Business Green

AUGUST 19, 2022

Germany is planning to postpone the closure of its last three nuclear power plants to help cushion the impact of soaring energy prices and possible shortages of fossil gas supplies this winter amid worsening geopolitical tensions with Russia, according to myriad reports this week.

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Clean Energy Canada

JULY 2, 2020

This means its potential role has similarities with that of electricity. It can also be produced from electricity and water using a process called electrolysis. This method does not produce direct emissions but requires electricity. Hydrogen produced from renewable electricity (wind, solar, hydropower, tidal, etc.)

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Business Green

OCTOBER 12, 2022

The UN agency warned that water stress could jeopardise low carbon energy sources such as nuclear power plants and hydropower, both of which rely heavily on water supplies in order to operate, while rising sea levels and extreme weather are also posing a growing threat to energy infrastructure.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 5, 2020

needs a massive green hydrogen industry to decarbonize its electricity, transportation and industrial sectors, and major investments and policy changes today to enable it to grow to its full potential in the decades to come.

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2022

In an analysis of the electricity market published late last week, the IEA warned the global economy could face three more years of turbulence and stagnating levels of carbon emisisons if national governments do not start to spend significantly more money on these clean energy and green grid technologies.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 17, 2022

On behalf of environmental group RePlanet, energy specialist Joris van Dorp offers a deep analysis of the key messages in Europe’s policy. Since these issues are so important, it’s worthwhile addressing some of the key messages of this historic speech, as these will serve as the basis for EU policy in the years ahead.

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Business Green

JUNE 18, 2020

The IEA said its plan would result in a five per cent reduction in air pollution emissions, bring access to clean-cooking solutions to around 420 million people in low-income countries, and enable nearly 270 million people to gain access to electricity. It seeks to show them what they can do.".

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Energy demand for electricity and transportation fell by 3.8% The impacts of cleaner electricity generation will persist. Global supply chain disruptions, workforce protection measures, and policy uncertainty required adaptation across the industry. Electricity Generation By Fuel Type in 2020. power in 2020.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 18, 2023

🔋 Renewables + storage turned out to be price competitive against fossil fuels after Lazard’s Levelized Cost of Electricity analysis included intermittency costs for the first time. Proterra, the dominant electric bus maker, was just one high profile example. ☢️ US nuclear power saw mixed results.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 20, 2021

Renewable energy’s rapid growth is accelerating a national shift to a carbon-free electric power system. and Puerto Rico have adopted laws or executive orders setting goals for reaching 100% clean electricity by 2050 or sooner. electricity sector has managed to march halfway to zero in just 15 years. And 46 U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

At the same time, the increasingly dire effects of global warming are bringing more Americans in line with much of the rest of the world in making carbon-emissions reduction a top policy priority. million electric customers and 1.6 Others are likely to face similar mandates in short order. million customers across 18 states.

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 17, 2022

Then, beginning around 2009, first wind turbines and then solar photovoltaic panels decreased enough in cost to become competitive in electricity markets. will need to nearly triple its 2020 growth rate for the grid to be 80% powered by clean energy by 2030. is headed in that direction. in 2020, according to BloombergNEF data.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 8, 2021

transmission grid will play a key role in decarbonizing the country’s electricity system. All of these benefits can be captured with solar, wind, existing hydropower and lithium-ion battery technologies at projected 2030 prices, he added. Study after study over the past decade has concluded that expanding the U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 23, 2020

” With New York sheltering in place and the city’s office buildings largely empty of workers, electricity demand in New York City has declined by as much as 18 percent compared to typical levels. “The policy intention is the worst-emitting 20 percent of the buildings have to act first,” said Mandyck.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MARCH 10, 2021

The largest and one of the fastest emissions growing sectors in the study, power sector emissions were skewed by low availability of zero-carbon resources, including below average hydropower availability and the unexpected shutdown in 2012 of the San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MARCH 10, 2021

The largest and one of the fastest emissions growing sectors in the study, power sector emissions were skewed by low availability of zero-carbon resources, including below average hydropower availability and the unexpected shutdown in 2012 of the San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant.

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Business Green

JULY 15, 2020

Investor Thrive Renewables claims removal of local planning barriers could unlock multi-billion pound potential of onshore wind, solar, and hydropower sectors.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 26, 2021

The analysis underscores the gap between the policy imperatives of the environmental community and the Biden-Harris administration, which has set a goal of zero carbon emissions from the U.S. electricity sector by 2035, and the cost imperatives of U.S. Wind and solar power accounted for just above 10 percent of U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 21, 2020

They could also set the industries in a more advantageous position to seek further federal policy support as President-elect Joe Biden takes office and seeks to implement ambitious decarbonization goals for the U.S. R&D for clean energy, energy storage, carbon capture and nuclear power. Energy storage will receive $1.08

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 6, 2020

Virginia has become the latest state to pass a law that sets it on a path to 100 percent carbon-free electricity by 2050, as well as setting targets for massive investments in energy efficiency, energy storage and in-state solar and wind power. Dominion also gets more than one-third of its energy from nuclear power.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 22, 2020

The sentiment of these CEOs stems from three major underlying trends: continued growth of cheap and abundant renewables, financiers pulling out of oil and gas, and backing by favorable policies that are likely to increase in strength. Capital markets have shifted: clean-power stocks are up by 45% this year.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Historically, energy policy in North Carolina has moved in a bipartisan way," she said. The IRP’s base-case scenario, set to reduce emissions by 50 percent to 55 percent by 2030 through new renewables and retiring its roughly 10,000 megawatts of coal-fired power plants, can be done “under existing statutes,” Good stated.

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Business Green

AUGUST 8, 2022

Finally climate policy action is getting real," he said. It is significantly larger than the clean tech focused stimulus package the Obama administration passed in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, which played such a big role in accelerating US renewables and electric vehicle deployment.

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