Grist

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

Lawmakers have called on officials with the PUC and the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, which operates the power grid that spans most of the state, to testify at hearings later this week. Another federal report released three years later made similar recommendations with few results. State officials are again promising reforms.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 22, 2019

PG&E’s poor safety record, and incentive to err on the side of caution to prevent its equipment from starting another massive wildfire to add to its financial liabilities, have soured California’s political leaders and general public alike on its ability to meet the demands for improvement laid out by Gov.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 19, 2019

On this week's episode on Political Climate , we put these and other questions to David Roberts, acclaimed energy and politics reporter for Vox. We thought it would be enlightening to end the 2019 season of Political Climate by asking Roberts a wide range of questions on American politics and how to save the planet.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

billion ($38.96) by 2026, more than half of this being funnelled into power grid investments, the Group said more focus will be placed on profitability, flexibility and resiliency through selective capital allocation to maximize its risk/return profile. Beyond the power grid , approximately €12.1 With plans to spend €35.8

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 23, 2020

In this episode of Political Climate , we speak to Secretary Kerry about his outlook on combatting climate change. We get his views on abolishing the Senate filibuster, decarbonizing the power grid, the future role of fossil fuels, American leadership (or lack thereof) on the international stage, and more.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 17, 2020

On this episode of Political Climate , we speak to Lyft’s director of sustainability, Sam Arons, about this bold new strategy. We talk to Arons about the EV target and how to meet it, as well as related policies and how electric rideshare vehicles can support the power grid. Next stop: Regulations.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

That, he acknowledged, could come at a higher financial cost — and so will any improvements to the grid to prevent future disasters. There’s an open question as to whether Texas leadership will be willing to fund, or politically support, any of these options. “We What are you willing to pay? We’re going to have to confront that.”.

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The Verge: Energy

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

More Bitcoin is mined in the US than anywhere else in the world , a trend that has sparked legal battles over the impact energy-hungry crypto mines have on the power grid, nearby communities, and the environment. A federal judge has issued a temporary restraining order that prevents the DOE from moving forward with data collection.

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The Guardian: Energy

MARCH 24, 2024

Modelling results presented to the state government late last year and obtained by Guardian Australia showed that the state’s carbon emissions in 2024 are on track to reach 91.5m tonnes of carbon dioxide-equivalent, or about 20% above 2005 levels.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2020

VIDEO: National Grid's Nicola Shaw, WSP's David Symons, and Hitachi ABB Power Grids' Ian Funnell discuss the priorities and challenges for building a green Covid-19 recovery. National Grid is a partner of the Net Zero Festival.

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Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 5, 2023

It was a 3-day event which consisted of CEO Dialogue, Energy Leaders Forum, Power Grid & Power Generation Summit Streams, Hydrogen & Ammonia Symposium, and more. From polite and service-oriented people to efficient service providers always ready to assist and solve any challenge.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 4, 2024

As energy policy and politics shift globally, business flexibility will be a necessity for the success of the energy transition. Well, not quite, because anyone who has even briefly scanned the news over the last few months will have noted the shift in the political mood music around energy policy across the world.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

JUNE 21, 2021

But widespread EV adoption in the United States faces three critical challenges: a limited battery supply chain, inadequate charging infrastructure, and already strained power grids. Addressing these issues will require both political will and funding at the federal level—neither of which is currently guaranteed.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 25, 2020

However, permitting delays and political risk at both the state and federal level could hamper the sector’s long-term outlook if the transmission grid can’t adapt to higher offshore wind penetration. onshore transmission grid. Building out high levels of offshore wind will be a challenge for the constrained U.S.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 23, 2021

a 2021 battery EV – charged from today’s power grid – creates only about one-third as much greenhouse gas emissions as a similar 2021 gasoline-powered car. All this will be good news for the climate – but only if the electricity to power EVs comes from low-carbon sources such as solar, tidal, geothermal and wind.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

This would dramatically reduce the possibility of eliminating carbon emissions from the region’s power grid before 2050.” ” In order to meet Biden’s 2035 target for decarbonizing the power sector, WoodMac says the U.S. “If Biden’s bid fails, the U.S. Biden has pledged to put the U.S.

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Mosaic

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

That might include wind, solar and nuclear energy, and an upgraded power grid, all areas that require engineers, software developers, solar-panel installers, HVAC technicians, finance professionals and more. The survey was crafted by Mosaic, one of the top providers of financing home solar installations.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

This would dramatically reduce the possibility of eliminating carbon emissions from the region’s power grid before 2050,” writes Dan Shreve, WoodMac’s research director, in the report. Political Climate talks to two groups, Vote Climate U.S. “If Biden’s bid fails, the U.S. Don’t Count on It.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 10, 2024

Elections in the EU and the US have our industry waiting with bated breath to see the next guard of political agendas take the scene and usher in policy updates – all at a critical time as 2025 and 2030 deadlines for our planet approach. The timing of Wood Mackenzie’s analysis is apt.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 14, 2021

This has moved these issues up the political priority list and bolstered a massive effort to diversify India’s economy away from coal and other polluting technologies and practices. Over the past few years, national and state governments in India have successfully expanded the power grid to villages in the countryside.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 20, 2020

For all their momentum, the clean-energy sectors — solar, wind, energy storage, and companies transforming the power grid — will not escape the COVID-19 downdraft. This week's podcast episode of Political Climate takes a look.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Amid February’s record-breaking temperatures, climate is emerging as a battleground – and faultline – between the UK’s two biggest political parties in the run up to the next general election. Wrangling between the Tories and Labour has also opened the door for fringe political activists. billion in total.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 8, 2021

utilities such as Duke Energy and Southern Company that include SMRs in the longer-range suite of options to fully decarbonize their power grids by 2050. Nuclear skeptics such as David Toke, who researches energy politics at the University of Aberdeen in the U.K., Similar challenges have been leveled against U.S.

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Business Green

JANUARY 5, 2023

As an example of how this could work in practice, Starmer reiterated Labour's plan to set up a new publicly-owned clean energy generation business that would deliver jobs and help the country to transition to a 100 per cent clean power grid by the end of this decade. Thirteen years of nothing but sticking plaster politics.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 8, 2023

2 Other considerations include balancing political priorities, such as creating local jobs and energy security, with feasibility challenges, for example, caused by stringent environmental and social standards, slow permitting, and difficulties in accessing finance.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

To accelerate the implementation of the ‘Projects of Common Interest’, of which more than 100 such cross-border interconnection projects have been identified so far over the past decade, and to develop new projects through political steering, reinforced monitoring and more proposals.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Then there's always the possibility of grander political action on energy and climate change at the federal level — something that finally goes beyond the effective but endlessly frustrating PTC. power grid to achieve high levels of decarbonization.". Something that can really help the U.S.

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R-Squared Energy

MARCH 3, 2021

In a recent article for WIRED — The Energy Sector Must Prepare for More Extreme Weather — I detailed some of the primary causes behind the recent power outages in Texas. One aspect I didn’t cover in that article was the political finger-pointing that went on as the incident unfolded.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 21, 2021

” Chatterjee's term at FERC ends in mid-2021, which would give the Biden administration an opportunity to nominate a Democrat to fill his seat, which could change the political balance at the traditionally non-partisan agency. Not all of FERC’s upcoming decisions are as politically fraught.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 13, 2022

“If you want to have a fully interactive efficient grid, you have to take a step back and think what kind of information and communication platforms do we need to invest into now, in order to enable the energy grid in – perhaps – ten years from now”. Peter Kelly-Detwiler.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 4, 2020

“We think of good regulatory and political outcomes as being driven by good operational performance.” ” Exelon is also facing the potential threat of having its Chicago power grid taken over by the city , although this effort appears to be waning in the face of the high costs it would impose on the city budget.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

“There’s no shortage of ideas; there’s no shortage of legislation that’s out there, but it’s all about what is in the realm of the political right now,” said Murkowski, the Alaska Republican who chairs the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Emerging technologies such as bifacial solar modules, larger wind turbines, floating solar and floating wind farms will play an increasing role over the next five years, the report states, and to accommodate the projected increase in renewables capacity, power grids must be able to integrate new technologies more quickly.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 20, 2021

Columbia Rediviva , a network of citizen activists, is working to change that by engaging Congress members in a plan to reimagine the Pacific Northwest power grid and bring salmon back to the Columbia River. Policy & Politics. Another thread runs through the success stories: science, scientists and diverse perspectives.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

power grid. In my view, the biggest challenge is that driving change on this scale requires sustained political will. It also will require much greater coordination between North America’s regional power grids, which aren’t well configured now for moving electricity seamlessly over long distances.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

That’s because current market dynamics in the country “motivate the fossil fuel generators to continuously construct new plants and delay the phaseout of those that contribute little to the power grid,” Gyuri Cho of Solutions for Our Climate said last year. This could have dire health impacts.

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Business Green

MARCH 31, 2023

In fact, on multiple fronts ministers and officials have done a remarkably good job within the financial and political constraints placed upon them. Chris Skidmore's recommendation that the date for phasing out gas boilers should be pulled forward was politely ducked. That is not to say there is not good news here.

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