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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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Providing a comprehensive understanding of grid orchestration, its challenges, and the transformative potential it holds, this eBook focuses on: Grid Orchestration: The art of harmonising diverse energy sources, demand patterns, and grid infrastructure. Decentralisation: The shift toward decentralised energy production.

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Planet Pulse

JANUARY 23, 2024

We are expanding this portfolio with a white paper guide to help navigate new sustainability reporting demands around nature-related impacts and dependencies – Accelerating Biodiversity and Ecosystem Reporting , written in collaboration with Microsoft, the Natural Capital Project, and the Gund Institute at the University of Vermont.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 7, 2021

At the same time, advanced voltage control systems, such as ENW’s CLASS project , are working to provide demand response and fast frequency response functions. And you're at the same time trying to contract flexibility services from consumers and aggregators to manage the load demand on the distribution network," he said.

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Business Green

MAY 6, 2020

BEIS released a suite of documents regarding 'clean heating' policy last Tuesday including most importantly details of what will follow on from the RHI. This policy consultation comes in advance of a long awaited energy White Paper and in advance of a heat and buildings framework expected to be released later this year.

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Business Green

JANUARY 28, 2021

Addressing shortfalls in what remains the flagship national policy to insulate millions of homes will be top of the list. The recent Energy White Paper hints that plans for the rest of this cash will be forthcoming in the Heat and Buildings strategy, but a proper plan to carbon free homes will have eyes beyond this parliamentary term.

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2021

The government acknowledged that as the decade continues "further support" will be needed, pointing to the £1bn CCS infrastructure fund and £240m net zero hydrogen fund set out in the recent Energy White Paper. Industrial decarbonisation is set to feature in UK trade and diplomacy.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Ahead of the Prime Minister's promised new green recovery package, a new report from the business advocacy group outlines a raft of near-term policy interventions that could put the UK on track to reaching net zero emissions. The gap between the government's net zero rhetoric and its policy agenda remains.

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Business Green

MARCH 17, 2021

However, with the Energy White Paper released late last year having set an aim to capture 10Mt of emissions by 2030, it remains unclear precisely how the remaining 7Mt will be delivered. Overall, it estimate building net zero industry could support up to 80,000 jobs from now until 2050.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

APRIL 29, 2024

Opening talk of Hungary’s Energy Minister, Csaba Lantos, at the Budapest Geothermal Energy Summit (source: White Paper Consulting) During last year’s Budapest Geothermal Summit , local officials reiterated their belief that Hungary can be a “regional geothermal superpower.”

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Agriculture Medicine Geothermal power Investment 64

GreenBiz

AUGUST 4, 2020

While some utilities in California and elsewhere are planning for an increase in power demand, many have yet to do so and need to get started. Recent product developments offer growing opportunities to electrify trucks and buses and slash their emissions (see our recent white paper ).

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Business Green

DECEMBER 22, 2020

The government's overarching ambition is welcome, but we now need a detailed policy agenda to make net zero a reality, writes the REA's Dr Nina Skorupska?. Here at the REA we are well used to a flurry of new policy being announced just before the end of the year, but this advent has been a real bumper few weeks.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Having consistently highlighted this Standard as the centrepiece of its plans to decarbonise new housing over recent months - not least in the recent Planning White Paper - the pressure was certainly on the government for this announcement to deliver. All eyes will now be on the response to the Planning 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

AUGUST 16, 2023

August 16, 2023, marks the first full year of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), and this milestone demands a health check. billion is being steered toward residential demand flexibility under a national performance-based whole buildings program. Download White Paper The post IRA Turns 1: Forget Crawl, Let’s Run!

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Business Green

DECEMBER 15, 2020

The row over Sizewell led the headlines, but there is so much more to the Energy White Paper and its promise to deliver a decisive shift away from fossil fuels. Whisper it, but I'm not sure the inevitable reignition of the row over the UK's nuclear plans is the most important part of the long-awaited Energy White Paper.

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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

JANUARY 13, 2021

Ahead of the COP26 summit, the government is also under pressure to unleash a raft of urgently-needed net zero policies, plans, and funding to support its stated ambition to cement the UK's position as a global climate leader. Labour is demanding a vote in Parliament on the government's plan," he said. "We

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

But BloombergNEF analysis highlights gaping holes where supportive policies are needed to spur widespread decarbonisation towards net zero. However, action from policy makers will be needed if these changes are to happen.".

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

It also suggests there is significant 'hidden demand' in the European economy for green hydrogen, with 540TWh potential demand unlockable in the near term and 1,200-1,400 TWh in the medium-term, provided there will be sufficient cost decreases, investments, and policy support.

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Hydrogen Europe Energy Energy 90

Clean Energy Canada

JUNE 5, 2023

As global net-zero commitments mount, demand for cleaner products is increasing. As our G7 counterparts charge ahead on industrial decarbonization, Canada must also act ambitiously or risk falling to the back of the pack, according to a new Clean Energy Canada white paper. First , in contrast to France, the U.K.,

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Business Green

JULY 28, 2020

Covid-19 has hit manufacturing hard, but with government policy support there is now a big opportunity to accelerate decarbonisation, argues Make UK's Frank Aaskov. The sector has seen a 45 per cent reduction in current demand and signs of a protracted downturn and slow recovery. We must now build back better and greener.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 15, 2020

New UK Energy Research Centre report argues 2030 ban on new internal combustion engine cars needs to be supported by bolder policy measures throughout the 2020s. Since Covid struck, EVs and plug-in hybrids have emerged as the runaway success story for a market that has otherwise seen demand for new vehicles collapse across the board.

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R-Squared Energy

JANUARY 17, 2022

As a result of the embargo, a supply/demand imbalance ensued. Our continued dependence on foreign oil has influenced American foreign policy for decades, and it has contributed to multiple military conflicts in the Middle East. Oil prices quadrupled in a very short period of time, contributing to a deep global recession.

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Smart Energy International

JULY 19, 2022

Taking the ‘human factor’ into consideration when designing and implementing energy policy is crucial to achieving energy transition goals, writes Dr Rosa Garcia-Verdugo. Have you read: PG&E implements behavioural Energy Efficiency Programme National Grid – Scaling demand response with behavioural outreach.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) has urged the government to get on with fast-tracking the UK's push towards net zero emissions, amid rising frustration from business over the absence of detailed decarbonisation plans and ongoing delays to key green policy measures.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

AUGUST 27, 2018

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Business Green

AUGUST 24, 2020

Public awareness of climate change was at an all-time high, young people marched through the streets demanding that politicians act to safeguard their futures, and concern about the environment was recognised as one of the top five issues in December's General Election. Let us think back to one year ago.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Citing Treasury sources, the paper reported that Chancellor Rishi Sunak was actively considering ending the fuel duty freeze which was introduced in 2011, pausing the long-standing policy of increasing fuel duty in line with inflation each year. Any increase in fuel duty would likely be welcomed by green groups and EV advocates.

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Business Green

JUNE 13, 2022

The Investor Coalition on UK Food Policy, which brings together 23 investors with more than £6tr of assets under management, said the food reporting standards set out in the new Food Strategy published by the government yesterday do not go far enough.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Last month the starting gun was fired on what will be an intense 12 months of domestic policy and international negotiations leading up to the UNFCC COP26 climate negotiations in Glasgow. The government's Ten Point Plan for a 'Green Industrial Revolution' was the first of many significant policy announcements for the weeks and months ahead.

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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2020

The last Labour government promised a "nuclear renaissance" over 12 years ago, but since then a series of project delays and deferred policy decisions has seen only one project start construction - EDF's high profile and controversial Hinkley Point development. The intervention comes at a critical time for the UK's nuclear industry.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2021

This will bring us closer to achieving the overarching ambitions set out in the government's Energy White Paper published last autumn, as well the publication of the Smart Systems and Flexibility Plan in the summer. Yonna Vitanova is senior policy analyst at clean energy trade association RenewableUK.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Hydrogen sales could generate more than €120bn of revenue annually across Europe by 2050, with most of the demand growth set to be concentrated in Germany, followed by the UK, France, and Italy, according to a major new analysis published today.

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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

JUNE 24, 2020

As well as investing directly in shovel-ready green projects, policies mooted in the report include raising taxes on fossil fuels, phasing out new petrol and diesel car sales by 2032, and adding 'green strings' such as green product development goals and climate risk assessment requirements to any company bailouts.

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Business Green

JUNE 23, 2020

Worldwide there is growing recognition of the moral imperative to ramp-up efforts to tackle the climate crisis," said Matthew Fell, CBI chief UK policy director. Third, the report reiterates previous calls for the government to deliver a series of key policy decisions that have been stuck in the pipeline for months.

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