Business Green

JUNE 7, 2021

The technology mix will be different in different countries, but in Britain, it's clear the system will be dominated by wind power with batteries picking up a lot of the slack when wind is low.".

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Business Green

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Announcing the first stage of the 10-point plan, Johnson will tomorrow confirm a new increased target for 40GW of operational offshore wind power capacity to be delivered by the end of the decade, up from the existing target of 30GW by 2030, and marking a sizeable increase on the 10GW in operation today.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 16, 2020

New York’s plan to close the Indian Point nuclear power plant by next year and retire its most polluting power plants by 2025 will only exacerbate this imbalance. At the same time, New York has also set a target of 9 gigawatts of offshore wind power by 2035.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 29, 2020

Shell's much-discussed Sky scenario from 2018, which charts a path to meeting the goals of the Paris Agreement, forecasts nuclear and fossil fuels each accounting for roughly 11 percent of Europe's mix in 2050. “In some hard-to-abate sectors, like heavy-duty transport, we see a role for gases, namely hydrogen.".

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Business Green

DECEMBER 24, 2021

Once this largest source of carbon emissions is greened up, the second-largest, transportation, can tap renewable energy via electric vehicles. France built nuclear power. Denmark looked to offshore wind. Although the utility had a couple of sizable projects, scaling up their wind installation required new alliances.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Jeff Clark, president and CEO of the Texas-based Advanced Power Alliance, said Texas continues to benefit from corporate and consumer demand for clean electricity and long-term price certainty. He added that broad electrification, including within the transportation sector, offers opportunities for even more growth.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 5, 2020

And, forming the first stage of the 10-point plan, Johnson will tomorrow announce a new increased target for 40GW of operational offshore wind power capacity by the end of the decade, up from the existing target of 30GW by 2030, and marking a sizeable increase on the 10GW in operation today.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Energy demand for electricity and transportation fell by 3.8% Renewables’ contribution to the power grid set another record, rising 11% year-on-year. power in 2020. Power from all zero-carbon sources (renewables plus nuclear power) set another record, meeting 40% of demand.

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Business Green

MARCH 30, 2022

It is already clear we must decarbonise transport if we are to reach net zero. Transport is currently the largest emitting sector of the UK economy, responsible for 27 per cent of total UK greenhouse gas emissions. But how green are the energy sources powering our EVs? This is a missed opportunity.

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Business Green

AUGUST 26, 2022

The plan would represent a major policy reversal a decade after the Fukushima disaster triggered a move to phase down the country's reliance on nuclear power. Eurasian Resources Group (ERG) this week announced plans to invest nearly KZT 110 billion ($230m) in building a major new wind power project in Kazakhstan.

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Business Green

AUGUST 16, 2021

After all, as the electrification of heat and transport gathers pace, Britain's peak demand capacity is set to grow to 80GW by 2050, up from 50GW today, and the fossil fuel gas-fired power stations that supply much of this power peak demand today are clearly incompatible with the nation's mid-century net zero target.

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Business Green

JANUARY 19, 2021

Criticism has also been levelled at Ministers for the on-going policy gap that needs to be bridged to get the UK on track to meet its short, medium, and long-term statutory emissions targets, with businesses awaiting a raft of key net zero strategies covering home heating, transport, heavy industry, and a raft of other areas.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 1, 2021

To transport it, you would need to get 3 joules back from every joule invested, and so on. Onshore wind fared better, at 18:1, but the authors noted that “the value in practice may be less due to the need for backup facilities.” In other words, you would need to get 1.1 But extraction is only the first step.

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Business Green

AUGUST 7, 2020

The project - which is backed by investment totalling €89 million - will now enter its first five year phase, which will involve the planning and construction of a 30MW electrolyser unit that will produce 'green' hydrogen using offshore wind power. Japanese offshore wind sets out ambitious expansion plans.

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Business Green

APRIL 7, 2022

Trade body RenewableUK recently revealed data showing the UK has the largest planning pipeline of offshore wind projects in the world, at around 86GW. Nuclear targets increased to 24GW by 2050. Achieving the government's nuclear ambitions would require a huge ramp up of nuclear power capacity from less than 7GW today.

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Business Green

JULY 22, 2021

Indeed, it estimates more than three-quarters of the effort to cut carbon emissoins in the next nine years falls to the power sector, primarily through faster development of wind and solar PV capacity. Yet it is not just the power sector that requires major transformation over the next decade and beyond, the report stresses.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

APRIL 24, 2024

This achievement is nothing short of extraordinary, as wind energy generated nearly 2.5 Such an output is capable of powering nearly 90% of the European Union’s electricity needs. The International Energy Agency estimates that to meet global energy goals, we need to be installing 320 GW of wind power annually by 2030.

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Business Green

MARCH 30, 2023

Floating Offshore Wind Manufacturing Scheme: A previously announced £160m funding pot is being formally launched today in a bid to kick start investment in port infrastructure projects that can enable new floating offshore wind projects.

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Jigar Shah

MARCH 29, 2019

Clean Electricity Like their peers, Amazon has been transitioning to fuel its data centers with solar and wind power. or, just save the nuclear power plant currently slated to be shutdown in Ohio. Transportation Amazon ships over 600 million packages a year. Here’s where he can start.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

energy produced (and 12.71% of the energy consumed) for electricity, transportation, heating, and other uses. Wind is now the largest single renewable energy source, accounting for 27.78% of total U.S. By comparison, production by the nation’s nuclear power plants in 2021 dropped by 2.81% and 4.07% compared to 2020 and 2019 levels.

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 17, 2022

With the planet facing increasingly intense heat waves, drought, wildfires and storms, a path to tackle the climate crisis became clear: Transition the electric grid to carbon-free wind and solar and convert most other fossil fuel users in transportation, buildings and industry to electricity. However, new nuclear plants in the U.S.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

So let's be clear, this hike in bills isn't to cover the cost of net zero, periods of low wind power, nuclear power plant outages, new clean boilers or the switch to electric vehicles. This year we risk energy bills rising by £700.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The United States can set a course to net-zero carbon by midcentury if it can radically overhaul its energy generation, transport, building and industrial sectors over the next decade, according to a major study from Princeton University. But the record-setting pace of solar and wind power additions to the U.S. In the U.S.,

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 21, 2020

” Wind tax credit impacts. Wind power will also benefit from the tax extensions provided for in the bill. The extension will also help provide certainty for developing offshore wind manufacturing and port facilities, he said. R&D for clean energy, energy storage, carbon capture and nuclear power.

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Business Green

JUNE 4, 2021

Emissions also fell in other industrial sectors and residential buildings that year due to a warmer winter and lower demand for heating, but CO2 from the transport sector continued to increase, largely driven by growing fuel consumption from passenger cars on Europe's roads. GWEC: Global wind power surge requires half a million new workers.

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