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. Department of Energy blamed on falling productivity and export bottlenecks. eastern seaboard, which could reverse the decline.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 3, 2020

The companies said the project is designed to reduce “demand on local energy infrastructure,” a common concern as the U.S. territory reimagines an electricity system severely damaged by Hurricane Maria in 2017. Resiliency, clean energy on an island grid. gigawatts of new solar and more than 1.3

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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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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

The fund will enable BlocPower to expand and scale its inner-city energy retrofits to projects across the nation, with $49 million going toward low-income residential buildings and $6 million dedicated to low-income small commercial buildings, houses of worship and other community buildings. . Keeping economic benefits of clean energy local.

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Clean Energy Canada

JULY 2, 2020

Through media briefs, we aim to provide journalists with useful factual and contextual information related to Canada’s clean energy transition. As Canada navigates the clean energy transition, cleaner technologies and solutions are attracting attention. Hydrogen has made headlines globally as a vital component of future energy systems.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

“It is critical to know when, where and how much methane is emitted from each of its sources in order to prioritize emission reductions,” said Denise Mauzerall , a co-author and core faculty member of the Center for Policy Research on Energy and the Environment at Princeton University. “We

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R-Squared Energy

MARCH 23, 2024

as the world’s top liquefied natural gas (LNG) exporter, this week the Energy Information Administration reported that the U.S. trillion spending bill that contained several energy provisions. ENERGY INFORMATION ADMINISTRATION The Netherlands was the top destination for U.S. Fresh on the heels of a new U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 2, 2020

There’s no shortage of “resilience” talk in the energy industry, but it hasn’t always been that way. Actual energy generation looked different: Power was generated at centralized power plants by heavy machinery, protected from weather elements inside large buildings. Resilience 101: Where we’ve been.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 27, 2020

utilities in setting a net-zero carbon target for 2050, aiming to balance the emissions from its sizable fossil fuel-fired generation fleet and sprawling natural gas business with reductions to be gained by expanding its portfolio of renewable energy and energy efficiency. Southern Company has joined other major U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Google spinout Dandelion Energy wants to push home geothermal heating to new heights in 2020. The company, which emerged from the X "Moonshot Factory" in 2017, has grown to around 100 employees and installed hundreds of sites in New York state. Dandelion is seizing on statewide trends as well.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Officials from one corporation, Venture Global, repeatedly told government regulators that CCS was incompatible with the company’s plans to build three massive new liquified natural gas export terminals in south Louisiana. exporters of liquified natural gas. CCS is also an energy-intensive process.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 15, 2021

A big-time fossil fuels player is jumping into the energy transition in a bolder, more focused way. has formed a new Energy Transition Ventures group to identify and pursue commercial opportunities within the low-carbon sector. Subscribe to Renewable Energy World’s free, weekly newsletter for more stories like this.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

On December 17, 2017, a fire at an underground electrical facility damaged two substations that serve Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport — then and now the world’s busiest airport. megawatts of generating capacity, with 20 megawatts coming from natural gas-fired generators and 2.5

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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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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

primary energy demand, according to the Department of Energy. At many of these facilities, fossil fuels, and especially natural gas, are the energy feedstock used for process heating applications. But what if the sun’s energy could take over the job much of the time and displace fossil fuels?

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 17, 2022

Portuguese natural gas distributor REN Portgás Distribuição has reported passing the 400,000 gas customer milestone. Since 2018, the company has connected an average of 12,000 customers per year to its network, which is the country’s largest, extending over 5,000km and distributing more than 7TWh of energy per year.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 4, 2022

On February 16, Energy Transfer announced in an earnings call that construction on its long-delayed Mariner East pipeline project, built to carry natural gas liquids across southern Pennsylvania, was “complete.”. Energy Transfer built us a lake,” she said she joked at the time. Photo Credit: Lora Snyder.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

By Lisa Prevost, Energy News Network. 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. rise in emissions from natural gas. metric tons.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 3, 2020

In Kentucky, coal still generates the great majority of electricity; 75 percent in 2018, according to the Energy Information Administration. Though coal is steadily losing its crown, new natural gas combined cycle plants will remain more economic than building large-scale solar projects in some parts of Kentucky for the next couple years.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Midwestern utility Evergy pushed back Tuesday against a report from Reuters that it rebuffed a $15 billion acquisition bid from NextEra Energy, the U.S. renewable energy leader that's been seeking to take advantage of its high stock price to expand its roster of regulated utilities in recent years. Evergy, which serves 1.6

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R-Squared Energy

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

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. Power produced from natural gas has lower associated carbon dioxide emissions. in 2017, and surged to 7.8%

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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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R-Squared Energy

JANUARY 14, 2020

However, natural gas prices closed the year nearly 40% lower, emphasizing the extent to which these two commodities have become unlinked. Against this backdrop, it’s harder for me to get a clear handle on the trends in the energy markets this year. The average natural gas price will be at the lowest level in more than 20 years.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 30, 2021

Kerry Rippy , National Renewable Energy Laboratory. of Energy projects that renewable energy will be the fastest-growing U.S. energy source through 2050. However, it’s still relatively expensive to store energy. renewable energy storage capacity by as much as 3,000% percent by 2050. Storing sunlight as heat.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Even though each investor-owned utility is different, if all utilities move in this direction, distributed solar would be at a disadvantage to access energy market benefits outlined in Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Order 2222 because of delays in the MISO generator interconnection queue.

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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. Department of Energy.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 13, 2020

Current conversations around the energy transition often focus on the power and transportation sectors. 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.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

The BBC’s flagship current affairs show this week has hosted a climate sceptic with links to the gas sector without declaring the guest’s professional ties, DeSmog can reveal. The claim plays on the idea, often promoted by opponents of climate action, that renewable energy from wind and solar power is unreliable.

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The is the sixth article in a series on the recently released 2023 Statistical Review of World Energy. 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.

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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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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

natural gas production comes from federal leases in the Gulf of Mexico, according to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management. gas is produced, have been surprised to find that about 4 percent of the natural gas they pulled from the ground was leaking into the atmosphere. oil production and 1 percent of U.S.

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Energy Innovation

JUNE 18, 2020

Important new modeling from the University of California at Berkeley and GridLab, led by Energy Innovation, reports the United States can reliably hit 90 percent clean energy by 2035, without increasing customer bills from today’s levels. Plummeting costs for wind, solar, and energy storage are the driving force behind this trend.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Renewable Energy World contributor is being awarded a Constellation Prize for Policy Impact in response to a new heating/cooling solution he proposed for a 100-year-old building in Albany, NY. Back in October of 2017, Jay wrote an article that Renewable Energy World published called CHP Project for Empire State Plaza Misses the Mark.

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Charged

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Tesla is also slated to supply “electric truck charging infrastructure, a large-scale solar PV system, and two energy storage systems for facility peak shaving and heavy-duty electric truck charging,” according to PepsiCo’s filing with Valley Air.

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R-Squared Energy

JANUARY 21, 2021

In 2017, ExxonMobil agreed to buy the Bass family’s Permian assets for up to $6.6 That was a factor that led ExxonMobil CEO Darren Woods to claim in early 2019 that the company would increase oil and gas production in the Permian Basin from 600,000 barrels per day (bpd) to over 1 million bpd.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

JUNE 26, 2019

An important legal doctrine for companies that buy and sell in regulated markets is the “filed rate” doctrine, which limits legal challenges to rates determined by regulators such as the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission or the Federal Communications Commission. Eversource Energy , 44 F. PNE Energy Supply LLC v. Breiding v.

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