GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

One of the nation’s largest coal plants permanently powered down this week after the owners determined it would be uneconomical to continue operating the facility as natural gas and renewable energy prices continue to drop. Natural gas and a massive solar-charged battery.

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Business Green

MARCH 26, 2020

Coal power generation plummeted by 16 per cent last year to yet another record low, mainly due to lower demand for power, while imports of coal also dropped by almost a third, BEIS said. Electricity generation from natural gas fired power plants also fell back slightly by 2.2

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

The plans, available at The Solutions Project’s “ Clean Energy ” link, reveal the unique mix of wind, water and sun technologies capable of powering states, countries and even select U.S. Wind, Water and Sun (aka WWS) include wind power; waterpower from tides, rivers, and subsurface water (geothermal water); and solar power.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The falling costs of wind and solar power are pushing utilities to find ways to incorporate them into their long-range plans, even as they struggle to define what resources can be relied on to provide the dispatchable power they need. Its 2020 integrated resource plan (IRP) sets a goal of nearly 16 gigawatts of solar, 5.1

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Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 18, 2021

Shell - Gas to liquids (GTL) | Shell Natural Gas. This is the practice where natural gas is separated into hydrogen and CO2. As the technology is almost a century-old, there are many oil and gas majors who have great experience with it. Shell’s contract with Qatar provides them with the input gas for free.

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Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 18, 2021

This is the practice where natural gas is separated into hydrogen and CO2, where the hydrogen is used for the petrochemical industry and CO2 is simply released into the atmosphere. As it is almost a century-old technology, there are many oil and gas majors who have great experience with it. The reason?

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Business Green

AUGUST 21, 2022

For example, Russian-reliant Germany has started building liquified natural gas infrastructure, turning off lights on public monuments and has launched a public engagement campaign on saving energy at home. These are easy, impactful steps to take. Energy efficiency is an open goal.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

The claim plays on the idea, often promoted by opponents of climate action, that renewable energy from wind and solar power is unreliable. NZW has urged the government to “recommit to fossil fuels” with “a new fleet of coal-fired power stations”, and has called for wind and solar power to be “ wound down completely ”.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Many of the utilities setting net-zero carbon goals by midcentury are relying on advanced nuclear reactors to provide carbon-free energy to replace closing coal and natural gas plants. A 15 MW demonstration reactor in Germany operated for two decades, but a second, larger-scale version was shut down after only four years of operation.

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EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

In 2015, Radhika was a fellow at Blue Shield of California where she made recommendations on sustainability targets as well as on solar power purchase agreements which were implemented in 2018. million kilowatt hours of electricity, nearly 6,100 therms of natural gas, and almost 2,500 metric tons of carbon emissions.

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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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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 27, 2025

Meta is pledging to offset some emissions with purchases of 1,500 megawatts of solar power and financial support for a carbon capture and storage project at Entergys power plant in Lake Charles, according to Entergys filings to the PSC. MISO connects power sources from the upper midwest down through Arkansas and Louisiana.

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CleanTechnica

JANUARY 12, 2021

At the end of 2020, I published a report on solar power, wind power, and fossil fuel power market share changes from 2010 to 2020. A helpful reader, Mike Dyke, directed me to UK data for the same period.

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