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Natural Gas Microgrids Do What Solar and Batteries Alone Can?t for California Resiliency, Report Says

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Earlier this year, Pacific Gas & Electric faced pushback from environmental and solar and energy storage industry groups to a plan to deploy natural gas generators to back up communities facing multi-day fire-prevention blackouts. Natural gas vs. diesel vs. solar-storage.

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5 Early Applications for Green Hydrogen

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Europe's biggest natural-gas infrastructure firm recently launched a new hydrogen business. Perhaps the most obvious use for green hydrogen is to simply replace the large amounts of the gas that are already produced using carbon-intensive methods to satisfy the needs of industry. A hydrogen economy in the U.S.

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This Problem With Fracked Oil and Gas Wells Is Occurring 'at an Alarming Rate'

DeSmogBlog

Read time: 13 mins On February 15, 2018, a fracked natural gas well owned by ExxonMobil's XTO Energy and located in southeast Ohio experienced a well blowout, causing it to gush the potent greenhouse gas methane for nearly three weeks.

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A tech-backed mission to monitor methane pollution launches today

The Verge: Energy

Image: MethaneSAT via EDF A mission to map and track global methane pollution, a powerful greenhouse gas, is scheduled to launch today after years of collaboration between some of the biggest names in tech. After all, so-called natural gas is mostly just methane. MethaneSAT is scheduled to launch on March 4th.

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One researcher’s quest to quantify the environmental cost of abandoned oil wells

Grist

Amy Townsend-Small has been chasing methane her entire professional life. Sniffing out the potent greenhouse gas, which traps 86 times as much heat as carbon dioxide after it’s emitted into the atmosphere, has required her to breathalyze cows and take chemical measurements at large manure lagoons. Christopher Collins.

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Southern Company Commits to Net-Zero Carbon by 2050, but Seeks New Gas Plants for Now

GreenTechMedia

utilities in setting a net-zero carbon target for 2050, aiming to balance the emissions from its sizable fossil fuel-fired generation fleet and sprawling natural gas business with reductions to be gained by expanding its portfolio of renewable energy and energy efficiency. Alabama Power seeking 2 gigawatts of new gas generation.

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Massachusetts Pilot Project Offers Gas Utilities a Possible Path to Survival

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In June, Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey asked the state's Department of Public Utilities to open an investigation into the future of natural gas companies in the state. “We don’t get to 2050 unless the lion’s share of those — 75 percent, 80 percent — are off natural gas entirely.