Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 26, 2023

In the last year, global economies have bet trillions on the energy transition. The billions of clean energy investments in Canada’s recent budget was spurred by the half a trillion dollars delivered in the U.S.’s Meanwhile, jobs in clean energy surpassed those in fossil fuels for the first time.

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Smart Energy International

JULY 19, 2022

New research has found that solid state batteries can reduce the carbon footprint of electric vehicle (EV) batteries by almost two-fifths – further increasing EVs’ advantage over fossil fuel vehicles. When the batteries are made using the most sustainably sourced materials, this figure increases to 39%.

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Charged

JANUARY 17, 2023

EVM Arabia has been awarded an allocation of 127 hectares of land from The Royal Commission at Yanbu and a gas and power allocation from the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Energy. This will be used for the first two processing trains in the Lithium Chemicals Plant to produce lithium hydroxide monohydrate (LHM).

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The Verge: Energy

MARCH 27, 2024

Photo by Meiramgul Kussainova/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images A new study finds that Bitcoin mining paired with green hydrogen could help speed up a transition to clean energy — an eyebrow-raising claim, considering strong evidence that the cryptocurrency is a big polluter. Bitcoin would have to be mined using clean energy.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

and China will lead, claiming over half of the global installations by the end of this decade, according to a new outlook by Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF). This boom in stationary energy storage will require more than $262 billion of investment, BNEF estimates. Global adoption. See educational sessions here.

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Clean Energy Canada is a clean energy think tank at the Morris J. Through media briefs, we aim to provide useful factual and contextual information related to Canada’s clean energy transition. In May 2023, wind and solar produced more electricity than fossil fuels in the European Union for the first full month on record.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2022

The study, published in the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) journal The Geographical Journal , highlights that global demand for sulphuric acid is set to rise significantly from ‘246 to 400 million tonnes’ by 2040 – a result of more intensive agriculture and the world moving away from fossil fuels.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Latest BloombergNEF report predicts booming demand throughout the 2020s should see global energy storage market hit one terawatt hour by the end of the decade. The surge in installations is expected to involve more than $262bn of investment, as energy companies around the world rush to deploy storage capacity alongside wind and solar plants.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

As the global Lithium-Ion (Li-Ion) battery market is forecast to grow from $57.4 billion by 2028, India is set to emerge as a market leader due to significant uptake and favourable policy measures, according to Research and Markets. Don’t miss out on the most important energy transition conversations. Register now

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 17, 2019

A few states that wanted to incubate storage industries of their own proved that sharp policy really can create new markets in relatively short periods of time. All the headlines made it possible to forget that the scientific pioneers of lithium-ion batteries won the Nobel freakin Prize this Fall. Storage comes to the South.

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Clean Energy Canada

JUNE 28, 2021

Last year, saw a collapse in global energy demand brought on by the pandemic—the biggest drop since the end of the Second World War. It might seem like a sombre lead for an op-ed about Canadian energy, but there was something unusual about the drop. While most energy sources struggled, renewable energy actually grew worldwide.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Chandu Visweswariah is founding president and CEO of Utopus Insights, a New York-based energy analytics company acquired last year by Vestas. With decades of accumulated manufacturing experience for portable electronics, lithium-ion battery prices have steadily dropped. Competitive markets are wonderful crucibles of innovation.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The energy transition is demanding a range of new skills, some that can be gained from upskilling but others that must be attracted to the sector. But a new study by Britain’s Institute of Physics (IOP) highlights the important role of physics and physicists in delivering the energy transition and net zero – and perhaps no less important.

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R-Squared Energy

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

BloombergNEF (BNEF) published its New Energy Outlook 2020 (NEO) last week. The NEO projects the evolution of the global energy system over the next 30 years. The Implications for Policy section offers BNEF perspective on some of the most important policy areas that emerge from our two core scenario analyses.

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Clean Energy Canada

JANUARY 29, 2020

Not everyone is tracking the cost curves of lithium ion batteries or the deployment rates of solar panels. Solving climate change with policy is paramount. Canada’s oil patch could have a bright future beyond combustion—whether in hydrogen , carbon fibre or lithium production—provided steps are taken now.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

California is looking for ways to keep power flowing to customers amid wildfires without burning fossil fuels. million grant from the California Energy Commission to demonstrate its long-duration zinc battery for the commercial and industrial market. A Canadian storage technology startup thinks it has the solution.

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Clean Energy Canada

DECEMBER 19, 2023

OTTAWA — Joanna Kyriazis, director of public affairs at Clean Energy Canada, made the following statement in response to the federal government’s final electric vehicle availability standard : “With record numbers of Canadians choosing an EV over a gas car in recent months, it’s clear that they want electric vehicles. car market.

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Charged

JULY 26, 2023

Oddly, these public-spirited citizen journalists never mention the far greater environmental impacts of fossil fuel extraction, nor do they seem to consider the fact that e-mobility supporters are in the business of reducing environmental damage, whereas the oil and gas industry has amply demonstrated its indifference to the issue.

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Low Impact

AUGUST 29, 2021

Launched in 2019, the deal embraces virtually every policy area. But solar panels and electric car batteries need lithium , cobalt, nickel and other scarce raw materials. Neither do the EU’s ‘cohesion’ and ‘just transition’ funds exclude fossil fuel investments. It’s not just the energy lobby.

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The Environmental Blog

AUGUST 18, 2020

– 65 per cent said a lack of charging points was a turn off when it comes to transferring from fossil fuel to electric-powered vehicles. The production of batteries, the key element of electric cars, involves the extraction of materials such as lithium, cobalt, nickel, or copper.

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Business Green

AUGUST 17, 2022

Renewable power is set to dominate European power generation this decade, but significantly more policy momentum is required to boost wind, solar and hydro’s share of primary demand, analysis finds. That would mark a significant increase on existing levels of clean energy generation in the power mix across these three economic powerhouses.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen confirms fundamental reforms are coming to the European energy market as governments seek to double down on net zero transition. But it also provided timely confirmation that a wave of energy market reforms are imminent that aim to break the dominance of fossil fuels once and for all.

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Business Green

AUGUST 1, 2022

The policy challenge of tackling free riders, minimising stranded assets, and maintaining competitiveness as the transition takes place. They are the materials that make our buildings, the components inside our technologies, the fuels that provide our energy, and even the food we eat. The financial challenge of funding them.

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2022

The global economy could face many more years of energy market turbulence if governments do not take steps to turbocharge their clean energy and technology investments, the IEA has warned. The stakes for nations that fail to unhitch themselves from gas markets are incredibly high, according to the global energy think tank.

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Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2023

New BloombergNEF analysis charts the rising cost pressures faced by the global stationary energy storage market. That is the core conclusion of recent analysis from BloombergNEF, which estimates the average price of a four-hour turnkey energy storage system rose to $324/kWh in 2022 - a 27 per cent increase from the previous year.

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Business Green

MAY 5, 2021

Minerals such as lithium and copper are critical for EVs and renewables, but a lack of investment and policy clarity risks undermining the burgeoning market.

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Climate Tech VC

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Drought conditions are causing saltwater to creep into the drinking water of communities along the Mississippi River, and the DOE puts $325M toward long-duration energy storage projects. Corporate carbon footprint tracking collects $27M, and forestry and battery interests intersect to invest $18M toward bio-graphite for lithium-ion cells.

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Green Market Oracle

JUNE 3, 2020

Although COVID-19 has decimated the energy sector it will disproportionately enfeeble the fossil fuel industry and embolden renewable energy. We can achieve decarbonization by electrifying the energy, transportation, manufacturing and industry. However, Matt also expressed concern that we will miss the opportunity.

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The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

She didn’t foresee, however, the high energy bills that would result from cranking up the gas heater when her apartment would turn into an icebox in the winter. She hired a contractor to test the apartment’s energy efficiency. She was drawn to its affordability and space. “It It was a great work-from-home spot,” Spears said.

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Clean Energy Canada

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Say the word energy in Canada and odds are people think you’re talking about oil and gas. But this narrow view of Canada’s energy sector misses a big part of the picture. It misses the bright spot in our energy story: the growth and success of clean energy. These are the two biggest federal climate policies in Canada.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Heating and cooling buildings accounts for about a third of the final energy consumption globally and 30% of energy-related CO 2 emissions. Celsius Energy aims to contribute to solving this energy dilemma by providing shallow geothermal heating and cooling systems, thus reducing the carbon footprint of buildings.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 16, 2020

New York utility Con Edison has signed its biggest energy storage contract to date, a 100-megawatt/400-megawatt-hour lithium-ion battery project that will help balance a grid facing rising levels of offshore wind and other renewable power in the years to come. MWh system developed near Albany by Key Capture Energy.

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AutoGrid

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Europe has inspired the world with its ambitious renewables integration, smart energy trading, and grid balancing. An important new study from Smart Energy Europe (SmartEn) makes the case for increased DSF in Europe to meet aggressive climate action targets. Not true, and today DSF is no longer optional for Europe. MW of capacity.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 18, 2023

In news this week, COP28 wraps up with a landmark agreement on transitioning away from fossil fuels, DOE announces a new office focused on AI, and over 2M Teslas were recalled.  for grid enhancements and $7B for hydrogen fuel hubs. 👻 Spooky season for clean energy stocks.

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

China is both a clean energy leader and a dirty energy behemoth. An analysis by Global Energy Monitor reveals that the situation is going from bad to worse as the country is currently building or planing 148 gigawatts of new coal power capacity. China is now the world's second largest economy and the largest carbon emitter.

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Business Green

AUGUST 21, 2022

In a paper published in The Geographical Journal , researchers warn that the global supply of sulfuric acid - a critical component in the production of fertilisers which is also used in the extraction of minerals required for lithium-ion batteries - is soon to be significantly outpaced by demand.

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Business Green

AUGUST 1, 2022

The net zero transition depends on copious amounts of graphite, lithium, cobalt, and other materials that provide the building blocks for energy efficient buildings, electricity transmission infrastructure, solar panels, electric vehicles, energy storage, wind turbines, and myriad other technologies.

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