Solar Power World

MARCH 6, 2020

electrical generating capacity added in 2019 — swamping new additions provided by coal, natural gas, oil and nuclear power combined. FERC released its year-end energy infrastructure report today, and initial analysis by the SUN DAY Campaign finds that renewable energy sources provided 57.26% of new U.S.

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R-Squared Energy

JULY 13, 2022

Fossil fuels accounted for 82% of primary energy use last year, essentially the same as in 2020, but down from 83% in 2019 and 85% five years ago. The remaining share of primary energy use consisted of hydroelectric power (6.8%), renewables (6.7%), and nuclear power (4.3%). lower than consumption in 2019.

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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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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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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Wind (13,626MW) and solar (8,543MW) each contributed more new energy generation capacity than did natural gas (6,259 MW). There were no new capacity additions by nuclear power or geothermal energy during the year. By comparison, net growth for natural gas will be only 17,279MW. rooftop) solar.

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R-Squared Energy

JUNE 28, 2020

The Review covers energy data through 2019, and provides a comprehensive picture of supply and demand for major energy sources on a country-level basis. Natural gas contributed the second largest increment with 36% of the increase. Natural gas production grew to a new record, with U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 14, 2020

gigawatts of natural gas-fired plants to come online this year. gigawatts of wind power capacity to come online in 2020 surpasses 2012’s record of 13.2 production well past the 100-gigawatt milestone set in the third quarter of 2019. production well past the 100-gigawatt milestone set in the third quarter of 2019.

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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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Business Green

MARCH 26, 2020

Provisional data shows greenhouse gas emissions have fallen more than 45 per cent since 1990, as low carbon power again reached record levels in 2019. The UK's domestic greenhouse gas emissions fell 3.6 In 2019 total UK greenhouse gas emissions were 45.2 per cent lower than in 1990, following a 3.6

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R-Squared Energy

JULY 27, 2020

Previous articles covered overall energy consumption , petroleum supply and demand, and natural gas. Coal contains a higher percentage of carbon than does oil or natural gas. So, when coal is combusted, it produces more carbon dioxide per unit of energy than oil or natural gas will produce.

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R-Squared Energy

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Today, my top energy stories of 2019. Demand growth has been slowing somewhat lately, but the International Energy Agency (IEA) projects that 2019 demand grew by 1.0 Beyond the Top 5, here were other 2019 energy stories of significance, in no particular order. Russia’s Floating Nuclear Power Plant.

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R-Squared Energy

AUGUST 22, 2021

Previous articles provided an overview of this year’s Review, an examination of the data on carbon emissions, a look at oil supply and demand trends, and an examination of natural gas trends. Coal contains a higher percentage of carbon than does oil or natural gas. Comparing Coal’s Emissions. What is meant by that?

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 23, 2020

gigawatts of new resources by 2023 to help make up for the capacity to be lost from the pending closure of natural-gas-fired power plants along Southern California’s coast. megawatt/730-megawatt-hour project from Tesla being built near a natural-gas plant in the Monterey County community of Moss Landing.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 28, 2020

Charles Schumer recommended her to replace Democrat Cheryl LaFleur, who left FERC in March 2019. 2019 vote by McNamee and Chairman Neil Chatterjee to require mid-Atlantic grid operator PJM to impose minimum prices on state-subsidized resources in its $10 billion-per-year capacity market. Those include the Dec.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 24, 2024

Nuclear power generation also is expected to reach an all-time high, with growth averaging close to 3% per year. Global CO2 emissions also are expected to decline, averaging 4% between 2023 and 2026, which is more than double the 2% in the period from 2015 to 2019. annually through 2026.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 12, 2020

power utilities, with 7.4 million natural-gas customers across six states in the Southeast and Midwest. Despite near-term headwinds, Duke stood behind its long-term plan to reach net-zero emissions by 2050, starting with a target of 50 percent greenhouse gas reductions by 2030. Duke is among the largest U.S.

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R-Squared Energy

AUGUST 10, 2023

While renewable power expanded at record rates, fossil fuels maintained an 82% share of total primary energy consumption. Natural gas and coal demand stayed nearly flat with oil rebounding close to pre-pandemic levels. below 2019 levels. Output from nuclear power fell by 4.4%. Consumption remained 0.7%

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Oil and gas companies have for years marketed fracked gas from B.C. But an impending flood of liquefied natural gas exports from western Canada to Asia could make it harder for countries there to achieve their national climate targets and contribute to tens of thousands of additional deaths due to air pollution.

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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). Under the law, Dominion Virginia and the smaller Appalachian Power Co. gigawatts of energy storage over the next 15 years.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 4, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic has not changed the grim reality facing workers at coal and nuclear power plants in the U.S. is the support package secured for workers at utility PG&E's Diablo Canyon Power Plant , California's last operating nuclear power plant that is scheduled for permanent closure in 2025.

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R-Squared Energy

JUNE 16, 2020

According to the 2019 BP Statistical Review of World Energy , U.S. The primary culprits behind coal’s decline are competition from cheap natural gas brought on by the shale gas boom in the U.S., The primary culprits behind coal’s decline are competition from cheap natural gas brought on by the shale gas boom in the U.S.,

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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. Figure 2 shows that natural gas and renewable generation continued to expand their share of the resource mix. power in 2020. A record 33.6

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 16, 2020

Under the Federal Power Act, legal challenges to FERC decisions can't proceed until rehearing requests have been affirmed or denied. 2019 decision, disagreed with Thursday’s move to deny rehearing requests, calling it an attack on states’ authority to determine their own clean energy futures.

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Clean Energy Canada

JULY 2, 2020

Currently, the majority of hydrogen around the world is produced from fossil fuels (76% from natural gas, 23% from coal). Hydrogen from other non-emitting sources—such as nuclear power—does not currently have an established colour designation. Companies include: Ballard Power Systems in Burnaby, B.C.,

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

In the first half of 2019, the company generated half as much power from its coal fleet as it did in the same period last year, without closing any capacity. In November last year, Spain’s government said its last coal and nuclear power plants would be closed by 2030. It did not provide a timeline.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 1, 2020

ABB’s Power Grids unit earned about $10 billion in annual revenues last year from its businesses ranging from high-voltage transmission systems and transformers to distribution grid controls and battery systems. GE also sold its industrial low-voltage equipment business to ABB for $2.6 billion in 2016.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 21, 2021

Thursday’s appointment was welcomed by clean energy groups as a critical early step to put a supporter of Biden’s energy and climate push in charge of setting the agenda of the federal agency that holds regulatory authority over interstate electricity transmission and natural gas networks.

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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% nuclear power supplied another 8.0%. 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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R-Squared Energy

MAY 7, 2023

Yes, the categories are fossil fuels, nuclear power, and renewable energy. The table doesn’t break the numbers down into individual fossil fuel contributions, but if it did (and you can find that data elsewhere), you would see a huge decline in coal production, and huge increases in oil and natural gas production.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 14, 2020

” Brouillette's comments are a nod to the United States’ relatively slow progress in advanced nuclear power compared to countries like Russia, which has the world’s only full-scale testing platform for smaller-scale nuclear reactors, and China, which is building units today, albeit with less modern designs.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 14, 2020

California regulators have allowed utilities to replace capacity from the closed San Onofre nuclear power plant with new gas-fired peaker plants, though they also required Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas & Electric to seek out batteries, energy efficiency and demand response to meet part of the shortfall.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 27, 2020

Unabated natural-gas use will be halved by 2038. The results of consultations on the funding of new nuclear power are also expected soon. The government is mulling the addition of solar and onshore wind to the CFD program, having blocked them from the 2017 and 2019 rounds on largely political grounds.

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Energy efficiency will help, but in 2019 the U.S. 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. The power generated last year from coal and natural gas was respectively 1,054 TWh and 1,700 TWh.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

A natural gas demonstration plant in Texas tests carbon capture technology. Credit: NET Power , CC BY-SA 4.0 In it, BP notes that it played a leading role in an influential 2019 carbon capture study from the National Petroleum Council , a government advisory committee that represents industry views to the Department of Energy.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

This marks Dominion Energy’s first solar energy investment in Ohio, where the company owns and operates a Cleveland-based natural gas local distribution company serving 1.2 Dominion owns solar arrays in nine other states, including in North Carolina, South Carolina and Utah, where the company also owns and operates gas utilities.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 17, 2020

Many more long-term challenges await PG&E, such as adapting to large portions of its customer base being served by community choice aggregators (CCAs), or its natural gas network being rendered obsolete by the state’s zero carbon by 2045 mandate. But another blaze on the scale of the Nov. Credit: CPUC).

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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. The favoritism mirrors a regional trend as Tennessee doubles down on natural gas.

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