DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Read time: 9 mins Nearly a year ago, the city of Palo Alto — home to Stanford University and the unofficial capital of Silicon Valley — joined a handful of other California cities in enacting an all-electric building mandate.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 22, 2022

Michal Motylewski, attorney-at-law, is a managing counsel in Dentons’ Warsaw office and a member of the Warsaw Energy and Natural Resources practice team. She focuses on European energy and climate regulations, electricity markets, renewable energy sources. Speakers: Michal Motylewski, Managing Counsel, Dentons. LISTEN NOW.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The community currently uses natural gas for heating and to produce electricity in its Combined Heat and Power (CHP) plant. Penn South first engaged Egg Geo to explore strategies for building decarbonization in an urban environment that would reduce greenhouse gas emissions and help achieve compliance with Local Law 97.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Other research and development opportunities identified include innovation in energy storage, alternative biofuels, electric vehicle batteries, and advanced wind and solar power. We will be tracking future funding announcements under this initiative.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Read more: Curtailments of solar electricity generation continue to increase in California. Gavin Newsom to sign the bill into law. Rick Umoff, senior director and counsel, California at the Solar Energy Industries Association, commended the California legislature for taking action and urged Gov.

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Front And Centered

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

In 2019, Front and Centered helped write and pass the Clean Energy Transformation Act (CETA) to transition Washington state to 100% clean electricity over the next two decades. Electricity emissions reductions are vital to countering the harms of climate change and fostering a regenerative economy.

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E2 Environmental Entrepreneurs

MARCH 27, 2023

They are also critical to the state meeting its mandated-by-law climate goals. · NY Home Energy Affordable Transition (HEAT) Act ( S2016 / A4592 )  — Would eliminate subsidies for new gas hookups (the “ 100-foot rule ”) and empower the Public Service Commission to carefully transition utilities toward zero-emissions heating/cooling.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Ramos, Republic Act 6957 or the Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) Law paved the way for a rapid development of energy projects. 2001 – Republic Act 9136 or the EPIRA Law was passed, seeking the electric power industry by the privatization of generation, transmission, distribution, and supply of the power sector. MW to 123 MW.

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Green Business Bureau

JUNE 30, 2022

Sustainable Law Firms. Law firm sustainability is a strategic business shift that aims to prevent socially and environmentally damaging operations in the legal industry. E.g. Delta Air Lines and Microsoft Corp pledged to drastically curb their carbon emissions, taking into account the carbon footprint of their associated law firms.

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Grist

JULY 26, 2023

One reader, Katrina Amaral, shared a response that struck at this balance: As part of the resources for dealing with extreme heat, I would love to see examples of heat-adaptation and climate-change mitigation ordinances or laws that have passed at municipal / state / federal levels. And thanks as always for being a Looking Forward subscriber.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 13, 2023

According to the startup, with the popularity and commissioning of renewable energy rising globally, the role of energy storage and flexible demand will be crucial, necessitating the balance of consumption and production of electricity to ensure grid stability. million electricity customers and approximately 2 million gas customers.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 27, 2020

The task for Capital Dynamics was to develop projects that would deliver enough clean electricity for Switch’s massive and ever-growing consumption at the lowest price possible. Switch was able to subscribe to this project thanks to a Nevada law allowing large industrial customers to source their own power.

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Heating or cooling the interior cabin of an EV substantially affects the vehicle’s on-road efficiency, and the HVAC system often gets the proverbial “rented mule” treatment. If you want to heat up a space that is cold, there are a number of options, from burning a fuel to directly converting electricity into heat (i.e.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

In fact, it’s one of the largest commercial solar developers in the territory of Pacific Gas & Electric, the Northern California utility now in bankruptcy reorganization under the weight of tens of billions of dollars in liabilities from deadly wildfires started by its power lines in 2017 and 2018.

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GreenBiz

JULY 30, 2020

Right now, data centers use about 2 percent of the world’s electricity. There is concern that Moore’s Law , the idea that the number of transistors on integrated circuit will double every two years, is slowing down. Not an insignificant amount. . What does that mean if things continue on their current trajectory?

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ThinkGeoEnergy

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Heating and cooling buildings accounts for about a third of the final energy consumption globally and 30% of energy-related CO 2 emissions. With global temperatures rising, the need for cooling is expected to increase dramatically in the next few years. Heating and cooling buildings is 80% of that energy used.

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

To someone who isn’t involved in power electronics design, it might seem unreal that the amount of power a component can handle depends more on how effectively waste heat can be removed from it than it does on the specific electrical ratings. From this we can infer that the maximum allowed power dissipation with the case at 25° C is 555.5

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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. Making the electric grid more resilient to extreme weather is urgent, regardless of decisions about gas. In the U.S.,

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Business Green

JANUARY 3, 2023

This presents an important opportunity for us to collectively step up, act and enshrine minimum energy efficiency requirements into law. Energy efficiency is an enabler of electrification and to grow the role of electricity in the energy mix, it is a fundamental yet overlooked fact that we need to reduce energy demand first.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

A transition toward 100 percent clean electricity is underway in the United States, led by cities and states across the country. Unbundled RECs allow for the environmental attributes of the renewable energy resource to be purchased separately from the physical electricity delivery. Target timelines also vary. Washington D.C.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

They began by summing all the emissions released at power plants to keep buildings cool and electricity flowing to wall outlets. This growing cadre of change makers has now set in motion a transition in the building industry that is as hopeful and may be as important as the better-known transition sweeping our electrical sector.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

Greenhouse gas emissions from heating and cooling buildings continue to rise in Connecticut despite the state’s efforts to improve energy efficiency. Continuing to subsidize polluting fossil fuels defies logic,” said Shannon Laun, a staff attorney for the Conservation Law Foundation, in a statement. “If

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Energy and Cleantech Council

JANUARY 5, 2021

The 2050 goal itself had already been adopted by the secretary of energy and environmental affairs under preexisting law. But there are some interesting new themes, like a focus on achieving emissions reductions in sectors other than the electric generation sector and an emphasis on environmental justice. or otherwise shake things up.

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 26, 2021

A much better choice was to switch the existing chillers from gas-fired steam turbine chillers to electrified chillers, significantly reducing the carbon footprint to cool the massive complex. Stranded assets are unable to earn their original economic return due to changes in the landscape in which the assets operate.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Google will purchase the bulk of electricity produced by the Björkvattnet onshore wind farm as part of its major renewable energy spending spree. Data centers require huge volumes of power, much of which is used for cooling. Power from the site will be used for Google’s regional data centers.

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Energy Innovation

OCTOBER 5, 2023

This post is the second in a series titled “Real Talk on Reliability,” which will examine the reliability needs of our grid as we move toward 100% clean electricity and electrify more end-uses on the path to a climate stable future. If reliable operation of the grid is apple pie, reliability services represent the slices of the pie.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

AUGUST 11, 2022

5060 ), titled An Act Driving Clean Energy and Offshore Wind, into law on Thursday August 11, 2022. The law keeps the required procurement total at 5.6 Other provisions include a ban on incentives and rebates from Mass Save related to fossil fuel powered systems, except as backup for electric heat pumps. Electric Grid.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 31, 2020

Long duration energy storage holds great potential for a world in which wind and solar power dominate new power plant additions and gradually overtake other sources of electricity. This gravity-based concept physically moves water from a low to a high reservoir, from which the water descends, when needed, to generate electricity.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Ground-source heat pumps use electricity to transfer heat from underground into the home. Both systems can be used in reverse to cool the home in warm weather. And since heat pumps can also be used for cooling, homeowners don’t have to worry about installing a separate cooling system. It’s ‘going to fit in somewhere’.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 12, 2019

The proposals include a new climate law to be drafted within 100 days and stronger carbon taxes including the creation of so-called carbon borders. Understandably, then, companies currently charged with the task of generating Europe’s electricity welcomed the proposals with open arms. ” Electrification.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

SGIP was initially conceived of to provide customers with incentives to reduce their energy use during peak demand times and to promote energy self-sufficiency in response to California’s electricity crisis of 2001.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

The interconnection rules that tell developers of rooftop solar, behind-the-meter batteries and electric vehicle chargers how much time and money they’ll need to spend to get them grid-connected — or whether they’re even allowed — are a big part of that integration puzzle.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

The Clean Peak standard jumped from policy proposal to law of the land in Massachusetts in just a couple years. It compels electricity retailers to buy credits for clean power that can be delivered during the hours of peak grid demand.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

In practice, this could look like homes pre-heating or -cooling when their solar system is producing, to save money in evening hours when the prices go up. "It States created energy efficiency programs to incentivize customers and utilities to save money by reducing consumption of electricity.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 26, 2019

Utilities planning for electric transportation. Electric vehicle charging infrastructure and EV integration have continued to dominate conversations before state public utility commissions as improvements in technology and model offerings have dramatically expanded the market. DER integration and investments in a modern grid.

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Business Green

JUNE 10, 2022

Most of the work relates to greening the city's buildings - electric heat pump installations, weatherizations and solar panel and battery installations. However, trainees also have the opportunity to learn other in-demand skills, such as electric vehicle charger maintenance and Wi-Fi installation.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 11, 2020

Late last year, the CPUC directed two-thirds of SGIP’s $830 million budget toward the "equity-resiliency" customers after blackouts left millions of California residents without power, most of them served by bankrupt utility Pacific Gas & Electric. California Sen.

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