Business Green

MARCH 25, 2021

Exclusive: Researchers have sought to calculate the external environmental, social and health costs of from fossil fuels, renewables, road transport and aviation. Worldwide, it estimated electricity systems would generate over $11.6tr in annual externalities, with the bill as high as $13tr for transport.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

As part of the deal, TotalEnergies will collaborate with the Rwanda Development Board to enhance hydropower and liquefied natural gas value chains. For instance, TotalEnergies will help Rwanda to replace biomass with liquefied natural gas. Have you read?

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 5, 2020

needs a massive green hydrogen industry to decarbonize its electricity, transportation and industrial sectors, and major investments and policy changes today to enable it to grow to its full potential in the decades to come. A roadmap for green hydrogen expansion. The report doesn’t set specific dollar targets for U.S. investment.

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Clean Energy Canada

JULY 2, 2020

The clean-burning fuel does not produce carbon emissions upon consumption and so can replace fossil fuels in many sectors including heavy industry, transportation and heating. Currently, the majority of hydrogen around the world is produced from fossil fuels (76% from natural gas, 23% from coal). is known as green hydrogen.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 2, 2021

an Enbridge company, announced a green hydrogen project for injection into a natural gas distribution network in Quebec, Canada, to be powered by hydro. Established in the Outaouais region since 1959, it is one of two distributors of natural gas in Quebec. Gazifère is a private corporation employing 110 people.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The ninth edition of the Sustainable Energy in America Factbook tells the story of American energy efficiency, natural gas and renewable energy in a volatile year. Greenhouse Gas Emissions Source: BloombergNEF estimate. The economic disruption caused a massive drop in national greenhouse gas emissions. A record 33.6

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 24, 2024

annually through 2026 through an improving economic outlook and particularly in advanced economies the ongoing electrification of the residential and transport sectors. For example, global hydropower generation declined in 2023 due to impacts such as droughts, below average rainfall and early snowmelts in numerous regions.

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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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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.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 2, 2024

Identifying and managing sites for geothermal energy, using satellite imagery and seismic data Placing hydropower dams in a way that satisfies energy and ecological objectives.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Along with electric vehicles, Beijing sees green hydrogen as a potential way of decarbonizing transportation, WoodMac's Gallagher said. Germany sees hydrogen potentially being used in “various applications, including transport and to decarbonize industry,” said Martin Hablutzel, head of strategy at Siemens in Australia.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

These back-to-back summers of extreme weather underscore the need for a more robust and resilient electric grid capable of delivering the reliable power that ultimately underpins our health and wellbeing, from communication and transportation infrastructure to broader economic growth and physical security.

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R-Squared Energy

MAY 23, 2021

Many efficiency measures in industry, buildings, appliances and transport can be put into effect and scaled up very quickly. Huge changes are needed in the transportation sector. Transport mode switching. Liquid biofuel use grows to 2030 and then slows as transportation is electrified. Behavioral changes. “In based fuels.

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Hydrogen Transportation Demand Carbon 60

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. The scale of this is huge,” said John Holladay , who directs transportation fuels research at the U.S.

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Mosaic

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

as well as wind, hydropower, and bioenergy can replace coal, gas, and oil for power generation. A wide variety of zero-carbon renewable energy sources including solar (our favorite!) Tripling the share of renewables in our energy supply is a tall order, but energy efficiency can make achieving that goal a lot easier.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

And if the facility can use cheap, plentiful renewable electricity, perhaps from a hydropower plant, its steel would cost less than the competition. “At Building a hydrogen-based steel industry will require significant spending to not only build new plants but also produce, transport, and store green hydrogen.

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Business Green

MARCH 27, 2020

The move came in the same week as European NGO Transport & Environment warned leading auto industry lobby groups were calling on the EU to now delay new emissions rules. While the overall economic recovery is crucial, we shouldn't let some opportunistic carmakers use the crisis to shamelessly roll back the EU climate targets for cars.

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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 Large scale production of green hydrogen will require large scale transportation of that hydrogen from its source of origin to its source of use. The acquisition and re?purposing

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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 other major “green” topic that companies promoted was their involvement in efforts to make transport more sustainable. ” Jonathan White, a lawyer at ClientEarth. “The

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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. Transportation electrification is one possible way annual demand could change considerably; estimates range from 25 to 71 percent increases by 2050 (Mai et al.

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Climate Tech VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

  In deals, major funding for transportation including $144M for Indian EVs, $33M for rare earth-free magnets, and $15M for battery recycling.    In a ray of sunshine, US solar generation is expected to surpass hydropower for the first time in 2024.   Thanks for reading! Not a subscriber yet?

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

Their report revealed that by combining wind, solar, geothermal and hydropower sources, California could, theoretically, meet 100% of its electricity demand with WWS. Hydropower electricity produced in the Pacific Northwest would be imported to fill in the gaps.

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Business Green

AUGUST 13, 2021

A World Wildlife study that compared the life cycle assessment of lettuce grown traditionally in California and transported to St. For example, Danville relies heavily on nuclear and natural gas for energy, which is one reason AeroFarms decided to build there. Louis against indoor farming solutions based in St.

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Mr. Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

We need to get rid of coal, natural gas and petroleum. First, we need to realize that virtually all our energy needs (heating, transport, power) in every sector (buildings, industrial, transportation) can be performed by electricity. All the gas we need in the world can be made from, you guessed it, biogas.

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Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Solar Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring 78

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. but would have also transported oil from the Bakken in Montana and North Dakota.

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Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 117

DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 13, 2021

Under growing pressure to rein in greenhouse gas emissions, developers of liquefied natural gas (LNG) are turning to questionable claims about “carbon neutrality,” “net-zero,” or “green LNG,” in order to pass muster with governments, investors, and society, who are becoming increasingly anxious about the climate crisis.

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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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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. They also both agree that nuclear energy and some form of carbon capture and storage, particularly for natural gas-fired power plants, will be necessary.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 25, 2020

The school also worked with Lowell (nicknamed “America’s Venice”) to redesign bridges, create active transportation corridors, and further plan infrastructure that would better accommodate pedestrians, cyclists, and public transit buses. Then came Plant-Based Eating October and Conscious Purchasing Decisions November.

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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

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Meanwhile, demand for coal, oil and natural gas fall by 80 per cent, 60 per cent and 45 per cent, respectively, by 2060 compared with last year. The Green Party, meanwhile, wants to revise Germany's renewable-energy law to increase the use of low-carbon energy in the transport and industry sectors, and for heating.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Utility-scale solar power is already cost-competitive against coal-fired power across the world and with natural-gas-fired power in many markets. Geothermal energy research will get $850 million, and hydropower and marine power will get $933 million. Carbon capture, utilization and storage will be targeted with $6.2

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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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Fossil fuels Natural gas Policy Law 87

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.

Energy 78

Energy Energy Fossil fuels Investment 78

GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 22, 2020

Utilities will be front and center in America's efforts to combat global warming, from drastically cutting their own carbon emissions to assisting other sectors, like transportation, in cutting theirs. Dominion's generation fleet centers around nuclear and gas. Today, no U.S.

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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. The biggest consumer of oil is the transportation industry. Which industries use the most oil?

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