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Palo Alto Paying Over $20,000 Annually to Natural Gas Trade Group Fighting Climate Action

DeSmogBlog

City leaders touted the new law , which is intended to tightly restrict future use of natural gas-powered heating and cooling in new construction, as an important part of the city’s plan to slash greenhouse gas emissions 80 percent by 2030.

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GEL starts construction on UK’s first deep geothermal power plant

ThinkGeoEnergy

“It’s a very, very exciting day, today – we are starting the construction of the UK’s first geothermal power plant,” said Ryan Law, CEO of Geothermal Engineering Ltd. To learn more about GEL and their geothermal projects, check out this interview with GEL CEO Ryan Law.

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Egg Geo to evaluate geothermal network heating for community in Manhattan, NY

ThinkGeoEnergy

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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After the Texas freeze, people are asking: Is electrifying buildings risky?

Grist

Cities all over California, as well as in Washington, Colorado, Massachusetts, and New York, are heeding the call and passing or considering laws that limit gas-powered heating and cooking appliances in new buildings. Making the electric grid more resilient to extreme weather is urgent, regardless of decisions about gas.

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Connecticut losing ground on building emissions despite efficiency programs

Renewable Energy World

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 natural gas and 6.6% for fuel oil. It’s complicated’.

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Is someone you know changing the world? Nominate them for the constellation prize

Renewable Energy World

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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Study: Trucks fuelled by LNG gas may be no better for climate than diesel trucks

Business Green

Transport & Environment research finds trucks running on natural gas are no better for the climate than diesel trucks. In addition, the analysis further found that demand for biomethane in Europe currently far exceeds available supplies, suggesting that fossil fuel gas would dominate the LNG truck market for the forseeable future.

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