Business Green

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Forced outages are a tool of last resort, employed in circumstances of incredible stress to the grid and done to protect against more widespread outages. Record heat for several days across parts of the state strained the power grid so much that it started rationing electricity, for the first time in almost 20 years.

Energy 66

Energy Energy Demand Climate change 66

AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Forced outages are a tool of last resort, employed in circumstances of incredible stress to the grid and done to protect against more widespread outages. Record heat for several days across parts of the state strained the power grid so much that it started rationing electricity, for the first time in almost 20 years.

Energy 28

Energy Energy Climate change Demand 28

AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Forced outages are a tool of last resort, employed in circumstances of incredible stress to the grid and done to protect against more widespread outages. Record heat for several days across parts of the state strained the power grid so much that it started rationing electricity, for the first time in almost 20 years.

Energy 28

Energy Energy Demand Climate change 28

DeSmogBlog

JULY 20, 2023

Green hydrogen” is made from solar and wind power, while “blue hydrogen” is made using natural gas, in a process that involves capturing and storing methane’s carbon dioxide emissions (CCS), however this technology was described as “minimal or non-existent” in a 2021 report by Manchester University’s Tyndall Centre.

Home Energy Monitoring 76

Home Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Solar Energy Monitor 76

Business Green

JANUARY 19, 2021

Opponents of the mine have noted that if the government is successful in catalysing the development of green steel production, as the UK's net zero targets suggest it must be, then the new mine risks seeing demand for its coal curtailed in the coming years.

Nuclear Power 69

Nuclear Power Government Policy Carbon 69

R-Squared Energy

MARCH 3, 2021

Our wind and our solar got shut down, and they were collectively more than 10 percent of our power grid, and that thrust Texas into a situation where it was lacking power on a statewide basis.”’ Many utilities began to lose natural gas supplies just as power demand was reaching record highs.

Natural gas 148

Natural gas Demand Nuclear Power Batteries 148

GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

After a week of the country’s worst power grid collapse in decades — an event that's taken a dreadful toll in dozens of lives lost and billions of dollars in economic damage — the lights are back on in Texas. “But this weather event was a lot more extreme than either of those.”

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Power grid Natural gas Cooling Investment 130

Grist

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The report notes that the cost of solar energy has fallen 90 percent in the last decade, and the cost of wind power has dropped 70 percent. And the biochar industry still faces hurdles in scaling up production and demand. Between 2005 and 2019, greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. decreased by 12 percent.

Home Energy Monitoring 139

Home Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor Energy Monitor 139