GreenTechMedia

APRIL 30, 2020

This crisis has exposed preexisting racial disparities created by deep-seated social, economic and political factors. In this episode of Political Climate , the fifth in our " Path to Zero " series with Third Way, we look at how COVID-19 and climate change are affecting Black communities, and how these issues can be tackled in tandem.

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Business Green

MARCH 17, 2021

Then, in 2016, he did it again, this time in a solar powered aircraft, becoming the first person ever to do so, and helping raise awareness of climate change and clean technologies along the way. But he is perhaps best known as an explorer, having already been the first to circumnavigate the world in a balloon non-stop two decades ago.

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The Guardian: Energy

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

IEA’s Fatih Birol says uptake of solar power and EVs is in line with net zero goal but rich countries must hasten their broader plans The prospects of the world staying within the 1.5C Continue reading.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 19, 2020

Originally posted here: How to make solar power work for all. Three stories and three approaches to equitable clean energy, and we’re just getting started. The first in a series.

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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2022

It would be easy at this point to simply list the litany of policy failures and the paucity of political leadership documented by the CCC's almost satirically titled progress report. The main thing stopping it happening at the pace and scale required is short termist, outdated, economic thinking, and a lack of political nerve.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 24, 2020

Meanwhile, political leaders are trying to get money to struggling people and businesses, setting the stage for trillions more dollars in spending on infrastructure. NEXTracker has more than 30 gigawatts of resilient and intelligent solar tracking systems across six continents. Optimize your solar power plant.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 26, 2022

NZW is the political arm of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), the UK’s most prominent climate science denial group, which published a paper last month claiming there is “no evidence of a climate crisis”. Political Influence. In politics, discretion is key,” reads another message on the site.

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

That was certainly the case following my previous article, Nuclear Power Could Cut The World’s Carbon Emissions In Half. There is always a contingent who are convinced that all we need is solar power. solar will grow as fast as it physically can and won’t be 100%. Every model shows it. which is in second place globally.

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Alternative Energy News

MARCH 31, 2015

Energy Politics | Environment and Sustainability | Solar Power France keeps making green headlines lately… the Eiffel Tower’s wind turbines, the tree-shaped wind turbines being installed in Paris, and now an exciting new law that is sure to have a huge environmental impact in urban centers.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 4, 2019

DENVER — It's become a cliche to compare today's energy storage market to where the solar industry was a certain number of years ago. Solar reached the big time early in California, thanks to abundant sunshine and supportive state incentives.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 24, 2020

After record levels of investment in wind and solar power in 2019, one-eighth of the $1 trillion campaign goal has been met. In 2018, ACORE launched $1T 2030: The American Renewable Investment Goal , an effort to secure $1 trillion in U.S. private-sector investment in renewable energy and enabling grid technologies by 2030.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Jeff Dennis, managing director and general counsel for the Advanced Energy Economy association, provided a live tweet summary of FERC/NERC's presentation of the report, noting FERC Chair Richard Glick's opposition to political rhetoric that renewables were the source of the problems. — Jeff Dennis (@EnergyLawJeff) September 23, 2021.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

The solar industry met in Salt Lake City with a more sweeping and disciplined message than in some years past : Rally to extend the federal investment tax credit and buckle up for a decade of massive industry growth. The Solar Energy Industries Association industry group published a roadmap Monday to increase solar power to 20 percent of U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

SALT LAKE CITY — This year’s Solar Power International has one clear theme eclipsing all others: an extension of the federal Investment Tax Credit. But not all solar executives feel the same way about the ITC, or with the same level of intensity. Yes, the movement does have stickers.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 2, 2020

However, this newly configured system is likely to face severe disruption from wider political developments such as Brexit’s impact on EU funding," the report said. Current wave energy contenders know they face an uphill struggle, not least from ever-cheaper wind and solar power above the waterline.

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Alternative Energy News

APRIL 27, 2011

Energy Politics | Environment and Sustainability | Solar Power New York City’s Brooklyn Bridge Park is getting even greener with the addition of a solar powered electric vehicle (EV) charging station – the first of its kind in New York City.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Scatec Solar, the Norwegian solar developer specializing in emerging markets, has launched a lease finance product to foster sub 25-megawatt installations, CEO Raymond Carlsen said. As these markets started to wane, however, Scatec Solar switched its focus to places where solar power was in its infancy.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 22, 2020

A rebounding European solar market. The REFM could prove to be a masterful piece of political maneuvering from the Commission, given that prospects for a discrete, standalone tender program were facing opposition. Wood Mackenzie expects Europe to add another 172 gigawatts of solar and 169 gigawatts of wind by 2040.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 28, 2021

A poll showing public support for a referendum on the UK’s net zero goal covered on the front page of yesterday’s Telegraph was paid for by a newly-launched climate science denial group run by a leading figure in actor Laurence Fox’s political party. Anti-Net Zero Campaign.

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Green Living Guy

MARCH 15, 2021

It can feel hopeless as if the issue is constantly mired by politics. There is broad consensus within the scientific community that the climate is changing and that humans are the primary cause of this. Despite this, it seems like society never makes any necessary improvements to avert this problem.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

But even after another banner year for clean energy in the state, a market redesign, fueled by political rhetoric from state leaders, could thwart future deployment, experts say. Wind and solar accounted for nearly all new generating capacity added to the Texas grid in 2021, according to newly released market data. Follow @EngelsAngle.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 31, 2023

In October 2022, NZW urged the government to “recommit to fossil fuels” in response to the global energy crisis sparked by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, with “a new fleet of coal fired power stations” and more oil and gas extraction. It’s time to kick dirty fossil fuel-aligned interests out of our politics once and for all.”

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 11, 2023

He is also on the board of the think tank’s political arm, the Global Warming Policy Forum, which since 2021 has campaigned as Net Zero Watch. In October, Net Zero Watch urged the government to “recommit to fossil fuels” and called for “a new fleet of coal-fired power plants”. Climate Denial Founder.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

In a Wall Street Journal article of the same title that year, Sinclair called solar power “comically expensive and ill-judged in cloud-drenched Britain”, adding that “onshore wind energy faces geographic limitations and local resistance”. In the book he said climate policies would “push up electricity bills”, according to the Guardian.

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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. Public concern about environmental issues has steadily increased over the past decade.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 6, 2020

Now, startup Navajo Power wants to fill the vacuum with massive solar power plants while channeling the proceeds into electrification and economic development for Navajo communities. “We deal with land, we deal with resources, we deal with politics,” Isaac said in an interview.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

Its Director General Tim Davie has said that while the BBC will cover debate on climate policy, human-caused climate change is not “politically controversial” and “the overwhelming consensus is that we, as humanity, are causing global warming”. Porter has also been associated with political groups leading the charge against climate action.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Meanwhile, Indonesia has followed South Africa in agreeing a ‘Just Energy Transition Partnership' with a group of donor countries and private investors, which will mobilise $20bn of finance and roughly double the amount of renewable power it deploys over the course of this decade.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Tim Walz is asking lawmakers to take up a plan to reach zero-carbon electricity by 2050, although the proposal's future will likely depend on which political party controls the state legislature after November’s election. In Minnesota, Gov. EVs, green hydrogen and energy storage.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 27, 2020

“These networks have to be resilient and smart to ward against future shocks but also to accommodate rising shares of wind and solar power. Offshore wind tenders have experienced some turbulence but long-term political backing remains. Credit: Siemens Gamesa).

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Business Green

APRIL 22, 2021

The business and energy opportunity presented by clean energy development is significantly larger than that of fossil fuels extraction and production, the analysis calculates, adding there is potential to generate more solar power in one year than could be generated from burning all known fossil fuel reserves.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 4, 2020

led renewable energy developer Nur Energie to propose investing in Saharan concentrated solar power (CSP) capacity instead. The company’s TuNur project was supposed to start delivering power to the U.K. That didn’t put others off trying to follow suit, though. In 2016, the rising cost of new nuclear in the U.K.

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Business Green

MAY 11, 2022

However, the IEA also warned that renewable power's growth is on track to lose momentum in 2023, predicting that global additions to the clean power fleet will plateau as solar power's continued acceleration is offset by "little change" in wind additions and a 40 per cent decline in hydropower expansion.

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Business Green

JUNE 22, 2022

Confidence in Europe and the UK's ability build a net zero energy system in little over a decade continues to build among investors, engineers, and energy policy wonks - even if it remains to be seen whether political decision makers are willing to deliver the policy frameworks necessary to turbocharge the roll out of clean technologies.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Related: Solar program has customers saving money from renewable energy In response, the researchers behind the study analyzed the hourly electricity needs of 42 developed countries over the past 39 years. The study further found that wind and solar could cover 72-91% of energy needs in most of the countries studied. “It

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Engie’s acquisition of Mobisol this month and a $50 million investment in BBOXX in August have highlighted the massive potential of Africa’s off-grid power market. “The program fits in with López Obrador’s politics,” said Coll. I think it’s just taking a while to refocus on this issue.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

The cost of wind power and solar power has plummeted over the past decade whilst creating thousands of jobs.”. May also cited polling by the More In Common thinktank, which found concern about climate change was common across political and social groups.

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