GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 24, 2020

Gregory Wetstone is president and CEO of the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE), a Washington, D.C.-based Despite near-term concern about the headwinds posed by supply-chain disruptions and other pandemic-related delays, the long-term outlook for renewable energy growth in the U.S. based industry group. remains bullish.

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The Guardian: Energy

MARCH 11, 2024

PM says he will not gamble on energy security, in move likely to be seen as backwards step in decarbonising network Rishi Sunak risks further criticism from green campaigners after throwing his weight behind the building of new gas-fired power stations, saying he will “not gamble with our energy security”. Continue reading.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

The IEA has released its first ever evaluation of global energy employment both today and in the future - BusinessGreen takes a deep dive. Fossil fuels - oil, gas, and coal - are still very much the backbone of the global energy system, and these industries employ tens of millions of workers around the world.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 31, 2023

Conservative MP Andrea Jenkyns has become a director of Net Zero Watch (NZW), a pressure group which denies climate science and campaigns for more fossil fuel extraction. NZW campaigns against renewable energy and for more fossil fuel extraction, often doing so alongside anti-green Conservative MPs in the Net Zero Scrutiny Group.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 11, 2023

The article neglects to mention that Lawson also set up the influential Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) think tank, a major source of climate science denial and unwavering supporter of fossil fuels. Climate Denial Founder. GWPF Record. The GWPF continues to spread climate science denial.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

Kathryn Porter was introduced as an “energy consultant at Watt-Logic” by business presenter Sean Farrington on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, which has an audience of around six million, on Monday morning (June 19).

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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2022

It would be easy at this point to simply list the litany of policy failures and the paucity of political leadership documented by the CCC's almost satirically titled progress report. The lack of action on domestic energy efficiency that has now been evident for so long it has become a point of cliché for campaigners to point it out.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

In another instance, Goldman Sachs announced it would invest $250 million in Hydrostor’s energy storage projects. Koch Industries is also expanding its solar reach, with a series of investments announced in late-2021: Koch Engineered Solutions acquired Arizona-based DEPCOM Power, which builds utility-scale solar plants.

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Business Green

APRIL 6, 2022

The government will tomorrow publish its long-awaited Energy Security Strategy, promising that the sweeping new plan will 'supercharge' clean energy deployment and put the UK on track to source 95 per cent of its power from domestic low carbon sources by 2030.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 22, 2020

The EU’s trillion-euro coronavirus recovery package may not support big renewable energy projects in the way that was expected. The new renewable energy financing mechanism (REFM) would use existing funding mechanisms to sidestep the need for new EU legislation. A rebounding European solar market. trillion ($2.08

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 25, 2020

A new study says changing that could save the region’s utilities and customers billions of dollars over the next two decades — and highlights that a currently proposed plan to create an energy-trading market encompassing the region’s dominant utilities likely won’t be enough to get the job done.

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

That was certainly the case following my previous article, Nuclear Power Could Cut The World’s Carbon Emissions In Half. There is always a contingent who are convinced that all we need is solar power. Department of Energy. He was the founder of one of the early, successful solar companies, SunEdison.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 26, 2022

The finding sheds new light on a network of PR agencies, right-wing politicians and think-tanks working to drum up opposition to climate policies as part of a broader drive to cut regulation and boost production of fossil fuels. Political Influence. Tweets by Ryan paint a mixed picture of her stance on climate change.

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Business Green

JUNE 22, 2022

Confidence is rapidly growing that fully decarbonising the power system across the UK and Europe can be achieved at no additional cost by 2035. It also stresses that the estimated fossil fuel cost savings on offer - between €530bn and €1.1tr - are "likely an underestimate given high fossil fuel prices are likely to persist".

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 28, 2023

The letter reveals new supporters among influential Conservative MPs and peers not previously known to back the group including former Business and Energy Secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg , Lord Frost , Iain Duncan Smith, Andrea Jenkyns, Jonathan Gullis, and Miriam Cates. Rees-Mogg has a long record of opposing climate action.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

When you’ve followed the evolving research of a leading clean energy expert and become a supporter of his vision for a global clean energy transition, it should come as no surprise that I was eager to crack open Mark Jacobson’s 2021 book release, 100% Clean, Renewable Energy and Storage for Everything. Happy Earth Day 2021!

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Great British Energy would cut energy bills and deliver energy independence for the UK, Labour Leader tells party conference. Labour Leader Keir Starmer has pledged that a Labour government would set up a publicly owned clean energy company within a year of being elected to power. The war didn't ban onshore wind.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 16, 2024

” Brendan Haley, director of policy research with Efficiency Canada To begin with, heat pumps are indeed an energy efficient and low-cost way to both heat and cool homes. Premiers who support the fossil fuel industry were quick to exploit the emergency for the apparent political advantage.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

A recent study published in Nature Communications has found that renewables can meet most of the world’s energy needs. According to the authors, even the most industrialized countries that need a heavy power supply can rely on renewable energy, specifically wind and solar. Via Newswise Lead image via Pexels.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Liz Truss ’s team – who will advise her through the energy crisis – includes staff who have worked for anti-net zero politicians and opaquely-funded climate sceptic think tanks. Others have attacked climate policies and blamed high energy bills on renewable power. She has blamed previous energy bill rises on renewables.

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Business Green

MAY 11, 2022

Energy body predicts another bumper year for renewables this year, but warns policies introduced in next six months will determine whether momentum can be maintained beyond 2022.

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Energy Innovation

JULY 14, 2020

Energy Innovation partners with the independent nonprofit Aspen Global Change Institute (AGCI) to provide climate and energy research updates. Because our economies are still coupled with the burning of fossil fuels, this markedly reduced greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. From Hepburn et al. Hepburn et al.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 27, 2021

By Frank Jossi, Energy News Network. Co-ops have innovation in their DNA,” said David Ranallo, a spokesperson for Great River Energy, a generation and distribution cooperative that supplies power to 28 member utilities — making it one of the state’s largest co-op players. Investor-owned Xcel Energy just began a similar rollout.

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Clean Energy Canada

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Eight in ten think it’s important for Canada to invest in clean energy opportunities in response to American Inflation Reduction Act investments in climate action. Key findings include: Two thirds think a clean energy system would be more affordable than a fossil fuel energy system. M ethodology.

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Business Green

JULY 8, 2022

UK energy regulator sets out potential energy market reforms aimed at weaning country off expensive, volatile, and risky fossil gas. The government is targeting 50GW of offshore wind capacity and a five-fold increase in solar capacity by 2035, by which point it is aiming to have established a fully-decarbonised power grid. "As

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The flurry of public-private alliances to scale clean energy technologies announced at COP27 provides significant cause for optimism amid strained talks, write Nigel Topping and Simon Sharpe. Now, new analysis from the International Energy Agency shows that the solar industry's planned manufacturing capacity is roughly consistent with a 1.5C

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Business Green

JUNE 10, 2020

New UN-backed report confirms energy transition is 'in full swing' as renewables costs plummet, but sector is still not on track to meet global climate goals. The report's headline conclusions will be familiar to anyone with a passing interest in the clean energy transition.

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The Angry Clean Energy Guy

APRIL 16, 2015

and a political program?—?that According to the International Renewable Energy Agency, jobs in renewable energy reached 6.5 The faster renewable energy develops, the quicker we will beat these employment forecasts, as we will. The money now spent on fossil fuel imports?—?and But we don’t.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

She said: “The pessimists were also wrong about the costs of low-carbon energy. The cost of wind power and solar power has plummeted over the past decade whilst creating thousands of jobs.”. May said the UK has “confounded the pessimists” by taking action on climate change while growing the economy.

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

He is extremely active in the areas of cleantech and climate change, and widely-respected in the energy sector. He summarized his critique on Twitter : “We do not have the luxury of consigning technologies to the dustbin because they (or the companies that own them) fail a socio-political purity test.”.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

The political consensus on the UK's climate strategy has never looked more frayed at precisely the same time as public support for bolder climate policies has never been higher - and the opposition is seeking to take full advantage of that fact. Labour's new green energy policy is a case in point.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 17, 2022

How are European policymakers dealing with the energy crisis? On behalf of environmental group RePlanet, energy specialist Joris van Dorp offers a deep analysis of the key messages in Europe’s policy. For much of the past decade, they have barely been breaking even as energy prices have been at historic lows.

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Business Green

MARCH 8, 2023

But it warns that in order to deliver on its goals the government must urgently deliver a raft of new policies, investments, and grid reforms to pave the way for a massive scaling up in clean power capacity and green energy technologies needed over the next decade and beyond. Countries around the world are now racing for this goal.

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2023

But its central appeal is for the government to be more consistent and reliable, so as to encourage businesses and investors to deliver the clean technologies of the future and reduce the country's reliance on volatile, polluting and expensive fossil fuels. But it also means we need to lock out climate-wrecking fossil fuels for good.

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Business Green

AUGUST 19, 2022

Solar Energy UK raps PM candidates Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss for suggesting large solar farms pose risk to UK food security. This directly helps sustain UK crop production," Solar UK said. Such comments have garnered heavy criticism from across the political spectrum, however.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

President Joe Biden has called for major clean energy investments as a way to curb climate change and generate jobs. Department of Energy that found that solar power could generate up to 45% of the U.S. Why such a heavy focus on solar power? Doesn’t a low-carbon future require many types of clean energy?

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The Guardian: Energy

MARCH 24, 2024

Exclusive: State’s 2024 total on track to reach about 20% above 2005 levels, modelling obtained by Guardian Australia shows Get our morning and afternoon news emails , free app or daily news podcast Western Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions are rising with little sign that the main power grid can decarbonise rapidly, leaving other states to make (..)

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