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Canadian LNG Will Stall Asia’s Shift to Renewables, Energy Experts in Asia Say

DeSmogBlog

Oil and gas companies have for years marketed fracked gas from B.C. But an impending flood of liquefied natural gas exports from western Canada to Asia could make it harder for countries there to achieve their national climate targets and contribute to tens of thousands of additional deaths due to air pollution.

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New York’s Coronavirus Threat Pushes Grid Operators to Work and Live in Isolation

GreenTechMedia

Last week, 37 employees of state grid operator NYISO — 33 grid operators and managers, plus two facilities workers and two food service staff — volunteered to sequester themselves at the state’s two grid control centers near the state capitol, Albany. Nuclear plants taking special precautions.

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Can the US Catch Up in the Green Hydrogen Economy?

GreenTechMedia

Hydrogen Economy” report forecasts that hydrogen from low-carbon sources could supply roughly 14 percent of the country’s energy needs by 2050, including hard-to-electrify sectors now dependent on natural gas such as high-heat industrial processes or manufacturing fertilizer. million jobs by 2050, it states.

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How Long Will Coal Remain King in India?

GreenTechMedia

The government held creative auctions designed to facilitate adding greater amounts of intermittent renewables on the grid. The coal sector is a major source of revenue for states and the central government. Last year, the Modi government sought to boost the domestic coal mining sector with a series of commercial auctions.

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UK renewables overtake gas to become UK's top electricity generator this winter

Business Green

According to the analysis, generating the same amount of power using gas power stations alone would have required an additional 68TWh of gas, which is equivalent to 7.4 million homes' gas use for the entire winter, or 78 tankers of liquified natural gas (LNG).

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10 largest solar projects completed in the U.S. so far in 2021

Renewable Energy World

This marks Dominion Energy’s first solar energy investment in Ohio, where the company owns and operates a Cleveland-based natural gas local distribution company serving 1.2 Dominion owns solar arrays in nine other states, including in North Carolina, South Carolina and Utah, where the company also owns and operates gas utilities.

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Solar, Wind Tax Credit Extensions and Energy R&D Package in Spending Bill Before Congress

GreenTechMedia

Congress is under pressure to pass both bills Monday to ensure continued funding of the federal government and complete a politically pressing extension of coronavirus pandemic relief measures passed in March. R&D for clean energy, energy storage, carbon capture and nuclear power.

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