Renewable Energy World
MARCH 12, 2021
Empresas Públicas de Medellín (EPM) in Colombia will hold a public auction to sell 2 million certificates of carbon credits from three hydroelectric plants and one wind farm. A carbon credit is equivalent to 1 ton of CO2 that is no longer emitted into the atmosphere.
Renewable Energy World
APRIL 16, 2021
This week FERC issued a policy statement clarifying how it will consider market rules proposed by regional grid operators that seek to incorporate a state-determined carbon price in organized wholesale electricity markets. Finally, the policy statement does not indicate a preference for carbon pricing over any other state policy.
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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
Business Green
SEPTEMBER 29, 2020
Wind energy, meanwhile, accounted for 1.17 and hydropower employed around 1.95 Global Wind Energy Council chief executive Ben Backwell, meanwhile, urged policymakers to reconsider their support to the fossil fuel sector. Around a third of the total renewable energy jobs were in the burgeoning solar sector at 3.8 million workers.
Grist
DECEMBER 15, 2021
This story is part of the series Getting to Zero: Decarbonizing Cascadia , which explores the path to low-carbon energy for British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon. The economics of carbon-free living have fallen into place. Renewable solar and wind power now typically costs less than fossil-fuel alternatives.
Renewable Energy World
MARCH 2, 2021
Carbon-related conversations (zero, neutral, etc.) are also growing – up 133% year on year in 2019 compared to 2018, and up a further 26% in 2020. Similarly, mentions of ‘clean energy’ and ‘renewable energy’ have grown from under one million per month in 2010, to as many as six million per month in 2019.
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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