Clean Energy Canada

OCTOBER 31, 2023

In our recent report, A Clean Bill , we showed how a transition to clean energy does not have to come at the cost of affordability. In fact, we found that a household in the Greater Toronto Area can save hundreds of dollars per month by adopting clean energy solutions like electric vehicles and heat pumps.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 26, 2020

Thursday’s letter from PG&E vice president Robert Kenney to the California Energy Commission is a notable concession by the state’s largest utility to the constraints its natural gas operations will face under California’s push to attain zero-carbon emissions by 2045. Utilities taking sides.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 20, 2021

It’s a shockingly heady time for electricity. The push to quickly transition carbon-intensive activities away from fossil fuels while meeting the world’s growing energy needs has put electricity producers and consumers squarely in the forefront of the emerging clean economy. Subscribe here. Surge protection.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Several companies, including Gradient where Romanin is CEO (which landed him on the 2021 Grist 50 list ), are developing new AC technologies and approaches that are starting to show what a more efficient, less climate-intensive approach to cooling will look like. “And that absolutely doesn’t need to be true.”

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Municipality of Amsterdam and Eneco have signed an agreement for the construction of a sustainable heating and cooling project for new homes in the Netherlands. Touted by Eneco as one of the largest projects of its kind, the system will heat and cool 8,000 houses in the Netherlands. Sign up to our newsletter and stay informed.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

JUNE 25, 2024

The facility of Bosch under the Car Multimedia division in Braga, Portugal has installed a geothermal heating and cooling system as part of a wider initiative to eliminate the use of natural gas as an energy source at the site.

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Grist

JUNE 27, 2024

While temperatures above-ground fluctuate throughout the year, the ground stays a stable temperature, meaning it’s humming with geothermal energy that engineers can exploit. Every building sits on a thermal asset,” said Cameron Best, director of business development at Brightcore Energy in New York, which deploys geothermal systems. “I

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

There’s a lot of energy underneath homes — if reasonably priced technology can be scaled up to tap its potential. Dandelion Energy hasn’t gotten nearly to that scale yet. On Wednesday, Dandelion raised a $30 million Series B round led by Bill Gates-founded Breakthrough Energy Ventures to expand on those ambitions.

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The Verge: Energy

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Photo by VCG via Getty Images By 2030, transportation and electricity around the world will be far greener than it is today, according to the latest forecast from the International Energy Agency. Imagine 10 times more electric vehicles on the road. Renewables make up half of the world’s electricity mix.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 18, 2024

Cleantech integrator Ameresco has announced a contract to design, engineer and implement energy upgrades across 124 buildings covering 4.6 In addition, the project will replace natural gas clothes dryers with ventless heat pump dryers, install water conservation measures and upgrade building envelopes to be more energy efficient.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 13, 2020

To transform basic inputs into stuff we need, manufacturers constantly heat (and cool) minerals, ores and other raw materials to extreme temperatures. High-temperature industrial heat, over 932 degrees F, poses a particular challenge because that’s the point at which fuels beyond electricity become the mainstay.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Laura Sherman is president of the Michigan Energy Innovation Business Council. Building electrification is a potential game-changer for energy efficiency, demand management, distributed energy and other advanced energy industries, as well as for the broader task of reducing emissions.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Certain types of vehicles — including transit and school buses, delivery vans and light-duty cars — can save fleet owners considerable money when they're switched to electric. Other types of fleets such as long-haul trucks will take a lot& longer to go electric. . that fit fleets' needs. Will Rivian eventually be a division of Amazon?

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 25, 2023

According to the Energy Efficiency Movement, energy efficiency actions, such as the use of smart building energy management systems, switching to EV fleets and using heat pumps, can result in global cost savings of approximately $437 billion. billion a year by 2030 from improved motor efficiency and reduced electricity use.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 18, 2020

The past decade has seen an evolution in the microgrid market aimed at bringing the benefits of emergency backup generation — and in some cases, the clean energy value of solar and batteries — to a class of customers that can’t afford the complex, site-specific engineered systems of the past.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 25, 2020

Global revenue for home electric heating, cooling, and cooking equipment could increase more than five times by the end of the decade. The surge in spending on all-electric homes is expected even though many consumers are unfamiliar with the natural gas-displacing electric appliances on the market today.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

JANUARY 11, 2024

Decarbonizing the snowmelt system The snowmelt system is currently running using natural gas boilers. This has made the snowmelt system the largest producer of greenhouse gas emission in Vail’s operations, annual emitting between 5,500 to 6,500 metric tons of carbon dioxide.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Duke Energy’s options for reaching net-zero carbon by midcentury will look a lot different than those being pursued by utilities in the sun-soaked Western U.S., Duke's new IRP presents six very different pathways toward greening its energy mix over the next 15 years, all of them reaching at least 50 percent carbon reduction by 2030.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD), the publicly-owned utility in California's capital city, has changed its energy efficiency metric from avoided electricity consumption to avoided CO 2 emissions. This makes building electrification central to SMUD’s energy efficiency efforts.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 31, 2021

Those processes use a lot of energy and largely come from fossil fuels; one-third of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions come from industry. A key route to industrial emissions reductions is electrification (replacing industrial fossil fuels with electric alternatives). Optimize electric energy efficiency.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Solar plus battery storage can provide value in two ways: first, energy reliability for customers during emergency power outages, and second, during non-emergencies, to help the grid balance demand and generation," said Dawn Weisz, chief executive of California utility MCE, during a breakout session at last week’s virtual VERGE 20 event. .

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Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Daesung’s launch of a metaverse fund in Korea, new quantum computing use cases under investigation and a quantum developed energy efficient window coating are in the week’s technology radar. Energy Web now available as-a-service on Amazon No energy transition without collaboration and innovation. Daesung to fund the metaverse.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

JUNE 5, 2024

A first-of-its-kind project in the United States, the pilot project is designed to explore whether a geothermal network can be used in combination with traditional energy sources like natural gas or heating oil. Approximately 125 customers, previously dependent on gas furnaces, will be connected to the new system.

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Charged

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Fleets tested Volvo VNR Electric Class 8 tractors for three years: Here’s what they learned. However, heavy-duty electric trucks from traditional makers have started to hit the market. Publicity magnet Tesla said it delivered its first battery-electric Semi tractor on December 1. Put another way: Plan first, order trucks second.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

JANUARY 25, 2024

A CfD provides revenue stabilization, protecting both renewable power generators and buyers of electricity from market price fluctuations and ensuring a predictable revenue stream. However, the energy scheme is a combination of geothermal, natural gas, and fuel oil.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 13, 2020

Current conversations around the energy transition often focus on the power and transportation sectors. Heat makes up 35 percent of global energy consumption, and when it comes to space heating, direct combustion of fossil fuels in buildings plays a dominant role across the globe and is a major source of greenhouse gas emissions.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

By Lisa Prevost, Energy News Network. Climate activists say the state’s progress on reducing building emissions has been far too slow given the pace of the climate crisis, and that it needs to end incentives for energy-efficient natural gas heating. rise in emissions from natural gas. for fuel oil.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Egg Geo, LLC is performing a Thermal Energy Network (TEN) feasibility study to determine the technical and economic potential of geothermal and waste heat recovery for a cluster of buildings within the Penn South Cooperative Housing Community in New York City.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Google spinout Dandelion Energy wants to push home geothermal heating to new heights in 2020. It partnered with utility Con Edison to install geothermal heat pumps in Westchester, where demand for natural gas has outstripped supply, leading to a moratorium on new hookups. Dandelion is seizing on statewide trends as well.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

gigawatt "all-source" procurement that will pit new renewables, energy storage, demand response and other clean resources against natural gas-fired power plants in a race to meet what could be a major shortfall in grid capacity in the next four years. The all-source procurement is technically open to existing natural gas plants.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 16, 2024

A major cold snap led to record electricity usage in the Canadian province of Alberta over the weekend, culminating in demands from provincial utilities to limit consumption. The extreme cold and record-setting electrical consumption has reignited local debates about whether heat pumps are a viable option in the province.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Other companies pursuing SMR designs include Bill Gates-backed TerraPower , Hyperion Power Generation , Terrestrial Energy , and the now-defunct Transatomic. In terms of cost, NuScale is targeting a levelized cost of energy of $65 per megawatt-hour and a cost to build that would equate to $2.9

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Renewable Energy World contributor is being awarded a Constellation Prize for Policy Impact in response to a new heating/cooling solution he proposed for a 100-year-old building in Albany, NY. Back in October of 2017, Jay wrote an article that Renewable Energy World published called CHP Project for Empire State Plaza Misses the Mark.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

MARCH 2, 2024

At the same time that H2 is a great way to store renewable energy such as solar and wind power, hydrogen storage isn’t necessarily simple. Challenges in hydrogen storage Indeed, H2 or Hydrogen is a gaseous substance, necessitating larger storage areas compared to natural gas. What makes it so important?

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Grist

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Renovate buildings and redesign cars to run entirely on electricity, power them with renewable energy from the sun and wind, and bing, bam, boom, you’ve just knocked out a majority of the carbon entering the atmosphere. But last week, the energy crisis in Texas put the risks of electrifying everything in sharp relief.

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Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 15, 2021

British-Swedish pharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca is partnering with Future Biogas to power its UK sites with low-carbon energy as part of company decarbonization efforts. Future Biogas will build a renewable energy plant that will enable AstraZeneca to replace natural gas with biomethane, for heating and cooling at its sites.

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Smart Energy International

JULY 27, 2022

The Canadian government published its proposed Frame for the Clean Electricity Regulations (CER), a follow-up to a discussion paper published in March. A regulated unit would be barred from operating when its quantified emissions performance exceeded the applicable standard over a period of time that has yet to be determined.

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