GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 31, 2020

As laboratories of democracy, states deserve a victory lap for enacting renewable portfolio standards (RPS) that have helped transform our electricity system. Started by Hawaii and California, eight states now have adopted such laws with another wave of state legislatures expected to consider 100 percent CES bills in 2020.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 6, 2021

Looking back, however, 2020 proved to be a decisive year for clean energy in India. Bids for new solar projects hit record lows last year, affirming that coal is no longer the cheapest source of electricity. And to what extent can they mitigate the increase in fossil fuel use? Workers fled from cities.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 13, 2021

The share of non-hydro renewable energy in the fuel mix more than doubled during this period to over 13% in 2019, and this torrid rate of growth is expected to continue, according to IRENA’s Renewable Energy Statistics, 2020. Renewables will become the largest source of electricity generation in 2025.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 23, 2021

requiring electricity providers to obtain a minimum percentage of their power from renewable energy sources. The most recent update, SB 13-252, requires cooperative utilities to generate 20% of their electricity from renewables. In 2004, Colorado passed the first voter-led RES in the U.S.,

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 10, 2020

NYISO’s Power Trends 2020 report released Wednesday highlights the challenges and opportunities for a grid in flux. Last year’s Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA) calls for getting 70 percent of the state’s electricity from renewables by 2030, up from 26.8 Source: NYISO. Source: NYISO.

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Charged

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Hydrogen detractors often warn that, once these projects are funded, green hydrogen, which isn’t yet available at any scale, will prove impractical, and boosters will quietly switch to grey hydrogen (produced from fossil fuels). With the extremely volatile energy prices, we cannot offer eight-year fixed terms,” ??said said Hirschi.

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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. However, the Covid-19 pandemic really upended the energy markets in 2020, and we shouldn’t extrapolate some of these trends. Cumulatively, fossil fuels — shown below in shades of gray — still accounted for 83.1%

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Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 10, 2021

India has a target ofd 500 GW of installed non-fossil fuel capacity by 2030, as announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP-26) in Glasgow in November. Current nuclear and large hydropower capacity add up to around 50 GW. GW installed in the same period in 2020.

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Business Green

JULY 15, 2021

Global demand for electricity is also growing faster than renewables capacity post-pandemic, opening the door to more fossil fuel energy in many parts of the world. But the surge in renewables generation may still only be enough to meet around half of the projected increase in demand, the IEA said. per cent this year and by 2.5

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Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2023

More than half of the UK's electricity came from zero carbon sources across five months last year, as Britain celebrated a flurry of fresh green grid records in 2022, according to National Grid ESO. per cent electricity, according to National Grid ESO. per cent of the country's electricity in 2022, while solar accounted for 4.4

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Business Green

APRIL 6, 2020

Data from International Renewable Energy Association points to slight slowdown in capacity growth last year, but clean energy sector still outpaced fossil fuels. according to IRENA. Overall, renewables capacity expanded by 7.6 In total, renewables' share of global power capacity now stands at 34.7 per cent, up from 33.3

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Solar power is the "new king" of global electricity markets, with the International Energy Agency calling it the cheapest form of electricity in history in its annual centerpiece World Energy Outlook report. Solar's ascent and coal's decline have been rapid by the standards of the electricity industry. degrees Celsius.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The country’s electricity grid is currently dominated by fossil fuels – coal, gas and oil – which together accounted for 83% of electricity generation in 2020. Indonesia is one of the world’s largest countries, with over 270 million people and 17,500 islands.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Renewable power sources are expected to dominate almost all the growth in the world's electricity supplies through to 2025, according to the IEA, and together with nuclear power they are set to meet the vast majority of the increase in global power demand over the period. remains a hugely challenging prospect.

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Clean Energy Canada

JULY 2, 2020

The clean-burning fuel does not produce carbon emissions upon consumption and so can replace fossil fuels in many sectors including heavy industry, transportation and heating. This means its potential role has similarities with that of electricity. This method does not produce direct emissions but requires electricity.

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Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 22, 2021

For Europe, 2020 represented a historic year for renewable energy sources. In the European Union, the rate of electricity generation from renewable energy sources amounted to 38%, ahead of fossil fuels (37%), and nuclear energy (25%). The year 2020 was historic for Europe from the perspective of renewable energy sources.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 12, 2020

IEA's World Energy Outlook confirms dramatic drop in emissions in 2020, but warns delivery of promised green recovery depends on urgent action from governments. I see solar becoming the new king of the world's electricity markets," said Fatih Birol, executive director of the IEA. "If

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Understandably, then, companies currently charged with the task of generating Europe’s electricity welcomed the proposals with open arms. “It is a powerful tool to engage other countries in the climate ambition discussion throughout 2020,” wrote Quentin Genard, head of the firm’s Brussels office.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MAY 21, 2023

More than $500 million to support the construction of charging stations for electric vehicles, as the government looks to bring the number of electric vehicles on Québec roads to two million. TWh produced Quebec is the largest producer of electricity in Canada and had an estimated generating capacity of 46,380 megawatts (MW) in 2019.

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

with electricity from solar photovoltaic (PV) power. The number of electric vehicles (EVs) on the roads has also grown exponentially in the past decade. I could convert that number directly into an electricity equivalent, but internal combustion engines are less efficient than electric motors. electricity generation.

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Grist

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Renewable solar and wind power now typically costs less than fossil-fuel alternatives. That’s looking more doable as renewable-energy prices drop, providing an alternative to fossil fuels. Would make electricity more dependable. Electric vehicles are making huge inroads in the market. If not sooner.

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Business Green

MAY 22, 2020

The plan includes climate adaptation measures across seven sectors - water, agriculture, land, forestry, human settlement, health, transport, and mining - as well as measures to scale up hydropower and solar energy, improve energy efficiency and rollout electric vehicles, the according to the news site. PEspinosaC) May 20, 2020.

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 4, 2021

SPACs have been around for years, but gained significant traction and attention in 2020. So much attention, in fact, new SPACs were viewed as coming to the public market at a “frenzied” pace, with more proceeds raised in SPAC IPOs from July 1, 2020 through April 1, 2021 than in the preceding 10 years. By Steve Carman. About the Author.

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R-Squared Energy

MAY 23, 2021

Those can be accomplished by strict fuel-economy standards and global bans on internal combustion engines (ICEs) after 2035. This should increase the number of electric vehicles on the road from 1% today to 20% in 2030 and 60% in 2040, and it makes a major dent in the carbon emissions from the transportation sector. based fuels.

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Business Green

APRIL 20, 2020

Yet a return to business as usual marked by continued large-scale investments in fossil fuel infrastructure would only result in further volatility and economic disruption, while failing to deliver on the medium and long-term goals set out in the Paris Agreement and the UN Sustainable Development agenda, it argued.

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Business Green

AUGUST 17, 2022

The remarkably rapid march of renewable power could see it become the backbone of much of the global electricity system by as soon as the end of this decade - but concerted policy action is still needed to deliver a successful transition away from fossil fuels towards a system dominated by solar, wind and hydro power.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 18, 2021

In 2020, consumption of renewable energy in the United States grew for the fifth year in a row, reaching a record high of 11.6 energy consumption that increased in 2020 from 2019; fossil fuel and nuclear consumption declined. renewable energy consumption in 2020. In 2020, U.S. by Mickey Francis, EIA.

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Business Green

MAY 11, 2022

However, the IEA also warned that renewable power's growth is on track to lose momentum in 2023, predicting that global additions to the clean power fleet will plateau as solar power's continued acceleration is offset by "little change" in wind additions and a 40 per cent decline in hydropower expansion.

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Business Green

MARCH 6, 2023

per cent in 2020 before they then bounced back by five per cent in 2021, emissions once again fell by 3.4 Carbon Brief said the decline in greenhouse gases was largely due to increases in power generation from renewables such as wind and solar, combined with declines in the use of fossil fuels across the economy.

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Business Green

JUNE 18, 2020

The IEA said its plan would result in a five per cent reduction in air pollution emissions, bring access to clean-cooking solutions to around 420 million people in low-income countries, and enable nearly 270 million people to gain access to electricity. The plan is not intended to tell governments what they must do," he added. "It

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Clean Energy Trust

DECEMBER 6, 2021

billion for EV charging infrastructure, and billions more for transitioning school buses and transit vehicles to electric. Bukaty/AP A bad omen for the future: fossil fuel plant owners bankrolled a referendum in Maine to try and pass a ballot measure to kill a transmission line that would bring in zero-carbon hydropower from Canada.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 14, 2019

But it is looking to step up its participation considerably as a way of replacing fossil fuel exports with an alternative created with the country's plentiful renewable energy resources. Along with electric vehicles, Beijing sees green hydrogen as a potential way of decarbonizing transportation, WoodMac's Gallagher said.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

IEA confirms surging growth in capacity puts renewables on track to become largest single source of electricity worldwide by 2025. The global energy body's annual clean power report today reveals almost 90 per cent of all electricity capacity added in 2020 came from renewables, led by wind, hydropower, and solar PV projects.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

biofuels, biomass, geothermal, hydropower, solar, wind) reached an all-time high in the first six months of this year, according to a SUN DAY Campaign analysis of new data released by the U.S. energy produced (and 12.71% of the energy consumed) for electricity, transportation, heating, and other uses. energy consumption. ” .

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 15, 2022

In 2020, two-thirds of U.S. Most of this energy is produced by the burning of fossil fuels which releases a mass amount of carbon dioxide into the environment. Under the assumption that the average electricity cost is $0.07 hydropower and wind power). adults (64%) said protecting the environment is a top priority.

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Business Green

JANUARY 19, 2021

The winds of change blew across Europe through 2020 as wind farms delivered their highest ever contribution to the continent's power mix, providing 15 per cent of total generation, new figures from power market analyst EnAppSys show.

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 17, 2022

In the summer of 1988, scientist James Hansen testified to Congress that carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels was dangerously warming the planet. Then, beginning around 2009, first wind turbines and then solar photovoltaic panels decreased enough in cost to become competitive in electricity markets.

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