Green Living Guy

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Renewable energy development is key for Thailand to cut its dependency on fossil fuel imports, as gas-based thermal power generation accounted for nearly 61.3% GlobalData’s latest report, ‘Thailand Power Market Size, Trends, Regulations, Competitive Landscape and Forecast, 2022-2035’, reveals […].

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

The consultant was the sole interviewee in the segment, in which she claimed that the move to renewable energy, primarily wind power, was increasing the risk of blackouts. Wind Power ‘Blackout’ Risk Porter told BBC Radio 4 listeners in the interview: “There were risks around blackouts this winter.

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Business Green

APRIL 13, 2022

Clean energy now comprises 38 per cent of global power capacity after another record year of additions driven largely by wind and solar, latest figures reveal. The report notes that solar capacity grew by 19 per cent in 2021 on the year before, and wind energy increased its generating capacity by 13 per cent.

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Business Green

MAY 11, 2022

Energy body predicts another bumper year for renewables this year, but warns policies introduced in next six months will determine whether momentum can be maintained beyond 2022. But it warns that efforts to ramp up clean power needed to happen in tandem with energy efficiency measures that kept energy demand in check.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Experts believe the hot start to 2022 is not an anomaly, and that investors are now more bullish on renewables than they used to be. Compared to more volatile and increasingly more expensive fossil fuel sources, renewable energy power fits the institutional investors’ requirements. Experts weigh in on the future.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 16, 2024

Premiers who support the fossil fuel industry were quick to exploit the emergency for the apparent political advantage. Alberta, Canada’s sunniest and windiest province, issued a moratorium on new solar and wind power projects last year. There were no reports of widespread heat pump failures in Alberta.

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Business Green

MARCH 15, 2022

The intervention comes amid growing pressure on the government from some backbench Tory MPs, the Telegraph , and other sections of the media to dilute its net zero agenda and accelerate UK fossil fuel exploration in response to the global gas supply crunch and Russia's war in Ukraine.

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Business Green

MARCH 24, 2022

Boris Johnson is set to push ahead with plans to loosen planning rules to allow an expansion of onshore wind capacity across England and Wales, according to reports, despite the misgivings of some Cabinet members who continue to view turbines as a blight on the countryside. 89% of councils don't allow wind ??

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Business Green

APRIL 6, 2022

The government will tomorrow publish its long-awaited Energy Security Strategy, promising that the sweeping new plan will 'supercharge' clean energy deployment and put the UK on track to source 95 per cent of its power from domestic low carbon sources by 2030. this summer.

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Business Green

AUGUST 7, 2020

The study drew on data from 123 countries that together account for 99 per cent of fossil fuel emissions. In contrast, with an economic recovery tilted towards green stimulus and reductions in fossil fuel investments, it is possible to avoid future warming of 0.3C Japanese offshore wind sets out ambitious expansion plans.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

It promises to double the amount of onshore wind power, triples the amount of solar power, and more than quadruple the amount of offshore wind power capacity by the end of the decade, with Labour leader Keir Starmer promising to curb energy bills by turning the UK into a green energy "superpower".

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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). After all, consumer prices have become much higher than the cost of producing wind and solar power. Source: IEA).

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The falling costs of wind and solar power are pushing utilities to find ways to incorporate them into their long-range plans, even as they struggle to define what resources can be relied on to provide the dispatchable power they need. Duke's utilities serve 7.7 million electric customers and 1.6

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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2022

Among a handful of "bright spots" highlighted in the CCC's report are electric car sales, which have soared over the past few years as more and more automotive firms expand their line up of battery-powered passenger vehicles in response to growing demand and tightening regulations. Credit: Climate Change Committee.

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Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 18, 2021

Why focus on creating sustainable marine fuels? > Eventually all fossil fuels are to be replaced with a sustainable alternative, hopefully some time before 2050. At Mr. Sustainability however, we are not interested in replacing all fuels. We focus on the maritime industry for a reason. What about CO2 taxes? >

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Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 18, 2021

Why focus on creating sustainable marine fuels? Because sea going vessels are hard to electrify and we are Mr. Sustainability Eventually all fossil fuels are to be replaced with a sustainable alternative, hopefully some time before 2050. We however are not interested in replacing all fuels. What about CO2 taxes?

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 16, 2024

As the boats motored through the swells, the self-styled activists broke into a chorus of pleas for the wind farm construction to cease—chants likely intended less for the still-faraway workers than for the camera there to capture footage. “If you were a fossil fuel project, you would have been shut down long ago.”

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Climate Tech VC

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The only specific action named was to “advance” five large-scale carbon capture projects by 2030 and makes no mention of phasing out fossil fuels or of China’s controversial construction of new coal-fired power plants. Big Oil spins whale deaths to stall wind power installations. Walewashing.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

State-owned energy firms Enea and Energa issued a joint statement yesterday in which they said that, due to market headwinds faced by the global coal sector and the increasing shift of capital away from the fossil fuel power source, they would be withdrawing billions of zlotys of funding from the proposed Ostro??ka

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

“They’ve done their best to try to prop up fossil fuels, but it hasn’t really come [at] the detriment of renewables.” WoodMac expects the market to continue growing, hitting 20 GW in 2022, but Biden’s platform, if fully realized, has the potential to multiply those installations significantly.

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CleanTechnica

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Solar and wind power continue to dominate new power capacity in the United States.

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