Business Green

MARCH 12, 2020

These include industries such as electricity generation, urban transport, crop agriculture, and cement manufacturing, and means that if these activities meet thresholds set out in the Taxonomy criteria, they can be labelled as 'environmentally sustainable' in financial products.

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R-Squared Energy

MAY 25, 2023

5376 ) was signed into law by President Biden on August 16, 2022. Noteworthy provisions in the IRA include $100 billion for electric vehicles, $65 billion for clean energy manufacturing, and $50 billion for energy efficiency. Finally, the IRA contains provisions that support the expansion of nuclear power.

Energy 60

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2023

It is a far from unsurprising message from Skidmore, who having signed the 2050 target into law, has long been a staunch advocate for an ambitious net zero agenda. Develop a long-term cross-sectoral infrastructure strategy by 2025 - Ensure new strategy can deliver distribution networks for electricity, CO2, and liquid and gaseous fuels.

Business Energy Monitoring 47

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Climate Tech VC

MARCH 4, 2024

  In other news the EU parliament passed a law to restore 20% of the EU’s land and sea by 2030, England requires all new buildings to improve biodiversity, and the US Congress finds something they can agree on with nuclear policy, while the SEC may be set to announce watered down rules on reporting.   Credits galore.

Energy Monitor 111

Energy Monitor Investment Building Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor 111

Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

These lawful constructs are put in place to serve and protect the world at large and public concerns over environmental and social wellbeing are on the rise. Competition Law and Sustainability Agreements. But regulations are more than just policies and they shouldn’t be your only reason for being a sustainable, ethical business.

Business Energy Monitoring 97

Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Sustainability 97

Green Business Bureau

MARCH 16, 2021

Responsibilities differ based on the industry, such as construction, agriculture or manufacturing. Some engineers work in manufacturing, for example, designing low-energy light bulbs, lighting systems or electric vehicles. They can help organizations adhere to best practices in their industry and avoid regulatory fines or legal action.

Business Energy Monitoring 148

Business Energy Monitoring Sustainability Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 148

The Verge: Energy

DECEMBER 22, 2023

The tax credit comes with strict stipulations around using newly constructed sources of clean energy to produce hydrogen, as opposed to more polluting sources. Moreover, it can run on electricity generated by renewables or carbon-free nuclear energy. An electrolyzer can split water into oxygen and hydrogen molecules.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 16, 2021

Responsibilities differ based on the industry, such as construction, agriculture or manufacturing. Some engineers work in manufacturing, for example, designing low-energy light bulbs, lighting systems or electric vehicles. They can help organizations adhere to best practices in their industry and avoid regulatory fines or legal action.

Business Energy Monitoring 78

Business Energy Monitoring Sustainability Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 78

Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 17, 2023

Further, many of the largest businesses are state- or family-owned, beholden not just to the laws of the free market, but political dynamics to boot. No green or blue ammonia is being produced at scale today, though construction on new plants are underway. The biggest shipping companies (i.e., Fuel Maturity: The least mature.

Carbon-negative 52

Carbon-negative Innovation Carbon Policy 52

Clean Energy Trust

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Credit: Rethink Electric Illinois Commits to 100% Clean Energy Illinois passed major climate policy in September, the first state in the Midwest to do so. Battery Supply Chain Sustainability and Resilience With the surge in new electric vehicle models and sales, there has been a huge amount of activity lately in the battery supply chain?

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

In October 2015, Cameron and China’s President Xi Jinping signed another deal for China General Nuclear Power Group (CGN) to take a one-third stake in the new Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant. nuclear plant built with Chinese investment as lawmakers question the security implications. and Europe?

Nuclear Power 130

Nuclear Power Energy Energy Europe 130

GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 5, 2019

In between the election and Polis’ inauguration, Xcel Energy — the state’s largest utility — announced its own target of 80 percent carbon reduction by 2030 and 100 percent carbon-free electricity by 2050, an ambitious goal but one that had the potential to undercut Polis’ stricter decarbonization targets.

Nuclear Power 100

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

announced plans Wednesday to separate its financially challenged nuclear power plant fleet and other generation assets from its multistate regulated utilities business. That scandal has scrambled Exelon’s efforts to seek out state aid for its financially struggling nuclear power plant fleet in Illinois. Exelon Corp.

Nuclear Power 130

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Schumer’s office, the two-year extension of the federal Investment Tax Credit for solar projects will retain the current 26 percent credit for projects that begin construction through the end of 2022, rather than expiring at the end of 2020 as they would have under existing law. Action by the U.S.

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Packaging Nuclear Power Energy Energy 130

Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 16, 2024

BYD began construction of the largest 30 GWh sodium-ion battery facility for small EVs in Xuzhou, China. Meanwhile, nuclear demand heightened with the UK Government laying out its plan to quadruple nuclear power by 2050 to 24GW and China approving construction for four new reactors.

Building Energy Monitoring 115

Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring 115

GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 26, 2021

electricity sector by 2035, and the cost imperatives of U.S. Taken as a group, the 50 utility holding companies studied have a total of 100,000 megawatts of new wind and solar in their IRPs, Sierra Club Electric Sector Analyst Cara Bottorff said in a Tuesday press conference. generation capacity in 2020, according to federal data.

Climate change 130

Climate change Solar Energy Monitor Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring 130

Business Green

JUNE 4, 2021

Emissions from passenger cars in Europe have been rising for the past five years even despite growing demand for electric vehicles, in many cases due to increasing sales of carbon-intensive sports utility vehicles (SUVs) and other larger and heavier cars, the EEA said. Russian parliament approves law to limit greenhouse gas emissions.

Energy Monitor 63

Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Transportation Home Energy Monitoring 63

Climate Tech VC

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Award winners took a broad swath of color approaches, from green hydrogen powering heavy-duty trucks and port operations, to pink nuclear-powered hydrogen, and blue hydrogen (natural gas with carbon capture) in the Appalachian Hub.  of global electricity.  to $86.83 / barrel. Harvesting water from thin air.

Solar Energy Monitor 57

Solar Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring 57

Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 11, 2023

  In the US , a 2023 Pew Research Center survey shows 57% of Americans favor nuclear power, a 14% increase over 2020. Italy installed its National Platform for Sustainable Nuclear Power in September. The committee will draft a plan to reintroduce nuclear for the first time since 1990.

Solar Energy Monitor 57

Solar Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring COP Business Energy Monitoring 57

DeSmogBlog

JUNE 7, 2023

Austin Wall was attending an environmental law conference at the University of Tennessee not long ago when, during a discussion of natural gas pipeline projects, a map appeared on the screen and gave him a surprise. I’m like, hold up, that Google Maps looks really familiar to me,” the 25-year-old law student said. “I

Fossil fuels 69

Fossil fuels Natural gas Methane Law 69

DeSmogBlog

JUNE 8, 2023

Austin Wall was attending an environmental law conference at the University of Tennessee not long ago when, during a discussion of natural gas pipeline projects, a map appeared on the screen and gave him a surprise. I’m like, hold up, that Google Maps looks really familiar to me,” the 25-year-old law student said. “I

Fossil fuels 52

Fossil fuels Natural gas Methane Law 52

GreenTechMedia

MARCH 17, 2020

While the details are complex and still in development, their result would be to force administratively set minimum prices on future wind and solar resources, energy efficiency, demand response, and nuclear power plants in PJM's capacity market. The particular threat for Illinois.

Energy 131

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Business Green

AUGUST 8, 2022

Barring any late Congressional dramas, President Joe Biden could sign the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) into law before the week is out, triggering a multi-billion dollar green investment bonanza that promises to drastically accelerate US emissions reduction efforts. Clean power producers would be eligible to receive 1.5

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