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

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. Reports: Germany looking to postpone looming closure of nuclear plants.

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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.

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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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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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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 17, 2022

EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen delivers a speech during a special plenary session of the EU Parliament in Brussels on March 01, 2022 (image credit: Alexandros Michailidis / Shtterstock.com). All the while, Denmark has been in a unique position to use wind power. Source: World Nuclear Association). Source: IEA).

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 26, 2021

EIA’s most recent “ Electric Power Monthly ” report reveals that renewable energy sources (i.e., biomass, geothermal, hydropower, solar, wind) provided 22.5% electrical generation in 2020 and are on track to exceed 21% in 2021 and 23% in 2022. electrical generation in 2030. in April 2021 (YTD).

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 11, 2021

of Energy to demonstrate technology that produces clean hydrogen energy from nuclear power, as part of the agency's goal of reducing the cost of clean hydrogen production by 80%. 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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Business Green

MARCH 25, 2022

The Formula E racing series has revealed that it will next month unveil its new Gen3 all-electric race car at an event at the Yacht Club de Monaco on 28 April ahead of the 2022 Monaco E-Prix. Amazon cuts ribbon on first net-zero carbon grocery store. China latest mega-hydropower plant comes online.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Schumer’s office, the two-year extension of the federal Investment Tax Credit for solar projects will retain the current 26 percent credit for projects that begin construction through the end of 2022, rather than expiring at the end of 2020 as they would have under existing law. Action by the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 7, 2023

Some, including the Environmental Protection Agency, oppose the plan for climate reasons, arguing that, in addition to carbon dioxide, the plant will emit methane, an even more powerful greenhouse gas. If you count hydropower and nuclear as clean energy sources, as the TVA does, that number bumps up to about 50 percent.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 8, 2023

Some, including the Environmental Protection Agency, oppose the plan for climate reasons, arguing that, in addition to carbon dioxide, the plant will emit methane, an even more powerful greenhouse gas. If you count hydropower and nuclear as clean energy sources, as the TVA does, that number bumps up to about 50 percent.

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Business Green

AUGUST 8, 2022

The landmark legislation's climate provisions could unlock billions of dollars of low carbon investment and millions of green jobs - but it also paves the way for new fossil fuel infrastructure. The US is set to get its first ever carbon equivalent tax - on methane. As Mark Carney noted this morning, this is part of a global trend.

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