GreenTechMedia

JULY 28, 2020

microgrid market since 2016, with only 58 megawatts of projects on the books, according to WoodMac’s survey of projects of at least 100 kilowatts in size. The coronavirus pandemic has thrown a wrench into U.S. The first half of 2020 was the slowest for the U.S. and Eastern Seaboard.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 3, 2021

Solar-rich Xinjiang Province, in the country’s northwest, saw curtailment in excess of 30 percent in 2016, according to official data. That becomes especially pressing when population and economic growth, plus the electrification of heat and transport, combine to boost electricity demand. EVs will drive a chunk of that demand.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

It partnered with utility Con Edison to install geothermal heat pumps in Westchester, where demand for natural gas has outstripped supply, leading to a moratorium on new hookups. Previous investors Comcast Ventures, GV, NEA and Lennar saw that progress and wanted to expand on last year's Series A. cleantech startup.

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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. One of Trudeau’s campaign promises was to enforce a federal carbon tax on any province that didn’t already have one, a measure that went into effect in 2016.

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R-Squared Energy

DECEMBER 27, 2020

oil demand plummeted. Due to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on oil demand, U.S. The average natural gas price will be at the lowest level in more than 20 years. The average natural gas price will be at the lowest level in more than 20 years. Russia refused, and that sent oil prices into a nosedive.

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AutoGrid

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Extreme Heat, Peak Load and Demand Response: Record Summer 2018 Challenges Grid Operators Nationwide. On July 24 and 25, as temperatures soared, wildfires burned, and hydropower and gas supplies tightened, the California Independent System Operator (CAISO) issued calls to consumers statewide to voluntarily ratchet down electricity use.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Although the proposed ‘all-source’ procurement would allow existing natural gas-fired peaker plants to compete, it could also open a massive new market for renewable energy, energy storage, demand response and other preferred alternatives to fossil fuels.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 28, 2021

In 2016, Idaho Falls and INL began investigating “black start” and “islanding” capabilities. The tests performed this week demonstrated that small hydropower plants like Idaho Falls’, combined with integrated energy storage technologies may prove to be as nimble as natural gas when it comes to load following (i.e.

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R-Squared Energy

MAY 19, 2020

With the collapse in oil demand, oil producers and refiners have come under intense financial pressure. These companies have upstream (oil- and gas-producing) assets as well as refining assets, so they are getting hit on both ends. Midstream refers to the transport and storage of oil, natural gas, and finished products like gasoline.

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R-Squared Energy

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

natural gas production also skyrocketed. The price of natural gas, oil, and in turn gasoline, all plunged as production surged. By 2016, that had fallen to $1.40 From Obama’s first year in office through his seventh, U.S. oil production rose by nearly 90%. In 2008 gasoline futures averaged $2.45

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

The newly approved changes will boost those targets dramatically for investor-owned utilities Arizona Public Service and Tucson Electric Power, mandating a 50 percent cut in carbon emissions from 2016 to 2018 average levels by 2032 and a 75 percent cut by 2040.

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Business Green

JUNE 21, 2021

The hydrogen automotive market received a blow late last week, after Honda announced it is to discontinue its flagship fuel cell model following disappointing demand. Since debuting in 2016, Honda has sold just 1,900 units of the hydrogen sedan worldwide, according to a report from news agency Nikkei Asia.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Renewable energy was up, while energy demand in general fell due to lockdowns. To put this in perspective, Energy UK gives the following usual breakdown of electricity sources, based on 2016 figures: 42% natural gas, 9% coal, 3.1% Schools, office buildings and many businesses stayed dark.

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Clean Energy Canada

AUGUST 23, 2019

Since 2008, the carbon price has substantially reduced the consumption and demand for fossil fuels including: Reducing demand for gasoline by between7% and 17% by 2011. Decreasing residential natural gas consumption between 6.9% roads in 2016 would have been 4% less efficient. The carbon price incentivized B.C.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

She was invited on the show (1:24) to discuss the National Grid’s ‘demand flexibility service’ scheme, under which households and some businesses receive payments for using less energy at times of peak demand.

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Grist

APRIL 5, 2021

Sniffing out the potent greenhouse gas, which traps 86 times as much heat as carbon dioxide after it’s emitted into the atmosphere, has required her to breathalyze cows and take chemical measurements at large manure lagoons. Natural gas, which is primarily composed of methane, was pitched as a fuel that could transition the U.S.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 4, 2022

For instance, a 2016 DXC Technology white paper stated data centers worldwide account for 2% of the total greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs). All of Doteasy’s operations are run using 100% renewable hydropower, this includes the running of their data centers. Data centers are notorious for their high carbon footprint.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 14, 2020

Mexico's first three clean energy auctions, held in 2016-2017, were seen as an unqualified success, bringing major new solar and wind developers into the market and delivering stunningly low prices. “These locations face limited access to energy while demand continues to rise.". COVID-19 impacting Mexican renewables.

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Business Green

APRIL 7, 2020

But he also insisted that the company "remains keenly aware of the longer-term challenges facing our society", noting that throughout 2019 "demands for urgent action on climate change grew ever louder". The new report also reveals that in 2019 the Net Carbon Footprint fell slightly from 79gCO2e/MJ in 2016 to 78gCO2e/MJ last year.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

One of the nation’s largest coal plants permanently powered down this week after the owners determined it would be uneconomical to continue operating the facility as natural gas and renewable energy prices continue to drop. Natural gas and a massive solar-charged battery.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

That could drive commercial and industrial customers out of the state, weaken public support for the state’s clean energy goals, and drive residential customers to “more gasoline usage and more natural gas usage” rather than toward their electric-powered alternatives, he said.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 17, 2022

2) The wholesale price of natural gas has increased sevenfold over the past 18 months. Storing gas removes the requirement of having endlessly to purchase more whilst plagued by the vicissitudes of endlessly volatile wholesale markets. Everybody's fuel bill is doubling at minimum this winter. Or, like his predecessor, just go.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 26, 2024

liquefied natural gas (LNG). Akin to that demand, Milieudefensie now seeks to compel ING to cut its CO2 emissions roughly in half by 2030 and align its policy with the Paris Agreement’s 1.5°C Related: New Shell documents, unearthed by a Dutch activist, could aid climate litigation. Credit: Sabrina Bedford. billion to the sector.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

SGIP was initially conceived of to provide customers with incentives to reduce their energy use during peak demand times and to promote energy self-sufficiency in response to California’s electricity crisis of 2001. The history. The actions described here are part of our ongoing efforts to strengthen SGIP and make it more effective.

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Greentown Labs

MAY 24, 2022

“The pathway for supply-chain decarbonization demands complex solutions to overcome roadblocks,”said Nobuyuki Baba, SVP and GM of Silicon Valley Branch at MCA. MCA is the holding company for MC group companies in North America. Asahi Kasei America Inc., INTEC I.T.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Nearly 250 renewable energy projects have been withdrawn from MISO from 2016 to 2020, and insufficient transmission infrastructure is one of the main causes, according to a recent study from the Natural Resources Defense Council’s Sustainable FERC Project. While an improvement compared to coal, natural gas is still carbon-intensive.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Taylor, a retired general contractor, was driven to form the community group in 2016 after learning that the U.S. The current push to expand the petrochemical industry and increase LNG exports would lock in an increased demand for natural gas at a time of worsening climate change. Credit: Julie Dermansky.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 13, 2020

For years, seven of the top 10 companies on the Dow Jones Index were oil companies until 2016 when most fell out of the top 10, leaving only Exxon. The Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis reported that “the world’s largest publicly traded oil and gas companies shelled out a total of $71.2 What happened?

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 26, 2022

But the bank also has a uniquely high exposure to the region, serving as the leading international lender to state-run oil companies in Ecuador, Peru, Colombia, and Brazil, according to a new report by The Exit Amazon Oil and Gas campaign, led by advocacy groups Stand.earth and Amazon Watch in partnership with Amazonian Indigenous organizations.

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R-Squared Energy

JANUARY 12, 2021

Internal Revenue Code Section 7704 states that at least 90% of an MLP’s income must come from qualified sources, and Section 613 further requires qualifying energy sources to be depletable resources or their derivatives such as crude oil, petroleum products, natural gas and coal.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

But the past few years have been spectacularly challenging ones for California energy policy, led by Pacific Gas & Electric’s bankruptcy and the threat of more wildfires leading the state’s other big utilities toward insolvency.

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Business Green

MAY 4, 2020

The first assumes rapid decarbonisation of all sectors and would see all major sectors, covering agriculture, industry, transport, buildings, avoided deforestation, and power, abate at least 30 per cent of their 2016-level carbon dioxide emissions by the end of the decade. Power decarbonisation.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The analysis shows that the production, transport, and storage of food are driving greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to those of the EU and Russia combined. Ultra processed foods like snacks, drinks and ready meals, along with chemical fertilisers made from natural gas, are singled out as major sources of pollution.

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R-Squared Energy

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Demand has bounced back, but oil supplies are still about a million barrels per day lower than they were prior to the Covid-19 pandemic. natural gas production primarily comes from two places. One is from wells that are drilled specifically to produce natural gas. natural gas production.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 9, 2022

Most Russian gas reaches Europe via pipeline, so getting U.S. gas to Europe will involve liquifying it and then shipping it across the Atlantic. About 40 percent of natural gas produced in the United States comes from these formations, and, according to the U.S. Radioactive Natural Gas’s Journey to Europe.

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Business Green

AUGUST 13, 2021

He is confident its technology can support a massive jump in demand and commercialisation. For example, Danville relies heavily on nuclear and natural gas for energy, which is one reason AeroFarms decided to build there. There's a reliable demand. But the process of scaling up vertical farming isn't without controversy.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 22, 2020

” In practice, a VPP can be made up of multiple units of a single type of asset, such as a battery or a device in a demand response program, or a heterogeneous mix of assets. A key feature of VPPs is that they can aggregate flexible capacity to address peaks in electricity demand. But there are important differences.

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