R-Squared Energy

JULY 26, 2021

The Review provides a comprehensive picture of supply and demand for major energy sources on a country-level basis. For example, as I will detail below, oil demand fell dramatically last year, but we already know that it has largely recovered in 2021. Global carbon dioxide emissions fell by 6.3% Renewables and Nuclear Power.

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Natural gas Nuclear Power Energy Energy 88

Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2023

National Grid ESO data reveals a number of fresh records, as zero carbon power sources made up more than half of Britain's power for extended periods of the year. The electricity grid achieved its lowest ever carbon intensity month in February 2022, which delivered an average of 126g CO2/kWh over the period, the data reveals.

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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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R-Squared Energy

JUNE 28, 2020

The Review covers energy data through 2019, and provides a comprehensive picture of supply and demand for major energy sources on a country-level basis. The remainder of global energy consumption came from coal (27%), natural gas (24%), hydropower (6%), renewables (5%), and nuclear power (4%).

Fossil fuels 88

Fossil fuels Natural gas Nuclear Power Energy 88

Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 6, 2021

Last summer’s record heat waves triggered a surge in power demand that maxed out supplies and led to outages across the West. California and other states are pushing to use clean electricity to power vehicles and buildings to cut carbon, which will increase demand.

Solar Energy Monitor 114

Solar Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 114

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 20, 2023

“I want to talk about batteries for a minute because I know that everybody thinks that this economy is going to be operated on wind and solar and battery power, and it cannot. 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.

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Batteries Fossil fuels Demand Energy 116

GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 16, 2020

It’s the biggest utility-contracted battery in the state thus far, though independent power producer LS Power is planning to build at least 300 MW/1,200 MWh of batteries at its Ravenswood power plant in Queens.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Hydrogen Economy” report forecasts that hydrogen from low-carbon sources could supply roughly 14 percent of the country’s energy needs by 2050, including hard-to-electrify sectors now dependent on natural gas such as high-heat industrial processes or manufacturing fertilizer. The “Roadmap to a U.S.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Energy demand for electricity and transportation fell by 3.8% This fall in emissions (see Figure 1) is the most significant on record and puts the United States on track to meet its 2025 Paris Agreement commitment, though energy demand and emissions are expected to rebound with widespread vaccinations in 2021. power in 2020.

Sustainability 92

Sustainability Natural gas Energy Energy 92

Business Green

OCTOBER 12, 2022

The UN agency warned that water stress could jeopardise low carbon energy sources such as nuclear power plants and hydropower, both of which rely heavily on water supplies in order to operate, while rising sea levels and extreme weather are also posing a growing threat to energy infrastructure.

Fossil fuels 36

Fossil fuels Energy Energy Resilience 36

Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2022

In an analysis of the electricity market published late last week, the IEA warned the global economy could face three more years of turbulence and stagnating levels of carbon emisisons if national governments do not start to spend significantly more money on these clean energy and green grid technologies.

Natural gas 78

Natural gas Energy Energy Fossil fuels 78

Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 18, 2023

🔑 Climate tech startups hit key milestones - including but not limited to - Fervo’s FOAK enhanced geothermal project operational in Nevada, Brimstone’s third-party approval of its carbon-negative cement, and Heirloom’s first commercial DAC plant.  Key market supply and demand indicators ended the year down.

Business Energy Monitoring 72

Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor 72

Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 17, 2022

This system, in use since the start of the liberalisation of electricity markets in the 1990s, works as a continuous auction, ensuring that electricity sources with the lowest cost of production are used to meet demand first. All suppliers bidding in this auction get paid the same price, namely the price that balances demand and supply.

Energy 147

Energy Energy Nuclear Power Natural gas 147

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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Carbon Natural gas Carbon-neutral Nuclear Power 246

Renewable Energy World

APRIL 20, 2021

Renewable energy’s rapid growth is accelerating a national shift to a carbon-free electric power system. utilities have pledged to go carbon-free. Now the Biden administration and some members of Congress are proposing to decarbonize the power sector by 2035. Emission-free nuclear generation largely held steady.

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Carbon Electricity Policy Solar Power 145

Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 17, 2022

In the summer of 1988, scientist James Hansen testified to Congress that carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels was dangerously warming the planet. The Biden administration’s goal is to have a carbon emissions-free grid by 2035. will need to nearly triple its 2020 growth rate for the grid to be 80% powered by clean energy by 2030. (As

Solar Energy Monitor 117

Solar Energy Monitor Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 117

GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 8, 2021

wide transmission build-out could also slash the costs of reaching a zero-carbon grid with wind, solar and battery technologies that are cost-effective today. First, nationwide transmission allows power-sharing across regions facing widely different weather systems that drive variation in wind and solar generation.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 23, 2020

Local Law 97, one of 10 bills in the sweeping Climate Mobilization Act , requires New York City’s 50,000 largest buildings to reduce their carbon emissions by 40 percent by 2030 and by 80 percent by 2050. Owners of noncompliant buildings face the prospect of multimillion-dollar annual fines beginning in 2024.

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Law Carbon Education Real Estate 130

Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 11, 2021

of Energy to demonstrate technology that produces clean hydrogen energy from nuclear power, as part of the agency's goal of reducing the cost of clean hydrogen production by 80%. Green (or clean) hydrogen represents only 5% of the hydrogen produced in the U.S.,

Hydrogen 95

Hydrogen Nuclear Power Natural gas Energy 95

Business Green

MARCH 25, 2022

In addition, the partners confirmed the Task Force would look at how to accelerate efforts to reduce gas demand by accelerating the roll out of clean energy projects and emracing "energy efficiency solutions such as ramping up demand response devices, including smart thermostats, and deployment of heat pumps". "As

Hydropower 40

Hydropower Fossil fuels Energy Energy 40

GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 26, 2021

utilities have promised to eliminate their carbon emissions by midcentury. utilities are on track to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 80 percent by 2030 compared to a 2005 baseline, the target needed to prevent global warming beyond 1.5 Wind and solar power accounted for just above 10 percent of U.S. Most of the biggest U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Developers in the space are concerned that the coronavirus pandemic’s impact on the economy will depress demand for tax equity investments, as banks and financial institutions will have less appetite for credits to offset tax liabilities in a year when profits were depressed. Solar tax credit impacts. utilities and energy companies.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 22, 2020

A sudden collapse of the industry - called a carbon crunch - could lead to economic disaster of epic proportions. As the coronavirus struck the global economy earlier this year, demand for oil dropped by more than a fifth and prices collapsed. Many sources now suggest that oil demand has already passed its peak.

Fossil fuels 78

Fossil fuels Carbon-neutral Carbon-negative Demand 78

GreenTechMedia

MARCH 6, 2020

Virginia has become the latest state to pass a law that sets it on a path to 100 percent carbon-free electricity by 2050, as well as setting targets for massive investments in energy efficiency, energy storage and in-state solar and wind power. Dominion also gets more than one-third of its energy from nuclear power.

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Solar Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 246

GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Dominion’s own emissions-reduction plan pledges to eliminate emissions of carbon dioxide and methane on a net basis by 2050. That’s greater than its previous commitment to reduce net carbon emissions from its power sector by 80 percent by 2050 and methane emissions from its natural-gas operations by 65% by 2030 and 80% by 2040.

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Energy Energy Natural gas Methane 130

DeSmogBlog

JUNE 7, 2023

Some, including the Environmental Protection Agency, oppose the plan for climate reasons, arguing that, in addition to carbon dioxide, the plant will emit methane, an even more powerful greenhouse gas. If you count hydropower and nuclear as clean energy sources, as the TVA does, that number bumps up to about 50 percent.

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Fossil fuels Natural gas Methane Law 64

DeSmogBlog

JUNE 8, 2023

Some, including the Environmental Protection Agency, oppose the plan for climate reasons, arguing that, in addition to carbon dioxide, the plant will emit methane, an even more powerful greenhouse gas. If you count hydropower and nuclear as clean energy sources, as the TVA does, that number bumps up to about 50 percent.

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Fossil fuels Natural gas Methane Law 52

Business Green

AUGUST 8, 2022

The landmark legislation's climate provisions could unlock billions of dollars of low carbon investment and millions of green jobs - but it also paves the way for new fossil fuel infrastructure. The US is set to get its first ever carbon equivalent tax - on methane. As Mark Carney noted this morning, this is part of a global trend.

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