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MidAmerican plans to add 2 GW of wind energy resources in Iowa

Renewable Energy World

In a filing with state utility regulators, the company asked that the cost cap for Wind PRIME be set at $1.89 million per megawatt (including Allowance for Funds Used During Construction–AFUDC) for wind-powered facilities and $1.854 million per MW (including AFUDC) for solar-powered generation.

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US Voluntary Clean Power Sales Keep Surging, With More Than a Little Help From Utilities

GreenTechMedia

These clean power sales have surged in the past decade: According to data collected and published annually by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, they doubled from 2010 to 2014 and doubled again from 2014 to 2019. Offerings could become more common, and more diverse, as grids get cleaner.

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Funding the Next Generation of Efficient, Electric, Grid-Interactive Communities

GreenTechMedia

” Brouillette toured a high-efficiency, all-electric home built by Meritage Homes, featuring high-efficiency insulation, thermal and battery storage, solar-powered heat pumps and appliances that can shift energy use based on homeowner or utility commands. Balancing the grid impacts, costs of electrification and net-zero homes.

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Subsidies to biomass plant in Teesside must be stopped says environmental coalition

Envirotec Magazine

The MGT Teesside plant – which is the largest dedicated biomass-burning power station in the world – will burn over one million tonnes of imported wood pellets a year. The UK Government awarded it subsidies under the Contract for Difference (CfD) scheme in April 2014, and it was to start running by September 2018.

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Highlights from the 2022 BP Statistical Review

R-Squared Energy

Global coal consumption has been on a downward trend since peaking in 2014. in 2020, nearly reaching 2014 levels. Solar electricity consumption rose by a record 1.7 exajoules (EJ) — an increase of 22% — but wind power (+2.5 Together, wind and solar power provided 2,894 Terawatt-hours (TWh) of electricity in 2021.

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Report: its now cheaper to build new solar than to run existing coal plants in China, India and most of Europe

Renewable Energy World

Combined, China and India account for 62% of all coal-fired power capacity worldwide. gigatons of CO2 annually, or 44% of global power sector emissions. The economic incentive to deploy large amounts of solar power just got stronger in India, China and most of Europe. Together the two countries produce around 5.5

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Liz Truss Hires Anti-Green Aides With Ties to Libertarian Think Tanks

DeSmogBlog

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”. Huge investment in renewables etc -> higher profits -> higher prices.”.

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