Renewable Energy World

JUNE 29, 2021

Since 2011, annual global energy transition investment (renewable energy, CCS, electrified transport, hydrogen, electrified heat, energy storage) has almost doubled, from $290b to $501b. 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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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 6, 2020

BNEF: Sub-Saharan African enjoys renewables investment surge. Investment in renewables across sub-Saharan Africa, excluding South Africa, jumped $600m in 2018 to $2.8bn, according to new data from BloombergNEF (BNEF). Carlos Tavares, chairman of Groupe PSA, said the investment would similarly support the company's EV plans.

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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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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

The solar industry met in Salt Lake City with a more sweeping and disciplined message than in some years past : Rally to extend the federal investment tax credit and buckle up for a decade of massive industry growth. The organization said the mobilization would double the solar workforce and spur private investment of $345 billion.

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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. He invested in a number of start-ups and spent time with his family. A fantastic time', Carlsson recalls. "We End of European industry.

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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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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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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

AUGUST 4, 2021

Over the past decade, $3 trillion has been invested in clean power worldwide. degrees Fahrenheit), the best-case scenario outlined at the Paris Climate Accord, global investment in renewable energy needs to double over the next decade. Read more: First half of 2021 sees record investment in renewable energy. degrees Celsius (2.7

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 13, 2020

In December, Smart Wires raised $75 million in growth equity financing led by Lime Rock New Energy, adding to previous investments of $54.6 million in 2015. That’s a “much more flexible way to invest in the system” than the all-or-nothing decisions usually faced by transmission planners, Erwin noted.

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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. Still, the initiative is an important sign that major companies are willing to invest in greener metals. “I

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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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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

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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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 25, 2020

Cornell University Score 82.14 | Ithaca, New York In March 2020, Cornell saw 100 percent of its campus power needs met by solar, hydropower, and other renewable energy projects. In May, the Cornell Board of Trustees announced a moratorium on fossil fuel investments, following more than a decade of student and faculty activism.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

The Growing Renewable Energy and Efficiency Now, or GREEN, Act would extend the federal Investment Tax Credit for solar and offshore wind for five years and keep a 60 percent Production Tax Credit for onshore wind — set to expire this year — in place for five years.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 19, 2020

Last year wind overtook hydropower in total generation, and 2020 is on track to be a record year for new wind farm construction. In 2015, the company devised a five-year plan to move toward a more balanced portfolio. Onshore wind is now the leading renewable energy technology in the U.S., Solar accounted for 40 percent of new U.S.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2022

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. And despite drought conditions in many key regions global hydropower output is expected to rise year-on-year, contributing over one-fifth of the expected growth in renewable power.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 22, 2020

At the same time, NextEra's investment, backed by the certainty of rate recovery, has boosted the state's solar generation far beyond what would be possible with distributed PV, and at lower cost. Third-party solar installers only won the right to serve Florida customers in 2018, and rooftop PV penetration remains low.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 11, 2020

The bill also doesn’t include any extension of investment tax credits for solar power or federal tax credits for electric vehicles that were left out of the $1.37 Energy storage — a category that ranges from behind-the-meter batteries to massive hydropower projects — appears in multiple parts of the Senate bill.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 2, 2020

The bill also doesn’t include any extension of investment tax credits for solar power or federal tax credits for electric vehicles that were left out of the $1.37 Energy storage — a category that ranges from behind-the-meter batteries to massive hydropower projects — appears in multiple parts of the Senate bill.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

That’s all been accomplished despite Section 201 tariffs, a waning federal Investment Tax Credit and an uncertain policy landscape. The solar industry's most important policy has been the 30 percent federal Investment Tax Credit. The ITC that Congress extended in 2015 sweetens the economics for batteries paired with solar.

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