Renewable Energy World

JULY 29, 2021

according to the Energy Information Administration , coming in second to natural gas at 1,617 billion kWh. Renewable energy sources include wind, hydroelectric, solar, biomass and geothermal energy. Only natural gas produced more electricity than renewables in the U.S. Wind grew 14% in 2020 from 2019.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

natural gas supply network was stressed by record demand and prices. Energy Information Administration, for the 9-day stretch from February 9 through yesterday February 17, natural gas provided about 35 percent of the U.S. Lower 48 Power Generation Mix, with other fuels providing 65 percent. First, the 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. Natural Gas.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 4, 2020

The new plan, by contrast, sets out a goal of nearly 16 gigawatts of solar, more than 5 gigawatts of offshore wind, and 2.7 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).

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R-Squared Energy

AUGUST 9, 2020

Previous articles covered overall energy consumption , petroleum supply and demand, natural gas , and coal. Renewable energy continued its blistering growth pace in 2019, globally increasing by 12.2% In 2019, that had nearly quadrupled to 29.0 The “Renewables” category consists of wind power, solar power, biofuels.

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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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Clean Energy Canada

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Canadians overwhelmingly prefer solar (74 per cent), wind (67 per cent), and hydropower (67 per cent) compared to just 46 per cent who support natural gas and 18 per cent who support coal, according to a new poll from Clean Energy Canada and Abacus Data. by a country mile with a sixfold capacity increase since 2019.

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R-Squared Energy

AUGUST 10, 2023

Overview The newest Review shows the world remains heavily reliant on fossil fuels for energy needs, even as renewables like solar and wind continue rapid growth. While renewable power expanded at record rates, fossil fuels maintained an 82% share of total primary energy consumption. below 2019 levels. Consumption remained 0.7%

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 27, 2021

The world has already found some innovative ways to sustainably produce energy without the reliance on coal, oil, and natural gas. Other than the changes we as individuals make, businesses need to adapt their operations to use greener sources of energy – such as wind power. Offshore wind farms provide reefs for fish.

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

When Canada’s carbon price is also included, both wind and solar are significantly cheaper than natural gas already today. Both find wind and solar to be cost-competitive with natural gas-fired electricity in the U.S. Analyses for the U.S. Analyses for the U.S. even without a carbon price.

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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). High probability” generation capacity additions for wind, minus anticipated retirements, reflect a projected net increase of 21,938MW while solar is foreseen growing by substantially more – 36,691MW.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Xcel reported that it broke its own record for a single-year drop in emissions in 2020, cutting carbon emissions company-wide by approximately six million tons, a 12% reduction over 2019 levels. In 2019, Xcel Energy achieved a 10% reduction over the previous year. That’s equivalent to taking nearly 1.2

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The utility cooperative partnering with Form Energy on its first “iron air” battery project sees the long-duration energy storage technology as a potential buffer for its grid during extreme cold snaps like 2019’s polar vortex. Long-duration batteries also allow utilities the flexibility to buy energy at low-cost times.

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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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GreenTechMedia

MAY 26, 2020

Alliant, which serves about 1 million customers in the Midwestern states of Wisconsin and Iowa, currently relies on renewables for about 20 percent of its generation capacity, largely wind power in Iowa, with twice as much coming from natural gas plants.

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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. Natural gas remained the largest source of U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 4, 2019

But these tools proved unexpectedly useful when the Aliso Canyon natural-gas leak jeopardized fuel supplies for Southern California power plants. The state fast-tracked storage procurement to install emissions-free capacity in urban areas in just a few months, something traditional power plants couldn't possibly achieve.

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 4, 2022

According to the SUN DAY Campaign’s analysis, during the first 10 months of 2021, solar and wind added 9,604 MW and 8,580 MW of capacity, respectively. Natural gas capacity grew by 3,549 MW and new oil and coal capacity increased by 19 MW and 11 MW respectively. of all new generating capacity through the end of October.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 31, 2019

The American wind market faces a number of major challenges in the years ahead, including the expiration of its longstanding bedrock subsidy, the production tax credit; fierce competition from natural gas and solar; and severe transmission congestion in key development regions. wind capacity from 2019-28.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 3, 2022

As recently as last year, Redwood implied that he personally did not fully believe in human-caused climate change, commenting on his blog: “Governments believe there is a serious manmade climate problem created by greenhouse gas production”, and describing their measures as “radical”. Medieval’ Wind Power.

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Business Green

JUNE 9, 2020

It can be produced by using renewable energy, such as wind or solar to separate water (H2O) into its component elements of hydrogen and oxygen and could be used as an alternative to natural gas. Across the UK there are already ongoing trials using hydrogen blended with the natural gas supply to decarbonise heat.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 16, 2024

In November, he instructed his province’s public utilities, SaskPower and SaskEnergy, to stop collecting carbon taxes on natural gas as of January 1, 2024, if the federal government didn’t extend the same carbon price carve out to his province. The most extreme reaction was from Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

As the credit neared its phaseout and the Clean Power Plan awaited implementation, analysts warned of an “unprecedented boom” through 2016 before solar hit the skids and dropped into a pit of uncertainty through 2019. As 2019 has worn on, the solar industry’s appeal for an extension has grown louder.

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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 23, 2020

As of 2019, there were 3.4 Following this, wind and solar were some the fastest-growing industries in the U.S. and, in 2019, employed 350,000 Americans. including California and Texas, solar and wind power is cheaper than natural gas and coal. million people in the U.S. In many parts of the U.S.,

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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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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

He was nominated in 2019 to fill the seat left vacant by the death of Republican Chairman Kevin McIntyre. Chatterjee has defended these decisions as efforts to prevent market pricing distortions and to “level the playing field” for resources that lack state subsidies such as natural gas-fired power plants.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Major natural gas and oil pipeline projects have been abandoned or halted by legal challenges. Even this lower-cost scenario would require about 70 gigawatts of new wind and solar to be added per year, however. What's at stake for the wind industry? Wind power’s reign as the leading source of U.S.

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Business Green

JULY 7, 2020

Facebook has unveiled a new heat recovery system at a wind-powered data centre in Denmark that shuttles surplus heat from its servers to homes in the nearby community. The entire process, from powering the servers to delivering heat, is supported by 100 per cent renewable wind energy," Edelman explained.

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Jigar Shah

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Clean energy standards are all the rage in 2019. In California over the months of March and April alone, for instance, over 5% of total solar production was curtailed in 2019. But if we were to convert that energy into hydrogen, we could use it to offset the hydrogen made from natural gas transported long distances.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 22, 2020

More than half of the company's solar projects in 2019 have been paired with energy storage to create what the company calls a "near-firm" generation resource. With just short of 800,000 customers, MidAmerican had more than 6,500 megawatts of wind power at the end of 2018 — or about 60 percent of its generation capacity.

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Grist

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Renewable solar and wind power now typically costs less than fossil-fuel alternatives. The second most important target for green power is replacing fossil fuel use in buildings, especially growing use of natural gas for heating; in Vancouver, British Columbia, that causes nearly 60% of the city’s carbon pollution.

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Business Green

APRIL 7, 2021

The company said it would announce its final decision on whether to remain a member of the QRC in October, meanwhile, as it urged the association to explicitly stop advocating for new coal power, and outwardly support the Paris Agreement, carbon pricing, and policies to encourage fuel switching to lower carbon power generation.

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Jigar Shah

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Clean energy standards are all the rage in 2019. In California over the months of March and April alone, for instance, over 5% of total solar production was curtailed in 2019. But if we were to convert that energy into hydrogen, we could use it to offset the hydrogen made from natural gas transported long distances.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 16, 2024

.” More recently, Morano has been talking about whales—specifically, the idea that the higher-than-usual number of dead ones washing ashore along the East Coast is the result of President Joe Biden’s push to develop 30 gigawatts of offshore wind power by the end of the decade. In 2019, Ohioans weathered a $9.5

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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. Total buys French wind power firm.

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 25, 2021

million customers in Pennsylvania and Kentucky, and natural gas to about 300,000 customers in Kentucky. Narragansett distributes electricity and natural gas to about 780,000 customers in Rhode Island. That plan raised alarms when it was first proposed in 2019.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Meanwhile, Russia's energy minister Alexander Novak has told The Guardian that the country has no plans to scale back fossil fuel production in the coming decades, instead aiming for a 50 per cent growth in gas production alongside plans for developing hydrogen and carbon capture technology. "I Akins, AEP chairman, president and CEO. "We

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