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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R-Squared Energy

AUGUST 26, 2021

Maintains Its Natural Gas Dominance. pace the year before, but it’s remarkable given how significantly the pandemic impacted total energy demand. The “Renewables” category above consists of wind power, solar power, biofuels, geothermal energy, and power produced from biomass. Despite the 4.5%

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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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The Verge: Energy

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Doing so would address a glaring omission in the 2015 Paris accord, which never actually mentions coal, oil, or natural gas despite being an international agreement to stop global warming. The final text also calls on countries to work toward “accelerating efforts towards the phase-down of unabated coal power.”

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Energy Innovation

JULY 2, 2021

Providing reliable, affordable, and low-carbon electricity in a warming world requires careful consideration of evolving electric energy supplies and demands. For instance, energy demands are likely to shift, reducing the need to heat in the winter and increasing the need to cool in the summer. Southeast in 2050. Figure 1. (a)

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Mr. Sustainability

JANUARY 16, 2021

In 2018 Lingen conducted the ?world’s When powered by renewable ?energy energy (Ørsted will provide wind power from the North Sea) this produces ‘green’ hydrogen, without generating direct carbon emissions. ?Hydrogen produced by reforming natural gas, which does result in CO2 emissions. It’s just the costs.

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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. Richard Wilson from Stop Funding Heat said: “Britain urgently needs a media that tells the truth about climate change.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

The plans, available at The Solutions Project’s “ Clean Energy ” link, reveal the unique mix of wind, water and sun technologies capable of powering states, countries and even select U.S. Wind, Water and Sun (aka WWS) include wind power; waterpower from tides, rivers, and subsurface water (geothermal water); and solar power.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 8, 2020

At present home heating - the bulk of which is provided by the fossil fuel gas grid - accounts for 13 per cent of UK emissions. But the use of natural gas in homes needs to be nearly completely phased out in order to reach the country's statutory 2050 net zero emissions target. per cent from 2018, UKERC said.

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Business Green

AUGUST 13, 2021

According to a 2020 report by the World Wildlife Fund, indoor farming is projected to have a combined annual growth rate of more than 24 per cent between 2018 and 2024, hitting $3bn in revenues worldwide in 2024. He is confident its technology can support a massive jump in demand and commercialisation. There's a reliable demand.

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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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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 28, 2020

CPS closed two coal-fired power plants in 2018 and is examining the future of some of its single-cycle, natural-gas-fired power plants, Gold-Williams said. CPS serves more than 840,000 electric and 350,000 natural-gas customer accounts, or about 1.9 Itron CEO’s predictions for the 2020s.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 5, 2019

They’re also important for states like Nevada and Arizona that are starting to see the same "duck curve" effects as nearby California, where solar generation is pushing cheap energy onto the grid at midday that fades away in the evening hours when electricity demand spikes. PacifiCorp, the 1.9-million-customer

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Virginia has inked a 420-megawatt solar and wind power contract, the largest single procurement of renewable energy to power U.S. Thursday’s deal with utility Dominion Virginia includes 75 megawatts of onshore wind power from Apex Clean Energy and 345 megawatts of solar projects.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Natural-gas consumption is set for a sharp drop in California as the state pushes to achieve carbon neutrality by midcentury, according to utility Southern California Edison. ” Meanwhile, extensive energy efficiency gains and the transition to electric appliances will further squeeze natural-gas consumption in California.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 6, 2021

If you live in Oregon, it’s likely you’ve been bombarded with misleading PR from the local utility company, Northwest Natural, about the potential for what the industry is calling renewable natural gas (RNG) — methane captured from places like landfills and repurposed into energy for homes.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 25, 2020

Last September, several hundred UConn Huskies marched to demand that the university president accelerate climate sustainability goals in accordance with the UN recommendations outlined in the landmark 2018 IPCC report. The past year saw another solar installation and a new wind power project go online.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 20, 2020

The clearing price came in at $140 per megawatt-day in PJM's last auction in 2018 and $76 per megawatt-day in the previous year’s auction. Demand-side resources have played an increasingly significant role in PJM’s market, although it remains dominated by natural gas-fired generators.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 6, 2020

Virginia has become the latest state to pass a law that sets it on a path to 100 percent carbon-free electricity by 2050, as well as setting targets for massive investments in energy efficiency, energy storage and in-state solar and wind power. Dominion also gets more than one-third of its energy from nuclear power.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Greg Abbott have attacked the state’s growing share of clean energy, pointing to the loss of generation capacity from frozen wind turbine blades. But these attacks have run up against the cold fact that the state’s natural gas infrastructure was central to its broader grid failure.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 22, 2020

Gulf Power is using its smart meter fleet for locational demand response. Third-party solar installers only won the right to serve Florida customers in 2018, and rooftop PV penetration remains low. Dominion's generation fleet centers around nuclear and gas.

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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. gigawatts from energy efficiency, 1.4

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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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Business Green

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

But for green businesses, any conceivable bottom-line benefit that may have delivered is likely more than undercut by Trump's fondness for industry-damaging trade wars, particularly with China, on which a 30 per cent solar cells import tariff was placed in 2018.

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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. His no vote was overridden by Chatterjee and Richard Glick, FERC’s sole Democratic commissioner.

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