Business Green

APRIL 13, 2022

Clean energy now comprises 38 per cent of global power capacity after another record year of additions driven largely by wind and solar, latest figures reveal. The report notes that solar capacity grew by 19 per cent in 2021 on the year before, and wind energy increased its generating capacity by 13 per cent.

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R-Squared Energy

JULY 26, 2021

Small declines were also reported in coal, natural gas, and nuclear consumption, while renewables and hydropower recorded gains. The remainder of global energy consumption came from coal (27.2%), natural gas (24.7%), hydropower (6.9%), renewables (5.7%), and nuclear power (4.3%). Solar electricity consumption rose by a record 1.3

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 11, 2020

Through its two utility subsidiaries, Pacific Power and Rocky Mountain Power, PacifiCorp claims to be the largest grid operator in the Western U.S., PacifiCorp's utilities have long relied on federally operated hydropower or utility-owned fossil-fueled generation for their electricity.

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Business Green

MAY 11, 2022

Renewables are set for yet another year of record growth in 2022, with some 320GW of new capacity expected to be added around the world this year as governments take advantage of the climate and energy security benefits of solar and wind power, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA).

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 4, 2020

Dominion Virginia’s new integrated resource plan (IRP), announced Friday, represents a potentially historic shift for the state’s largest utility, which has seen previous plans rejected by Virginia regulators for their over-reliance on fossil fuel power plants and infrastructure to be paid for by ratepayers.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 3, 2021

Annual figures show that renewable supply outpaced fossil fuels for the first time. 42% of all energy used across the country through 2020 came from wind, solar, tidal and hydro. New research by Drax Electric Insights shows that the UK broke all records last year for renewable energy consumption.

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Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 22, 2021

In the European Union, the rate of electricity generation from renewable energy sources amounted to 38%, ahead of fossil fuels (37%), and nuclear energy (25%). The main drivers of growth in the industry in previous years were wind and solar power. And this is only the beginning. the investor of D?bsk

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

The plans, available at The Solutions Project’s “ Clean Energy ” link, reveal the unique mix of wind, water and sun technologies capable of powering states, countries and even select U.S. Wind, Water and Sun (aka WWS) include wind power; waterpower from tides, rivers, and subsurface water (geothermal water); and solar power.

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Business Green

MARCH 25, 2021

Exclusive: Researchers have sought to calculate the external environmental, social and health costs of from fossil fuels, renewables, road transport and aviation. It's yet even more sobering evidence that the UK needs to move away from fossil fuels and ambitiously pursue rapid decarbonisation," he added.

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Green Living Guy

DECEMBER 30, 2020

They’re called fossil fuels. These are power sources like crude oil and natural gas that we use to sustain ourselves. What’s one significant contributor to climate change? Fortunately, we can turn to renewable energy alternatives that work similarly — and are better for the planet. Take a look to see.

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The Verge: Energy

APRIL 24, 2024

While most of the world still runs on dirty fossil fuels, Costa Rica has generated nearly all of its electricity from renewable sources of energy for nearly a decade. In the winter, like a six-month period from June to December, many of the hydropower plants get surplus flows. So, it will be affected. So, it will be affected.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

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? The Energy Department’s Solar Futures Study lays out three future pathways for the U.S. million solar panels or 364 large-scale wind turbines. power grid.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Von der Leyen announced a plan to collect up to 140 billion euros in windfall profit taxes from energy companies that produce electricity at low cost, e.g. wind, solar, hydro and nuclear. After all, consumer prices have become much higher than the cost of producing wind and solar power. Source: IEA).

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 20, 2022

is going to need a lot more solar and wind power generation, and lots of cheap energy storage. Wind and solar power vary over the course of a day, so energy storage is essential to provide a continuous flow of electricity. To rely more on wind and solar power, the U.S. Genex Power.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 28, 2021

We can continue to leverage the carbon pollution-free energy provided by existing sources like nuclear and hydropower. Finally, it removes tax subsidies for fossil fuels, which today cost taxpayers roughly $4 billion a year and incentivize the use of higher-emission fuels. communities — especially in communities of color.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

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. Duke's utilities serve 7.7 million electric customers and 1.6

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 20, 2019

These sources are constantly replenished such as sunlight, wind, heat and water. The common energy sources are Hydropower, Biomass, Biofuels, Wind, Geothermal and Solar Energy. Renewable energy can be defines as a form of energy derived from the natural sources which cannot be depleted such as wind or solar power.

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 17, 2022

In the summer of 1988, scientist James Hansen testified to Congress that carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels was dangerously warming the planet. Then, beginning around 2009, first wind turbines and then solar photovoltaic panels decreased enough in cost to become competitive in electricity markets.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

If the trend is maintained, renewable energy sources could overtake fossil fuels and become the largest power source by 2025. While fossil fuels have dwindled, wind power and solar have increased in capacity significantly. and China, as they are the front-runners in the sector. .

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Business Green

JUNE 26, 2020

Latest data reveals renewable power sources provided almost half of the UK's electricity during first three months of 2020. Fossil fuel generation, meanwhile - mostly coal and gas - provided just over a third (35.4 Solar power was up more than 20 per cent on the same period last year, while wind generation grew 12.2

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 2, 2020

Senate will consider a bipartisan energy package this week that could be this year’s best legislative hope to increase federal funding for a number of energy technologies, from solar, wind and batteries, to more efficient fossil fuel-fired power and carbon capture. Senate Minority Leader Charles E.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 11, 2020

The bill has come under fire from clean energy groups for its lack of targets or mandates for reducing carbon emissions, as well as provisions to direct billions of dollars to fossil fuel research. trillion spending bill passed by Congress in December. Energy storage. Several of the storage provisions were introduced by Sen.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

“They’ve done their best to try to prop up fossil fuels, but it hasn’t really come [at] the detriment of renewables.” Regardless of who wins the election, solar will increasingly be the go-to source of clean generation in utility IRPs and a threat to other sources in merchant power markets.

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CleanTechnica

DECEMBER 26, 2021

In October 2019, wind power and solar power accounted for 11.3% This shows steady growth of solar and wind power in the United […]. of US electricity generation. In October 2020, they accounted for 12.4% of US electricity generation.

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CleanTechnica

MARCH 7, 2021

That was led by wind power, which accounted for 8.3% of US electricity generation, followed by hydropower at 7.2% and solar power at 3.3%. 2020 US electricity generation data are in from the US Energy Information Administration. Crunching the numbers, renewable energy accounted for 20.6%

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CleanTechnica

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

The US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) expects that slightly more than 50% of new US power capacity in the next 3 years will come from solar power — and that’s just considering large-scale solar power projects, not small-scale/rooftop solar power installations.

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CleanTechnica

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Solar power keeps growing in the United States. of new power capacity added in the country was from solar power plants. was from wind power plants. was from hydropower. In the month of June, 60.1% Another 37.5%

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