GreenTechMedia

APRIL 7, 2020

Wood Mackenzie projects significant pullbacks in the larger North American economy and corresponding impacts to demand for power. Wood Mackenzie’s baseline view yields lower power demand and power prices across North American power markets. How much will peak demand fall? gigawatts in 2020 and 2.1 gigawatts in 2021.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Luxury in the new normal: Leadership and innovation in 2020 and beyond. Fri, 10/16/2020 - 01:00. 2020 brings with it the end of a positive growth cycle, as analysts expect global luxury sales to contract 25-45 percent in 2020 , with a recovery that could take up to three years. Elisa Niemtzow. What’s next.

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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. However, it is important to note that coal is the only fossil fuel projected to decline over the next decade under the IEA’s Stated Policies Scenario. Natural gas demand grows 40% by 2050, while coal use declines.

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Solar Power World

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Electric panel monitoring hardware provider Sense found that home energy demand increased 22% since the pandemic started. COVID-19 has forced many Americans to be at home more than usual. This correlated with a typical utility bill increase of $22 to $25 or even higher in states with steeper utility rates.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 21, 2020

Numerous new EV models became available in 2019 and 2020, and global markets showed strong sales for 2019 and early 2020. But some forecasts show EV sales slumping up to 43 percent in 2020 year-over-year, so 2020 is sure to be a serious blip in the overall growth story. In the U.S., and globally.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 30, 2020

By nearly all measures, 2020 was a trying year. Here are the top solar stories of 2020. After more than a year of lobbying, solar companies and renewables trade groups in late 2020 secured an extension of the industry’s treasured tax credits. The 2020 election. An ITC extension.

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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. But even solar held steady in 2020, despite residential installers reeling from depressed demand.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 13, 2020

Join us and explore: RNG 101: Production, Distribution, Policy. If you can't tune in live, please register and we will email you a link to access the archived webcast footage and resources, available to you on-demand after the webcast. Thu, 08/13/2020 - 14:51. Thu, 09/10/2020 - 10:00. - Thu, 09/10/2020 - 11:00.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 29, 2020

With 2020 righteously drawing to a close, we here at Greentech Media are taking a look back at all the news we covered. And with a new president headed for the White House, clean energy is hoping to get a significant boost, though it weathered years of policy uncertainty under Trump while still installing significant volumes.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 18, 2020

Leah Stokes, an expert on interest groups and their influence over policy, joins the gang. Her new book, Short Circuiting Policy , is the focus of our episode. How have they held back climate policy, and where would we be without their resistance? Recommended reading: Leah Stokes : Short Circuiting Policy.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 30, 2020

By far the biggest grid edge story of 2020 was the continued commitment of U.S. This year marked some key turns toward capturing the value of DERs, both in terms of public policy and private investment. utilities commit to decarbonization. DER capacity will reach 380 gigawatts of capacity and constitute a $110 billion market by 2025.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

gigawatts of mono wafer capacity at the end of 2019 into 18 gigawatts by Q2 2020. “With domestic demand rebounding strongly and overseas demand driven by grid parity and aggressive clean energy targets, we expect the fourth quarter to be a big quarter for us,” said CEO Kangping Chen on the company’s Tuesday earnings call.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Amid a historic economic contraction, renewable resources grew to account for a fifth of electricity produced in 2020, according to newly released data from Bloomberg New Energy Finance and the Business Council for Sustainable Energy, a coalition of clean energy, utility and natural gas companies. BloombergNEF logged a record year for U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 14, 2020

greenhouse gas emissions could fall by a record 11 percent in 2020 due to the COVID-19 crisis, according to new analysis , following last year's decline of about 2.8 “One of the biggest unknowns is how energy demand will be impacted with time,” said Mahajan. renewables to overtake coal in 2020. ” EIA: U.S.

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The Environmental Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2019

But in recent years, the tourist industry has shifted to meet another demand; we’re all looking to reduce our carbon-footprint, and several destinations stand out as being especially laudable in their eco-friendly efforts. When it comes to environmental policies, the Netherlands is something of a trailblazer on the European mainland.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 3, 2021

42% of all energy used across the country through 2020 came from wind, solar, tidal and hydro. Covid19 created a fall in generation demand. Consistent reports from last year demonstrated that 2020 was going to be an incredible year for energy/environmental figures. At a first glance, the figures might not be too surprising.

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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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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 20, 2020

We’ve also seen real support for various types of Green New Deal policies. On the other hand, 2020 will probably be the first year that the solar energy sector will see a decline globally, down from a record year in 2019. How will the upheaval of 2020 affect the world’s long march to a green energy economy?

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Date/Time: December 8, 2020 (1-2PM ET / 10-11AM PT). Investment by industry, enabled by supportive government policy, will allow the rollout of hydrogen technology at the scale required to deliver on its potential, but also to achieve cost reductions. Thu, 11/12/2020 - 10:38. Tue, 12/08/2020 - 10:00. - taylor flores.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Among other things, that shall remain nameless, 2020 has been notable for the rush of activity in the green hydrogen space. As 2020 unfurled and then unraveled, climate change ambition ramped up. Wood Mackenzie declared the 2020s the decade of hydrogen. Driving demand. It could even be used as a fuel in heavy transport.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

With 2020 now past the halfway point, we check in on the top public utility commission (PUC) actions and trends so far this year. In particular, there are a number of ongoing proceedings on performance-based regulation , which seek to better align utility financial incentives with desired outcomes and state policy goals.

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Grist

JANUARY 8, 2020

trillion spending package in December to keep the government funded through 2020, there was a climate policy milestone buried in the budget. This story was originally published by Grist with the headline The climate policy milestone that was buried in the 2020 budget on Jan 8, 2020.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Here's an outline of the most important trends of 2020, starting with the emergence of a green hope from the disaster of the coronavirus pandemic. Then 2020 did what 2020 has been wont to do and messed things up. By the end of 2020, all of Europe’s oil majors had made long-term climate commitments.

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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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GreenBiz

JUNE 10, 2020

Wed, 06/10/2020 - 01:30. The organization expects there to be 169 zero-emission commercial vehicles available for purchase, or soon to be available, in North America by the end of 2020; that's a 78 percent increase from the number of zero-emission commercial vehicles available at the end of 2019. Katie Fehrenbacher.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 3, 2022

This raises several questions which must be discussed together including: How can we prepare the electricity grid for such a structural change in both supply and demand of electricity? Demand side measures. Electricity supply and demand need to be perfectly balanced for the safe delivery of electricity. Image: GridBeyond.

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R-Squared Energy

JUNE 3, 2022

Then oil prices plummeted in 2014, and again in 2020. Energy demand just isn’t that elastic in the short term, so people pay what they have to pay to get to work. Energy demand just isn’t that elastic in the short term, so people pay what they have to pay to get to work. Why did I make such a prediction? But it wasn’t enough.

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Solar Power World

AUGUST 10, 2020

There are five trends emerging when looking at the residential solar and renewable market: soaring storage demand and resiliency, green policy shifts, software and hardware advancements, positive economics and investor fervor. Here’s why each is important: 1.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Last summer, when 750,000 Californians experienced rolling blackouts as heatwaves overtook the west, some politicians in Texas took the opportunity to blame liberal policies to explain the outages. . Attorney General Ken Paxton (@KenPaxtonTX) September 6, 2020. Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) August 19, 2020. Greg Abbott.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

For years, Fridays for Future has been demanding the revision of the Climate Protection Law in order to (finally) establish compliance with the Paris Agreement. Young people around the world are increasingly turning to the courts to challenge their government’s climate policies or responses.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 2, 2019

But according to Brett Simon, Wood Mackenzie senior storage analyst, PG&E’s public safety power shutoff events are expected to start driving residential battery sales in early 2020, given the industry’s sales cycles. The state’s Solar Roofs mandate demands PV on all new-build homes starting next year.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 6, 2021

Looking back, however, 2020 proved to be a decisive year for clean energy in India. Cheap renewables were favored on the grid last year, which caused coal use to fall as energy demand plummeted amid the economic slowdown. By that year, the government wants to meet half of the country's power demand with renewable energy resources.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Renewable power continues to go from strength to strength, despite the disruption caused by the global coronavirus crisis, with new capacity added in 2020 set to close in on a record of almost 200GW, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA).

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

We’ve watched as retailers have made public commitments to remove products packaged in non-recyclable materials from their shelves and have seen governments implement policies to support the circular economy. Mon, 09/14/2020 - 13:52. Tue, 09/29/2020 - 10:00. - Tue, 09/29/2020 - 11:00. taylor flores. gbz_webcast_date.

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EDF + Business

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Climate risk management requires climate policy. Only public policy can deliver the speed and scale of reductions needed to limit the worst impacts of climate change. That’s why advocacy for climate policy is an essential part of corporate sustainability leadership. A new standard for corporate leadership in 2020 and beyond.

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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. Energy demand for electricity and transportation fell by 3.8% Energy demand for electricity and transportation fell by 3.8%

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