GreenTechMedia

MAY 4, 2020

Dominion’s new IRP is driven by Virginia's Clean Economy Act passed earlier this year, which calls for 100 percent carbon-free electricity by 2045 and sets targets for energy efficiency, energy storage, and in-state solar and wind power. Under the law, Dominion Virginia and the smaller Appalachian Power Co.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 23, 2020

Alliant serves about 1 million customers in Wisconsin and Iowa, and gets about 20 percent of its generation capacity from renewables today, mostly from wind farms in Iowa. Coal made up 31 percent of its capacity as of 2018, while natural gas accounted for about 42 percent.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 6, 2020

Virginia has become the latest state to pass a law that sets it on a path to 100 percent carbon-free electricity by 2050, as well as setting targets for massive investments in energy efficiency, energy storage and in-state solar and wind power. Dominion also gets more than one-third of its energy from nuclear power.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 21, 2020

It will provide significant upside to solar growth in 2022 through 2025, as more projects can secure the 26 percent and 22 percent credits through "commence-construction" or "safe-harboring" provisions by 2023. ” Wind tax credit impacts. Wind power will also benefit from the tax extensions provided for in the bill.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

California regulators have allocated $45 million to incentives for heat pump water heaters through 2025, in another step on the path toward the state's 2045 carbon neutrality goal. Around 90 percent (PDF) of the furnaces and water heaters in California are fueled by natural gas or propane. million in total.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 3, 2019

For the first time, Pacific Northwest and Rocky Mountain utility PacifiCorp is planning to rely on massive amounts of solar PV and batteries, as well as wind power, for a large share of its long-term energy needs. PacifiCorp will also rely on a significant amount of new natural-gas generation resources to meet its future goals.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

The first step will occur in coming months, when I&M issues a request for proposal (RFP) for approximately 800 MW of wind and approximately 500 MW of solar to meet customer needs, with half of those resources generating energy in 2025 and the remainder by 2026.

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 19, 2022

The company said it plans to acquire the completed wind and solar projects through one or more purchase and sale agreements. To qualify for consideration, solar projects must be located in Virginia; wind projects may be located outside of the commonwealth. . of the power generated or purchased by Appalachian Power came from coal.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Wind (13,626MW) and solar (8,543MW) each contributed more new energy generation capacity than did natural gas (6,259 MW). With current capacity now at 24.06%, renewables now appear to be on track to reach – and likely exceed – 30% of the nation’s total generating capacity by 2025. by December 2023).

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 19, 2020

gigawatts of carbon-free resources to help meet grid reliability needs that will arise when four natural gas-fired power plants retire next year to reduce their environmental harm to coastal waters. It’s the second major procurement from a California utility meant to comply with the CPUC’s order for 3.3

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 5, 2019

million-customer utility serving six states from Oregon to Wyoming, has filed an integrated resource plan that calls for nearly 3,000 megawatts of solar and 600 megawatts of battery storage by 2025, alongside about 3,500 megawatts of new wind power and a significant amount of natural-gas-fired generation.

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Clean Energy Canada

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Even without carbon pricing, wind power is set to be 40 per cent cheaper than gas-fired power in Alberta and Ontario by 2030. For starters, Alberta and Ontario are in the midst of transforming their power grids. They also share a common solution. Alas, there’s another gap in need of attention: good data.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Out in Utah, a coal-fired power plant supplying electricity to Los Angeles is being outfitted with natural-gas-fired turbines that will eventually be able to run on hydrogen, created via electrolysis with wind and solar power and stored in massive underground caverns for use when that clean energy isn’t available for the grid.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

All of the scenarios go well beyond Duke’s previous IRPs in leaning more heavily on solar, onshore wind and energy storage. The utility has also opened the door to offshore wind in its future mix. All of the scenarios are less reliant on wind power, which plays little role in the Southeastern U.S.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

That H2 will replace the current source, which is produced using natural gas with unmitigated emissions, said Sinopec. In this case, the choice was made to use solar energy to power the process, though wind power is also a strong choice for many parts of the country.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The ninth edition of the Sustainable Energy in America Factbook tells the story of American energy efficiency, natural gas and renewable energy in a volatile year. Figure 2 shows that natural gas and renewable generation continued to expand their share of the resource mix. power in 2020.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Power is expensive and unreliable. Puerto Rico adopted laws that called for generating 15% of its electricity from renewable sources by 2020, 40% by 2025, 60% by 2040 and 100% by 2050. Burning more natural gas will affect air and water quality and contribute to climate change. And in 2020, the U.S. environmental goals.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 22, 2020

This has helped push Florida ahead of California for utility-scale solar development projections through 2025, but made it difficult for third-party solar developers to enter the market. Dominion's generation fleet centers around nuclear and gas. Then there's PacifiCorp, which serves about 1.9

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Clean Energy Canada

JUNE 14, 2022

Sales of gas-powered cars already peaked in 2017, and global automakers are racing to meet electric-vehicle (EV) demand. Meanwhile, new solar and wind power projects are now typically cheaper than the cheapest fossil fuel option. The difference in 2022 is that this time, the incumbent has a fierce competitor. And the U.S.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

In the US, 25% of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions come from electricity generation. This is not surprising, with coal and natural gas representing about 60% of electrical supply. Raw source materials needed to generate power, i.e., sun, wind, or water, are basically free.

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Business Green

MAY 21, 2020

Project will come online in 2025 and capture eight million metric tonnes (Mt) of carbon dioxide emissions initially, with the potential to target 30Mt later, the partners said. The agreement was welcomed by Humber Zero project director Jonathan Briggs, who hailed it as a further step forward for the wide-ranging plans.

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Grist

DECEMBER 8, 2021

None of Cascadia’s jurisdictions has proven policies to rein in growing consumption of natural gas, which is backed by a powerful oil and gas industry and associated unions. Josh Jacobs expresses similar confidence for Seattle-based Puget Sound Energy, which distributes both natural gas and electricity.

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Business Green

MARCH 27, 2020

California this week adopted a new emissions target for its electric sector that would see the state double its clean energy capacity by 2030 and end the development of new natural gas plants in support of its previous net zero emissions goal. Total buys French wind power firm.

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 2, 2021

The next wave appears to be the phasing out as many natural gas-fired facilities as is feasible as more wind and solar resources are deployed. In the UK, for example, the government has committed to phasing out all coal-fired power generation by 2025.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Another is this: we need significantly more renewable energy to decarbonize the electricity sector, but we need backup power sources on the grid to support all resources when they aren’t operating. While an improvement compared to coal, natural gas is still carbon-intensive.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Meanwhile, Russia's energy minister Alexander Novak has told The Guardian that the country has no plans to scale back fossil fuel production in the coming decades, instead aiming for a 50 per cent growth in gas production alongside plans for developing hydrogen and carbon capture technology. "I Akins, AEP chairman, president and CEO. "We

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

The consultant was the sole interviewee in the segment, in which she claimed that the move to renewable energy, primarily wind power, was increasing the risk of blackouts. Wind Power ‘Blackout’ Risk Porter told BBC Radio 4 listeners in the interview: “There were risks around blackouts this winter.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

” Europe, which has an economy saddled with high energy prices and is heavily dependent on Russian natural gas, is embracing green hydrogen by providing funding for construction of electrolysis plants and other hydrogen infrastructure. hydrogen is a lot more expensive than other fuels such as natural gas.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 15, 2019

In a first for the United Kingdom, wind turbines, solar panels and other renewable energy sources have generated more electricity than their fossil fuel counterparts of coal and natural gas. s first power plant was established in 1882, zero-carbon energy has finally generated more clean terawatt hours.

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Business Green

JULY 3, 2020

The move comes as developers look to step up renewables development on the Iberian Peninsular, where renewables costs are now undercutting fossil fuel fired power plants. Analysts predict Spain's remaining coal power stations could close down as early as 2025. Poland hails 'birth of offshore wind' industry.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 8, 2020

At present home heating - the bulk of which is provided by the fossil fuel gas grid - accounts for 13 per cent of UK emissions. But the use of natural gas in homes needs to be nearly completely phased out in order to reach the country's statutory 2050 net zero emissions target.

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Business Green

MARCH 31, 2023

However, the EIA also revealed that while the use of renewables was rising, so too is the country's reliance on natural gas, which generated 39 per cent of US electricity last year. If successful, the aviation firm plans to launch its first commercial zero-carbon flight from Skelleftea in 2025.

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Business Green

MAY 18, 2021

Contrary to the IEA's conclusions that no further fossil fuel exploration is needed after 2021, Shell's plan aims to "grow natural gas supply to keep our plants full" - admittedly largely from third parties - while creating vast carbon sinks for offsets to justify its continued fossil fuel production. A 'wake-up call' for natural gas.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 13, 2021

And according to IEA’ Renewables 2020, Launch Presentation from November 10, 2020, global wind and solar PV’s combined installed capacity will surpass that of natural gas in 2023 and coal in 2024. Renewables will become the largest source of electricity generation in 2025.

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Business Green

MARCH 30, 2023

A second hydrogen funding round is then also set to open in 2023, the government said, bringing the total green hydrogen production capacity targeted across both rounds to 1GW in operation or construction by the end of 2025. It is envisaged that the SAF Mandate would come into force from 2025 and demand at least 10 per cent SAF use by 2030.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 25, 2020

It worked—UConn has moved its carbon-neutrality goal from 2050 to 2040 and will phase out reliance on its on-campus natural gas facility in favor of energy from renewable sources such as solar and geothermal. The past year saw another solar installation and a new wind power project go online.

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Mr. Sustainability

JUNE 27, 2020

subsidies to the fossil fuel industry at roughly $20 billion per year; with 20 percent currently allocated to coal and 80 percent to natural gas and crude oil. In short: the oil and gas industry is a massive market with many stakeholders and high-stakes interests involved. Conservative estimates put direct U.S.

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