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. The largest share of the state’s natural gas comes from Canada, either directly or through the state of Idaho.”

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 6, 2021

In their 2021 Summer Reliability Assessment , NERC points out that California’s traditional strategy of relying on imports to meet evening demand has become an “increasing reliability risk” as other regions face similar peak events and growing solar output, as hydropower output falls due to drought, and wildfires cause transmission outages.

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Clean Energy Trust

DECEMBER 6, 2021

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. this technology could chip away at and then eventually replace industry standard combined cycle natural gas plants.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

generation in 2018, compared to wind and hydropower at around 7 percent each, nuclear at 19 percent, coal at 27 percent, and natural gas at 35 percent. The Solar Energy Industries Association industry group published a roadmap Monday to increase solar power to 20 percent of U.S. Solar contributed about 2 percent of U.S.

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Grist

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Electric vehicles are making huge inroads in the market. The second most important target for green power is replacing fossil fuel use in buildings, especially growing use of natural gas for heating; in Vancouver, British Columbia, that causes nearly 60% of the city’s carbon pollution. This starts with cars and trucks.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Along with electric vehicles, Beijing sees green hydrogen as a potential way of decarbonizing transportation, WoodMac's Gallagher said. The country's targets include 5,000 fuel-cell vehicles by 2020 and 1 million by 2030. percent stake in the business. While the U.S.

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R-Squared Energy

MAY 23, 2021

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. The big takeaway here is that global electricity demand would more than double by 2050 as the world shifts to electric vehicles.

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 4, 2021

SPACs that have invested in the electric vehicle sector are certainly an example of the concept. A few examples: The rapidly developing renewable natural gas market is putting in place a meaningful number of cash?generating generating RNG production facilities that could be the subject of a roll?

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Mosaic

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

as well as wind, hydropower, and bioenergy can replace coal, gas, and oil for power generation. A wide variety of zero-carbon renewable energy sources including solar (our favorite!)

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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.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2021

However, 13 percent of Shell’s posts focussed specifically on renewable energies such as wind, solar, and hydropower. In a blow to the industry, the world’s leading energy analysts recently warned the use of natural gas must be drastically curtailed to meet climate goals. ” Jonathan White, a lawyer at ClientEarth. “The

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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.

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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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R-Squared Energy

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Renewables, including hydropower, just 8.7%. has seen a drastic decline in coal consumption over the past decade (but global coal consumption has risen) as it has been displaced in the power sector by natural gas primarily, as well as renewables. of our energy in the U.S.; nuclear power supplied another 8.0%.

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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?

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Business Green

MARCH 31, 2023

US renewables beat coal for first time 2022 was the first year where more electricity was generated from renewables than from coal across the US, the country's Energy Information Administration (EIA) revealed this week. Renewable energy is now the most affordable source of new electricity in much of the country," he said.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 31, 2021

in television and other public education campaigns in 2019 to rally support for a new $1B transmission line that it wants in order to bring Canadian hydropower downstate. Good also explained that in order to support the coming wave of electric vehicles, lots more infrastructure will need to be built.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 20, 2019

One of the beneficial factors for the use of the renewable energy is that it is naturally generated. The common energy sources are Hydropower, Biomass, Biofuels, Wind, Geothermal and Solar Energy. The sources of renewable energy are present in the natural environment comprising the largest component of ecosystem.

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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. electricity sector by 2035, and the cost imperatives of U.S. utilities that still rely on coal and natural gas for most of their generation capacity.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Meanwhile, demand for coal, oil and natural gas fall by 80 per cent, 60 per cent and 45 per cent, respectively, by 2060 compared with last year. 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.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The report confirms that thanks to record deployment of renewables and electric vehicles (EVs), the CO2 intensity of the world's energy supply is improving again after worsening in 2021 when the economy rebounded sharply from the covid-induced lockdowns of 2020. Credit: IEA.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Utility-scale solar power is already cost-competitive against coal-fired power across the world and with natural-gas-fired power in many markets. Geothermal energy research will get $850 million, and hydropower and marine power will get $933 million. Another $2.36 utilities and energy companies.

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Grist

DECEMBER 8, 2021

None of Cascadia’s jurisdictions has proven policies to rein in growing consumption of natural gas, which is backed by a powerful oil and gas industry and associated unions. Josh Jacobs expresses similar confidence for Seattle-based Puget Sound Energy, which distributes both natural gas and electricity.

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Mr. Sustainability

JUNE 27, 2020

subsidies to the fossil fuel industry at roughly $20 billion per year; with 20 percent currently allocated to coal and 80 percent to natural gas and crude oil. In short: the oil and gas industry is a massive market with many stakeholders and high-stakes interests involved. It is also about electric vehicles and hydrogen.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 22, 2020

They plan to combine green energy provided by wind turbines, biomass, solar panels and hydropower, with agricultural waste and grasses from the Northern provinces in the Netherlands as feedstock for the chemical cluster. Another, potentially even more futuristic example is Heliogen , dedicated to making fuel out of thin air.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 22, 2020

But Dominion, which has operations in 18 states and a major stake in natural gas infrastructure, has also been holding back Virginia's renewable energy potential, according to critics. Dominion's generation fleet centers around nuclear and gas. But state policies do not ensure a successful utility energy transition.

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