative green debt reached a total volume of $104bn. New criteria for bonds from heavy emitting sectors are set to be published, building on the five new sector criteria for grids and storage, hydropower, bioenergy, geothermal, and shipping that were launched during 2021.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 4, 2020

Dominion’s Virginia generation portfolio today is roughly one-third natural gas, one-third nuclear and one-quarter coal, with just over 5 percent ascribed to renewable energy, much of it hydropower and biomass.

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The Verge: Energy

APRIL 24, 2024

Costa Rica made global headlines in 2015 for generating 100 percent of its electricity from renewable energy for 75 days in a row. In the winter, like a six-month period from June to December, many of the hydropower plants get surplus flows. That’s when we have low wind, but we have more hydropower. So, it will be affected.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

For example, in 2015, the weighted average battery duration was a little more than 46 minutes, but by 2019, weighted average battery durations were 1.5 Although battery storage has slightly higher round-trip efficiency, pumped-storage facilities typically operate at utilization factors that are twice as high as batteries.

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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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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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Business Green

JULY 1, 2022

The country is endowed with excellent resources, with geothermal energy pulsating just under its surface and thundering rivers providing hydropower galore. That cleared the way for the country to reach 100 per cent renewable electricity in 2015 (more on that in a later column).

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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.

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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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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 12, 2021

At the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Colombia committed to reducing its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 51% by 2030, a responsibility that was transferred to all industrial sectors, including electricity.

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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. At the end of 2015, Carlsson had enough of the hard work and left. 700 kilometers to the north, the real factory will be built, which runs on hydropower and residual heat. In Skellefteå.,

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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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Energy Innovation

JULY 2, 2021

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. Of note, this demand evaluation focuses only on demand changes driven by climate change; other factors such as population growth are held constant at 2015 levels. 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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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 4, 2021

Geothermal and hydropower plants can also support ecological regeneration. After a public backlash over the environmental impact of a hydropower project, Landsvirkjun redesigned its approach to renewable energy infrastructure projects. One planned geothermal power plant even includes a hotel and greenhouse.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 13, 2020

million in 2015. Ireland’s EirGrid tested Smart Wires’ PowerLine Guardian in 2015, but sees far greater applications for its SmartValve, Jon O’Sullivan, the utility’s innovation manager, said in an interview last week. million in 2018 and $30.8 “Now we’re looking to scale up to meet global demand.

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Grist

JULY 31, 2020

Apple said aluminum represented 27 percent of its product manufacturing footprint in 2015. The tech firm now uses more recycled aluminum in its devices and prioritizes suppliers who run their facilities with hydropower, not coal. Such efforts have reduced Apple’s aluminum-related emissions by 63 percent, the company reported in March.

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Business Green

JANUARY 19, 2021

Germany maintained its position as the leading producer of wind power source for every quarter since 2015, with Spain, Britain, France, and Sweden also relying on wind to deliver a significant proportion of their electricity mix. This trend was seen very starkly in the 2020 data and is likely to become more pronounced in the next few years.

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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. In Part 1 , I revisited some of the key findings from the influential study by Lara Cushing and Rachel Morello-Frosch et al.

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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. In Part 1 , I revisited some of the key findings from the influential study by Lara Cushing and Rachel Morello-Frosch et al.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

The global energy body's annual clean power report today reveals almost 90 per cent of all electricity capacity added in 2020 came from renewables, led by wind, hydropower, and solar PV projects.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 28, 2021

I recently conducted a Zoom interview with Jacobson in which he shares his journey from a competitive tennis player in smog-filled 1970s Los Angeles to his invitations to speak with Google execs, David Letterman, Vice President Joe Biden and attendees of the 2015 Paris Climate Conference. What drew him to these audiences?

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 30, 2021

Then in 2015, the Los Angeles Times, Inside Climate News, and the Columbia Journalism School blew the case open by tracing the crime link to ExxonMobil, then the world’s largest oil company. The initial Exxon Knew revelations in 2015 received relatively little follow up coverage beyond the outlets that published them.

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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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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 29, 2021

E2’s latest unemployment report released for the month of December shows the clean energy sector finished the year with 429,000 (12% of the nation’s clean energy workforce) still unemployed – marking the first year that clean energy employment saw a decline compared to the previous year and lowest total since 2015.

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