GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Utilities operating fossil-fueled power plants, and the low-income and disadvantaged communities that face the brunt of their pollution, may have a new model for resolving their differences. “We want to be a first mover; we want to lead by example.” ” Balancing health and reliability.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Thursday’s 3-2 vote by the Arizona Corporation Commission approved a plan that’s been the subject of a months-long debate among regulators over the best way to renovate the state’s renewable energy mandates, which have been set at 15 percent of generation by 2025 for more than a decade.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2022

To become energy secure and genuinely resilient from volatile fossil fuel prices, the UK must accelerate its transition to a zero-carbon energy system, writes Nick Molho, from the Aldersgate Group. Developing new sources of fossil fuel production: a tempting but inadequate answer to the crisis.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

As a result, it urges the government to rethink plans to enable billions of pounds of investment in new gas power plants when seeking energy supply capacity to replace the coal and nuclear power plants that are slated to close over the coming decade. It also relies on assumptions about increased energy efficiency.

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Business Green

JULY 22, 2021

A rapid shift away from fossil fuels is also needed alongside a major ramp up in renewable electricity capacity - largely provided by wind and solar projects - which will form the backbone of the future energy system, while development of hydrogen, carbon capture and new modular nuclear technologies is also crucial, the report warned.

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Business Green

APRIL 7, 2022

A round up of all the key targets and measures announced as part of the government's plan to wean the UK off risky and expensive fossil fuel imports. Nuclear targets increased to 24GW by 2050. Achieving the government's nuclear ambitions would require a huge ramp up of nuclear power capacity from less than 7GW today.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2022

This science-based threshold — considered necessary to achieve emissions targets by 2050 — excluded all fossil fuels from being in the taxonomy. These demands “were essentially to adjust the technical screening criteria for gas investments to be included in the taxonomy.”. The frequency of these meetings increased to 2.86

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Business Green

APRIL 6, 2022

The government will tomorrow publish its long-awaited Energy Security Strategy, promising that the sweeping new plan will 'supercharge' clean energy deployment and put the UK on track to source 95 per cent of its power from domestic low carbon sources by 2030.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Meanwhile, green groups have been pushing for an even more ambitious 2030 climate target for the bloc, and on Thursday MEPs on the EU Parliament's Environment Committee voted in favour of a 60 per cent goal, alongside calls for a phase out of fossil fuel subsidies by 2025.

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Business Green

AUGUST 26, 2022

The move, which follows similar proposals from the EU, is a first for the US and would deliver a huge boost to electric vehicle (EV) demand in America's largest auto market. The plan would represent a major policy reversal a decade after the Fukushima disaster triggered a move to phase down the country's reliance on nuclear power.

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2023

After all, the Net Zero Review - or Mission Zero, as it is officially titled - does not demand a revolutionary overhaul of government policy backed by a blank cheque from the Treasury to spur on decarbonisation efforts. Similarly, legislation should ensure all new non-domestic buildings must achieve an EPC rating of B from 2025.

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Climate Tech VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

  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.   Demand is on the rise. Why is this important now? 

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Business Green

DECEMBER 14, 2020

In this morning's update , the government also confirmed its intention to set up a domestic Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) from 1 January 2021 and enter into negotiations with French energy giant EDF over proposals to build a major nuclear power station at Sizewell in Suffolk. million petrol cars off the road.

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Business Green

MARCH 30, 2023

Great British Nuclear (GBN): As expected, today sees the launch of a new agency based in Greater Manchester tasked with overseeing the rollout of a new fleet of nuclear power capacity through both large scale and small modular reactors (SMR). An government action plan on the topic is then slated for summer this year.

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Business Green

AUGUST 12, 2022

LUT University and 14 other contributing universities suggested an energy system based largely on solar and wind energy, energy storage, sector coupling, and direct or indirect electrification of almost all energy demand could plausibly meet global energy needs. "A Ford revs up largest US renewables deal.

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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 17, 2023

With the growth of e-commerce and demand for faster shipping (which means burning more fuel), maritime emissions increased nearly 5% between 2020 and 2021. Next year, the existing EU MRV system will be applied to 40% of shipping emissions under EU ETS, increasing to 70% in 2025 and 100% in 2027. Fuel Maturity: The least mature.

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Business Green

MARCH 15, 2023

Juliet Phillips , senior policy advisor at E3G said: "With the main energy efficiency focus today on swimming pools, rather than addressing fuel poverty, the government has missed a huge opportunity to wean the UK off expensive fossil fuel dependence. To achieve this, rapid expansion will be key.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 17, 2020

After all, if PG&E keeps raising rates for electricity that can’t be relied on during emergencies, customers may demand options to defect from its service — a real-life version of the “ utility death spiral ” threat supposedly posed by rooftop solar and behind-the-meter batteries that has yet to emerge in the real world.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

But new analysis today highlights that while fossil fuel prices spiked in the wake of Russia's illegal invasions, western economies have managed to quickly curb their reliance on Russian oil, gas, and coal. Renewable power capacity added worldwide rose by about a quarter in 2022.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Virginia’s Clean Economy Act demands that the state's flagship utility, Dominion Virginia, supply at least 30 percent of its electricity from renewables by 2030 and shut down all carbon-emitting power plants by 2045. Nuclear power plays a large role in PSEG’s carbon-reduction plans. PSEG’s $3.5

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

to install an average of 30 GW of solar capacity per year between now and 2025, then 60 GW per year from 2025. The project has a 30-year Power Purchase Agreement in place with the Sacramento Municipal Utility District and was built on the site of a decommissioned nuclear power plant. That would require the U.S.

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Business Green

MARCH 16, 2022

But while leaders have highlighted the need to rapidly boost clean energy generation and diversify sources of gas, so-called demand-side policies designed to reduce the amount of energy businesses and households are generating have gained notably less traction among policymakers. It was a glaring omission.

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Business Green

MARCH 29, 2022

Doubling clean power capacity additions from 40GW to 80GW each year could drive down costs, bills, emissions and geopolitical risk, according to new analysis from Wärtsilä.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Announcing plans to approve the new Sizewell C nuclear power plant, increase energy efficiency funding from 2025, and retain clean tech R&D budgets, Hunt said the UK would continue to pursue energy independence as it strives to deliver on its climate goals. And they did nothing.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 27, 2023

Those who are making progress with energy efficiency received some good news with the announcement that Climate Change Agreements will be extended by two more years from 1 April 2025. In a 2022 book, climate technology specialist Wake Smith estimated that there is demand for about 1% of the CO2 that is anthropogenically produced.

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Business Green

APRIL 16, 2021

All the top green business news from around the world this week, including China coal fleet concerns, ultra-white paint and Brazil's rainforest funding demands. US prepares sweeping climate risk disclosure rules. billion tonnes, which without reform risked the value of these credits being as low a zero.

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Business Green

MARCH 25, 2022

The Task Force for Energy Security will be chaired by a representative from the White House and a representative of the President of the European Commission and will work on a range of measures to bolster EU energy security, including initiative to drastically reduce fossil fuel imports this year.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

When factoring in the costs of fossil fuels in terms of air pollution, human health, and climate change externalities, the payback from cleaner energy sources would be higher still, with IRENA estimating every dollar spent on the energy transition promises to deliver added benefits valued at between $2 and $5.50.

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Business Green

JANUARY 5, 2023

Russia's war in Ukraine - which itself was completely unexpected by pretty much everyone this time last year, bar a handful of vindicated intelligence agents - could yet result in a stunning victory for Ukraine, a stinging defeat for tyrannical authoritarianism, and a step change in the pace of the West's transition away from fossil fuels.

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Clean Energy Trust

MARCH 5, 2021

February 2021 Cleantech Roundup: Climate Software Gold Rush | Lone Star State Struggles | Jobs and the Energy Transition Credit: Poole Group This month, we’re covering the rush of investing into startups that quantify, manage, and verify carbon emissions reductions, Texas’ grid troubles, new research on transitioning fossil fuel workers, and more!

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 17, 2020

While the details are complex and still in development, their result would be to force administratively set minimum prices on future wind and solar resources, energy efficiency, demand response, and nuclear power plants in PJM's capacity market. The particular threat for Illinois.

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Business Green

AUGUST 8, 2022

The landmark legislation's climate provisions could unlock billions of dollars of low carbon investment and millions of green jobs - but it also paves the way for new fossil fuel infrastructure. After decades of gridlock, the US looks set to pass sweeping climate legislation for the first time.

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