DeSmogBlog

MAY 31, 2023

Conservative MP Andrea Jenkyns has become a director of Net Zero Watch (NZW), a pressure group which denies climate science and campaigns for more fossil fuel extraction. NZW campaigns against renewable energy and for more fossil fuel extraction, often doing so alongside anti-green Conservative MPs in the Net Zero Scrutiny Group.

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The Guardian: Energy

MARCH 11, 2024

The government will on Tuesday announce a plan to increase gas power capacity by providing extra certainty to investors that plants have a long-term future, even as Britain moves away from fossil fuels. Continue reading.

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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 lack of action on domestic energy efficiency that has now been evident for so long it has become a point of cliché for campaigners to point it out.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

Its Director General Tim Davie has said that while the BBC will cover debate on climate policy, human-caused climate change is not “politically controversial” and “the overwhelming consensus is that we, as humanity, are causing global warming”. Porter has also been associated with political groups leading the charge against climate action.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 22, 2024

and other fossil fuel companies are urging the European Union to relax targets to boost climate-friendly “green” hydrogen, hoping to win greater support for projects to manufacture the fuel using natural gas. ExxonMobil Corp.

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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. Solar reached the big time early in California, thanks to abundant sunshine and supportive state incentives.

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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. Political Influence. In politics, discretion is key,” reads another message on the site.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Compared to more volatile and increasingly more expensive fossil fuel sources, renewable energy power fits the institutional investors’ requirements. Experts said another driver is the shifting political climate and increased public pressure on institutions to invest their assets sustainably.

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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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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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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 24, 2020

After record levels of investment in wind and solar power in 2019, one-eighth of the $1 trillion campaign goal has been met. In 2018, ACORE launched $1T 2030: The American Renewable Investment Goal , an effort to secure $1 trillion in U.S. private-sector investment in renewable energy and enabling grid technologies by 2030.

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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 GWPF continues to deny climate science.

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

That was certainly the case following my previous article, Nuclear Power Could Cut The World’s Carbon Emissions In Half. There is always a contingent who are convinced that all we need is solar power. solar will grow as fast as it physically can and won’t be 100%. Every model shows it. which is in second place globally.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 22, 2020

A rebounding European solar market. The REFM could prove to be a masterful piece of political maneuvering from the Commission, given that prospects for a discrete, standalone tender program were facing opposition. We cannot go down a hydrogen path where we produce hydrogen from fossil fuels.”

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

As the world struggles to move away from fossil fuels , those opposed to the change have argued that renewables cannot reliably meet the energy needs of industrialized nations. They found that wind and solar power could cover up to 80% of the energy needs of most developed countries without the need for heavy storage.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 16, 2024

Premiers who support the fossil fuel industry were quick to exploit the emergency for the apparent political advantage. The benefit of the heat pump is not only its energy efficiency or that it can be used to both heat and cool homes, but most significantly that it can be used to replace burning fossil fuels for home heating.

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Business Green

MAY 11, 2022

However, the IEA also warned that renewable power's growth is on track to lose momentum in 2023, predicting that global additions to the clean power fleet will plateau as solar power's continued acceleration is offset by "little change" in wind additions and a 40 per cent decline in hydropower expansion.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

In a Wall Street Journal article of the same title that year, Sinclair called solar power “comically expensive and ill-judged in cloud-drenched Britain”, adding that “onshore wind energy faces geographic limitations and local resistance”. In the book he said climate policies would “push up electricity bills”, according to the Guardian.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Meanwhile, Indonesia has followed South Africa in agreeing a ‘Just Energy Transition Partnership' with a group of donor countries and private investors, which will mobilise $20bn of finance and roughly double the amount of renewable power it deploys over the course of this decade. Of course, we cannot take that for granted.

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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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Clean Energy Canada

DECEMBER 13, 2022

In the latest round of survey work by Clean Energy Canada and Abacus Data, Canadians believe a clean energy system that includes hydro, wind, solar power and electric vehicles would be both more affordable and more secure than a fossil fuel energy system. Totals may not add up to 100 due to rounding.

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Energy Innovation

JULY 14, 2020

Because our economies are still coupled with the burning of fossil fuels, this markedly reduced greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Every $1 million invested in renewable energy or energy efficiency created nearly three times as many jobs compared to the same investment in fossil fuels. As such, Hanna et al.

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The Angry Clean Energy Guy

APRIL 16, 2015

and a political program?—?that Relatively speaking, renewables also create more jobs per unit of production than the 19th century fossil fuels industries. Solar power for example creates a massive 5 times more jobs per electricity generated than coal and gas. The money now spent on fossil fuel imports?—?and

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

The cost of wind power and solar power has plummeted over the past decade whilst creating thousands of jobs.”. May also cited polling by the More In Common thinktank, which found concern about climate change was common across political and social groups. One was delivered in March 2021 and the other has yet to take place.

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Business Green

JUNE 10, 2020

Renewables costs are falling fast and clean energy is outcompeting fossil fuels on multiple fronts. As today's confirmation that the UK has gone two months without using any coal power exemplifies, the pace and scale of the change underway in the energy industry is striking even to those who work in the sector.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 27, 2021

Many still rely on electricity from coal-fired power plants. They’ve used political clout with rural lawmakers to oppose new pollution regulations and climate legislation, and some have tried to levy steep fees on customers who install solar panels. Today, 44 member-owned electric co-ops serve about 1.7

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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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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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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. The carbon emissions improvements would not be as strong, however, at only one-third of the RTO scenario.

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Business Green

APRIL 13, 2020

So, if companies can't expect clear political direction, will the upsurge in climate activism keep corporate minds focused? You want the banks to be saved, then stop investing in fossil fuel expansion. Genuine efforts towards alternative fuels and emission control.

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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. We want to see all political parties put it at the heart of their economic strategies.".

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

He summarized his critique on Twitter : “We do not have the luxury of consigning technologies to the dustbin because they (or the companies that own them) fail a socio-political purity test.”. But by using the carbon to produce more fossil fuels, critics argue that this can’t reasonably be considered CCS.

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Business Green

JULY 8, 2022

Ofgem has today unveiled a range of potential energy market reforms aimed at reducing Britain's reliance on expansive, risky fossil gas imports and paving the way for a rapid acceleration in domestic wind and solar power capacity over the coming decade and beyond.

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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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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. We asked Joshua D.

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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

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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