GreenTechMedia

JULY 1, 2020

ABB’s Power Grids unit earned about $10 billion in annual revenues last year from its businesses ranging from high-voltage transmission systems and transformers to distribution grid controls and battery systems. A key focus will be on “building a zero-carbon society with various measures including the use of renewable energies.”

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R-Squared Energy

JULY 26, 2021

Small declines were also reported in coal, natural gas, and nuclear consumption, while renewables and hydropower recorded gains. The remainder of global energy consumption came from coal (27.2%), natural gas (24.7%), hydropower (6.9%), renewables (5.7%), and nuclear power (4.3%). Renewables and Nuclear Power.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Renewable power sources are expected to dominate almost all the growth in the world's electricity supplies through to 2025, according to the IEA, and together with nuclear power they are set to meet the vast majority of the increase in global power demand over the period. remains a hugely challenging prospect.

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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 remainder of global energy consumption came from coal (27%), natural gas (24%), hydropower (6%), renewables (5%), and nuclear power (4%). Carbon dioxide emissions set a fourth consecutive new all-time high. The share of renewables in power generation increased to 10.4%, surpassing nuclear power for the first time.

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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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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 6, 2021

California and other states are pushing to use clean electricity to power vehicles and buildings to cut carbon, which will increase demand. And the state’s last nuclear power plant and numerous coastal gas power plants are facing retirement. But rising temperatures from climate change are just one challenge.

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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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Business Green

AUGUST 19, 2022

Reports: Germany looking to postpone looming closure of nuclear plants. While such a move would likely be temporary, it would mark a major departure from German energy policy over the past two decades, with the government having opted to gradually shutter its nuclear power plants amid safety fears over atomic energy.

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Clean Energy Canada

JULY 2, 2020

The clean-burning fuel does not produce carbon emissions upon consumption and so can replace fossil fuels in many sectors including heavy industry, transportation and heating. Hydrogen produced from renewable electricity (wind, solar, hydropower, tidal, etc.) This is known as grey and black hydrogen , respectively.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Jacobson also determined that fully electrifying Canada’s energy grid with renewable energy and battery storage would further save 3,800 lives annually from air pollution-related deaths, and eliminate nearly one billion tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent. Credit: Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 4, 2020

Dominion’s new IRP is driven by Virginia's Clean Economy Act passed earlier this year, which calls for 100 percent carbon-free electricity by 2045 and sets targets for energy efficiency, energy storage, and in-state solar and wind power. Under the law, Dominion Virginia and the smaller Appalachian Power Co.

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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.

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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.  ☢️ US nuclear power saw mixed results.

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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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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.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Renewables’ contribution to the power grid set another record, rising 11% year-on-year. power in 2020. Power from all zero-carbon sources (renewables plus nuclear power) set another record, meeting 40% of demand. This was despite a decline in nuclear output. Renewable energy generated a fifth of U.S.

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Business Green

JUNE 18, 2020

Governments around the world have a unique opportunity to shift the world onto a sustainable development path over the next 12 months, or else risk locking in a new generation of high carbon infrastructure that would make it near impossible to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 1, 2021

” Of all the carbon-free generation options studied, only hydropower emerged as a promising energy source, with an EROI of 84:1. Even nuclear power appeared to offer marginal potential to support society, with an EROI of 14:1.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 17, 2022

All the while, Denmark has been in a unique position to use wind power. The question remains how the European Commission can expect member states without access to offshore wind, or surplus hydropower for backup, to become independent of fossil fuels using wind energy. Source: World Nuclear Association). (Source: IEA).

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

biofuels, biomass, geothermal, hydropower, solar, wind) reached an all-time high in the first six months of this year, according to a SUN DAY Campaign analysis of new data released by the U.S. renewable energy output, followed by biomass (21.28%), hydropower (19.84%), biofuels (17.11%), solar (12.32%), and geothermal (1.67%).

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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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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

gigawatt generation fleet comes from coal-fired power plants, while natural gas makes up about a quarter more, and nuclear power one-tenth. Hydropower provides about 800 megawatts, and its only solar facility, the O’Fallon Renewable Energy Center, has a 5.7-megawatt About half of Ameren Missouri’s existing 10.3-gigawatt

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MARCH 10, 2021

Carbon trading, co-pollutants, and environmental equity: Evidence from California’s cap-and-trade program (2011-2015) ) In this Part 2, I provide some extended details on the assessments presented in Part I. Evidence from California’s carbon market emissions data 2012-2017 (2020). Assessing the key findings of the original study.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MARCH 10, 2021

Carbon trading, co-pollutants, and environmental equity: Evidence from California’s cap-and-trade program (2011-2015) ) In this Part 2, I provide some extended details on the assessments presented in Part I. Evidence from California’s carbon market emissions data 2012-2017 (2020). Assessing the key findings of the original study.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 27, 2020

This could prove problematic for NuScale’s first project, the 12-reactor Carbon Free Power Project (CFPP) in Idaho Falls, Idaho. NuScale's situation underscores the challenges facing small modular reactor (SMR) companies developing a new generation of nuclear power plants.

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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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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. All of these benefits can be captured with solar, wind, existing hydropower and lithium-ion battery technologies at projected 2030 prices, he added. The current status of U.S.

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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. 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

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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%. Follow @EngelsAngle. An Arizona project will receive $20 million in funding from the U.S.

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 26, 2021

EIA’s most recent “ Electric Power Monthly ” report reveals that renewable energy sources (i.e., biomass, geothermal, hydropower, solar, wind) provided 22.5% In April 2011, solar and wind accounted for 3.74% of the nation’s generating capacity while hydropower, biomass, and geothermal accounted for 10.23%.

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R-Squared Energy

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

We all know there are negative consequences associated with fossil fuel usage, such as the emission of carbon dioxide and various other pollutants. nuclear power supplied another 8.0%. Renewables, including hydropower, just 8.7%. You may count me among those who want to see society move beyond fossil fuels.

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Business Green

MARCH 25, 2022

Amazon cuts ribbon on first net-zero carbon grocery store. Amazon Fresh this week opened what it hailed as the world's first ever net zero carbon grocery store, cutting the ribbon on an upgraded store in Seattle. China latest mega-hydropower plant comes online.

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Business Green

JULY 15, 2020

Investor Thrive Renewables claims removal of local planning barriers could unlock multi-billion pound potential of onshore wind, solar, and hydropower sectors. We don't need to reinvent the wheel or - in this case - the wind turbine and solar panel. UK renewables have enormous potential that can be unlocked, fast.

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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

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.

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