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. Consumers also expanded smart-thermostat-enabled demand response to hundreds of thousands of customers and took other steps to improve customer communications and outreach.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 3, 2021

GW in 2012 to 130 GW in 2017, according to data from the Asia Europe Clean Energy Advisory. 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. Now it’s happening again.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 29, 2020

PG&E has been held criminally responsible for 84 deaths in the November 2018 Camp fire and is under criminal probation for its role in the deadly 2010 San Bruno natural-gas pipeline explosion. Critics question whether PG&E will be able to raise the capital its transformation will require amid the COVID-19 economic downturn.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 14, 2020

The "ultimate end goal" is undoing Mexico's 2013 energy market reform, which opened up the country's energy sector to private investment, Gaylord wrote in an email. “These locations face limited access to energy while demand continues to rise.". AMLO focused on the energy sector as soon as he came to power.

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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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GreenBiz

JANUARY 4, 2021

And the demand and interest in this technology is only growing stronger. That's one reason a group of fleet leaders who spoke at the GreenBiz VERGE 20 conference late last year said they’re integrating renewable natural gas and other efficiency improvements alongside a long-term push to electrify. Photo courtesy of Tesla.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 17, 2020

The San Francisco-based utility is emerging from bankruptcy with a massive debt load that could make it harder to raise the tens of billions of dollars of investment needed to prevent its power grid from causing more devastating wildfires. PG&E plans to invest about $40 billion over the next five years into its power grid.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 2, 2020

Over the last 30 years, the transition away from centralized energy infrastructure, global climate events like the devastating hurricanes of 2017, extreme volatility in the cost of fossil fuels, and a growing demand for renewable energy have shaped an unfamiliar theoretical term into not only a buzzword but a cornerstone of infrastructure planning.

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Clean Energy Canada

JUNE 14, 2022

Sales of gas-powered cars already peaked in 2017, and global automakers are racing to meet electric-vehicle (EV) demand. If other countries with climate plans follow them, then global oil demand could peak as early as 2025, according to the International Energy Agency. We already know they were right about that last part.

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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. Japanese car maker confirms it is to discontinue its pioneering fuel cell model, but insists hydrogen models are still part of its future plans.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

MAY 24, 2022

AB 32 authorized CARB to adopt a market-based compliance mechanism with “declining annual aggregate emission limits for sources or categories of sources that emit greenhouse gas emissions” through 2020. billion funds have been invested into GHG-reducing projects. To date, $10.5

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Energy Innovation

JUNE 18, 2020

Actual wind and solar costs for 2017-2018 were lower than most models’ projected costs for 2030-2035, while battery prices have fallen 85 percent since 2010. trillion of private investment into the economy over 15 years, supporting 530,000 new net jobs per year, and cutting wholesale power prices 10 percent.

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2021

Methane update reveals that reduced demand for oil and gas during the pandemic's shutdown of industry and travel saw methane emissions drop 10 per cent in 2020. Companies have also touted sizeable new investment programmes to detect and fix methane leaks.

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Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 30, 2018

While it is expected fossil fuel demand will rise, the broad consensus amongst most outlooks is that the growth will eventually plateau due to energy efficiency and developments in renewables. Though hard to predict, most outlooks expect energy demand to rise by about 30% by 2030. What is up with the world?

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 2, 2021

For South Carolina, solar PV paired battery storage (solar+storage) can be more than just a tool to reduce demand and offset fossil-fuel consumption. in 30 years – began in 2013, but the project was abandoned in 2017 when estimated costs soared by billions. Duke must also remodel its natural gas price assumptions.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Indigenous delegates said they had been amazed at the “wilful ignorance” they encountered when demanding global banks cease financing new fossil fuel projects on their ancestral lands in what is today North America. The scheme would supercool fracked gas from the Permian Basin for export as liquefied natural gas (LNG).

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Now these generators may face a new threat from PG&E’s massive public safety power outage (PSPS) events, meant to prevent its power grid from starting another fire like the 2017 and 2018 blazes that drove it into bankruptcy.

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Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 30, 2018

Population growth will plateau after 2030-2040, causing energy demand to stabilize and decline afterwards. causing major disruptions for the oil and gas majors. World Population Growth It can be stated that energy demand for the future is driven by two basic drivers: world population growth and average income growth.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 17, 2022

2) The wholesale price of natural gas has increased sevenfold over the past 18 months. Every reason, therefore, for a far more purposeful approach to stimulating energy saving investment beyond just relying, as Rees-Mogg states, upon "price signals". Everybody's fuel bill is doubling at minimum this winter.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JUNE 1, 2022

A fuel supplier with deficits must generate or acquire an equivalent number of LCFS Credits on an annual basis, creating demand for low-CI fuels in California. The Draft Scoping Plan notes that easy access to refueling infrastructure is required to achieve the level of ZEV adoption required to meet the state’s goals. Endnotes. [1]

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Charged

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Among its first announced customers, back in December 2017, was Pepsi, which reserved 100 of the trucks and plans to use them in the California regions of Modesto and Sacramento. For fleet operators, concepts like demand charges and charging management software are entirely new. million of Cap-and-Trade money.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 8, 2020

At present home heating - the bulk of which is provided by the fossil fuel gas grid - accounts for 13 per cent of UK emissions. But the use of natural gas in homes needs to be nearly completely phased out in order to reach the country's statutory 2050 net zero emissions target.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 20, 2023

But TC Energy, the Canadian owner of a major regional gas pipeline, has asked federal regulators to approve a plan that would dramatically expand the line’s capacity, flooding the region for decades with new supplies of methane gas – even as demand dwindles. percent a year on average through 2050.

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Business Green

JULY 16, 2020

The OGCI said the range was "consistent with the reduction needed across the oil and gas industry by 2025 to support the Paris Agreement goals" and would result in a reduction of between 36 and 52 million tonnes of CO2e per year by 2025, assuming constant levels of marketed oil and gas production.

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Mr. Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Excess produce can be shipped to any regional market to ensure supply equals demand. Shell is actually doing the same in their Pearl installation in Qatar, but they use natural gas as a feedstock. You can create a so called “drop-in” fuel without the need to invest in your vessels. They simply need to be combined.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

At the very least, utilities will need plans that can get them most of the way there, while rushing ahead with next-generation technologies: long-duration energy storage, small modular nuclear reactors or green hydrogen and methane to fuel natural gas peaker plants. Here's a look at the five largest U.S. Dominion Energy.

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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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Low Carbon Prosperity

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Pricing mechanisms promote conservation, efficiency improvements, and fuel switching, while encouraging investment in new cleantech innovations. Washington’s failed I-1631 – a carbon fee and invest initiative was a hybrid policy combining a pricing mechanism with subsidy programs.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Despite closing its coal plants in 2017 and promising to decarbonise its power supply, Iberdrola has built two gas-fired power stations in Mexico since 2019 and has been pushing to open two more, although an Iberdrola spokesperson said it did not expect these to proceed due to opposition from the Mexican government.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 4, 2021

And the demand and interest in this technology is only growing stronger. That’s one reason a group of fleet leaders who spoke at the GreenBiz VERGE 20 conference late last year said they’re integrating renewable natural gas and other efficiency improvements alongside a long-term push to electrify.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

It’s also investing in professional mentorship for minorities and backing communities through $6.5 Ridesharing demand crashed with COVID-19, and Lyft became part of the frontline delivery and medical access infrastructure. Citi Impact Fund investments include waste-to-fuel company, smart water management and 3D printing companies.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Most hydrogen is currently produced from natural gas, which is highly polluting, but if renewable energy is used then hydrogen can essentially be made CO2-free. We see opportunities for investors as demand for rail travel grows, new trains are ordered and existing fleets modernised. Aviation demand offsets efficiency gains.

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Business Green

AUGUST 15, 2022

homes would therefore equate to a total reduction in domestic energy demand between 36.0 That could be enough to offset gas imports from Russia at least once, and as many as two times over, equating to between 7.4 per cent of the UK's total net natural gas imports, which were 485.1 Applying those savings to the UK's 28.6m

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 30, 2023

million tonnes of waste materials, peaking between 2026 and 2031 at 250-280,000 tonnes annually — potentially doubling the demand on existing facilities. Credit: Margaux Tjoeng/Follow the Money All 10 platforms ceased production in 2017, but Total Energies EP Netherlands and AF Decom only finalised a contract to demolish them in October 2022.

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Mr. Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

We need to get rid of coal, natural gas and petroleum. Coal, natural gas and petroleum are the culprits here: the burning of these fuels tend to lead to inefficiency. All the gas we need in the world can be made from, you guessed it, biogas. I am assuming the U.S. The same principles apply however. Will it be two?

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 2, 2020

In 2017 alone, there were about 93,161 vessels in existence. Although heavy fuel oil is conventionally used in the shipping industry, Sleipnir operates on Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) with Marine Gas Oil (MGO) as pilot fuel and as a back-up. Strømman (Transportation Research Part D, 2017). Where can we choose from?

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

While coalitions of countries dedicated to phasing out coal power have existed for several years - the Powering Past Coal Alliance was launched in 2017 - the BOGA is believed to be the first time governments have collectively come out to pledge to phase out oil and gas production. The science demands leadership and courage," he said.

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