DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 16, 2024

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. Premiers who support the fossil fuel industry were quick to exploit the emergency for the apparent political advantage.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 26, 2019

It’s the utility’s second major round of contracts in the past year seeking to marry variable solar and wind power with the capacity and flexibility of batteries. cents per kilowatt-hour in 2016.

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Business Green

MARCH 24, 2022

Boris Johnson is set to push ahead with plans to loosen planning rules to allow an expansion of onshore wind capacity across England and Wales, according to reports, despite the misgivings of some Cabinet members who continue to view turbines as a blight on the countryside. 89% of councils don't allow wind ??96%

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

In a Wall Street Journal article of the same title that year, Sinclair called solar power “comically expensive and ill-judged in cloud-drenched Britain”, adding that “onshore wind energy faces geographic limitations and local resistance”. Huge investment in renewables etc -> higher profits -> higher prices.”.

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Greentown Labs

AUGUST 20, 2021

At the 2016 DEMO Day, we added popcorn pitches for the first time—an element we’ve kept ever since! Zipcar and InTeahouse were the 2016 DEMO Day event partners. Onvector , which provides industrial water treatment technology powered by lightning. . Veolia Research & Innovation, R&I Director, North America Yann Moreau.

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Mr. Sustainability

MARCH 17, 2021

Peter Terium is a Dutch business executive and was the Chief Executive Officer of innogy from 1 April 2016 until 19 December 2017. On the contrary, green hydrogen is produced by using renewable energy rather than fossil fuels, in a process that is called electrolysis. This is not going to be the end of the game.”

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

In a relatively short amount of time, this paradigm has been upended by the growth of affordable renewable energy, both utility-scale and distributed, that does not burn any fuel, and the political, regulatory, and corporate drive to cut emissions. This new era of power has only begun but is already quickly evolving.

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Mr. Sustainability

MARCH 17, 2021

Peter Terium is a Dutch business executive and was the Chief Executive Officer of innogy from 1 April 2016 until 19 December 2017. On the contrary, green hydrogen is produced by using renewable energy rather than fossil fuels, in a process that is called electrolysis. This is not going to be the end of the game.”

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Low Carbon Prosperity

OCTOBER 17, 2018

The initiative, also known as the “Protect Washington Act”, imposes a steadily increasing carbon pollution fee on most fossil fuel uses and directs revenue toward projects to reduce carbon emissions, as well as investments in forests, water, community preparedness, and support to displaced workers and people with lower incomes.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

But new analysis today highlights that while fossil fuel prices spiked in the wake of Russia's illegal invasions, western economies have managed to quickly curb their reliance on Russian oil, gas, and coal. Renewable power capacity added worldwide rose by about a quarter in 2022.

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 30, 2021

The direct way is by reducing fossil fuel production, the main source at 73% of global GHG. In Europe, companies and countries are diversifying into renewables as illustrated by the following: Denmark, leading the world in wind power, recently stopped exploration for oil and gas, and plans to close its oil production by 2050.

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Business Green

JULY 20, 2022

Moreover, Sunak said the plan's implementation would be overseen by a new Department of Energy in Whitehall, thereby once again separating out responsibility for energy from the current Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) created by Theresa May in 2016.

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 26, 2021

Reaching 50% renewables by the end of this decade would still remain well short of President Biden’s call for 80% clean power by 2030 (assuming “clean” means “renewable” and does not include nuclear power or fossil fuels with carbon capture). or more.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 16, 2024

As the boats motored through the swells, the self-styled activists broke into a chorus of pleas for the wind farm construction to cease—chants likely intended less for the still-faraway workers than for the camera there to capture footage. “If you were a fossil fuel project, you would have been shut down long ago.”

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 17, 2021

“Prairie State and its public power owners urge our legislators to develop and support policies that enable the long-term success of technologically advanced, baseload plants, like Prairie State,” she said. Illinois is currently a net exporter of power. A mine in the mix. It just means a whole lot of assets and jobs tied into it.”.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

As the credit neared its phaseout and the Clean Power Plan awaited implementation, analysts warned of an “unprecedented boom” through 2016 before solar hit the skids and dropped into a pit of uncertainty through 2019. The fossil fuels industries still receive various subsidies and incentives.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

There is a widely held belief in the Democrat camp that Hillary Clinton, despite winning the popular vote in 2016, failed to motivate important demographics to turn out in crucial swing states, including - very broadly speaking - youth and minority groups. We're not getting rid of fossil fuels," Biden has said.

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