GreenTechMedia

MARCH 1, 2021

The energy transition isn’t just sounding the death knell for fossil fuels. According to some experts, it has also revealed flaws in an idea that has bugged some academics for decades: As we move to less energy-dense fuels, could we end up without enough surplus for society? Oil is an energy-dense fuel.

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Business Green

JUNE 7, 2021

The UK will need roughly 108GW of offshore wind capacity by 2035 - more than 10 times current capacity - to achieve a net zero electricity system by the middle of the next decade, researchers from Imperial College London have warned.

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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.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 25, 2021

Washington DC – According to a review by the SUN DAY Campaign of data recently released by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), renewable energy sources (i.e., biomass, geothermal, hydropower, solar, wind) dominated new U.S. and provided 22.4% of total U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 26, 2021

Coal power slumped by 20 percent year-on-year while solar and wind power grew 15 percent and 9 percent, respectively. We.need a strong climate policy — such as the Green Deal — in order to guarantee steady progress," he added. That figure includes offshore wind capacity exceeding the combined EU-27 + U.K.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Incoming Prime Minister Liz Truss is expected to announce a sweeping new plan to freeze energy bills, as one of her first acts upon taking office this week. It also revealed that the plan had been briefed to energy industry leaders yesterday, who were said to be broadly receptive to the proposals.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

clean energy sectors showed strong resilience in 2020, continuing a decade-long growth trend, BloombergNEF (BNEF) and the Business Council for Sustainable Energy (BCSE) find in their annual joint report. Energy demand for electricity and transportation fell by 3.8% Energy demand for electricity and transportation fell by 3.8%

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Business Green

JULY 21, 2022

Expanding green energy capacity across the UK would deliver a "bonanza" of job and levelling-up opportunities, with renewable and low carbon energy able to support up to five times more secure and skilled jobs than fossil gas power, according to fresh research today from Green Alliance.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Announcing the first stage of the 10-point plan, Johnson will tomorrow confirm a new increased target for 40GW of operational offshore wind power capacity to be delivered by the end of the decade, up from the existing target of 30GW by 2030, and marking a sizeable increase on the 10GW in operation today.

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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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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s recent comments about the use of batteries for renewable energy infrastructure surprised experts, one of whom described the premier’s comments as possibly ideologically motivated misinformation. After Smith asked, “And what do I do when there’s no sun and there’s no wind?,”

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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). She also spoke at a webinar run by GWPF’s campaign arm Net Zero Watch last June.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Preliminary findings of a joint investigation into the freeze that left millions in Texas without power for days last February highlighted an increasing frequency of extreme cold weather events, as well as the devastation caused by the failure of natural gas-fired plants. Notes all generation types were impacted, focuses on natural gas.

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Business Green

JULY 22, 2021

Between $92tr and $173tr of investment needed to drive net zero energy transition over next 30 years, major new report estimates. At present, however, global emissions are moving in the wrong direction, with global energy emissions in 2019 having ticket up 0.9 per cent even despite the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic worldwide.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 5, 2020

needs a massive green hydrogen industry to decarbonize its electricity, transportation and industrial sectors, and major investments and policy changes today to enable it to grow to its full potential in the decades to come. The “Roadmap to a U.S.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Carbon emissions from energy stayed the same in 2019 despite expectations of further growth, latest International Energy Agency data indicates. After two years of growth, global CO2 emissions from energy were unchanged at 33 gigatonnes last year, even as the world economy expanded by 2.9 per cent in 2018.

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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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Business Green

OCTOBER 5, 2020

And, forming the first stage of the 10-point plan, Johnson will tomorrow announce a new increased target for 40GW of operational offshore wind power capacity by the end of the decade, up from the existing target of 30GW by 2030, and marking a sizeable increase on the 10GW in operation today.

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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

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

The Green Jobs Taskforce, which is to be chaired by Energy and Clean Growth Minister Kwasi Kwarteng and Skills Minister Gillian Keegan, aims to deliver an action plan to tackle the immediate and longer-term challenges of delivering skilled workers for the UK's net zero transition, the government said. "I

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Business Green

AUGUST 26, 2022

Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida this week signalled that the government would undertake a major policy u-turn in response to soaring gas prices and restart idled nuclear plants. We can be the reliable supplier of clean energy a net zero world needs. Canada is a close and like-minded partner in the energy transition.".

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Business Green

MARCH 30, 2022

EV charging station providers and governments must ensure a widespread, inclusive, and transparent charging network where green energy is used, writes Polestar's Fredrika Klaren. Renewables and clean energy has been notably absent from the discussion so far. But how green are the energy sources powering our EVs?

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Business Green

JANUARY 19, 2021

To that end, the government yesterday unveiled a new 'Build Back Better' council made up of 30 business leaders covering a range of sectors, from energy and retail to hospitality, finance, and aviation with a view to helping shape the UK's coronavirus recovery plans. Where we are now there's still a way to go," he told MPs.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

The Green Jobs Taskforce, which is to be chaired by Energy and Clean Growth Minister Kwasi Kwarteng and Skills Minister Gillian Keegan, aims to deliver an action plan to tackle the immediate and longer-term challenges of delivering skilled workers to enable the UK's net zero transition, the government said.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

All-you-need-to-know on the green policies, tax changes and regulatory plans outlined as part of the government's new Growth Plan. Block on onshore wind to be lifted. Speeding up national infrastructure and energy projects. The government has asked the Rt Hon. The Chair will report by the end of 2022.".

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Business Green

MARCH 30, 2023

Prior media reports suggested the government had intended to badge all of its announcements under the banner of 'Green Day', but instead it appears to have gone with the name 'Powering Up Britain', evidently keen to place as much focus as possible on energy security issues.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 10, 2021

Partnership for Renewable Energy Finance – made up of a coalition of corporations that includes Google, Amazon Web Services, and Goldman Sachs – sent a letter Monday urging Texas leaders to scrap anti-renewable energy proposals crafted in response to the extreme winter storm that left millions in the state without power last February.

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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. The falling costs of wind and solar power are pushing utilities to find ways to incorporate them into their long-range plans, even as they struggle to define what resources can be relied on to provide the dispatchable power they need.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Advocates of clean energy may get a last-minute present from Congress this year in the form of a bipartisan package of programs to boost funding for renewable energy, energy storage, electric vehicles, carbon capture and other low-carbon and electric technologies.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 20, 2021

While this much change in 15 years seems ambitious, our new report, “ Halfway to Zero ,” looks back at the past 15 and finds that power sector emissions are half of what they were projected to be. We analyzed the “business as usual” projection in the 2005 Annual Energy Outlook published by the Energy Information Administration , the U.S.

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 17, 2022

will need to nearly triple its 2020 growth rate for the grid to be 80% powered by clean energy by 2030. (As As difficult as that may sound, China reportedly installed 120,000 megawatts of wind and solar in 2020.). 3 ways to bring wind and solar into the grid. Clean microgrids are powered by renewable energy and batteries.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

There are plenty of short term solutions for supporting households and businesses, but in the long term a new approach is needed to boost investment in renewables and energy efficiency, writes RenewableUK CEO Dan McGrail. This year we risk energy bills rising by £700.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 20, 2020

Mid-Atlantic grid operator PJM has submitted a plan that wind and solar industry groups say might shield them from the most harmful effects of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission order that has upended the country’s biggest capacity market. We are encouraged by this short-term solution.”

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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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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The United States can set a course to net-zero carbon by midcentury if it can radically overhaul its energy generation, transport, building and industrial sectors over the next decade, according to a major study from Princeton University. The Princeton study highlights the need for this kind of massive policy shift.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

How prominent is the role of geothermal energy in Taiwan’s net-zero initiative? The Taiwanese government’s 2050 net-zero carbon emission plan approved by 2023 has a total of 12 key strategies, one of which is “Forward Energy.”

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Business Green

JUNE 4, 2021

Increasing carbon prices and gas becoming relatively cheaper compared to coal led to a significant reduction in coal use during 2019, which helped to drive down CO2 as the onus shifted towards gas and renewable energy sources, the EEA said. GWEC: Global wind power surge requires half a million new workers.

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