Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2022

It argued that investments in renewables, energy efficiency, and smart grid solutions should be at the heart of any response to the crisis, noting how these green investments will enable nations to drastically reduce their reliance on polluting and volatile fossil fuel markets.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2022

To become energy secure and genuinely resilient from volatile fossil fuel prices, the UK must accelerate its transition to a zero-carbon energy system, writes Nick Molho, from the Aldersgate Group. Developing new sources of fossil fuel production: a tempting but inadequate answer to the crisis.

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Business Green

MARCH 4, 2022

Titled Cutting the Cord: Ending Europe's Energy Dependency on Russia argues that the EU and its partners, including the UK, could drastically curb its reliance on Russian fossil fuels if it is willing to embrace a raft of short-term measures and a longer strategic vision for greater energy security.

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Business Green

MARCH 7, 2022

By taking Britain down its ruinous path, the political class in Westminster has made a decision on behalf of the rest of us without any public debate being held, saddling taxpayers with a debt that few politicians are brave enough to quantify publicly and even fewer economists are clever enough to forecast accurately. "For

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 2, 2021

Electric cars are undoubtedly cleaner than fossil fuel run cars. The deficit is paid off quickly and even, when with no alternative, the electricity used to charge the vehicles is driven by fossil fuels, they are still greener. However, the mining of cobalt is fraught with political issues.

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Energy Innovation

JULY 14, 2020

Because our economies are still coupled with the burning of fossil fuels, this markedly reduced greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Every $1 million invested in renewable energy or energy efficiency created nearly three times as many jobs compared to the same investment in fossil fuels. As such, Hanna et al.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

OCTOBER 9, 2023

If the cost of carbon is factored into the price of hydrogen, green hydrogen could become more competitive compared to blue or grey hydrogen, which are produced using fossil fuels. Market Expansion: With the CBAM in place, there may be an increased demand for green hydrogen in Europe.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

The body also welcomed the passing of the UK's 2050 net zero target into law last year, as well as the government's plans to build 40GW of offshore wind capacity by 2030 and bring forward its proposed fossil fuel car phase out to 2035 at the latest.

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Business Green

APRIL 6, 2022

The government will tomorrow publish its long-awaited Energy Security Strategy, promising that the sweeping new plan will 'supercharge' clean energy deployment and put the UK on track to source 95 per cent of its power from domestic low carbon sources by 2030.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 20, 2021

The cost-competitiveness of renewable energy alternatives, air pollution regulations and water scarcity have also been putting pressure on the coal sector — and that was before the COVID-19 pandemic cratered energy demand. But in absolute terms, coal use will increase as India’s overall energy demand grows.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Von der Leyen announced a plan to collect up to 140 billion euros in windfall profit taxes from energy companies that produce electricity at low cost, e.g. wind, solar, hydro and nuclear. All suppliers bidding in this auction get paid the same price, namely the price that balances demand and supply.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

A week is a long time in politics - but the last year has felt like decades in climate and energy policy. The recent explosion in energy prices, driven by the high cost of fossil fuels, could increase household energy costs by £100bn in the next year alone. At country level, new targets were submitted. per cent to 0.5

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2023

The findings of his Review may do little to convince the net zero sceptics in his own party, but if they take the time to read it they might find themselves pleasantly surprised by how reasonable its 129 recommendations are - and how economically, politically, and socially rational to boot.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The migration and conflicts and stand-offs, potentially between nuclear powers, that would almost inevitably follow. Gas is meant to be a bridge fuel, and yet all around the world calls are understandably growing for governments to respond to Russian aggression by ramping up investment in domestic gas infrastructure.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 17, 2020

And all of this must happen without excessively raising customer rates, if it’s to avoid political and customer backlash. gigawatt-hours , of energy storage systems to help meet a statewide need for resources to maintain grid stability in the absence of natural gas power plants set to close in the coming years.

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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 17, 2023

With the growth of e-commerce and demand for faster shipping (which means burning more fuel), maritime emissions increased nearly 5% between 2020 and 2021. Further, many of the largest businesses are state- or family-owned, beholden not just to the laws of the free market, but political dynamics to boot. Maersk, MSC, Evergreen).

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2023

The Committee's overarching conclusion is both clear as day and extremely pertinent at the current geopolitical juncture: a net zero energy system is technologically, financially, and politically achievable within the 2035 timeframe, but the government simply cannot afford to waste anymore time in building it.

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R-Squared Energy

MARCH 4, 2022

and Germany will continue to rapidly deploy renewable power and electric vehicles. Fossil fuel usage will plummet. If ultimately oil demand falls and Keystone XL isn’t needed, then that’s on the company that owns the pipeline. demand has grown nearly as quickly as coal-fired power plants switched to natural gas.

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Business Green

MARCH 16, 2022

But while leaders have highlighted the need to rapidly boost clean energy generation and diversify sources of gas, so-called demand-side policies designed to reduce the amount of energy businesses and households are generating have gained notably less traction among policymakers. It was a glaring omission.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 8, 2021

Whether it’s politically possible for the U.S. First, nationwide transmission allows power-sharing across regions facing widely different weather systems that drive variation in wind and solar generation. The differences in costs add up to big numbers over the course of the next two decades, he said. transmission grid.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

DECEMBER 23, 2023

However, this policy shift may also have substantial implications for the nuclear industry. The proposal addresses the high electricity demand of clean hydrogen production. However, firms that produce hydrogen using fossil fuels would receive less.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Announcing plans to approve the new Sizewell C nuclear power plant, increase energy efficiency funding from 2025, and retain clean tech R&D budgets, Hunt said the UK would continue to pursue energy independence as it strives to deliver on its climate goals.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 20, 2020

In fact, many are still requesting that FERC reconsider the order and planning lawsuits to challenge it, or simply awaiting November’s election, which could shift political power in Washington D.C. ” More than 55 parties, including the attorneys general of 10 states, have demanded a rehearing of FERC’s order.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Renewable energy is an increasingly accepted and growing energy sector, but there are widespread concerns that conventional renewables - wind and solar - will on their own not be able to cover all our energy demands and crucially not produce a reliable baseload. We need an unvarying, reliable level of output in the power system.

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Business Green

APRIL 8, 2022

After weeks of delay and much political wrangling, the UK's Energy Security Strategy was finally released yesterday , sparking a decidedly mixed response from across the green economy. Moreover, various briefings to the media over the past month suggested these bold measures had cheerleaders in all the right places within government.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

But the promise of streamlining the planning process may also offer a much-needed boost for major low carbon energy projects such as nuclear power plants and offshore wind farms. Boosting the ECO scheme could well end up being cost neutral on Treasury with insulation cutting gas demand and so the overall price tag of the bailout.

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Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 16, 2024

The current Haber Bosch process relies on fossil fuels (~ 70% natural gas, 30% coal) and emits 2.4   Ammonia demand for fertilizer and other existing uses by IEA scenario (Source: IEA ) Shipping fuel: Maritime shipping, which accounts for 3% of CO2 emissions, is betting big on ammonia. of global emissions. 

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Business Green

JANUARY 5, 2023

Predictions for 2023 have to wrestle with the fact the most important economic and political trends are being shaped by Rumsfeldian 'known unknowns' and ‘unknown unknowns', the fog of war, and the judgements of some very old, and possibly ailing, men. EVs will continue to displace demand for petrol and diesel cars, vans, and buses.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 26, 2021

But that's only one-fifth the amount that would be required to replace their existing or planned fossil fuel generation over the coming decade, she said. Wind and solar power accounted for just above 10 percent of U.S. From decarbonization imperatives to utility realities. and around the world.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 22, 2020

The time is therefore now to plan an orderly wind-down of fossil fuel assets and manage the impact on the global economy rather than try to sustain the unsustainable. The worst year for oil ever Oil fueled the 20th century. Many of us now believe it is not a matter of if, but when we will transition away from fossil fuels.

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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 7, 2023

The US grid got its first new nuclear power in nearly seven years last week. Plant Vogtle began commercial operations from the first of two new reactors, but the over-budget and years-delayed project could be the last hurrah for big nuclear construction in America. Happy Monday!

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R-Squared Energy

OCTOBER 26, 2023

But both major political parties have glaring blind spots when it comes to understanding the energy sector. I have major disagreements with both political parties, and I strive to approach issues from a completely objective viewpoint. Oil prices are set by buyers and sellers in global markets, based on supply and demand expectations.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 20, 2021

That will require an unprecedented expansion of renewable energy to replace fossil fuels that release climate-warming greenhouse gas emissions. For context, the capacity of a large fossil fuel or nuclear power plant is about 1 gigawatt. reliance on fossil fuels declines.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Its carbon-free portfolio includes nuclear power supplying about one-third of its generation needs, and just over 5 percent renewable, most of that hydropower and biomass. At the same time, the utility has been pushing forward with significant investments into renewable energy — most notably, its massive, 2.6-gigawatt

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R-Squared Energy

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Of all the top stories this year – and for the past couple of years for that matter – the underlying theme is one of too much oil and not enough demand. That’s essentially true, but the perception for many is that slow demand is the dominant factor. My reality is that the demand side of the equation remains strong. million BPD.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 12, 2020

Senate confirmed James Danly to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Thursday, stacking a third Republican against the lone Democrat on the board of a federal agency that has increasingly been seen as using its authority over interstate energy markets to privilege fossil fuels over renewables.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

As coal mines shutter across the country and the prevalence of black lung increases, American coal workers say they are running out of hope for a political fix. Power plants that use steam coal continue to close at a rapid pace. He also pushed back on the Trump administration for suggesting that the U.S. coal industry is on the rise.

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