Smart Energy International

MARCH 30, 2024

At the end of 2023, the UK government released the long-awaited Future Homes and Buildings Standards consultation, which aims to introduce measures ensuring all new-build housing is ‘net zero ready’ by 2025. As we inch ever closer to 2035 and 2050 net zero targets, there is increasing pressure to decarbonise high-emitting sectors.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts continues its work to build a geothermal system that will contribute to making the campus carbon-neutral by the end of the decade. The geothermal project is expected to be completed by 2028, towards achieving carbon neutrality by 2030.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Power grids globally must be upgraded by 2040 to keep the lights on. And while these upgrades will likely cost trillions, virtual power plants (VPPs), writes Autogrid’s Gisela Glandt , can curb these costs to the tune of $10B annually. Have you read?

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Policymakers met with fossil fuel and biomass producers nine times as often as with their renewable energy counterparts, DeSmog can reveal, raising fresh concerns over the depth of the government’s commitments to reaching net zero emissions by 2050. Our record on renewable energy speaks for itself,” they said. “In

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 30, 2024

At the end of 2023, the UK government released the long-awaited Future Homes and Buildings Standards consultation, which aims to introduce measures ensuring all new-build housing is ‘net zero ready’ by 2025. As we inch ever closer to 2035 and 2050 net zero targets, there is increasing pressure to decarbonise high-emitting sectors.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 10, 2020

Grid operators around the world are unusually busy these days, but few have quite as much on their minds as NYISO, the independent system operator that manages New York state's bulk power system and wholesale energy market. percent in 2018, and hitting 100 percent zero-carbon emissions by 2040. Source: NYISO.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Contributed by Saverio Grosso, Edison Energy. Under the Act, passed in 2019, most buildings over 25,000 square feet—roughly 50,000 residential and commercial properties across the city—must meet new energy efficiency and greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) reductions by 2024, and stricter limits in 2030. Last month, the U.S.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Titled Renewable Hydrogen - Seizing the UK Opportunity , the report calls on the government to back the development of 'green hydrogen' - produced using renewable energy - by supporting the renewable sector as it attempts to replicate the success of the UK's offshore wind industry. the RenewableUK study argues.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Centralized markets with prices set by the cost of marginal dispatch, most often from fossil-fuel generation, are the bedrock of most major power systems. Due to power markets’ complexity and scale, it is typical for there to be a lag between changes and the market's response. Cannibalization.

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Business Green

MARCH 10, 2023

The text, which has been approved by ministers from all 27 EU nations , states that the bloc will "systematically promote and call for a global move towards energy systems free of unabated fossil fuels well ahead of 2050", alongside pushing for a peak in fossil fuel consumption in the near term.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

UK government publishes long-awaited new policy framework designed to stimulate investment in carbon capture projects. Businesses need to know that the UK is the best place for carbon capture investment," said Climate and Energy Minister Graham Stuart.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Governments and energy companies should look beyond carbon dioxide and ensure their climate plans include drastic action to reduce the methane emissions from fossil fuel operations, the International Energy Agency (IEA) has warned today. And the benefits in terms of avoided near-term warming are huge.

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Energy Innovation

MARCH 9, 2022

This week, Energy Innovation launched the Oregon Energy Policy Simulator (EPS) , our newest state-specific, open-source, peer-reviewed, and nonpartisan model that estimates the environmental, economic, and public health impacts of hundreds of climate and energy policies. By Shelley Wenzel. Business As Usual Scenario.

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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

MARCH 16, 2021

Strategy to set out a number of new targets for the decarbonisation of industry, as government confirms details of nine projects to be awarded funding through Industrial Decarbonisation Challenge - but opposition warns plans lack necessary ambition.

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Business Green

JULY 18, 2022

Industry Voice: The buildings in which we live and the energy they consume play a fundamental role in the process of decarbonisation, according to Schroders. Put together, heating, cooling and domestic hot water are responsible for 80 per cent of the energy consumed by households.

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The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2023

The Gansu Wind Complex, China The Gansu Wind Complex stands as a testament to China’s commitment to renewable energy and sustainable development. Unveiling the Giant: Gansu Wind Complex The Gansu Wind Complex is one of the world’s largest wind power installations, covering vast expanses of the Gansu Province in northwestern China.

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Business Green

MARCH 16, 2021

Strategy to set out a number of new targets for the decarbonisation of industry, as government confirms details of nine projects to be awarded funding through Industrial Decarbonisation Challenge - but opposition warns plans lack necessary ambition.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Utilities and oil majors both have a head start with their mixture of renewable power capacity, gas transmission assets and an existing set of end users. industrial gases firm Air Products is planning what would be the world's largest green hydrogen complex, a 4-gigawatt facility in Saudi Arabia.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

The falling cost of wind and solar power significantly reduces the need for carbon capture and storage technology to tackle climate change, a new paper has argued. Cheap, abundant renewable energy reduces the value of CCS in all areas.”. by the end of the century. Renewables. The Right Kind of CCS’.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 2, 2021

With the ban of new petrol and diesel cars in place in the UK by 2030, sales of electric cars are expected to surge. Plug-in hybrid and electric vehicles accounted for more than 1 in 10 vehicle registrations in 2020, up from 1 in 30 in 2019, according to data published by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Duke Energy’s options for reaching net-zero carbon by midcentury will look a lot different than those being pursued by utilities in the sun-soaked Western U.S., Duke's new IRP presents six very different pathways toward greening its energy mix over the next 15 years, all of them reaching at least 50 percent carbon reduction by 2030.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 22, 2021

companies, including Walmart, Amazon, and Microsoft, employ lobbyists that also do work for the oil and gas industry, according to new research into state lobbying data. The behavior is rampant across the insurance, health care, retail, and tech industries. Many of the largest U.S.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 21, 2020

The series is supported by the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture at Columbia University, and is part of their POWER project. . And then once [Enviva] start building it, then they were saying ‘oh this is coming,’ and I told them ‘this is what I tried to tell you all about.’” .

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Business Green

MARCH 4, 2021

Air cargo operator pledges to invest in sustainable fuels, carbon capture research, and fleet electrification in bid to meet new climate goals. The company said it was targeting a fully zero emission parcel pickup and delivery (PUD) fleet by 2040, a push that will be accomplished by gradually phasing out its existing fossil fuel fleet.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Members of the Church's decision making body, the General Synod, narrowly voted in favour of adopting a revised 2030 net zero goal, in a surprise move that far outstrips the ambition in the motion's initial recommendation to target carbon neutrality by 2045.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 17, 2019

This year, the industry closed that gap more than ever before. Exceedingly few batteries actually live up to the vision of “storing clean power for when the sun isn’t shining.” It serves clean power at night cheaper than incumbent fossil fuels. The utility asked for more later in the year.

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Business Green

MARCH 24, 2021

But Ministers insist end to financial support for overseas fossil fuel energy projects, £16bn transition plan for North Sea, and climate compatibility test for new projects can put UK on track to net zero emissions. We will not leave oil and gas workers behind in the United Kingdom's irreversible shift away from fossil fuels.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Google has today unveiled a new wave of sustainability commitments, including high profile pledges to eliminate the company's "carbon legacy" and ensure it can operate with entirely carbon-free energy by 2030 at the latest. He also stressed that business leaders had a growing responsibility to tackle escalating climate threats. "A

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Business Green

APRIL 25, 2022

Two reports out this week have highlighted how developments across 2021 are set to catalyse policy and technological trends that could catalyse the retreat of fossil fuels across the global energy system. At times the fossil fuel economy can seem indefatigable.

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Business Green

MAY 9, 2022

The UK's new clean energy targets must be matched by a major electricity infrastructure and demand-side flexibility blitz, experts have warned.

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AutoGrid

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

In the era of ambitious environmental initiatives such as the Fit for 55 , RePower EU , and the Green Deal Industrial Plan , the European Commission remains resolute in its pursuit of net-zero emissions by 2050. DER Initiatives Across Europe Across Europe, individual countries are strategically advancing their energy objectives.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Richmond, a diverse, industrial city where housing prices and incomes have lagged behind its Bay Area neighbors, has poor air quality and some of the highest rates of respiratory and cardiovascular disease in California. And they have suffered collateral damage from the harmful pollutants produced by using fossil fuels.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 13, 2021

The proportion of global power generation represented by VRE, such as wind and solar power, has been rising rapidly since 2007. Renewables will become the largest source of electricity generation in 2025. Existing hydropower plants can also help with this large ramp up power.

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Business Green

JANUARY 5, 2023

From clean energy and nature investments to phasing down fossil fuels, We Mean Business Coalition's Maria Mendiluce offers her take on what corporate climate leadership should look like over the coming year. However, it was a missed opportunity to be bolder and propose to phase out all fossil fuels.

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Business Green

APRIL 19, 2021

The rhetoric has been hugely welcome and has contrasted positively with the months and years following the financial crash of 2008, during which proposals for green stimulus packages struggled to secure meaningful traction and a wave of new fossil fuel investment locked in another decade of rising global emissions.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Southern California Gas (SoCalGas) is proposing a major green hydrogen infrastructure build for the Los Angeles region. It also would significantly decrease demand for natural gas, diesel and other fossil fuels, helping to accelerate California’s and the region’s climate and clean air goals. Have you read?

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