Business Green

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Green Alliance warns that major decarbonisation policy gaps must be filled next year if government is to achieve its bold 2030 carbon reduction target. We'll be looking for the government to move from ambition to action in 2021, with new policies to make hitting the targets possible.".

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Clean Energy Canada

MAY 18, 2023

But the federal government isn’t yet taking full advantage of this opportunity, a new white paper finds. With climate and energy among the major topics to be discussed at the summit, eyes will be on each country’s policy actions and emissions performance.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 26, 2022

A new programme has been announced by Google and C40, a global network of mayors taking action to confront the climate and energy crisis, to explore and integrate the concept of 24/7 carbon-free energy (CFE). The announcement sees C40 Cities join forces with Google to launch the 24/7 Carbon-Free Energy for Cities programme.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JUNE 21, 2021

Policy Manager | Center for Resource Solutions | San Francisco. Center for Resource Solutions (CRS) is seeking a candidate with 2-5 years’ experience to join its expanding renewable energy policy and market development team. The Policy Manager is a full-time exempt position and reports to the Policy Director.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Although crucial to net zero, uptake of digital technologies is being hamstrung by policy shortfalls, underinvestment, and skills shortages, Green Alliance warns. Finally, it called on the government to ensure that the technologies themselves are as energy and resource efficient as possible.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 1, 2021

For this episode of the Local Energy Rules podcast, host John Farrell speaks with Leslie Glustrom, an advocate with Clean Energy Action in Boulder. Leslie Glustrom, a biochemist-turned-clean energy advocate, was a founding member of Clean Energy Action. An advocacy group in Boulder, Colo. The Need for Broader Grid Reform.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 14, 2020

After several delays spanning at least a year, the government has finally unveiled vision for a future net zero energy system - here are the eight things you need to know about the long-awaited Energy White Paper. To describe autumn 2020 as a busy period for green economy policy in the UK would be an understatement.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 22, 2020

The government's overarching ambition is welcome, but we now need a detailed policy agenda to make net zero a reality, writes the REA's Dr Nina Skorupska?. Here at the REA we are well used to a flurry of new policy being announced just before the end of the year, but this advent has been a real bumper few weeks.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 14, 2020

government’s long-awaited energy white paper is out with confirmation of fresh negotiations with EDF over a new nuclear power station and a drive to push up the price of carbon. Those ideas now begin their journey into law, offering the energy sector some welcome certainty at the same time.

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Solar Power World

OCTOBER 16, 2019

In a new white paper released today by the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE) and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, the organizations offer recommendations on how U.S.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

MARCH 11, 2020

This week, the Massachusetts Attorney General’s office released a white paper documenting the results of a symposium convened last fall to discuss how electric markets should be organized to manage the transition to a “low / no-carbon future.” Because it’s the energy markets, stupid! And that’s economy-wide carbon pricing.).

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AutoGrid

OCTOBER 18, 2023

But cutting-edge digital technologies that leverage artificial intelligence (AI) and enable these prosumers to become part of virtual power plants are ushering in innovative approaches to grid reliability and reshaping the Indian energy landscape. The stakes are particularly high because India is the world’s third largest energy consumer.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The government is reportedly poised to shift environmental and social levies from electricity bills onto household gas bills, a policy move which has long been sought by climate advocates as critical to accelerating electrification of the economy and phasing-out fossil fuel heating.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

Danish energy company European Energy and UK renewables firm Locogen have inked a deal to build a major pipeline of onshore wind farms in Scotland over the next five years. European Energy confirmed that Scotland would be the base for its "rapidly growing" UK subsidiary.

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Business Green

AUGUST 30, 2020

Impact of lockdown offers glimpse of how a net zero energy system could operate in the future, highlighting need for more grid flexibility, study argues. At the same time wholesale electricity prices also fell dramatically by 42 per cent as a result of plummeting power demand and the low marginal cost of renewable power.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

However, green businesses and environmental campaigners have repeatedly warned increased funding and clarity on a raft of climate policies are repeatedly required if the UK is to get on track to meet its emissions goals and deliver on Prime Minister Boris Johnson's promise to "build back better".

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Creation of a new UK Seas Authority and appointment of a Minister for the North Sea among measures that could ensure efficient and environmentally responsible planning of clean energy technologies in area key to UK’s successful net zero transition, Policy Exchange argues.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

APRIL 29, 2024

The Government of Hungary, thru the Ministry of Energy, has recently published a National Geothermal Strategy that outlines a path for the greater utilization of geothermal energy while setting out the framework for the use of state resources to support the agenda. GWt, more than 99% of which is used as thermal energy.

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Business Green

MAY 6, 2020

BEIS released a suite of documents regarding 'clean heating' policy last Tuesday including most importantly details of what will follow on from the RHI. This policy consultation comes in advance of a long awaited energy White Paper and in advance of a heat and buildings framework expected to be released later this year.

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CleanTech Alliance

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Find the new draft of our Clean Energy Fund White Paper. Why We Should Continue to Fund the Clean Energy Fund Big Bang for the Buck– The Clean Energy Fund requires awardees to secure funding for at least half of […]. It is a work-in-progress and comments are always welcome.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Providing a comprehensive understanding of grid orchestration, its challenges, and the transformative potential it holds, this eBook focuses on: Grid Orchestration: The art of harmonising diverse energy sources, demand patterns, and grid infrastructure. Decentralisation: The shift toward decentralised energy production.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 9, 2021

Over the past decade, Mainspring Energy has been at work on a novel "linear generator" that it says can provide on-site electricity with lower emissions than fossil-fueled engines and microturbines, and greater flexibility than fuel cells. On Tuesday, Mainspring's vision landed a vote of confidence from U.S.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Here, BusinessGreen rounds up all the policies, commitments, and investment pledges in the 10-point plan: 1. However, investors will also be hoping that the imminent Energy White Paper accelerates the timetable for the clean power contract auctions that will determine the pace of new development.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Ahead of the Prime Minister's promised new green recovery package, a new report from the business advocacy group outlines a raft of near-term policy interventions that could put the UK on track to reaching net zero emissions. The gap between the government's net zero rhetoric and its policy agenda remains.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 10, 2021

Pecan Street used data from energy use on homes with solar PV in New York and Texas to explore the grid impacts of poor residential power factor and the system benefits of power factor correction. Read more: ‘C ode red for humanity’: Renewable energy advocates react to U.N. climate report. climate report.

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Business Green

JANUARY 20, 2021

Britain has the potential to make a lot of money in efficient, decentralised energy, argues Lucy Symons-Jones of the Association for Decentralised Energy. There is money to be made in decentralised energy. Decentralised energy will mean decentralised skills and decentralised profits. A lot of money. Companies like E.ON

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Business Green

JUNE 14, 2021

Electricity supplier has urged government to establish stricter decarbonisation policies that can put UK on track to meeting climate goals. In a white paper published this morning, E.ON We must not forget this is a marathon, a 30-year ambition," he said.

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Business Green

JANUARY 28, 2021

Jess Ralston from the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU) sets out her expectations for the government's imminent Heat and Buildings Strategy. Addressing shortfalls in what remains the flagship national policy to insulate millions of homes will be top of the list. Here's a quick run through of what we can expect.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Some of Europe's leading energy companies and trade bodies have this week teamed up to launch a new Renewable Hydrogen Coalition, amidst predictions the continent's fledgling green hydrogen sector could grow at much faster rate than current strategies suggest. And it needs to be 'made in Europe'.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 5, 2020

In order to reach the higher goals, the government plans to set a target to deliver up to double the capacity of renewable energy support up for grabs in the next Contracts for Difference (CfD) auction, which is set to open in late 2021, alongside "stringent" goals to support UK turbine manufacturing, it said.

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Energy Innovation

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Energy Innovation partners with the independent nonprofit Aspen Global Change Institute (AGCI) to provide climate and energy research updates. A full list of AGCI’s quarterly research updates covering recent climate change research on clean energy pathways is available online at [link]. Here are some highlights.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 16, 2020

But the technologies that can cost-effectively meet that need have so far attracted more attention from white paper authors than paying customers. I haven’t seen anything this big in nature that’s focused on long duration," said Jin Noh, senior policy manager at the California Energy Storage Alliance.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Plans for 'comprehensive' policy document that sets out pathway to net zero emission economy confirmed in government's formal response to CCC's latest progress report. But in its 156-page response to the CCC's 'bumper' progress report , the government yesterday confirmed a raft of new deacrbonisation strategies are on the way.

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Business Green

MARCH 17, 2021

However, with the Energy White Paper released late last year having set an aim to capture 10Mt of emissions by 2030, it remains unclear precisely how the remaining 7Mt will be delivered. By the end of the decade, the government wants to see low carbon sources account for around 40 per cent of industry's total energy consumption.

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Business Green

JULY 2, 2020

The energy giant yesterday set out its top priorities for delivering net zero emissions by 2050, offering the stark assessment that the UK is "not on course to meet our fourth carbon budget commitments to decarbonise homes and transport emissions".

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

GW of new long duration pumped hydro storage, with 90 GWh of storage, could save up to £690 million per year in energy system costs by 2050, as the UK transitions to a net-zero carbon emission system. A new study by independent researchers from Imperial College London has found that just 4.5

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2021

Heavy industry is notoriously energy intensive and its emissions are hard-to-abate. The government acknowledged that as the decade continues "further support" will be needed, pointing to the £1bn CCS infrastructure fund and £240m net zero hydrogen fund set out in the recent Energy White Paper.

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