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. gigawatts of offshore wind and 2.7 Dominion Energy.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

million customers by 2025, adding nearly 700 megawatts of wind power, plus more solar and battery storage systems to boost rural reliability. Missouri's lagging wind market. Unlike most utility grid modernization plans, however, Ameren Missouri’s plan also includes $1 billion for wind power.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

The process of bringing the wind farm online began in 2015, when Carlberg first proposed the university look into sourcing renewable energy for its power needs. Then, in 2017, the school produced its first climate action plan, which included a pledge to achieve net-zero emissions by 2040, in part by buying renewable electricity.

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CleanTX

APRIL 21, 2019

Renewable energy, particularly wind power, has been hugely successful in Texas, thanks in large measure to a combination of federal, state, and local incentives that began more than two decades ago. Oddly enough, the Advanced Power Alliance also represents natural gas companies. Clean power plan?

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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? That if we electrify a lot of different end uses or sectors of the economy that power demand of the grid would double or something like that.” cents per therm for natural gas.

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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. Currently, Puerto Rico gets more than 97% of its electricity from imported fossil fuel.

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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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Low Carbon Prosperity

OCTOBER 17, 2018

LCPI projects the fee will generate approximately $12 to $13 billion through 2035, in addition to $4 to $5 billion in utility retained credits (expressed in present day dollars: USD 2017). billion (USD 2017, of a total $17.4 billion (USD 2017, of a total $17.8 billion) in the reduction-peripheral scenario, to roughly $11.8

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Read more: Microsoft to power Virginia data centers with 24/7 clean energy. Google, for example, has been carbon-neutral since 2007 through carbon offsets, and was one of the first companies to purchase renewable energy directly through PPAs in 2017.

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 26, 2021

Its latest 3-year data foresee the net capacity for coal, oil, natural gas, and nuclear power combined dropping by more than 14 gigawatts (GW) whereas renewables – mostly solar and wind – are forecast to grow by over 64 GW. adding about 1.35% to its share each year).

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 3, 2022

As recently as last year, Redwood implied that he personally did not fully believe in human-caused climate change, commenting on his blog: “Governments believe there is a serious manmade climate problem created by greenhouse gas production”, and describing their measures as “radical”. Medieval’ Wind Power.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Drives significantly more retirement of natural gas power generation. Google has been largely carbon-neutral since 2007 through carbon offsets, and was one of the first companies to buy renewable energy directly through power purchase agreements in 2017. CFE in practice.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

An analysis by Research Triangle Park-based think tank RTI shows the expenditures helped avoid over $4 billion in natural gas-fired electricity. According to asset management firm Lazard , the levelized cost of energy — the price per megawatt-hour over a project’s lifetime — has fallen 71% for land-based wind power since 2009.

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Mr. Sustainability

JUNE 27, 2020

subsidies to the fossil fuel industry at roughly $20 billion per year; with 20 percent currently allocated to coal and 80 percent to natural gas and crude oil. In short: the oil and gas industry is a massive market with many stakeholders and high-stakes interests involved. Conservative estimates put direct U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 22, 2020

BHE’s giant wind fleet is shared between its unregulated and regulated utility businesses, with Iowa-based MidAmerican Energy Company taking an early lead in capturing its plentiful regional wind power. Dominion's generation fleet centers around nuclear and gas.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 16, 2024

.” More recently, Morano has been talking about whales—specifically, the idea that the higher-than-usual number of dead ones washing ashore along the East Coast is the result of President Joe Biden’s push to develop 30 gigawatts of offshore wind power by the end of the decade.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

If you listen to Joe Biden on climate change, you might feel the urge to junk your car and invest in wind power. But he still has a weakness for natural gas, which he has supported in the past as a “bridge fuel” between dirtier gasoline and coal and cleaner renewable energy. As the U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

This could effectively bar capacity market participation for gigawatts of solar and wind power expected to be built under state renewable portfolio standard programs in PJM’s 11-state region stretching from Illinois to Maryland. gigawatts from wind power, and 500 megawatts from solar.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

solar capacity stood at around 63 gigawatts, compared to 264 gigawatts of natural gas combined-cycle plants, the country's largest source of generating capacity. solar is already encroaching on wind in certain markets, with traditional wind-heavy players such as NextEra Energy and Pattern Energy increasingly turning to the sun.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Major natural gas and oil pipeline projects have been abandoned or halted by legal challenges. Even this lower-cost scenario would require about 70 gigawatts of new wind and solar to be added per year, however. What's at stake for the wind industry? Wind power’s reign as the leading source of U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

The former senior aide to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) was appointed to FERC in 2017 and served as interim chair before beind named chairman in 2018 , and will remain on the commission through June 2021. Danly’s rise to a Republican-dominated FERC.

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