GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Unlike most utility grid modernization plans, however, Ameren Missouri’s plan also includes $1 billion for wind power. Ameren first outlined its goal in 2017 to acquire 700 megawatts of wind by the end of 2020, and has lined up two projects it hopes to acquire by year’s end, at a cost of about $1.2

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Compared to the first nine months of 2020, new solar capacity additions are 38.28% higher while those from wind are 34.19% higher. Most of the balance was provided by natural gas (2,327 MW) coupled with very small contributions from oil (19 MW) and coal (11 MW). By comparison, net growth for natural gas will be only 14,535 MW.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Since 2005, Evergy has reduced the share of coal-fired power in its 6.2-gigawatt gigawatt generation fleet from 52 percent to 40 percent, while reducing natural gas and oil from 38 percent to 26 percent. gigawatts of nameplate capacity as of 2020. Missouri’s RPS demands only 15 percent renewables by 2021.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 23, 2020

gigawatts of new resources by 2023 to help make up for the capacity to be lost from the pending closure of natural-gas-fired power plants along Southern California’s coast. megawatt/730-megawatt-hour project from Tesla being built near a natural-gas plant in the Monterey County community of Moss Landing.

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R-Squared Energy

JULY 26, 2021

Earlier this month the BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2o21 was released, covering energy data through 2020. However, the Covid-19 pandemic really upended the energy markets in 2020, and we shouldn’t extrapolate some of these trends. of the world’s primary energy consumption in 2020. In 2020, the world consumed 88.5

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R-Squared Energy

MAY 4, 2021

Hydrogen gas is reactive, and thus there do not exist deposits of hydrogen that can be exploited. In this process, natural gas is reacted with steam at an elevated temperature to produce carbon monoxide and hydrogen (which is synthesis gas, or simply syngas). The Nuclear Option. That means scalable options.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 27, 2020

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. its Southern Power competitive power arm which owns about 12.8

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R-Squared Energy

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Last month the Akademik Lomonosov, a first-of-its-kind floating nuclear plant built by Russian state nuclear energy corporation, Rosatom, arrived at Pevek, a port town on the remote Chukotka Peninsula in the Russian Arctic. There, the plant is expected to provide power to about 100,000 homes. No Free Lunch.

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R-Squared Energy

JULY 13, 2022

Energy consumption and production dramatically dropped in 2020, but since then demand has rebounded. This represented the fastest energy consumption growth since the early 1970s, and is a reflection of strong global demand bouncing back from 2020’s Covid-19 energy consumption decline. from 2020, but is still 3.7% Natural Gas.

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R-Squared Energy

JUNE 28, 2020

This week BP released its Statistical Review of World Energy 2020. Natural gas contributed the second largest increment with 36% of the increase. The remainder of global energy consumption came from coal (27%), natural gas (24%), hydropower (6%), renewables (5%), and nuclear power (4%).

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 19, 2020

Pacific Gas & Electric has asked California regulators to approve seven battery projects totaling 423 megawatts, or nearly 1.7 gigawatts of carbon-free resources to help meet grid reliability needs that will arise when four natural gas-fired power plants retire next year to reduce their environmental harm to coastal waters.

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R-Squared Energy

AUGUST 14, 2022

Previous articles covered overall energy consumption , carbon dioxide emissions , petroleum supply and demand, and global natural gas trends. Coal contains a higher percentage of carbon than does oil or natural gas. Coal also produces a lot of other harmful emissions when burned in power plants.

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R-Squared Energy

AUGUST 22, 2021

Previous articles provided an overview of this year’s Review, an examination of the data on carbon emissions, a look at oil supply and demand trends, and an examination of natural gas trends. Coal contains a higher percentage of carbon than does oil or natural gas. 2020 Consumption and Production Statistics.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 1, 2021

The single week’s bill was more than twice as high as the $774 million that Brazos paid for power in 2020, he stated. It also froze up sensors and cooling systems that forced natural gas, coal and nuclear power plants to trip offline.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 6, 2021

California and other states are pushing to use clean electricity to power vehicles and buildings to cut carbon, which will increase demand. And the state’s last nuclear power plant and numerous coastal gas power plants are facing retirement. But rising temperatures from climate change are just one challenge.

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Energy Information Administration During the previous century, the use of oil and natural gas steadily increased. Nuclear power began to ramp up in the mid-1960s. However, that decline is largely a result of natural gas displacing coal at power plants, with the rise of renewable energy making a secondary contribution.

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Clean Energy Canada

JULY 2, 2020

Currently, the majority of hydrogen around the world is produced from fossil fuels (76% from natural gas, 23% from coal). Hydrogen from other non-emitting sources—such as nuclear power—does not currently have an established colour designation. Companies include: Ballard Power Systems in Burnaby, B.C.,

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

gigawatt "all-source" procurement that will pit new renewables, energy storage, demand response and other clean resources against natural gas-fired power plants in a race to meet what could be a major shortfall in grid capacity in the next four years. The all-source procurement is technically open to existing natural gas plants.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Oil and gas companies have for years marketed fracked gas from B.C. But an impending flood of liquefied natural gas exports from western Canada to Asia could make it harder for countries there to achieve their national climate targets and contribute to tens of thousands of additional deaths due to air pollution.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Xcel filed its wind plan with the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission in September and expects approval by year’s end, CEO Ben Fowke said during the company’s third-quarter 2020 earnings conference call. If approved, the investments are expected to save customers more than $160 million over the life of the assets, he said.

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R-Squared Energy

JULY 27, 2020

This article is the fourth in a series on the BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2020. Previous articles covered overall energy consumption , petroleum supply and demand, and natural gas. Coal contains a higher percentage of carbon than does oil or natural gas. The dramatic decline in U.S.

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Renewables-Info

OCTOBER 21, 2020

electrical generating capacity additions in the first eight months of 2020. FERC's latest monthly "Energy Infrastructure Update" report (with data through August 31, 2020) also reveals that natural gas accounted for 36.5% (6,029 MW) of the total, with very small contributions by coal (20 MW) and "other" sources (5 MW) providing the balance.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 14, 2020

The all-electric scenario also requires 190 gigawatts of new nuclear capacity to complement 1.1 The trouble is that the prospects for new nuclear in Europe are not good. Afry’s model anticipates there would have to be 25 terawatt-hours of hydrogen combined-cycle gas turbine generation a year by 2050.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 29, 2020

Shell's much-discussed Sky scenario from 2018, which charts a path to meeting the goals of the Paris Agreement, forecasts nuclear and fossil fuels each accounting for roughly 11 percent of Europe's mix in 2050.

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Clean Energy Canada

MARCH 25, 2024

Japan’s LNG imports, for one, have steadily declined over the last decade and fallen to their lowest level in 14 years as the country restarts nuclear power plants and builds out renewables. s LNG industry is the question of where the electricity will come from to power new projects. Many of B.C.’s As for whether B.C.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Arizona Public Service promised in January to reach zero-carbon energy by 2050 , with interim 2030 goals to exit its remaining coal-fired power plants and reach 65 percent clean electricity, including 45 percent renewable energy and carbon-free power from its Palo Verde nuclear power plant.

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R-Squared Energy

AUGUST 26, 2022

Previous articles were: Wind And Solar Provided A Record 10% Of The World’s Power Generation In 2021. Natural Gas Production Set A New Record In 2021. From 2020 to 2021, global renewable energy consumption grew by a whopping 15%. Why The U.S. Alone Can’t Curb The World’s Carbon Dioxide Emissions.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 17, 2020

Many more long-term challenges await PG&E, such as adapting to large portions of its customer base being served by community choice aggregators (CCAs), or its natural gas network being rendered obsolete by the state’s zero carbon by 2045 mandate. Of course, the same dynamic can work in reverse.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2022

In December 2021, after months of lobbying, strong pushback from pro-gas and pro-nuclear supporters, and informal alliances between governments, the Commission asked the Platform on Sustainable Finance to provide feedback on a draft amendment that included gas and nuclear in the taxonomy, thereby recognizing them as sustainable.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 27, 2020

NuScale's situation underscores the challenges facing small modular reactor (SMR) companies developing a new generation of nuclear power plants. SMRs could provide zero-carbon power for U.S. Others include Hyperion Power Generation and Terrestrial Energy. And while the Department of Energy has issued a $1.36

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Business Green

DECEMBER 24, 2021

The company recorded profits of $2.74bn in 2020, with many new projects in the pipeline in the coming decade - including large developments in solar power, onshore wind and green hydrogen. "I France built nuclear power. Even in the 2000s, Denmark remained dependent on its fruitful offshore oil and gas reserves.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

The California Public Utilities Commission is in the midst of rewriting the rule s for how utilities, CCAs and other load-serving entities meet their Resource Adequacy requirements, which is mostly provided by natural-gas-fired peaker plants today. Can SGIP-backed projects for high fire-threat zones be included? Yes, according to Ross.

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

He didn’t mention nuclear power or carbon sequestration in this speech, but his website does mention them among four specific goals designed to decarbonize the power sector. The power generated last year from coal and natural gas was respectively 1,054 TWh and 1,700 TWh. The current U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 20, 2021

Despite market turbulence brought by the coronavirus pandemic, 2020 proved to be a formative year for India’s clean energy transition. In June 2020, Prime Minister Modi launched an auction process to open 41 coal mines to commercial mining for the first time. This is the final piece in a three-part series.

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Business Green

AUGUST 16, 2021

Earlier this month, government figures confirmed that renewables ousted fossil fuels as the dominant source of power on Britain's grid for the first time ever in 2020, supplying 38 per cent of the island's power.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 14, 2020

To describe autumn 2020 as a busy period for green economy policy in the UK would be an understatement. Blue hydrogen produced by steam reforming natural gas with CCUS, green hydrogen produced by electrolysis of water by renewable energy, and biomass gasification with CCUS will all be considered.

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Climate Tech VC

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

In each of these grids every solar module, natural gas, and nuclear power plant is synchronized to generate energy at exactly 60 Hz. Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) estimated that the total value of ancillary services in the United States was around $10B in 2020.

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