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'This is a natural gas market crisis': Why energy markets could be set for three more years of turmoil

Business Green

The global economy could face many more years of energy market turbulence if governments do not take steps to turbocharge their clean energy and technology investments, the IEA has warned. The stakes for nations that fail to unhitch themselves from gas markets are incredibly high, according to the global energy think tank.

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How to electrify your life when you rent

The Verge: Energy

Brausch for The Verge Homeowners who want to reduce their carbon footprint by getting rid of polluting appliances have the US government’s full support. She didn’t foresee, however, the high energy bills that would result from cranking up the gas heater when her apartment would turn into an icebox in the winter. Illustration by Nico H.

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Delivering breakthrough action to launch green hydrogen forward, faster

Business Green

Our challenge, now, is to catalyse the urgent action needed to accelerate the world's progress toward that reality by testing and investing in solutions at-scale with transformative potential. In the past two years, confidence has grown that existing decarbonisation solutions can cost-effectively enable a net zero global economy by 2050.

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Lessons from inside the heat dome about the future of the electric grid

GreenBiz

The Biden administration’s infrastructure plan, which continues to wind its way through the political process, includes billions of dollars for power grid investments and the creation of a new Grid Authority to oversee power infrastructure upgrades. As people invest in new AC systems, they simply must be all-electric.

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How to Build a Green Hydrogen Economy for the US West

GreenTechMedia

Out in Utah, a coal-fired power plant supplying electricity to Los Angeles is being outfitted with natural-gas-fired turbines that will eventually be able to run on hydrogen, created via electrolysis with wind and solar power and stored in massive underground caverns for use when that clean energy isn’t available for the grid.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

It’s also investing in professional mentorship for minorities and backing communities through $6.5 The ride-sharing brand positions this as a radical shift that will benefit communities, partly by reducing pollution. He also leads Citi Ventures Initiatives, which invests in efforts to "help people, businesses, and communities thrive."

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Global Briefing: Australian Government agrees to cap greenhouse gas emissions

Business Green

The compronmise agreement sees the Greens back Labour's proposals for a 'Safeguard Mechanism', which promises to regulate emissions from Australia's 215 biggest polluting coal and gas facilities without outright banning new fossil fuel projects. Last year's investments in new wind farms only add up to 10 GW.