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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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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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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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 30, 2020

Arizona Public Service released its plan for reaching zero-carbon by 2050 , with multiple options to balance the costs and carbon benefits of switching from coal and natural gas to renewables, batteries, distributed energy resources and as-yet-untested technologies. ” Short-term goals: Lots of new renewables, no new natural gas.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 29, 2020

Responses will help inform options to meet its FlexPower Bundle plan, which envisions adding about 900 megawatts of solar, 50 megawatts of energy storage and 500 megawatts of “new technology solutions” to replace the need for buying natural-gas-fired power from outside power plants. Sommers natural-gas power plants.

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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. refiners had a significant demand for crude oil, but they had spent decades investing billions of dollars into processing heavy, sour crude oil. Since 2018, the primary regional destinations for U.S.

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R-Squared Energy

JUNE 28, 2020

The Review covers energy data through 2019, and provides a comprehensive picture of supply and demand for major energy sources on a country-level basis. last year, which was less than half the rate of 2018 (2.8%). Natural gas contributed the second largest increment with 36% of the increase.

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Charged

MAY 8, 2020

“Alternatively-powered vehicles” (including natural gas, hybrid and electric) combined accounted for 15% of the EU bus market in 2019. Demand for diesel buses decreased by 3% to 34,123 units. France, Spain, Italy and Sweden were the largest EU markets for natural gas buses.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Evergy has become the latest utility to pledge to long-term carbon cuts even though the states it serves, Kansas and Missouri, aren’t demanding them. gigawatt generation fleet from 52 percent to 40 percent, while reducing natural gas and oil from 38 percent to 26 percent. Above and beyond states' demands.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Building electrification is a potential game-changer for energy efficiency, demand management, distributed energy and other advanced energy industries, as well as for the broader task of reducing emissions. But in the Midwest, with the harshest winters in the lower 48, it has been cheaper to stick with natural gas as a heating source.

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R-Squared Energy

JULY 11, 2019

Previous articles in this series covered carbon dioxide emissions, petroleum supply and demand, the production and consumption of coal, and global natural gas trends: BP Warns Of An Unsustainable Path. Accounted For 98% Of Global Oil Production Growth In 2018. Coal Demand Rises, But Remains Below Peak Levels.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The ninth edition of the Sustainable Energy in America Factbook tells the story of American energy efficiency, natural gas and renewable energy in a volatile year. Greenhouse Gas Emissions Source: BloombergNEF estimate. The economic disruption caused a massive drop in national greenhouse gas emissions. Figure 1: U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 1, 2020

The utility’s latest Integrated Resource Plan (IRP), which SMUD adopted in 2018 and the California Energy Commission (CEC) approved in January 2020, included numerous incentives for electric retrofits and all-electric new buildings to allow SMUD to meet its net-zero electricity target.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Utilities and oil majors both have a head start with their mixture of renewable power capacity, gas transmission assets and an existing set of end users. AkzoNobel began investigating a 20-megawatt electrolyzer as far back as 2018. Balancing hydrogen supply and demand. Oil majors also have their own demand.

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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 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

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

The startup spun out of Google parent company Alphabet's moonshot factory, X, in 2018. The funding news came after an extreme winter storm blacked out the Texas grid for days on end, highlighting the value of power sources that can ride through multiday shortages of natural gas or renewable generation.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

That means that these two battery plants offered a compelling enough price to edge out some fossil fuel plants for delivering power on demand. You’re allowing for more clean electrons while replacing the need for gas to help balance that," Keefe said. Gas plants are the go-to source of on-demand power for the U.S.

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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. As of 2018, nearly 85 percent of the Btu consumed by the U.S. Cheaper than natural gas.

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R-Squared Energy

JULY 15, 2019

Previous articles in this series covered carbon dioxide emissions, petroleum supply and demand, the production and consumption of coal, global natural gas trends, and the continued explosion in the growth of renewable energy: BP Warns Of An Unsustainable Path. Accounted For 98% Of Global Oil Production Growth In 2018.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 26, 2020

Alliant, which serves about 1 million customers in the Midwestern states of Wisconsin and Iowa, currently relies on renewables for about 20 percent of its generation capacity, largely wind power in Iowa, with twice as much coming from natural gas plants.

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R-Squared Energy

JUNE 30, 2020

This was nearly 1 million BPD higher than consumption in 2018, and marked the 10th consecutive record for global oil consumption. Now, they have split biofuels into a separate category, so the consumption numbers above are for just oil and derivatives of natural gas and coal (e.g., Demand there jumped by 10.0%.

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Natural gas Demand Europe Energy 78

GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

It compels electricity retailers to buy credits for clean power that can be delivered during the hours of peak grid demand. Properly timed renewables and demand response count; since wind and solar cannot dispatch on command, though, energy storage stands to play a major role. Clean Peak standard vs. carbon pricing.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 26, 2024

The sum brought NGP investments since launching in 2018 to 50, spread across a wide range of sectors, from AI-powered software and hardware solutions to EV charging systems and clean hydrogen technology. ev.energy , which incentivises EV drivers to charge at optimal times based on energy price and emissions.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 8, 2020

The two will work together on developing 24 solar projects expected to come online by 2023, which builds on a 2018 partnership to cooperatively develop another 14 projects in six Midwestern states. Capital Dynamics, the Swiss asset manager and now heavyweight solar investor, will partner with energy developer Tenaska on a 4.8-gigawatt

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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. I generally make this prediction by looking at supply and demand trends, as well as inventory levels. In 2018 the year opened at $60.37/bbl, It’s also an election year. I think U.S.

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R-Squared Energy

DECEMBER 24, 2019

billion in 2018, this seems to be a significant impairment. The issue of impairments like this relates to one of the most fundamental valuation indicators for an oil and gas company: the value of the oil and gas deposits it controls. All oil and gas firms traded on a U.S. billion at the end of 2018.

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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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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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Business Green

JULY 13, 2021

In this scenario, there would be close to no unabated natural gas generation from 2035 onwards. The 'Leading the Way' scenario would result in 28 Mt of CO2e being removed from the atmosphere, it notes, a figure that equates to just over 40 per cent of the power sector's emissions in 2018.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MAY 21, 2023

” “In 2021, Washington consumed less natural gas than about half of the states, and in 2020, the state used less per capita than all but four other states and the District of Columbia. The largest share of the state’s natural gas comes from Canada, either directly or through the state of Idaho.”

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Xcel made waves in late 2018 by setting its own net-zero carbon plans in advance of state mandates. The plan calls for cutting carbon emissions by 80 percent compared to 2005 levels by 2030, up from a 35 percent reduction already achieved by 2018, and eliminating the final 20 percent of its net emissions by midcentury.

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R-Squared Energy

AUGUST 9, 2020

The Review provides a comprehensive picture of supply and demand for major energy sources on a country-level basis. Previous articles covered overall energy consumption , petroleum supply and demand, natural gas , and coal. as the world’s top consumer of renewable energy in 2018, and continues to extend its lead.

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Business Green

JANUARY 7, 2021

Elsewhere, Exxon's Scope 1 and 2 emissions from its core operations and purchased energy fell to 120 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent - the lowest in over a decade - down from 124 million tonnes in 2018, according to Tuesday's report.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 31, 2022

Southern California Gas Company (SoCalGas) is the United States’ largest natural gas utility, serving more than 21 million consumers, and is uniquely positioned to contribute to the clean energy future of California – and the nation. This feature article was originally published in The Global Power & Energy Elites 2022.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 28, 2023

The process pumped carbon dioxide recovered from oil and gas production back into nearly exhausted oil and gas reservoirs to extract the remaining oil and gas. Recent research by DeSmog indicates that Big Oil is primarily interested in developing the technology as a means to continue oil and gas development.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 3, 2021

That becomes especially pressing when population and economic growth, plus the electrification of heat and transport, combine to boost electricity demand. A 2018 study by a group of Chinese researchers modeled the growth in electricity from 2020 to 2030 at 64 percent. EVs will drive a chunk of that demand. The coal question.

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