Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

In a bid to support Irish grid stability, Electricity Supply Board (ESB) has opened a major battery plant at its Poolbeg site in Dublin, which will add 75MW/150MWh of fast-acting energy storage. No electricity system can operate without a backup. In Ireland this has traditionally been provided by fossil fuel generation.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The global energy landscape is on the cusp of transformational changes as the migration to clean power gathers pace. With world leaders about to gather in Dubai, United Arab Emirates for the COP 28 climate summit, the transition to green energy will be one of the key topics on the agenda.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Power grids globally must be upgraded by 2040 to keep the lights on. And while these upgrades will likely cost trillions, virtual power plants (VPPs), writes Autogrid’s Gisela Glandt , can curb these costs to the tune of $10B annually. Have you read?

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Business Green

MARCH 4, 2021

Package delivery giant and airline operator FedEx has announced it plans to achieve 'carbon neutrality' across its operations within the next 20 years through investments in electrification, sustainable fuels, energy efficiency, and carbon capture systems. FedEx CEO and chairman Frederick W.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 22, 2021

companies, including Walmart, Amazon, and Microsoft, employ lobbyists that also do work for the oil and gas industry, according to new research into state lobbying data. The behavior is rampant across the insurance, health care, retail, and tech industries. Many of the largest U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 22, 2024

The BBC has produced dozens of films and articles for oil and gas companies, agricultural giants, fossil fuel states, and high-emission transport firms in recent years, DeSmog can reveal. Petrostates with a history of human rights abuses – including the imprisonment of journalists – have also been promoted by BBC StoryWorks.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Prospects for carbon capture received a boost in September when the International Energy Agency (IEA) said the emerging technology is “ critical ” to a clean-energy transition. CCUS could go a step further by using sequestered carbon as a feedstock for industrial processes or synthetic fuels.

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Business Green

JULY 2, 2020

Companies planning to build new coal-fired power plants will no longer be able to get financing from BNP Paribas, following the banking giant's introduction of a string of new policies aimed at eliminating its exposure to coal-fired electricity projects.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

If the Paris Agreement is anything to go by, the impact of the agreement is set to soon ripple through the real economy, as the private and public sector work together to bring entire industries and economies in to line with its goals. Fossil fuels get named and shamed. Polluters have been put on notice.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 14, 2020

After several delays spanning at least a year, the government has finally unveiled vision for a future net zero energy system - here are the eight things you need to know about the long-awaited Energy White Paper. To describe autumn 2020 as a busy period for green economy policy in the UK would be an understatement.

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AutoGrid

OCTOBER 18, 2023

With a power grid that has been notoriously unreliable in the past, India’s goal to transform formerly passive consumers into prosumers would seem an uphill battle. The stakes are particularly high because India is the world’s third largest energy consumer.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 22, 2021

So what is the energy sector doing to address this? Despite further investment in renewable energy, fossil fuel usage is still increasing, and it’s expected that fossil fuels will remain the dominant form of energy by the end of this century. CCS and the rise of the engineer.

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Business Green

JULY 3, 2020

Shell and BP are writing down assets while a raft of US fracking firms are entering bankruptcy protection – change is coming to the fossil fuel industry faster than anyone expected. A consensus is building that more write downs are on the way - potentially a lot more. The stranded asset hypothesis just got real.

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Business Green

JULY 20, 2021

Managed by a team across its real assets platform, the fund aims to deliver a net annual return of approximately eight per cent over a rolling five-year period, while also targeting net zero by 2040 or sooner. This will include installation of ground source heat pumps and solar and thermal energy supplies.

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Bidgely

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Each year Engage brings together utility industry leaders to share new ideas about how data and AI are transforming operations across the enterprise — from customer engagement to grid management. That understanding is what led the electric company to develop its smart grid test bed. “

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Business Green

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Critics, meanwhile, have been quick to point out that the plan is thin on details around how the government intends to scale up energy efficiency improvements, boost green skills, decarbonise heavy industry, and encourage people to embrace lower carbon diets. The power sector. Heat and Buildings Strategy.

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Business Green

AUGUST 7, 2020

The study drew on data from 123 countries that together account for 99 per cent of fossil fuel emissions. In contrast, with an economic recovery tilted towards green stimulus and reductions in fossil fuel investments, it is possible to avoid future warming of 0.3C warming target at the heart of the Paris Agreement.

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Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 30, 2021

A technical, environmental and economical evaluation from a shipowner’s perspective by Gilles Hagen Summary - This thesis performs a technical, economical and environmental feasibility study of dense hydrogen carriers as a fuel to power the largest semi-submersible offshore crane vessel in the world – Heerema’s Sleipnir.

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Business Green

MARCH 8, 2020

The Budget on Wednesday will be the first real test of this government's commitment on climate and it needs to drive momentum in the decarbonisation of electricity, heat and transport or it will set us up for a failure on the world stage. This Budget is a real opportunity to show leadership on carbon pricing.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 13, 2021

However, while on the surface it may appear to be a positive shift towards lowering the greenhouse gas impact of their projects, the rhetoric about carbon-neutral LNG is mostly hollow, in another attempt to greenwash new fossil fuel projects into existence. Thames is a former executive at Cheniere Energy, a prominent U.S.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Proposed Rule 2305, recently released by the District in discussion draft form, would establish the Warehouse Actions and Investments to Reduce Emissions (WAIRE) Program — which would apply to owners and operators of warehouses located in the South Coast Air Basin (Basin) with greater than 100,000 square feet of indoor space in a single building.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Proposed Rule 2305, recently released by the District in discussion draft form, would establish the Warehouse Actions and Investments to Reduce Emissions (WAIRE) Program — which would apply to owners and operators of warehouses located in the South Coast Air Basin (Basin) with greater than 100,000 square feet of indoor space in a single building.

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AutoGrid

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

In the era of ambitious environmental initiatives such as the Fit for 55 , RePower EU , and the Green Deal Industrial Plan , the European Commission remains resolute in its pursuit of net-zero emissions by 2050. DER Initiatives Across Europe Across Europe, individual countries are strategically advancing their energy objectives.

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Business Green

JULY 1, 2022

Iceland's start-up community is looking to go global with its efforts to bolster the clean energy transition. The island nation has adopted an incredible goal of being fossil fuel-free by 2040 , which would be a global first. Icewind: Energy for extreme conditions. Greetings from Iceland!

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2023

It it is also clear that more investment is required, particularly in clean tech R&D, and - crucially - that far more transparency is needed around net zero policies to help build public support for the agenda and spur greener consumer behaviours.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Th announcement follows the final consultation paper that the Green Finance and Industry Taskforce released in February 2023. The Taxonomy utilises a “transition” category, acknowledging the unique challenges and needs of Asia’s shift towards a net zero economy amidst economic growth and increasing energy demands.

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Business Green

JUNE 2, 2020

The dramatic decline in demand for oil products as lockdown measures kicked in around the world has brutally exposed the dangers of making fossil fuels the global economy's most influential commodity. The UK's Green Building Council has called for all buildings and infrastructure to be made climate resilient by 2030.

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Business Green

JANUARY 15, 2023

Powers, vice president for global cleantech and renewables at Schneider Electric, who explores how public-private sector collaboration can help unshackle the surging demand for renewable energy. If a company has a lot of activity in Asia Pacific markets, for instance, they won't have a choice of where their power is coming from.

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GreenBiz

MAY 27, 2021

Remember how the nation mobilized seemingly overnight for the Allied Powers 80 years ago? homes have a gas meter, feeding water heaters, cooking appliances and so on. "So Electrified technologies are already well understood and many are widely available to consumers, such as electric stovetops and heat pumps, Griffith noted.

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Climate Tech VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

  KoBold Metals discovered a major copper deposit, which could be the start to solving growing supply and demand imbalances brought on by copper’s fundamental role in the energy transition.  Demand The most critical of energy transition minerals.   Demand is on the rise.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Green , and James Bee On 29 January 2025, the European Commission (the Commission) launched the Competitiveness Compass, a strategic initiative that builds on the work undertaken by Mario Draghi. The Competitiveness Compass underscores the EUs perceived need to address the increasing threats posed by climate change and extreme weather events.

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Business Green

APRIL 5, 2022

Industrial group Johnson Matthey has secured a $400m sustainability-linked loan backed by the UK government that will enable it to boost research and development (R&D) of hydrogen technologies that can enable decarbonisation. This will make for a healthier, wealthier future for the UK while protecting the planet. ".

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The LME is the world's oldest and largest industrial metals exchange - BusinessGreen investigates how it is preparing for the battery metal goldrush and responding to calls for a more sustainable metals industry. We're trying to support the metals industry in establishing itself as the cornerstone of sustainability," she says.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

“The math doesn’t yet add up,” the report finds, citing “significant gaps” between the decarbonization targets of major utilities and their current plans for retiring fossil-fuel plants. utilities such as Duke Energy , Dominion Energy , Southern Company and Xcel Energy.

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Business Green

APRIL 18, 2022

Despite the (slow) migration to electric-powered cars, consumer trends are making driving even more wasteful and unequal. A recent analysis found the emissions saved from electric cars have been more than cancelled out by the increase in gas-guzzling Sport Utility Vehicles (SUVs). Reducing car use in cities.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 29, 2022

The push to sell “blue hydrogen” as a clean energy fuel — which experts have called a misleading rebrand of fossil fuels — hit another setback this month. Climate provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 are bringing new economic headwinds to the gas-derived hydrogen fuel’s prospects.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

Each of these individuals is playing the long game and is in a strong position to move their companies and industries into what could be a more hopeful period of reconciliation, recovery and repair. Most support science-based targets and sit on multiple boards, collaborations and advocacy groups to further industry-level sustainability goals.

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