The Angry Clean Energy Guy

APRIL 16, 2015

Some, like the British Green Party , go even further, and use our needs to clean up our environment in precisely the wrong way: As an attack on economic growth as a policy goal, and therefore on jobs and wealth creation. and a political program?—?that But we don’t. Climate action is not a “long battle” at all. In fact, we already are.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 17, 2022

On behalf of environmental group RePlanet, energy specialist Joris van Dorp offers a deep analysis of the key messages in Europe’s policy. Since these issues are so important, it’s worthwhile addressing some of the key messages of this historic speech, as these will serve as the basis for EU policy in the years ahead.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Department of Energy that found that solar power could generate up to 45% of the U.S. Rhodes, an energy technology and policy researcher at the University of Texas at Austin, what it would take to meet this target. Why such a heavy focus on solar power? million solar panels or 364 large-scale wind turbines.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

To take just one example of how fast the shift towards clean energy is happening right now, Bloomberg reported this week that the entire supply chain to deliver requisite solar power for reaching net zero worldwide by mid-century is already under construction. Just transition policies are becoming more common.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

DECEMBER 18, 2023

There is wide recognition that this will take monumental effort in terms of technology advancement, financing, and policy. These plants are in an arid region, with little access to water for power plant cooling. So, during the heat of the summer and without water cooling, binary power plants become less efficient.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2023

In Whitby, the 2,000 residents in the proposed trial area would have the choice to continue using natural gas or switch to hydrogen for heating. Political Pressure Hydrogen enjoys cross-party support in Parliament, and has been promoted at both Labour and Conservative party conferences in recent years.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 17, 2021

energy , including 12 percent of its natural gas, 24 percent of its oil and 43 percent of its coal. By contrast, sites primarily consisting of Bureau of Land Management projects — an Interior-managed department — produce only 1 percent of the country’s wind and virtually none of its solar power. Policy & Politics.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Natural gas’s notorious price volatility has been making a comeback — in a big way. The UK is experiencing a natural gas price surge so severe that the government stepped in to prevent a cascade down the supply chain that threatened to create food shortages. In the U.S., In the U.S.,

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 22, 2020

The APS commitment is notable in that Arizona has not passed sweeping climate or carbon policy at the state level. Yet clean energy policy has gained traction in other forums, like a recent unsuccessful ballot initiative and in deliberations at the Arizona Corporation Commission, the elected utility regulatory body. Guldner asked.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 20, 2019

This conference is a global platform to discuss and learn about aims to provide a Renewable energy researchers, scientists, industrialists, policy makers, energy economists and academicians to exchange and share their experiences and research results about all aspects of Renewable Energy and Resources.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Joe Biden's victory in the race for the White House has already seen the push for climate action skyrocket up the international political agenda, yet the jubilation among campaigners this weekend is unlikely to last too long.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 17, 2021

energy , including 12 percent of its natural gas, 24 percent of its oil and 43 percent of its coal. By contrast, sites primarily consisting of Bureau of Land Management projects — an Interior-managed department — produce only 1 percent of the country’s wind and virtually none of its solar power. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.)

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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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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. energy sector, said Ravi Manghani, head of solar research for Wood Mackenzie. Solar power will get $1.5

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Mr. Sustainability

MAY 30, 2021

In this article the different paths are described and compared, so that readers can recognize them and place the paths in today's context and political decisions. Wizards Wizards support big, high tech, centralized power plants based on concentrated energy sources like coal, oil, natural gas and uranium.

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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. Dominion also gets more than one-third of its energy from nuclear power. For example, Dominion’s 2.6-gigawatt

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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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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 22, 2020

The sentiment of these CEOs stems from three major underlying trends: continued growth of cheap and abundant renewables, financiers pulling out of oil and gas, and backing by favorable policies that are likely to increase in strength. Capital markets have shifted: clean-power stocks are up by 45% this year.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Plenty of industry observers and critics have pointed out the gaps between utilities’ 2050 net-zero carbon goals and their short- and long-term resource plans, many of which call for continued buildout of natural gas-fired power plants. Natural gas and oil pipelines also saw setbacks.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 22, 2020

As with most investor-owned utilities, NextEra has been much less supportive of policies that permit its customers to be paid for the solar they put on their roofs. It also calls for the early retirement of five Wyoming coal plants, setting up a conflict with the state’s coal-friendly political leadership.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 24, 2020

Through its Florida Power & Light utility, NextEra will propose a $65 million pilot in the Sunshine State that will use a 20-megawatt electrolyzer to produce 100 percent green hydrogen from solar power, the company revealed on Friday. gigawatt Okeechobee gas-fired plant, Kujawa said.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 16, 2024

For fossil fuel ideologues, sowing misinformation about wind and solar power is proving to be an effective stall tactic. In order for the Biden administration to hit its goal of a 100 percent clean power grid by 2035, the nation needs to rapidly increase the rate of new wind and solar power installations.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 21, 2021

Thursday’s appointment was welcomed by clean energy groups as a critical early step to put a supporter of Biden’s energy and climate push in charge of setting the agenda of the federal agency that holds regulatory authority over interstate electricity transmission and natural gas networks.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

For clean energy resources — solar, wind and energy storage — the range of possibilities over the next four years runs from the merely good to the incredible. Renewables will continue to thrive regardless of the final results on November 3, driven by their cost-competitiveness and broad political support, experts say.

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CleanTechnica

APRIL 11, 2024

Today I presented again to a large Indian audience, hosted by the India Smart Grid Forum. The theme was Electrify Everything Everywhere All At Once. This was within the frame of the presentation I gave at the India Smart Utility Week on March 14th. In honor of the start of.

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CleanTechnica

MARCH 15, 2024

For several years I’ve been iterating The Short List of Climate Actions That Will Work. The work of organizations like Mark Z. Jacobson’s Stanford team around energy and Carbon Drawdown’s around everything are excellent in different ways, but also indigestible to most people. The short list really is that. It’s.

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CleanTechnica

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Over the past year or so, energy return on energy invested (EREOI) has shown up multiple times for me as. continued] The post Energy Return On Investment Rears Its Misshapen Head Again appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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CleanTechnica

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The primary energy fallacy is the assumption that all of the energy in all of the oil, gas and coal we burn today must be replaced. We don't need to replace it, we need to replace the unwasted energy services.

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CleanTechnica

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Solar power keeps getting cheaper and keeps growing year after year, now accounting for nearly half of new power capacity in the United States. But coal and fossil methane (also deceivingly called “natural gas”) power plants need to be retired more quickly than they have been.

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CleanTechnica

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

With US power capacity data in for the end of 2020, I thought it would be a good time to see how US power capacity has changed over the past decade. Using data from the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, I’ve created two new charts that highlight the shifts that took place over those 10 […].

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CleanTechnica

DECEMBER 28, 2020

We have been publishing monthly US power capacity reports and monthly US electricity generation reports for a long time. Going into 2021, CleanTechnica is taking a look at electricity generation changes over the past decade. However.

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CleanTechnica

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Energy Information Administration (EIA) for newly constructed utility-scale electric generators in the United States, annual capacity-weighted average construction costs for solar photovoltaic systems and onshore wind turbines have continued to decrease. According to 2018 data from the U.S.

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CleanTechnica

JULY 25, 2020

There is a saying, “United we stand, divided we fall.” It comes in many forms, in many languages, including Abraham Lincoln’s "A house divided against itself, cannot stand," a fairly close restatement from the Bible.

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CleanTechnica

JANUARY 14, 2020

The biggest, hottest, most enticing CleanTechnica stories last week were led by Sony unveiling an electric car, the impossible-to-comprehend scale of this month's Australian wildfires, and a solar energy storage device from the 1980s that has come back to life.

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CleanTechnica

DECEMBER 27, 2019

The US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) announced a directive just a few days before Christmas which will require PJM Interconnection to raise prices of wind and solar power to be in line with the cost of fossil fuels.

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CleanTechnica

DECEMBER 20, 2019

100% renewables for 143 countries covering 99.7% of global energy carbon emissions is very inexpensive compared to business as usual in Jacobson's latest.

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CleanTechnica

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Jacobson's latest study carefully uses with current technologies and currently available resources for storage and transmission. The latest evidence is that there are much cheaper alternatives than his team models, underselling the potential.

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