GreenTechMedia

JULY 29, 2020

San Antonio municipal utility CPS Energy wants to replace aging fossil-fueled generation with more than a gigawatt of solar, energy storage and flexible capacity, and it’s asking for ideas on how to get there. CPS closed two of its coal-fired plants in 2018 and has not announced a retirement date for its two remaining ones.

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Business Green

MARCH 30, 2022

There is no doubt that greater access to rapid charge points is vital to get the EV revolution on the road, but more considerations must be made around low-carbon charging straight from the source. Renewables and clean energy has been notably absent from the discussion so far. This is a missed opportunity.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Duke Energy’s options for reaching net-zero carbon by midcentury will look a lot different than those being pursued by utilities in the sun-soaked Western U.S., or the wind-rich Great Plains, or even those sharing the same Atlantic coastline. Others rely on options like offshore wind that are untested in the U.S.,

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 13, 2023

According to the startup, with the popularity and commissioning of renewable energy rising globally, the role of energy storage and flexible demand will be crucial, necessitating the balance of consumption and production of electricity to ensure grid stability. subsidiary, Essent, also based in the Netherlands. A subsidiary of E.ON

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Business Green

MAY 18, 2021

The death knell is being sounded for fossil fuels. By far the most startling aspect of today's report is the outlook for fossil fuels. Crucially, by 2035, no cars powered purely by fossil fuels should be sold anywhere in the world, which would effectively remove a huge market for the oil industry.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Duke Energy has detailed the various paths its utilities in the Carolinas could take over the next 15 years, a choice that will determine how quickly Duke cuts its carbon footprint and how much it will cost. All of the scenarios go well beyond Duke’s previous IRPs in leaning more heavily on solar, onshore wind and energy 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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GreenTechMedia

MAY 4, 2020

Dominion Virginia’s new integrated resource plan (IRP), announced Friday, represents a potentially historic shift for the state’s largest utility, which has seen previous plans rejected by Virginia regulators for their over-reliance on fossil fuel power plants and infrastructure to be paid for by ratepayers.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

ECIU calculates wind, hydro, and solar have provided 13TWh electricity since October, driving down gas reliance for the UK. Last year the power grid stood solid throughout the winter, but this time round there are concerns over whether gas will be able to play its role," said Cran-McGreehin.

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Better Ventures

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Yet only 6% of our economy runs on electricity today, and most of that electricity is generated from fossil fuels. Our power grids will buckle and we don’t yet have the wherewithal to manage so many distributed energy resources coming on line at once. The New York Times , 2023. Electrify or die.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 20, 2023

Heat pumps will play an essential role in reducing our fossil fuel dependence and making our homes and buildings renewables-ready.” 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.

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Energy Innovation

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

The authors note how quickly improvements in low-carbon technologies have proceeded relative to projections by international bodies like the International Energy Agency (IEA) or by integrated assessment models (IAMs). Bioenergy and carbon capture and sequestration were explicitly constrained. Source: Way et al.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Forced outages are a tool of last resort, employed in circumstances of incredible stress to the grid and done to protect against more widespread outages. Record heat for several days across parts of the state strained the power grid so much that it started rationing electricity, for the first time in almost 20 years.

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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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Business Green

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Namely, no new sources of fossil fuels worldwide after 2021, and a massive, accelerated ramp up of renewable energy capacity, including 390GW of new onshore and offshore wind each year by 2030. by the end of the century. Similar concerns surround the government's level of ambition on green hydrogen.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 18, 2020

That’s a fresh headache for Europe’s grid operators. Taking hydrogen production off the power grid could be a win-win solution to these problems. But that doesn’t take into account the cost of offshore substations to collect wind farm power, or the severely congested state of the onshore power grid.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Forced outages are a tool of last resort, employed in circumstances of incredible stress to the grid and done to protect against more widespread outages. Record heat for several days across parts of the state strained the power grid so much that it started rationing electricity, for the first time in almost 20 years.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Forced outages are a tool of last resort, employed in circumstances of incredible stress to the grid and done to protect against more widespread outages. Record heat for several days across parts of the state strained the power grid so much that it started rationing electricity, for the first time in almost 20 years.

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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. Then, beginning around 2009, first wind turbines and then solar photovoltaic panels decreased enough in cost to become competitive in electricity markets. electricity.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Why such a heavy focus on solar power? Doesn’t a low-carbon future require many types of clean energy? grid: business as usual; decarbonization, meaning a massive shift to low-carbon and carbon-free energy sources; and decarbonization with economy-wide electrification of activities that are powered now by fossil fuels.

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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2022

That is because at present, credible plans exist for only just over a third of the UK's required emissions reductions to meet the stretching mid-2030s climate goals contained in the Sixth Carbon Budget. Both sectors have ambitious targets for capacity additions, which will form the backbone of the decarbonisation of the UK power grid by 2035.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Long-duration storage for an increasingly renewable-powered grid is a first step, but a two-day virtual conference this week will take a look at other targets as well, she said. "We Green hydrogen as an energy storage technology, not a replacement fuel.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

As such, the COP Presidency should presumably welcome mounting calls for a new era of public-private cooperation on the financial packages that can help developing and emerging economies wean themselves off fossil fuels. of warming.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 23, 2020

The election is seen as critical in the battle against climate change, with Trump an avowed climate sceptic who has sought to support fossil fuel industries, while commentators have described Biden's climate policies as the most ambitious in US history. Peru and Switzerland strike 'world first' carbon offset deal.

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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. Activists won a string of local victories, passing municipal and regional laws to ban new and expanded fossil fuel developments.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

These changes will only worsen for as long as society continues to burn fossil fuels, and for some time after. The report notes that the cost of solar energy has fallen 90 percent in the last decade, and the cost of wind power has dropped 70 percent. But the report also offers reason for hope. decreased by 12 percent.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 18, 2020

That’s not quite as aggressive as President-elect Joe Biden’s goal of a zero-carbon U.S. power grid, particularly if targeting a 10-year timeframe,” said Aaron Barr, the report’s author and principal consultant with WoodMac’s Energy Transition Practice. would need to grow from about 1.5

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 2, 2020

Senate will consider a bipartisan energy package this week that could be this year’s best legislative hope to increase federal funding for a number of energy technologies, from solar, wind and batteries, to more efficient fossil fuel-fired power and carbon capture. industry and jobs.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 11, 2020

The bill has come under fire from clean energy groups for its lack of targets or mandates for reducing carbon emissions, as well as provisions to direct billions of dollars to fossil fuel research. Grid modernization. industry and jobs.

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Business Green

AUGUST 13, 2020

The net zero emissions deadlines are already coming into view for a number of industries: from 2030, new buildings would need to achieve net zero carbon emissions, with new cars following in 2035 and power producers in 2040. This incorporates roads and bridges, but also a green power grid and improved water infrastructure.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

An emergency reconciliation bill, which can be passed with a simple majority rather than being subjected to a Senate filibuster, could include shifts in spending on existing channels of federal funding, such as energy incentives for fossil fuel versus clean energy industries. But legislative proposals from her party have been sparse.

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