R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

with electricity from solar photovoltaic (PV) power. on solar power would require a substantial amount of backup power or storage for when the sun isn’t shining. I also knew that my solar PV calculation was subject to many assumptions, and the answer could therefore be 50% too large or 50% too small.

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Business Green

JULY 30, 2021

Proportion of power derived from gas and coal in Britain fell to record low in 2020, official statistics confirm. Low demand for electricity during successive lockdowns saw renewables displace fossil fuels as the dominant source of power on Britain's grid for the first time ever in 2020, government data has confirmed.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

As recently as July, Record wrote a column for The Telegraph claiming it was “debatable in detail” if fossil fuels cause dangerous levels of global warming. Net Zero Watch has called for “rapid” new North Sea oil and gas exploration, and for wind and solar power to be “wound down completely”. It may not be.”

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Here are the tastiest stories that emerged in 2019, in no particular order. The year started with AES completing the largest solar-plus-storage facility in the world for the Kauai Island Utility Cooperative. It serves clean power at night cheaper than incumbent fossil fuels. Massive utility procurements.

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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. Hawaii hit on storage because solar installations were flooding its isolated island grids: Batteries offered a way to store that power for the evening peaks when it was more useful.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 23, 2020

This foray into behind-the-meter battery aggregation comes as part of PG&E’s efforts to meet the California Public Utilities Commission’s call for energy storage to help balance the state’s increasingly solar power-influenced grid.

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Business Green

MARCH 26, 2020

Provisional data shows greenhouse gas emissions have fallen more than 45 per cent since 1990, as low carbon power again reached record levels in 2019. In 2019 total UK greenhouse gas emissions were 45.2 per cent in 2019, thanks in large part to slower road traffic growth and improving car fuel efficiency, the statistics show.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 1, 2020

That’s needed to replace grid capacity provided by four natural gas-fired power plants on the Southern California coast that use seawater for cooling, and have been ordered to close as soon as possible to reduce their environmental impact. storage market to grow by more than 7 times from 2019 to 2021.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Fossil fuels, primarily gas, are a fixture in millions of American homes and businesses, but the building sector’s climate impact hasn’t received the same scrutiny as coal and gas in the power sector or oil in the transportation sector. Fortunately, that’s changing. As a result, the U.S. gas system each year.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 22, 2020

We cannot go down a hydrogen path where we produce hydrogen from fossil fuels.” ” Near-term policy details aside, there's little question that Europe's 2050 net-zero ambition will be largely wind- and solar-powered.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

It continues to refine its drilling technology to make residential drilling and heat pump installation easier and more competitive with incumbent fossil fuels. Compared to the myriad companies selling home solar power, Dandelion is notable for the lack of competitors in its lane.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 9, 2021

As they work to repower with clean energy, forward-looking cities, counties and towns, such as San Francisco , Seattle and New York City , are leading a growing movement to envision fossil fuel-free, electric buildings of the future. Burning fossil fuels in our homes pollutes the air we breathe outside as well as inside.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 3, 2021

Annual figures show that renewable supply outpaced fossil fuels for the first time. 42% of all energy used across the country through 2020 came from wind, solar, tidal and hydro. Conversely, energy produced by fossil fuels fell to just 39.6%, marking the first time that clean energy has consistently outperformed legacy sources.

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R-Squared Energy

AUGUST 9, 2020

Renewable energy continued its blistering growth pace in 2019, globally increasing by 12.2% In 2019, that had nearly quadrupled to 29.0 The “Renewables” category consists of wind power, solar power, biofuels. The category “Other” includes geothermal energy and power produced from biomass.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Contributed by Odette Mucha, Vote Solar and Liz Robinson, Philadelphia Solar Energy Association. As we know, solar power provides a wide range of benefits to Pennsylvanians. It creates local jobs, with PA currently home to over 400 solar companies with over 4,300 solar workers. billion in the Keystone State.

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Front And Centered

MAY 17, 2019

Legislators also preserved existing tools allowing customers to gain bill credits for generating their own solar power, essentially being able to measure and sell this power to utilities (SB 5223).

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 19, 2024

Its NZW arm has called for “rapid” new North Sea oil and gas exploration, and for wind and solar power to be “wound down completely”. The IEA has opposed state-led climate policies and has advocated for more fossil fuel extraction. Record has given money to both the IEA and the GWPF.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Solar power is the "new king" of global electricity markets, with the International Energy Agency calling it the cheapest form of electricity in history in its annual centerpiece World Energy Outlook report. Solar's ascent and coal's decline have been rapid by the standards of the electricity industry. degrees Celsius.

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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. billion a year in renewable energy and enabling grid technologies through 2029 — an annual increase of 28 percent over the 2019 investment level.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 23, 2020

Fossil-fueled combined-heat-and-power systems will continue to take a back seat to distributed solar and energy storage for behind-the-meter generation — although resilience against wildfires, hurricanes and other extreme weather events will drive adoption of both. market by 2025, according to Maze-Rothstein.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

In 2022 the Quest project, which converts fossil fuels into hydrogen, was revealed to have emitted more carbon dioxide than had been sequestered. Direct and indirect subsidies from Canada’s federal government exceed $65 billion from 2019 to 2023. “We

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 11, 2023

The article neglects to mention that Lawson also set up the influential Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) think tank, a major source of climate science denial and unwavering supporter of fossil fuels. Lawson founded the GWPF in 2009 and remains its honorary president, since stepping down as chair in January 2019.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Here, hydrogen replaces fossil fuels used in conventional reduction processes. As an example, SKF’s Indian factories in Bangalore and Mysore have made solar power purchase agreements and now use more than 80% renewable energy. Some is generated on site and some at off-site solar farms. Lifecycle measurement.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 28, 2020

That’s a steep drop from the 291 megawatts of projects installed in the first half of 2019. These commercial systems rely on fossil-fueled generation or combined-heat-and-power systems, which are still more cost-effective for long-term power supplies than clean alternatives such as solar and batteries.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 6, 2022

This is concerning when we think about the scale of the solar power industry, and how much this industry is expected to grow. Policy deadlines have led to a photovoltaic (PV) boom, with 23% market growth from 2019-2020. In 2020, solar power accounted for 3.1% In 2020, solar power accounted for 3.1%

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Liquid air energy storage could play an important role in supporting the UK’s transition away from using fossil fuels for electricity generation. If the UK is to move away from a baseload of electricity generated by reliable fossil fuels, the variable nature of renewable energy must be addressed. Energy storage.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

This means that in the event of a heatwave, a spike in electricity use would ultimately test the power grid’s ability to meet supply with demand, potentially resulting in summer brownouts or blackouts. This means that, especially in the case of extreme weather events, more wind and solar generation is needed to meet the grids power demands.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 13, 2021

The proportion of global power generation represented by VRE, such as wind and solar power, has been rising rapidly since 2007. However, the variable nature of generation from wind and solar can pose challenges to grids.

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Business Green

APRIL 6, 2021

This latest record is another example of how the grid continues to transform at an astonishing rate as we move away from fossil fuel generation and harness the growth of renewable power sources," said Fintan Slye, National Grid Electricity System Operator's director. Coal generated just 1.6

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Octopus Energy claims it was the first company in the UK to launch a solar export tariff back in 2019, when the government-supported Feed-in Tariff incentive scheme ended. It has become abundantly clear that we need to wean ourselves off fossil fuels and become energy independent as a nation.

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Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 10, 2021

That spend would be around 20% lower than what was invested across all of the country’s generation resources between 2015 and 2019. . Because solar resources are good across large parts of India, the solar energy buildout—and thus the land use—potentially could be spread out. .

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R-Squared Energy

JUNE 4, 2020

This surge is better shown by the following graphic, which highlights the three categories of modern renewables that have driven the consumption surge: Wind power, solar power, and biofuels. Further, it shows that fossil fuels still dominate our energy consumption. quads of fossil fuels, 11.5

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Business Green

MARCH 28, 2021

Fossil fuel firms are increasingly eyeing up plans for blue hydrogen production, but think tank E3G fears the nascent sector risks locking in a new generation of high carbon infrastructure and jobs.

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Global renewable power generation is growing at an unprecedented rate , driven by the favourable economics of wind and solar along with energy security concerns around oil and gas (largely caused by recent wars), and emissions goals. Regionally, the EU-wide average share of electricity generated from wind and solar in 2022 was 22%.

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R-Squared Energy

JULY 13, 2022

Fossil fuels accounted for 82% of primary energy use last year, essentially the same as in 2020, but down from 83% in 2019 and 85% five years ago. The remaining share of primary energy use consisted of hydroelectric power (6.8%), renewables (6.7%), and nuclear power (4.3%). lower than consumption in 2019.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 31, 2023

Conservative MP Andrea Jenkyns has become a director of Net Zero Watch (NZW), a pressure group which denies climate science and campaigns for more fossil fuel extraction. NZW campaigns against renewable energy and for more fossil fuel extraction, often doing so alongside anti-green Conservative MPs in the Net Zero Scrutiny Group.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 13, 2020

2020: Fossil fuels are dead, long live the sun Hunter Lovins Thu, 08/13/2020 – 00:15 We’re female entrepreneurs and environmentalists. In this strangest of all years, as the death toll mounts from a disease caused by human incursions into once intact ecosystems, we’re observing another death — the demise of fossil fuels.

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