Business Green

AUGUST 18, 2022

Some new terms also suggest changing perspectives in politics and business, such as the concept of ‘natural capital' - natural resources and environmental features, considered in terms of their value as economic and social assets.

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Business Green

AUGUST 6, 2020

This weekend will see the anniversary of the UK's first major power cut for over a decade. The systemic failings seen on August 9 2019 led to trains stuck on lines, nearly a million people without power and, of course, quick finger-pointing in a bid to make political points. Another area of focus was inertia and resilience.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2022

UK energy bills were already set to increase by over 50 per cent in 2022 prior to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, with further increases now feared. Their price will vary depending on international changes to energy supply and demand as well as major economic and political events.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 6, 2021

It will reach 175 gigawatts before 2022.” Modi recently announced that he expects the country’s clean energy capacity to reach 220 megawatts by 2022 — besting the country’s 175-gigawatt target. By that year, the government wants to meet half of the country's power demand with renewable energy resources.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 20, 2021

” Achieving India’s target to deploy 450 gigawatts of renewable energy by 2030 is critical if the country is going to succeed in displacing coal generation on the power grid as overall energy consumption grows. The rules have already been delayed several times.

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Smart Energy International

JULY 29, 2022

Additionally, an AI-powered inspection platform bolsters electric asset health maintenance, Elia Group illustrates expedited energy transition investments and a politically charged interconnector reaches financial closure. 369 billion into US energy security and clean energy programmes. In a historic move, Sen.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2023

The Redcar survey was conducted by Explain Market Research, a Newcastle-based company whose clients include major electricity and gas distributors National Grid, Cadent, Northern Power Grid, SGN, Wales and West Utilities, and UK Power Networks. All of these companies have advocated for the use of hydrogen in heating.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

This requires accelerating the roll out of low cost renewable technologies such as offshore wind, investing in the UK's power grid infrastructure and overseeing a much-needed mass insulation programme to upgrade UK's leaky housing stock. — Caroline Lucas (@CarolineLucas) September 5, 2022.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Global LCOE from newly commissioned, utility-scale renewable power technologies, 2021-2022 (source: IRENA) The drive for electrification includes electric vehicles. We have a huge amount of utility-scale and rooftop solar all over the state, and that has destabilized our power grid. Doing that depends a lot on policy.

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Grist

APRIL 8, 2022

This week, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, released a report that emphasized that the barriers to accomplishing progress on climate change are largely political, not scientific. The missing ingredient is the political will to make those adjustments. “For But that’s not how we work.”. In the U.S.,

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Congress is under pressure to pass both bills Monday to ensure continued funding of the federal government and complete a politically pressing extension of coronavirus pandemic relief measures passed in March. Absent any future changes in law, the PTC will be reduced to zero starting in 2022. Action by the U.S.

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Grist

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The answer, according to activists, experts, and officials, is to identify the region’s next steps for climate-cutting action, and press harder in 2022. The region’s power grid — part of a larger Western grid — is too weak and fractured to reliably integrate the massive increase in renewable energy needed to decarbonize.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2020

The State of Vehicle-Grid Integration (Panel Discussion): The vehicle-to-grid market is finally about to kick off in earnest. California is in the process of setting important policy targets that will help stimulate the positive benefits of using electric vehicles for the power grid. How will this market unfold?

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Amid February’s record-breaking temperatures, climate is emerging as a battleground – and faultline – between the UK’s two biggest political parties in the run up to the next general election. Wrangling between the Tories and Labour has also opened the door for fringe political activists. billion in total.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 16, 2024

In order for the Biden administration to hit its goal of a 100 percent clean power grid by 2035, the nation needs to rapidly increase the rate of new wind and solar power installations. Hard-won federal policies like the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act put that target within reach.

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CleanTechnica

APRIL 30, 2024

The demand for electricity is increasing so fast that many in the utility industry are surprised by the spike coming in just a few years. The post Growing Demand For Electricity Is Upending The Utility Industry appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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CleanTechnica

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

The 2022 Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) contains significant federal investments that could fund this clean energy buildout […]

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