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The 5 Biggest US Utilities Committing to Zero Carbon Emissions by 2050

GreenTechMedia

At the very least, utilities will need plans that can get them most of the way there, while rushing ahead with next-generation technologies: long-duration energy storage, small modular nuclear reactors or green hydrogen and methane to fuel natural gas peaker plants. Here's a look at the five largest U.S.

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Global Briefing: EU and US launch Joint Task Force on Energy Security

Business Green

Washington and Brussels team up in support of wide-ranging plan to diversify Europe's sources of LNG, ramp up renewables development, plug methane leaks, and boost energy efficiency. China latest mega-hydropower plant comes online. At an altitude of 3,000 metres it is the highest hydropower project in China.

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Replace fossil fuels — with more fossil fuels? That’s one major utility’s plan.

DeSmogBlog

Its officials insist that methane burns cleaner than coal, and they echo a common argument in claiming that it provides a tidy bridge between coal and truly renewable energy. 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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Replace fossil fuels — with more fossil fuels? That’s one major utility’s plan.

DeSmogBlog

Its officials insist that methane burns cleaner than coal, and they echo a common argument in claiming that it provides a tidy bridge between coal and truly renewable energy. 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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Inflation Reduction Act: 10 ways it will turbocharge US climate action (and one way it won't)

Business Green

Firstly, current federal tax credits for developing onshore and offshore wind, solar, biomass, landfill gas, waste-to-energy, hydropower, geothermal, and marine renewable power projects - which had faced cuts from 2022 - are to be extended until 2025 under the Act. temperature goal is to be kept alive.