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The Increasing Need and Demand for Alternative Fuel Options

The Environmental Blog

However, what’s not at debate is that there are options available to individuals in making choices for more sustainable energy consumption. Price increases alone should spur interest and demand in pursuing alternative energy sources. Finding alternatives to traditional energy consumption is crucial to continuing our modern way of life.

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Drax Cancels Plan to Build Europe’s Largest Natural Gas Power Plant

GreenTechMedia

gigawatt natural gas power plant in the U.K. have been shelved by the developer Drax, highlighting the challenging economics of converting coal-fired power to a cleaner, but still fossil-fuel-fired, alternative. ’s climate change laws. ’s largest power plant. Plans for a new 3.6-gigawatt

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PG&E Plans Utility-Owned ‘Remote Grids’ for Isolated Communities

GreenTechMedia

The threat of power grid-sparked wildfires is forcing California utilities to invest billions of dollars in hardening and monitoring their grids and to institute grid blackouts affecting up to hundreds of thousands of customers to reduce the risk of live wires sparking conflagrations.

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Looming Grid Shortfall Prompts 2.5GW California Procurement Proposal

GreenTechMedia

Although the proposed ‘all-source’ procurement would allow existing natural gas-fired peaker plants to compete, it could also open a massive new market for renewable energy, energy storage, demand response and other preferred alternatives to fossil fuels. Fitch wrote in Thursday’s proposed decision.

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How Geothermal Energy Might Be the Answer to Energy Eating Heatwaves

GreenTech Gazette

But some experts claim that unprecedented “extended heatwaves” are causing significant strain on the nation’s aging energy grid. However, one clean alternative to dirty fuels is becoming popular among green-minded people and traditional fuel proponents alike: geothermal energy.

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? US clean investment cleans up with $239bn #187

Climate Tech VC

The US Clean Investment Monitor published its annual report for 2023, which saw clean investment total $239bn, up 38% from 2022. Energy & industry. Happy Monday!    Lots of spice for clean investment this week. The picture was less rosy for new wind and heat pumps, both of which have suffered from high interest rates.

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Climate Tech Entrepreneurs React to the Inflation Reduction Act

Elemental Excelerator

In addition to celebrating the bill’s clean energy cost-cutting measures and job-creating potential, we are providing a few additional considerations and themes that are relevant to our portfolio and systems change work. Allume Energy , Transcend ). Forest Frizzell, CEO of Shifted Energy. Allison Wolff, CEO of Vibrant Planet.