Business Green

MAY 10, 2021

Analysts have predicted that electric cars and vans will be cheaper than fossil fuel alternatives by 2027 as battery costs continue to fall, production ramps up, and new vehicle designs are developed. New polluting vehicles shouldn't be sold for any longer than necessary.". Copper prices rose 1.4

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s recent comments about the use of batteries for renewable energy infrastructure surprised experts, one of whom described the premier’s comments as possibly ideologically motivated misinformation. Power responded, “Batteries.” Much of what she says about batteries is misinformation,” Jacobson told DeSmog.

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Charged

DECEMBER 6, 2020

Sometimes it seems automakers will try any powertrain technology in order to avoid selling battery-electric vehicles. On an empty battery, the PHEVs emitted 3 to 8 times more than official values. Our tests show that even in optimal conditions, with a full battery, the cars pollute more than advertised.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 10, 2020

In the power sector, another 100 megawatt battery just got contracted to support the grid near Los Angeles. This marks the first battery deal for Clean Power Alliance. Big battery hotspot. Southern California's grid has become a hotspot for very large batteries stepping in to provide grid capacity.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 2, 2020

The groups argued that California utilities shouldn’t be adding new carbon and pollution-emitting resources when the state is trying to meet ambitious zero-carbon goals. Solar-storage companies and environmental advocates have opposed fossil fueled microgrids to solve California’s wildfire and blackout challenges.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MAY 16, 2024

When Governor Jay Inslee spoke at the Clean & Prosperous Institute’s Future of Carbon Policy Forum , he expressed his “unreasonable enthusiasm” for our state’s growing clean energy economy. By putting a market-based price on carbon emissions, it requires polluters to clean up or pay up.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 12, 2021

Developing carbon capture and storage (CCS) capacity is a key feature of the UK’s strategy to reduce emissions and hit its climate targets. A number of big polluters, including fossil fuel companies, support and are involved in the UK’s CCS plans. . oil major Chevron, in partnership with other fossil fuel giants.

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Grist

MARCH 8, 2021

When shipping giant Maersk announced last month it would operate a “carbon-neutral” vessel by 2023, the Danish company committed to using a fuel that’s made from renewable sources, is free of soot-forming pollutants — and is currently in scarce supply. E-methanol is made by combining hydrogen with carbon dioxide.

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Business Green

MAY 24, 2022

The steel, which has just a fraction of the climate footprint of conventional steel, has been provided by SSAB, one of a handful of Swedish firms behind the world's first fossil-fuel-free steel plant, the HYBRIT facility in northern Sweden. Factoring in carbon pricing regimes is not a new concept for Swedish businesses.

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GreenBiz

MAY 11, 2021

Net zero can be achieved, first and foremost, by cutting or eliminating greenhouse gas emissions and, secondarily, by offsetting any remaining emissions through such actions as planting trees, investing in renewable energy projects that replace fossil-fuel energy, or investing in novel carbon-removal technologies such as direct air capture.

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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 12, 2023

Heavy industry represents one of Canada’s biggest sources of carbon. But while certain heavy industries have garnered the attention of funding programs and policymakers alike, the biggest polluter of the lot has not received the same attention. There are a number of ways to cut the carbon from chemicals.

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Business Green

AUGUST 10, 2021

Less than one per cent unabated fossil fuels and at least 80 per cent wind and solar in the power mix required to meet UK climate targets, according to Ember's Tom Harrison. This year's edition updates its predecessor's pathways to reaching economy-wide net zero carbon emissions by 2050. Zero carbon power by 2035.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 16, 2020

New York utility Con Edison has signed its biggest energy storage contract to date, a 100-megawatt/400-megawatt-hour lithium-ion battery project that will help balance a grid facing rising levels of offshore wind and other renewable power in the years to come. In New York City, the biggest battery is the 4.8

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The Environmental Blog

MAY 19, 2021

The increasing population density in the world , migration and urbanization movements, rising living standards, increasingly increasing and excessive consumption of fossil fuels such as oil, coal, and natural gas for the last 150 years, and changes in land cover as a result of the increase in intensive industrial production.

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Clean Energy Canada

JUNE 27, 2023

Accordingly, we’re pleased to see that fossil fuels are not part of the strategy. As the International Energy Agency has made clear , new fossil fuel development is inconsistent with a world that meets its climate targets. The framework also places a welcome spotlight on B.C.’s Going forward, we hope to see the B.C.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Thanks to converging forces — including supportive policies, dropping battery costs and aggressive climate goals — transportation leaders at large and small organizations are increasingly turning to new zero-emission and low-carbon options that decarbonize fleets and in some cases save money. Media Authorship. Anheuser-Busch.

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Charged

AUGUST 6, 2021

The bucket truck and its auxiliary systems run entirely off the vehicle’s battery pack, eliminating on-site emissions and noise pollution. Lion says its trucks deliver 60% lower maintenance costs, and 80% lower energy costs, compared to fossil-fuel vehicles. Source: Lion Electric.

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The Verge: Energy

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Hydrogen combustion creates water vapor, unlike fossil fuels that release greenhouse gas emissions when burned. That’s seen as especially valuable for cleaning up aviation , maritime shipping, and heavy industries like steel that are more difficult to run on renewable energy and batteries.

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Charged

APRIL 10, 2023

Portable Electric’s Voltstack mobile power stations “are either directly replacing fossil-fuel generators or being hybridized with them to significantly reduce the runtimes of said noxious gensets.” The Voltstack 30k is a battery energy storage system that can provide mobile charging solutions for construction sites.

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Clean Energy Canada

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The final wording of the COP28 agreement – which required consensus among all nations and the chair – codified a commitment to transition away from fossil fuels in energy systems. Adding to the problem is that the fossil-fuel sector is Canada’s fastest-growing source of emissions. But all was not lost.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Another $70 million will go toward hydrogen refueling infrastructure, with $25 million more for “zero- and near-zero carbon fuel production and supply” to meet the need for alternatives to battery-powered vehicles in the decades to come. This week's announcement follows on Gov. and the Netherlands.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 12, 2023

A hydrogen industry lobby group has produced a comic book aimed at high schoolers that suggests solar and wind power are incapable of fueling decarbonization goals, and that only hydrogen fuel cells provide sufficient energy to eliminate fossil fuels. This is misleading for several reasons,” said Mark Z.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Utilities operating fossil-fueled power plants, and the low-income and disadvantaged communities that face the brunt of their pollution, may have a new model for resolving their differences. In New York, LS Power plans to install 316 MW of batteries to replace combustion turbines at its Ravenswood Generating Station in Queens.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Normally competitors in the quest to deploy long-duration energy storage, and replace fossil fuels with dispatchable clean energy at all hours of the day, 24 companies joined forces at the COP26 United Nations climate summit to form the Long Duration Energy Storage Council. Gt of CO2 produced annually from fossil fuels.

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Clean Energy Canada

DECEMBER 19, 2023

In fact, reductions in battery costs as well as available rebates mean that some EVs are already cheaper to buy than fossil-fuelled equivalents, allowing drivers to start saving the moment they drive off the lot. More than 15,300 premature deaths each year in Canada are linked to air pollution.

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Charged

AUGUST 3, 2021

generation liquid electrolytes, lithium-sulfur and lithium-air battery cells, high power density inverters and energy-efficient mobility systems technologies. Research areas include next?generation

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Business Green

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Solar panels, heat pumps and electric vehicles can reduce bills, increase house value and cut carbon emissions, writes WWF's Leanne Atkinson. In fact, 15 to 20 per cent of the nation's carbon emissions currently comes from our homes, which makes decarbonising properties vital to reaching our legally binding net zero target.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 18, 2022

Major car and airline companies are using adverts that greenwash their business while continuing to push highly polluting products that put the world’s climate goals at risk, DeSmog can reveal. The car firms promoted battery-powered cars and hybrids in over two thirds of their adverts.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2019

ClientEarth’s Climate Snapshot 2019 finds that: Three in five people believe that financial institutions and banks should no longer invest in fossil fuels (59%) and that they should be legally accountable if they choose to do so (60%). Too many banks, pension funds and insurers are propping up fossil fuel giants.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 21, 2020

The shipping industry is charting a new route toward cutting fossil fuel use in ocean-going vessels: ammonia. To date, no ammonia-fueled ships have been built, but that’s not stopping companies including Equinor, MAN Energy Solutions and Wärtsilä from rushing to help bring ammonia-fueled ships to market.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

But while solar and wind have an obvious role to play in helping miners control their carbon emissions, the mining industry faces steep decarbonization challenges, analysts say. 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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Clean Energy Trust

AUGUST 16, 2019

Decarbonize the electric grid (shift from fossil fuels like coal and natural gas to carbon-free sources like wind, solar, hydro, and nuclear, paired with storage and demand-side solutions), B. particularly technologies that make the most of the carbon that we continue to emit. This area is the subject of this post?—?particularly

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Greenability Magazine

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

“This is a big and bold step toward cleaner air, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and decreasing the city’s dependence on fossil fuels,” said Kansas City Manager Brian Platt. “We Air pollution contributes to the high rate of asthma in the central city, so reducing gas emissions will make breathing easier for many residents. “The

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

It will explore the potential of generating hydrogen from biomass which can be used as an alternative to fossil fuels. The UK government has ambitions to reach 10GW of low carbon hydrogen generation by 2030. We recognise the significant investment that E.ON

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Clean Energy Canada

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

These two realities, climate change and volatile energy prices, have a common denominator in fossil fuels. Even without carbon pricing, wind power is set to be 40 per cent cheaper than gas-fired power in Alberta and Ontario by 2030. They also share a common solution. These results are important for a few reasons.

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Low Impact

AUGUST 29, 2021

It proposes to make Europe the first continent to reach carbon neutrality by 2050 and the first to deliver a climate law with binding emissions targets. But solar panels and electric car batteries need lithium , cobalt, nickel and other scarce raw materials. 3) It’s funding big polluters. 2) It’s built on ‘green colonialism’.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

It’s vodka, made without any potatoes or grains, and the key ingredients are hydrogen and captured carbon dioxide. Last year, global carbon emissions hit an all-time high of 40.9 But all that carbon doesn’t have to wind up in the atmosphere. The resulting product has been blended into jet fuel and spun into synthetic fibers.

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