GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Dominion Energy marked two key milestones in its Thursday third-quarter earnings call — its exit from its interstate natural gas pipeline business, and its latest steps toward building the mid-Atlantic’s first gigawatt-scale offshore wind farm. per share in net income reported for the third quarter of 2019.

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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

JANUARY 2, 2020

Europe's biggest natural-gas infrastructure firm recently launched a new hydrogen business. Perhaps the most obvious use for green hydrogen is to simply replace the large amounts of the gas that are already produced using carbon-intensive methods to satisfy the needs of industry. A hydrogen economy in the U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 29, 2020

Alongside a big boost in its energy efficiency efforts, TEP says the plan would allow it to avoid building any new natural gas plants. Jared Polis won the 2018 election on his call for the state to adopt a 100-percent renewables by 2040 target, and continues to press lawmakers for a more aggressive policy.

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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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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). A huge amount of energy is required to transform these chemicals.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 10, 2020

billion charge related to abandoning the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, but also laid out how its renewable energy and grid modernization plans will fill in the capital investments hole left by the canceled multi-billion dollar natural gas project. Duke Energy on Monday reported a $1.6 per share, compared to $1.12

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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. Buses powered by “alternative fuels” (almost all natural gas) sold 2,504 units in the EU last year, which represents an increase of 68% compared to 2018.

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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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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. From less than half a million barrels per day (BPD) in 2015, exports reached 1 million BPD in 2017, 2 million BPD in 2018, 3 million BPD in 2020, and 4 million BPD in 2023. Annual U.S.

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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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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

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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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

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. Previously, natural gas accounted for about 65 percent of the building’s $65,000 annual energy costs. But even in colder climates, the outlook is starting to change.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 4, 2020

That’s nearly quadruple the targets laid out in Dominion’s 2019 IRP, and a major shift from a 2018 IRP that was rejected by Virginia’s regulator, the State Corporation Commission (SCC). Retreat from natural gas not enough for environmental advocates. gigawatts of energy storage over the next 15 years.

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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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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 5, 2022

Hydrogen meters are under development and testing in the prospect of hydrogen blending into the gas distribution networks for supply to consumers. The reason for modifications, simply, is the different energy characteristics of hydrogen compared to natural gas. Its energy content is about only one-third that of natural gas.

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R-Squared Energy

JUNE 28, 2020

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. The remainder of global energy consumption came from coal (27%), natural gas (24%), hydropower (6%), renewables (5%), and nuclear power (4%).

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R-Squared Energy

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

The first was that the shale gas boom in the U.S. unleashed massive new supplies of cheap natural gas. This made it economical for power plants to switch from coal to natural gas. Power produced from natural gas has lower associated carbon dioxide emissions. share of all new vehicles sold in 2018.

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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

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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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. Increases Its Dominance In Natural Gas Production.

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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 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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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

APRIL 24, 2024

Radium, they warned, was “a potent source of radiation exposure, both internal and external,” while the radioactive gas radon and its polonium daughters “deliver significant population and occupational exposures.” Radon is America’s second leading cause of lung cancer deaths and naturally contaminates natural gas.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

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. GTM's Green Hydrogen Explainer is here.)

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

At the same time, it's already adopting renewable natural gas to power its natural gas trucks in its short-haul fleet. . It's got close to 300 alternative-fueled vehicles, including electric, hybrid and natural gas buses, sweepers and light-duty vehicles. Just a short five years away. Media Source.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 30, 2020

In 2018 ExxonMobil agreed to buy 500 megawatts of wind and solar power from Ørsted in Texas, described at the time as the largest renewables deal ever signed by an oil company. Deals like Chevron’s are increasingly common in high-renewables states like Texas. public network of electric vehicle chargers.

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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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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 17, 2022

Portuguese natural gas distributor REN Portgás Distribuição has reported passing the 400,000 gas customer milestone. Portgás distributes gas in 29 municipalities in the districts of Porto, Braga and Viana do Castelo in the north of Portugal. Italgas advances network automation Project visit: Residential power-to-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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Charged

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

By 2023, the capital cost for new battery manufacturing capacity is expected to decline by more than half compared to 2018. The rapidly increasing penetration of stationary storage will begin to make natural gas plants uneconomical, and much fossil fuel-related infrastructure will become stranded.

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AutoGrid

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Extreme Heat, Peak Load and Demand Response: Record Summer 2018 Challenges Grid Operators Nationwide. Heat waves reduce the output capacity and efficiency of gas-fired combustion turbines. Source: NERC 2018 Summer Reliability Assessment. Wherever you live, you may have experienced a hot summer.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

In order to manufacture products, companies in the industry sector must burn fuel, typically natural gas, to create heat. Technologies such as geothermal, biomass and solar, which Skyven initially focused on, can provide an alternative to natural gas to generate heat for industrial processes.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 23, 2020

Coal made up 31 percent of its capacity as of 2018, while natural gas accounted for about 42 percent. Alliant serves about 1 million customers in Wisconsin and Iowa, and gets about 20 percent of its generation capacity from renewables today, mostly from wind farms in Iowa.

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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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