Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Low solar PV cost – A 28% increase in solar capacity is likely to result, whilst energy storage deployment will increase by 32% No new fossil fuel – In addition to reducing carbon emissions, this would expand energy storage capacity rollout by 52%. Find out more about the study.

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

So much so that new analysis suggests global emissions from electricity generation may peak this year due to a surge in wind and solar power. Canada’s hydropower-rich grid is 84% non-emitting with variable renewables (essentially wind and solar) currently making up 7% of the country’s total electricity generation.

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Clean Energy Canada

JULY 2, 2020

The clean-burning fuel does not produce carbon emissions upon consumption and so can replace fossil fuels in many sectors including heavy industry, transportation and heating. Currently, the majority of hydrogen around the world is produced from fossil fuels (76% from natural gas, 23% from coal).

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Mosaic

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

97 percent of climate scientists agree that global warming trends are clear and “extremely likely” due to human activities, most prominently the rising emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the burning of fossil fuels. as well as wind, hydropower, and bioenergy can replace coal, gas, and oil for power generation. Renewables.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 8, 2023

4 times and electric vehicle (EV) sales will need to grow over sixfold by 2030 from current levels. Our decarbonization targets imply a transition from an “expenditure” economy based on fossil fuels to an “investment” economy in clean energies. 1 Achieving this would need wind and solar capacity to increase 2.5-4

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Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2023

But batteries undeniably remain the most common form of energy storage and are widely regarded as a critical component of the net zero transition and an enabler of both vehicle electrification and cleaner, more efficient grids dominated by intermittent solar and wind power.

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Batteries Fossil fuels Lithium Demand 44

Business Green

APRIL 20, 2020

Yet a return to business as usual marked by continued large-scale investments in fossil fuel infrastructure would only result in further volatility and economic disruption, while failing to deliver on the medium and long-term goals set out in the Paris Agreement and the UN Sustainable Development agenda, it argued.

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Grist

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Renewable solar and wind power now typically costs less than fossil-fuel alternatives. That’s looking more doable as renewable-energy prices drop, providing an alternative to fossil fuels. Electric vehicles are making huge inroads in the market. If not sooner. This starts with cars and trucks.

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 4, 2021

As the recent experience at ExxonMobile has shown, investors are eager to invest in, and accelerate the migration toward, energy production that does not rely on fossil fuels. SPACs that have invested in the electric vehicle sector are certainly an example of the concept. About the Author.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MAY 21, 2023

More than $500 million to support the construction of charging stations for electric vehicles, as the government looks to bring the number of electric vehicles on Québec roads to two million. However, 2020 data is available for the electricity sector, and it shows that 2020 emissions in this sector fell 35% to 14.2

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Natural gas Electric vehicle Transportation Electricity 52

Business Green

MAY 22, 2020

The plan includes climate adaptation measures across seven sectors - water, agriculture, land, forestry, human settlement, health, transport, and mining - as well as measures to scale up hydropower and solar energy, improve energy efficiency and rollout electric vehicles, the according to the news site. PEspinosaC) May 20, 2020.

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Business Green

AUGUST 17, 2022

The remarkably rapid march of renewable power could see it become the backbone of much of the global electricity system by as soon as the end of this decade - but concerted policy action is still needed to deliver a successful transition away from fossil fuels towards a system dominated by solar, wind and hydro power.

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Clean Energy Trust

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Bukaty/AP A bad omen for the future: fossil fuel plant owners bankrolled a referendum in Maine to try and pass a ballot measure to kill a transmission line that would bring in zero-carbon hydropower from Canada. Other News Credit: Robert F.

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Natural gas Aviation Electric vehicle COP 52

R-Squared Energy

MAY 23, 2021

Those can be accomplished by strict fuel-economy standards and global bans on internal combustion engines (ICEs) after 2035. This should increase the number of electric vehicles on the road from 1% today to 20% in 2030 and 60% in 2040, and it makes a major dent in the carbon emissions from the transportation sector. based fuels.

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Hydrogen Transportation Demand Carbon 60

R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

The number of electric vehicles (EVs) on the roads has also grown exponentially in the past decade. Cumulatively, the 0.411 trillion kWh of electricity from wind and solar power represents 22.8% times more electricity produced from wind and solar power in 2019 to equal the 1.8 That led me to wonder how much U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 14, 2019

But it is looking to step up its participation considerably as a way of replacing fossil fuel exports with an alternative created with the country's plentiful renewable energy resources. Along with electric vehicles, Beijing sees green hydrogen as a potential way of decarbonizing transportation, WoodMac's Gallagher said.

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Hydrogen Natural gas Transportation Technology 100

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. Momentum for a clean energy transition is growing.

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Climate Tech VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Deals of the Week (11/6-11/12) Late-Stage / Growth 🚗 Euler Motors , a New Delhi, India-based electric vehicle manufacturer, raised $144M in Series C funding from British International Investment, ADB Ventures, Athera Venture Partners, Green Frontier Capital, and other investors. Aka land platypus.

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R-Squared Energy

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

You may count me among those who want to see society move beyond fossil fuels. We all know there are negative consequences associated with fossil fuel usage, such as the emission of carbon dioxide and various other pollutants. Most people drastically underestimate our ongoing dependence on fossil fuels.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 28, 2021

That is, it allows the market to determine the best way to meet the Clean Electricity Standard. We can continue to leverage the carbon pollution-free energy provided by existing sources like nuclear and hydropower. The plan also encourages greener transportation with electric vehicles.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 13, 2021

As Congress debates billions of dollars in new infrastructure investments, advocates are touting the social and economic benefits of building new high-voltage transmission lines, clean energy plants and electric vehicle charging stations, along with fixing aging roads and bridges. Why do people oppose energy projects?

Fossil fuels 91

Fossil fuels Energy Energy Law 91

Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

When it comes to costs and clean energy solutions, a majority of Canadians (63%) correctly recognize that opting for an electric vehicle and a heat pump is cheaper than choosing fossil-fuel-powered alternatives. This proportion is especially high in Quebec—a province with above-average EV adoption.

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Natural gas Politics Government Hydropower 107

Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 20, 2022

It involves pumping water uphill from one reservoir to another at a higher elevation for storage, then, when power is needed, releasing the water to flow downhill through turbines, generating electricity on its way to the lower reservoir. Two types of pumped-storage hydropower; one doesn’t require a river. fossil fuel power stations.

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 17, 2022

In the summer of 1988, scientist James Hansen testified to Congress that carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels was dangerously warming the planet. Then, beginning around 2009, first wind turbines and then solar photovoltaic panels decreased enough in cost to become competitive in electricity markets. AP Photo/Jim Mone.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 20, 2019

The common energy sources are Hydropower, Biomass, Biofuels, Wind, Geothermal and Solar Energy. Although there is unlimited supply of the fossil fuels, we should go for the use of renewable energy as it is not only safe for the environment, eco-friendly but also less prone to pollutants if any. Green Diesel, Biogas.

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Business Green

MARCH 31, 2023

The compronmise agreement sees the Greens back Labour's proposals for a 'Safeguard Mechanism', which promises to regulate emissions from Australia's 215 biggest polluting coal and gas facilities without outright banning new fossil fuel projects.

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Business Green

MARCH 25, 2022

The Task Force for Energy Security will be chaired by a representative from the White House and a representative of the President of the European Commission and will work on a range of measures to bolster EU energy security, including initiative to drastically reduce fossil fuel imports this year.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 26, 2021

Taken as a group, the 50 utility holding companies studied have a total of 100,000 megawatts of new wind and solar in their IRPs, Sierra Club Electric Sector Analyst Cara Bottorff said in a Tuesday press conference. From decarbonization imperatives to utility realities. Wind and solar power accounted for just above 10 percent of U.S.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Ford is planning to build its biggest ever factory in Tennessee, as part of $11.4bn investment geared towards electric vehicle (EV) production in the USA, it announced this week. We are moving now to deliver breakthrough electric vehicles for the many rather than the few.". Malaysian PM touts 2050 carbon neutral pledge.

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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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Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2022

That is the question sparked by the latest update today from the influential International Energy Agency (IEA), which suggests fears the pandemic and Russia's invasion of Ukraine could drive a fossil fuel-focused rush to bolster energy security could prove to be overblown. Credit: IEA.

Fossil fuels 40

Fossil fuels Natural gas Carbon Government 40

Business Green

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

At the site of a former coal power station on the Northumberland coast, work is underway on one of Britain's most ambitious industrial projects, a battery production plant expected to provide a hub for the UK's burgeoning electric vehicle (EV) industry and bring up to 8,000 jobs to the region.

Batteries 69

Batteries Recycling Recycling Lithium 69

Grist

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Activists won a string of local victories, passing municipal and regional laws to ban new and expanded fossil fuel developments. What was missing were government policies capable of shoving economic growth onto a track that required less energy from fossil fuels. Then the leaders fell short on follow-through.

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Fossil fuels Natural gas Policy Law 90

Mr. Sustainability

JUNE 27, 2020

With the ‘old’, I refer to the fossil-fuel based, centralized energy industries that are reliant on conservative economic models. According to Carbon Trackers , we are talking about a value of between 14-129 trillion dollars for fossil fuel assets alone and revenue streams of trillions of dollars annually. Let me explain.

Energy 78

Energy Energy Fossil fuels Investment 78

Business Green

AUGUST 13, 2021

DiNapoli, who is trustee of the third largest public pension plan in the US, confirmed the move as he this week also extended the list of fossil fuel firms the fund is to restrict investments in. New York State Comptroller Thomas P.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 2, 2020

Senate will consider a bipartisan energy package this week that could be this year’s best legislative hope to increase federal funding for a number of energy technologies, from solar, wind and batteries, to more efficient fossil fuel-fired power and carbon capture. The American Energy Innovation Act, introduced Thursday by Sens.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 11, 2020

The bill has come under fire from clean energy groups for its lack of targets or mandates for reducing carbon emissions, as well as provisions to direct billions of dollars to fossil fuel research. trillion spending bill passed by Congress in December. Energy storage. Several of the storage provisions were introduced by Sen.

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