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. utility has yet fully fleshed out how it intends to eliminate natural gas power plants from its generation portfolio. To be sure, no U.S.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 15, 2019

In a first for the United Kingdom, wind turbines, solar panels and other renewable energy sources have generated more electricity than their fossil fuel counterparts of coal and natural gas. s first power plant was established in 1882, zero-carbon energy has finally generated more clean terawatt hours.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 28, 2020

The slowdown is driven by shelter-in-place and stay-at-home orders that have forced microgrid projects to delay permitting, construction and interconnection processes amid the country’s COVID-19 pandemic, microgrid analyst Isaac Maze-Rothstein wrote. That’s similar to the delays that have hurt U.S.

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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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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Fossil fuels, primarily gas, are a fixture in millions of American homes and businesses, but the building sector’s climate impact hasn’t received the same scrutiny as coal and gas in the power sector or oil in the transportation sector. Fortunately, that’s changing. One in four U.S.

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Grist

MARCH 21, 2024

But the decision to write about his own experiences as a homeowner attempting to ditch fossil fuels came about two-thirds of the way through what amounted to more than a yearlong process. Residential energy use accounts for roughly one-sixth of total greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. Gas stoves consume about the same amount.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Shifting heating from fossil fuels to electricity can cut direct emissions. And managing electricity use to match grid needs can help utilities control the costliest part of decarbonizing their systems — reducing reliance on dispatchable fossil-fueled power. Another project in Clovis, Calif.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 20, 2020

Adding solar farms to that list of assets could offer grid operators a new tool to deal with the challenge of integrating more and more carbon-free, yet intermittent and sometimes unpredictable, wind and solar power, said Troy Lauterbach, senior vice president of First Solar’s Energy Services business.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 24, 2021

Offshore wind energy powerhouse Orsted demonstrates that a pivot away from fossil fuels is possible. The first, biggest step to slowing climate change is switching electricity generation from coal and gas to wind and sun. This needs to happen fast, with coal phased out no later than 2030 and gas not far behind.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Fossil fuels - oil, gas, and coal - are still very much the backbone of the global energy system, and these industries employ tens of millions of workers around the world. Clean energy employs more people worldwide than fossil fuels.

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Business Green

MAY 22, 2020

It also argued wind and solar power would be more cost-effective for bill payers compared to new gas power capacity. Leadsom, however, argued the country would still need fossil fuel power in the future, and that it was not the job of the planning system to block individual projects on climate grounds.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 12, 2020

With a long history in fossil fuels and nuclear energy, Engie has pivoted dramatically toward renewables over the past few years — a strategy that included the U.S. acquisitions of wind developer Infinity Renewables, solar installer SoCore Energy, and battery storage company Green Charge Networks. gas plants.

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

still obtained 63% of its electricity from fossil fuels. He didn’t mention nuclear power or carbon sequestration in this speech, but his website does mention them among four specific goals designed to decarbonize the power sector. Small modular nuclear reactors at half the construction cost of today’s reactors.

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Business Green

MARCH 25, 2021

Exclusive: Researchers have sought to calculate the external environmental, social and health costs of from fossil fuels, renewables, road transport and aviation. It's yet even more sobering evidence that the UK needs to move away from fossil fuels and ambitiously pursue rapid decarbonisation," he added.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The projections are notable in part because Ohio lawmakers have spent several years putting a thumb on the scale in favor of fossil fuels. Legislation has gutted the state’s renewable energy standards, subsidized old coal-fired power plants, and erected new hurdles for siting solar and wind projects, but not fossil fuels.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Saudi Arabia is constructing a futuristic city in the desert on the Red Sea called Neom. “It is very promising,” said Rachel Fakhry, an energy analyst for the Natural Resources Defense Council. hydrogen is a lot more expensive than other fuels such as natural gas. “Green hydrogen can do that.”

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Business Green

JANUARY 22, 2021

It also argued wind and solar power would be more cost-effective for bill payers compared to new gas power capacity. However, natural gas will still provide a reliable source of energy while we develop and deploy low carbon alternatives that can replicate its role in the electricity system.".

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Solar Industry

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

MW solar project in Houston, Alaska to its operating portfolio. The solar project – the largest ever built in the state – was developed and constructed by Renewable IPP (RIPP) , an Alaska-based solar developer. CleanCapital financed the project construction and serves as the long-term owner-operator of the site.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

gigawatts of utility-scale solar capacity in the first half of 2021, a 15% increase from the first half of 2020 and nearly halfway to the total capacity added in 2020, according to an analysis by S&P Global Market Intelligence. GW of total solar capacity (including distributed generation). electricity supply from solar by 2050.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 23, 2020

Fossil-fueled combined-heat-and-power systems will continue to take a back seat to distributed solar and energy storage for behind-the-meter generation — although resilience against wildfires, hurricanes and other extreme weather events will drive adoption of both. market by 2025, according to Maze-Rothstein.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 1, 2020

Most of the winning projects will be co-located with existing solar farms that will charge the batteries, making them useful for integrating and smoothing the intermittency of the state’s growing share of renewable generation, as well as providing resource adequacy (RA) for times of peak demand in the late afternoons and evenings.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 6, 2020

utility industry: the rise of renewables as a potentially less costly and risky alternative to fossil fuels. The Atlantic Coast Pipeline's cancelation marks the natural gas market’s “third high-profile victim in the last six months,” Wang wrote in a Monday note. The others include Williams Co.’s

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Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 18, 2021

Shell - Gas to liquids (GTL) | Shell Natural Gas. This is the practice where natural gas is separated into hydrogen and CO2. Why focus on creating sustainable marine fuels? > Eventually all fossil fuels are to be replaced with a sustainable alternative, hopefully some time before 2050.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Natural gas’s notorious price volatility has been making a comeback — in a big way. The UK is experiencing a natural gas price surge so severe that the government stepped in to prevent a cascade down the supply chain that threatened to create food shortages. In the U.S., In the U.S.,

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 20, 2019

Renewable energy can be defines as a form of energy derived from the natural sources which cannot be depleted such as wind or solar power. They are the natural energy present in all forms ranging from sunlight, wind, waves, geothermal heat and tides. There sources are replaced constantly but does not get short.

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Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 18, 2021

This is the practice where natural gas is separated into hydrogen and CO2, where the hydrogen is used for the petrochemical industry and CO2 is simply released into the atmosphere. Why focus on creating sustainable marine fuels? We however are not interested in replacing all fuels. The reason?

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Energy Innovation

MAY 9, 2022

Recent policy interventions have begun to address such energy injustices by improving access to local renewable energy and replacing aging fossil fuel infrastructure with clean energy alternatives. Across the nation, states and utilities are working to improve access to solar in underserved lower-income communities.

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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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GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

In leading a piece of the communications strategy for one of the most dynamic companies in the sustainability space, she’s making sure the world knows about its climate work , which includes committing to buy 10,000 electric delivery vehicles, investing heavily in renewable natural gas and working toward a circular economy.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 14, 2021

Natural gas, the dominant fuel source for U.S. electricity, is only expected to account for 16 percent of new power plant capacity. Almost all of those gas generators are popping up in Texas, Ohio or Pennsylvania, the EIA noted.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 17, 2021

In leading a piece of the communications strategy for one of the most dynamic companies in the sustainability space, she’s making sure the world knows about its climate work , which includes committing to buy 10,000 electric delivery vehicles, investing heavily in renewable natural gas and working toward a circular economy.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 16, 2024

They were headed for the massive floating construction site of an offshore wind farm 35 miles from the eastern tip of Long Island, New York. “If you were a fossil fuel project, you would have been shut down long ago.” “Hear this message: We’re here to save the whales!

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Plenty of industry observers and critics have pointed out the gaps between utilities’ 2050 net-zero carbon goals and their short- and long-term resource plans, many of which call for continued buildout of natural gas-fired power plants. Natural gas and oil pipelines also saw setbacks. East Coast.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Most of the $690 billion in investment to reach this 37 percent by 2030 goal is tied up in building out utility-scale and distributed solar PV and onshore and offshore wind farms, along with a smaller but still significant investment in energy storage capacity to retain grid reliability as intermittent renewables replace fossil fuel power plants.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

“They’ve done their best to try to prop up fossil fuels, but it hasn’t really come [at] the detriment of renewables.” Major natural gas and oil pipeline projects have been abandoned or halted by legal challenges.

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CleanTechnica

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Energy Information Administration (EIA) for newly constructed utility-scale electric generators in the United States, annual capacity-weighted average construction costs for solar photovoltaic systems and onshore wind turbines have continued to decrease. According to 2018 data from the U.S.

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