Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Coal-fired power plant chimneys: In fast-growing economies, rapidly increasing energy demand is triggering investment in both low carbon and fossil fuel generation, leaving certain countries, including India and China, unlikely to reach net zero until much later. Progress across different sectors is varied.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 4, 2020

BP will cut its oil and gas output by 40 percent by 2030 and increase its low-carbon investment tenfold by then, the company announced Tuesday as it begins to detail its 2050 net-zero strategy. BP's renewables target includes a 20-gigawatt goal by 2025, up from the 2.5 gigawatts it has today. A big future for Lightsource BP.

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Business Green

MAY 10, 2021

Analysts have predicted that electric cars and vans will be cheaper than fossil fuel alternatives by 2027 as battery costs continue to fall, production ramps up, and new vehicle designs are developed. BNEF calculates that light electric vans will be cheaper to produce than diesel vans by 2025, with heavy vans following one year later.

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Clean Energy Canada

JUNE 14, 2022

Commercial rents in downtown Calgary are on the rise, and long-thought dead fossil-fuel export projects have zombified. Previous high oil and gas price cycles have driven consumers to purchase more efficient cars and better insulate their homes, while the business community found ways to use less fossil fuel. And the U.S.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

Another record year for renewables saw clean power sources overtake fossil fuels on Britain's grid for the first time in 2020, but new nuclear and emerging technologies such as hydrogen and bioenergy carbon capture and storage are likely to be required to deliver a fully decarbonised energy system.

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Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 30, 2018

Fossil fuels, a vision of the future or something our children will see in history books? The energy markets, broadly taken to be fossil fuels and renewables, have seen significant changes over the past years. Though hard to predict, most outlooks expect energy demand to rise by about 30% by 2030.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Aviva has announced it intends to reach net zero emissions across its operations, supply chain, and investments by 2040, unveiling a number of new exclusion policies that will see the firm distance itself from the most carbon intensive fossil fuel companies.

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Business Green

JANUARY 20, 2021

Government confirms Future Homes Standard will apply to any new homes built from 2025, delivering a major uptick in the pace of the shift away from gas boilers - but campaigners are left disappointed by failure to adopt more rapid timetable.

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Business Green

AUGUST 4, 2020

BP announces pivot to become 'integrated energy company' as it pledges to cut oil and gas production by 40 per cent and ramp up clean energy and technology investment after suffering record loss in the second quarter of 2020. By 2025, more than a fifth of capital would be invested in "transition" businesses by 2025, it added.

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Business Green

MAY 19, 2020

In its latest forecast today, BNEF said fossil fuel car sales likely already peaked in 2017. Now, with the global pandemic leading a hige drop in demand, the report predicts sales for conventional cars are set to drop 23 per cent worldwide in 2020, with major implications for the global oil market. million barrels a day by 2040.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 22, 2024

C, sees demand for oil, gas and coal reach an immediate peak and fall into a steep decline starting from the year 2025. Energy efficiency’ includes demand-side efficiency gains and more recycling in industry.). Figure 4: Global energy investment and spending across 2024-2050, Economic Transition Scenario and Net Zero Scenario.

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Business Green

JUNE 15, 2021

Britain could enjoy periods of zero carbon electricity as early as 2025 as its fleet of renewable power projects continues to grow and the electricity system is updated to run without relying on fossil fuel power plants, the grid operator has predicted.

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Business Green

MAY 14, 2021

Fossil fuel industry lobby for blue hydrogen is attempting to 'capture the UK Government behind a fossil based future', campaigners warn.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Report predicts global coal use will tick up again this year, but hopes remain that renewables boom could soon start to curb fossil fuel demand. Annual global coal demand is set to surpass eight billion tonnes for the first time this year, eclipsing the previous record set in 2013. per cent in 2022.

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Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 30, 2018

Population growth will plateau after 2030-2040, causing energy demand to stabilize and decline afterwards. The current overcapacity in the oil markets will ensure a lasting shift in fossil markets. Renewables are already ridiculously cheap, with the cheapest forms of solar energy already at less than half the price of fossil fuels.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The report acknowledged that some fossil fuel generators were required to stay running in order to provide flexibility and inertia services to grid operator National Grid ESO during the periods when demand was fully met by clean sources of power.

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Clean Energy Canada

JUNE 27, 2023

“The energy transition is accelerating globally, spurred on by massive international investment. Accordingly, we’re pleased to see that fossil fuels are not part of the strategy. As the International Energy Agency has made clear , new fossil fuel development is inconsistent with a world that meets its climate targets.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The UK government’s weakening of its windfall tax on energy profits matched the demands of a high-level lobbying campaign by the oil and gas industry, new research reveals. million from fossil fuel and polluting interests in 2022. As DeSmog reported in March, the Conservative Party received £3.5

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Business Green

MARCH 28, 2021

Fossil fuel firms are increasingly eyeing up plans for blue hydrogen production, but think tank E3G fears the nascent sector risks locking in a new generation of high carbon infrastructure and jobs.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Anger is building over the failure to secure much-needed commitments towards phasing out unabated fossil fuels and tackling near-term emissions as part of the final agreement brokered at COP27 over the weekend, with critics warning the chances of limiting global warming to 1.5C target hangs by a thread after this year's summit.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Survey reveals surging demand for renewables, as leading investment firms ramp up clean energy ambitions. That is the conclusion of a new report this week from clean energy investment specialist Octopus Renewables, which found that institutional investors intend to up their current allocation for renewables from 4.2

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Business Green

JANUARY 4, 2023

As such, it sets out how the UK could accelerate its transition away from fossil fuels, secure its energy supplies, and tackle the looming affordability, security, and sustainability 'trilemma' through a raft of new policies. Britain will continue to need to access fossil fuel supplies during the Net Zero transition.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Announced today, the investment forms part of a collaboration between Dow and Mura Technology aimed at ramping up capacity to convert as much as 600,000 tonnes a year of waste plastics into stable hydrocarbon products that could be used to manufacture new plastics and other materials by 2030.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Britain’s National Infrastructure Commission has called for further investment and upgrading of the electricity and water infrastructures among others. A twin track approach to drought resilience should be followed, both managing demand, including leakage , and increasing supply.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 13, 2021

The world’s hugely encouraging clean energy-momentum is running up against the stubborn incumbency of fossil fuels in our energy systems,” said Fatih Birol, the IEA Executive Director. The world is not investing enough, the authors wrote, to meet future energy needs, which could lead to prolonged volatility in energy markets.

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Business Green

AUGUST 24, 2022

BP, Shell, Total Energies, and Equinor were all found to be investing the vast majority of their profits back into fossil fuel projects. The analysis revealed that BP invested £300m into renewables and low carbon projects in the first half of 2022 - which according to the analysis is equivalent to just 2.5

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Business Green

MAY 27, 2022

The document sets out G7 countries' ambition to deliver near-zero carbon electricity grids by 2035, citing the need to respond to climate scientists' calls for a drastic reduction in fossil fuel demand so as to stabilise global temperatures.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Workplace pension scheme Nest has unveiled plans to ramp up its investment in energy efficiency upgrades, renewables, and green buildings in a bid to slash the carbon footprint of its portfolio and take advantage of "exciting" growth areas in emerging markets, it announced yesterday.

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Business Green

MAY 31, 2022

Plug-in electrified vehicles are on track to make up over fifth of the new passenger vehicle market in 2025, with global sales expected to rise from 6.6 But it warns of a "widening gap" between wealthy and emerging economies on EV adoption, predicting that China and Europe will account for as much as 80 per cent of EV sales by 2025.

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Business Green

MARCH 15, 2023

Unveiling its full-year 2022 financial results, the German car giant said its operating profits rose to €2.6bn despite "challenging" economic conditions, with overall sales across its fossil fuel and EV portfolio rising from €68bn to €74bn. The update confirmed sales of the auto giant's fully electric vehicles rose 23.6

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GreenBiz

JULY 8, 2020

The move shows the efforts that Amazon is willing to go to eke out carbon emissions across its vast network of planes, vehicles and distribution centers that deliver on-demand goods across the globe. That commitment also includes buying 100,000 electric delivery vehicles, and using 100 percent clean energy by 2025. .

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2022

The European Union’s scientific and political communities are locked in a battle over whether gas and nuclear can be considered green investments. It’s a “green investment guidebook,” said Henry Eviston, spokesperson on sustainable finance at WWF European Policy Office. The frequency of these meetings increased to 2.86

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Business Green

JANUARY 10, 2022

Ramping up investments in home insulation and other energy efficiency measures could slash domestic energy bills by at least £500 a year, significantly reducing the impact soaring gas prices are expected to have on millions of households around the country in the coming weeks and months, fresh research suggests.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Major fossil fuel firms have committed tens of millions in finance to UK universities since 2022, DeSmog can reveal. Previous reporting from openDemocracy and the Guardian found that, between 2017 and December 2021, £89 million had been given to UK universities from some of the world’s biggest fossil fuel companies.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 25, 2024

French TSO RTE has proposed investments prioritising developments of its network of the order of €100 billion by 2040. Europe’s grid is receiving record levels of investment. Have you read? But is it enough?

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Also on the radar are findings from the World Bank’s latest Commodity Markets Outlook , which forecasts that energy prices will drop by 11% in 2023, and an interesting strategic investment from Volvo Cars into an APAC virtual power plant startup. billion) of new investment by 2027.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 3, 2021

Annual figures show that renewable supply outpaced fossil fuels for the first time. Conversely, energy produced by fossil fuels fell to just 39.6%, marking the first time that clean energy has consistently outperformed legacy sources. Covid19 created a fall in generation demand.

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