Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 3, 2022

Carbon dioxide emissions in 2020 were the lowest in nearly 40 years, according to a 2021 year-end report by the U.S. EIA cited lower energy demand due to the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as continuing changes in the electricity generation fuel mix. Residential sector emissions fell 6% to 894 million metric tons in 2020, the report said.

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R-Squared Energy

JULY 9, 2020

This article is the third in a series on the BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2020. The Review provides a comprehensive picture of supply and demand for major energy sources on a country-level basis. Previous articles covered overall energy consumption and petroleum supply and demand. shale gas boom propelled the U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 7, 2020

electricity markets and hurt generators in 2020, the U.S. While the oil and gas industries face the greatest risks, EIA’s latest Short-Term Energy Outlook also predicts steep declines in commercial and industrial electricity demand, and a significant decline in new generation capacity as a result. EIA expects that 19.4

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 5, 2021

California is facing a major decision under a tight deadline — whether it should push for large-scale power plants and batteries to prevent a repeat of its August 2020 rolling blackouts this coming summer, or turn to behind-the-meter resources like batteries and demand response. Growing demand for expanding demand response.

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R-Squared Energy

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Perhaps the most noteworthy prediction from the report is of peak demand for fossil fuels within this decade. by 2030, but natural gas and oil consumption are both projected to rise. Even though global energy demand is set to grow by 7% to 2030 under the Stated Policies Scenario, demand will shift towards renewables and nuclear.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 17, 2020

Electricity demand for air conditioning throughout the region stretched California's power capacity and limited the state's ability to import power from nearby states. CAISO’s peak demand levels over the weekend were lower than its historical highest peaks in 2006 and 2017. Friday and Saturday.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 8, 2020

Heading into summer 2020, looming uncertainty about electricity demand makes flexibility more vital than ever in the United States. In particular, residential demand response faces more pressure than usual as many people continue to work from home over the next few months. Time for residential demand response providers to shine.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 10, 2021

” That’s how a range of clean energy advocates and demand response providers are describing the California Public Utilities Commission’s latest plan to prevent a repeat of the state’s August 2020 rolling blackouts this coming summer.

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R-Squared Energy

AUGUST 2, 2021

The Review provides a comprehensive picture of supply and demand for major energy sources on a country-level basis. A Record Decline in Oil Demand. For 2020, the Review reported the largest decline in oil* consumption on record. million BPD in 2020. Today, I want to cover the production and consumption of petroleum.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Tue, 11/24/2020 - 01:30. At the same time, advances in natural gas production such as fracking (controversial in their own right) have made natural gas-fired power a better economic choice than coal-generated power. Unlike natural gas, that combustion is GHG-free. Lincoln Bleveans. I disagree.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

clean energy sectors showed strong resilience in 2020, continuing a decade-long growth trend, BloombergNEF (BNEF) and the Business Council for Sustainable Energy (BCSE) find in their annual joint report. Greenhouse Gas Emissions Source: BloombergNEF estimate. Energy demand for electricity and transportation fell by 3.8%

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 13, 2020

Renewable Natural Gas: Today’s Carbon-Negative Fuel Renewable natural gas sits at the intersection of two critical challenges: addressing increased emissions from organic waste and laying the foundation for zero carbon transportation across all sectors.?

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 13, 2020

Thu, 08/13/2020 - 02:15. The options include biodiesel, renewable electricity, renewable natural gas, solar thermal, geothermal, thermal storage and hydrogen. Making natural gas renewable . But for now, renewable natural gas (RNG) may offer a fix soonest. Adam Aston.

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R-Squared Energy

DECEMBER 27, 2020

You can see those predictions and read the context at Energy Sector Predictions For 2020. There is still a little over a week left in 2020, but I believe there is enough available information to gauge the accuracy of these predictions. oil demand plummeted. I expected growth to slow in 2020, but it did more than slow.

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R-Squared Energy

AUGUST 26, 2021

Remained The World’s Top Oil Producer In 2020. Maintains Its Natural Gas Dominance. Renewable energy was the one category that bucked the global trend of declining energy consumption in 2020. pace the year before, but it’s remarkable given how significantly the pandemic impacted total energy demand. Despite the 4.5%

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R-Squared Energy

JANUARY 14, 2020

We begin 2020 with the stock market again testing record highs. However, natural gas prices closed the year nearly 40% lower, emphasizing the extent to which these two commodities have become unlinked. I generally make this prediction by looking at supply and demand trends, as well as inventory levels. I think U.S.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 13, 2020

Renewable Natural Gas: Today’s Carbon-Negative Fuel Renewable natural gas sits at the intersection of two critical challenges: addressing increased emissions from organic waste and laying the foundation for zero carbon transportation across all sectors.? View post: Renewable Natural Gas: Today’s Carbon-Negative Fuel.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

gigawatt "all-source" procurement that will pit new renewables, energy storage, demand response and other clean resources against natural gas-fired power plants in a race to meet what could be a major shortfall in grid capacity in the next four years. The all-source procurement is technically open to existing natural gas plants.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Fri, 09/04/2020 - 01:00. While the immediate cause is still being investigated, we do know that California’s grid was experiencing multiple, coincident stressors — high demand, generators not performing when called upon and energy imports not showing up. 15, resulted in an electric grid unable to meet customer demand.

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Business Green

APRIL 29, 2020

Global Energy Review notes that renewables will be the only energy source to expand in 2020 despite a dramatic nosedive in energy demand worldwide caused by Covid-19's shutdown of economic and public life. They also follow the IEA noting in its April Oil Market Report that it expected global oil demand to fall by 9.3

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R-Squared Energy

JULY 13, 2022

The Review provides a comprehensive picture of supply and demand for major energy sources on a country-level basis. Energy consumption and production dramatically dropped in 2020, but since then demand has rebounded. Global carbon dioxide emissions rebounded from 2020 levels, growing by 5.9% from 2020, but is still 3.7%

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R-Squared Energy

JULY 26, 2021

Earlier this month the BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2o21 was released, covering energy data through 2020. The Review provides a comprehensive picture of supply and demand for major energy sources on a country-level basis. of the world’s primary energy consumption in 2020. In 2020, the world consumed 88.5

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 31, 2020

Dominion Energy is replacing its CEO as part of an executive shakeup accompanying the Virginia utility’s major shift away from natural gas and toward a renewable energy future, and its hefty financial penalty for its cancellation of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline project. billion, or $1.41 The loss was largely driven by a $2.8

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Thu, 11/19/2020 - 01:30. Europe, which has an economy saddled with high energy prices and is heavily dependent on Russian natural gas, is embracing green hydrogen by providing funding for construction of electrolysis plants and other hydrogen infrastructure. hydrogen is a lot more expensive than other fuels such as natural gas.

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R-Squared Energy

AUGUST 14, 2022

The Review provides a comprehensive picture of supply and demand for major energy sources on a country-level basis. Previous articles covered overall energy consumption , carbon dioxide emissions , petroleum supply and demand, and global natural gas trends. As a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, 2020 saw a record 4.2%

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R-Squared Energy

MARCH 15, 2024

The only interruption to this growth occurred in 2020 and 2021, when demand and prices plummeted due to the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2020, the U.S. Since then, production has continued to climb steadily. However, that was down from more than 10 million BPD in 2005 and 2006 and was the lowest level since 1972.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

In 2020 the bank pledged to end fossil fuel loans for Arctic oil drilling and phase out loans for coal mining. However, a recent report shows the bank provided £230 billion in support for fossil fuels between 2016-2020. The post ‘Shame On You’: Indigenous Campaigners Demand JPMorgan End Fossil Fuel Finance appeared first on DeSmog.

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R-Squared Energy

JULY 27, 2022

The Review provides a comprehensive picture of supply and demand for major energy sources on a country-level basis. Oil Demand Bounces Back. For 2020, the Review reported the largest decline in oil 1 consumption on record. from 2020 (reflected by “Change” in the table below). However, consumption remains 3.7% Footnotes.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Evergy has become the latest utility to pledge to long-term carbon cuts even though the states it serves, Kansas and Missouri, aren’t demanding them. gigawatt generation fleet from 52 percent to 40 percent, while reducing natural gas and oil from 38 percent to 26 percent. gigawatts of nameplate capacity as of 2020.

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R-Squared Energy

MAY 21, 2020

This report reflects the first deep dive into how the energy demand collapse brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic is impacting energy market projections. Brent crude oil prices will average $34/b in 2020, down from an average of $64/b in 2019. Global petroleum and liquid fuels demand will average 92.6 million b/d in 2020, down 0.5

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The International Energy Agency (IEA) says global natural gas consumption rebounded by 4.6% in 2021, more than double the decline seen in the gas market in 2020. The strong growth in demand in 2021 was driven by the economic recovery that followed 2020’s lockdowns and a succession of extreme weather events.

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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. 2020 Consumption and Production Statistics.

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 5, 2021

As the United States moves toward decarbonization, cities and states must use all means available to reduce climate pollution, and natural gas utilities should be at the forefront of this rapid energy transition. This first-of-its-kind tool has the power to transform natural gas utility investment decisions.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 1, 2020

The utility’s latest Integrated Resource Plan (IRP), which SMUD adopted in 2018 and the California Energy Commission (CEC) approved in January 2020, included numerous incentives for electric retrofits and all-electric new buildings to allow SMUD to meet its net-zero electricity target.

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R-Squared Energy

DECEMBER 26, 2021

It’s a more complex relationship than simple supply and demand, because you have to try to factor in what OPEC might do. Demand recovered strongly, but the problem was that supply didn’t recover as strongly. oil production plummeted in the second half of 2020. million BPD in 2020. million BPD in 2020. million BPD.

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Business Green

JULY 17, 2020

It is energy-efficient, abundant and an environmentally friendly alternative to natural gas. Clean hydrogen could cut greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel by up to 34 per cent, reported Bloomberg New Energy Finance. The annual demand could reach 19,120,458,891 tons by then, representing a tenfold increase from 2015 to 2050.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Tue, 11/03/2020 - 01:00. Behind-the-meter storage lets you optimize solar consumption, taking up excess output during the day, and discharging it in the evening, when demand spikes," explained Michael Norbeck, director of grid services business development at Sunrun, a San Francisco-based provider of residential solar systems and services. .

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