GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

million customers in Kansas and Missouri, was formed in 2018 by the merger of Westar Energy and Great Plains Energy, the parent company of Kansas City Power & Light. Michigan utility DTE Energy, another utility pursuing decarbonization by midcentury, is seeking to divest from its DTE Midstream competitive natural-gas business.

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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). Under the law, Dominion Virginia and the smaller Appalachian Power Co. gigawatts of energy storage over the next 15 years.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

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

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 29, 2020

The EU's own new strategy for decarbonizing its energy system draws largely from European Commission projections from 2018, predicting that in 2050 more than 80 percent of the electricity supply will come from renewables and 15 percent from nuclear.

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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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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. Figure 2 shows that natural gas and renewable generation continued to expand their share of the resource mix. power in 2020. A record 33.6

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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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Clean Energy Canada

JULY 2, 2020

Currently, the majority of hydrogen around the world is produced from fossil fuels (76% from natural gas, 23% from coal). Hydrogen from other non-emitting sources—such as nuclear power—does not currently have an established colour designation. Companies include: Ballard Power Systems in Burnaby, B.C.,

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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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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

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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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

Wind Power ‘Blackout’ Risk Porter told BBC Radio 4 listeners in the interview: “There were risks around blackouts this winter. She added: “And so whenever it isn’t windy we’re starting to get into issues of the grid being stressed”. Porter declined to comment.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Berkshire Hathaway’s MidAmerican Energy in Iowa , for example, served nearly half of its customers’ power needs in 2018 from its 6,500-megawatt wind fleet. gigawatt generation fleet comes from coal-fired power plants, while natural gas makes up about a quarter more, and nuclear power one-tenth.

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R-Squared Energy

JULY 14, 2020

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. That is why today some companies will convert two BTUs of natural gas into one BTU of liquid fuel. On a mass basis, it is 9.3

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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

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 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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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Colorado Governor Jared Polis campaigned in 2018 on a platform of 100 percent renewable power by 2040. ” “For us, the answer is not coal and natural gas. So what the answer is, is it can be other sources: it can be storage, it can be nuclear, it can be geothermal electric, it can be hydro.

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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

APRIL 16, 2020

Those auctions have been on ice since the last one in 2018. Last month's compliance filing from PJM set floor prices for most state-backed solar power, onshore and offshore wind and energy storage that are likely to be too high to compete against natural gas, nuclear or coal-fired power plants.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

A natural gas demonstration plant in Texas tests carbon capture technology. Credit: NET Power , CC BY-SA 4.0 But this gas-as-a-guiding-star underpinning doesn’t appear in the framework itself, a point not lost on Democratic lawmakers. There is mounting evidence, however, that CCS is ineffective.

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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

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. They also took steps to insulate natural gas compression stations and pipelines, and remove moisture from natural gas to prevent it from freezing in transit.

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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

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

New Jersey is heavily reliant on natural gas and nuclear power for its electricity, though it also gets nearly 5 percent from solar, among the highest penetrations in the country. After taking office in January 2018, Murphy, a Democrat and the former U.S. offshore wind market gained steam along the East Coast.

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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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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 22, 2020

They are doubling down on oil and natural gas and investing what amounts to pocket change in innovative climate-oriented efforts like small nuclear power plants and devices that suck carbon out of the air. American oil giants Chevron and Exxon Mobil are going in a far different direction.

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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.". Many coal miners have found new union jobs laying down pipelines for natural gas used to generate electricity. “Nobody saved the coal industry.

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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

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

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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CleanTechnica

SEPTEMBER 26, 2020

Electricity from coal power plants has declined from 26.9% of US electricity generation in the first 7 months of 2018 to 17.7% of US electricity in the first 7 months of 2020. Furthermore, that's down from 33% in 2015, 39% in 2014, 45% in 2010, and 50% in.

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