Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 3, 2020

Aerial drone image of solar panels on the roof of a high rise building in London. After a nine-month policy gap, the new Smart Export Guarantee should help boost interest in solar as leading electricity suppliers compete with each other to offer attractive payments for clean power exported to the grid.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 26, 2019

In August, we published the top 10 utility regulation trends of 2019 — so far. With 2019 wrapping up, we look at the 10 trends and actions that stand out above the rest. Implementing 100% clean energy commitments. have now set 100 percent clean energy targets. Aligning utility performance with policy goals.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

A high-resolution atlas of energy consumption across the EU down to the 1kmx1km scale has been produced by the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre. It will help them gauge the future impact of energy policies in every community across Europe.” Have you read?

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 17, 2019

This year, the industry closed that gap more than ever before. Exceedingly few batteries actually live up to the vision of “storing clean power for when the sun isn’t shining.” Here are the tastiest stories that emerged in 2019, in no particular order. Massive utility procurements.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Few grid policy battles have been fought as bitterly as those surrounding replacements for net-metering, which determines how much rooftop solar customers get paid for power they export to the grid. Utility Duke Energy tossed out the conventional playbook when proposing a net-metering successor for its South Carolina territory.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore will also launch 12 key initiatives, including a levy on sustainable aviation fuel and low-carbon electricity imports. This net zero goal aligns with both Singapore’s national climate target and the International Civil Aviation Organisation’s target for the global aviation industry.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 4, 2020

clean energy organizations joined nationwide expressions of grief and anger this week following the recent killings of black Americans including George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery. The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) and the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) lamented continuing racial inequities in the U.S.,

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 11, 2019

It isn’t easy to transform a century’s worth of electricity infrastructure from the ground up, particularly in the face of climate change-induced firestorms. As California goes, so goes the national trends, and that seems especially true of energy-related issues. But here are three of particular importance.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Over the past half-decade, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has consistently won court battles upholding its authority over states to set the rules for how distributed energy resources can play in wholesale energy markets. ” Why demand-side resources are gaining grid power.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 18, 2021

A new report from power market analytics firm Aurora Energy Research suggests that increased deployment of (and continued improvements in) virtualisation technology could reduce potential future European computing emissions 55% by 2040.

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Energy Innovation

JANUARY 19, 2024

This post is the fourth in a series titled “Real Talk on Reliability,” which will examine the reliability needs of our grid as we move toward 100 percent clean electricity and electrify more end-uses on the path to a climate stable future. 2019 ; D’Evelyn et al., It was written by Savannah M. Communities across the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

A little over a decade ago, Gary Dye, then a gas measurement engineer at NW Natural, Oregon’s largest gas utility, lost faith in his employer to responsibly deal with what he believed to be systematic inaccuracies among the company’s hundreds of thousands of gas meters. Faulty Meters Raise Questions About Profits.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 27, 2024

Solar energy targets in Europe have increased by an average of 87%, however, grid and flexibility planning trail far behind renewable goals, putting the energy transition at risk. That is the finding of the latest analysis by Solar Power Europe, the association representing the entire European value chain.

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Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Energy Networks Association (ENA) in the UK has set out an industry action plan to release enough grid capacity in the next year to decarbonise Great Britain’s power grid. The report explains six steps in the energy networks’ action plan, four of which have been under way since the start of the year and two that are new. 

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ThinkGeoEnergy

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Heating and cooling buildings accounts for about a third of the final energy consumption globally and 30% of energy-related CO 2 emissions. For these reasons, the building heating and cooling sector is one that urgently needs to be decarbonized. Heating and cooling buildings is 80% of that energy used.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 9, 2020

Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson recently signed a law establishing a mandatory Building Energy Performance Standard in the city, which is the second-largest in Missouri. Buildings are responsible for nearly 80 percent of St. Louis Building Division, told Greentech Media in an email. and Washington state.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Cathy Zoi, CEO of EVgo, pays a lot of attention to the economics of public electric vehicle charging, both in terms of the widely varying up-front costs from location to location, and the long-term calculations that go into making sure their revenues exceed their costs over their lifetime.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 10, 2021

Getting electricity customer-generators the compensation they deserve has been a battle in many states. Could a settlement between the utility and solar advocates squash net metering conflict for good? The settlement, which Utility Dive calls a “landmark settlement” may finally put to rest the controversy over net metering.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 27, 2020

During last week’s heat-wave-driven grid emergency in California, grid operator CAISO and the state’s utilities sent out desperate calls to demand response providers, behind-the-meter battery aggregators, electric-vehicle charging providers, microgrid operators and backup generator owners, seeking whatever help they could provide.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 29, 2020

Energy Information Administration (EIA) has finally come around to the view that renewables will overtake natural gas in the country’s electricity mix. The EIA has long been known for its conservative if not incredible predictions about renewable energy. Credit: EIA Annual Energy Outlook 2020, reference case.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Contributed by Saverio Grosso, Edison Energy. Under the Act, passed in 2019, most buildings over 25,000 square feet—roughly 50,000 residential and commercial properties across the city—must meet new energy efficiency and greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) reductions by 2024, and stricter limits in 2030. Last month, the U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 2, 2020

Residential batteries outperformed the rest of the energy storage sector in first quarter deployments. The first quarter of 2020 marked the fourth consecutive record for home battery installations, according to the new Energy Storage Monitor , from Wood Mackenzie and the Energy Storage Association.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 20, 2020

Charlie Baker’s administration has finalized a major rule for promoting clean energy during the most expensive hours of electricity production. The Clean Peak Standard, called for in legislation passed in 2018, creates credits for clean energy delivered during time windows identified as peak hours for a given season.

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Business Green

JULY 18, 2021

Delivering the UK's heat pump installation target requires urgent policy action and a clear strategy, explains Laura Bishop of the Ground-Source Heat Pump Association. We now need to see urgent policy action by the UK government and a clear strategy adopted to help drive forward our low carbon heating future. So what needs to be done?

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 27, 2020

New Jersey looked like the promised land for energy storage. Phil Murphy campaigned in 2017 on a clean energy platform that pushed for a 100 percent clean grid by 2050. When Murphy won and took office, he signed sweeping clean energy legislation in May 2018 that turned his goals into law. Who’s the Boss?

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

However, these events can get us thinking about where the industry goes from here. 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. Lower 48 Power Generation Mix, with other fuels providing 65 percent. First, the U.S.

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Greenability Magazine

MAY 10, 2023

Green Building Council (USGBC), is catalyzing a new generation of inclusive, healthy, high-performance, sustainable cities worldwide. We’re working with community partners to ensure we’re building a more resilient energy system for the future.” On Tuesday, the city announced it has achieved LEED Gold.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 31, 2021

For this episode of our Voices of 100% series of the Local Energy Rules Podcast , host John Farrell talks with Helena Sustainability Coordinator Patrick Judge and Citizens Conservation Commission Member Mark Juedeman. Judge and Juedeman supported Helena as the city committed to 100% renewable energy. ” Patrick Judge.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 10, 2021

By Faye Bowser, Head of Energy Solutions, Siemens plc. How do we find the energy and ideas now to put in place the changes needed to sustain our collective trajectory to 2050, and also identify the next set of ‘big wins’ for industry? A lot of the hard work has come from decarbonising the grid and the shift to renewable power.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

After a decade of eking out a niche in the world of advanced distribution grid power controls, Silicon Valley startup Varentec has sold its key assets for an undisclosed sum. But Koch Industries is also a massive, if quiet, player in the U.S. But Koch Industries is also a massive, if quiet, player in the U.S.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 19, 2022

The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) has launched a new report on grid codes for renewable powered systems. The report contains the latest developments and good practices to develop grid connection codes for power systems with high shares of variable renewable energy (VRE) – solar photovoltaic (PV) and wind.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 28, 2020

tonnes of methane gas to atmosphere that was detected at a nearby monitoring station installed by researchers from The University of Manchester. Elevated methane (CH4) concentrations in the air were measured at an atmospheric monitoring station near the Preston New Road (PNR) shale gas site over a one-week period in January 2019.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 5, 2021

California is facing a major decision under a tight deadline — whether it should push for large-scale power plants and batteries to prevent a repeat of its August 2020 rolling blackouts this coming summer, or turn to behind-the-meter resources like batteries and demand response. 14 and 15 last year. 14 and 15 last year.

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Business Green

MAY 14, 2021

Taskforce comes after ‘pioneering’ Energy Data Taskforce catalysed efforts to digitalise energy system, according to Clean Growth Minister Anne-Marie Trevelyan. The taskforce aims to emulate the approach of 2019's Energy Data Taskforce, which sparked a wave of "energy data activity" across government, Ofgem, and industry.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 15, 2020

gigawatt Hinkley Point C nuclear power station in 2012, it proudly proclaimed that the arrangement proved new nuclear did not need direct subsidy. A 2014 study found that of a global sample of 180 nuclear power plants, 97 percent ended up over budget. Taking this approach would be a first for the energy sector and a first for RABs.

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Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 6, 2021

A group of industry members, advocates, utility stakeholders and state officials is preparing to issue the first of two reports that will help lawmakers in Maine craft new renewable incentive policies and plan grid upgrades for the coming years. Versant Power last recorded 382 megawatts, in 2019.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 5, 2020

The key to long-term success in the fashion industry is to start trends and continually push the envelope — a philosophy that also applies to its ESG priorities. However, there is a growing and collective awareness of environmental impact across the industry.

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