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Looming Grid Shortfall Prompts 2.5GW California Procurement Proposal

GreenTechMedia

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. Fitch wrote in Thursday’s proposed decision.

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After Pandemic, New York’s Buildings Face Daunting Decarbonization Mandate

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Saturday marked the one-year anniversary of the passage of perhaps the most ambitious law ever adopted by a U.S. Local Law 97, one of 10 bills in the sweeping Climate Mobilization Act , requires New York City’s 50,000 largest buildings to reduce their carbon emissions by 40 percent by 2030 and by 80 percent by 2050.

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Think tank outlines possible clean energy industrial strategy for the UK

Envirotec Magazine

It also has set and met ambitious clean energy and has the potential to produce an enormous amount of clean electricity, heat, and hydrogen with offshore wind and nuclear power. It will also require an extensive build out of nuclear power and a 3.5x At 2016 prices, this would save around £6 billion per year.

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Big Oil’s Been Secretly Validating Critics’ Concerns about Carbon Capture

DeSmogBlog

And as a trove of industry documents reveals, Exxon is far from the only fossil fuel company selling carbon capture as its golden ticket to continue pumping its products, despite internal concerns about the technology’s feasibility. For more than three decades, our LaBarge facility in Wyoming has been a center for #carboncapture.

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Illinois’ Path to 100% Clean Energy May Mean Escaping From PJM’s Capacity Market

GreenTechMedia

While the details are complex and still in development, their result would be to force administratively set minimum prices on future wind and solar resources, energy efficiency, demand response, and nuclear power plants in PJM's capacity market. The particular threat for Illinois.

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Reports: Energy Secretary Rick Perry to Resign Next Month

GreenTechMedia

Menendez asked Perry whether Trump had asked him to convey his “desire for assistance in investigating one of his political opponents or their family members, or unsubstantiated theories related to Ukraine’s involvement in the 2016 U.S. nuclear arsenal and investing billions of dollars into advanced energy research.

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Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren Demand Changes at New England’s Grid Operator

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Democratic presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, want grid operator New England ISO to give renewable energy a bigger role and fossil-fuel-fired generators a smaller one. The program was approved by FERC in March 2018, and ISO-NE held its first auction under the CASPR rules in February.

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