Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2023

In fresh statistics released today, Britain's grid operator said more than 50 per cent of the nation's power mix came from a wind, solar, nuclear, hydropower and other zero carbon sources for extended periods of 2022, helping to significantly drive down carbon emissions from UK energy generation.

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Business Green

MARCH 25, 2020

Strong growth in corporate demand for renewable energy backed by European certificates of origin outpaced supply in 2019, data shows. Demand for renewable energy backed by verified certificates of origin grew across Europe last year, outpacing the growth in supply, the latest data from the Association of Issuing Bodies (AIB) today indicates.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 13, 2021

The IEA analyzed current government net-zero emissions pledges, finding demand for fossil fuels would peak by 2025 and global CO2 emissions would fall by 40% by 2050. The report notes that $4 trillion in annual clean energy project investment by 2030 is needed to get the world on track to keep global temperature increases within 1.5 °C

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 5, 2020

needs a massive green hydrogen industry to decarbonize its electricity, transportation and industrial sectors, and major investments and policy changes today to enable it to grow to its full potential in the decades to come. lags behind China, Japan and the European Union in infrastructure and research investments to reach this potential.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Significant research, development, and investment are needed in hard-to-decarbonize sectors, the report argues, and scaling of hydrogen technologies won’t arrive soon enough to make an impact under current investment. Wind will provide 33% of the world’s electricity output by 2050, the report forecasts.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 20, 2023

One of those who challenged the premier’s assertion against renewable energy sources was Derek Power of Toronto, the founder of Power Networks, a company that installs solar roofs. After Smith asked, “And what do I do when there’s no sun and there’s no wind?,” Power responded, “Batteries.” GW commercial.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 13, 2021

LS Power announces the formation of Rev Renewables LLC to develop, acquire and operate energy storage and renewable projects, including conventional hydropower and pumped storage. Rev is the latest effort by LS Power to support the commercialization and deployment at-scale of clean energy technologies.”.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 16, 2020

But downstate New York is facing significant supply-demand imbalances that will require large-scale energy storage to manage, he noted. New York’s plan to close the Indian Point nuclear power plant by next year and retire its most polluting power plants by 2025 will only exacerbate this imbalance. GW more this summer.

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Global renewable power generation is growing at an unprecedented rate , driven by the favourable economics of wind and solar along with energy security concerns around oil and gas (largely caused by recent wars), and emissions goals. These options can enable relatively high shares of wind and solar on a grid.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Europe is still plotting the course towards being net-zero by 2050, but no matter the shape it takes, it will surely involve hundreds of gigawatts of new renewable power capacity. By the end of 2019, the total tally (plus the U.K.) was 22 GW with 3.6 GW installed during 2019, indicating the ramp-up required to meet that goal.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

These clean power sales have surged in the past decade: According to data collected and published annually by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, they doubled from 2010 to 2014 and doubled again from 2014 to 2019. More programs, and more participation in them, could significantly increase voluntary clean power demand.

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Energy Innovation

JULY 2, 2021

Providing reliable, affordable, and low-carbon electricity in a warming world requires careful consideration of evolving electric energy supplies and demands. For instance, energy demands are likely to shift, reducing the need to heat in the winter and increasing the need to cool in the summer. Southeast in 2050. Figure 1. (a)

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Business Green

AUGUST 17, 2022

Renewable power is set to dominate European power generation this decade, but significantly more policy momentum is required to boost wind, solar and hydro’s share of primary demand, analysis finds.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 29, 2021

Since 2011, annual global energy transition investment (renewable energy, CCS, electrified transport, hydrogen, electrified heat, energy storage) has almost doubled, from $290b to $501b. Clearly the green finance revolution has taken the world by storm, with investment in low-carbon energy remaining robust throughout the pandemic.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 3, 2021

Covid19 created a fall in generation demand. By late Spring, we were receiving reports that the UK’s coal-powered energy had fallen to ‘ pre-industrial revolution levels ’, and by the summer, that pollution levels had dropped by half. The authors of the report also showed that carbon emissions fell by 16% compared to figures from 2019.

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Business Green

MARCH 27, 2020

Any incentives to boost demand once normal life resumes should be targeted at zero-emissions cars. Total buys French wind power firm. ACWA Power, Gulf Investment Corporation, and Alternative Energy Projects Co. What matters is the type of car you sell. Russia faces criticism over new climate goal.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

The plans, available at The Solutions Project’s “ Clean Energy ” link, reveal the unique mix of wind, water and sun technologies capable of powering states, countries and even select U.S. Wind, Water and Sun (aka WWS) include wind power; waterpower from tides, rivers, and subsurface water (geothermal water); and solar power.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Importantly, the report highlighted that despite all of the benefits new pumped hydro storage projects would bring, the current policy and market framework is unlikely to bring forward investment in many new projects because the long duration and low carbon capability of pumped hydro storage is not sufficiently valued. The post 4.5

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Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2023

BloombergNEF also expects costs across the sector to remain high throughout 2023, due to high raw material and labour costs, soaring demand for battery packs from automakers, and cost increases across other parts of their supply chain, such as for power conversion systems and balancing services.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 17, 2022

This system, in use since the start of the liberalisation of electricity markets in the 1990s, works as a continuous auction, ensuring that electricity sources with the lowest cost of production are used to meet demand first. 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

AUGUST 13, 2021

He is confident its technology can support a massive jump in demand and commercialisation. But simply hooking up a vertical farm to solar or wind power won't solve the problem. Rosenberg also hopes AeroFarms will start to focus on places and cities that have access to hydropower. There's a reliable demand.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 28, 2021

How will families, cities and businesses secure long-term financing for mortgages and investments? . We recognize the importance of public sector investment, particularly in green infrastructure, to facilitate the transition to net-zero emissions. Infrastructure and innovation at home. First, the public sector. .

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 22, 2021

The joint report from the International Renewable Energy Agency and International Labour Organization found that solar PV employs a third of the renewable energy industry at 4 million workers, followed by bioenergy, hydropower, and wind. With COP26 in front of us , governments must raise their ambition to reach net zero.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 13, 2020

In December, Smart Wires raised $75 million in growth equity financing led by Lime Rock New Energy, adding to previous investments of $54.6 “Now we’re looking to scale up to meet global demand.” EirGrid’s transmission networks are struggling to integrate that power efficiently, O’Sullivan said.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

President Joe Biden has called for major clean energy investments as a way to curb climate change and generate jobs. Department of Energy that found that solar power could generate up to 45% of the U.S. million solar panels or 364 large-scale wind turbines. can generate at least some solar power year-round.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Virginia’s Clean Economy Act demands that the state's flagship utility, Dominion Virginia, supply at least 30 percent of its electricity from renewables by 2030 and shut down all carbon-emitting power plants by 2045. It’s also investing in Ørsted’s 1.1-gigawatt Duke's utilities serve 7.7

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 17, 2022

The original foundation was a combination of “base load” coal plants that operated 24 hours a day and large-scale hydropower. Beginning in 1958, these were augmented by nuclear power plants, which have operated nearly continuously to pay off their large capital investments. Dennis Schroeder/NREL. Buildings use 74% of U.S.

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 23, 2021

This ambitious document outlines support for the low carbon sector via the creation of 250,000 new green jobs and via direct industry investment. million workers) will require skills which may experience demand growth (approximately 10% of UK jobs) in the transition.”.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 25, 2020

Cornell University Score 82.14 | Ithaca, New York In March 2020, Cornell saw 100 percent of its campus power needs met by solar, hydropower, and other renewable energy projects. In May, the Cornell Board of Trustees announced a moratorium on fossil fuel investments, following more than a decade of student and faculty activism.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 8, 2021

More than one third of the increase in renewable energy generation in 2018 can be attributed to East Asia, driven by large uptakes of solar and wind energy in China. The largest country-level advances in renewable energy in 2018 were in Spain, owing to higher hydropower generation, followed by Indonesia, with a rapid uptake of bioenergy.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 16, 2023

But the hydrogen industry, oil companies like Chevron and BP that are investing in the technology, and even a few renewable energy groups argued otherwise. They would shut down investment in the industry, “effectively making it dead on arrival.” The stakes are extremely high.” It will be up to the Treasury to parse these differences.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 27, 2021

The UK recently celebrated its ‘greenest ever’ Easter with low-carbon energy sources making up nearly 80% of Britain’s power supply. The Spring break’s perfect combination of sunny and windy weather placed zero coal demand on the grid and proved yet again that the UK enjoys optimum conditions for clean energy production.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 7, 2020

“The move to an electrified, renewable-powered future is going to put more demand on the grid,” Hudson Gilmer, CEO of DLR provider LineVision, told GTM. DLR could be particularly valuable for wind power, which makes up much of the variable generation that’s being curtailed in wind-rich parts of the U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Developers in the space are concerned that the coronavirus pandemic’s impact on the economy will depress demand for tax equity investments, as banks and financial institutions will have less appetite for credits to offset tax liabilities in a year when profits were depressed. ” Wind tax credit impacts. Another $2.36

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Mr. Sustainability

JUNE 27, 2020

A case to ‘recreate’ the technical and economic prosperity of the 1920s in the 2020s, by gradual divestment in ‘old’ energy systems and investment in ‘new’ renewable industries. Nations saw rapid industrial and economic growth, accelerated consumer demand, and introduced significantly new changes in lifestyle and culture.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 6, 2020

Virginia has become the latest state to pass a law that sets it on a path to 100 percent carbon-free electricity by 2050, as well as setting targets for massive investments in energy efficiency, energy storage and in-state solar and wind power. Those existing renewables are largely hydropower and biomass.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 22, 2020

Gulf Power is using its smart meter fleet for locational demand response. At the same time, NextEra's investment, backed by the certainty of rate recovery, has boosted the state's solar generation far beyond what would be possible with distributed PV, and at lower cost.

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