Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

This is according to DNV’s Energy Transition Outlook North America , which reveals a transformative shift in energy consumption patterns driven by policies and investments in renewables and electrification. However, policies have already been set in motion in both the US and Canada to rectify grid capacity limitations.

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Myth 1: “Renewables can contribute only a small share of grid electricity because they only work when the wind blows and the sun shines” It’s true that wind and solar are variable resources that provide most power to the grid when the sun shines or the wind blows. These options can enable relatively high shares of wind and solar on a grid.

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GreenBiz

JULY 15, 2020

Green hydrogen — made by splitting water’s hydrogen and oxygen using electricity produced by renewable sources — is a small fish in the "energies pond." Today, more than 95 percent of hydrogen is fossil-based and does not rely on renewables. Other technologies are in the mix, such as battery electric vehicles.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 13, 2020

Heat makes up 35 percent of global energy consumption, and when it comes to space heating, direct combustion of fossil fuels in buildings plays a dominant role across the globe and is a major source of greenhouse gas emissions. Natural gas and fuel oil satisfy 60 percent of heating needs of households in Europe.

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Fossil fuels Natural gas Demand Policy 130

Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 19, 2024

And though a number of key policies continue to be developed—including the oil and gas emissions cap, an emissions cap on natural gas utilities and measures to reduce vehicle kilometres travelled by 25 per cent—many CleanBC policies are now substantially advanced. The plan is working: B.C. The difference?

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 3, 2024

Of the 64 total board members at Omnicom Group , WPP , Interpublic Group (IPG), Publicis Groupe , Dentsu and Havas , 32 have significant experience in carbon-heavy sectors such as fossil fuels, fossil fuel financing, plastics, utilities, and aviation. Twenty-two are still serving in roles at such companies.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

That is the headline prediction from a new special report from the International Energy Agency, which details how heat pumps have become a key technology in the response from governments and businesses to the global energy supply crunch that has sent fossil fuel costs soaring in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 2, 2023

MANCHESTER – The Conservative chair of a parliamentary group on hydrogen has defended the body’s receipt of £70,000 in funding from fossil fuel giants including Shell and Equinor. He added: “[Firms] like Shell, BP, fossil fuel companies, they’ve got money. There’s no influence over what we look at, what we do,” he said.

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Hydrogen Fossil fuels Policy Climate change 96

DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 16, 2024

In November, he instructed his province’s public utilities, SaskPower and SaskEnergy, to stop collecting carbon taxes on natural gas as of January 1, 2024, if the federal government didn’t extend the same carbon price carve out to his province. The most extreme reaction was from Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe.

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Clean Energy Canada

MARCH 28, 2023

Canada’s oil and gas lobby is right about one thing: There is indeed a bright future for Canadian energy. It’s just not in fossil fuels. Even in a scenario where Canada fancies itself a fossil fuel island in a net-zero world, the results for oil remain relatively unchanged. Aside from the U.S.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Evaluating regulations, subsidies, pricing mechanisms, and hybrid policies. The latest, most urgent call to action from the IPCC has increased attention on policies to reduce CO2 emissions and enhance carbon sequestration. Regulation: The most effective carbon reduction policy option is regulation.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Even with aggressive electric vehicle and building electrification mandates, these two sectors are hard to decarbonize due to slow capital stock turnover — the process where old equipment, like vehicles and appliances, are replaced with new equipment. Existing policies are already helping fleets convert from fossil fuels.

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Business Green

MAY 18, 2021

It provides direct advice to governments and its annual World Energy Outlook reports, which offer projections for future energy sources and demand, have provided the bedrock for major energy investment and policy decisions that help shape the trajectory of the global market. The death knell is being sounded for fossil fuels.

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Fossil fuels Natural gas Demand Government 90

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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Hydrogen Fossil fuels Energy Energy 111

Business Green

DECEMBER 24, 2021

Offshore wind energy powerhouse Orsted demonstrates that a pivot away from fossil fuels is possible. The first, biggest step to slowing climate change is switching electricity generation from coal and gas to wind and sun. This needs to happen fast, with coal phased out no later than 2030 and gas not far behind.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

New research predicts that green hydrogen — a clean fuel produced from water using renewables — will be comparable in cost and likely cheaper than blue hydrogen by 2030. Credit: Columbia Center on Global Energy Policy. CCS is carbon capture and storage.). Zero-C Hydrogen in a Circular Carbon Economy. kgH2 by the end of the decade. .

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Pollution, poverty and race collide in many other disadvantaged communities across California — and the country — and some argue that the state’s climate policies haven’t helped. And they have suffered collateral damage from the harmful pollutants produced by using fossil fuels. To many, cap and trade highlights a contradiction.

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R-Squared Energy

MARCH 1, 2020

The primary culprits that add carbon dioxide to the atmosphere are the coal, oil, and natural gas — the fossil fuels — we consume for energy. Policies and technologies that reduce that consumption will lower the amount of carbon dioxide emitted. Beyond coal and natural gas, we have to focus on oil consumption.

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Carbon Natural gas Fossil fuels Asia 78

Grist

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Renewable solar and wind power now typically costs less than fossil-fuel alternatives. In British Columbia, Premier John Horgan’s government detailed policies to nearly double climate-protection efforts. That’s looking more doable as renewable-energy prices drop, providing an alternative to fossil fuels.

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R-Squared Energy

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

He implemented lots of policies designed to encourage the use of renewable energy. natural gas production also skyrocketed. The price of natural gas, oil, and in turn gasoline, all plunged as production surged. Why did President Obama’s tenure see such an explosion in fossil fuel production?

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Natural gas Policy Fossil fuels Electric vehicle 60

GreenTechMedia

MARCH 10, 2021

And unlike last month’s CPUC order to utilities to boost grid supply under short-term contracts, the new proposal might allow contracts of five years or longer to expand or repower natural gas-fired power plants, which environmental groups say could set California back on its aggressive carbon emissions reduction goals.

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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 12, 2023

Many net-zero technologies and products are heavily reliant on chemical products (for example, batteries for electric vehicles and various plastics and polymers for wind turbine blades). This supports economic growth and job creation in regions heavily reliant on fossil fuel industries as the world transitions to clean energy.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

In 2018, renewables accounted for 20 percent of Alliant’s portfolio while coal made up 31 percent and natural gas accounted for 42 percent. billion through 2020 on updating its power grid to interface more effectively with solar and other renewables as well as electric vehicles and batteries.

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Business Green

APRIL 7, 2021

Oil and gas giant details climate policy misalignments with several major global trade associations in latest review. It follows Shells decision in 2019 to leave the American Fuel & Petrochemical Association due to "material misalignment" on climate policy. "We

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Business Green

JUNE 19, 2020

Vatican calls on Catholics to quit fossil fuel and arms investments. The Vatican yesterday urged all Catholics to disinvest from armament and fossil fuel industries, marking a major victory for the global divestment movement. Campaign group 350.org It specifically states that Catholics could "favour positive changes.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

The latest analysis from global risk management and energy research firm's DNV GL today certainly suggests so, predicting the devastating impacts of the pandemic on oil, gas, and coal demand is set to trigger a step change in the global clean energy transition.

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Fossil fuels Energy Energy Demand 70

Clean Energy Canada

JUNE 28, 2021

At the same time, Canada’s fossil fuel sector will see a nine per cent drop in employment. In terms of raw numbers, those 208,700 new clean energy jobs far exceed the 125,800 lost in fossil fuels. But this massive clean energy sector growth depends, in part, on policy. The recent announcement of a $1.3-billion

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Business Green

JANUARY 18, 2021

Announcement of deal to acquire 20 per cent stake in world's largest solar developer comes just days after oil giant quits American Petroleum Institute over climate policy differences. Given the size of the market, India is the right place to put into action our energy transition strategy based on two pillars: renewables and natural gas.".

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 9, 2021

Over the past decade, Mainspring Energy has been at work on a novel "linear generator" that it says can provide on-site electricity with lower emissions than fossil-fueled engines and microturbines, and greater flexibility than fuel cells. On Tuesday, Mainspring's vision landed a vote of confidence from U.S.

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Sunrun

AUGUST 23, 2019

Net Energy Metering4 allows customers who generate their own electricity from solar panels to sell the excess electricity generated back to the grid. However, not all states have NEM policies, and these policies vary by state. 14 Solar Saves on Gas and Fuel 9. Solar energy means healthier air.

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Energy Innovation

JULY 20, 2023

This article is the first in a series entitled “Real Talk on Reliability ,” which will examine the reliability needs of our grid as we move toward 100% clean electricity and electrify more end-uses on the path to a climate stable future. There are four separate but interconnected pieces to ensuring that power from the grid is reliable.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The findings present a picture of a world that has made significant progress on climate action, powered by the rapid roll-out of clean energy technologies, the acceleration of the electric vehicle (EV) transition, and a growing understanding of the economic and geopolitical benefits ending reliance on coal, oil, and gas.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 18, 2020

The move - which would see the government accept recommendations put forward by the CCC this summer - comes as Macron faces growing calls to come forward with more ambitious climate policies after last year confirming a new national net zero emissions goal for 2050. Japan unveils plans to more than quadruple offshore wind capacity.

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Fossil fuels Hydrogen Investment Government 82

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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Business Green

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

But in its letter the CCC warns that exploration of new and extension of existing oil and gas fields over the coming years could significantly weaken the UK's standing as a climate leader and its ability to encourage companies, investors, and other countries to decarbonise.

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Fossil fuels Government Demand Climate change 66

Business Green

MAY 20, 2021

We considered a wide range of flexible sources: Demand Side Response, electric vehicles, batteries, thermal energy storage, hydrogen and interconnection with continental Europe. Policies can no longer be made in isolation. Andrew Lever is director at the Carbon Trust.

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Hydrogen Investment Carbon Transportation 92

Business Green

APRIL 30, 2020

As such some critics have argued that battery vehicles currently provide a more cost effective route for decarbonising much of the transport system. It isn't a case of electric versus hydrogen vehicles," he said.

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