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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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

JANUARY 14, 2020

Energy Information Administration has confirmed what it and industry watchers predicted a year ago—that wind and solar power will expand on their already-large share of new U.S. gigawatts of natural gas-fired plants to come online this year. generation capacity in 2020. gigawatts, and pushes total U.S.

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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. But these tools proved unexpectedly useful when the Aliso Canyon natural-gas leak jeopardized fuel supplies for Southern California power plants.

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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. The UK's domestic greenhouse gas emissions fell 3.6 In 2019 total UK greenhouse gas emissions were 45.2 per cent lower than in 1990, following a 3.6

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 12, 2020

power utilities, with 7.4 million natural-gas customers across six states in the Southeast and Midwest. Despite near-term headwinds, Duke stood behind its long-term plan to reach net-zero emissions by 2050, starting with a target of 50 percent greenhouse gas reductions by 2030. Duke is among the largest U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

More immediately, Duke’s new plan improves on its 2017 goal to cut its 2030 carbon emissions by 40 percent, driven by “sustained low natural gas prices and declining costs for renewables and storage,” Tuesday’s press release noted. The gas question. This reliance on natural gas aligns Duke with most U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Installations grew nearly fivefold year-over-year in 2019, Hannun said in a recent interview, as the company dialed in on its core markets of Albany, the Hudson Valley and Westchester. Compared to the myriad companies selling home solar power, Dandelion is notable for the lack of competitors in its lane.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 4, 2020

The new plan, by contrast, sets out a goal of nearly 16 gigawatts of solar, more than 5 gigawatts of offshore wind, and 2.7 That’s nearly quadruple the targets laid out in Dominion’s 2019 IRP, and a major shift from a 2018 IRP that was rejected by Virginia’s regulator, the State Corporation Commission (SCC).

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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. Natural Gas.

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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. Both find wind and solar to be cost-competitive with natural gas-fired electricity in the U.S.

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R-Squared Energy

JULY 26, 2021

Small declines were also reported in coal, natural gas, and nuclear consumption, while renewables and hydropower recorded gains. The remainder of global energy consumption came from coal (27.2%), natural gas (24.7%), hydropower (6.9%), renewables (5.7%), and nuclear power (4.3%). Natural Gas.

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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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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 24, 2020

New York passed legislation in 2019 requiring an electricity mix that is 70 percent renewable by 2030 and entirely carbon-free by 2040, compared to just under 30 percent of its in-state generation mix coming from renewable as of 2018.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2022

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. At SKF, this is mainly natural gas used for building and process heating. Lifecycle measurement.

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R-Squared Energy

AUGUST 9, 2020

Previous articles covered overall energy consumption , petroleum supply and demand, natural gas , and coal. 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.

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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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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. The Majority of Direct Building Emissions Are Coming From Burning Natural Gas.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 26, 2020

Alliant, which serves about 1 million customers in the Midwestern states of Wisconsin and Iowa, currently relies on renewables for about 20 percent of its generation capacity, largely wind power in Iowa, with twice as much coming from natural gas plants.

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R-Squared Energy

JULY 11, 2019

This article is the fifth in a series on BP’s recently-released Statistical Review of World Energy 2019. Previous articles in this series covered carbon dioxide emissions, petroleum supply and demand, the production and consumption of coal, and global natural gas trends: BP Warns Of An Unsustainable Path. Renewables.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Add to that the fact that solar pairs more naturally with grid-scale batteries in many instances, and the wind industry has good reason to be nervous about its competitive position against solar in a growing number of markets. Reaching maturity, however, does not mean that the wind industry is in for decline.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 5, 2021

State grid operator CAISO has proposed expanding its reserve margins and using its emergency procurement authority to enlist resources that can supply electricity in hot evening hours when California’s solar power is fading — the same hours it was forced to turn off power to hundreds of thousands of customers on Aug.

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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. Energy Information Administration found that between 2010 and the first quarter of 2019, U.S.

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R-Squared Energy

JUNE 7, 2020

This transition is being aided by policies aimed at curbing greenhouse gas emissions, as well as rapidly declining costs for renewables like wind and solar power. NATURAL GAS DRIVES CARBON EMISSIONS LOWER. The shale gas boom in the U.S. natural gas production between 2005 and 2020.

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Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 10, 2021

A new study from the Energy Department’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory found that deploying 307 GW of solar and 142 GW of wind capacity in India by 2030 would need around a $26.5 That spend would be around 20% lower than what was invested across all of the country’s generation resources between 2015 and 2019. .

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R-Squared Energy

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

The first was that the shale gas boom in the U.S. unleashed massive new supplies of cheap natural gas. This made it economical for power plants to switch from coal to natural gas. Power produced from natural gas has lower associated carbon dioxide emissions. has more than quadrupled.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 17, 2021

Between 2015-2019, the Australian government committed over $146 million to hydrogen projects along the supply chain. Mature Thermochemical technologies include steam methane reforming (SMR) which relies on natural gas as an input and coal gasification which relies on coal. International certification scheme for hydrogen.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 17, 2023

billion liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in her Pennsylvania hometown, she will be facing off against some of the most powerful fossil fuel interests in the United States. LNG boom threatens to release vast amounts of methane, a powerful climate pollutant that is the main component of natural gas.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 23, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic and resulting economic downturn will reduce DER investments in 2020 and 2021, as solar and storage projects face permitting and installation delays, and as rising unemployment and falling economic activity threaten household and business budgets. 1) Solar will retain its leading role in distributed generation.

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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. And according to IEA’ Renewables 2020, Launch Presentation from November 10, 2020, global wind and solar PV’s combined installed capacity will surpass that of natural gas in 2023 and coal in 2024.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 3, 2021

As of 2020, it was responsible for the transmission of that 450 GW of installed wind and solar power. Ongoing reforms will look to establish a national power market. In 2019 only 30 percent of the nation’s electricity participated in market-based trading. Tripling that in a decade will be quite a challenge.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 27, 2020

“These networks have to be resilient and smart to ward against future shocks but also to accommodate rising shares of wind and solar power. coal has all but fallen off the grid and natural gas is often dialed down as much as requirements for inertia will allow. In the U.K.,

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Direct and indirect subsidies from Canada’s federal government exceed $65 billion from 2019 to 2023. “We I think that we’ve been given sort of a false choice that we have to either choose between our emissions or oil and gas development. “We’ve

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R-Squared Energy

APRIL 15, 2022

These pellets are primarily used to displace coal in European coal-fired power plants. In 2019, one of Enviva’s largest shareholders asked independent research firm Boundless Impact Research and Analytics to review the sustainability and carbon impact of wood pellet energy. Coal has a greenhouse gas intensity of 1.00

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 16, 2024

In November, he instructed his province’s public utilities, SaskPower and SaskEnergy, to stop collecting carbon taxes on natural gas as of January 1, 2024, if the federal government didn’t extend the same carbon price carve out to his province. The most extreme reaction was from Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 21, 2020

First revealed in December 2019 , the EU's Green Deal was initially structured as a roadmap for the bloc to achieve its goal of net-zero status by 2050. Grey hydrogen, produced from natural gas, is used widely in refineries and chemical plants.

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R-Squared Energy

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Last week the International Energy Agency (IEA) released its World Energy Outlook (WEO) 2019. With the SPS, low-carbon sources, led by solar photovoltaics (PV), supply more than half of all energy growth. Natural gas, aided by increasing trade in liquefied natural gas (LNG), accounts for another third of energy growth.

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