Clean Energy Canada

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Feb 2, 2023 OTTAWA — In Alberta and Ontario, wind can now produce electricity at lower costs than natural-gas-fired power—with even more reductions on the horizon, according to a new report from Clean Energy Canada, which was informed by research commissioned from Dunsky Energy + Climate Advisors.

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R-Squared Energy

AUGUST 10, 2023

As I indicated in the previous article , BP has turned over publication of the annual Statistical Review of World Energy to the Energy Institute (EI). Overview The newest Review shows the world remains heavily reliant on fossil fuels for energy needs, even as renewables like solar and wind continue rapid growth.

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Clean Energy Canada

JUNE 20, 2023

By adopting the International Energy Agency’s key assumptions for such a scenario, in particular the price of oil and gas in a world that achieves net-zero emissions by 2050, Canada can have a more serious, informed conversation about what opportunities and challenges lie ahead—and how to plan for them. “On

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Clean energy and markets are the solution (not scapegoat) for California’s blackouts. While the immediate cause is still being investigated, we do know that California’s grid was experiencing multiple, coincident stressors — high demand, generators not performing when called upon and energy imports not showing up. Bryn Baker.

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Clean Energy Canada

JUNE 14, 2022

Canada’s oil and gas patch is partying like it’s 2008, though most Canadian drivers are not enjoying the festive mood. Commercial rents in downtown Calgary are on the rise, and long-thought dead fossil-fuel export projects have zombified. But what past instances lacked was a truealternative to fossil fuels.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

As climate change plans roll into place worldwide, H2 has been making major headlines as a low- or zero-carbon option to replace fossil fuels. That said, not all forms of the gas are equally clean, depending on how it is produced. White hydrogen is considered a low- or zero-carbon option to replace fossil fuels.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 18, 2024

A small town in the state will be a part of a unique new plan for the H2 production as clean energy. Just outside Delta, Utah, there is a small one-stoplight town that will soon be home to a massive underground battery that will use hydrogen fuel for storing excess energy.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 12, 2023

A hydrogen industry lobby group has produced a comic book aimed at high schoolers that suggests solar and wind power are incapable of fueling decarbonization goals, and that only hydrogen fuel cells provide sufficient energy to eliminate fossil fuels.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 13, 2020

The world’s kilns, reactors, chillers and furnaces are powered mostly by fossil fuels. . High-temperature industrial heat, over 932 degrees F, poses a particular challenge because that’s the point at which fuels beyond electricity become the mainstay. Making natural gas renewable .

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 27, 2021

Lucy Victoria Desai, a writer for Northern Powergrid who specialises in sustainability, business, and innovation, appraises the potential and practicalities of wind energy. Now that the world has placed a greater focus on the effects we have on the environment, finding more environmentally friendly ways to source our energy is vital.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Record-high natural gas prices are fueling an energy crunch ahead of winter in the Northern Hemisphere, leading to power shortages in parts of the world. On one hand, developing countries eyeing a switch from coal to natural gas to support higher penetration of renewables may be dissuaded by higher gas prices.

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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. Wind and solar accounted for 61% of electricity generated in Denmark in 2022. Wosk Centre for Dialogue at Simon Fraser University.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 29, 2020

San Antonio municipal utility CPS Energy wants to replace aging fossil-fueled generation with more than a gigawatt of solar, energy storage and flexible capacity, and it’s asking for ideas on how to get there. Sommers natural-gas power plants. “We are looking at this capacity.to

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R-Squared Energy

JULY 26, 2021

Earlier this month the BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2o21 was released, covering energy data through 2020. The Review provides a comprehensive picture of supply and demand for major energy sources on a country-level basis. Typically, the Review gives us a comprehensive summary of energy trends. Energy Overview.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Energy Information Administration modeling forecasts increasing global energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions through 2050. The EIA released the International Energy Outlook 2021 on Wednesday , which makes assumptions based on U.S. Follow @EngelsAngle. Barring significant changes in policies or trends, U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 30, 2020

Arizona Public Service released its plan for reaching zero-carbon by 2050 , with multiple options to balance the costs and carbon benefits of switching from coal and natural gas to renewables, batteries, distributed energy resources and as-yet-untested technologies. million-customer utility, said in a Tuesday interview.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 4, 2020

Utility Dominion Energy is planning a major shift toward renewable energy and batteries as it looks to comply with Virginia's ambitious new clean energy law. The new plan, by contrast, sets out a goal of nearly 16 gigawatts of solar, more than 5 gigawatts of offshore wind, and 2.7 Credit: Dominion Energy).

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R-Squared Energy

AUGUST 26, 2021

The is the sixth article in a series on BP’s recently-released Statistical Review of World Energy 2021. Previous articles were: Highlights From The BP Statistical Review Of World Energy 2021. Maintains Its Natural Gas Dominance. Today, I want to cover renewable energy. exajoules of renewable energy.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

GE Renewable Energy announced a plan Tuesday to produce zero waste wind turbine blades by 2030. The plan will be carried out by LM Wind Power, a GE Renewable Energy subsidiary, which will aim to deliver no excess manufacturing materials and packaging to landfills and incineration without energy recovery.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 16, 2021

The expected decreased demand for fossil fuels, coupled with the falling costs associated with renewable energy projects, are driving major oil and gas companies – including bp, Total and Shell – to actively restructure their businesses to add more renewable power projects to their portfolios. Have you read?

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R-Squared Energy

AUGUST 9, 2020

This article is the fifth in a series on the BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2020. The Review provides a comprehensive picture of supply and demand for major energy sources on a country-level basis. Previous articles covered overall energy consumption , petroleum supply and demand, natural gas , and coal.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Duke Energy has detailed the various paths its utilities in the Carolinas could take over the next 15 years, a choice that will determine how quickly Duke cuts its carbon footprint and how much it will cost. All of the scenarios go well beyond Duke’s previous IRPs in leaning more heavily on solar, onshore wind and energy storage.

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

For Nova Scotians, clean energy has been in the news a lot lately. The province recently unveiled its plan for 50 per cent wind power by 2030 alongside additional solar. Understanding this change is key to understanding the affordability benefits of clean energy.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 4, 2019

DENVER — It's become a cliche to compare today's energy storage market to where the solar industry was a certain number of years ago. said Daniel Finn-Foley, energy storage director at Wood Mackenzie, speaking Tuesday at GTM's Energy Storage Summit in Denver.

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Clean Energy Canada

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Then there’s energy: whether it’s $2 gas or higher home heating bills , powering our lives has gotten pricier. These two realities, climate change and volatile energy prices, have a common denominator in fossil fuels. For starters, Alberta and Ontario are in the midst of transforming their power grids.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 9, 2020

gigawatts of solar, wind and battery storage projects, part of a massive clean energy growth plan that will open the utility's six-state territory to third-party renewable energy developers. Spencer Gray, executive director of the Northwest & Intermountain Power Producers Coalition, told Greentech Media in May.

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The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The cause of current climate change is largely human activity, like burning fossil fuels, like natural gas, oil, and coal. These changes are happening at an unprecedented rate, and they are likely to continue unless we take action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. How climate change is caused by humans.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 15, 2019

In a first for the United Kingdom, wind turbines, solar panels and other renewable energy sources have generated more electricity than their fossil fuel counterparts of coal and natural gas. s first power plant was established in 1882, zero-carbon energy has finally generated more clean terawatt hours.

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Green Living Guy

DECEMBER 30, 2020

They’re called fossil fuels. These are power sources like crude oil and natural gas that we use to sustain ourselves. Fortunately, we can turn to renewable energy alternatives that work similarly — and are better for the planet. The post What Renewable Energy Is Most Cost-Effective by Region?

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Clean Energy Canada

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Tripling renewable energy in both countries by 2030. And they’re in good company this week, as European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will launch a global pledge to triple renewables and double energy efficiency at COP28, the world’s major climate conference. What is the one thing they can agree on? Hardly a wedge issue.

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R-Squared Energy

JULY 13, 2022

Last week the BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2022 was released, covering energy data through 2021. The Review provides a comprehensive picture of supply and demand for major energy sources on a country-level basis. Energy usage and consumption statistics continue to be dominated by the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 11, 2020

Utility group PacifiCorp is about to open a gusher of opportunity for wind, solar and energy storage developers in the Pacific Northwest and Rocky Mountain regions. Through its two utility subsidiaries, Pacific Power and Rocky Mountain Power, PacifiCorp claims to be the largest grid operator in the Western U.S.,

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Duke Energy’s options for reaching net-zero carbon by midcentury will look a lot different than those being pursued by utilities in the sun-soaked Western U.S., or the wind-rich Great Plains, or even those sharing the same Atlantic coastline. Others rely on options like offshore wind that are untested in the U.S.,

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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. France built nuclear power. Denmark looked to offshore wind.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

The plan is to use electricity from an Ørsted offshore wind farm to power the electrolyzers. The initial 50 MW phase will produce 9,000 tons of green hydrogen per year, enough to displace 20 percent of the refinery’s existing fossil-fuel derived hydrogen. GTM's Green Hydrogen Explainer is here.)

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 29, 2020

The EU's own new strategy for decarbonizing its energy system draws largely from European Commission projections from 2018, predicting that in 2050 more than 80 percent of the electricity supply will come from renewables and 15 percent from nuclear.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Plus all the top green business news from around the world this week, including global wind capacity forecasts, food system CO2 fears, and an IKEA second-hand store in Sweden. Russia eyes fossil fuel growth as it unveils 2030 climate goal. I believe natural gas to be an eco-friendly energy source" said Novak. "I

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