Business Green

AUGUST 30, 2020

That is the conclusion of independent research released today by Imperial College London and energy firm Drax, which saw experts assess the tumultuous impact of the coronavirus crisis on Britain's electricity system from April to June 2020, a period characterised by near historically low levels of demand for power.

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Business Green

JULY 26, 2021

Energy use in the UK's homes, not counting electricity, accounts for roughly 14 per cent of the nation's greenhouse gas emissions, according to the Climate Change Committee , with the majority of properties poorly insulated and powered by fossil fuels.

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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.

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AutoGrid

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

to retire polluting fossil fuel peaker plants , respond to new electricity demands that are increasing for the first time in decades, and reduce grid costs. One of the most attention-grabbing charts included in the report is the forecast for future electricity demand. Far too much to cover in this blog post. Not anymore.

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Business Green

JANUARY 28, 2021

It could also be accompanied by action on skilling up, with the government's Green Jobs Taskforce set to report soon, and building on the recent Skills for Jobs White Paper to tool up a generation of engineers, assessors and technicians. Fossil fuel heating has no place in a net zero home. Phasing out.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

A new report argues that with demand for clean hydrogen set to boom, the nascent mocular reactor industry could have a key role to play in meeting surging demand. Highly productive shipyards can manufacture hundreds of units to power up the clean hydrogen economy and rapidly replace fossil fuels in shipping, aviation, and industry.".

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Bidgely

MARCH 10, 2021

Learn how Bidgely’s EV disaggregation technology is unlocking your EV program potential in the latest white paper. With an all-time high global adoption rate, the proliferation of electric vehicles is set to impact commercial and residential energy demand like never before. million EVs. These barriers are significant.

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Bidgely

MARCH 10, 2021

Learn how Bidgely’s EV disaggregation technology is unlocking your EV program potential in the latest white paper. With an all-time high global adoption rate, the proliferation of electric vehicles is set to impact commercial and residential energy demand like never before. million EVs. These barriers are significant.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 10, 2020

Most of New York’s fossil-fueled peak power plants would be vulnerable to competition if longer duration storage technologies hit the market, a new study says. out of nearby MIT to apply more rigorous modeling and analysis than is typical of a corporate white paper. But the company hired enough Ph.D.s

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

The UK should end sales of fossil fuel cars within 15 years, rapidly scale up wind and solar power capacity, curb growth in air passenger numbers, use carbon labelling on consumer products, and encourage people to eat less meat and dairy in order to achieve its 2050 net zero emissions goal.

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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

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The UK's oil and gas industry watchdog has the first time set an obligation for the sector to contribute to the nation's 2050 net zero emissions target, in a revised strategy submitted to Parliament yesterday aimed at driving as clean and efficient production as possible "as long as this demand exists".

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Business Green

MARCH 19, 2021

The energy company said the project, named H2Teesside, would supply 1GW of hydrogen annually by 2030 to heavy-duty industries currently dependent on fossil fuel gas, a move it said would establish the region as the UK's first hydrogen transport hub.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 23, 2020

These changes are made without additional hardware, and don’t affect the operations of computing tasks in constant demand like Google’s search engine or YouTube videos. But that still leaves many of its data centers consuming power from grids that rely on fossil fuels for a majority of their electricity.

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Business Green

JULY 27, 2020

In addition, National Grid's analysis, which is updated each year with several potential scenarios for how the UK could feasibly decarbonise its energy system, estimates that roughly 3GW of wind and 1.4GW of solar power would also need to be installed annually until mid-century to keep up with power demand.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 22, 2020

That's even before you include the PM's pledge to set a new 2030 carbon reduction target of 68 per cent below 1990 levels, and last week's Climate Ambition Summit, which saw the UK government outline its plans to end financial support for fossil fuels overseas. And finally to the Energy White Paper.

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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.

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AutoGrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Among the chief culprits is air quality, which, in turn, is often impacted by polluting power plants that burn fossil fuels. Particularly egregious are so-called peaker power plants , which run only when demand for electricity is high. Income in the United States 1 Many factors negatively influence average life expectancy.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2021

The current high gas prices have highlighted the need to invest in technologies which can store power as part of building a more resilient, renewables-based system which can wean us off fossil fuels. Much of the system flexibility in the past has been provided by fossil fuels.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

In the UK, for example, the government is under growing pressure from industry to introduce supportive policies, with a long-awaited Energy White Paper expected to provide investment signals for decarbonising heating, improving the energy efficiency of buildings, and supporting carbon capture technologies for industry still yet to emerge.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

Renewable energy is in demand like never before. Businesses of all sizes are prioritising carbon reduction and environmental responsibility, driven both by government targets and by demand from customers for more sustainable products and services. Growing demand for carbon-free energy. The quest for additionality.

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AutoGrid

JANUARY 16, 2023

Charging times and locations can be shifted to modulate demand, and their batteries can push electricity back onto the grid when and where it’s needed most. Enrolling these used EVs in demand response programs could also open up new income opportunities across the board. But the cost of a new or used EV is only one hurdle.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

Surely, the generalised economic difficulty that an energy squeeze puts us in should steel us to redouble our efforts to prise ourselves free from fossil gas. This means that we will never free ourselves of gas dependency without a nationwide replacement of fossil fuel heating in homes.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Studies have shown the UK has among the draughtiest homes in Europe, and ramping up energy efficiency while shifting away from fossil fuel gas for home heating is widely seen as one of the biggest challenges for the net zero agenda for the next decade and beyond.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 18, 2022

Conversely, fossil fuel exporters such as Oman, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates increasingly consider clean hydrogen an attractive way to diversify their economies. However, broader economic transition strategies are required as hydrogen will not compensate for losses in oil and gas revenues, according to IRENA.

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AutoGrid

JULY 27, 2023

Electricity demand is expected to grow more rapidly with accelerated electrification across the building and transportation sectors. With increased frequency of extreme weather events, and the simultaneous retiring of aging fossil fuel power plants, an expected peak capacity shortfall can only grow over the next decade.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 26, 2023

The meat industry is increasingly viewed as a sector where greenhouse gas emissions cuts can and should be made, just like the fossil fuel industry Livestock accounts for a third of total global emissions of methane, a potent gas that traps heat about 80 times more effectively than carbon dioxide but breaks up more quickly in the atmosphere.

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Grist

MAY 18, 2021

Strange as it may sound, demand for this service — a form of what’s called “ carbon removal ” — was just beginning to grow. And in less than a year, Charm went from a struggling alternative fuel startup to one of the most credible carbon removal companies on the market. Shaun Meehan pours bio-oil into a beaker.

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Smart Energy International

JULY 19, 2022

Have you read: PG&E implements behavioural Energy Efficiency Programme National Grid – Scaling demand response with behavioural outreach. Technical White Paper [link] (Rewiring America, 2020). Putting people at the centre. Nat Hum Behav 5, 294 (2021). Griffith, S. & & Calisch, S. Tiefenbeck et at, 2018 [link].

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Business Green

OCTOBER 8, 2020

At present home heating - the bulk of which is provided by the fossil fuel gas grid - accounts for 13 per cent of UK emissions. But the use of natural gas in homes needs to be nearly completely phased out in order to reach the country's statutory 2050 net zero emissions target.

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Business Green

JUNE 25, 2020

The CCC also praised the Department for Transport - previously something of a laggard on climate action - for its recent Transport Decarbonisation Plan , its "bold ambitions" to reduce demand for private car use, and its consultation over bringing forward the fossil fuel car sales phase out date to 2035 or earlier.

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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2020

Covid-19 stimulus plan must prioritise green building upgrades, tree planting, fossil fuel taxes, and skills training, advises Committee on Climate Change. The CCC is right to demand more from government. We cannot afford another year of stalling, patchy progress and half-developed policies.".

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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. A different approach called AR(1) (a univariate autoregression) is used modeling changes in costs of fossil fuels, which are not expected to change as dramatically.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

The initial findings of the review are to be published in the government's long-awaited Energy White Paper, although a publication date for the much-anticipated document has not yet been announced.

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Business Green

MARCH 8, 2020

The Energy White Paper must maintain this momentum as well as explore how to keep older, lower carbon plant on the system when their subsidy ends. A policy framework combining a strong carbon price with support mechanisms for renewables, has seen offshore wind prices tumble by a third.

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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

MARCH 1, 2021

We have limited time to move from a system where around 80 per cent of our primary energy supply comes from fossil fuels, to one where low-carbon technologies dominate. Supply and demand will have equal value and flexibility at all levels will keep costs low.

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