GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Utilities operating fossil-fueled power plants, and the low-income and disadvantaged communities that face the brunt of their pollution, may have a new model for resolving their differences.

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R-Squared Energy

MARCH 1, 2020

In the previous installment of this series, I highlighted Jeff Bezos’s recent commitment of $10 billion to fight climate change. The primary culprits that add carbon dioxide to the atmosphere are the coal, oil, and natural gas — the fossil fuels — we consume for energy. Consider coal, for example.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

The global energy agency put the halt in CO2 growth down to declining emissions from power generation in advanced economies such as the EU and the USA, thanks in large part to the expanding role of renewable energy such as wind and solar. per cent in 2018. per cent drop in CO2, amounting to 140 million tonnes.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2022

This science-based threshold — considered necessary to achieve emissions targets by 2050 — excluded all fossil fuels from being in the taxonomy. It emphasised the need to “recognize the transitional and enabling role of natural gas,” referring to two of the taxonomy’s three categories.

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Business Green

JULY 19, 2022

What could the UK's energy system look like in 2050, once offshore wind energy is the backbone of the electricity grid, fossil fuel vehicles are increasingly scarce, hydrogen fuel has gone from vision to reality, and energy efficiency is an everyday consideration for families and businesses alike?

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 17, 2020

Many more long-term challenges await PG&E, such as adapting to large portions of its customer base being served by community choice aggregators (CCAs), or its natural gas network being rendered obsolete by the state’s zero carbon by 2045 mandate. Gavin Newsom’s Wildfires Blue Ribbon Commission.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The fledgling hydrogen industry is expanding fast, and now nuclear operators are joining renewables developers in exploring how they could play a critical role in delivering zero emission hydrogen at large scale. The roadmap also emphasises the role that advanced modular reactors (AMRs) could play in powering green hydrogen production.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Von der Leyen announced a plan to collect up to 140 billion euros in windfall profit taxes from energy companies that produce electricity at low cost, e.g. wind, solar, hydro and nuclear. Add this all up, and we’re seeing a perfect storm of high energy prices for years to come – unless Russian gas supplies resume.

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R-Squared Energy

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

You may count me among those who want to see society move beyond fossil fuels. We all know there are negative consequences associated with fossil fuel usage, such as the emission of carbon dioxide and various other pollutants. Most people drastically underestimate our ongoing dependence on fossil fuels.

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Business Green

MARCH 30, 2023

Great British Nuclear (GBN): As expected, today sees the launch of a new agency based in Greater Manchester tasked with overseeing the rollout of a new fleet of nuclear power capacity through both large scale and small modular reactors (SMR). Detailing £11.6

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 20, 2021

“Without decisive action this decade, India's aggregate emissions could soar to become the world's largest by midcentury — a body blow to global efforts to rein in climate change.” Source: Brookings Institute " Coal in India " report. “Coal will no longer be the king.”

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Last month the CPUC launched a proceeding considering emergency steps to relieve the possibility of another grid emergency next summer, with options, ranging from bolstering supply-side resources like natural gas-fired power plants or utility-scale batteries to increasing demand-side resources like behind-the-meter batteries and demand response.

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R-Squared Energy

MARCH 4, 2022

and Germany will continue to rapidly deploy renewable power and electric vehicles. Fossil fuel usage will plummet. No need for Germany to rely on Russian gas. That brings me to Russia’s natural gas. In the short-term, one of the issues is Europe’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) import capacity.

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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%. due to its high cost, while the remaining 95% is produced using fossil fuels. Follow @EngelsAngle.

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Business Green

MARCH 26, 2020

The UK's domestic greenhouse gas emissions fell 3.6 per cent last year as renewable power sources once again sent records tumbling, provisional data released today shows, prompting the government to hail the country's "extraordinary progress in tackling climate change". In 2019 total UK greenhouse gas emissions were 45.2

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Business Green

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Industry Voice: Schneider Electric's Amy Haddon ponders whether the UN Climate Change Summit delivered on businesses' hopes. In November, I had the privilege to represent Schneider Electric at the UN's Conference of Parties (COP) on climate change in Glasgow.

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 26, 2021

Its latest 3-year data foresee the net capacity for coal, oil, natural gas, and nuclear power combined dropping by more than 14 gigawatts (GW) whereas renewables – mostly solar and wind – are forecast to grow by over 64 GW. adding about 1.35% to its share each year).

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 26, 2021

New research asserts most have undermined those goals by keeping coal plants running and building new natural gas plants meant to operate for decades to come. utilities that still rely on coal and natural gas for most of their generation capacity. All but one call for new natural gas plants.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The report lays out five alternative pathways to reaching its targets, ranging from those that rely on a complete shift to renewable energy and electrifying transport and buildings, to those that rely more on nuclear power, carbon capture and storage or biomass to decarbonize. In the U.S., “Who benefits more, and who pays more?

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 22, 2020

The time is therefore now to plan an orderly wind-down of fossil fuel assets and manage the impact on the global economy rather than try to sustain the unsustainable. The worst year for oil ever Oil fueled the 20th century. Many of us now believe it is not a matter of if, but when we will transition away from fossil fuels.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Yet American taxpayers have been subsidizing the oil company’s purported climate endeavors through a federal tax credit for CCS, to the tune of perhaps $240 million claimed already. ” But the vast majority of that captured CO2 is used to pump out more fossil fuel from oilfields or released back into the atmosphere.

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R-Squared Energy

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Norway announces fossil fuel divestment. I chose Norway’s announcement early in the year that its Government Pension Fund Global (GPFG) would divest certain fossil fuel investments. But the move follows similar moves around the globe, so I chose it as a representative example of the push to divest fossil fuel investments.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 12, 2020

Senate confirmed James Danly to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Thursday, stacking a third Republican against the lone Democrat on the board of a federal agency that has increasingly been seen as using its authority over interstate energy markets to privilege fossil fuels over renewables.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2021

“Democrats often dismiss Republicans as being disinterested in addressing global climate change. Democrats say Republicans aren’t serious about climate change. But upon closer inspection, the opening salvo of the new House Republican agenda is a doubling-down on fossil fuels. That is simply not true.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

While President Trump has rolled back Obama-era regulations intended to curb fossil fuel emissions, these changes have merely helped to stem job losses by propping up the production of metallurgical coal used for making steel. Power plants that use steam coal continue to close at a rapid pace.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Democratic presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, want grid operator New England ISO to give renewable energy a bigger role and fossil-fuel-fired generators a smaller one. The program was approved by FERC in March 2018, and ISO-NE held its first auction under the CASPR rules in February.

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CleanTechnica

MAY 26, 2023

Nuclear for commercial ships is so obviously flawed from a business perspective that I didn't even bother to include it in my quadrant chart of sexy vs impractical maritime decarbonization technologies.

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CleanTechnica

MARCH 8, 2023

In February, Nine Mile Point nuclear power station in upstate New York started making its own hydrogen. Normally, this would be the point where I’d do the math and explain why this is a terrible idea, but in this case they got it right. So, what are they doing and why? The Nine Mile Point […]

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CleanTechnica

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

It started with baseload power plants with transmission lines carrying the electricity to towns and cities […]. Originally published at Green Energy Times. An Old Paradigm The electricity most of us use comes from a system that was designed mostly over a hundred years ago.

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