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Mining Giants Embrace Renewables, But Decarbonization Remains a Steep Climb

GreenTechMedia

The solar plant is expected to cover all of the mine’s electric power needs during peak solar generation hours, and 65 percent of its overall electricity consumption. Cutting mining’s carbon footprint to zero is complicated by the fact that electricity use only accounts for around 40 percent of direct emissions.

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A Blockchain-Enabled Smart Meter for Clean Power Trading?

GreenTechMedia

Today, those PECs are accounted for by state regulators through a process that relies on monthly meter data and engineering calculations to certify them with the Western Renewable Energy Generating Information System ( REGIS ) run by the Western Electricity Coordinating Council (WECC), which coordinates transmission grids across the Western U.S.

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Smart energy benefits the people, and those who deliver it

Smart Energy International

These advances might not matter as much in rain-soaked Europe but in much of Africa, South America, Central and Southeast Asia they are vital to continuity of life. Through the deployment of smart electric grids, we can reduce carbon emissions from the utility industry by 25%. ABOUT THE AUTHOR. Ahmed Ashour, CEO of Pylon.

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China Finances Most Coal Plants Built Today

DeSmogBlog

Japan and South Korea, which traditionally financed overseas coal projects, have started to abandon them , and China sees opportunity. Nearly all of the 60 new coal plants planned across Eurasia, South America and Africa — 70 gigawatts of coal power in all — are financed almost exclusively by Chinese banks.

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World Energy Storage Day: a global platform for the energy industry’s potential

Smart Energy International

APAC, starting with China, Japan, Korea, Australia, and New Zealand as the first region; India, the Russian sub-continent as the second region; Europe, the Middle East, and Africa as the third region, and then North and South America as the fourth region.

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How green hydrogen could completely reshape the global energy map

Business Green

After all, it was far easier for major oil and gas producing nations to dismiss clean technologies as overhyped when wind, solar and electric vehicles were widely seen as expensive follies.

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Tracking Climate Action: How the World Can Still Limit Warming to 1.5 Degrees C

The City Fix

Today’s climate change headlines often seem at odds with each other. One day, it’s catastrophic wildfires wreaking havoc around the world; the next, it’s an optimistic piece on the rapid scale-up of solar and wind power. Taken together, such stories.