DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

An organization run by former Obama-era Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz, with the backing of the AFL-CIO, a federation of 56 labor unions, has created a policy “blueprint” to build a nationwide pipeline network capable of carrying a gigaton of captured carbon dioxide (CO2). Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) data from 2019.

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Business Green

AUGUST 6, 2020

ECIU's Dr Jonathan Marshall reflects on whether the right lessons have been learned from last year's high profile - and remarkably rare - grid blackout. This weekend will see the anniversary of the UK's first major power cut for over a decade. The application window for this scheme closed in early August, with results expected soon.

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The Verge: Energy

DECEMBER 28, 2023

The process releases planet-heating carbon dioxide. The electrolyzer is plugged into the power grid, and fossil fuels still make up about 60 percent of the US electricity mix. The big problem they need to tackle is cleaning up the process of making hydrogen in the first place.

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Business Green

APRIL 13, 2020

Our analysis of international news media found that mentions of climate-related keywords peaked in late September 2019 after Greta Thunberg's address to the UN General Assembly. But while coverage remained high throughout the final quarter of 2019, it has tailed off since Thunberg's address to Davos, swamped by coronavirus.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 15, 2021

It got me thinking: Could we boost the carbon drawdown potential of clean technologies even further by supporting more women-led startups in the burgeoning climate-tech ecosystem? In 2019, just 2.8 Carbon removal. From classrooms to boardrooms. economy to net-zero emissions by 2050. 47 — Bioplastics. 36 — Alternative Cement.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 23, 2023

The two corporations investing billions to build three new factories just outside Columbus, Ohio, have said that the facilities will be carbon neutral — despite Ohio’s near-total reliance on electricity from fossil fuels. This is the approach Honda says it will take to make its new Fayette County plant carbon neutral.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Cheap finance and maturing technology mean solar will be cheaper than both new coal or gas power plants from now onward. Power grids remain the weak link. Still, it warns that the industry's growth could be undermined by grid investment, which it calls “the weak link” in the transformation of the power market.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

’s largest power plant. GW of power output to biomass, with a remaining 1.3 It plans to add carbon capture and storage to the biomass plants, taking them to a negative-emissions status. This year we sold our existing gas power station assets, alongside the Damhead Creek 2 development project, to Vitol (VPI Holding Ltd).

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 5, 2021

will supply nearly carbon-free electricity to power Google’s data centers in the state. The power generator announced it will become sole supplier of the tech giant’s data-center needs for clean energy. The utility will ensure the energy powering those data centers will be 90% carbon-free when measured on an hourly basis.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 6, 2020

For utilities and energy companies, the mounting challenges to pipeline projects may serve as an incentive to shift from plans to rely on natural gas as a bridge fuel, and toward a less risky role building ratepayer-financed electric infrastructure to serve an increasingly renewable-powered grid, analysts say.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 9, 2020

BusinessGreen rounds up all the crucial findings in the Climate Change Committee's mammoth 450 page report on how to meet the UK's carbon targets. That would almost double the UK's decarbonisation progress to date, with emissions standing at 41 per cent below 1990 levels in 2019.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

That’s because current market dynamics in the country “motivate the fossil fuel generators to continuously construct new plants and delay the phaseout of those that contribute little to the power grid,” Gyuri Cho of Solutions for Our Climate said last year. This could have dire health impacts. Burning all that gas could release 13.7

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 21, 2020

“Past and current approaches rely on large power stations, but as the U.K. ” Distributed ReStart was launched in January 2019 and is set to run to March 2022, with £10.3 “It’s envisaged that the Distributed ReStart project will demonstrate a world first,” says National Grid on its website.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 18, 2021

Coupled with the increased usage of renewable energy to fulfil electricity requirements, these energy efficiency gains can help IT operations in Europe to substantially decrease their carbon footprint. The report also provides an overview of how data centres can play a role in helping integrate renewables into European electricity grids.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 2, 2020

Senate will consider a bipartisan energy package this week that could be this year’s best legislative hope to increase federal funding for a number of energy technologies, from solar, wind and batteries, to more efficient fossil fuel-fired power and carbon capture. This policy, part of a 2019 bill from Sens.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 30, 2020

According to the International Energy Agency, the global installed hydropower capacity in 2019 was 1307 GW. Improving the efficiency of the existing hydropower infrastructure will lead to more flexibility on the power grid.

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Clean Energy Canada

AUGUST 8, 2023

The federal government has released a new paper, Powering Canada Forward , which lays out the federal government’s vision for a 100% clean power grid by 2035. Canada’s grid is already 84% emissions free, but as the energy transition progresses, more homes, vehicles, and industries will be plugging into the grid.

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Business Green

JUNE 4, 2020

As a result the carbon intensity of Europe's power supply fell more than 20 per cent compared to May 2019 with a third less coal generation. per cent of power, while the overall carbon intensity of the grid reached a record low of 143g of carbon dioxide per kilowatt-hour (CO2/kWh) of power for the month.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 2, 2022

To cope with growing energy requirements as well as energy security, climate, and environmental challenges, the global electric power industry needs to implement energy transformation, zero-carbon transformation, and digital transformation. Building a new electric power system is the key to conducting these transformations.

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Grist

AUGUST 2, 2021

At a laboratory inside a Google data center in Mayes County , Oklahoma, researchers spent the fall of 2019 disassembling old hard disk drives by hand in order to extract a 2-inch-long component known as the magnet assembly. Frost, who led the 2019 study, believes it is the largest demonstration of its kind ever done.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 3, 2020

That task took on new urgency when a grid battery in Arizona exploded in 2019, seriously injuring four firefighters. New York state wants to install 3,000 megawatts of energy storage by 2030 on the way to a fully carbon-free electrical system.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Wärtsilä defines the goal of 100 percent decarbonization as a carbon-neutral power grid with a combination of generation resources — the vast majority of which would be wind and solar — as well as ample amounts of battery storage, demand response and flexible gas power, which will ultimately run on carbon-free renewable fuels.

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Grist

DECEMBER 8, 2021

This story is part of the series Getting to Zero: Decarbonizing Cascadia , which explores the path to low-carbon energy for British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon. Climate scientists say humanity must halve carbon emissions by the end of this decade to prevent global warming from causing far more devastating climate swings.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 14, 2020

"Energy storage is really the first truly dispatchable digital asset on the electric grid," Galura said in an interview Wednesday. "We That alignment echoes a partnership from 2019, when integrator NEC Energy Solutions teamed up with AMS competitor Stem to offer wholesale market assistance to storage customers. Now AMS dispatches 1.7

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 21, 2021

Under the Republican majority in place at FERC since 2017, Glick has been a consistent, and often sole, vote against a string of policy decisions that have been seen as undermining state-subsidized clean energy and carbon reduction policies. ” Transmission policy, carbon pricing. Conflict over clean energy in capacity markets.

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Energy efficiency will help, but in 2019 the U.S. Clearly a lot of new carbon-free generation will be required. He didn’t mention nuclear power or carbon sequestration in this speech, but his website does mention them among four specific goals designed to decarbonize the power sector. power grid by 2050.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

While light on details, the solar plan will help Alliant reach goals it laid out last year to cut carbon emissions 80 percent and ramp up the renewable portion of its energy mix to 30 percent by 2030. ” For large-scale projects, 2019 is the last year to get the full ITC before it gradually steps down to a permanent 10 percent in 2022.

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Business Green

APRIL 6, 2020

National Grid ESO's carbon intensity data during the middle of yesterday showed onshore and offshore wind power taking an almost 40 per cent share of power on the grid, with solar providing just below a quarter, and biomass delivering just under three per cent of the mix. pic.twitter.com/fwCbxMA8up.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Now FERC is being asked to put that authority to a new use: ending a decade-old provision allowing individual states to opt out of letting demand response companies enlist customers to turn down their energy use to support the power grid. Problems like these have driven MISO to launch reforms to improve reliability.

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 20, 2021

When a lithium-ion battery reaches a critical temperature, the liquid electrolyte inside the battery can vaporize and release toxic, flammable gases including hydrogen, carbon monoxide, methane, and propylene. The April 2019 incident in Arizona at an energy storage facility left four firefighters injured, two seriously.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Centrica’s 2019 investment , for example, cemented GreenCom’s role in providing the IoT backbone for the home energy services related to Centrica’s Hive smart home devices , now used by about 1.7 GreenCom has seen investments turn into strategic partnerships before. million customers.

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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 23, 2020

As of 2019, there were 3.4 Jobs spanned industries such as , renewable energy, energy efficiency, hybrid and electric vehicles, as well as advanced grid and energy storage. and, in 2019, employed 350,000 Americans. power grid has contributed to cutting carbon pollution in the power sector by 28% since 2005.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 12, 2020

Taking into consideration Texas’ ability to cope with rapidly growing levels of renewable generation, “I question whether a capacity market is the best way to bring forward flexibility,” said Chris Kimmett, director of the power grids business unit at Reactive Technologies, a U.K. cleantech firm.

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Business Green

JANUARY 4, 2021

The grid operator revealed last week that, with wind and solar records having again been sent tumbling throughout 2020, the average carbon intensity of the Britain's power grid reached a new low last year of 181 grams of CO2 per kWh, down from 215g of CO2/kWh in 2019. and #solar ??records

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 30, 2020

By far the biggest grid edge story of 2020 was the continued commitment of U.S. utilities to midcentury decarbonization goals — or more pertinently, those utilities that aren’t already facing state-level mandates to eliminate their carbon footprints.

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Business Green

JANUARY 18, 2022

In this challenging context, ambitious policy commitments and public funding to support the roll-out of new low carbon technologies may not, at first glance, look particularly attractive to some parts of government. Low carbon investment also has the potential to create jobs in multiple locations across the country.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 26, 2019

California has just 25 years to achieve its economywide carbon-neutrality target. Buildings account for about a quarter of California’s greenhouse gas emissions, so concerted efforts will be needed to squeeze carbon out of the sector, especially existing buildings. Wave of natural-gas bans.

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