Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The ninth edition of the Sustainable Energy in America Factbook tells the story of American energy efficiency, natural gas and renewable energy in a volatile year. Greenhouse Gas Emissions Source: BloombergNEF estimate. The economic disruption caused a massive drop in national greenhouse gas emissions. Figure 1: U.S.

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Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Current nuclear and large hydropower capacity add up to around 50 GW. Most of the new transmission buildout is projected to be driven by a near doubling of electricity demand between 2020 and 2030. . Policy and regulatory measures would be needed to increase the pace of deployment. .

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 25, 2020

“There is more to the story in terms of supporting energy decarbonization goals,” such as state-by-state policies that could drive the shift from fossil fuels to renewables. O’Boyle cautioned that the modeling reflects an idealized RTO in which capacity, transmission and dispatch are all optimized for greatest efficiency.

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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.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Climate change-induced heat waves are once again increasing demand for electricity just as the impacts of wildfires, drought and a diminished snowpack have coalesced to reduce electricity supplies and disrupt critical transmission and distribution systems. How hydropower balances a renewable energy grid.

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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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AGreenLiving

MAY 21, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted nationwide energy supply-and-demand patterns. Because of the change in season, natural gas and coal generators often “schedule routine maintenance for the spring…and many coal plants spen[d] part of April offline for planned, temporary outages.” electricity consumption.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 21, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted nationwide energy supply-and-demand patterns. Because of the change in season, natural gas and coal generators often “schedule routine maintenance for the spring…and many coal plants spen[d] part of April offline for planned, temporary outages.” electricity consumption.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Further expansion of renewables, heat pumps, energy efficiency measures, and biomethane production next year is "vital" if Europe is to effectively respond to looming gas supply shortages next year precipitated by Russia's on-going war on Ukraine.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

To level the playing field, public agencies and private businesses will need to set policies that encourage buying emissions-free steel, or make it more expensive to purchase conventional supplies, said Nate Aden, a senior fellow at the World Resources Institute who studies industrial sector transformations.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 17, 2022

On behalf of environmental group RePlanet, energy specialist Joris van Dorp offers a deep analysis of the key messages in Europe’s policy. Since these issues are so important, it’s worthwhile addressing some of the key messages of this historic speech, as these will serve as the basis for EU policy in the years ahead.

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Clean Energy Trust

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Corporate buying commitments are an area where a lot of opportunity exists in the absence of comprehensive climate policy. NET Power is building a new type of natural gas power plant that uses oxy combustion (burning natural gas with pure oxygen) and supercritical CO2 instead of steam in its turbine.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

In 2008, Jacobson teamed up with student, Graeme Hoste, to assess whether California’s hourly demand for electricity could be satisfied with a combination of renewable power sources. Hydropower electricity produced in the Pacific Northwest would be imported to fill in the gaps. Congress; and policy pros serving President Obama.

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Business Green

MARCH 27, 2020

The government said the policy was temporary, but provided no end date. Any incentives to boost demand once normal life resumes should be targeted at zero-emissions cars. The EPA said it would not "seek penalties for noncompliance with routine monitoring and reporting obligations" during the suspension.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

At the same time, the increasingly dire effects of global warming are bringing more Americans in line with much of the rest of the world in making carbon-emissions reduction a top policy priority. utility by market valuation — at least until it completes the sale of its multistate natural-gas business to Berkshire Hathaway Energy.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Hydropower, still the largest renewable resource in the world, and wind will account for the great majority of additions this year, according to IEA. But even solar held steady in 2020, despite residential installers reeling from depressed demand. Even as energy demand falls worldwide, renewables demand is increasing.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 20, 2021

This drop happened thanks to policy, market and technology drivers. Overall demand for electricity in 2020 was almost exactly the same as in 2005, and 24% lower than projected by federal energy forecasters. has also become more energy efficient since 2005, thanks to policies and technology improvements. About the Authors.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Rhodes, an energy technology and policy researcher at the University of Texas at Austin, what it would take to meet this target. It concludes that the latter two scenarios would require approximately 1,050-1,570 gigawatts of solar power, which would meet about 44%-45% of expected electricity demand in 2050. We asked Joshua D.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 8, 2021

This geographic diversity reduces the likelihood that renewables won’t be able to meet demand, thereby decreasing the amount and duration of energy storage required to cover those gaps, he said. The differences in costs add up to big numbers over the course of the next two decades, he said.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 20, 2019

This conference is a global platform to discuss and learn about aims to provide a Renewable energy researchers, scientists, industrialists, policy makers, energy economists and academicians to exchange and share their experiences and research results about all aspects of Renewable Energy and Resources. Most commonly the dam water is used.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 16, 2023

Current supplies are made by reforming natural gas, which releases greenhouse gasses. Plug your hydrogen plant into the grid pretty much anywhere in the country today, and it could result in higher emissions than the conventional production method that uses natural gas.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 25, 2020

Thirteen years ago, this ahead-of-its-time cool school eliminated plastic water bottles (though it's had to temporarily suspend the policy due to COVID-19). 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.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 26, 2021

New research asserts most have undermined those goals by keeping coal plants running and building new natural gas plants meant to operate for decades to come. utilities that still rely on coal and natural gas for most of their generation capacity. All but one call for new natural gas plants.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 1, 2021

The findings, taken from the IEA's An Energy Sector Roadmap to Carbon Neutrality in China report, suggests Beijing's existing policies will also give the country the capacity to accelerate its transition to clean energy sources and reach carbon neutrality before 2060. Green policies to play key role in German coalition talks.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The report acknowledged that high gas prices had "propped up" coal demand this year, but it concluded that "the relatively small increase in coal emissions has been considerably outweighed by the expansion of renewables". At the same time the weakening economic outlook should dampen expectations for energy demand going into 2023.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 21, 2020

They could also set the industries in a more advantageous position to seek further federal policy support as President-elect Joe Biden takes office and seeks to implement ambitious decarbonization goals for the U.S. Geothermal energy research will get $850 million, and hydropower and marine power will get $933 million.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 6, 2020

For Dominion Virginia, this will mean securing enough renewables to replace coal plants that supply roughly one-quarter of its electricity, and natural gas plants that supply about another third. Those existing renewables are largely hydropower and biomass. Dominion also gets more than one-third of its energy from nuclear power.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 13, 2020

The unemployment rate has surged in PGE’s region during the coronavirus pandemic, hobbling commercial demand for power. PGE is also buying more hydropower in the Pacific Northwest. ” The fate of PGE’s last coal plant, not to mention its five natural gas plants, remains an open question.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 22, 2020

As the coronavirus struck the global economy earlier this year, demand for oil dropped by more than a fifth and prices collapsed. Since spring 2020, oil and gas has seen one bombshell after another, and the impacts are adding up. Many sources now suggest that oil demand has already passed its peak.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

That’s greater than its previous commitment to reduce net carbon emissions from its power sector by 80 percent by 2050 and methane emissions from its natural-gas operations by 65% by 2030 and 80% by 2040. gigawatt offshore wind project off the Virginia coast.

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Mr. Sustainability

JUNE 27, 2020

Aligning economic stimulus and policy packages with climate goals is crucial for a long-term viable and healthy economy. Nations saw rapid industrial and economic growth, accelerated consumer demand, and introduced significantly new changes in lifestyle and culture. A green recovery is essential as we emerge from the Corona crisis.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 22, 2020

Gulf Power is using its smart meter fleet for locational demand response. As with most investor-owned utilities, NextEra has been much less supportive of policies that permit its customers to be paid for the solar they put on their roofs. Dominion's generation fleet centers around nuclear and gas. Credit: Dominion Energy).

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

” The key electoral battleground for energy and climate policy looks to be the Senate, where a third of the seats are up for grabs, most of them held by Republicans. Major natural gas and oil pipeline projects have been abandoned or halted by legal challenges. But what would a Biden win bring about?

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