GreenTechMedia

MAY 4, 2020

Dominion Virginia’s new integrated resource plan (IRP), announced Friday, represents a potentially historic shift for the state’s largest utility, which has seen previous plans rejected by Virginia regulators for their over-reliance on fossil fuel power plants and infrastructure to be paid for by ratepayers.

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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. The renewable capacity deployment was forecast to use about 1.25% of land that is labeled as barren or waste.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MAY 21, 2023

TWh produced Quebec is the largest producer of electricity in Canada and had an estimated generating capacity of 46,380 megawatts (MW) in 2019. ” “In 2021, Washington consumed less natural gas than about half of the states, and in 2020, the state used less per capita than all but four other states and the District of Columbia.

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Grist

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Renewable solar and wind power now typically costs less than fossil-fuel alternatives. That’s looking more doable as renewable-energy prices drop, providing an alternative to fossil fuels. Given the imperative to cut carbon wherever possible, it’s time to start closing lanes on the natural-gas bridge.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

Their report revealed that by combining wind, solar, geothermal and hydropower sources, California could, theoretically, meet 100% of its electricity demand with WWS. Hydropower electricity produced in the Pacific Northwest would be imported to fill in the gaps. Congress between 2015 and 2019.

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R-Squared Energy

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

You may count me among those who want to see society move beyond fossil fuels. We all know there are negative consequences associated with fossil fuel usage, such as the emission of carbon dioxide and various other pollutants. Most people drastically underestimate our ongoing dependence on fossil fuels.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

At the very least, utilities will need plans that can get them most of the way there, while rushing ahead with next-generation technologies: long-duration energy storage, small modular nuclear reactors or green hydrogen and methane to fuel natural gas peaker plants. Here's a look at the five largest U.S. Dominion Energy.

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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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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. In the five years preceding the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. labor market.

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 26, 2021

biomass, geothermal, hydropower, solar, wind) provided 22.5% Meanwhile, the share of electrical generation attributable to biomass, geothermal, and hydropower combined has remained virtually unchanged, accounting for between a bit less than 9% and a bit more than 10% each year. electrical generation in 2030. in April 2021 (YTD).

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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. Green Diesel, Biogas.

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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. In May, the Cornell Board of Trustees announced a moratorium on fossil fuel investments, following more than a decade of student and faculty activism.

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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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Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2022

That is the question sparked by the latest update today from the influential International Energy Agency (IEA), which suggests fears the pandemic and Russia's invasion of Ukraine could drive a fossil fuel-focused rush to bolster energy security could prove to be overblown. Credit: IEA.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 22, 2020

The time is therefore now to plan an orderly wind-down of fossil fuel assets and manage the impact on the global economy rather than try to sustain the unsustainable. The worst year for oil ever Oil fueled the 20th century. Many of us now believe it is not a matter of if, but when we will transition away from fossil fuels.

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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. Activists won a string of local victories, passing municipal and regional laws to ban new and expanded fossil fuel developments.

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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. The move comes as developers look to step up renewables development on the Iberian Peninsular, where renewables costs are now undercutting fossil fuel fired power plants.

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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

“They’ve done their best to try to prop up fossil fuels, but it hasn’t really come [at] the detriment of renewables.” Major natural gas and oil pipeline projects have been abandoned or halted by legal challenges. Reported by Emma Foehringer Merchant). What's at stake for the wind industry?

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CleanTechnica

DECEMBER 26, 2021

In October 2019, wind power and solar power accounted for 11.3% of US electricity generation. In October 2020, they accounted for 12.4% of US electricity generation. Just a couple of months ago, in October 2021, they accounted for 14% of US electricity generation. This shows steady growth of solar and wind power in the United […].

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CleanTechnica

JULY 1, 2021

Primary energy consumption totaled 93 quadrillion British thermal units (quads) in the United States in 2020, or 7 quads less than in 2019. Fossil fuels — specifically petroleum, natural gas, and coal — accounted for 79% of total U.S. energy consumption in 2020 came from nonfossil fuel […].

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