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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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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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

This supported the rapid reduction of price, with utility-scale solar reaching 6 cents per kilowatt-hour in 2017 — three years before the Department of Energy’s ambitious SunShot goal , once seen as unrealistic. . There just isn’t a path to a safe climate future without addressing natural gas in buildings.

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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

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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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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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

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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Charged

MARCH 30, 2021

The soda and snack seller placed an order for 100 Tesla Semis shortly after the e-truck’s 2017 launch. Infrastructure to support the project incorporates an adjacent natural gas station with renewable attributes, as well as solar carports, battery storage, truck charging systems and employee electric vehicle charging stations.”.

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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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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

At many of these facilities, fossil fuels, and especially natural gas, are the energy feedstock used for process heating applications. Skyven Technologies was the $1 million grand-prize winner of the 2017 76West Clean Energy Competition. beverage sector for boiler and process heat came from natural gas.

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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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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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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

More immediately, Duke’s new plan improves on its 2017 goal to cut its 2030 carbon emissions by 40 percent, driven by “sustained low natural gas prices and declining costs for renewables and storage,” Tuesday’s press release noted. The gas question. Duke serves about 7.4

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Grist

JANUARY 10, 2023

We used data from the 2017 Global Methane Budget , which compiles top-down (starting with known emissions and using models to determine likely sources) and bottom-up (starting with known sources and extrapolating their emissions contributions) methane estimates from a number of different sources and regions. ., methane emissions.

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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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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 3, 2020

Meanwhile, in a striking bit of energy transition symbolism, the state’s Coal Mining Museum, located in a historical coal town called Benham, made the switch to solar as a cost-cutting measure back in 2017. The organization’s current capacity mix is 60 percent coal, 30 percent natural gas and diesel and 10 percent hydro.

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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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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. rise in emissions from natural gas. for natural gas and 6.6% for natural gas and 6.6%

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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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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Since Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico in 2017, many residents and environmental advocates have called for new clean energy sources for the island. In September 2017, Hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico with sustained winds of 155 mph. Burning more natural gas will affect air and water quality and contribute to climate change.

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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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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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Clean Energy Canada

JULY 2, 2020

Currently, the majority of hydrogen around the world is produced from fossil fuels (76% from natural gas, 23% from coal). Heating : Many buildings use natural gas for heat, and a portion of that energy could come from hydrogen instead. Pilot projects are underway trialing hydrogen into the natural gas network (e.g.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

In an internal memo published by the committee, the CEO of the American Petroleum Institute , Mike Sommers , writes that publicizing the industry’s paltry efforts to reduce emissions from natural gas production presents “an opportunity to further secure the industry’s license to operate. ”

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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. The focus of our argument beyond reduction of GHG emissions was that the installation of natural-gas-fed electric power generators would be a “stranded asset.”

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Ameren first outlined its goal in 2017 to acquire 700 megawatts of wind by the end of 2020, and has lined up two projects it hopes to acquire by year’s end, at a cost of about $1.2 gigawatt generation fleet comes from coal-fired power plants, while natural gas makes up about a quarter more, and nuclear power one-tenth.

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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. Another 40 megawatts of generators were deployed to back up critical facilities such as hospitals and water treatment plants.

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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. That is going to be ExxonMobil’s defense.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 25, 2020

In 2017, Hurricanes Irma and Maria destroyed Puerto Rico’s grid. Both Quanta and ATCO, the parent company of Canadian Utilities, have “substantial natural gas businesses,” acknowledged Luma president and CEO Wayne Stensby. The contract with Luma is not the first to receive scrutiny post-Hurricane Maria.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

It's a noteworthy entrance for Glidepath, a largely unknown developer that's been building on its portfolio since 2017. That doesn't mean new solar additions are likely to eclipse new gas generators , because gas builds are still quite cheap in the state. ” The lure of PJM.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

What would happen if you converted all the single-family homes in Texas from natural gas to electric heating? Emissions were calculated using Texas’ power sector data from 2017. cents per therm for natural gas. ” Rhodes and co-author Philip R. For energy cost calculations, IdeaSmiths used 10.93

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

There are several ways to produce hydrogen , but almost all of it currently in production uses methane (natural gas) as the feedstock, with non-renewable energy powering that production. From an economic standpoint, then, it makes better sense to just burn natural gas. I mage: Slide from Zapantis presentation.

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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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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Through the company’s wind expansion, it has delivered approximately $430 million in fuel savings to its customers from 2017 to 2020. Thanks to having more wind and solar on its system, the company recorded a 12% reduction in MWh from coal and natural gas generation.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 27, 2021

The manifestations of these deep-seated worries range from violent social protests (Charlottesville in 2017, the Jan. To date, the US has underinvested in many innovations needed to transition to an electric transportation system. 6 insurrection at the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

A natural gas demonstration plant in Texas tests carbon capture technology. In a November 2017 document marked “confidential,” Shell discusses the CCS opportunity in the U.S. But this gas-as-a-guiding-star underpinning doesn’t appear in the framework itself, a point not lost on Democratic lawmakers.

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