GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Xcel expects regulators to approve this plan, which also includes coal-closure commitments and extending its nuclear power plant operations through at least 2040, by the end of this year. Xcel made waves in late 2018 by setting its own net-zero carbon plans in advance of state mandates.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

The newly approved changes will boost those targets dramatically for investor-owned utilities Arizona Public Service and Tucson Electric Power, mandating a 50 percent cut in carbon emissions from 2016 to 2018 average levels by 2032 and a 75 percent cut by 2040.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

The global energy agency put the halt in CO2 growth down to declining emissions from power generation in advanced economies such as the EU and the USA, thanks in large part to the expanding role of renewable energy such as wind and solar. per cent in 2018. per cent drop in CO2, amounting to 140 million tonnes.

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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).

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

She was invited on the show (1:24) to discuss the National Grid’s ‘demand flexibility service’ scheme, under which households and some businesses receive payments for using less energy at times of peak demand. She added: “And so whenever it isn’t windy we’re starting to get into issues of the grid being stressed”.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2022

The Push for Gas and Nuclear. Prior to the Platform on Sustainable Finance’s report, in July 2018, the European Commission established a Technical Expert Group (TEG) to develop the taxonomy’s screening criteria. Like with natural gas, pro-nuclear companies and lobbies started to pressure the Commission to change its stance.

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Business Green

MARCH 26, 2020

per cent from 2018. The single largest emitting sector of the UK remains transport, although here for the second year running greenhouse gas emissions also fell for the second year running after several years of increases. Electricity generation from natural gas fired power plants also fell back slightly by 2.2

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 20, 2020

Wednesday’s filing from PJM lays out how the 11-state grid operator will comply with FERC’s order to assign a minimum bidding price to all state-subsidized resources, including new solar and wind projects and existing nuclear power plants.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

More recently, with fracking, the United States has become the world’s largest gas producer and a major exporter of liquefied natural gas (LNG). It wants to muscle in on Europe’s huge market, displacing Russian gas. The Nord Strem 2 pipe laying vessel Audacia close to Ruegen island in the Baltic Sea, Germany, in 2018.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 6, 2020

For Dominion Virginia, this will mean securing enough renewables to replace coal plants that supply roughly one-quarter of its electricity, and natural gas plants that supply about another third. Dominion also gets more than one-third of its energy from nuclear power.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Because almost all state subsidies and incentives are for zero marginal-cost clean energy, this would create an artificial floor that masks their true cost-effectiveness — and effectively forces them out of the market — against existing coal, nuclear and gas-fired generation, critics say.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

But these attacks have run up against the cold fact that the state’s natural gas infrastructure was central to its broader grid failure. Instead, ERCOT’s energy-only markets rely on massive price spikes to encourage private investment in the resources needed when grid demand threatens to outstrip supply.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 22, 2020

As the coronavirus struck the global economy earlier this year, demand for oil dropped by more than a fifth and prices collapsed. Since spring 2020, oil and gas has seen one bombshell after another, and the impacts are adding up. Many sources now suggest that oil demand has already passed its peak.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 12, 2020

It would also maintain a quorum at FERC, which it lacked throughout much of 2017, leaving it unable to vote on key decisions for interstate electricity transmission and natural-gas projects.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Power plants that use steam coal continue to close at a rapid pace. At an August 2018 rally in West Virginia, President Trump declared, “ The coal industry is back.". over the past decade, primarily due to competition from low gas prices and increasingly competitive renewable energy. “Nobody saved the coal industry.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

The first is called Competitive Auctions With Sponsored Policy Resources, or CASPR ( PDF ), a complicated effort to balance zero-marginal-cost wind and solar power against fossil fuel and nuclear-powered generators in ISO-NE’s forward capacity auction.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

FERC’s 3-to-2 July 2018 decision that found PJM’s capacity market to be “unjust and unreasonable” due to its treatment of state-subsidized resources has been roundly criticized by environmental and clean energy groups, as well as state attorneys general and utility regulators. billion to $5.7 billion a year.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 23, 2020

FERC lost its quorum through much of 2017, leaving the agency unable to vote on key decisions for interstate electricity transmission and natural gas projects. McNamee, a Texas attorney for conservative groups and noted critic of clean energy, was nominated in October 2018 to replace outgoing commissioner Ron Powelson.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 28, 2020

That order could bar many wind, solar, demand response, energy storage and nuclear power resources from effectively competing against natural gas and coal-fired power plants in the market.

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