AutoGrid

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Its electricity demand reached an all-time demand peak of 223 gigawatts (GW) this past June, and projections indicate it could hit 340 GW by the decade’s end. To put that into perspective, the electricity demand for Germany in 2022 was 200 GW. Asset Diversity: As is the case in the U.S. Just as in the U.S.,

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

But BloombergNEF analysis highlights gaping holes where supportive policies are needed to spur widespread decarbonisation towards net zero. However, action from policy makers will be needed if these changes are to happen.".

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 7, 2021

It will operate across the service area of Electricity North West (ENW) as well as on the national system operated by National Grid ESO, which will join ENW as a project partner, along with Schneider Electric, ENW’s advanced distribution management system (ADMS) provider. DNOs in the U.K. Urgency driving networks to act.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

In its recent Energy White Paper, the UK Government set out that long-duration storage technologies, like pumped hydro, would play an essential role in decarbonizing the UK’s electricity supply by integrating renewable energy and maintaining security of supply. GW Coire Glas – located near Loch Lochy in the Scottish Highlands.

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Business Green

JANUARY 28, 2021

Addressing shortfalls in what remains the flagship national policy to insulate millions of homes will be top of the list. The recent Energy White Paper hints that plans for the rest of this cash will be forthcoming in the Heat and Buildings strategy, but a proper plan to carbon free homes will have eyes beyond this parliamentary term.

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Business Green

MAY 6, 2020

BEIS released a suite of documents regarding 'clean heating' policy last Tuesday including most importantly details of what will follow on from the RHI. This policy consultation comes in advance of a long awaited energy White Paper and in advance of a heat and buildings framework expected to be released later this year.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

APRIL 29, 2024

Opening talk of Hungary’s Energy Minister, Csaba Lantos, at the Budapest Geothermal Energy Summit (source: White Paper Consulting) During last year’s Budapest Geothermal Summit , local officials reiterated their belief that Hungary can be a “regional geothermal superpower.”

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Business Green

DECEMBER 22, 2020

The government's overarching ambition is welcome, but we now need a detailed policy agenda to make net zero a reality, writes the REA's Dr Nina Skorupska?. Here at the REA we are well used to a flurry of new policy being announced just before the end of the year, but this advent has been a real bumper few weeks.

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AutoGrid

AUGUST 16, 2023

August 16, 2023, marks the first full year of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), and this milestone demands a health check. billion is being steered toward residential demand flexibility under a national performance-based whole buildings program. Download White Paper The post IRA Turns 1: Forget Crawl, Let’s Run!

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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 12, 2023

A new Clean Energy Canada white paper explores ways to cut emissions from this overlooked industry. Since 2000, demand has outstripped that of other heavy industries. As a result, the International Energy Agency forecasts substantial growth in demand for products from the chemicals sector in its Net-Zero by 2050 scenario.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

It also suggests there is significant 'hidden demand' in the European economy for green hydrogen, with 540TWh potential demand unlockable in the near term and 1,200-1,400 TWh in the medium-term, provided there will be sufficient cost decreases, investments, and policy support.

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Clean Energy Canada

JUNE 5, 2023

As global net-zero commitments mount, demand for cleaner products is increasing. As our G7 counterparts charge ahead on industrial decarbonization, Canada must also act ambitiously or risk falling to the back of the pack, according to a new Clean Energy Canada white paper. First , in contrast to France, the U.K.,

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Business Green

DECEMBER 15, 2020

New UK Energy Research Centre report argues 2030 ban on new internal combustion engine cars needs to be supported by bolder policy measures throughout the 2020s. Over the past five years sales of electric vehicles (EVs) and hybrids have soared, while the efficiency of conventional cars has continued to improve.

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Business Green

JULY 28, 2020

Covid-19 has hit manufacturing hard, but with government policy support there is now a big opportunity to accelerate decarbonisation, argues Make UK's Frank Aaskov. The sector has seen a 45 per cent reduction in current demand and signs of a protracted downturn and slow recovery. We must now build back better and greener.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 15, 2020

The row over Sizewell led the headlines, but there is so much more to the Energy White Paper and its promise to deliver a decisive shift away from fossil fuels. Whisper it, but I'm not sure the inevitable reignition of the row over the UK's nuclear plans is the most important part of the long-awaited Energy White Paper.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) has urged the government to get on with fast-tracking the UK's push towards net zero emissions, amid rising frustration from business over the absence of detailed decarbonisation plans and ongoing delays to key green policy measures.

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Smart Energy International

JULY 19, 2022

Taking the ‘human factor’ into consideration when designing and implementing energy policy is crucial to achieving energy transition goals, writes Dr Rosa Garcia-Verdugo. Have you read: PG&E implements behavioural Energy Efficiency Programme National Grid – Scaling demand response with behavioural outreach.

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R-Squared Energy

JANUARY 17, 2022

As a result of the embargo, a supply/demand imbalance ensued. Our continued dependence on foreign oil has influenced American foreign policy for decades, and it has contributed to multiple military conflicts in the Middle East. automakers aspire to have 40% to 50% of new vehicle sales by 2030 be electric vehicles (EVs).

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Business Green

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Last month the starting gun was fired on what will be an intense 12 months of domestic policy and international negotiations leading up to the UNFCC COP26 climate negotiations in Glasgow. The government's Ten Point Plan for a 'Green Industrial Revolution' was the first of many significant policy announcements for the weeks and months ahead.

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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2020

The last Labour government promised a "nuclear renaissance" over 12 years ago, but since then a series of project delays and deferred policy decisions has seen only one project start construction - EDF's high profile and controversial Hinkley Point development. The intervention comes at a critical time for the UK's nuclear industry.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Citing Treasury sources, the paper reported that Chancellor Rishi Sunak was actively considering ending the fuel duty freeze which was introduced in 2011, pausing the long-standing policy of increasing fuel duty in line with inflation each year. However, an increase in fuel duty would still present a significant political challenge.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Reaching net zero by 2050 will require a step-change in how we govern and operate the electricity system. This will bring us closer to achieving the overarching ambitions set out in the government's Energy White Paper published last autumn, as well the publication of the Smart Systems and Flexibility Plan in the summer.

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Energy Innovation

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Deep decarbonization demands we do something that has never been done before: deliberately transform the energy foundation of the global economy in mere decades. Observed global average levelized cost of electricity (black dots) compared with projections from the IEA (red lines) and IAMs (blue lines).

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

AUGUST 27, 2018

Position: Distributed Energy Policy Advocate/Staff Attorney. The Clean Coalition combines policy design and advocacy with practical program and project development expertise to identify and overcome key barriers to local renewable energy. The Distributed Energy Policy Advocate/Staff Attorney will: ? Qualifications.

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Business Green

JUNE 23, 2020

Worldwide there is growing recognition of the moral imperative to ramp-up efforts to tackle the climate crisis," said Matthew Fell, CBI chief UK policy director. Third, the report reiterates previous calls for the government to deliver a series of key policy decisions that have been stuck in the pipeline for months.

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Business Green

MARCH 8, 2020

The Budget on Wednesday will be the first real test of this government's commitment on climate and it needs to drive momentum in the decarbonisation of electricity, heat and transport or it will set us up for a failure on the world stage. Carbon must become a scarcity and priced high if we're to meet net zero.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Hydrogen sales could generate more than €120bn of revenue annually across Europe by 2050, with most of the demand growth set to be concentrated in Germany, followed by the UK, France, and Italy, according to a major new analysis published today. That could be a real challenge in Germany.".

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

A lack of coordinated policies, constant changes of direction, and a failure to build up delivery capability have left the UK "well off track" to meet its overarching emissions target, the leading think tank argues in its new report Net Zero: How the government can meet its climate change target.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 4, 2020

Electric truck fleets will need a lot of power, but utilities aren’t planning for it Stephen Nadel Tue, 08/04/2020 – 01:11 As more electric buses and trucks enter the market, future fleets will require a lot of electricity for charging. Utilities will need to be ready to power electric fleets.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 8, 2020

This investment programme is going to breathe life into the UK economy - it's as much an economic policy as a climate policy, particularly over the next 10 years as we recover from the pandemic'. So it's as much an economic policy as a climate policy, particularly over the next 10 years as we recover from the pandemic.".

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 4, 2020

Electric truck fleets will need a lot of power, but utilities aren’t planning for it Stephen Nadel Tue, 08/04/2020 – 01:11 As more electric buses and trucks enter the market, future fleets will require a lot of electricity for charging. Utilities will need to be ready to power electric fleets.

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Electricity Electric vehicle Batteries Transportation 28

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

The government has announced a major review to explore how to align North Sea oil and gas exploration with its net zero ambitions, potentially opening the door to a critical shift in policy as the UK begins laying the foundations for decarbonising the economy over the next three decades.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

However, it is equally important over the longer term to avoid any repeat of the current crisis by expanding our own sources of clean domestic power as well as reducing demand - and subsequent carbon emissions. The Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill was introduced in Parliament on 11 May and covers a large range of policy issues.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 8, 2020

In order to pay for the shift to zero carbon heating, meanwhile, the costs of the energy transition should shift from electricity bills to heating bills, as gas "carries a lower cost burden than electricity and currently has no carbon price applied", the report argues.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

Heat pumps run on electricity and are more than three times more efficient than gas boilers in their use of energy. Although not as much as gas, electricity prices have also risen - 86 per cent due to the increase in gas prices. Finally, we have to get the financial incentives right on energy bills.

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Fossil fuels Government Electricity Demand 36

Business Green

JUNE 25, 2020

That's going to change fundamentally the context for climate policy, and everything else I suspect. The evidence that ambitious climate policies can boost the damaged economy while laying the foundations for long term competitiveness and climate resilience is becoming more compelling by the year. He isn't wrong.

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Business Green

JUNE 30, 2020

All I can say is that if so, then that is how it is meant to sound and to be, because that is what the times demand. Johnson was most convincing, as is so often the case, when he departed from policy detail and provided a hymn to the UK's "world-leading" clean technologies and innovations. Because they are. "We

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