R-Squared Energy

JULY 26, 2021

Small declines were also reported in coal, natural gas, and nuclear consumption, while renewables and hydropower recorded gains. The remainder of global energy consumption came from coal (27.2%), natural gas (24.7%), hydropower (6.9%), renewables (5.7%), and nuclear power (4.3%). Natural Gas.

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 4, 2022

Solar, wind, and other renewable energy sources (including biomass, geothermal, and hydropower) added more than 2,250 MW of new generating capacity each month during 2021. . Including new hydropower (28 MW), geothermal (25 MW), and biomass (18 MW), renewables provided 83.6% of all new generating capacity through the end of October.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 1, 2020

ABB will now focus on industrial automation, electric transportation and digital solutions. Hitachi and ABB’s emphasis on renewables and distributed energy are shared by key rivals such as General Electric and Siemens as they move to diversify from slowing markets for large-scale grid equipment and natural gas turbines.

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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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Clean Energy Canada

JULY 2, 2020

This means its potential role has similarities with that of electricity. Currently, the majority of hydrogen around the world is produced from fossil fuels (76% from natural gas, 23% from coal). It can also be produced from electricity and water using a process called electrolysis. How and why is it currently produced?

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MAY 21, 2023

More than $500 million to support the construction of charging stations for electric vehicles, as the government looks to bring the number of electric vehicles on Québec roads to two million. TWh produced Quebec is the largest producer of electricity in Canada and had an estimated generating capacity of 46,380 megawatts (MW) in 2019.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 24, 2020

New York passed legislation in 2019 requiring an electricity mix that is 70 percent renewable by 2030 and entirely carbon-free by 2040, compared to just under 30 percent of its in-state generation mix coming from renewable as of 2018.

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Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 10, 2021

That spend would be around 20% lower than what was invested across all of the country’s generation resources between 2015 and 2019. . Current nuclear and large hydropower capacity add up to around 50 GW. That’s because the price of electricity from solar plants has fallen below the variable cost of most existing coal units. .

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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. Greenhouse Gas Emissions Source: BloombergNEF estimate. The economic disruption caused a massive drop in national greenhouse gas emissions. Figure 1: U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

While COVID-19 lockdowns have trimmed demand for electricity over the period, sustained renewables deployment and the associated revenue were bright spots for both companies. billion in 9M 2019. GW of hydropower. Most recently, natural gas has been denied the status as a “transition fuel.” billion ($1.9

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Grist

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Would make electricity more dependable. The Wild Horse wind and solar farm east of Ellensburg, Washington on Whiskey Dick Mountain generates electricity for suburban Seattle utility Puget Sound Energy. Electric vehicles are making huge inroads in the market. They concluded that the transition: Will have marginal costs.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 21, 2020

electricity consumption. Bulk electricity usage by commercial businesses and industrial manufacturing has given way to increased household electricity consumption as the general population isolates at home. In turn, this economic slowdown has shifted electricity generation to rely more on the renewable energy sector.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 21, 2020

electricity consumption. Bulk electricity usage by commercial businesses and industrial manufacturing has given way to increased household electricity consumption as the general population isolates at home. In turn, this economic slowdown has shifted electricity generation to rely more on the renewable energy sector.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

In 2008, Jacobson teamed up with student, Graeme Hoste, to assess whether California’s hourly demand for electricity could be satisfied with a combination of renewable power sources. Hydropower electricity produced in the Pacific Northwest would be imported to fill in the gaps. Congress between 2015 and 2019.

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Business Green

MARCH 27, 2020

California this week adopted a new emissions target for its electric sector that would see the state double its clean energy capacity by 2030 and end the development of new natural gas plants in support of its previous net zero emissions goal. California to double 2030 clean energy goal, as New York closes its last coal plant.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Nearly two thirds of social media posts put out by six major European fossil fuel and energy companies since the end of 2019 present a “green” image of the company, despite the majority of their business activity remaining in fossil fuels, reveals new analysis by Desmog. 20 percent of posts focused on corporate climate plans and projects.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

If Joe Biden wins the presidential election in November and Congress enacts his $2 trillion clean energy and infrastructure ambition, utilities will need to reconfigure their plans to meet Biden's nationwide goal of zero-carbon electricity by 2035. Here's a look at the five largest U.S. Dominion Energy. Duke Energy.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

The agency's latest report released Tuesday now expects capacity additions to grow 4 percent from 2019, hitting a record of nearly 200 gigawatts this year, and bumping forecasts 18 percent from the crunch the agency projected in May. Wind plus solar will overtake coal capacity in 2024 and will eclipse natural gas even earlier, in 2023.

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R-Squared Energy

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

According to the latest BP Statistical Review — which is the “bible” of energy statistics — in 2019 fossil fuels supplied 83.3% Renewables, including hydropower, just 8.7%. As a result, natural gas consumption has increased by nearly 40% over the past decade in the U.S. . of our energy in the U.S.;

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 26, 2021

electrical generation in 2030. EIA’s most recent “ Electric Power Monthly ” report reveals that renewable energy sources (i.e., biomass, geothermal, hydropower, solar, wind) provided 22.5% electrical generation during the first four months of 2021. in April 2011 (year-to-date) to 13.9% in 2020 to 20.6%

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 7, 2021

Indeed, new energy jobs from 2015 through 2019 accounted for almost 11 percent of total job growth in the nation, according to the report. million people employed in some form of energy efficiency as of 2019. Overall Industry Crosscut Wages, 2019. Energy jobs rebounded more quickly than other sectors.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 30, 2019

Is California finished building gas-fired power plants? natural gas production. Batteries can provide many of the same services as gas peaker plants, and they come with many other benefits. But today’s storage technology cannot take over the bulk-power function served by larger gas plants.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 13, 2021

Under growing pressure to rein in greenhouse gas emissions, developers of liquefied natural gas (LNG) are turning to questionable claims about “carbon neutrality,” “net-zero,” or “green LNG,” in order to pass muster with governments, investors, and society, who are becoming increasingly anxious about the climate crisis.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 20, 2019

New Frontiers in Renewable Energy and Resources will take place on November 25-26, 2019 in Rome, Italy. One of the beneficial factors for the use of the renewable energy is that it is naturally generated. The common energy sources are Hydropower, Biomass, Biofuels, Wind, Geothermal and Solar Energy.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 31, 2021

in television and other public education campaigns in 2019 to rally support for a new $1B transmission line that it wants in order to bring Canadian hydropower downstate. Good also explained that in order to support the coming wave of electric vehicles, lots more infrastructure will need to be built.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 25, 2020

Cornell University Score 82.14 | Ithaca, New York In March 2020, Cornell saw 100 percent of its campus power needs met by solar, hydropower, and other renewable energy projects. Thompson Rivers is working to replace all its natural gas boilers with electric ones, which should render the whole university carbon-neutral (sans offsets!)

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 18, 2022

Coal, natural gas and oil together account for about 70% of Africa’s total electricity generation, and conventional power attracts far more funding than renewables, owing to an established process that favors less capital-intensive thermal generation, the report notes. Specific to hydropower , the report said that 17.4%

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

The seven-state federal power agency gets less than 3 percent of its power from wind and solar today, compared to 39 percent nuclear, 26 percent natural gas, 21 percent coal-fired, and 10 percent hydropower. Silicon Ranch will also be developing a solar project of up to 80 megawatts in Madison County, Tennessee.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

biomass, geothermal, hydropower, solar, wind) strongly dominated new US energy generation capacity additions in 2020, according to the SUN DAY Campaign of data released by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). Wind (13,626MW) and solar (8,543MW) each contributed more new energy generation capacity than did natural gas (6,259 MW).

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Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The report confirms that thanks to record deployment of renewables and electric vehicles (EVs), the CO2 intensity of the world's energy supply is improving again after worsening in 2021 when the economy rebounded sharply from the covid-induced lockdowns of 2020. Credit: IEA.

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Grist

DECEMBER 8, 2021

We now know that Cascadia’s greenhouse gas pollution went on increasing in 2019, according to state and provincial data assembled and analyzed by InvestigateWest for this report. The province’s official inventory presents carbon emissions as essentially flat in 2019, which is misleading. One year at a time.

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Business Green

JULY 3, 2020

But the report concluded that the amount of e-waste is rising three times faster than the world's population, with just 17 per cent of e-waste recycled in 2019. For example, the action plan recommends delivering zero emissions from new buildings by 2030, from new vehicles by 2035, and from electricity by 2040.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 22, 2020

In that case, 2019 would go into the books as the peak year: from 2020 it will only decrease with demand. The sentiment of these CEOs stems from three major underlying trends: continued growth of cheap and abundant renewables, financiers pulling out of oil and gas, and backing by favorable policies that are likely to increase in strength.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 22, 2020

The past decade has been a wild ride for America's massive electricity sector. Out of scores of potential examples, GTM has chosen to highlight four companies: NextEra Energy, Berkshire Hathaway Energy, Dominion Energy, and Pacific Gas & Electric. billion bid for Hawaiian Electric and $18.7 Today, no U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 7, 2023

Austin Wall was attending an environmental law conference at the University of Tennessee not long ago when, during a discussion of natural gas pipeline projects, a map appeared on the screen and gave him a surprise. If you count hydropower and nuclear as clean energy sources, as the TVA does, that number bumps up to about 50 percent.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 8, 2023

Austin Wall was attending an environmental law conference at the University of Tennessee not long ago when, during a discussion of natural gas pipeline projects, a map appeared on the screen and gave him a surprise. If you count hydropower and nuclear as clean energy sources, as the TVA does, that number bumps up to about 50 percent.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Major natural gas and oil pipeline projects have been abandoned or halted by legal challenges. All of this serves as evidence of what a second Trump term could bring to national electricity policy. renewable energy will be short-lived: It took the crown from hydropower last year and will lose it to solar in the 2020s.

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