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Fossil Freeze: Deadly Texas Catastrophe Shows How Natural Gas Systems Can Fail when Demand Spikes

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Read time: 16 mins As temperatures across Texas plunged in mid-February, memes showing frozen wind turbines — some including misleading photos from Europe in 2015 — spread rapidly on social media. Tags: texas Rick Perry natural gas pipelines extreme weather

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How Dominion Energy Plans to Launch an Offshore Wind Empire

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Four years after the Block Island project first put wind turbines in American waters, the second U.S. offshore wind farm is about to rise 30 miles off Virginia Beach, and it’s happening in the middle of a pandemic. offshore wind project over the finish line — and the first to do so in federal waters. Credit: AWEA).

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Why are hydrogen fuel cells so expensive?

Hydrogen Fuel News

  That decarbonization impact only grows when green H2 is used, meaning that it is produced using processes powered by renewable energy such as wind and solar.  That   That said, the production of green H2 using electrolyzers does require rare metals such as platinum and iridium that come with a high price tag

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Cheap Renewables Could Make 90% of Proposed Gas Power Plants — and Many Pipelines — Obsolete by 2035

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Read time: 12 mins There’s one big reason that analysts say America’s electrical power should soon run on clean energy sources like wind and solar rather than fossil fuels like coal and natural gas: your power bill. Tags: Natural Gas Power Plants natural gas pipelines federal energy regulatory commission (FERC)

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Stanford Study Says Renewable Power Eliminates Argument for Using Carbon Capture with Fossil Fuels

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Jacobson questions the climate and health benefits of carbon capture technology against simply switching to renewable energy sources like wind and solar. Tags: carbon capture ccs clean coal renewable energy Mark Jacobson Read time: 7 mins New research from Stanford University professor Mark Z.

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American Electric Power’s 1.5GW Wind Project Set to Sail Ahead

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American Electric Power has secured enough state regulator approvals to move ahead with a 1,485-megawatt wind power project in Oklahoma — even if Texas regulators end up denying its plans. That 2-gigawatt development was rejected by Texas regulators in August 2018 on the grounds that its $3 billion price tag and the need for a new $1.6

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Vineyard Wind Prevails as Connecticut Chooses 804MW Offshore Wind Project

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Connecticut on Thursday selected Vineyard Wind’s 804-megawatt Park City project as the winner of its first offshore wind solicitation, setting up the seaport city of Bridgeport to become a significant hub for the emerging U.S. where state offshore wind targets have rapidly grown to exceed 20 gigawatts.