GreenBiz

APRIL 7, 2020

That's according to a BloombergNEF report that calls policy support for the hydrogen economy "insufficient.".

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 24, 2021

Report funded by Scottish Renewables, the British Hydropower Association, Buccleuch, CCSQ, Drax Group, Intelligent Land Investments Group, SSE Renewables. It was funded by Scottish Renewables, the British Hydropower Association (BHA), Buccleuch, CCSQ, Drax Group, Intelligent Land Investments Group and SSE Renewables.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 14, 2023

Scottish Renewables and the British Hydropower Association have written a joint letter to the Prime Minister calling on the UK Government to urgently support the deployment of long-duration electricity storage, including pumped storage hydro (PSH). If deployed, PSH could deliver system cost savings of up to £680 million per year by 2050.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Mark Wilson, CEO of Intelligent Land Investments, told a conference of the British Hydropower Association in Glasgow on 24 November that while the current energy crisis offers “a great opportunity for renewables”, long-term energy storage will also be required to fulfil that potential. “We However, the policy makers have to keep up.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 24, 2023

Hydropower, traditionally one of Africa’s most important sources of electricity, will rapidly fade in importance and cede its position to solar power. For decades, many African countries have relied on hydropower for electricity generation, including projects that inspire as much awe as controversy.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 6, 2021

However, hydropower still accounts for the largest share of renewables in the total mix. degree outlook shows significant planned energy investments must be redirected to support the transition if we are to achieve 2050 goals. Solar and wind dominated capacity expansion in 2020 with 127 GW and 111 GW of new installations, respectively.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 24, 2024

Clean hydropower can then feed the mainland grid when it is needed most, acting as a large battery for the nation. The connection will enable the Tasmanian state to import excess supply of solar and wind produced in Victoria, while reserving its hydro and storing the extra energy. million Australian homes.

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The Verge: Energy

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Solar grew to 9 percent of the mix, while hydropower generation recovered from 2022 dry spells. The EU has committed to reaching net-zero carbon dioxide emissions by 2050 and on February 6th , the European Commission recommended slashing that pollution by 90 percent by 2040 compared to 1990 levels.

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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 Fossil fuels will continue to make up 50% of energy demand by 2050, with gas maintaining its position, according to the report. Wind will provide 33% of the world’s electricity output by 2050, the report forecasts.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 28, 2020

Meanwhile Southern Company, which owns a large fleet of gas and coal plants across the Deep South, committed this week to achieving net-zero carbon by 2050, joining other major utilities like Duke Energy and Xcel Energy in doing so. Wind overtook hydro as the largest source of U.S. renewable power in 2019.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Low Pumped storage hydropower would result in a 1% increase in solar capacity additions and a 26% increase in energy storage deployment. In Bangladesh, energy storage is expected to help reduce reliance on expensive, high-polluting diesel- and fuel-oil-fired power plants to manage demand and provide peaking power.

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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. Chile plans to expand the share of renewables excluding hydro within its energy mix to 20% by 2025 and 70% by 2050.

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Canada’s hydropower-rich grid is 84% non-emitting with variable renewables (essentially wind and solar) currently making up 7% of the country’s total electricity generation. However, the Canada Energy Regulator projects that this would rise to between 33% and 37% of electricity generation in 2050 in a net-zero 2050.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 13, 2021

The IEA analyzed current government net-zero emissions pledges, finding demand for fossil fuels would peak by 2025 and global CO2 emissions would fall by 40% by 2050. The global average temperature rise in 2100 is held to 2.1°C C in the "Announced Pledges Scenario.".

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Business Green

MAY 23, 2024

I have managed a range of power stations from hydropower, combined heat and power, biomass and more. Similar to my time working at the hydropower stations, when that technology was new and innovative, what we are trying to achieve at enfinium feels equally groundbreaking. What parts of the green economy are you most excited about?

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

Wind and solar alone generated around 30 per cent of Britain's electricity in 2020, while biomass provided seven per cent, and hydropower made up 1.6 Overall, it means wind, solar, hydropower, and biomass sources together supplied 38.5 Nuclear power, meanwhile, provided 17.5 In contrast, fossil fuel sources made up 39.6

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 10, 2020

To fill this gap, NYISO is working toward growing transmission capacity for its ample upstate hydropower and wind power resources to reach New York City and downstate population centers, which will also be served by the 9 gigawatts of offshore wind the state is seeking by 2035. Source: NYISO. Source: NYISO.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Europe is still plotting the course towards being net-zero by 2050, but no matter the shape it takes, it will surely involve hundreds of gigawatts of new renewable power capacity. By the end of 2019, the total tally (plus the U.K.) was 22 GW with 3.6 GW installed during 2019, indicating the ramp-up required to meet that goal.

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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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Smart Energy International

MARCH 28, 2024

The strategic plan for Horizon Europe for 2025-2027 sets out the overarching driver for the climate, energy and mobility ‘cluster’ to achieve a fair transition to climate neutrality and build resilience in the EU by 2050.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Baker, a Reader in Emerging Electrical Machines and Senior Lecturer, commented: “With regards to achieving the ambitious goal of net zero by 2050, it is essential to look at the energy system as a whole. The FloWave Ocean Energy Research Facility at the Unviersity of Edinburgh, one of the collaborators in the MEC-EDRIVE project.

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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. 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. Materials efficiency gains.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

The company, which is part of the EN+ Group and manufactures aluminium using its own independent hydropower plants, said key performance indicators were still to be agreed, but confirmed proceeds from the sustainability-linked credit facility would be used to refinance more expensive debt. "As million trees in Siberia.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Massachusetts currently has more than 300 MWh of installed energy storage, primarily in the form of pumped hydropower storage or lithium-ion battery storage.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Hydrogen Economy” report forecasts that hydrogen from low-carbon sources could supply roughly 14 percent of the country’s energy needs by 2050, including hard-to-electrify sectors now dependent on natural gas such as high-heat industrial processes or manufacturing fertilizer. million jobs by 2050, it states.

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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

AUGUST 19, 2022

Both car giant Toyota and major Apple supplier Foxconn are among companies forced to suspend manufacturing operations due to hydropower shortages in the region, according to the Financial Times.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 24, 2024

To meet the IEA’s net zero by 2050 pathway, the share must near 30% in 2030 and thus electrification needs to accelerate rapidly, the Electricity 2024 publication states. For example, global hydropower generation declined in 2023 due to impacts such as droughts, below average rainfall and early snowmelts in numerous regions.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 8, 2023

Clean electrification is the backbone of the transition to net-zero and will provide over 60% of all energy consumed in 2050, up from 20% today. Immediate policy and industry action are key to progress the energy transition at the speed and scale required to meet net-zero targets by 2050.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Total has struck a three-year deal to supply BT with 100 per cent renewable electricity from a mix of sources including solar, wind and hydropower from across the UK, the French oil and gas giant announced today.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 21, 2020

National Grid expects the initiative to deliver £115 million ($149 million) in net present value by 2050, through reduced costs associated with large generator readiness. If the project is a success, the grid operator will start procuring DER-based black-start services from mid-2022 onward.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

GW of new long duration pumped hydro storage, with 90 GWh of storage, could save up to £690 million per year in energy system costs by 2050, as the UK transitions to a net-zero carbon emission system. A new study by independent researchers from Imperial College London has found that just 4.5

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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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Business Green

OCTOBER 12, 2022

The UN agency warned that water stress could jeopardise low carbon energy sources such as nuclear power plants and hydropower, both of which rely heavily on water supplies in order to operate, while rising sea levels and extreme weather are also posing a growing threat to energy infrastructure. Net zero by 2050 is the aim," he said.

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R-Squared Energy

MAY 11, 2021

Equinor aims to become a net-zero carbon company by 2050. Norway is blessed with abundant resources of wind (and hydropower), but Equinor has also made renewable investments in the U.S., In fact, that remains the case today, although Statoil is now Equinor. The company’s intends to grow its renewable energy capacity tenfold by 2026.

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Energy Innovation

JULY 2, 2021

Southeast in 2050. They use a series of models to explore energy mixes that include coal, hydropower, nuclear, solar, natural gas, and wind in the future relative to today. s generator fleet in 2050 for each of the two scenarios (Reference and RCP 4.5) Source: Fonseca et al. Final composition of the SERC?s

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