Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

The plans, available at The Solutions Project’s “ Clean Energy ” link, reveal the unique mix of wind, water and sun technologies capable of powering states, countries and even select U.S. Wind, Water and Sun (aka WWS) include wind power; waterpower from tides, rivers, and subsurface water (geothermal water); and solar power.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 27, 2021

Today, 44 member-owned electric co-ops serve about 1.7 million rural and suburban customers and supply almost a quarter of the state’s electricity. Many still rely on electricity from coal-fired power plants. MiEnergy Cooperative’s electric vehicle chargers. Credit: MiEnergy Cooperative / Courtesy.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

APRIL 24, 2024

Combined with a noticeable decline in political and economic support for the energy transition, the sector witnessed a standstill in the installation of new turbines, leading to financial losses, project cancellations, and auction failures. One significant roadblock is the localized nature of the wind industry’s supply chain.

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Business Green

MARCH 4, 2021

The entire political spectrum wants to see a 'green recovery'. In his speech yesterday, Sunak extolled the virtues of the growing green economy, setting out a vision of a "future economy" dominated by offshore wind power, carbon capture and storage, innovative clean technologies, and "decent well-paid green jobs".

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Business Green

JULY 28, 2022

Jess Ralston, senior analyst at the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU) - which commissioned today's YouGov poll - said boosting energy efficiency and wind power were popular with both the public at large and the Conservative Party membership.

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The Verge: Energy

MAY 16, 2024

This is truly unlocking the potential of GM’s electric vehicle lineup” “This is truly unlocking the potential of GM’s electric vehicle lineup,” said Wade Sheffer, VP of GM Energy. Image: Abigail Bassett Currently, the Chevy Silverado EV is GM’s only vehicle with V2H capabilities.

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Business Green

MARCH 30, 2023

The official title given to the strategy at the heart of today's announcements is Powering Up Britain: Energy Security Plan, but it is accompanied by a flurry of further documents, consultations, and funding competition announcements that continued to emerge throughout the morning. There's no net zero mandate for the energy regulator.

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Business Green

JUNE 7, 2021

Last year the coronavirus crisis shook the industry to its core, with the sudden drop in fuel demand from planes, cars, and power plants sparking a price crash that briefly saw the cost of a barrel of oil fall into negative territory.

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Business Green

MAY 18, 2021

Since it was first set up in the wake of the 1973 oil crisis, the International Energy Agency (IEA) has been a hugely influential player in world energy politics. Solar and wind power will dominate the net zero economy.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 28, 2021

And, since 2010, many renewable energy sources have become nearly price competitive with their more carbon-intensive alternatives: the cost of offshore wind power has fallen 29 percent; onshore wind by 39 percent; solar power, as much as 82 percent. The plan also encourages greener transportation with electric vehicles.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

MARCH 8, 2024

Commenting on the government’s recent announcement to support the project, Jonathan Wilkinson, Minister of Energy and Natural Resources, said that the investment in the project will “strengthen” the country’s position as a world leading supplier of clean power and clean technology.  

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2023

All the top green business news from around the world this week, including India wind power targets, China EV sales, and calls for a net zero referendum in Switzerland. China wind, solar, and electric vehicle rollout rapidly accelerating. EU wind installations up by a third in 2022.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Wind power is not cheap or secure. These articles are undermining democracy by conning their readers about the science, economics and politics of climate change.” Its new electric vehicle (EV) channel, launched this year, houses a mix of features, reviews and opinion articles. Credit: Telegraph.co.uk

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Business Green

JANUARY 7, 2021

Amid the coronavirus crisis, climate change has continued to dominate headlines and remains a top priority for political leaders around the world. While in the five years since the Agreement, widespread policy changes have been slow, there are glimmers of hope.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Both local and national reporting indicate that the Navigator pipeline proposal attracted the attention of diverse groups of citizens often portrayed as being on opposite ends of the political spectrum. to four times, and could save drivers tens of billions of dollars – even accounting for the higher cost of the electrically powered F-150.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 12, 2020

billion kilowatts of solar and wind power by the same date. Kicking off a long line of short speeches from political and business leaders, UN Secretary-General António Guterres called on "all leaders worldwide to declare a state of climate emergency in their countries until carbon neutrality is reached". "My

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 31, 2021

Energy powerhouses, Ernest Moniz and Lynn Good, talk politics, R&D, stakeholder engagement, transmission, EVs and a host of other topics around the future of energy in the US. 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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Business Green

MAY 4, 2022

John Doerr delivers record donation to support development of new school, as Europe enjoys a record increase in wind power capacity and a battle wages for control of Australia's leading coal power company. Arrival celebrates EU certification for new electric bus. THIS JUST IN ??

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Andrew Winston

MAY 25, 2021

His executive orders are reducing oil and gas exploration on public lands, promoting electric vehicles for federal fleets, and more. The accelerating transformation in energy gives us unprecedented opportunities to create millions of jobs in solar and wind power, energy storage, energy efficiency, and updating our grid.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 20, 2019

This mechanical power can be used for specific tasks (such as grinding grain or pumping water) in the turbines generator or can be convert this mechanical power into useful power like electricity. Now wind power technology is showing rapid growth and much more helpful than conventional power generation.by

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Business Green

JUNE 23, 2021

Here, BusinessGreen rounds up the reaction from leading green figures in business, academia, campaign groups, and politics to the CCC's most important intervention of the year. UK government statement: "Any suggestion we have been slow to deliver climate action is widely off the mark.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

The head of the UK's climate advisory body has called for more public and political debate over the UK's pathway to net zero emissions by 2050, warning that without wider engagement with the transition public support for green reforms could be eroded. And they are becoming increasingly contested.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

"We need people to be coming to Glasgow in 12 months' time, to a country that has been creating green jobs, showing the power of a green recovery, showing what can be done," Miliband urged. Asked to be specific by what he meant by green jobs, he replied: "it's about the electric vehicle charging points that we need around this country.

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Business Green

JUNE 25, 2020

A year on from the UK's net zero target being adopted in law coinciding with the start of one of the most eventful 12 months in modern political history, the influential Committee on Climate Change today published its annual review of the UK's progress against its climate goals.

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Business Green

JANUARY 30, 2020

There was the hope and expectation that the Paris Agreement would start to change things, the knowledge that global emissions had plateaued and might just be starting to bend downwards , the thrill of seeing the costs of solar, batteries, and wind power falling faster than anyone expected. To name just a few.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

This is not the time nor the issue for scoring party political points. For example, the Assembly favoured an end to fossil fuel car sales within the next 10 to 15 years, backed by incentives for buying electric vehicles, and efforts to reduce reliance on private car use in favour of greater investment in public transport and active travel.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 7, 2020

But Europe's largest economy may be on the cusp of a renewed period of change, thanks to the increasing maturity of renewables and the emergence of the Green Party as a major political force. But even during that rollout, the political will that helped spark it was waning. billion) to invest in its switch to electric vehicles.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Congress is under pressure to pass both bills Monday to ensure continued funding of the federal government and complete a politically pressing extension of coronavirus pandemic relief measures passed in March. ” Wind tax credit impacts. Wind power will also benefit from the tax extensions provided for in the bill.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 12, 2021

It would make tax credits refundable and extend them, and includes an offshore wind push. It also includes significant measures to improve the long neglected electric grid, and electric vehicle charging. Conclusion.

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Grist

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Or rising prices could fuel a political backlash. The power grid is a lynchpin for decarbonization because clean electricity, such as renewable solar and wind power, can take the place of fossil fuels currently used to power vehicles, heat buildings, and much more.

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Mr. Sustainability

JUNE 27, 2020

Let us look into the markets that should be on top of mind for the current leaders, shaping the geo-political landscape. Renewables include bio-energy, geothermal, hydropower, ocean, solar and wind power. Jobs It is widely believed that renewable energy and clean tech are powerful engines of job creation.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 22, 2020

Few utility groups are sailing in as many different political and geographic crosscurrents as Berkshire Hathaway Energy, the energy holding company of Warren Buffet’s $500-billion conglomerate. The state's largest utility, Pacific Gas & Electric, has been a trailblazer in all of those areas. Credit: PacifiCorp).

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 20, 2020

We will likely cross the 4 percent solar share of global electricity either this year or next (up from 2.8 Wind power, geothermal, hydro and biomass will provide substantial power in the coming decades. And the political will toward climate mitigation is growing rapidly in many places, even if the U.S.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 15, 2020

As is often the case with political manifestos, broad goals are announced but detail on implementation is somewhat scant at this stage. Electric vehicles are a focus with Biden setting out plans for at least 500,000 public charging stations to be built across the country. Schroders is a partner of the Net Zero Festival 2020.

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Business Green

AUGUST 13, 2020

Myriad other issues also compete for voters' attention, and climate change often takes lower billing on the US political agenda than it does in Europe. Some of the policies are aimed at areas that can reduce future emissions: the target of 500,000 electric vehicle charging stations by 2030, for example.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

“There’s no shortage of ideas; there’s no shortage of legislation that’s out there, but it’s all about what is in the realm of the political right now,” said Murkowski, the Alaska Republican who chairs the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Concerns over climate change have skyrocketed up the cultural and political agenda in the West, helped in part by the wrecking ball Donald Trump has aimed at environmental regulations, policy, and governance during his first term in office. It's that simple, folks. — Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) November 1, 2020. This change is irreversible.

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