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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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

Porter states in her Twitter bio that she works with “businesses with projects across the electricity, gas and oil industries”, though these professional links to fossil fuel interests were not identified on the Today programme. In more recent blog posts, Porter has defended fossil fuel companies and criticised renewable energy.

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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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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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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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R-Squared Energy

JULY 14, 2020

In a previous article , I analyzed the carbon footprint of producing hydrogen from fossil fuels. To recap, the carbon footprint of hydrogen production from natural gas in a steam methane reformer (SMR) is higher than from directly burning the natural gas. Putting it into Practice.

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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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Aviation Carbon Climate change Transportation 101

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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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 22, 2020

The time is therefore now to plan an orderly wind-down of fossil fuel assets and manage the impact on the global economy rather than try to sustain the unsustainable. The worst year for oil ever Oil fueled the 20th century. Many of us now believe it is not a matter of if, but when we will transition away from fossil fuels.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

And as a trove of industry documents reveals, Exxon is far from the only fossil fuel company selling carbon capture as its golden ticket to continue pumping its products, despite internal concerns about the technology’s feasibility. A natural gas demonstration plant in Texas tests carbon capture technology.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 16, 2020

” “FERC is financially penalizing American consumers for the clean energy they want and deserve to bail out increasingly uneconomic fossil fuel generators,” ACORE CEO Gregory Wetstone wrote. Those auctions have been on ice since the last one in 2018. But for clean energy groups, there could be a silver lining.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

But for its more aggressive plans to reach 70 percent carbon reduction in the next decade, which could include offshore wind, nuclear power and long-duration energy storage, “having some legislative support…would be helpful.” Historically, energy policy in North Carolina has moved in a bipartisan way," she said.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 12, 2020

Senate confirmed James Danly to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Thursday, stacking a third Republican against the lone Democrat on the board of a federal agency that has increasingly been seen as using its authority over interstate energy markets to privilege fossil fuels over renewables.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

While President Trump has rolled back Obama-era regulations intended to curb fossil fuel emissions, these changes have merely helped to stem job losses by propping up the production of metallurgical coal used for making steel. Power plants that use steam coal continue to close at a rapid pace.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Democratic presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, want grid operator New England ISO to give renewable energy a bigger role and fossil-fuel-fired generators a smaller one. The program was approved by FERC in March 2018, and ISO-NE held its first auction under the CASPR rules in February.

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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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