Business Green

JUNE 29, 2022

It would be easy at this point to simply list the litany of policy failures and the paucity of political leadership documented by the CCC's almost satirically titled progress report. The renewables-hostile planning system, grid bottlenecks, and glacially-paced nuclear pipeline. We know what is needed.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 22, 2020

Before the stimulus was signed off, a leaked document by the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Energy (DG Energy) ran through a serious of policy plans to marry the European Green Deal and the COVID-19 recovery effort. A rebounding European solar market. The EU is currently working through the details of a €1.85

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 26, 2022

The finding sheds new light on a network of PR agencies, right-wing politicians and think-tanks working to drum up opposition to climate policies as part of a broader drive to cut regulation and boost production of fossil fuels. We are seeing a coordinated set of campaigns attempting to influence climate policy,” he said.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

Porter’s blog repeatedly cites the work of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), the UK’s main climate science denial group. The claim plays on the idea, often promoted by opponents of climate action, that renewable energy from wind and solar power is unreliable.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 24, 2020

Thanks to continuing cost declines, strong demand for renewable power from businesses and residential electricity consumers, and supportive state energy policies, those who know the industry best believe its brightest days are yet to come. What the renewables industry needs right now. Unfortunately, time is not on our side.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

“It is probably safe to assume that institutional investment has also experienced comparable growth in the past few years,” said Rabia Ferroukhi, Director of Knowledge at IRENA’s Policy and Finance Center. For the past seven years globally, more renewable power was added to the grid annually than fossil fuels and nuclear combined.

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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. It does not rely on a geographically specific weather pattern or any one set of state policies to become valuable, and it's already asserting itself across the U.S.,

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 28, 2023

Chris Stark, chief executive of the CCC, has said that political leadership was “missing” in the pursuit of net zero. Greg Smith told DeSmog that he is “committed to challenging assumptions on the best way to end our reliance on fossil fuels and decarbonisation.” The Reclaim Party itself has a history of opposing climate action.

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Business Green

JUNE 22, 2022

Confidence in Europe and the UK's ability build a net zero energy system in little over a decade continues to build among investors, engineers, and energy policy wonks - even if it remains to be seen whether political decision makers are willing to deliver the policy frameworks necessary to turbocharge the roll out of clean technologies.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Others have attacked climate policies and blamed high energy bills on renewable power. These climate-wrecking policies won’t help our efforts to tackle the cost of living scandal and the energy crisis, they’ll totally undermine them. She has blamed previous energy bill rises on renewables. Let Them Eat Carbon’.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 16, 2024

Fighting carbon taxes at both the provincial and federal level is a de facto policy of conservative parties throughout Canada. ” Brendan Haley, director of policy research with Efficiency Canada To begin with, heat pumps are indeed an energy efficient and low-cost way to both heat and cool homes.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Fossil fuels - oil, gas, and coal - are still very much the backbone of the global energy system, and these industries employ tens of millions of workers around the world. Clean energy employs more people worldwide than fossil fuels. So, as job numbers decline in coal, oil and gas, opportunities in clean energy will rise.

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Business Green

MAY 11, 2022

Energy body predicts another bumper year for renewables this year, but warns policies introduced in next six months will determine whether momentum can be maintained beyond 2022. Annual additions of renewable power in the EU alone jumped by almost 30 per cent to a record 36GW in 2021, it said.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

May, who was UK Prime Minister from 2016 to 2019, was speaking last night at an event hosted by the Conservative Environment Network (CEN), which represents more than 100 Tory MPs who back policies to cut emissions and protect nature. In her speech, May called on Conservatives to unite ahead of the UN COP26 climate summit.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 25, 2020

“There is more to the story in terms of supporting energy decarbonization goals,” such as state-by-state policies that could drive the shift from fossil fuels to renewables. Gauging the political realities. But whether other states will join in this effort remains to be seen.

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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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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

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

The political consensus on the UK's climate strategy has never looked more frayed at precisely the same time as public support for bolder climate policies has never been higher - and the opposition is seeking to take full advantage of that fact. Labour's new green energy policy is a case in point.

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Business Green

JUNE 10, 2020

But this year its mix of good and bad news takes on a particular importance as green businesses face worsening economic headwinds and governments urgently search for the policy levers that can avert an economic catastrophe. Renewables costs are falling fast and clean energy is outcompeting fossil fuels on multiple fronts.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Starmer reiterated Labour's plan - trailed over the weekend - to achieve a 100 per cent clean power system by the end of this decade, a shift he acknowledged would require a doubling of onshore wind power, a quadrupling of offshore wind, and a tripling of solar power capacity. This is a great articulation of such a plan.

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2023

But its central appeal is for the government to be more consistent and reliable, so as to encourage businesses and investors to deliver the clean technologies of the future and reduce the country's reliance on volatile, polluting and expensive fossil fuels. But it also means we need to lock out climate-wrecking fossil fuels for good.

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The Angry Clean Energy Guy

APRIL 16, 2015

Some, like the British Green Party , go even further, and use our needs to clean up our environment in precisely the wrong way: As an attack on economic growth as a policy goal, and therefore on jobs and wealth creation. and a political program?—?that The money now spent on fossil fuel imports?—?and But we don’t.

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Business Green

MARCH 8, 2023

The UK's climate advisory body latest report provides an in-depth assessment of the mix of renewable, flexible grid, hydrogen, nuclear, and carbon capture technologies that will need to be in place by the middle of the 2030s if the government is to deliver on its stated goal of operating a nearly completely decarbonised power grid by 2035.

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Business Green

AUGUST 19, 2022

"This directly helps sustain UK crop production," Solar UK said. Solar Energy UK supports ground mount and rooftop solar, both of which are helping to reduce the UK's carbon emissions, displace the fossil fuels that are causing the energy price crisis, create jobs, and increase our energy security.".

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Business Green

JULY 6, 2022

Policy documents released yesterday offer a glimpse into how big a role the government envisages for technologies such as carbon capture utilisation and storage (CCUS), direct air capture (DAC), and bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) in supporting its Net Zero Strategy.

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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? million solar panels or 364 large-scale wind turbines.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 17, 2022

On behalf of environmental group RePlanet, energy specialist Joris van Dorp offers a deep analysis of the key messages in Europe’s policy. Since these issues are so important, it’s worthwhile addressing some of the key messages of this historic speech, as these will serve as the basis for EU policy in the years ahead.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 26, 2022

About 50 years ago, Costa Rica began to promote a series of novel environmental policies. Sustainability policies established. It was not until the early 1990s that political leaders realized the need for change, to significantly improve the environmental and social systems that the country’s economy relied on.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 28, 2021

The policy steps the administration has proposed provide clarity on the path forward, helping households, businesses and investors plan and invest. 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.

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Business Green

MARCH 17, 2022

My view is that you can have any realistic policy solution to any of our problems today, as long as it's green - because every single one of them is.". Now is the moment to go full steam ahead in our transition away from fossil fuels. Investing in nuclear, accelerating renewables and boosting energy efficiency will: ?

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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. These plants are in an arid region, with little access to water for power plant cooling.

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Business Green

JULY 7, 2022

Boris Johnson is set to finally quit as Prime Minister today, throwing his government's policy agenda for delivering net zero emissions, levelling up the economy, and reversing nature loss into disarray. The wheels of Government must continue in the meantime (2/2). — Kwasi Kwarteng (@KwasiKwarteng) July 7, 2022.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2023

The Committee's overarching conclusion is both clear as day and extremely pertinent at the current geopolitical juncture: a net zero energy system is technologically, financially, and politically achievable within the 2035 timeframe, but the government simply cannot afford to waste anymore time in building it.

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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2022

At the kick off event for London Climate Action Week, BusinessGreen spoke to Mayor of London Sadiq Khan and event founder Nick Mabey about how regions and cities can drive climate action despite a turbulent political backdrop. But how much power does London actually have to drive the UK's climate agenda?

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

As such, the COP Presidency should presumably welcome mounting calls for a new era of public-private cooperation on the financial packages that can help developing and emerging economies wean themselves off fossil fuels.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2023

That’s bad for tackling fuel poverty and bad for the climate,” he said. Political Pressure Hydrogen enjoys cross-party support in Parliament, and has been promoted at both Labour and Conservative party conferences in recent years. The proposed experiment in Redcar has attracted strong political support in Teesside.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 20, 2019

This conference is a global platform to discuss and learn about aims to provide a Renewable energy researchers, scientists, industrialists, policy makers, energy economists and academicians to exchange and share their experiences and research results about all aspects of Renewable Energy and Resources. Green Diesel, Biogas.

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