The Environmental Blog
JUNE 24, 2022
About 77% of the citizens agree that a more important energy priority should be developing alternative energy resources like wind and solar power and hydrogen technology instead of increasing fossil fuel production. Further, two-thirds of all Americans feel that government should do better on climate.
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. Nuclear power plays a large role in PSEG’s carbon-reduction plans.
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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.
GreenTechMedia
JANUARY 26, 2021
utilities are on track to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 80 percent by 2030 compared to a 2005 baseline, the target needed to prevent global warming beyond 1.5 Wind and solar power accounted for just above 10 percent of U.S. A new report from the Sierra Club finds that almost no U.S.
Business Green
MAY 17, 2021
The IEA's roadmap also suggests that a global net zero energy system in 2050 would be dominated by wind and solar, with a small role for nuclear power, and fossil fuels confined only for use in the production of plastics and at some heavy industrial manufacturing sites or facilities equipped with carbon capture capability.
Business Green
JULY 24, 2020
Elsewhere in the US this week, meanwhile, Ohio found itself embroiled in controversy over a $60m bribery scandal which saw renewable energy incentives gutted in favour of a state bailout for ailing coal and nuclear power facilities. ° C of global warming by 2100 through this step alone.
Business Green
APRIL 16, 2021
However, the analysis published yesterday also estimates that China could replace its vast coal power capacity with renewable electricity generation, which it said could deliver a net saving for the country of $1.6tr over the next decade, as wind and solar power are now far cheaper than coal.
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