The Verge: Energy

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Wind turbines and power lines can be seen against the evening sky near Leuna, Germany on October 4th, 2022. Carbon-pollution-free power generation — which includes renewables and nuclear energy — made up more than two-thirds of the electricity mix, and twice as much as fossil fuels. “An Electricity demand actually fell by 3.4

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 24, 2024

growth of 2022, attributing this to declines in advanced countries due to the lacklustre macroeconomic environment and high inflation. For example, global hydropower generation declined in 2023 due to impacts such as droughts, below average rainfall and early snowmelts in numerous regions. in 2023, less than the 2.4%

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Business Green

MARCH 6, 2023

Carbon Brief analysis of preliminary data suggests UK territorial emissions fell for the ninth time in 10 years in 2022, but much work remains to bring country into line with net zero goals UK greenhouse gas emissions fell 3.4 While the economy grew 4.1 per cent last year. per cent last year.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The report also confirmed that renewable electricity capacity increased over the past year to 13.6GW in September 2022, up by 1.4GW since September 2021. And over the first nine months of 2022, generation was up 34.7 per cent was from low carbon sources.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 1, 2022

Nominations are open for 11 categories, with submissions welcome from all renewable energy technologies, from wind, hydro and solar to wave, low-carbon heat and more. Carbon Reduction Award (sponsored by Statkraft). Categories this year include the Best Innovation Award, Best Engagement Award and the Contribution to Skills Award.

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R-Squared Energy

AUGUST 26, 2022

Note: The is the sixth article in a series on BP’s recently-released BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2022. Alone Can’t Curb The World’s Carbon Dioxide Emissions. Global hydropower consumption in 2021 was 40.3 However, the 10-year average annual growth rate for hydropower is much lower at only 1.5%. Why The U.S.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Low solar PV cost – A 28% increase in solar capacity is likely to result, whilst energy storage deployment will increase by 32% No new fossil fuel – In addition to reducing carbon emissions, this would expand energy storage capacity rollout by 52%.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

By using locally sourced waste materials, we can lower the costs of our projects, reduce carbon emissions from transportation and processing and create a new circular economy where none currently exists.”

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Canada’s hydropower-rich grid is 84% non-emitting with variable renewables (essentially wind and solar) currently making up 7% of the country’s total electricity generation. Wind and solar accounted for 61% of electricity generated in Denmark in 2022. states (18) generated more than 20% of electricity from wind and solar in 2022.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

The solar farms are expected to begin operation in October, with all residents being covered by Spring 2022. Finger Lakes Community Choice also launched a community choice electric supply program, providing residents with 100% renewable energy from New York State run-of-river hydropower. million kilowatt-hours annually.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The report, which looks to a 2030 energy system in which clean tech plays a significantly greater role than today, states how sheltering consumers from volatile fuel prices in 2022 cost governments $900 billion in emergency support. Some 60% of two- and three-wheelers sold in 2030 would also be electric , ten times higher than today.

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Business Green

MAY 11, 2021

"Governments need to build on this promising momentum through policies that encourage greater investment in solar and wind, in the additional grid infrastructure they will require, and in other key renewable technologies such as hydropower, bioenergy and geothermal," he said. "A billion tonnes in 2021 due to a resurgence in coal use.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 27, 2023

The 2022 ceremony in Edinburgh. The awards welcome submissions in 12 categories from all renewable energy technologies, including wind, hydro and solar to wave, tidal, low-carbon heat and more. Billed as the UK’s biggest celebration of renewable energy, The Scottish Green Energy Awards 2023, opened for nominations on 26 July.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 5, 2022

details the critical need for long-duration energy storage (LDES) to create an efficient, low-carbon energy system and avoid the curtailment of renewable energy resources. In the first half of 2022 alone, the state curtailed nearly 2,000GWh of solar and nearly 90GWh of wind. An issue brief released by ESS Inc. LDES options.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The IEA said the milestone meant significant rises in the global power sector's carbon emissions are now "unlikely" and total emissions could even decline slightly over the next three years. The report also confirms the growth in global power demand slowed to around two per cent last year, down from 2.4

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 21, 2020

” Distributed ReStart was launched in January 2019 and is set to run to March 2022, with £10.3 If the project is a success, the grid operator will start procuring DER-based black-start services from mid-2022 onward. million ($13.5 million) in backing from the U.K.’s

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 14, 2022

The Atlin Hydro Expansions project is an existing indigenous-owned and operated 2.1MW hydropower facility in Atlin, British Columbia. In its 2022 Budget, the Yukon government committed C$50 million ($39.7 The project is intended to deliver electricity to the Yukon, Canadian northwest territory. million) for the project this year.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Total has struck a three-year deal to supply BT with 100 per cent renewable electricity from a mix of sources including solar, wind and hydropower from across the UK, the French oil and gas giant announced today.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Hydrogen Economy” report forecasts that hydrogen from low-carbon sources could supply roughly 14 percent of the country’s energy needs by 2050, including hard-to-electrify sectors now dependent on natural gas such as high-heat industrial processes or manufacturing fertilizer. The “Roadmap to a U.S.

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Grist

AUGUST 16, 2022

These increases in cooling needs are also tied to an increase in carbon dioxide emissions. The top five states with the most cooling-related carbon emissions are Texas, Florida, Ohio, California, and Missouri. With volatile gas prices, coal plants shuttering, declining hydropower, and extreme heat, the U.S.

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Business Green

JULY 15, 2021

Those are the stark findings of two separate report published today, which - less than 100 days ahead of the crucial COP26 UN climate summit in Glasgow - together provide a stark assessment of the potentially carbon intensive nature of the global economic recovery. per cent in 2022. per cent this year and by 2.5

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Under the contract announced Wednesday , developer 174 Power Global will build the battery system, and Con Edison will bid its power into New York wholesale energy markets for seven years after it starts operations in 2022. After that, 174 Power will take over the battery system’s operations and wholesale market value.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MAY 21, 2023

The plan also includes $1 billion to reduce the carbon footprint of buildings, which are responsible for almost 10 percent of the province’s greenhouse gas emissions About $215 million of that money will help fund projects for thermal waste treatment — methods that transform waste into energy that can be used for such things as heating.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 8, 2023

Minimise the adverse environmental and social impact of supply chain developments via strong regulation of life cycle carbon emissions, shifting production to less carbon-intensive grids, using purchasing power and high-quality defined environmental and social standards, and enforcing higher supply chain traceability.

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Business Green

AUGUST 19, 2022

Arlo Hemphill, senior oceans campaigner with Greenpeace USA, said failing to secure a treaty in 2022, or even delivering a weak treaty, would make it "practically impossible" to ensure 30 per cent of global oceans are protected by 2030. Delegates are behaving like we have another decade for them to keep talking about this," he said.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 4, 2022

A new report from think tank Ember, published this morning, has revealed that solar, wind, and hydropower additions around the world between January and June outpaced demand growth across the electricity sector. We can't be sure if we've reached peak coal and gas in the power sector," Wiatros-Motyka said.

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Business Green

JANUARY 19, 2023

Hydropower dam proposals have ballooned across the Balkans over the last two decades, as the leaders of some of Europe's poorest regions have looked to tap their abundant natural resources to secure access clean energy. But the picture is much more complicated.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Jacobson also determined that fully electrifying Canada’s energy grid with renewable energy and battery storage would further save 3,800 lives annually from air pollution-related deaths, and eliminate nearly one billion tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent. Credit: Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

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Business Green

OCTOBER 12, 2022

The UN agency warned that water stress could jeopardise low carbon energy sources such as nuclear power plants and hydropower, both of which rely heavily on water supplies in order to operate, while rising sea levels and extreme weather are also posing a growing threat to energy infrastructure. Net zero by 2050 is the aim," he said.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 6, 2021

As the second-largest coal-producing and -consuming country on earth and the third-largest emitter of greenhouse gases, India’s transition from carbon-intensive resources is a critical front in the global climate change fight. It will reach 175 gigawatts before 2022.” gigawatts of capacity has been tendered.

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Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 1, 2021

While we do not require power from Muskrat Falls to serve customers this winter, we will use as much power as possible to reduce the fuel costs at Holyrood and reduce carbon emissions,” said Jennifer Williams, president and chief executive officer of Hydro. In total, 48.9

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EDF + Business

MARCH 28, 2023

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2022

In an analysis of the electricity market published late last week, the IEA warned the global economy could face three more years of turbulence and stagnating levels of carbon emisisons if national governments do not start to spend significantly more money on these clean energy and green grid technologies.

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Clean Energy Trust

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Time will tell, but it seems like there were some tangible steps of progress: a good deal was reached on carbon offset markets which should help add credibility to carbon trading schemes and avoid double counting between governments and private actors. Other News Credit: Robert F.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Over the past three years, some of the country’s biggest utilities have been committing to a goal that few may have predicted they’d undertake on their own: weaning themselves off carbon-emitting generation by 2050. Utilities in many states now face mandates to move to 100 percent renewable energy or cut carbon to zero by 2050.

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Business Green

JULY 3, 2020

The company cut expectations for Brent crude prices in 2022 from $60 to $50 a barrel, while Henry Hub US gas price projection now stand at $2.50 It's a sign there will be an accelerated move to a lower carbon economy, which calls into question the financial rationale for continuing to invest in fossil fuels.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Next year, a recovery in nuclear and hydropower output from decade-low levels in 2022 should also help to narrow the expected gap in supply. But the report warns that without additional measures to secure additional sources of energy and further curb demand, the bloc could still face energy shortages over the coming year.

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