GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

While light on details, the solar plan will help Alliant reach goals it laid out last year to cut carbon emissions 80 percent and ramp up the renewable portion of its energy mix to 30 percent by 2030. The investor-owned utility serves about 15 percent of Wisconsin and also has customers in Iowa. gigawatts of solar or solar-plus-storage.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 19, 2020

homes and commercial buildings consume roughly two-fifths of the country’s overall energy, three-fourths of all electricity, and account for most of the peak electricity demand that drives generation and power grid infrastructure costs. Shifting heating from fossil fuels to electricity can cut direct emissions.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 4, 2022

I am confident that the upward trends we saw in 2021 will continue and that long-term investment in the clean energy portfolio of energy efficiency, natural gas, and renewable energy will yield powerful dividends in terms of energy security, economic benefit to our country and emission reductions.”. Have you read?

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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 23, 2020

Jobs spanned industries such as , renewable energy, energy efficiency, hybrid and electric vehicles, as well as advanced grid and energy storage. Battery costs for electric vehicles decreased by over two-thirds in that same time period. As of 2019, there were 3.4 million people in the U.S. In many parts of the U.S.,

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 19, 2020

limiting the electricity available for import from other states, which California has relied on during previous heat-driven peaks. Several out-of-state power grids also reported emergency conditions on Monday and Tuesday. It ended the demand about 30 minutes later as demand began to fall and wind power ramped back up.

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

He said his administration would “build and install a network of 500,000 charging stations along our existing and new highways” so electric vehicles (EVs) can displace gasoline. He also mentioned plans to offer cash rebates to trade in older vehicles. still obtained 63% of its electricity from fossil fuels.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 17, 2020

The San Francisco-based utility is emerging from bankruptcy with a massive debt load that could make it harder to raise the tens of billions of dollars of investment needed to prevent its power grid from causing more devastating wildfires. PG&E plans to invest about $40 billion over the next five years into its power grid.

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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. Other technologies are in the mix, such as battery electric vehicles. Still, there is potential for clean - low- or zero-carbon - hydrogen to take off, energy experts believe.

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AutoGrid

MARCH 30, 2022

Demand response (DR) first and foremost; targeted reductions in demand can have the same impact on the power grid as increasing supply and typically at lower cost (and with lower emissions). combustion turbines burning natural gas or oil meet most of the peak power demands. In both New York and Texas.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Passive design elements and electrification of building systems combined with grid interaction to transform a California electricity provider’s headquarters. The high-performance building replaced an existing office building, which was one important step to achieving a zero carbon project.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

” But Sridhar placed even higher expectations on a longer-range plan to adapt Bloom’s solid-oxide fuel cell technology, originally designed to run on natural gas and emit carbon dioxide, to generate electricity from hydrogen, make "green" hydrogen via electrolysis or capture the carbon from "blue" hydrogen made from natural gas.

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Business Green

MAY 18, 2021

The only room for fossil fuels in 2050 may be in the production of hard to abate heavy industrial manufacturing, plastics production - although as a separate report today makes clear , the planet ideally needs that mostly bringing to an end too - and in some power facilities fitted with carbon capture capability, the IEA contends.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 15, 2020

Early pioneers of these hydrogen-from-waste technologies such as Ways2H, SGH2 Energy (SGH2) and Standard Hydrogen say not only are they making carbon-free, energy-rich fuel, their approaches also will divert mountains of trash from landfills and waterways, cutting greenhouse gas emissions. locations in 2021.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

So says a new report from Deloitte highlighting the known, yet often underappreciated, challenges faced by utilities across the country promising to zero out their carbon impact by midcentury. That’s not news to those who’ve been closely tracking plans to reach net-zero carbon from major U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 20, 2023

The homeowner is confused by the mixed messages from government, industry and the sector around which low-carbon heating solution is best,” says the director of the Birmingham Energy Institute. The future of hydrogen in heating homes in the UK is less assured.

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Business Green

MARCH 31, 2020

The strategy - comprising three separate roadmaps for gas, electricity, and a 'whole systems' networks plan - is aimed at finding new ways for the UK's gas and power grid infrastructure to work together in a more integrated way to expand the use of zero carbon technologies across the network.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 26, 2019

California has just 25 years to achieve its economywide carbon-neutrality target. Buildings account for about a quarter of California’s greenhouse gas emissions, so concerted efforts will be needed to squeeze carbon out of the sector, especially existing buildings. Wave of natural-gas bans.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 9, 2020

BusinessGreen rounds up all the crucial findings in the Climate Change Committee's mammoth 450 page report on how to meet the UK's carbon targets. Whether the UK's carbon budgets for 2023-27 and 2028-32 need amending to reflect this, however, will be for the government to decide, the CCC says.

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AutoGrid

MAY 10, 2022

Our energy systems are being transformed by the dramatic increase in distributed energy resources (DER) that are now populating power grids around the world. Ironically, electric vehicles (EVs), the most challenging DER asset, could also be the most transformative of all. Luckily, there is good news on that front.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Annually, the average household uses around 77 million British thermal units (Btus) and releases roughly 17,320 lbs of carbon emissions. AC solar air conditioners are designed to work with your home’s existing power grid but require an inverter. For those with a gas water system, look at Rheem SolPak natural gas water heaters.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Although it’s not geothermal, I think it’s important that we move forward quickly with Carbon Capture and Storage. It is critically important for us to decarbonize the atmosphere by getting carbon emissions out of the air and into the ground. But where is all that electricity going to come from?

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Energy and Cleantech Council

DECEMBER 17, 2019

The electric power grid is subject to escalating threats of attack by foreign adversaries and individual bad actors. utilities have been seriously compromised to date, in 2015, Ukraine’s electric grid was hit by a cyberattack that led to a lengthy blackout affecting approximately 250,000 people. While no U.S.

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Clean Energy Trust

JUNE 9, 2020

With that caveat, here’s what I found most interesting in cleantech over the past month: Analysts disagree on how COVID will impact electric vehicles in the US. In this article , one argues that lower fuel prices will dampen the appeal of electric vehicles. namely crossover SUVs and trucks.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2020

It will specifically explore systemic solutions to the climate crisis focusing on clean energy, electrified, transportation, the circular economy, carbon removal and sustainable food systems. Protein is being sourced from an increasingly long list of plants, synthesized from carbon dioxide sucked from the air, and extracted from insects.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 23, 2021

Most of America’s 107,000 gas stations can fill several cars every five or 10 minutes at multiple pumps. Not so for electric vehicle chargers – at least not yet. Each outlet can charge only one vehicle at a time, and even fast-charging outlets take an hour to provide 180-240 miles’ worth of charge; most take much longer.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 21, 2020

What’s more, the bill “provides the industry a full extra year to negotiate longer-term tax credits or tie renewables directly with future carbon policies with the friendly Biden administration,” Manghani noted. R&D for clean energy, energy storage, carbon capture and nuclear power. Another $2.36

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Grist

DECEMBER 8, 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. Climate scientists say humanity must halve carbon emissions by the end of this decade to prevent global warming from causing far more devastating climate swings.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 30, 2020

By far the biggest grid edge story of 2020 was the continued commitment of U.S. utilities to midcentury decarbonization goals — or more pertinently, those utilities that aren’t already facing state-level mandates to eliminate their carbon footprints. Natural gas and oil pipelines also saw setbacks.

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