GreenTechMedia

JULY 23, 2020

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. Coal made up 31 percent of its capacity as of 2018, while natural gas accounted for about 42 percent.

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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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R-Squared Energy

AUGUST 9, 2020

Previous articles covered overall energy consumption , petroleum supply and demand, natural gas , and coal. The “Renewables” category consists of wind power, solar power, biofuels. The category “Other” includes geothermal energy and power produced from biomass. exajoules of renewable energy.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 26, 2020

Alliant, which serves about 1 million customers in the Midwestern states of Wisconsin and Iowa, currently relies on renewables for about 20 percent of its generation capacity, largely wind power in Iowa, with twice as much coming from natural gas plants.

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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. For starters, Alberta and Ontario are in the midst of transforming their power grids. They also share a common solution. Alas, there’s another gap in need of attention: good data.

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R-Squared Energy

AUGUST 26, 2021

Maintains Its Natural Gas Dominance. The “Renewables” category above consists of wind power, solar power, biofuels, geothermal energy, and power produced from biomass. The report further breaks down renewable energy consumption into just power production (i.e., A Record Decline In Carbon Emissions.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 28, 2020

American Electric Power has secured enough state regulator approvals to move ahead with a 1,485-megawatt wind power project in Oklahoma — even if Texas regulators end up denying its plans. billion transmission line put too much financial risk on Swepco ratepayers.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

The upshot is that a region with big climate goals and physical constraints on its natural gas supply will meet its hours of greatest electricity demand with a bit more battery power and a bit less gas-fired power. Gas plants are the go-to source of on-demand power for the U.S. Expansion at Plus.

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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. Natural gas remained the largest source of U.S.

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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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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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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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Grist

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Renewable solar and wind power now typically costs less than fossil-fuel alternatives. The second most important target for green power is replacing fossil fuel use in buildings, especially growing use of natural gas for heating; in Vancouver, British Columbia, that causes nearly 60% of the city’s carbon pollution.

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Energy Innovation

JULY 2, 2021

They use a series of models to explore energy mixes that include coal, hydropower, nuclear, solar, natural gas, and wind in the future relative to today. When emission reduction requirements are increased to 80 percent, changes are more apparent, including increases in both solar and wind power. Southeast in 2050.

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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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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

The consultant was the sole interviewee in the segment, in which she claimed that the move to renewable energy, primarily wind power, was increasing the risk of blackouts. Wind Power ‘Blackout’ Risk Porter told BBC Radio 4 listeners in the interview: “There were risks around blackouts this winter.

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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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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

million customers by 2025, adding nearly 700 megawatts of wind power, plus more solar and battery storage systems to boost rural reliability. Missouri's lagging wind market. Unlike most utility grid modernization plans, however, Ameren Missouri’s plan also includes $1 billion for wind power.

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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

NV Energy, which provides about 81 percent of Nevada's electricity, is seeking to double its renewable energy capacity between 2018 and 2023, and meet a new 50 percent by 2030 renewable portfolio standard passed this year. 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

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. A conservative estimate.

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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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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. But simply hooking up a vertical farm to solar or wind power won't solve the problem.

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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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Low Carbon Prosperity

OCTOBER 17, 2018

In the absence of I-1631, existing policies and consumption trends are projected to decrease state emissions from 96 million tCO2e in 2018 to 90 million tCO2e in 2035. million tCO2e decrease in statewide greenhouse gas emissions from 2018 to 2035 – a comparable level of ambition. 9 The PERI report evaluates a 30.5

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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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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Senate could put pressure on FERC to accept ISO New England's proposal due to natural gas interests, should they regain a majority in the chamber. Konidena said that in 2018, ISO New England's Forward Capacity Market Revenue peaked with $3.6 Republicans in the U.S. billion changing hands but declined to $2.7

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Grist

DECEMBER 8, 2021

When InvestigateWest launched the Getting to Zero: Decarbonizing Cascadia series in January 2021, the latest official data showed that emissions of carbon dioxide, methane, and other greenhouse gases had risen steadily from 2012 to 2018, and the region wasn’t on track to make big cuts this decade. “We Ensuring a cleaner and reliable grid.

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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

Third-party solar installers only won the right to serve Florida customers in 2018, and rooftop PV penetration remains low. BHE’s giant wind fleet is shared between its unregulated and regulated utility businesses, with Iowa-based MidAmerican Energy Company taking an early lead in capturing its plentiful regional wind power.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 16, 2024

.” More recently, Morano has been talking about whales—specifically, the idea that the higher-than-usual number of dead ones washing ashore along the East Coast is the result of President Joe Biden’s push to develop 30 gigawatts of offshore wind power by the end of the decade.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

If you listen to Joe Biden on climate change, you might feel the urge to junk your car and invest in wind power. But he still has a weakness for natural gas, which he has supported in the past as a “bridge fuel” between dirtier gasoline and coal and cleaner renewable energy. As the U.S.

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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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