GreenBiz

APRIL 20, 2021

Tue, 04/20/2021 - 02:11. Buildings are similarly opening their doors to being powered entirely by electricity, supplanting natural gas and other fuels for heating and cooling. Local jurisdictions are banning the use of natural gas in newly constructed (and, in some places, renovated) homes and commercial buildings.

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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. Hardly a wedge issue.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

biomass, geothermal, hydropower) dominated new U.S. electrical generating capacity additions during the first three-quarters of 2021. [1]. There were also small additions in 2021 by hydropower (28 MW), geothermal (25 MW), and biomass (14 MW). . By comparison, net growth for natural gas will be only 14,535 MW.

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2022

Last year, the deficit between demand and clean power capacity helped to drive a surge in coal-fired generation, as operators looked to sidestep record gas prices. As a result overall emissions from power generation rose by seven per cent in 2021, to reach a record high, the briefing warns.

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 4, 2022

Solar, wind, and other renewable energy sources (including biomass, geothermal, and hydropower) added more than 2,250 MW of new generating capacity each month during 2021. . 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.

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Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Despite widespread, intense drought conditions, hydroelectric power plants in the California Independent System Operator (CAISO), the grid operator for most of the state, provided a significant amount of generation from April 2021 to September 2021, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Global renewable power generation is growing at an unprecedented rate , driven by the favourable economics of wind and solar along with energy security concerns around oil and gas (largely caused by recent wars), and emissions goals. Both find wind and solar to be cost-competitive with natural gas-fired electricity in the U.S.

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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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R-Squared Energy

AUGUST 26, 2021

The is the sixth article in a series on BP’s recently-released Statistical Review of World Energy 2021. Previous articles were: Highlights From The BP Statistical Review Of World Energy 2021. Maintains Its Natural Gas Dominance. Global hydropower consumption in 2020 was 38.2 A Record Decline In Carbon Emissions.

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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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Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Current nuclear and large hydropower capacity add up to around 50 GW. The nation added 2,835 MW of solar in the third quarter of 2021, up 14% compared to 2,488 MW installed in the second quarter. The nation added 2,835 MW of solar in the third quarter of 2021, up 14% compared to 2,488 MW installed in the second quarter.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 6, 2021

These conditions are echoed by a new report from the North American Electric Reliability Council (NERC) warning that California is at “high risk” of an energy emergency in 2021. Subscribe to Renewable Energy World’s free, weekly newsletter for more stories like this.

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Grist

DECEMBER 15, 2021

You’ve got plenty of company after the events of 2021: Heat waves, hurricanes, fires, and floods hit new and deadly extremes. Sachs’ view was backed in a July 2021 study from the San Francisco-based think tank Energy Innovation, which pulled together eight research efforts by universities and other experts. And that’s crucial.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 14, 2024

Tackling water hammer Much discussed in the water industry at present is the subject of leakage, and more than 1 trillion litres of potable water was lost via leaky pipes in England and Wales in 2021/22, as a recent AUMA video explains. AUMA Actuators were deployed at an award-winning desalination plant in Singapore in 2021.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MAY 21, 2023

” “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. The largest share of the state’s natural gas comes from Canada, either directly or through the state of Idaho.”

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AGreenLiving

MAY 21, 2020

Both the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) and the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysts (IEEFA) have revealed that, from March 25th through May 3rd, utility-scale solar, wind and hydropower collectively generated more electricity than coal! This led to IEEFA forecasts of renewables eclipsing coal by 2021.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 21, 2020

Both the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) and the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysts (IEEFA) have revealed that, from March 25th through May 3rd, utility-scale solar, wind and hydropower collectively generated more electricity than coal! This led to IEEFA forecasts of renewables eclipsing coal by 2021.

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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 This story was originally published by Grist with the headline How steel might finally kick its coal habit on Feb 3, 2021. So I think all these new projects are worthwhile.”.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

Happy Earth Day 2021! When you’ve followed the evolving research of a leading clean energy expert and become a supporter of his vision for a global clean energy transition, it should come as no surprise that I was eager to crack open Mark Jacobson’s 2021 book release, 100% Clean, Renewable Energy and Storage for Everything.

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Energy Innovation

JULY 2, 2021

They use a series of models to explore energy mixes that include coal, hydropower, nuclear, solar, natural gas, and wind in the future relative to today. In this study, Fonseca and 10 co-authors evaluate planning for capacity expansion in the U.S. Southeast in 2050. Figure 1. (a) b) modeling framework. Source: Fonseca et al.

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 4, 2021

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. A few examples: The rapidly developing renewable natural gas market is putting in place a meaningful number of cash?generating

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 17, 2022

But as soon as demand outstrips the capacity of these low-cost producers, prices jump to the price bid by gas-fired generators, which depends largely on the price of natural gas. Add this all up, and we’re seeing a perfect storm of high energy prices for years to come – unless Russian gas supplies resume. Source: IEA).

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2021

The analysis , however, found that 63 percent of the more than 3,000 online posts and videos posted on YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook by Royal Dutch Shell, TotalEnergies, Repsol, Eni, Fortum and Preem between December 2019 and April 2021 presented the energy companies as “green”. New challenges need new solutions.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

gigawatt generation fleet comes from coal-fired power plants, while natural gas makes up about a quarter more, and nuclear power one-tenth. Hydropower provides about 800 megawatts, and its only solar facility, the O’Fallon Renewable Energy Center, has a 5.7-megawatt About half of Ameren Missouri’s existing 10.3-gigawatt

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Business Green

AUGUST 13, 2021

2021 is turning out to be quite the year for Newark, New Jersey-based vertical farming pioneer AeroFarms. For example, Danville relies heavily on nuclear and natural gas for energy, which is one reason AeroFarms decided to build there. The biggest news is that the company is going public.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

When hydropower, nuclear, and other forms of clean energy technologies were included, zero-carbon power accounted for 85 per cent of all new capacity added. The report also highlighted that solar "continued to expand at a particularly fierce pace in 2021", both in terms of new capacity additions and its presence in new markets.

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 26, 2021

biomass, geothermal, hydropower, solar, wind) provided 22.5% electrical generation during the first four months of 2021. in April 2021 (YTD). electrical generation in 2030 with wind and solar combined providing about 23% and the combination of biomass, geothermal, and hydropower contributing another 10%. in 2020 to 20.6%

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 13, 2021

Under growing pressure to rein in greenhouse gas emissions, developers of liquefied natural gas (LNG) are turning to questionable claims about “carbon neutrality,” “net-zero,” or “green LNG,” in order to pass muster with governments, investors, and society, who are becoming increasingly anxious about the climate crisis.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 11, 2021

The Biden administration believes heavily in green hydrogen -- hydrogen produced from clean sources like wind, solar, and hydropower -- as a key piece in the path to a net-zero energy sector. Additionally, President Biden's FY 2022 budget request includes $400 million for hydrogen activities, compared to $285 million in FY 2021.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

8, 2021, the White House released a report produced by the U.S. The rest would come mostly from a mix of other low- or zero-carbon sources, including wind, nuclear, hydropower, biopower, geothermal and combustion turbines run on zero-carbon synthetic fuels such as hydrogen. Rhodes , University of Texas at Austin. has lots of sunshine.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 30, 2019

Is California finished building gas-fired power plants? natural gas production. Batteries can provide many of the same services as gas peaker plants, and they come with many other benefits. But today’s storage technology cannot take over the bulk-power function served by larger gas plants. Let that sink in.

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Business Green

MARCH 31, 2023

Wind and solar accounted for 14 per cent of US electricity, with hydropower accounting for six per cent, and geothermal sources just under one per cent. However, the EIA also revealed that while the use of renewables was rising, so too is the country's reliance on natural gas, which generated 39 per cent of US electricity last year.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 25, 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. Thompson Rivers is working to replace all its natural gas boilers with electric ones, which should render the whole university carbon-neutral (sans offsets!)

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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. Google still has a ways to go to achieve its goal.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Analysis of China's latest five-year plan for 2021-25 shows its decarbonisation targets will, if met, result in CO2 emissions from fuel consumption hitting a plateau in the middle of this decade and then undergoing a modest decline by 2030. The share of renewables on Australia's main grid, the National Electricity Market, hit a record 61.7

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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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Grist

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Just look at what Cascadia woke up to on New Year’s Day 2021: Our supposedly “green” corner of the world came nowhere near to meeting the ambitious climate action goals for 2020 that politicians set a decade earlier, earning themselves accolades and admiration — not to mention talking points for the campaign trail.

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