DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Lem is now one of the applicants in a recent false advertising complaint against the Canadian Gas Association, which has been running ads in the Globe & Mail and on Facebook describing natural gas as “clean-burning” and a “smart choice” for people’s homes. Read more about the campaign in this DeSmog story ). Source: CAPE.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Henrik Poulsen took over as CEO at Ørsted in 2012, when it was still known as Danish Oil and Natural Gas. By 2025, Ørsted will be carbon-neutral. In 2017 Dong sold its last oil and gas assets to U.K. Dong produced just short of 200,000 barrels a day in 2012. Shell and Total are also partners.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 3, 2020

territory reimagines an electricity system severely damaged by Hurricane Maria in 2017. Microgrids as well as solar and storage have grown in popularity in Puerto Rico since Hurricanes Maria and Irma in 2017. Once a combined-heat-and-power project, it now relies on natural gas. Resiliency, clean energy on an island grid.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Researchers conclude that as much as five times more methane is being leaked from oil and gas production than reported. Methane is the second most important greenhouse gas after carbon dioxide, contributing about 0.55°C One major source of methane to the atmosphere is the extraction and transport of oil and gas.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

In order to manufacture products, companies in the industry sector must burn fuel, typically natural gas, to create heat. Technologies such as geothermal, biomass and solar, which Skyven initially focused on, can provide an alternative to natural gas to generate heat for industrial processes.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 21, 2020

where the climate benefits of coal power plant retirements were undermined by the rise of natural gas. Global carbon emissions had leveled off in the middle of the last decade, but began to climb again in 2017, breaking records anew each year since.

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R-Squared Energy

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Both were aided by legislation aimed at reducing carbon dioxide emissions from power plants. The first was that the shale gas boom in the U.S. unleashed massive new supplies of cheap natural gas. This made it economical for power plants to switch from coal to natural gas. carbon dioxide emissions.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 18, 2023

An industry group that’s called Canada’s federal climate targets “unachievable” and referred to opponents of oil and gas expansion as “climate alarmists” has received nearly $1.23 It counts among its affiliate members LNG Canada, a $40 billion gas export project on B.C.’s If exposed to air, it quickly vaporizes back to its gas form.

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Charged

AUGUST 25, 2021

Russian based startup L-Charge has developed an off-grid EV charger that can be powered by liquid natural gas (LNG), hydrogen, or a mixture of the two—the ratio can be adjusted depending on regulations and fuel prices. With the electrification of the vehicle fleet, it seems unlikely that this figure will ever recover.”.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

State regulators rejected NextEra’s next bid, an $18 billion offer for Texas utility Oncor , in 2017 on concerns that the deal would not protect the credit rating of the distribution utility amid the Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceeding of parent company Energy Future Holdings Corp. In 2016, NextEra’s $4.3 And Exelon Corp.,

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Previous articles discussed the trends in global carbon dioxide emissions , the overall highlights of the Review, the production and consumption of petroleum, natural gas production and consumption, and coal production and consumption. It is naturally going to take some time to convince a skeptical public of this.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 16, 2024

Smith’s comments were made in the context of home heating costs within a wider discussion concerning carbon taxes and the affordability crisis. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced a three-year “carbon price carve out” for home heating oil in October 2023. The most extreme reaction was from Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 15, 2020

Vice President Al Gore to use advanced computing techniques to convert satellite images and sensor data into a publicly available source of real-time data on carbon dioxide emissions and other air pollution. based Carbon Tracker and U.S.-based Building a global database of marginal carbon emissions.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

These efforts include false claims but also often ignore the existing facts about blue hydrogen and the carbon capture technology that it required for its production. This process is called steam reforming, and breaks down methane into hydrogen and carbon dioxide. But Zapantis made claims that are not possible to substantiate.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 17, 2023

billion liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in her Pennsylvania hometown, she will be facing off against some of the most powerful fossil fuel interests in the United States. LNG boom threatens to release vast amounts of methane, a powerful climate pollutant that is the main component of natural gas.

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Clean Energy Canada

JULY 2, 2020

The clean-burning fuel does not produce carbon emissions upon consumption and so can replace fossil fuels in many sectors including heavy industry, transportation and heating. Currently, the majority of hydrogen around the world is produced from fossil fuels (76% from natural gas, 23% from coal). This is known as blue hydrogen.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 15, 2021

has formed a new Energy Transition Ventures group to identify and pursue commercial opportunities within the low-carbon sector. The company is one of the biggest in the oil and gas infrastructure sector, with close to 85,000 miles of pipelines and 144 terminals either under ownership or interest, according to reports.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 12, 2023

In an effort to gain federal approval for a natural gas storage project in south Louisiana, Sempra LNG lobbyists crafted letters for Louisiana elected officials to send to federal regulators in support of the project. billion cubic feet of natural gas. billion cubic feet of natural gas.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Since its 2017 spinout from Google’s X “Moonshot Factory,” the company has installed about 500 of its geothermal heating and cooling systems in New York and Connecticut. households use natural gas or oil for heating, and most of the remainder use older, less efficient electric resistance heating.

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R-Squared Energy

JUNE 15, 2023

This transition is being driven by several factors, including environmental regulations, competition from natural gas, and the declining cost of renewable energy. To date, a large fraction of coal’s displacement has come from natural gas.

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Business Green

JULY 16, 2020

Oil and Gas Climate Initiative hails 'further step in support of the Paris Agreement' as national oil majors back new emissions goals. The world's largest oil companies have today announced a new target to reduce carbon intensity across the industry, in a bid to bring its upstream greenhouse gas emissions into line with the Paris Agreement.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Two years ago, Facebook — one of the 50 largest public companies in the world — pledged to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from its own operations 75 percent below 2017 levels. Facebook's use of carbon offsets.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 13, 2020

Heat makes up 35 percent of global energy consumption, and when it comes to space heating, direct combustion of fossil fuels in buildings plays a dominant role across the globe and is a major source of greenhouse gas emissions. Natural gas and fuel oil satisfy 60 percent of heating needs of households in Europe. In the U.S.,

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 26, 2021

Keith Schue and I were introduced through email in 2017 by the executive director of New York Geo , Bill Nowak. A much better choice was to switch the existing chillers from gas-fired steam turbine chillers to electrified chillers, significantly reducing the carbon footprint to cool the massive complex.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

Climate activists say the state’s progress on reducing building emissions has been far too slow given the pace of the climate crisis, and that it needs to end incentives for energy-efficient natural gas heating. million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent emitted in Connecticut in 2018 was up 2.7% for natural gas and 6.6%

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Over the course of several flights in 2021, they spotted frequent gas plumes from platforms, storage tanks, and pipelines offshore, leading the team to believe that the 151 platforms near the Louisiana coast had a much higher methane leak rate than what’s been measured for onshore oil and gas production. “I oil and 15 percent of U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

The National Grid aims to switch the UK securely and efficiently to a 100 percent low-carbon grid led by wind and solar energy by 2035, and expects to have stints of fully carbon-free UK electricity as early as 2025.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

For example, state records suggest that the Chevron Richmond Refinery, one of California’s largest emitters, released more greenhouse gases in 2017 and 2018 — the last years for which data are publicly available — than it has since 2008. The rest of the money goes toward projects that reduce greenhouse gas emissions or improve water quality.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 14, 2019

for the whole of the third quarter, the first time that has happened, according to research by the Carbon Brief. Fossil fuels’ share of the electricity mix was 10 times larger than renewables’ a decade ago, Carbon Brief's data shows. insisting that it could manage a carbon neutral grid as early as 2025.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 2, 2023

They’ve got some of the biggest and brightest minds in the world developing those low carbon solutions. Green hydrogen, produced using electricity is the only zero carbon option.“ Green hydrogen, produced using electricity is the only zero carbon option.“ They’ve got big money. They’ve got great scientists working for them.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 21, 2020

Pacific Gas & Electric is turning to a decidedly low-tech solution to keep its customers’ lights on for this year’s coming fire season: mobile diesel generators. Vote Solar, an advocacy group, argued the plan could undermine solar, batteries and other carbon-free alternatives.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 18, 2023

Pierce was on the institute’s board of directors from 2017 to 2020, according to the institute’s annual reports. If and when this gas export terminal goes ahead it could produce carbon emissions equivalent to adding 800,000 gas-burning cars to roads in a year. degrees and…thrived.” .

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 27, 2020

Unabated natural-gas use will be halved by 2038. actually hitting its targeted carbon reductions. National Grid ESO itself has a goal of being able to support a carbon-free grid by 2025, which it is on track to achieving. gigawatts of solar every year from now till 2050, far above its current pace.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 17, 2020

Many more long-term challenges await PG&E, such as adapting to large portions of its customer base being served by community choice aggregators (CCAs), or its natural gas network being rendered obsolete by the state’s zero carbon by 2045 mandate. Credit: PG&E). Gavin Newsom’s Wildfires Blue Ribbon Commission.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Gavin Newsom and state lawmakers and regulators to improve its safety after a string of deadly wildfires in 2017 and 2018. million-customer utility committed to retire coal-fired power plants by 2050 and increase its share of renewable energy to cut carbon emissions by 90 percent by 2040.

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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. SRP owns 42.9 percent owned by the U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

The shift to low-carbon energy will transform oil companies, and BP wants to be at the vanguard of the industry in making those changes — having set a net-zero target for 2050 earlier this year. BP is targeting returns of 8-10 percent from its low carbon power business. But that "reset" isn't meant to be forever.

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