Business Green

JUNE 19, 2022

New IEA report reveals encouraging recent trends have been thrown into reverse by the pandemic and Russia's invasion of Ukraine - but clean energy investment could swiftly reignite development. The report emphasises how Africa has huge untapped renewables potential.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Coal’s grip on the global electricity sector is loosening as more utilities and companies invest in renewable energy. The nine-year-old startup raised $50 million in January from a slew of investors, including the Bill Gates-led Breakthrough Energy Ventures and the venture capital arm of BHP, one of the world’s biggest mining companies.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MAY 21, 2023

The plan also includes $1 billion to reduce the carbon footprint of buildings, which are responsible for almost 10 percent of the province’s greenhouse gas emissions About $215 million of that money will help fund projects for thermal waste treatment — methods that transform waste into energy that can be used for such things as heating.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Since the IRA passed, 265 clean energy and manufacturing projects worth $100B+ have been announced. 👻 Spooky season for clean energy stocks. The S&P Global Clean Energy index dropped 30% YTD weighed down by higher interest rates and supply / demand imbalances. for grid enhancements and $7B for hydrogen fuel hubs.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Nearly two thirds of social media posts put out by six major European fossil fuel and energy companies since the end of 2019 present a “green” image of the company, despite the majority of their business activity remaining in fossil fuels, reveals new analysis by Desmog. Credit: Sam Whitham.

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Grist

DECEMBER 15, 2021

This story is part of the series Getting to Zero: Decarbonizing Cascadia , which explores the path to low-carbon energy for British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon. And, in the United States, political gridlock chopped the heart out of Congress’ most ambitious clean energy plan. . Worried about the climate crisis?

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 13, 2021

Gulf Coast typically receives much of the attention for the LNG rush , the Pacific Coast of Canada is home to multiple proposed LNG export projects, as energy companies scramble to export fracked gas from northeast British Columbia. Premier John Horgan (left) announce plans to use hydropower at B.C.’s August 29, 2019.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Driving this sea change in long-term planning is a combination of public pressure and energy economics. Utilities in many states now face mandates to move to 100 percent renewable energy or cut carbon to zero by 2050. Dominion Energy. Virginia-based Dominion Energy is, after NextEra, the largest U.S. Duke Energy.

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The City Fix

JANUARY 24, 2024

Last year shattered global heat records. The world witnessed the effects of rising temperatures in the form of devastating wildfires, severe flooding, extreme heatwaves and more. Poor countries and communities who have contributed the least to causing the climate crisis.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Duke Energy said it plans to double its renewable energy capacity by the end of the decade, and stop generating electricity from coal by 2035. Duke Energy's Edwardsport IGCC (integrated gasification combined-cycle) coal-fired generation plant. Follow @EngelsAngle. Courtesy: Duke). Courtesy: North Carolina Governor's Office).

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Business Green

MARCH 25, 2022

Washington and Brussels team up in support of wide-ranging plan to diversify Europe's sources of LNG, ramp up renewables development, plug methane leaks, and boost energy efficiency. EU and US team up for energy security push. China latest mega-hydropower plant comes online.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 25, 2020

(Once the pandemic shut down campus activity, SCU pivoted and developed citizen science pursuits such as tree tracking and energy insights programs, encouraging students to engage in their local urban forest and community's renewable energy goals.) Student interns manage and control one of the microgrids.)

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Grist

DECEMBER 8, 2021

This story is part of the series Getting to Zero: Decarbonizing Cascadia , which explores the path to low-carbon energy for British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon. Quigley, executive director of the Clean Energy Transition Institute, a regional think tank based in Seattle. “I I am deeply sobered,” says Eileen V.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Dominion Energy, Virginia’s dominant utility, is racing to get ahead of the expanding clean-energy ambitions of state Democratic legislators. On Tuesday Dominion announced a 100 percent net-zero emissions plan on the eve of a key vote for even more aggressive renewable energy bills, while promoting its planned 2.6-gigawatt

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 7, 2023

Its fleet of 29 dams, 14 small “solar energy sites,” and 25 power plants generates the electricity that it sells to 153 regional utilities. Despite that, the TVA argues that building the capacity for solar and wind energy takes too much money and time to allocate all at once.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Congressman Paul Tonko, a Democrat representing New York, says he’s optimistic targeted pieces of clean energy legislation will move through Congress in the coming months, including an investment tax credit extension for both solar and wind. Numerous polls show that Americans widely support the deployment of renewable energy.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 8, 2023

Its fleet of 29 dams, 14 small “solar energy sites,” and 25 power plants generates the electricity that it sells to 153 regional utilities. Despite that, the TVA argues that building the capacity for solar and wind energy takes too much money and time to allocate all at once.

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Business Green

AUGUST 8, 2022

The landmark climate, energy and tax legislation just passed by the US Senate joins the EU's RePowerEU action plan and UK's Energy Security Strategy to accelerate the G7 transition to reliable, affordable and clean energy." The US clean energy sector finally has some long term certainty.

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Business Green

JANUARY 7, 2021

West Virgina Democrat Joe Manchin has long been a vocal opponent of cap-and-trade legislation, or any measures that could be seen as a threat to the state's coal industry, and he is set to chair the influential Senate energy and national resources committee. per cent for coal.

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