DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Last February, ExxonMobil announced it would further expand its only active carbon capture and storage (CCS) operation in the United States, located at a gas processing facility in LaBarge, Wyoming. The official launch of the Boundary Dam carbon capture and storage facility at a coal power plant in Canada on Oct.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 29, 2022

The push to sell “blue hydrogen” as a clean energy fuel — which experts have called a misleading rebrand of fossil fuels — hit another setback this month. Climate provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 are bringing new economic headwinds to the gas-derived hydrogen fuel’s prospects.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 5, 2024

As part of its “Sustainable Gas Program,” the Virginia-based private utility wanted to purchase what it calls “Next Generation Natural Gas.” But it needed the state’s blessing in order to pass on to customers a 15 percent premium for buying this specially certified gas. And Virginia is not alone.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The IEA has released its annual review of Hungary’s energy policy, stating that energy efficiency needs to be central in the coming years for the European country to reach its net zero targets, The Hungary 2022 Energy Policy Review states how Hungary has significantly increased its climate ambitions since the last review.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Indian state owned natural gas company GAIL has started the country’s first hydrogen blending with natural gas in Madhya Pradesh state. The hydrogen blended natural gas is supplied to the Indore headquartered Avantika Gas, one of GAILs’ joint venture companies with the Hindustan Petroleum Corporation.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 16, 2024

A major cold snap led to record electricity usage in the Canadian province of Alberta over the weekend, culminating in demands from provincial utilities to limit consumption. The extreme cold and record-setting electrical consumption has reignited local debates about whether heat pumps are a viable option in the province.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

MAY 1, 2024

EPA’s action finalizes aggressive emission reduction targets for certain subcategories of fossil fuel-fired power plants, based on implementation of carbon capture and sequestration. This significant new regulation was part of a suite of four power sector rules EPA finalized on the same day. By Stacey L. VanBelleghem , Karl A.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

This arresting visual captures the sentiments of opponents of a plan to develop the world’s largest carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) project under the lake. billion “Clean Energy Complex” to manufacture blue hydrogen and an accompanying carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) project, that would be operational by 2026.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 19, 2020

After a massive heat wave in California that led grid operator CAISO to order its first rolling blackouts since the 2001 energy crisis on Friday and Saturday, the state has thus far managed to avoid further forced outages. CAISO has issued a "Flex Alert" asking Californians to conserve energy from 3 p.m. through at least Wednesday.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 24, 2021

As recently as 2019, the global market for liquefied natural gas (LNG) looked bright. In March 2021, Exelon canceled the Annova LNG project that was proposed to be built in Brownsville, Texas, due to the inability to find buyers for its gas. Former President Trump visits Sempra Energy’s Cameron LNG facility in Louisiana.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 29, 2022

As usual, it was another year of ups and downs for sustainable business. Two steps forward, one step back: the sustainable business cha-cha, as I've long described it. The job boom crosses sectors, from finance and private equity to clean energy and biodiversity. Overall, it was more positives than negatives.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 30, 2020

Last fall, community choice aggregators serving three Northern California counties announced plans to deploy thousands of solar-battery systems to provide backup power to residents facing the threat of fire-prevention blackouts. rooftop solar installer and behind-the-meter battery aggregator, to get it done.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 10, 2020

California regulators and utilities want to build microgrids for communities most at threat from the state’s increasingly deadly wildfires, and the widespread public safety power shutoff (PSPS) grid outages meant to prevent them. That would be too expensive for backup power that has to last for up to three days in a row.

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Green Business Bureau

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Retail business sustainability. These 7 sustainable developments are business opportunities that arise from key market trends we’re witnessing today. For this article we’ve analyzed the business landscape to identify such trends. What is retail sustainability? ” – Target CEO Brian Cornell.

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R-Squared Energy

APRIL 19, 2022

The ongoing conflict in Ukraine and the subsequent sanctions against Russia have highlighted Europe’s vulnerability when it comes to energy security. At present, the EU receives around 40% of its gas, 46% of its coal, and 30% of its oil from Russia — and has no easy substitutes if supplies are disrupted. What does this entail? “The

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 15, 2022

General contracting businesses that are eco-friendly and practice sustainability are realizing real benefits including new customers and sales growth. . Attracting new customers has become more complicated since consumers often consider how eco-friendly and green a business is before making a purchase decision. Recycled Steel.

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Climate Tech VC

OCTOBER 23, 2023

More than 20 leading investors, corporates, and governments already use the platform including the US Department of Energy, BHP, and Galvanize Climate. Clean energy chills 30% this year What goes up must come down. Unpacking clean energy woes  Higher interest rates = higher cost of capital. Plus, the US funds $3.5B

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 14, 2020

this weekend will push California’s grid to the limits, as the state charts a course to eliminating fossil fuel power. To prepare, grid operator CAISO issued a Flex Alert , asking customers to reduce electricity consumption during the late afternoon and evening Friday as the grid copes with “near-record or record-breaking heat.”

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Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 16, 2024

The last few months have brought a slew of major announcements signaling ammonia’s potential future as a low-carbon fuel.    Ship Orders  Yara Eyde, a joint venture between Yara Clean Ammonia and North Sea Container Line, aims to be the  world’s first clean ammonia-powered container ship.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

These 20 C-suite executives have steered their companies forward through much disruption, providing inspiration for the possibilities of advancing sustainability, social responsibility and circular business models — sometimes all at once. In 2014, the electrical engineer and MBA became the first woman to lead a U.S.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 15, 2022

General contracting businesses that are eco-friendly and practice sustainability are realizing real benefits including new customers including sales growth. . Attracting new customers has become more complicated since consumers often consider how eco-friendly and green a business is before making a purchase decision. Recycled Steel.

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GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

Clean energy for Native American communities. We’d like to express our appreciation to the World Business Council for Sustainable Business and Net Impact for helping to cast a global net for this year’s nominees. I've always been an energy nerd and I just knew that was my place. The 2021 GreenBiz 30 Under 30.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 1, 2021

In June, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) narrowly approved the construction of a new 42” diameter gas pipeline that will connect shale wells in Louisiana, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Ohio to a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal on the Gulf Coast, carrying over a billion cubic feet of fracked gas to be transported overseas every day.

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Business Green

AUGUST 24, 2022

BP, Shell, Total Energies, and Equinor were all found to be investing the vast majority of their profits back into fossil fuel projects. The analysis revealed that BP invested £300m into renewables and low carbon projects in the first half of 2022 - which according to the analysis is equivalent to just 2.5

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Energy Innovation

JULY 20, 2023

This article is the first in a series entitled “Real Talk on Reliability ,” which will examine the reliability needs of our grid as we move toward 100% clean electricity and electrify more end-uses on the path to a climate stable future. Changing reliability considerations with the energy transition Our grid is undeniably in transition.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 20, 2023

On my lastest flight surveying fossil fuel industry sites in southwest Louisiana at the end of September, I photographed liquified natural gas (LNG) export facilities, signs of drought, fire-scarred stretches of marsh, and a salt dome site at risk of collapsing. billion CP2 site and other LNG export facilities in the area.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 22, 2023

This past year’s challenge has been all about getting commercial deployments to ‘become boring’ - when climate tech works so well that it’s unremarkable, when breakthroughs are so widespread that they’re innocuous. Energy under the hood. Nuclear fission and fusion energy top the watch list. 

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Business Green

DECEMBER 14, 2020

After several delays spanning at least a year, the government has finally unveiled vision for a future net zero energy system - here are the eight things you need to know about the long-awaited Energy White Paper. To describe autumn 2020 as a busy period for green economy policy in the UK would be an understatement.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JUNE 1, 2022

On May 10, 2022, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) released its Draft 2022 Scoping Plan Update (Draft Scoping Plan) for public review and comment. Our first post in this series discusses CARB’s Proposed Scenario to achieve the state’s GHG targets, which adopts a carbon neutrality target for 2045. By Joshua T.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Additional €100bn for renewables, heat pumps, energy efficiency, and biomethane needed as EU faces 'sterner' gas supply test next year, IEA warns. The European Union has made significant progress in reducing reliance on Russian natural gas supplies, but it is not out of the danger zone yet," said IEA executive director Fatih Birol.

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EDF + Business

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Owned and overseen by national governments, As such, it is in both their commercial and national interest to minimize waste – particularly of methane, a potent greenhouse gas that is responsible for a quarter of the climate warming we’re experiencing today. Not all oil and gas facilities, however, are created equal.

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Business Green

MARCH 13, 2020

The deal will see biomethane from UK anaerobic digestion producers replace fossil fuel gas supplies across all Heathrow terminals. All terminals at Heathrow will soon to be supplied with "100 per cent green" biomethane gas, after the airport inked a deal with French energy giant ENGIE to replace fossil fuel gas sources at the site.

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Climate Tech VC

JULY 17, 2023

acquisition is the largest single carbon-management investment since the passage of the IRA and has implications for the carbon capture, utilization, and storage ecosystem. Regulators miss another deadline on deep-sea mining rules, and the US is digging into the carbon removal benefits of regenerative agriculture.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2020

VERGE Energy Conference (VERGE 20) will take place on October 26-30, 2020. This online event can be attended from anywhere, The central theme at VERGE 20 will focus on how energy systems can be decarbonized, decentralized, digitized and democratized. VERGE 20 will be attended by more than 15,000 leaders, it will feature 300+ speakers.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2023

gas export projects since the beginning of 2022, a sharp increase on the 1.86 Rolfes was speaking during a visit last month to the German port of Wilhelmshaven, site of a new terminal to unload liquefied natural gas (LNG) — natural gas supercooled for shipping on specialized tankers. German banks lent 2.17

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

To identify the powerful actors most actively lobbying against these key EU regulations and policies, DeSmog analysed corporate reports, lobbying records, official position papers, responses to public EU consultations, media events, and meetings held with various EU bodies over the past two years. Meet the Industry Trade Groups.

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Climate Tech VC

MARCH 8, 2024

For Strategics this might be supporting the growth of existing or even new billion dollar businesses, while for Government it might be about supporting technologies with national strategic importance, but for all three, $ alone isn't sufficient.  Breakthrough Energy Catalyst, Grok, Prime Impact), NGOs (e.g.

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