GreenBiz

JULY 15, 2020

It is energy-efficient, abundant and an environmentally friendly alternative to natural gas. Clean hydrogen could cut greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel by up to 34 percent, reported Bloomberg New Energy Finance. . And it could be cheaper than producing hydrogen from natural gas.

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Clean Energy Canada

AUGUST 23, 2019

We’ve talked about a couple of different hugely important climate policies that don’t receive enough news coverage. Not only that, it’s the electricity that will power much of the transition to a carbon-free future. Those policies we just mentioned? Making renewables preferable to natural gas.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Forced outages are a tool of last resort, employed in circumstances of incredible stress to the grid and done to protect against more widespread outages. Record heat for several days across parts of the state strained the power grid so much that it started rationing electricity, for the first time in almost 20 years.

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Clean Energy Canada

AUGUST 8, 2023

The federal government has released a new paper, Powering Canada Forward , which lays out the federal government’s vision for a 100% clean power grid by 2035. Canada’s grid is already 84% emissions free, but as the energy transition progresses, more homes, vehicles, and industries will be plugging into the grid.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

That’s how much additional capacity Duke expects to need in the next 15 years to make up for the retirement of its coal-fired power plant fleet and aging natural-gas plants. gigawatts under its carbon policy case — and up to 16.4 million residential, commercial and industrial customers in the Carolinas.

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Business Green

MAY 18, 2021

It provides direct advice to governments and its annual World Energy Outlook reports, which offer projections for future energy sources and demand, have provided the bedrock for major energy investment and policy decisions that help shape the trajectory of the global market. The death knell is being sounded for fossil fuels.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

They include the Spectator magazine and groups based in and around Westminster’s Tufton Street , home to a network of opaquely funded, free market think tanks with a history of criticising climate action and pushing for more fossil fuel exploration. French gas giant EDF and German-owned energy firm E.ON

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

But the gas industry would stand to lose billions of dollars in stranded assets if the UK and other countries no longer needed its pipelines, city-wide grids and other infrastructure to pipe natural gas to heat millions of homes. But these boilers would still mostly run on natural gas – even if hydrogen was available.

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Business Green

JUNE 23, 2022

The research - released just days ahead of the G7 leaders' summit in Berlin - argues that implementing policies to end dependency on fossil fuels at pace would provide a per-person reduction in energy costs from electricity, natural gas, and petrol or diesel of $480, a saving of 25 per cent on current bills.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Ultimately, the challenge faced by California and Germany with high-level penetrations of renewables is one that many federal and local governments must grapple with as they pursue policies in an attempt to mitigate the most dangerous impacts of climate change. and even more so for the myriad targets that have been adopted globally.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

In 2018, renewables accounted for 20 percent of Alliant’s portfolio while coal made up 31 percent and natural gas accounted for 42 percent. There is currently less than 100 megawatts of solar capacity installed in Wisconsin currently, according to Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 10, 2021

And unlike last month’s CPUC order to utilities to boost grid supply under short-term contracts, the new proposal might allow contracts of five years or longer to expand or repower natural gas-fired power plants, which environmental groups say could set California back on its aggressive carbon emissions reduction goals.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 19, 2023

What isn’t changing, not one bit, is the otherworldly spin from fossil fuel lobbyists and spinmasters, one of whom had the tone-deaf audacity this week to insist it would be “dangerous and irresponsible” not to increase fossil fuel production into the indefinite future.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 17, 2020

The San Francisco-based utility is emerging from bankruptcy with a massive debt load that could make it harder to raise the tens of billions of dollars of investment needed to prevent its power grid from causing more devastating wildfires. PG&E plans to invest about $40 billion over the next five years into its power grid.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 20, 2023

Over the past two years, the Energy and Utilities Association (EUA) has paid a public affairs firm to generate hundreds of articles and interviews to lobby the UK government on energy policy. Heat pumps will play an essential role in reducing our fossil fuel dependence and making our homes and buildings renewables-ready.”

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 5, 2020

Most buildings run on multiple fuels. They use electricity to power lights, refrigerators and electronic devices. And they consume fossil fuels such as natural gas or propane to power furnaces, boilers, and water heaters. Gas-powered water heaters can be replaced with heat pump water heaters.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Forced outages are a tool of last resort, employed in circumstances of incredible stress to the grid and done to protect against more widespread outages. Record heat for several days across parts of the state strained the power grid so much that it started rationing electricity, for the first time in almost 20 years.

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Business Green

JULY 17, 2020

It is energy-efficient, abundant and an environmentally friendly alternative to natural gas. Clean hydrogen could cut greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel by up to 34 per cent, reported Bloomberg New Energy Finance. And it could be cheaper than producing hydrogen from natural gas.

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Martin LaMonica

DECEMBER 30, 2015

Indeed, moments after the gavel went down in Paris amid much celebration, a number of questions arose, including how accountable countries will be to their commitments and whether there will be sufficient money to help developing countries adapt to the effects of climate change and move off of fossil fuels.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MARCH 5, 2019

Coal Closure & Reliability Upgrades: Enough spare natural gas capacity exists within the Pacific Northwest region to substitute completely for coal on average. Doing so means slightly higher costs, as existing coal can be run more economically absent a price on carbon than existing natural gas.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 20, 2021

“I can't overstate how important this decade is to India's energy transition,” said Varun Sivaram, senior research scholar at the Columbia University Center on Global Energy Policy, who recently gave a TED Talk on the subject. Source: Brookings Institute " Coal in India " report. “Coal will no longer be the king.”

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Forced outages are a tool of last resort, employed in circumstances of incredible stress to the grid and done to protect against more widespread outages. Record heat for several days across parts of the state strained the power grid so much that it started rationing electricity, for the first time in almost 20 years.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Forced outages are a tool of last resort, employed in circumstances of incredible stress to the grid and done to protect against more widespread outages. Record heat for several days across parts of the state strained the power grid so much that it started rationing electricity, for the first time in almost 20 years.

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Energy Energy Demand Climate change 28

AGreenLiving

JULY 15, 2020

It is energy-efficient, abundant and an environmentally friendly alternative to natural gas. Clean hydrogen could cut greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel by up to 34 percent, reported Bloomberg New Energy Finance. And it could be cheaper than producing hydrogen from natural gas.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MARCH 27, 2019

Those costs were projected to add 0-10% to rates (though only over 3% for one utility) above a scenario with only pre-existing policies in effect. We estimate that the outcome of coal elimination (beyond already announced or negotiated closures) replaced with natural gas is 4.1 100% Clean Power. Combined with the 4.1

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Business Green

DECEMBER 9, 2020

It is therefore essential reading for any business, large or small, with a stake in the future, setting out the huge economic opportunities and new markets that are set to open up, assuming the right policy framework is put in place quickly. Indeed, the urgency here cannot be overstated. Societal and behavioural changes.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

DECEMBER 18, 2023

There is wide recognition that this will take monumental effort in terms of technology advancement, financing, and policy. As a society, we routinely burn fossil fuels at about 1000°C to heat our homes at about 22°C. Doing that depends a lot on policy. But where is all that electricity going to come from?

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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. Rhodes, an energy technology and policy researcher at the University of Texas at Austin, what it would take to meet this target. Why such a heavy focus on solar power? power grid. We asked Joshua D. energy companies.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 8, 2021

“Patrick’s study shows that even with low-cost storage and renewable resources now available, implementing clean energy policies on a national scale, rather than state by state or region by region, is quite compelling in its ability to reduce the total cost of supplying electricity.” transmission grid.

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Smart Energy International

JULY 5, 2022

What is your opinion on the policy side of things? Policy plays a crucial role. The issue with power grids stems when providing multiple functions. We currently do have storage, but we have it in the form of burning gas, or coal or oil when we need it. And so we’ve taken that function for granted.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 6, 2020

utility industry: the rise of renewables as a potentially less costly and risky alternative to fossil fuels. The Atlantic Coast Pipeline's cancelation marks the natural gas market’s “third high-profile victim in the last six months,” Wang wrote in a Monday note. The others include Williams Co.’s

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2023

In Whitby, the 2,000 residents in the proposed trial area would have the choice to continue using natural gas or switch to hydrogen for heating. This will require clear policy direction.” ‘One-sided’ In contrast to Whitby, residents in Redcar have been told that they won’t be able to opt-out of the trial.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

An organization run by former Obama-era Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz, with the backing of the AFL-CIO, a federation of 56 labor unions, has created a policy “blueprint” to build a nationwide pipeline network capable of carrying a gigaton of captured carbon dioxide (CO2).

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Business Green

JUNE 7, 2021

The agreement provides evidence of both the catalysing impact of the new Biden administration and the genuine intention amongst the world's leading economies to start to turn 'build back better' and 'green recovery' rhetoric into tangible policy progress.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 23, 2020

The two candidates vying for the Presidency at next month's US election, Donald Trump and Joe Biden, once again butted heads during a 12-minute segment on climate change and green policy last night, during the final televised debate before voters head to the polls on 3 November. Polish coal giant PGE targets 2050 net zero transformation.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2020

cities are drafting plans and testing out developing zero emission zones in downtown areas, banning fossil-fuel-burning vehicles and developing progressive pricing signals. Everything from plastics to jet fuel can be manufactured from carbon dioxide drawn from the atmosphere or diverted from industrial emissions.

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Grist

DECEMBER 8, 2021

What’s hopeful is that climate policies leaped forward this year in Washington, Oregon, and British Columbia. Activists won a string of local victories, passing municipal and regional laws to ban new and expanded fossil fuel developments. Or rising prices could fuel a political backlash.

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