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. has also become more energy efficient since 2005, thanks to policies and technology improvements.

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R-Squared Energy

JULY 14, 2020

However, the laws of thermodynamics require that it always takes more energy to split water into hydrogen and oxygen than you can obtain from the hydrogen. Why, then, would you ever spend more energy to produce hydrogen than you can obtain from using it? Renewable power has grown rapidly in the past decade.

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Hydrogen Carbon Carbon-negative Natural gas 68

Business Green

APRIL 16, 2021

Earlier this week New Zealand became the first country in the world to bring in a law forcing its financial firms to report on the effects of climate change on their business, while the UK is also set to phase in similar rules over the next two years. billion tonnes, which without reform risked the value of these credits being as low a zero.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 5, 2020

utility group Dominion Energy agreed Sunday to sell most of its natural gas business and abandon its multi-billion dollar Atlantic Coast Pipeline project with Duke Energy meant to supply its home-state market of Virginia. gigawatts of energy storage over the next 15 years. for about $9.7

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Natural gas Energy Energy Law 130

GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 21, 2020

These clean energy provisions are included in a $1.4 These clean energy provisions are included in a $1.4 Summaries of the energy provisions included in the bill were provided by the office of Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-New York), and Schumer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.)

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Packaging Nuclear Power Energy Energy 130

GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 26, 2021

The report gives some of its worst marks to some of the biggest utilities with net-zero carbon by 2050 goals, including FirstEnergy , Duke Energy , Dominion Energy and utilities operated by Southern Company. Wind and solar power accounted for just above 10 percent of U.S.

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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.

Solar Energy Monitor 246

Solar Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 246

GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has issued an order that could allow mid-Atlantic grid operator PJM to restart the country’s biggest capacity auction by mid-2021 after a two-year delay. Carbon pricing and distributed energy market access as alternatives.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 17, 2020

Since it was first introduced last year, Illinois’ Clean Energy Jobs Act (CEJA), the state’s proposed 100 percent renewable energy bill, has been built around an escape from grid operator PJM capacity market, the country's largest.

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Energy Energy Nuclear Power Carbon-negative 131

GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Democratic presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, want grid operator New England ISO to give renewable energy a bigger role and fossil-fuel-fired generators a smaller one. Capacity market rules take a toll. Tuesday’s letter takes up three ISO-NE policies for specific critique.

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