AutoGrid

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Its electricity demand reached an all-time demand peak of 223 gigawatts (GW) this past June, and projections indicate it could hit 340 GW by the decade’s end. To put that into perspective, the electricity demand for Germany in 2022 was 200 GW. Asset Diversity: As is the case in the U.S.

Solar Energy Monitor 80

Solar Energy Monitor Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring 80

Business Green

JANUARY 28, 2021

It could also be accompanied by action on skilling up, with the government's Green Jobs Taskforce set to report soon, and building on the recent Skills for Jobs White Paper to tool up a generation of engineers, assessors and technicians. Fossil fuel heating has no place in a net zero home.

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Government Hydrogen Fossil fuels Carbon-neutral 90

Business Green

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The UK's oil and gas industry watchdog has the first time set an obligation for the sector to contribute to the nation's 2050 net zero emissions target, in a revised strategy submitted to Parliament yesterday aimed at driving as clean and efficient production as possible "as long as this demand exists".

Fossil fuels 77

Fossil fuels Carbon-negative Carbon Demand 77

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Ahead of tomorrow's Net Zero Festival, Toby Hill explores how carbon offset standards are evolving in a bid to assure clients and campaigners that promised carbon savings can be delivered. To find out more about the role of carbon offsets in the net zero transition, sign up now for a free pass to tomorrow's Net Zero Festival.

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Carbon Carbon-negative Carbon-neutral Fossil fuels 81

Business Green

MARCH 19, 2021

Oil major announces intention to build major hydrogen plant just days after government grants funding for carbon transportation and storage network in region. Roughly two million tonnes of carbon dioxide emitted during the production process will be captured and sent for storage from the project annually by 2030, it added.

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Hydrogen Fossil fuels Carbon-neutral Transportation 66

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

A new report argues that with demand for clean hydrogen set to boom, the nascent mocular reactor industry could have a key role to play in meeting surging demand. Highly productive shipyards can manufacture hundreds of units to power up the clean hydrogen economy and rapidly replace fossil fuels in shipping, aviation, and industry.".

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Nuclear Power Hydrogen Fossil fuels Natural gas 95

Business Green

MARCH 8, 2020

The Treasury should set in stone a new fiscal rule for an annually-increasing carbon price in the UK, argues SSE chief executive Alistair Phillips-Davies. Ahead of COP26 in Glasgow I think it's imperative the Treasury installs a new fiscal rule: the need for an annually increasing carbon price.

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COP Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Carbon 60

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

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Business Green

DECEMBER 22, 2020

That's even before you include the PM's pledge to set a new 2030 carbon reduction target of 68 per cent below 1990 levels, and last week's Climate Ambition Summit, which saw the UK government outline its plans to end financial support for fossil fuels overseas. And finally to the Energy White Paper.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2021

The current high gas prices have highlighted the need to invest in technologies which can store power as part of building a more resilient, renewables-based system which can wean us off fossil fuels. Much of the system flexibility in the past has been provided by fossil fuels.

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Fossil fuels Government Technology Carbon 41

Grist

MAY 18, 2021

The company would take those almond shells and other types of biomass, convert them into a carbon-rich oil, and inject the oil deep underground. Strange as it may sound, demand for this service — a form of what’s called “ carbon removal ” — was just beginning to grow. That’s where carbon removal comes in.

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Climate change Startups Building Energy Monitoring Carbon-negative 125

Business Green

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Electrifying transport, buildings, and carbon-intensive industrial sectors in order to run them on clean energy sources could slash greenhouse gas emissions in the UK by as much as 60 per cent between now and 2050, according to new analysis today from BloombergNEF (BNEF).

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Transportation Electricity Policy Fossil fuels 80

Business Green

DECEMBER 15, 2020

The row over Sizewell led the headlines, but there is so much more to the Energy White Paper and its promise to deliver a decisive shift away from fossil fuels. Whisper it, but I'm not sure the inevitable reignition of the row over the UK's nuclear plans is the most important part of the long-awaited Energy White Paper.

Fossil fuels 81

Fossil fuels Energy Energy Nuclear Power 81

Business Green

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Without a clear and ambitious government plan zero carbon home heating by 2050 remains a pipe dream, a new analysis from the UK Energy Research Centre warns. At present home heating - the bulk of which is provided by the fossil fuel gas grid - accounts for 13 per cent of UK emissions.

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Carbon-negative Fossil fuels Government Carbon 76

AutoGrid

JANUARY 16, 2023

Charging times and locations can be shifted to modulate demand, and their batteries can push electricity back onto the grid when and where it’s needed most. Enrolling these used EVs in demand response programs could also open up new income opportunities across the board. But the cost of a new or used EV is only one hurdle.

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Energy Energy Batteries Law 52

Business Green

MARCH 18, 2021

Ministers have vowed to establish the "world's first net zero industry" and confirmed plans to cut carbon emissions generated from these carbon intensive sector by two-thirds by 2035 and 90 per cent by mid-century against a 2018 baseline. These are transformational goals and delivering on them would be an historic achievement.

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Government Policy Hydrogen Carbon 60

Business Green

MARCH 17, 2021

The overarching ambition of the Industrial Decarbonisation Strategy is to slash greenhouse gas emissions from UK industry by two-thirds within 15 years, as part of plans to develop the "world's first" low carbon industrial sector that creates and supports up to 80,000 jobs by 2050.

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Policy Carbon-neutral Hydrogen Government 67

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

The initial findings of the review are to be published in the government's long-awaited Energy White Paper, although a publication date for the much-anticipated document has not yet been announced.

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Government Climate change Medicine Carbon 56

Business Green

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

Surely, the generalised economic difficulty that an energy squeeze puts us in should steel us to redouble our efforts to prise ourselves free from fossil gas. This means that we will never free ourselves of gas dependency without a nationwide replacement of fossil fuel heating in homes. Building trust is essential.

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Fossil fuels Government Electricity Demand 36

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

However, it is equally important over the longer term to avoid any repeat of the current crisis by expanding our own sources of clean domestic power as well as reducing demand - and subsequent carbon emissions. Close to half a million people are already employed in low carbon jobs with a huge potential for growth.

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Transportation Government Climate change Investment 36

Business Green

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Clean Creatives - the US-based campaign group that has ramped-up pressure on PR and advertising firms to stop working with the fossil fuel industry - has announced it is now training its sights on the UK, where it warns current industry sustainability initiatives are underpowered and threaten to undermine the sector's climate integrity.

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Fossil fuels Demand Carbon Sustainability 61

Energy Innovation

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Deep decarbonization demands we do something that has never been done before: deliberately transform the energy foundation of the global economy in mere decades. A different approach called AR(1) (a univariate autoregression) is used modeling changes in costs of fossil fuels, which are not expected to change as dramatically.

Energy 52

Energy Energy Fossil fuels Policy 52

Business Green

JUNE 24, 2020

Covid-19 stimulus plan must prioritise green building upgrades, tree planting, fossil fuel taxes, and skills training, advises Committee on Climate Change. The steps that the UK takes to rebuild from the Covid-19 pandemic can accelerate the transition to a successful and low-carbon economy and improve our climate resilience.".

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Government Climate change Resilience Policy 101

Business Green

JUNE 25, 2020

At 196 pages, the report is a wide-ranging, highly detailed, and genuinely compelling analysis of the myriad challenges and opportunities that face the UK as it seeks to deliver a green recovery, meet near-term carbon targets, and set the UK on track for a net zero transition over the next three decades.

Fossil fuels 97

Fossil fuels Policy Government Climate change 97

Smart Energy International

JULY 19, 2022

Have you read: PG&E implements behavioural Energy Efficiency Programme National Grid – Scaling demand response with behavioural outreach. Research done in the US found that 42% of energy-related carbon emissions came from household machines, including cars. Technical White Paper [link] (Rewiring America, 2020).

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Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 98

Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2020

The government today confirmed that a new 10 point green recovery plan is imminent, but for now at least long-awaited net zero policy measures, including the energy white paper and national infrastructure strategy, remain stuck in the pipeline. As things currently stand, the UK is on track to miss all its targets.

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Business Green

MAY 6, 2020

This policy consultation comes in advance of a long awaited energy White Paper and in advance of a heat and buildings framework expected to be released later this year. The plan was to unleash renewable and low carbon heating, meet renewable energy goals and develop a low carbon heat market ready for mass deployment in the 2020s.

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Policy Government Fossil fuels Politics 73

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The government has promised a raft of hotly-anticipated plans and policies in the coming months, including the Heat and Buildings Strategy, Food Strategy White Paper, Treasury Net Zero Review, and an overarching Net Zero Strategy, all of which should help unlock billions of pounds of green investment.

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COP Fossil fuels Government Politics 41

GreenTechMedia

APRIL 23, 2020

Google’s highly ambitious goal to power all its data centers with clean energy on a 24/7 basis could get a boost from an in-house experiment that shifts server computing loads with the carbon intensity of the grid — if it can be scaled up across its global data center fleet.

Energy 130

Energy Energy Fossil fuels Carbon 130

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 26, 2023

The meat industry is increasingly viewed as a sector where greenhouse gas emissions cuts can and should be made, just like the fossil fuel industry Livestock accounts for a third of total global emissions of methane, a potent gas that traps heat about 80 times more effectively than carbon dioxide but breaks up more quickly in the atmosphere.

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Carbon-neutral Methane Agriculture Fossil fuels 98

Business Green

APRIL 22, 2020

Those lessons include the critical need for the UK and other governments to rapidly upskill workers in high carbon industries that are likely to become redundant in the coming decades as economies shift towards net zero emissions. "What we need is an orderly transition, so we'll need to learn some lessons from that.".

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Government Policy Politics Climate change 67

Business Green

JULY 27, 2020

A minimum of 80TWh of hydrogen is needed to decarbonise shipping and the heavy goods vehicles, and the fuel could provide anywhere between 21 and 59 per cent of end user energy needs by mid-century. There is a widespread uptake in domestic electric vehicles, and growth and investment in hydrogen and carbon capture technologies too.".

Power grid 82

Power grid Carbon-negative Fossil fuels Electric vehicle 82

GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 10, 2020

Most of New York’s fossil-fueled peak power plants would be vulnerable to competition if longer duration storage technologies hit the market, a new study says. The Empire State passed a law to eliminate carbon from the grid by 2045. Now it’s getting to work on replacing its peaker fleet.

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Lithium Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 130

AutoGrid

JULY 27, 2023

Electricity demand is expected to grow more rapidly with accelerated electrification across the building and transportation sectors. With increased frequency of extreme weather events, and the simultaneous retiring of aging fossil fuel power plants, an expected peak capacity shortfall can only grow over the next decade.

Energy Monitor 82

Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring 82

AutoGrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Among the chief culprits is air quality, which, in turn, is often impacted by polluting power plants that burn fossil fuels. Particularly egregious are so-called peaker power plants , which run only when demand for electricity is high. Income in the United States 1 Many factors negatively influence average life expectancy.

Energy Monitor 71

Energy Monitor Solar Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 71

Business Green

MARCH 1, 2021

We have limited time to move from a system where around 80 per cent of our primary energy supply comes from fossil fuels, to one where low-carbon technologies dominate. Supply and demand will have equal value and flexibility at all levels will keep costs low.

Energy Monitor 74

Energy Monitor Government Business Energy Monitoring Energy 74

Clean Energy Canada

AUGUST 18, 2022

A new white paper from Clean Energy Canada and industry group Electric Mobility Canada released today lays out recommendations for how Canada can design a truly effective zero-emission vehicle mandate—and fix Canada’s EV supply problem once and for all. Timing and details of the policy have yet to be revealed.

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Electric vehicle Transportation Electricity Policy 79