Grist

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Companies are piloting systems across Europe that use hydrogen in furnaces in lieu of coal. And if the facility can use cheap, plentiful renewable electricity, perhaps from a hydropower plant, its steel would cost less than the competition. “At In Brazil, some steel mills are mixing in biochar, which is made from agricultural waste.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 13, 2021

LS Power announces the formation of Rev Renewables LLC to develop, acquire and operate energy storage and renewable projects, including conventional hydropower and pumped storage. Subscribe to Renewable Energy World’s free, weekly newsletter for more stories like this.

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 4, 2021

A few examples: The rapidly developing renewable natural gas market is putting in place a meaningful number of cash?generating The energy department recently announced a new program to reduce the costs of carbon free hydrogen by 80% by the end of this decade. up of sufficient size to attract the attention of a SPAC team.

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Grist

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The second most important target for green power is replacing fossil fuel use in buildings, especially growing use of natural gas for heating; in Vancouver, British Columbia, that causes nearly 60% of the city’s carbon pollution. Promote new technologies like hydrogen. One of the most promising is “ green hydrogen.”.

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R-Squared Energy

MAY 23, 2021

Hydrogen and hydrogen?based The renewable share in electricity generation rises from 29% (including hydropower) in 2020 to over 60% in 2030 and nearly 90% by 2050. Hydrogen and hydrogen?based carbon hydrogen rises from 10% in 2020 to 70% in 2030.”. These pillar are: Energy efficiency. Behavioral changes.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 12, 2019

The border tax, in particular, will be closely watched by the oil and gas sector, said Valentina Kretzschmar, director of corporate research at Wood Mackenzie. “Oil and gas exporters to Europe, including Russian gas and U.S. Questions remain as to how the Green Deal will be funded.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

generation in 2018, compared to wind and hydropower at around 7 percent each, nuclear at 19 percent, coal at 27 percent, and natural gas at 35 percent. The Solar Energy Industries Association industry group published a roadmap Monday to increase solar power to 20 percent of U.S. Solar contributed about 2 percent of U.S.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MAY 21, 2023

” “In 2021, Washington consumed less natural gas than about half of the states, and in 2020, the state used less per capita than all but four other states and the District of Columbia. The largest share of the state’s natural gas comes from Canada, either directly or through the state of Idaho.”

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Clean Energy Trust

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Breakthrough Energy’s Catalyst program is a thematically similar initiative involving corporates (as well as other philanthropy and governments) that is focused on reducing the costs of sustainable aviation fuel, long-duration storage, green hydrogen, and direct air carbon capture.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2021

However, 13 percent of Shell’s posts focussed specifically on renewable energies such as wind, solar, and hydropower. The company also had the largest share of promos focussing on hydrogen, which made up 11 percent of its total output. There are also doubts over the feasibility of rolling out these projects on a large scale. “In

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

At the very least, utilities will need plans that can get them most of the way there, while rushing ahead with next-generation technologies: long-duration energy storage, small modular nuclear reactors or green hydrogen and methane to fuel natural gas peaker plants. Here's a look at the five largest U.S. Dominion Energy.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 11, 2021

of Energy to demonstrate technology that produces clean hydrogen energy from nuclear power, as part of the agency's goal of reducing the cost of clean hydrogen production by 80%. Additionally, President Biden's FY 2022 budget request includes $400 million for hydrogen activities, compared to $285 million in FY 2021.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 7, 2021

Digging a bit into those numbers, coal jobs declined 18% and that number was offset by the increase in employment in petroleum and natural gas (up 9%) as well as the job growth in wind and solar electricity generation (up 22%). Energy jobs rebounded more quickly than other sectors.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The rest would come mostly from a mix of other low- or zero-carbon sources, including wind, nuclear, hydropower, biopower, geothermal and combustion turbines run on zero-carbon synthetic fuels such as hydrogen. Natural gas, coal, and oil provided almost 80% of primary energy input to the U.S. has lots of sunshine.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 20, 2019

One of the beneficial factors for the use of the renewable energy is that it is naturally generated. The common energy sources are Hydropower, Biomass, Biofuels, Wind, Geothermal and Solar Energy. The sources of renewable energy are present in the natural environment comprising the largest component of ecosystem.

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Mr. Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

We need to get rid of coal, natural gas and petroleum. Coal, natural gas and petroleum are the culprits here: the burning of these fuels tend to lead to inefficiency. All the gas we need in the world can be made from, you guessed it, biogas. Wind and solar transform the abundance of electricity (power-to-gas).

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 8, 2021

All of these benefits can be captured with solar, wind, existing hydropower and lithium-ion battery technologies at projected 2030 prices, he added.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 16, 2023

A decision with profound implications for that goal now lies with the Treasury Department, which must settle a debate over the best way of crafting a tax credit designed to advance the production of clean hydrogen. Building a domestic clean hydrogen industry is a key part of the Biden administration’s climate strategy. climate goals.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 20, 2021

Finally, natural gas generation grew rapidly, driven by the shale gas revolution and low fuel prices. Many technologies could fill this gap, such as longer-duration storage, hydrogen or synthetic fuels, fossil or biomass generation with carbon capture, advanced nuclear power, and geothermal energy.

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Business Green

MARCH 31, 2023

Wind and solar accounted for 14 per cent of US electricity, with hydropower accounting for six per cent, and geothermal sources just under one per cent. However, the EIA also revealed that while the use of renewables was rising, so too is the country's reliance on natural gas, which generated 39 per cent of US electricity last year.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 31, 2021

in television and other public education campaigns in 2019 to rally support for a new $1B transmission line that it wants in order to bring Canadian hydropower downstate. Advanced nuclear, carbon capture, longer duration storage, and hydrogen. Case in point is Central Maine Power, a subsidiary of Avangrid, which spent $2.3M

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 25, 2020

Cornell University Score 82.14 | Ithaca, New York In March 2020, Cornell saw 100 percent of its campus power needs met by solar, hydropower, and other renewable energy projects. Thompson Rivers is working to replace all its natural gas boilers with electric ones, which should render the whole university carbon-neutral (sans offsets!)

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

"As coal is phased out from our generation profile, it will be replaced with zero-carbon resources and prudent investments in cleaner natural gas," Good said, according to a transcript summary of the call. He said the utility "still seems fairly committed to natural gas in its own fleet" under Scope 1.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 26, 2021

New research asserts most have undermined those goals by keeping coal plants running and building new natural gas plants meant to operate for decades to come. utilities that still rely on coal and natural gas for most of their generation capacity. All but one call for new natural gas plants.

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Business Green

MARCH 4, 2022

The draft plan proposes a "new energy compact" to rapidly accelerate clean energy development, improve energy efficiency across the bloc, ramp up hydrogen and biogas investment, and identify new sources of gas supply, primarily through LNG imports.

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Grist

DECEMBER 8, 2021

None of Cascadia’s jurisdictions has proven policies to rein in growing consumption of natural gas, which is backed by a powerful oil and gas industry and associated unions. Josh Jacobs expresses similar confidence for Seattle-based Puget Sound Energy, which distributes both natural gas and electricity.

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Business Green

JULY 3, 2020

The last phase of the deal, which has been two years in the making, sees RWE take over E.ON's renewables activities, including its wind, solar, and hydropower businesses as well as the biomass, biogas and gas storage activities and its stake in Austrian power utility Kelag, which boasts a major hydroelectric power business.

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Mr. Sustainability

JUNE 27, 2020

subsidies to the fossil fuel industry at roughly $20 billion per year; with 20 percent currently allocated to coal and 80 percent to natural gas and crude oil. In short: the oil and gas industry is a massive market with many stakeholders and high-stakes interests involved. It is also about electric vehicles and hydrogen.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Most of its IRP scenarios call for building new natural-gas plants, which critics say will lock in carbon emissions from resources that may end up as stranded assets as renewables backed by energy storage become more cost-effective solutions. ” Duke's decarbonization plans haven't been embraced by all stakeholders.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 22, 2020

We should discuss how the industry should create true value , economic, social and environmental.Granted that we undeniably need the products and services provided by the oil and gas industry, we should put our efforts into pivoting the industry towards biofuels, synthetic fuels and hydrogen. + How could the industry recover?

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R-Squared Energy

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

You have incentives for large-scale wind and solar development, you have carbon capture and storage, you have hydrogen, which is a big priority for diverse industries, you have nuclear reactor tax credits, incentives for hydropower, and that’s just on the energy side … and the list really just goes on.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Major natural gas and oil pipeline projects have been abandoned or halted by legal challenges. renewable energy will be short-lived: It took the crown from hydropower last year and will lose it to solar in the 2020s. Reported by Emma Foehringer Merchant). What's at stake for the wind industry?

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