Business Green

JANUARY 14, 2021

A new report from McKinsey predicts global fossil fuel demand 'will never return to its pre-pandemic growth curve', but warns the world is still on track to badly miss its climate goals. The oil industry has been particularly badly hit.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Nearly two thirds of social media posts put out by six major European fossil fuel and energy companies since the end of 2019 present a “green” image of the company, despite the majority of their business activity remaining in fossil fuels, reveals new analysis by Desmog.

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Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 30, 2018

Fossil fuels, a vision of the future or something our children will see in history books? The energy markets, broadly taken to be fossil fuels and renewables, have seen significant changes over the past years. Though hard to predict, most outlooks expect energy demand to rise by about 30% by 2030.

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Energy Innovation

MARCH 29, 2024

By Rebecca Rasch , Social Scientist at Aspen Global Change Institute Electric vehicle charging by Zaptec via Unsplash. While electric vehicles (EVs) are not a panacea for reducing emissions from the transportation sector, widespread adoption can be a significant step toward meeting CO2 reduction targets.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

As the focus at COP26 in Glasgow shifts to greening the world’s transportation systems, electric vehicles (EVs) are in the spotlight. Not only would the nascent industry directly destroy ecosystems and species that are only just being discovered, but it could also negatively impact fisheries, which communities across the world depend on.

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Smart Energy International

JUNE 2, 2022

SP Energy Networks has led a successful trial of the Distributed ReStart project to re-energise its electricity network by using technology to tap into renewable energy from wind turbines and hydro generation. In addition, a 33kV loadbank was connected to the test network to simulate customer demand and allow the DER to generate.

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Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 30, 2018

Population growth will plateau after 2030-2040, causing energy demand to stabilize and decline afterwards. The current overcapacity in the oil markets will ensure a lasting shift in fossil markets. Renewables are already ridiculously cheap, with the cheapest forms of solar energy already at less than half the price of fossil fuels.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Hydrogen has the potential to decarbonize a wide range of heavy industries including energy, chemicals, steel and cement, which means demand is going to be huge. In its Net-Zero Emissions scenario the IEA expects demand to increase fivefold from 2020 to 2050. Making hydrogen competitive. Reducing renewable energy curtailment.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 3, 2021

Annual figures show that renewable supply outpaced fossil fuels for the first time. New research by Drax Electric Insights shows that the UK broke all records last year for renewable energy consumption. The authors of the report also showed that carbon emissions fell by 16% compared to figures from 2019.

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Business Green

JUNE 7, 2021

Investment in clean energy from fossil fuel majors saw a marked uptick during the pandemic in 2020, research suggests. The fall in prices further compounded and accelerated wider trends that are serving to dampen long term demand projections for oil and gas industry.

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Business Green

JULY 15, 2021

Global demand for electricity is also growing faster than renewables capacity post-pandemic, opening the door to more fossil fuel energy in many parts of the world. Only around 10.6 Only around 10.6

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 13, 2020

2020: Fossil fuels are dead, long live the sun Hunter Lovins Thu, 08/13/2020 – 00:15 We’re female entrepreneurs and environmentalists. In this strangest of all years, as the death toll mounts from a disease caused by human incursions into once intact ecosystems, we’re observing another death — the demise of fossil fuels.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 20, 2023

However, base load refers to the minimum amount of demand on an electrical grid over a given period of time, not a minimum level of constant supply. There are five countries in the world that run on 100 percent wind-water-solar (WWS) alone with zero batteries, zero nuclear, and zero fossil fuels.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

The waste management sector bears an essential role in the EU’s ambition to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050, the group explained in a statement in early February. It is likely to trigger more landfilling of non-recyclable waste and more use of fossil fuels.

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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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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 16, 2024

A major cold snap led to record electricity usage in the Canadian province of Alberta over the weekend, culminating in demands from provincial utilities to limit consumption. The extreme cold and record-setting electrical consumption has reignited local debates about whether heat pumps are a viable option in the province.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

The falling cost of wind and solar power significantly reduces the need for carbon capture and storage technology to tackle climate change, a new paper has argued. Now that renewable electricity is so cheap, this should cause us to seriously rethink the role of CCS.”. by the end of the century. Renewables. The Right Kind of CCS’.

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Business Green

JULY 19, 2022

What could the UK's energy system look like in 2050, once offshore wind energy is the backbone of the electricity grid, fossil fuel vehicles are increasingly scarce, hydrogen fuel has gone from vision to reality, and energy efficiency is an everyday consideration for families and businesses alike?

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

Paul-Frederik Bach, a former transmission system operator executive, started tracking European wholesale electricity prices on his blog in 2014. But over the same period, the share of renewable resources in gross electricity consumption rose from 28.8 He used a colored map for different price bands. percent to 32.1 So what is going on?

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The Environmental Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Joining a community solar project requires no change to your electricity service and results in monthly savings on your utility bill through the issuance of bill credits. The benefit to communities is that it provides jobs, economic opportunities and a more environmentally sustainable way to produce electricity.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

She was invited on the show (1:24) to discuss the National Grid’s ‘demand flexibility service’ scheme, under which households and some businesses receive payments for using less energy at times of peak demand. Rosenow pointed out that the overall reliability of power supply has improved in the last decade.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 12, 2023

have ties to polluting companies and organizations, including major fossil fuel companies, according to a new DeSmog analysis. Nearly one in five directors (19 percent) have current or past experience working in the fossil fuel industry. They’re actually propping up the expansion of the fossil fuel industry.”

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Sustainability Consulting

AUGUST 26, 2020

Here’s one of ours: In this insightful interview, Al Gore discusses how the steadily declining cost of wind and solar energy will transform manufacturing, transportation and agriculture, offer a cheaper alternative to fossil fuels and nuclear energy and create millions of new jobs. The rising generation is demanding a brighter future.

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Business Green

JULY 17, 2020

A group of exciting start-ups are exploring whether the world's trash mountains could become a valuable source of low carbon hydrogen fuels. One novel spin on emerging hydrogen fuel options is "clean hydrogen" made from trash. Today, more than 95 per cent of hydrogen is fossil-based and does not rely on renewables.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 19, 2024

Biomass energy harnesses organic matter, including wood, agricultural crops, and waste by-products, as fuel. As we seek alternatives to fossil fuels, biomass holds significant potential due to its sustainability. This steam runs through turbines, propelling generators to create electricity.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 12, 2022

The voluntary carbon offset market is rocketing, with the Ecosystem Marketplace reporting an annual market value of ~$1 billion in 2021, which was an all-time high. This can make things difficult for business leaders like you, looking to reduce their carbon footprint through purchasing offsets. The rules of carbon offsetting.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 27, 2021

This article discusses measures the seafood industry can take in order to limit their negative impact on our world’s oceans. Reduce fossil fuel use. From litter and pollution to overfishing and habitat destruction, today’s unsustainable commercial fishing has a significant negative impact on the oceans’ ecosystems.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 12, 2020

has called on the German government to intervene to keep down the costs of renewable electricity and “fast-track” the energy transition. Any shortfall in that support should be covered by federal funding, including proceeds from the new carbon tax, Teyssen said Tuesday. The CEO of German utility giant E.ON

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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. That includes a recommitment to reaching its 2030 goal of reducing carbon emissions below 50 percent of their 2007 levels, potentially ahead of schedule.

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Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Although fossil-based natural gas tends not to be low enough in carbon intensity to remain a primary energy source in our decarbonized future, the U.S. If produced, distributed, and used responsibly, RNG can play a critical role in the net-zero carbon economy. . is not ready to abandon it entirely. What Is Renewable Natural Gas?

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Business Green

JULY 5, 2022

An energy-intensive process largely reliant on fossil fuels, concrete production is estimated to account for around eight per cent of global carbon emissions - more than both shipping and air travel combined. Concrete and steel emit as much as all road transport globally, and demand is going up.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 30, 2020

Arizona Public Service released its plan for reaching zero-carbon by 2050 , with multiple options to balance the costs and carbon benefits of switching from coal and natural gas to renewables, batteries, distributed energy resources and as-yet-untested technologies. Long-range tradeoffs: Carbon reduction vs. costs.

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Elemental Excelerator

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Several ambitious pledges emerged to phase down fossil fuels, limit methane emissions, stop deforestation, and turbocharge the adoption of electric vehicles. Elemental’s portfolio companies are poised to accelerate progress on pledges.

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Business Green

APRIL 29, 2020

Global Energy Review notes that renewables will be the only energy source to expand in 2020 despite a dramatic nosedive in energy demand worldwide caused by Covid-19's shutdown of economic and public life. Only renewables are holding up during the previously unheard-of slump in electricity use. per cent, the report said.

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Clean Energy Canada

AUGUST 19, 2021

government’s recently released hydrogen strategy—a thoughtful plan to create and use clean hydrogen—contains an implicit acknowledgement: the world is moving away from fossil fuels and toward low-carbon alternatives. isn’t the only jurisdiction to see clean hydrogen as the new natural gas. While B.C.’s Secondly, B.C.’s

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 20, 2023

An energy trade association that represents and promotes gas boilers and manufacturers is behind a barrage of negative press attacking heat pumps, DeSmog has learned. Heat pumps will play an essential role in reducing our fossil fuel dependence and making our homes and buildings renewables-ready.”

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 10, 2022

Reducing carbon emissions caused by commuting and traveling saves money and your employees’ time. Consulting firms help other companies in a variety of ways across many industries, however as greenness becomes more in demand, consulting firms must stay on top of their carbon footprint and sustainable initiatives.

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