Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

I’ve long viewed Jacobson’s life — and his collaboration with researchers, cultural icons, business leaders and political leaders — as a well-written movie script. Their report revealed that by combining wind, solar, geothermal and hydropower sources, California could, theoretically, meet 100% of its electricity demand with WWS.

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

It is also more popular with supporters from every political party—including, by a small margin, Conservative voters. David Coletto, Chair and CEO, Abacus Data “Climate change and the affordability crisis are two political mountains that, far from being at odds, must be climbed together.

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R-Squared Energy

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Renewables, including hydropower, just 8.7%. has seen a drastic decline in coal consumption over the past decade (but global coal consumption has risen) as it has been displaced in the power sector by natural gas primarily, as well as renewables. There is always a political risk that energy companies have to consider.

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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 1, 2022

And in Alberta and Saskatchewan, where electricity is still mostly produced with coal and natural gas, already high electricity rates will go even higher. In recent days, the idea of clean energy security has been advocated by Canadian political and world leaders alike, with U.S. Even in the U.K.,

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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. In my view, the biggest challenge is that driving change on this scale requires sustained political will.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 30, 2019

Is California finished building gas-fired power plants? natural gas production. Batteries can provide many of the same services as gas peaker plants, and they come with many other benefits. But today’s storage technology cannot take over the bulk-power function served by larger gas plants.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 8, 2021

Whether it’s politically possible for the U.S. 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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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 31, 2021

Energy powerhouses, Ernest Moniz and Lynn Good, talk politics, R&D, stakeholder engagement, transmission, EVs and a host of other topics around the future of energy in the US. He believes that Biden’s election represents “a major shift” in politics. “I The public is ready, and the public wants it,” he said.

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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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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. Thanks to the university's new environmental literacy gen-ed requirement, students sign up for courses like Politics of Oil and Insects, Food, Culture.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 16, 2023

Current supplies are made by reforming natural gas, which releases greenhouse gasses. Plug your hydrogen plant into the grid pretty much anywhere in the country today, and it could result in higher emissions than the conventional production method that uses natural gas.

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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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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. Or rising prices could fuel a political backlash. Activists say the gaps may be larger still. We have very clear pathways to 2030,” says Pope.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 21, 2020

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. Geothermal energy research will get $850 million, and hydropower and marine power will get $933 million.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 13, 2020

has seen social and political upheaval on a scale few would have predicted. PGE is also buying more hydropower in the Pacific Northwest. ” The fate of PGE’s last coal plant, not to mention its five natural gas plants, remains an open question. “[Net zero] is obviously all of our goal," Pope said. "We

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

That’s greater than its previous commitment to reduce net carbon emissions from its power sector by 80 percent by 2050 and methane emissions from its natural-gas operations by 65% by 2030 and 80% by 2040.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 6, 2020

For Dominion Virginia, this will mean securing enough renewables to replace coal plants that supply roughly one-quarter of its electricity, and natural gas plants that supply about another third. Those existing renewables are largely hydropower and biomass. Dominion also gets more than one-third of its energy from nuclear power.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Duke’s long-range plans and looming home-state political decisions. 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.

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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. Conservative estimates put direct U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 22, 2020

Few utility groups are sailing in as many different political and geographic crosscurrents as Berkshire Hathaway Energy, the energy holding company of Warren Buffet’s $500-billion conglomerate. Dominion's generation fleet centers around nuclear and gas. Berkshire Hathaway: No two regions the same. Credit: PacifiCorp).

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 22, 2020

They plan to combine green energy provided by wind turbines, biomass, solar panels and hydropower, with agricultural waste and grasses from the Northern provinces in the Netherlands as feedstock for the chemical cluster. It goes to show that there remains much disparity amongst the biggest oil and gas companies on the strategies to follow.

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R-Squared Energy

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Political risk is a perpetual issue with fossil fuel projects. To achieve these objectives, Republicans have floated proposals to restore approval of the Keystone XL pipeline — which President Biden rejected — and to streamline liquefied natural gas (LNG) export projects. . Derisking Energy Projects.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Renewables will continue to thrive regardless of the final results on November 3, driven by their cost-competitiveness and broad political support, experts say. The American political system tends to move incrementally, but don’t rule out the incredible just yet. What’s at stake for utilities?

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