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Low carbon generation set to meet electricity demand growth – IEA

Smart Energy International

The IEA’s Electricity 2024 report records electricity demand growth easing in 2023 but is projected to accelerate over the next three years through 2026. The update finds that world demand for electricity grew by 2.2% in 2023, less than the 2.4% However, the demand is expected to rise, growing by an average of 3.4%

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Customer-centric demand response a key solution for Japan’s energy transition challenges

Smart Energy International

Japan’s electricity sector is facing the triple challenges in the energy transition of energy security, cost and decarbonisation , writes James Tedd from GridBeyond. Imported fossil resources contribute to all three of the challenges of the energy transition.

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ComEd’s Favorable Regulatory Treatment for Grid Investments Comes Under Fire

GreenTechMedia

The consumer watchdog group says that should start with reforming the regulatory structure set in place by 2011’s Energy Infrastructure Modernization Act (EIMA). The workings of the 2011 Energy Infrastructure Modernization Act. EIMA was framed by ComEd and its backers as providing certainty to recovering the costs of a $2.6

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CBAM Ignites New Era of Equitable Contest in Europe

Hydrogen Fuel News

This not only discourages domestic firms from relocating but also suppresses the effects of carbon border taxes by effectively equalizing carbon prices for both domestic and foreign producers in the home market. This is just another reason that more industries are looking towards hydrogen energy.

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? Copper’s the new gold rush #184

Climate Tech VC

  KoBold Metals discovered a major copper deposit, which could be the start to solving growing supply and demand imbalances brought on by copper’s fundamental role in the energy transition.  Demand The most critical of energy transition minerals.   Big enough to matter.   Demand is on the rise.

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The 4 Things PG&E Must Do to Survive and Thrive Post-Bankruptcy

GreenTechMedia

Pacific Gas & Electric is on the verge of escaping from its 18-month bankruptcy , only to begin a years-long effort to prevent a repeat of the disasters that pushed it into insolvency in the first place. PG&E must keep up with the state’s ambitious clean energy, environmental and electrification goals. Of that, about $7.8

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The Net Zero Review: Everything businesses need to know

Business Green

This new Office should take ownership of delivering the net zero agenda with oversight from both the Cabinet Office and the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), working closely with devolved governments, the National Audit Office, and the Climate Change Committee (CCC), among other agencies. million by 2033.