GreenBiz

AUGUST 13, 2020

Exxon’s 2018 revenues were half of what it made a decade earlier; in 2019, it was only $14.3 The Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis reported that "the world’s largest publicly traded oil and gas companies shelled out a total of $71.2 Natural Gas. Last year, no fossil company made the top 10 list.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 6, 2019

billion), the European Investment Bank is one of the sector’s biggest lenders. And for every euro the EIB puts into a project or business, around seven more are invested by the private sector. According to the International Energy Agency, global renewables investment in 2018 amounted to $300 billion. billion ($14.9

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 12, 2020

coal power generation plunged by 30 percent in the first half of 2020 off an already-depressed base, shoved out by natural gas and renewables amid low energy prices linked to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new figures from the Energy Information Administration. Natural gas was already the leading source of U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 30, 2020

billion in new wind and solar investments in the next 12 months and is outlining plans for electric vehicle charging, energy storage and green hydrogen production pilot programs to meet its goal to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. billion, five-year capital investment plan from the multistate utility.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 6, 2024

The project aimed to capture and sequester up to 3 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions from the Genesee Power Plant, located southwest of Edmonton, Alberta, a plant that’s in the process of being converted from coal to natural gas. Rather, natural gas is a destructive fossil fuel. Research from Robert W.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

natural gas supply network was stressed by record demand and prices. Energy Information Administration, for the 9-day stretch from February 9 through yesterday February 17, natural gas provided about 35 percent of the U.S. Weighing the costs of redundant natural gas or renewables build-outs. First, the U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 5, 2020

utility group Dominion Energy agreed Sunday to sell most of its natural gas business and abandon its multi-billion dollar Atlantic Coast Pipeline project with Duke Energy meant to supply its home-state market of Virginia. a natural gas utility serving Utah. for about $9.7 for about $9.7

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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

JULY 30, 2020

Chevron announced it will build 500 megawatts of renewable energy plants to power some of its global facilities, in what amounts to a sizeable clean-energy upscaling for an oil giant with comparatively few big investments in renewables to date. oil companies lag in clean power investments. public network of electric vehicle chargers.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 22, 2019

NextEra continues to invest in natural gas — on Monday the company announced the signing of an agreement for the 50-mile Lowman pipeline in Alabama and discussed plans to acquire the Meade Pipeline Company. per share for Q3 2018. ” Natural gas challenges, solar growth, Hurricane Dorian recovery costs.

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Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 30, 2018

That will be the challenge for oil and gas companies in the coming years. Source: BP Outlook 2018. An example of this is the creation synthetic fuel, where natural gas is recombined into liquid fuel products (also called Gas-To-Liquids or GTL). No additional investments would be required.

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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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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 22, 2020

Xcel Energy, which spans eight states in the center of the continent, kicked off the trend in late 2018. In 30 years, techologies like green hydrogen, natural gas with carbon capture, or seasonal energy storage could be ready to go, Guldner said. It was joined by Duke Energy , New Jersey-based PSEG , DTE Energy and more.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

It is hoped the site will be operational by 2024 with a final investment decision in 2022. That term incorporates hydrogen produced from natural gas with carbon capture technology in place, or so-called blue hydrogen. In 2018, automaker Audi and BP ran a 30-day green hydrogen trial in Lingen’s fuel production process.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 1, 2021

360 million metric tonnes of new plastic was produced in 2018. In 2018, the world produced 360 million metric tonnes of plastics. In addition to the greenhouse gas emissions, the energy expended in the GPPTN is estimated to be the equivalent of 1.5 Where did it all go?

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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. SCE, the state’s second-largest utility, anticipates California investing up to $250 billion into clean energy and grid investments by 2045.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2022

The European Union’s scientific and political communities are locked in a battle over whether gas and nuclear can be considered green investments. It’s a “green investment guidebook,” said Henry Eviston, spokesperson on sustainable finance at WWF European Policy Office. The Push for Gas and Nuclear.

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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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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

” But Sridhar placed even higher expectations on a longer-range plan to adapt Bloom’s solid-oxide fuel cell technology, originally designed to run on natural gas and emit carbon dioxide, to generate electricity from hydrogen, make "green" hydrogen via electrolysis or capture the carbon from "blue" hydrogen made from natural gas.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

At many of these facilities, fossil fuels, and especially natural gas, are the energy feedstock used for process heating applications. America’s craft beer industry, to cite one example, could be an ideal market to turn to solar thermal technology in place of natural gas. Cheaper than natural gas.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 27, 2020

utilities in setting a net-zero carbon target for 2050, aiming to balance the emissions from its sizable fossil fuel-fired generation fleet and sprawling natural gas business with reductions to be gained by expanding its portfolio of renewable energy and energy efficiency. Alabama Power seeking 2 gigawatts of new gas generation.

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Charged

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

A new report from the Rocky Mountain Institute (via Forbes ) finds that improvements in the cost and performance of batteries are quickly outpacing forecasts, due to massive investments in battery manufacturing and steady advances in technology. According to RMI’s Breakthrough Batteries Report , venture capital firms invested over $1.4

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GreenBiz

MAY 13, 2020

According to the WSP assessment, about 46 percent of ADM’s energy consumption in 2018 (28.6 million MWh) came from natural gas. It’s more likely, instead, that the company will opt for multiple options that also include biogas, renewable natural gas and — potentially in the future — hydrogen. "We

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 27, 2024

Taxpayer handouts to Canada’s wealthiest companies means that less money is available for the types of investments that could actually help people across the country who are deciding between food and energy bills,” she said. It is 10 times what the government has invested in climate change adaptation since 2015.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 31, 2020

Much of the new renewable capacity being built around the world is being offset by new coal and gas capacity, leaving the global generation mix more or less how it was in 2000. Even those utilities and independent power producers (IPPs) prioritizing renewables are adding further natural gas and coal capacity, in most cases.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The new funding will allow Dandelion to invest in its product development and expand its geographic reach in New York, Connecticut and Massachusetts, he said, where many residential fuel oil or natural-gas heating systems are ripe for replacement with geothermal systems. homebuilder Lennar Corp., About three-quarters of U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

gigawatt generation fleet from 52 percent to 40 percent, while reducing natural gas and oil from 38 percent to 26 percent. Since 2005, Evergy has reduced the share of coal-fired power in its 6.2-gigawatt gigawatts of nameplate capacity as of 2020. Similarly, Xcel Energy, which serves about 3.3 million electric and 1.8

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Investments in software and data, as well as building deep relationships with utilities, will be key to helping fleets navigate this daunting ecosystem. At the same time, it's already adopting renewable natural gas to power its natural gas trucks in its short-haul fleet. . that fit fleets' needs.

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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

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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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Officials from one corporation, Venture Global, repeatedly told government regulators that CCS was incompatible with the company’s plans to build three massive new liquified natural gas export terminals in south Louisiana. exporters of liquified natural gas. The company is poised to be one of the largest U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 19, 2023

In fact, not even two weeks ago the Trudeau government announced $3 billion (CAD) in loan guarantees for the expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline , which it bought in 2018. What Smith left out are the considerable methane emissions generated by natural gas extraction , as well as the considerable methane leaks from pipelines and wells.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 26, 2024

The corporate venture capital arm of one of the world’s largest utilities listed three new project investments totalling $17 million for climate tech and net zero innovation. NGP’s investments in Q1 2024 saw $17 million in investments spread across three accounts. . ” The above list of investments is not exhaustive. .

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Clean Energy Canada

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Even without carbon pricing, wind power is set to be 40 per cent cheaper than gas-fired power in Alberta and Ontario by 2030. Currently, both provinces are planning for natural-gas-fired power to play a leading role in filling this gap. That means investing in wind and solar along with building a stronger, more flexible grid.

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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 19, 2024

And though a number of key policies continue to be developed—including the oil and gas emissions cap, an emissions cap on natural gas utilities and measures to reduce vehicle kilometres travelled by 25 per cent—many CleanBC policies are now substantially advanced. The plan is working: B.C. At the same time, B.C. Finally, B.C.

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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. PG&E is under criminal probation for convictions related to the 2010 San Bruno natural-gas pipeline explosion and pled guilty to 85 counts of involuntary manslaughter in relation to the 2018 Camp Fire.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 17, 2021

Geological Survey data, life-cycle emissions from oil, gas and coal pulled from public lands and waters were equivalent to more than 20 percent of total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions in 2018. energy , including 12 percent of its natural gas, 24 percent of its oil and 43 percent of its coal. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.)

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