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. Porter’s blog repeatedly cites the work of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), the UK’s main climate science denial group.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Strategic actions that can make a difference include expanding and strengthening grid interconnections within countries, between countries and across regions to make electricity systems more resilient and enable them to better integrate rising shares of solar and wind power.

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The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Climate change refers to a broad array of environmental degradation that is predicted to result from increasing levels of atmospheric CO2, including global warming , alterations in precipitation, sea level changes, and more extreme weather events.

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EDF + Business

OCTOBER 12, 2021

One beneficiary is the Los Santos Wind Power Project , which intends to provide clean energy to 50,000 people in the Los Santos region of Costa Rica. Their latest album, Obviously , includes the song “ Making Do ” about the effects of global warming on the lives of young people.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 12, 2023

A hydrogen industry lobby group has produced a comic book aimed at high schoolers that suggests solar and wind power are incapable of fueling decarbonization goals, and that only hydrogen fuel cells provide sufficient energy to eliminate fossil fuels.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Renewable energy giant Siemens Gamesa is now powering its operations with 100 per cent clean electricity worldwide, the firm announced yesterday, beating its own target by five years. The firm, which manufactures wind turbines among other wind power services, estimates that it consumes more than 180,000MWh of power annually.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Mark Fullbrook, who ran Truss’s leadership campaign, launched a political consultancy – Fullbrook Strategies – in March , with clients including Cerulean Winds, official records show. Hintze has also donated to the Global Warming Policy Foundation ( GWPF ), which rejects mainstream climate science and opposes government climate action.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 28, 2022

Last week Peterson shared a tweet from Net Zero Watch , a rebranding of the climate science-denying Global Warming Policy Forum , which questioned whether wind power is a “reliable, efficient and in-demand technology”.

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Energy Refuge

APRIL 17, 2020

The world is becoming more aware of the dangers of greenhouse gasses and the pollution creating carbon emissions, believed to be responsible for symptoms of global warming. With this awareness, businesses that consume large amounts of power or contribute to this pollution are looking at ways to reduce their carbon footprint.

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Clean Energy Canada

AUGUST 16, 2021

For comparison, the Fort McMurray fire of 2016 was up to six times more likely as a result of global warming. As Alberta updates its fossil-fuel-heavy electricity grid, the province is on track to see a surge in wind power jobs. Clean hydrogen and geothermal also represent opportunities for Alberta.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 2, 2021

Over the past ten years, vocabulary moved from ‘global warming’ to ‘climate change’ to ‘climate crisis.’. The report highlights how attitudes to the environment have shifted, how discourse was becoming more urgent and how Covid-19 has affected the global online climate conversation. On March 1, BayWa r.e.

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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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The Verge: Energy

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Doing so would address a glaring omission in the 2015 Paris accord, which never actually mentions coal, oil, or natural gas despite being an international agreement to stop global warming. Solar and wind power are already cheaper alternatives to coal, oil, and gas in most of the world when it comes to meeting new electricity demand.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

West driven by increased heat and dry conditions linked to global warming from human carbon emissions. It starts with collecting data on the carbon intensity of the power supplied across different regions and calculating the resulting carbon footprints of different facilities.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

At COP21, world leaders agreed to reach net-zero emissions by 2050 in pursuit of capping global warming to 1.5°C C threshold by 2030, with global energy-related emissions falling by only 9%. DNV’s fifth annual Energy Transition Outlook comes two months before COP26 , the climate summit of world leaders, in Glasgow.

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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.”. In 2016, Theresa May received a £15,000 donation from Ian Taylor, chair and former global chief executive of Vitol Group, the Dutch oil and shipping company.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

During the leadership contest, Truss defended her tax plans by citing economist Patrick Minford, an IEA trustee who has institutional connections to the climate science-denying Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF). In 2016, he blamed high energy prices on solar and wind power, saying on Twitter: “This is how UK climate policy works.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 23, 2021

Green hydrogen, produced using renewable energy sources such as solar or wind power and electrolysis, is more costly to produce than its dirtier equivalents, and is dependent on the cost of electricity and available water. To achieve that goal, three quarters of our electricity will need to be sourced from clean energy.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

global warming trajectory. The portfolio approach includes signing a Virtual Power Purchase Agreement (VPPA) for 22MW of wind power from the Ponderosa wind farm in Oklahoma, sealing the company's largest renewable energy agreement to-date.".

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Long-duration storage will help utilities deal with “extreme heatwaves or cold snaps and the crazy weather patterns we’re seeing” due to global warming, she said. However, most storage applications cannot mimic the power output of natural gas or coal plants during a weather crisis, Soholt said.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Renewables will make up 84% of energy jobs in 2050, primarily in wind and solar manufacturing. In contrast, if we don’t limit global warming to below 2°C, 5 million fewer energy jobs will be created. The future looks bright for solar and wind. The new study was published earlier this summer in One Earth.

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Business Green

AUGUST 17, 2022

Indeed, even charting a 2C pathway - the less ambitious, upper threshold of the temperature targets set out in the Paris Agreement - will require a significant acceleration of the current pace of solar, wind and hydro power capacity additions, the research argues.

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Business Green

JUNE 9, 2020

Following extreme weather incidents in recent years and the growing visibility of climate activists such as Greta Thunberg and Extinction Rebellion, the public today are far more aware of the need for urgent action to halt the negative effects of global warming.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 26, 2021

The natural process of all plants taking in carbon and releasing oxygen not only gives us clean air to breathe but also stores carbon that otherwise contributes to global warming.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Global Wind Energy Council chief executive Ben Backwell, meanwhile, urged policymakers to reconsider their support to the fossil fuel sector. global warming trajectory, therefore, economic support backed by reskilling and training for workers in carbon intensive sectors will be critical as governmens flesh out their recovery plans.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Largest study of its kind shows almost all the world's most influential power utility and automotive firms are still a long way from being on a 'climate-safe' decarbonisation pathway. goal is to be met.

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Business Green

AUGUST 12, 2022

Namely, it would mean a long-term extension - and renewal back to the full value - of the Investment Tax Credit (ITC) and Production Tax Credit (PTC), two credits that have spurred forward the deployments of solar and wind power that have been set to sunset.

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Green Living Guy

AUGUST 9, 2022

Bitcoin (BTC) mining requires a lot of power, so electricity costs can quickly eat into profits. Thanks to the state’s large wind farms and deregulated electricity grid, miners […]. That’s why BTC miners are always looking for places with cheap electricity.

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Green Living Guy

MAY 25, 2022

Anticipating key features of wind plants a decade or more ahead of their installation can inform today’s investment, research, and energy system planning decisions. Department of Energy, elicited opinions from […].

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Greenhouse gases from just the global food system alone could blow a hole in the world's chances of meeting Paris Agreement goals, even if all other major sources of fossil fuel emissions were ceased immediately, according to new scientific research led by the University of Oxford today. Global wind capacity to reach record 1,000GW by 2025.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 22, 2021

He’s integrating climate experts across all departments in "the largest team ever assembled inside the White House to tackle global warming.". Wind Power. Power Points. As a candidate, Biden called for 100 percent clean energy in the U.S. The political sea change is larger than the whims of a single politician.

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Green Living Guy

MAY 31, 2022

In a bid to meet its target of zero emissions by 2050, Australia has come up with decarbonizing actions ranging from adopting electric vehicles to developing ethanol facilities to support the chemical industry, encouraging renewable refineries for the growth of biofuels.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Related: Beautiful, solar-powered EV charging stations promise to charge a vehicle in 15 minutes According to Honda, it currently obtains about 21 percent of its North American operations’ power from low- or zero-emission power sources.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 26, 2021

The natural process of all plants taking in carbon and releasing oxygen not only gives us clean air to breathe but also stores carbon that otherwise contributes to global warming.

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Carbon Carbon-neutral Asia Global warming 28

AGreenLiving

AUGUST 26, 2021

The natural process of all plants taking in carbon and releasing oxygen not only gives us clean air to breathe but also stores carbon that otherwise contributes to global warming.

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Carbon Carbon-neutral Asia Global warming 28

Green Living Guy

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Renewable energy development is key for Thailand to cut its dependency on fossil fuel imports, as gas-based thermal power generation accounted for nearly 61.3% GlobalData’s latest report, ‘Thailand Power Market Size, Trends, Regulations, Competitive Landscape and Forecast, 2022-2035’, reveals […].

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Wind power is not cheap or secure. Ridley wrote last year that global heating was “mostly beneficial”. Ridley is an advisor to the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), the UK’s main climate denial group, which is based on Westminster’s Tufton Street.

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