GreenTechMedia

MAY 11, 2020

Through its two utility subsidiaries, Pacific Power and Rocky Mountain Power, PacifiCorp claims to be the largest grid operator in the Western U.S., PacifiCorp's utilities have long relied on federally operated hydropower or utility-owned fossil-fueled generation for their electricity. million customers in six states.

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Business Green

MARCH 27, 2020

California this week adopted a new emissions target for its electric sector that would see the state double its clean energy capacity by 2030 and end the development of new natural gas plants in support of its previous net zero emissions goal. Total buys French wind power firm.

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Business Green

MARCH 25, 2021

Sovacool, a professor of energy policy at the University of Sussex Business School, said the combined £264bn estimated bill for the UK was "shockingly more than the country invests into the NHS each year - and it underscores how much social and economic injury our energy and transport systems cause".

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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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Grist

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Renewable solar and wind power now typically costs less than fossil-fuel alternatives. 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.

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Energy Innovation

JULY 2, 2021

They use a series of models to explore energy mixes that include coal, hydropower, nuclear, solar, natural gas, and wind in the future relative to today. Through this evaluation, the authors find several notable takeaways that could inform future power planning to avoid costly investment errors. Craig, M.T.,

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 17, 2022

But as soon as demand outstrips the capacity of these low-cost producers, prices jump to the price bid by gas-fired generators, which depends largely on the price of natural gas. Add this all up, and we’re seeing a perfect storm of high energy prices for years to come – unless Russian gas supplies resume. Source: IEA).

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

million customers by 2025, adding nearly 700 megawatts of wind power, plus more solar and battery storage systems to boost rural reliability. The plan also includes rolling out networked electric and gas meters from Landis+Gyr , the first big advanced metering infrastructure deployment in the state. megawatt nameplate capacity.

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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. gigawatts of offshore wind and 2.7 Dominion Energy.

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Business Green

AUGUST 13, 2021

According to Kurnik, hydroponics and aeroponic farming use less water and don't degrade soil like traditional farming, but for vertical farming to become environmentally sustainable on a carbon emissions level, these systems need to source electricity from renewables such as solar, wind or hydro. It's local. It's perishable.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 31, 2021

The Biden administration yesterday announced a goal of installing 30 GW of offshore wind capacity by 2030. “In In order to get offshore wind [energy] onshore, we are going to need to make transmission investments and that’s very difficult to do,” said Good. Good echoed that call for investment in new technologies. “In

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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

AUGUST 13, 2021

As Congress debates billions of dollars in new infrastructure investments, advocates are touting the social and economic benefits of building new high-voltage transmission lines, clean energy plants and electric vehicle charging stations, along with fixing aging roads and bridges. Why do people oppose energy projects?

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

President Joe Biden has called for major clean energy investments as a way to curb climate change and generate jobs. Department of Energy that found that solar power could generate up to 45% of the U.S. million solar panels or 364 large-scale wind turbines. can generate at least some solar power year-round.

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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. In May, the Cornell Board of Trustees announced a moratorium on fossil fuel investments, following more than a decade of student and faculty activism.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 16, 2023

But the hydrogen industry, oil companies like Chevron and BP that are investing in the technology, and even a few renewable energy groups argued otherwise. They would shut down investment in the industry, “effectively making it dead on arrival.” Current supplies are made by reforming natural gas, which releases greenhouse gasses.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

The announcement comes as Duke intends to deploy $63 billion of capital over the next five years, 80% of which is expected to support investments in grid modernization and zero or lower-carbon emitting generation. Good said Duke's wind and solar capacity would increase from 10,000 MW currently to 24,000 MW by 2030. "As

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Developers in the space are concerned that the coronavirus pandemic’s impact on the economy will depress demand for tax equity investments, as banks and financial institutions will have less appetite for credits to offset tax liabilities in a year when profits were depressed. ” Wind tax credit impacts.

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Business Green

MARCH 4, 2022

Writing in a Twitter thread , NGO China Dialogue said the update from the agency also highlighted how it intended to provide "active support" for the further development of hydro, solar and wind power, and the development of transmission links between provinces.

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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

A case to ‘recreate’ the technical and economic prosperity of the 1920s in the 2020s, by gradual divestment in ‘old’ energy systems and investment in ‘new’ renewable industries. 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.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 6, 2020

Virginia has become the latest state to pass a law that sets it on a path to 100 percent carbon-free electricity by 2050, as well as setting targets for massive investments in energy efficiency, energy storage and in-state solar and wind power. Dominion also gets more than one-third of its energy from nuclear power.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 22, 2020

At the same time, NextEra's investment, backed by the certainty of rate recovery, has boosted the state's solar generation far beyond what would be possible with distributed PV, and at lower cost. Dominion's generation fleet centers around nuclear and gas.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Major natural gas and oil pipeline projects have been abandoned or halted by legal challenges. Even this lower-cost scenario would require about 70 gigawatts of new wind and solar to be added per year, however. The solar industry's most important policy has been the 30 percent federal Investment Tax Credit.

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