R-Squared Energy

JULY 13, 2022

Fossil fuels accounted for 82% of primary energy use last year, essentially the same as in 2020, but down from 83% in 2019 and 85% five years ago. The remaining share of primary energy use consisted of hydroelectric power (6.8%), renewables (6.7%), and nuclear power (4.3%). Natural Gas. In 2021, the U.S.

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Clean Energy Canada

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

These two realities, climate change and volatile energy prices, have a common denominator in fossil fuels. Even without carbon pricing, wind power is set to be 40 per cent cheaper than gas-fired power in Alberta and Ontario by 2030. They also share a common solution. Canadians clearly see the benefits too.

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R-Squared Energy

AUGUST 26, 2021

Maintains Its Natural Gas Dominance. The “Renewables” category above consists of wind power, solar power, biofuels, geothermal energy, and power produced from biomass. The report further breaks down renewable energy consumption into just power production (i.e., exajoules of renewable energy.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Time to ditch fossil fuels-centric planning. Higher temperatures put more stress on traditional fossil-fired electric generators, reducing plant efficiency and output, and even caused them to temporarily shut down. The state is a leader in solar power, meeting much of the demand during the sunny hours of the day.

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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%). Natural Gas.

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R-Squared Energy

AUGUST 9, 2020

Previous articles covered overall energy consumption , petroleum supply and demand, natural gas , and coal. The “Renewables” category consists of wind power, solar power, biofuels. The category “Other” includes geothermal energy and power produced from biomass. over 2018. China overtook the U.S.

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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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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 15, 2019

In a first for the United Kingdom, wind turbines, solar panels and other renewable energy sources have generated more electricity than their fossil fuel counterparts of coal and natural gas. s first power plant was established in 1882, zero-carbon energy has finally generated more clean terawatt hours.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 4, 2019

DENVER — It's become a cliche to compare today's energy storage market to where the solar industry was a certain number of years ago. But these tools proved unexpectedly useful when the Aliso Canyon natural-gas leak jeopardized fuel supplies for Southern California power plants.

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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. million customers in six states.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Shifting heating from fossil fuels to electricity can cut direct emissions. And managing electricity use to match grid needs can help utilities control the costliest part of decarbonizing their systems — reducing reliance on dispatchable fossil-fueled power. Another project in Clovis, Calif.

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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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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

The consultant was the sole interviewee in the segment, in which she claimed that the move to renewable energy, primarily wind power, was increasing the risk of blackouts. Wind Power ‘Blackout’ Risk Porter told BBC Radio 4 listeners in the interview: “There were risks around blackouts this winter.

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Fossil fuels Global warming Climate change Demand 93

Business Green

DECEMBER 24, 2021

Offshore wind energy powerhouse Orsted demonstrates that a pivot away from fossil fuels is possible. The first, biggest step to slowing climate change is switching electricity generation from coal and gas to wind and sun. This needs to happen fast, with coal phased out no later than 2030 and gas not far behind.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 16, 2024

In November, he instructed his province’s public utilities, SaskPower and SaskEnergy, to stop collecting carbon taxes on natural gas as of January 1, 2024, if the federal government didn’t extend the same carbon price carve out to his province. The most extreme reaction was from Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 30, 2021

In recent decades the cost of wind and solar power generation has dropped dramatically. And since renewable energy generation isn’t available all the time – it happens when the wind blows or the sun shines – storage is essential. This approach allows concentrated solar power to work around the clock.

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Business Green

MAY 22, 2020

It also argued wind and solar power would be more cost-effective for bill payers compared to new gas power capacity. Leadsom, however, argued the country would still need fossil fuel power in the future, and that it was not the job of the planning system to block individual projects on climate grounds.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 13, 2021

The proportion of global power generation represented by VRE, such as wind and solar power, has been rising rapidly since 2007. This dramatic expansion of wind and solar has been driven by precipitously falling costs. Renewables will become the largest source of electricity generation in 2025.

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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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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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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

While the fuel is barely on the radar in the United States, around the world a green hydrogen rush is underway, and many companies, investors, governments and environmentalists believe it is an energy source that could help end the reign of fossil fuels and slow the world’s warming trajectory. “Green hydrogen can do that.”

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Time to ditch fossil fuels-centric planning. Higher temperatures put more stress on traditional fossil-fired electric generators, reducing plant efficiency and output, and even caused them to temporarily shut down. The state is a leader in solar power, meeting much of the demand during the sunny hours of the day.

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Energy Energy Demand Climate change 66

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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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. Its 2020 integrated resource plan (IRP) sets a goal of nearly 16 gigawatts of solar, 5.1

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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. million to 11.5

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Currently, Puerto Rico gets more than 97% of its electricity from imported fossil fuel. Power is expensive and unreliable. But the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which controls relief funding for the island, appears ready to underwrite a rebuild of the old fossil fuel system. And in 2020, the U.S.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Time to ditch fossil fuels-centric planning In the last 30 years, about one-third of coastal Southern California homes added air conditioners. Higher temperatures put more stress on traditional fossil-fired electric generators, reducing plant efficiency and output, and even caused them to temporarily shut down.

Energy 28

Energy Energy Climate change Demand 28

AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Time to ditch fossil fuels-centric planning In the last 30 years, about one-third of coastal Southern California homes added air conditioners. Higher temperatures put more stress on traditional fossil-fired electric generators, reducing plant efficiency and output, and even caused them to temporarily shut down.

Energy 28

Energy Energy Demand Climate change 28

GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Out in Utah, a coal-fired power plant supplying electricity to Los Angeles is being outfitted with natural-gas-fired turbines that will eventually be able to run on hydrogen, created via electrolysis with wind and solar power and stored in massive underground caverns for use when that clean energy isn’t available for the grid.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 20, 2019

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. They are the natural energy present in all forms ranging from sunlight, wind, waves, geothermal heat and tides. Ethanol and Biodiesel are the commonly used biofuels.

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Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 18, 2021

Shell - Gas to liquids (GTL) | Shell Natural Gas. This is the practice where natural gas is separated into hydrogen and CO2. Why focus on creating sustainable marine fuels? > Eventually all fossil fuels are to be replaced with a sustainable alternative, hopefully some time before 2050.

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Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 18, 2021

This is the practice where natural gas is separated into hydrogen and CO2, where the hydrogen is used for the petrochemical industry and CO2 is simply released into the atmosphere. Why focus on creating sustainable marine fuels? We however are not interested in replacing all fuels. What about CO2 taxes?

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 17, 2020

All also envision shuttering all coal-fired power plants in the country by decade’s end, something only some of the country’s utilities have committed to doing. Solar and wind power are already cheaper than electricity generated by coal and natural gas-fired power plants, according to the International Energy Agency.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

The rapidly declining costs of clean energy mean the gas plants mandated in the bill will almost certainly cost large ratepayers more than would cleaner alternatives, a reversal from a decade ago. For decades, the provision favored fossil fuel plants over more expensive wind and solar farms.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 16, 2024

As the boats motored through the swells, the self-styled activists broke into a chorus of pleas for the wind farm construction to cease—chants likely intended less for the still-faraway workers than for the camera there to capture footage. “If you were a fossil fuel project, you would have been shut down long ago.”

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Most of the $690 billion in investment to reach this 37 percent by 2030 goal is tied up in building out utility-scale and distributed solar PV and onshore and offshore wind farms, along with a smaller but still significant investment in energy storage capacity to retain grid reliability as intermittent renewables replace fossil fuel power plants.

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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.” Major natural gas and oil pipeline projects have been abandoned or halted by legal challenges. What's at stake for the wind industry?

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