Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 13, 2021

LS Power announces the formation of Rev Renewables LLC to develop, acquire and operate energy storage and renewable projects, including conventional hydropower and pumped storage. Rev has a 2.4-GW Rev is the latest effort by LS Power to support the commercialization and deployment at-scale of clean energy technologies.”.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 24, 2023

Hydropower, traditionally one of Africa’s most important sources of electricity, will rapidly fade in importance and cede its position to solar power. For decades, many African countries have relied on hydropower for electricity generation, including projects that inspire as much awe as controversy.

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Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Current nuclear and large hydropower capacity add up to around 50 GW. GW installed in the same period in 2020. Most of the new transmission buildout is projected to be driven by a near doubling of electricity demand between 2020 and 2030. . In the first nine months of 2021, India added more than 7.4

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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. The changing generation mix of the German company has been laid bare in the first nine months of 2020. billion) for 9M 2020 compared to €51.0

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 12, 2019

The border tax, in particular, will be closely watched by the oil and gas sector, said Valentina Kretzschmar, director of corporate research at Wood Mackenzie. “Oil and gas exporters to Europe, including Russian gas and U.S. Questions remain as to how the Green Deal will be funded.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MAY 21, 2023

Quebec’s GHG emissions in 2020 were 76.2 ” “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. megatonnes (MT) of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e). MMT CO2e in 2018 to 21.9

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R-Squared Energy

MAY 23, 2021

Minimizing energy demand growth through improvements in energy efficiency makes a critical contribution in the NZE. loaded in the NZE, and they play their largest role in curbing energy demand and emissions in the period to 2030.”. carbon hydrogen rises from 10% in 2020 to 70% in 2030.”. Hydrogen and hydrogen?based based fuels.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 21, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted nationwide energy supply-and-demand patterns. Hence, EIA forecasts expect electric power generated by coal “will fall by 25% in 2020.” As for hydropower , snowmelt often feeds rivers, thus accounting for increased electricity generation downstream each spring as well, Forbes explains.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 21, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted nationwide energy supply-and-demand patterns. Hence, EIA forecasts expect electric power generated by coal “will fall by 25% in 2020.” As for hydropower , snowmelt often feeds rivers, thus accounting for increased electricity generation downstream each spring as well, Forbes explains.

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Clean Energy Trust

DECEMBER 6, 2021

NET Power is building a new type of natural gas power plant that uses oxy combustion (burning natural gas with pure oxygen) and supercritical CO2 instead of steam in its turbine. this technology could chip away at and then eventually replace industry standard combined cycle natural gas plants.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

And if the facility can use cheap, plentiful renewable electricity, perhaps from a hydropower plant, its steel would cost less than the competition. “At Demand for steel is declining or stagnating in key markets, including the United States and Japan. There’s another longer-term challenge for new, clean projects.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

In a significant turnaround from a spring forecast clouded by COVID-19 pandemic concerns, the International Energy Agency has revised its expectations for 2020 global renewables additions. Hydropower, still the largest renewable resource in the world, and wind will account for the great majority of additions this year, according to IEA.

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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

AUGUST 13, 2021

According to a 2020 report by the World Wildlife Fund, indoor farming is projected to have a combined annual growth rate of more than 24 per cent between 2018 and 2024, hitting $3bn in revenues worldwide in 2024. He is confident its technology can support a massive jump in demand and commercialisation. There's a reliable demand.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2021

However, 13 percent of Shell’s posts focussed specifically on renewable energies such as wind, solar, and hydropower. In December 2020, Fortum committed to net zero European power generation by 2035, which includes a pledge to increase its solar and wind capacity.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Wind and solar projects combined to meet more than a tenth of global electricity demand for the first time in 2022, according to the latest Power Transition Trends report from BloombergNEF (BNEF). As the global economy recovers from the Covid-19 pandemic, electricity demand surged 5.6 per cent on 2020 levels to 9,600TWh.

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Grist

JULY 31, 2020

But demand, production, and consumption have climbed in recent years — particularly in China, which still relies heavily on coal-fired power plants. The tech firm now uses more recycled aluminum in its devices and prioritizes suppliers who run their facilities with hydropower, not coal. Courtesy Jón Hjaltalín Magnússon.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 20, 2021

It projected that annual carbon dioxide emissions from the electric power sector would rise from 2,400 million to 3,000 million metric tons from 2005 to 2020. Overall demand for electricity in 2020 was almost exactly the same as in 2005, and 24% lower than projected by federal energy forecasters. In short, the U.S.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

It concludes that the latter two scenarios would require approximately 1,050-1,570 gigawatts of solar power, which would meet about 44%-45% of expected electricity demand in 2050. Wind, hydropower and geothermal resources aren’t so evenly distributed: There are large zones where these resources are poor or nonexistent. Sign up today.].

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 8, 2021

This geographic diversity reduces the likelihood that renewables won’t be able to meet demand, thereby decreasing the amount and duration of energy storage required to cover those gaps, he said. The differences in costs add up to big numbers over the course of the next two decades, he said.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 20, 2019

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. The sources of renewable energy are present in the natural environment comprising the largest component of ecosystem.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 25, 2020

Despite the additional complications posed by the coronavirus pandemic a record 312 institutions participated in Sierra's annual Cool Schools rankings in 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.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 16, 2023

Current supplies are made by reforming natural gas, which releases greenhouse gasses. Plug your hydrogen plant into the grid pretty much anywhere in the country today, and it could result in higher emissions than the conventional production method that uses natural gas.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 26, 2021

New research asserts most have undermined those goals by keeping coal plants running and building new natural gas plants meant to operate for decades to come. utilities that still rely on coal and natural gas for most of their generation capacity. All but one call for new natural gas plants.

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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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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Big oil and the energy transition Summary - 2020 is already the worst year for the oil industry ever. Even major oil and gas CEOs agree there might be no recovery after this crisis, certainly not to the ‘good-old-days’. Most people recognize now that oil and gas is on life support. The transition is among us.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Developers in the space are concerned that the coronavirus pandemic’s impact on the economy will depress demand for tax equity investments, as banks and financial institutions will have less appetite for credits to offset tax liabilities in a year when profits were depressed. Solar tax credit impacts.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 13, 2020

The unemployment rate has surged in PGE’s region during the coronavirus pandemic, hobbling commercial demand for power. PGE is also buying more hydropower in the Pacific Northwest. ” The fate of PGE’s last coal plant, not to mention its five natural gas plants, remains an open question.

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Mr. Sustainability

JUNE 27, 2020

A case to ‘recreate’ the technical and economic prosperity of the 1920s in the 2020s, by gradual divestment in ‘old’ energy systems and investment in ‘new’ renewable industries. It is summer 2020. In short: the oil and gas industry is a massive market with many stakeholders and high-stakes interests involved.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 22, 2020

Out of scores of potential examples, GTM has chosen to highlight four companies: NextEra Energy, Berkshire Hathaway Energy, Dominion Energy, and Pacific Gas & Electric. Gulf Power is using its smart meter fleet for locational demand response. Dominion's generation fleet centers around nuclear and gas.

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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

Meeting Biden’s 2035 target could require an annual renewables market of 100 gigawatts or more in some years, compared to the 30 GW or so of new renewables capacity expected to be built in 2020 (itself an all-time high). Major natural gas and oil pipeline projects have been abandoned or halted by legal challenges.

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