Business Green

APRIL 20, 2020

The global economic response to the coronavirus crisis should accelerate the shift towards net zero emissions, delivering a multi-trillion dollar renewable energy drive that offers a pathway that would more than pay for itself in GDP growth, jobs, and welfare by 2050, IRENA has argued.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

At COP21, world leaders agreed to reach net-zero emissions by 2050 in pursuit of capping global warming to 1.5°C Significant research, development, and investment are needed in hard-to-decarbonize sectors, the report argues, and scaling of hydrogen technologies won’t arrive soon enough to make an impact under current investment.

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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. Nuclear power, meanwhile, provided 17.5

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 15, 2021

More on Chilean renewables: Statkraft to build first windfarms in Chile Chile will increase small hydropower generation with 3-MW Los Pinos hydropower plant. EDP Renewables plans to further strengthen its footprint in Latin America by pursuing green hydrogen opportunities.

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R-Squared Energy

MAY 23, 2021

zero carbon emissions (NZE) by 2050. The report is Net Zero by 2050: A Roadmap for the Global Energy Secto r, and it can be downloaded here. Hydrogen and hydrogen?based One example they gave for reducing wasteful energy use is to increase the global plastics recycling rate from 17% in 2020 to 27% in 2030 and 54% by 2050.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

In recent months, the world’s three top producers — Europe’s ArcelorMittal, China’s Baowu Steel, and Japan’s Nippon Steel — committed to achieving net-zero emissions by 2050, echoing targets set in their home countries. Companies are piloting systems across Europe that use hydrogen in furnaces in lieu of coal.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 12, 2019

On Wednesday the European Commission presented a sweeping 50-point plan centered around achieving net zero status in Europe by 2050. In a statement emailed to GTM, a spokesperson for Shell said the company "welcomes the EU’s new Green Deal and supports the vision to achieve net zero emissions by 2050 in Europe.”

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

utility can reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 while still keeping natural gas as a central part of its business, both to generate electricity and to sell to its customers. Southern Company intends to test the proposition that a U.S.

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R-Squared Energy

MAY 11, 2021

Equinor aims to become a net-zero carbon company by 2050. In recent years, Equinor has made major investments in wind and solar power, and the company is developing low-carbon solutions such as hydrogen and carbon capture and storage (CCS) on an industrial scale. In fact, that remains the case today, although Statoil is now Equinor.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Over the past three years, some of the country’s biggest utilities have been committing to a goal that few may have predicted they’d undertake on their own: weaning themselves off carbon-emitting generation by 2050. Utilities in many states now face mandates to move to 100 percent renewable energy or cut carbon to zero by 2050.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

The Invesco report also highlighted how eight C20 countries, including China and India, are still seeing emissions per capita rise, while based on current trends the US would not meet its net zero goal until 2074 - 24 years later than its stated 2050 target date.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2021

However, 13 percent of Shell’s posts focussed specifically on renewable energies such as wind, solar, and hydropower. The company also had the largest share of promos focussing on hydrogen, which made up 11 percent of its total output. Eni, Repsol, and TotalEnergies also all aim to become net zero by 2050.

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Business Green

MAY 22, 2020

Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said the biodiversity strategy supported the propose European Green Deal to delivery net zero emissions across the continent by 2050, and formed a crucial part of Europe's coronavirus economic recovery plan. UNFCCC Executive Secretary Patricia Espinosa welcomed the Rwanda's submission. ????

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Grist

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Going further is going to require new fuels that are still being perfected, such as hydrogen and low-carbon “synthetic” fuels — clean energy carriers that are gaining ground overseas but aren’t a big factor yet in the U.S. hitting its clean-energy goals while also saving consumers more than $470 billion, mostly between 2030 and 2050.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 4, 2021

For that outcome to occur, worldwide emissions must reach net-zero by 2050 at latest. . North Sea wind installations could produce enough clean electricity and hydrogen to replace the coal-fired smokestacks. C of warming. The roadmap may be complex, but the financial math isn’t.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The owners of the UK's major steelworks have committed to achieve net zero by 2050 and are exploring avenues to get there. The so-called "reducing agent" in this process has historically been fossil gas, but it can be swapped for hydrogen to produce low-carbon steel. It is an opportunity the industry wants to seize.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

In simplistic terms, steel is created through the melting of iron ore with coke (superheated coal to remove oil, tar, hydrogen, nitrogen and sulfur) and limestone – essentially making an alloy of iron and carbon. Wind, solar, hydropower or green hydrogen would radically and rapidly reduce the emissions impacts of steel.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

electricity supply by 2050, compared to less than 4% today. It concludes that the latter two scenarios would require approximately 1,050-1,570 gigawatts of solar power, which would meet about 44%-45% of expected electricity demand in 2050. electricity from solar power by 2050 feasible? We asked Joshua D. has lots of sunshine.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Earlier this year the International Energy Agency (IEA) published its landmark 2050 net zero roadmap for the global energy system, which emphasised the need for a monumental increase in clean power capacity worldwide over the coming decades.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 8, 2021

All of these benefits can be captured with solar, wind, existing hydropower and lithium-ion battery technologies at projected 2030 prices, he added. Another study led by Princeton University released last month, which charts a $2.5 trillion pathway to a zero-carbon U.S.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 20, 2021

and Puerto Rico have adopted laws or executive orders setting goals for reaching 100% clean electricity by 2050 or sooner. Many technologies could fill this gap, such as longer-duration storage, hydrogen or synthetic fuels, fossil or biomass generation with carbon capture, advanced nuclear power, and geothermal energy. And 46 U.S.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 31, 2021

in television and other public education campaigns in 2019 to rally support for a new $1B transmission line that it wants in order to bring Canadian hydropower downstate. But getting to the Biden administration goal of net zero emissions by 2050 will be tough, said Moniz. The public is ready, and the public wants it,” he said.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

The utility will spend around $4 billion on hydrogen-enabled natural gas generation to better ensure reliability in the absence of coal. Around $15 billion would be spent on nuclear, renewables, storage, and hydropower over the same period, plus $33 billion on transmission and distribution infrastructure. North Carolina Gov.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 25, 2020

Cornell University Score 82.14 | Ithaca, New York In March 2020, Cornell saw 100 percent of its campus power needs met by solar, hydropower, and other renewable energy projects. The Golden Bears are also retrofitting an art museum into Berkeley’s first zero-carbon building.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 27, 2021

The Welsh Senedd has already declared a climate emergency and has pledged to be at least 95% carbon neutral by 2050. From renewables kingpin Dulas in Machynlleth, to hydrogen-car manufacturer Riversimple in Llandrindod Wells, Wales is a country of ingenuity that is often only hamstrung by the myopia of its politicians.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 26, 2021

The report gives some of its worst marks to some of the biggest utilities with net-zero carbon by 2050 goals, including FirstEnergy , Duke Energy , Dominion Energy and utilities operated by Southern Company. electricity sector by 2035, and the cost imperatives of U.S. All but one call for new natural gas plants.

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Business Green

MARCH 4, 2022

The draft plan proposes a "new energy compact" to rapidly accelerate clean energy development, improve energy efficiency across the bloc, ramp up hydrogen and biogas investment, and identify new sources of gas supply, primarily through LNG imports. warming trajectory.

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Business Green

JULY 3, 2020

They also promised to confirm the country's net zero emissions by 2050 goal in law through a new Climate Action bill that will set economy-wide five-year carbon budgets and establish a cap on how much each sector can emit. complete renewables mega-deal. Rolf Martin Schmitz, CEO of RWE, was clear on the rationale behind the deal.

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Grist

DECEMBER 8, 2021

By 2050, they say, we must reach net-zero emissions, releasing no more carbon than we can pull back out of Earth’s atmosphere. And Oregon’s goals — a 45 percent emissions cut from 1990 levels by 2035 and an 80 percent cut by 2050 — are well short of Washington’s and British Columbia’s targets and what climate scientists advise.

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Mr. Sustainability

JUNE 27, 2020

Renewables include bio-energy, geothermal, hydropower, ocean, solar and wind power. Most of these technologies focus on the generation of electricity, but storing energy or carbon sequestration (carbon capture and storage), as well as the production of clean hydrogen are among these. It is also about electric vehicles and hydrogen.

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Business Green

AUGUST 13, 2021

The Mines and Energy Ministry published a "programme for the sustainable use of national mineral coal", which aims to leverage $3.9bn of investment in coal over the next 10 years and would set out a roadmap for the industry's continued development through to 2050.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 22, 2020

We should discuss how the industry should create true value , economic, social and environmental.Granted that we undeniably need the products and services provided by the oil and gas industry, we should put our efforts into pivoting the industry towards biofuels, synthetic fuels and hydrogen. + How could the industry recover?

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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

Firstly, current federal tax credits for developing onshore and offshore wind, solar, biomass, landfill gas, waste-to-energy, hydropower, geothermal, and marine renewable power projects - which had faced cuts from 2022 - are to be extended until 2025 under the Act. of global warming by 2050. For SAF, the credit starts at $1.25

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