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Sustainable fleets are at an inflection point

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Companies and cities are increasingly adopting lower-carbon fleets — including trucks and buses that run off electricity, renewable diesel and renewable natural gas — according to a new report from the research team at Gladstein, Neandross and Associates (GNA). . Wed, 08/12/2020 - 00:15. million students in the U.S.,

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Drax Cancels Plan to Build Europe’s Largest Natural Gas Power Plant

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gigawatt natural gas power plant in the U.K. It would have been the largest gas plant in Europe and, unsurprisingly, drew the attention of environmental groups. Watson’s Eurogas estimates a reduction in natural-gas usage of 35 percent from 2020 to 2050 across all sectors. Plans for a new 3.6-gigawatt

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Where Does the Natural Gas ‘Bridge’ End?

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ABU DHABI — The role of natural gas is one of the stickier points of debate related to the global energy transition, and that debate was on full display here this month. “I view natural gas and LNG as already part of the solution,” she said at the Atlantic Council's Global Energy Forum. power system.

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2020: Fossil fuels are dead, long live the sun

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Exxon’s 2018 revenues were half of what it made a decade earlier; in 2019, it was only $14.3 The Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis reported that "the world’s largest publicly traded oil and gas companies shelled out a total of $71.2 Natural Gas. Last year, no fossil company made the top 10 list.

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Renewables Set to Overtake Natural Gas in US Power Mix, the EIA Says (Finally)

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Energy Information Administration (EIA) has finally come around to the view that renewables will overtake natural gas in the country’s electricity mix. As recently as last year, the EIA forecast that natural gas would remain the country’s top source of electricity out to 2050. Solar the big winner over time.

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US Microgrid Market Slowed in 2019. PG&E Could Singlehandedly Reverse the Trend

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microgrid market set a record with 666 megawatts of capacity additions in 2018, but project delays and cancellations have dropped the expected 2019 total to 553 megawatts, according to a new report by energy research firm Wood Mackenzie. billion in capital expenses in 2019, nearly triple the $645 million invested in the U.S

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Our Most-Read Research Spotlights From 2019

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Below, a few pieces from 2019 that are worth catching up on. The Energy Transition in 4 Charts (August 2019). 4 Takeaways From Amazon’s Huge Electric Delivery Van Order (September 2019). Global Energy Storage to Hit 158 Gigawatt-Hours by 2024, Led by US and China (April 2019).