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

JANUARY 18, 2021

To reach Europe's ambitious carbon reduction goals, “we will need greater investment in hydropower projects in Spain and all across the continent,” said Will Henley, head of communications at the International Hydropower Association, in an email.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 9, 2020

The gap is growing between the transmission network’s capacity and the need to link wind farms in the Great Plains and Intermountain West , solar farms in the Southwest, and hydropower resources in eastern Canada, to other regions hungry for carbon-free energy. TransWest Express. Grain Belt Express. But the 780-mile, $2.3

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Energy sources such as biomass, solar and hydropower accounted for a larger percentage of all energy produced in the U.S. Unfortunately, there was a drop in hydropower produced during the same period due to droughts experienced in the western states of the U.S. A similar drop was also experienced in geothermal power production.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 16, 2021

This week FERC issued a policy statement clarifying how it will consider market rules proposed by regional grid operators that seek to incorporate a state-determined carbon price in organized wholesale electricity markets. Finally, the policy statement does not indicate a preference for carbon pricing over any other state policy.

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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

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

The opt-out Rochester Community Power program will offer 57,000 residents and small businesses access to clean energy from hydropower and wind sources. So much hard work was put into creating Rochester Community Power, and now our residents will begin to reap the benefits," said Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren. "We

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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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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Europe is still plotting the course towards being net-zero by 2050, but no matter the shape it takes, it will surely involve hundreds of gigawatts of new renewable power capacity. “Particularly over the 2020 coronavirus lockdown months, we witnessed the impact of high VRE on the system, resulting in low and negative power prices.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 11, 2020

Through its two utility subsidiaries, Pacific Power and Rocky Mountain Power, PacifiCorp claims to be the largest grid operator in the Western U.S., PacifiCorp's utilities have long relied on federally operated hydropower or utility-owned fossil-fueled generation for their electricity. million customers in six states.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

The authors argue for the rapid scaling of hydrogen and carbon capture technologies. While the report acknowledges that the current power system is not set up to fully depend on renewable sources, declining costs, government incentives, and carbon pricing will allow renewables to soon become the dominant source.

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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. At the same time, New York has also set a target of 9 gigawatts of offshore wind power by 2035.

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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%). Global carbon dioxide emissions fell by 6.3%

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Global renewable power generation is growing at an unprecedented rate , driven by the favourable economics of wind and solar along with energy security concerns around oil and gas (largely caused by recent wars), and emissions goals. Both find wind and solar to be cost-competitive with natural gas-fired electricity in the U.S.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

To meet domestic and international renewable and climate change targets, North Sea Link will help increase opportunities for shared use of renewable energy - a mix of generation, including wind power from the UK and hydropower from Norway.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 20, 2023

One of those who challenged the premier’s assertion against renewable energy sources was Derek Power of Toronto, the founder of Power Networks, a company that installs solar roofs. After Smith asked, “And what do I do when there’s no sun and there’s no wind?,” Power responded, “Batteries.”

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 5, 2021

will supply nearly carbon-free electricity to power Google’s data centers in the state. The power generator announced it will become sole supplier of the tech giant’s data-center needs for clean energy. The utility will ensure the energy powering those data centers will be 90% carbon-free when measured on an hourly basis.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

The plans, available at The Solutions Project’s “ Clean Energy ” link, reveal the unique mix of wind, water and sun technologies capable of powering states, countries and even select U.S. Wind, Water and Sun (aka WWS) include wind power; waterpower from tides, rivers, and subsurface water (geothermal water); and solar power.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Wind energy, meanwhile, accounted for 1.17 and hydropower employed around 1.95 Global Wind Energy Council chief executive Ben Backwell, meanwhile, urged policymakers to reconsider their support to the fossil fuel sector. Around a third of the total renewable energy jobs were in the burgeoning solar sector at 3.8 million workers.

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Business Green

MARCH 27, 2020

Total buys French wind power firm. ButReuters reported that the NorthConnect project is controversial as some Norwegian politicians fear rising grid costs and power prices could result as generation from wind turbines and hydropower dams is exported. Russia faces criticism over new climate goal.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 15, 2022

This means a significant amount of energy is used at all times to keep the lights on, run the HVAC systems, and power all of the devices and machinery inside. Most of this energy is produced by the burning of fossil fuels which releases a mass amount of carbon dioxide into the environment. hydropower and wind power).

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Business Green

AUGUST 17, 2022

At present, renewables account for 35 per cent of the power mix in Europe, 23 per cent in the US and 30 per cent in China.

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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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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 1, 2021

However, a new eye-catching report put together by London-based think tank Carbon Tracker, shows that we might’ve finally left fossil fuels in the ground for good by 2035. Their research reveals that by 2035, we could be generating over 100 times the amount of electricity that we need to meet global demand, purely from wind and solar.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

These clean power sales have surged in the past decade: According to data collected and published annually by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, they doubled from 2010 to 2014 and doubled again from 2014 to 2019. This is a recent phenomenon, and NREL has yet to collect data to track its impact.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 3, 2021

The authors of the report also showed that carbon emissions fell by 16% compared to figures from 2019. Lead author of the Drax report Iain Staffell said that: “2020 saw Britain edge closer to the power system of the future with renewables generating more power than fossil fuels.”. “The The broader picture. 19 lockdown measures.

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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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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 12, 2021

Empresas Públicas de Medellín (EPM) in Colombia will hold a public auction to sell 2 million certificates of carbon credits from three hydroelectric plants and one wind farm. A carbon credit is equivalent to 1 ton of CO2 that is no longer emitted into the atmosphere.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 1, 2021

Onshore wind fared better, at 18:1, but the authors noted that “the value in practice may be less due to the need for backup facilities.” ” Of all the carbon-free generation options studied, only hydropower emerged as a promising energy source, with an EROI of 84:1.

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Energy Innovation

JULY 2, 2021

Providing reliable, affordable, and low-carbon electricity in a warming world requires careful consideration of evolving electric energy supplies and demands. They use a series of models to explore energy mixes that include coal, hydropower, nuclear, solar, natural gas, and wind in the future relative to today. Craig, M.T.,

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 3, 2019

The nation’s largest electric grid operator is grappling with how to prevent state climate policies from merely pushing emissions — and costs — across state lines.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 16, 2019

The renewable energy transition promises to reduce carbon emissions, but it’s happening at different speeds around the world. Read on for some key insights from BloombergNEF’s New Energy Outlook 2019, which provides a detailed road map to the future.

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Grist

DECEMBER 15, 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. The economics of carbon-free living have fallen into place. Renewable solar and wind power now typically costs less than fossil-fuel alternatives.

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Business Green

MARCH 25, 2021

Yet while the failure to price in the costs of greenhouse gas emissions was famously described by economist Lord Nicholas Stern as the biggest market failure in history, attempts to bring in carbon pricing measures worldwide such as taxes and emissions trading schemes have had only limited success to date.

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Business Green

MARCH 25, 2020

The latest GO statistics today therefore point to rising demand among energy suppliers and corporates for clean energy, as consumers and economies shift away from high carbon power sources towards cheaper, greener renewables.

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Business Green

MARCH 25, 2020

The latest statistics for GOs today therefore point to rising demand among energy suppliers and corporates for clean energy, as consumers and economies shift away from high carbon power sources in the face of the climate crisis towards cheaper, greener renewables.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

million customers by 2025, adding nearly 700 megawatts of wind power, plus more solar and battery storage systems to boost rural reliability. Missouri's lagging wind market. Unlike most utility grid modernization plans, however, Ameren Missouri’s plan also includes $1 billion for wind power.

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