The City Fix

JANUARY 24, 2024

Last year shattered global heat records. The world witnessed the effects of rising temperatures in the form of devastating wildfires, severe flooding, extreme heatwaves and more. Poor countries and communities who have contributed the least to causing the climate crisis.

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Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2023

But if the next two years could result in a worrying setback for energy storage and the clean energy transition, BloombergNEF said it expected the recent increase in battery costs to be short-lived, predicting that costs could start to decline again from 2024, before dropping below 2021 prices in 2026.

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EDF + Business

MARCH 28, 2023

Sources: Deloitte Analysis, H.R.5376 per year Useful life of 17 years (model assumes a 17-year useful life, however, typical life of a solar system ranges from 30 to 40 years. 5376 – Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 , WH IRA Guidebook , DoE Solar Energy Technologies Office , IRC. 117-119 , WH IRA Guidebook , IRC. MWh to $10.16/MWh

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 23, 2020

Owners of noncompliant buildings face the prospect of multimillion-dollar annual fines beginning in 2024. Under Local Law 97, buildings larger than 25,000 square feet are required to meet emissions caps beginning in 2024. Big fines for noncompliant building owners are set to begin in 2024. Cap and trade for buildings?

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Look forward to 2024 predictions from many of your favorite clairvoyant climate voices. 🇬🇧 UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak led a campaign against some of the country’s most essential climate policies. And below we start the week off with a walk down memory lane of the year’s top CTVC headlines.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Hydropower, still the largest renewable resource in the world, and wind will account for the great majority of additions this year, according to IEA. Wind plus solar will overtake coal capacity in 2024 and will eclipse natural gas even earlier, in 2023. ” In July, the European Union approved a green stimulus.

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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 15, 2024

In 2022, Bloomberg moved Canada up three spots—from fifth to second place in its global ranking of countries’ overall lithium-ion EV battery supply chain potential, citing, in part, our mineral resources and large hydropower capacity in addition to other competitive factors. In short, the demand for electric vehicles is there and growing.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Swedish start-up H2 Green Steel is aiming to open the "world's largest" green steel plant up by 2024. Frank Aaskov, energy and climate change policy manager at UK Steel trade body, stressed that decarbonisation potentially offers a new lease of life for the UK's long-struggling steel sector.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

At the same time, the increasingly dire effects of global warming are bringing more Americans in line with much of the rest of the world in making carbon-emissions reduction a top policy priority. Utilities in many states now face mandates to move to 100 percent renewable energy or cut carbon to zero by 2050. GW by 2035.

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Climate Tech VC

JULY 14, 2023

Quasi-public green banks have rules established by legislation, while nonprofit green banks may have bylaws or other policies that govern the types of projects they seek to support. All the GGRF money has to be deployed by September 2024. I spent about 10 years at DOE on the energy policy side.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 19, 2020

Last year wind overtook hydropower in total generation, and 2020 is on track to be a record year for new wind farm construction. “In terms of how the market size for onshore wind will evolve, it’s too early to tell beyond 2024, but we see light through the end of 2024 based on the tax credit extension.”

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 21, 2020

They could also set the industries in a more advantageous position to seek further federal policy support as President-elect Joe Biden takes office and seeks to implement ambitious decarbonization goals for the U.S. Geothermal energy research will get $850 million, and hydropower and marine power will get $933 million.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Battery manufacture, meanwhile, is currently dominated by China, which is now poised to reap the benefits of the drive towards zero emission vehicles that has been sparked by the climate policies of European markets. Britishvolt claims to have signed deals with four separate OEMs representing cumulative demand of 7GWh by 2024/2025.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Duke Energy’s $58 billion capital plan through 2024 is already heavily weighted toward decarbonizing its generation fleet as part of its pledge to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 , CEO Lynn Good said during Thursday's earnings conference call.

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Business Green

AUGUST 8, 2022

Finally climate policy action is getting real," he said. Tax credits for wind and solar developers have long been the primary policy mechanisms for driving the rapid expansion of the US renewables industry. cents per kWh of electricity produced at facilities placed into service after 2024 that produce zero or negative emissions.

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