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. Aligning utility performance with policy goals. Utilities planning for electric transportation. DER integration and investments in a modern grid.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 18, 2019

2019 has seen a steady evolution of policy, regulation and business model innovation at the grid edge. From July through September 2019, WoodMac tracked over 1.2 In July 2019, Tendril (after a series of acquisitions in customer analytics) announced a merger with Simple Energy to become Uplight. Digitalization. and Europe.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 10, 2020

megawatts/1,113 megawatt-hours in 2019 as a whole and 186.4 California wildfires, blackouts and policy responses drive residential storage. Massachusetts and New York enacted a suite of policies to incubate local storage industries as part of their overarching clean energy strategies. energy storage installation topped 522.7

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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. There's still a long road ahead, however, and other key DER-integration initiatives saw less success in 2019. The European and U.S.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

DECEMBER 17, 2019

2nd Annual Future of Carbon Policy Forum. December 12, 2019. The 2nd Annual Future of Carbon Policy Forum brought together over 100 participants to build momentum and collaboration in achieving carbon reduction goals in the state. 1-Eileen-Quigley-2019-12-12-CETI-LCPI-Meeting. 4-Tim-Zenk-LCPI-2019-v2-email-version.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 3, 2023

Montana has repealed its 30-year-old energy policy – including a 2011 amendment that prioritized fossil-fuel development. Montana first enacted a state energy policy in 1993. Steve Gunderson introduced legislation to repeal the state energy policy. In the lawsuit, Held v.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Spain has connected more solar to its grid in the first nine months of 2019 than the last 10 years put together. Retroactive policy changes and laws to prevent self-consumption decimated the sector in 2013. Some investors have spoken privately of an unwillingness to participate, however, given the nature of the policy changes in 2013.

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Solar Power World

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

history, with the last home’s electricity finally restored after 11 months of darkness. After Hurricane Maria decimated Puerto Rico in 2017, the island endured the largest blackout in U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Fueled by public policy and declining battery costs, global electric bus adoption is set to triple by 2025. China dominates the heavy-duty electric vehicle (EV) segment, accounting for 98 percent of the global e-bus market through 2018. In 2018, 23 percent of bus purchases in China were electric. and Europe by 2025.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 17, 2020

Less than two weeks after emerging from an 18-month bankruptcy caused by its multibillion-dollar wildfire liabilities, Pacific Gas & Electric faces yet another lawsuit for a 2019 fire that California investigators say was caused by its power lines.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

October’s SoftBank-led investment in iron flow battery startup ESS represented an unusual event in 2019: a piece of good news for the flow battery sector. Leading players such as Sumitomo Electric and Dalian Rongke Power, the latter of which once boasted the world’s largest vanadium flow battery project, have gone silent.

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Charged

JULY 20, 2023

increase from 2020 to 2021 in the share of the state’s electricity generated by Renewables Portfolio Standard (RPS)-eligible sources like solar and wind, bringing the total to 37%. The RPS program was established in 2002 with an initial requirement that 20% of electricity retail sales be served by renewable resources by 2017.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 17, 2019

” Batteries perform miniscule adjustments to grid frequency, or lower businesses’ electricity consumption during a peak hour, or sit around waiting to provide clean backup power, but try messaging that to voters. Here are the tastiest stories that emerged in 2019, in no particular order. Massive utility procurements.

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Business Green

JULY 30, 2020

For the first time ever electricity from wind, solar, biomass and others made up more than a third of UK power last year, government data shows. per cent of UK electricity during the 2019 calendar year, up from 33.1 These figures for 2019 demonstrate that power is doing all the heavy lifting in getting us towards that target.

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The Municipal Transport Company of Madrid (EMT Madrid) has ordered 30 electric buses from Spanish OEM Irizar e-mobility. The 12-meter Irizar ie electric bus has been running on Madrid’s roads since 2019. This is the agency’s fourth order from Irizar, and will bring the number of zero-emission Irizar buses in its fleet to 85.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2019

With the end of 2019 rapidly approaching, we’d like to take this time to recognize some of our member companies via our inaugural “Best of GBB” awards. This includes adopting a zero-waste policy, limiting the use of paper and minimizing the use of plastics, energy, and water. School Specialty, Inc. School Specialty, Inc.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 1, 2021

Increasingly, the stars are aligning for industrial emissions to take center stage, for three key reasons: demand for clean solutions is growing; technologies are maturing; and the conditions for policy solutions are ripe. Robust policy support will be key to rapidly scaling the transition. Green hydrogen.

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Charged

JULY 15, 2021

During the 2019 elections, Prime Minister Scott Morrison characterized EVs as a threat to Australians’ way of life, and that seems to have set the tone for Australia’s EV policy, or lack thereof, ever since. Australia is also a major exporter of coal, which accounts for about 75 percent of its electricity generation.).

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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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Business Green

OCTOBER 7, 2022

The United States is in a golden era for climate policy. The policy has been a long time coming, yet came to fruition quickly, responding to the urgency of the climate crisis and the opportunity to legislate before midterms. How the policy will unfold is impossible for me to imagine.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Lord Deben, Chairman of the Climate Change Committee said: “In 2019, the Scottish Parliament committed the country to some of the most stretching climate goals in the world, but they are increasingly at risk without real progress towards the milestones that Scottish Ministers have previously laid out. That plea remains unanswered.”.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

A group of Conservative backbenchers have teamed up to champion a series of net zero policy interventions spanning the full breadth of the green economy, in bid to encourage the government to deliver a fresh wave of ambitious climate policy measures in the run up to the critical COP26 climate summit in November.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 19, 2019

electricity grid? We thought it would be enlightening to end the 2019 season of Political Climate by asking Roberts a wide range of questions on American politics and how to save the planet. Is radical reform needed to remake the U.S. What’s the role of nuclear power in the U.S. energy mix?

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Carbon emissions from energy stayed the same in 2019 despite expectations of further growth, latest International Energy Agency data indicates. per cent in GDP terms, data released today by the IEA indicates - defying expectations the growth trend would continue in 2019.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 29, 2020

In 2019, the beneficiary was solar, with regulators approving a requirement for rooftop PV arrays on most new homes in the state. In 2022, the game-changer is likely to be new rules to tip the market toward all-electric new construction. California's utilities get behind all-electric push.

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Business Green

APRIL 6, 2020

Renewable electricity capacity growth slowed just a touch in 2019, yet still made up almost three quarters of all new power capacty that came into operation worldwide last year, according to the latest data released today by the International Renewable Energy Association (IRENA). according to IRENA.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 2, 2021

Actions by these states to change the direction of energy policy are a powerful confirmation that clean energy is a viable, cost-effective alternative to fossil fuels. South Carolina now stands among the more proactive Southern states in clean energy policy. The Evolution of South Carolina Energy Policy.

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Charged

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The Municipal Transport Company of Madrid (EMT Madrid) has ordered 30 electric buses from Spanish OEM Irizar e-mobility. The 12-meter Irizar ie electric bus has been running on Madrid’s roads since 2019. This is the agency’s fourth order from Irizar, and will bring the number of zero-emission Irizar buses in its fleet to 85.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In off-grid facilities, LDES can replace expensive diesel fuel with more affordable renewable electricity, providing round-the-clock power for industrial customers.  Meeting their needs with thermal energy storage solutions powered by electricity from the grid will have a sizable impact on global emissions.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Major polling exercise reveals climate policies that are popular with public would deliver on the government's goal of cutting emissions by 39 per cent by 2030 on 2019 levels.

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Business Green

APRIL 29, 2021

Electric vehicles will corner seven per cent of total vehicle market by 2030 as climate regulation abounds and automakers expand their electric ranges, according to IEA. Momentum behind electric cars has continued to build in recent months, with the IEA analysis revealing that sales in the first quarter of this year were 2.5

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 14, 2020

With that broad context, let’s look at 8 fascinating developments in sustainability from 2019. Beginning in late 2018 and stretching into 2019, she created a global movement, spoke truth to power , and collected more than 10 million followers on social media. The climate protest movement explodes. People are taking notice.

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Elemental Excelerator

JANUARY 3, 2020

2019 marks ten years at this mission — to accelerate solutions to climate change, and deploy those solutions in the communities that need them the most. Here is where that’s led us so far: At a recent all-hands meeting, our passionate and committed team of 27 shared words that encompassed 2019. Ali’i Place. Bloomhouse.

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Elemental Excelerator

JUNE 12, 2019

Kevin de León, architect of some of the nation’s most ambitious climate policies, spoke about how such policies can lay the market foundations to democratize the benefits of clean technologies for all people in every community. Scoot | Shared electric mobility | watch. Ampaire | Electric commercial aircraft | watch.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 12, 2020

cities and counties transition to clean energy for their own operations and communities, many are finding that stakeholders and policies beyond their jurisdictions affect their ability to purchase clean energy. Here are four ways local governments are engaging with stakeholders to decarbonize their electricity supply: 1.

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Energy Innovation

OCTOBER 4, 2019

This quarterly research review introduces emerging peer-reviewed research on available technologies, policies, and mitigation strategies centered on electrification of the building sector. Space heating is currently the largest source of non-electric demand in the U.S. 2019, Jadun et al. Deason et al. Jadun et al.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

million people now work in renewable energy worldwide, but IRENA warns strong policy action essential to sustain growth in the wake of Covid-19. million people worldwide working in the sector in 2019, up almost 500,000 from the year before, according to the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). As many as 11.5 As many as 5.5

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