BloombergNEF

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Emerging markets outside China are projected to need to more than double their yearly investments in energy transition to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050. The post Net Zero Hinges on Emerging Markets Outside China More Than Doubling Annual Energy Investment appeared first on BloombergNEF.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

MARCH 4, 2025

Positioned close to the SuedLink high-voltage direct current grid connection, the plant will leverage renewable wind power from northern Germany and offshore installations as a primary energy source. This versatility makes hydrogen one of the most valuable tools for meeting Europes ambitious carbon neutrality targets by 2050.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

On Friday, the 1-million-customer utility, formed last year by the merger of Westar Energy and Kansas City Power & Light parent company Great Plains Energy, announced plans to cut carbon emission by 80 percent from 2005 levels by 2050. gigawatts of nameplate capacity as of 2020. Similarly, Xcel Energy, which serves about 3.3

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 30, 2020

Arizona Public Service released its plan for reaching zero-carbon by 2050 , with multiple options to balance the costs and carbon benefits of switching from coal and natural gas to renewables, batteries, distributed energy resources and as-yet-untested technologies.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 15, 2021

Countries around the world need to urgently scale up deployment of wind power in order to address the climate emergency, insists the Global Wind Coalition for COP26, which officially launches today (15 June) on Global Wind Day. Image credit: Robert Couse-Baker , CC BY 2.0 Are You In? “We

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

In its most recent conference call with investors, CEO Bernard Looney hinted that hydrogen and offshore wind progress was imminent. By 2030 BP hopes to have 10 percent of the clean hydrogen market in “core hydrogen markets” as it chases carbon neutrality by 2050. The German utilities E.ON

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 18, 2023

No matter the size of the wind farm, operators can make turbines into smart machines with one small change, as Greg Hookings, Director (Digital Industries), Stratus Technologies , explains. In 2022, wind electricity generation increased by a record 14% (265 terawatt hours), second only to solar.

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Charged

JANUARY 5, 2021

The plan is part of the state’s 2050 Decarbonization Road Map , which also calls for retrofitting 1 million homes with electric heating, cutting commuters’ driving miles by 15 percent, and dramatically increasing offshore wind power generation.

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The Guardian: Energy

APRIL 17, 2024

of the world’s electricity is generated by wind. By 2050 this could rise to more than a third Where in the world does the wind most reliably blow, and where is it fickle in nature? of the world’s electricity is now generated by wind, and by 2050 this could rise to more than a third. About 6.5% About 6.5%

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Duke Energy’s newly formed Sustainable Solutions unit, merged from several entities only months ago, is building a 207-MW wind power project in Iowa. The non-regulated commercial brand of Duke was formed with the combination of several previous units, including REC Solar, Duke Energy Renewables Wind, and other subsidiaries.

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Renew Economy

MAY 22, 2023

BNEF report finds Australia would need a massive total of 812GW of mostly onshore solar and wind power by 2050 to export green hydrogen and meet its climate targets. The post Australia’s green hydrogen export dream could require 812GW of wind and solar appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 12, 2022

Over the next decade battery storage will need to increase to address stability and flexibility requirements in the energy market, this is driven by significant changes to the technological make-up of the system including the increase in intermittent energy sources such as solar and wind power.

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Forbes Green Tech

MARCH 25, 2021

The wind industry recorded its strongest year with a record 93GW of new capacity in 2020. Yet GWEC believes growth must triple over this next decade to have a chance at achieving 2050 net zero goals.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

McKinsey estimates that global power consumption will triple by 2050. Weather forecasting models powered by HPC accurately predict renewable energy generation potential, helping utilities optimise the integration of solar and wind power into the grid.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

It’s aiming to be net-zero across its own emissions (scope 1 & 2) by 2050. It hopes to achieve net-zero status for scope 3 emissions — those generated by the use of its products — in Europe only by 2050. Total’s power business scales up.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 20, 2020

They will increase the voltage of power and convert it to direct current so it can be transmitted efficiently over long distances, acting like routers on a large meshed grid. Existing voltage source converter technology can handle up to 900 megawatts of offshore wind power on a single 800-million-euro ($949 million) platform.

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Business Green

JULY 20, 2021

Global climate goals at risk without more ambitious support for wind power from G20 countries, CEOs warn. global warming pathway", and current growth forecasts for wind power installations are far below what is needed for a 1.5C At present, however "the world is spinning towards a 2.4C

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 29, 2020

The EU wants to become a net-zero emitter of greenhouse gases by 2050. The EU's own new strategy for decarbonizing its energy system draws largely from European Commission projections from 2018, predicting that in 2050 more than 80 percent of the electricity supply will come from renewables and 15 percent from nuclear.

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Clean Energy Canada

JUNE 20, 2023

By adopting the International Energy Agency’s key assumptions for such a scenario, in particular the price of oil and gas in a world that achieves net-zero emissions by 2050, Canada can have a more serious, informed conversation about what opportunities and challenges lie ahead—and how to plan for them. “On

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 6, 2020

“Our seas hold immense potential to power our homes and communities with low-cost green energy and we are already leading the way in harnessing its strengths,” Johnson said, adding that every home in the country will be offshore wind-powered by 2030. “Now, as we build back better we must build back greener.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Europe is still plotting the course towards being net-zero by 2050, but no matter the shape it takes, it will surely involve hundreds of gigawatts of new renewable power capacity. By the end of 2019, the total tally (plus the U.K.) was 22 GW with 3.6 GW installed during 2019, indicating the ramp-up required to meet that goal.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 10, 2020

That leaves a massive gap to be filled by clean energy, since more than half of the state’s carbon-free emissions today come from nuclear power, as shown in the chart below. Larger-scale transmission projects aimed at carrying Canadian hydropower and wind power downstate, such as the $2.2 Source: NYISO.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 13, 2021

A young Danish researcher has seemingly succeeded in developing a technology that will reduce the costs of getting wind power into the tanks of heavy-duty vehicles by approximately 15 percent. According to the European Commission, pure hydrogen is estimated to cover 24 percent of the world’s energy needs by 2050.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The group said that current growth rates of wind energy installations are falling behind net-zero goals -- a pace that puts the world on track for 43% of the wind required by 2050, based on projections by the International Energy Agency and the International Renewable Energy Agency.

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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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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Virginia has inked a 420-megawatt solar and wind power contract, the largest single procurement of renewable energy to power U.S. Thursday’s deal with utility Dominion Virginia includes 75 megawatts of onshore wind power from Apex Clean Energy and 345 megawatts of solar projects.

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Business Green

JANUARY 20, 2021

Offshore wind giant confirms final investment decision for trailblazing H2RES project, as it looks to deliver first green hydrogen in late 2021.

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Defend Our Future

MAY 28, 2019

We need to stop adding climate pollution to the atmosphere by 2050 — producing no more than we can remove. Wind power is almost 70% cheaper. The United States can address this great challenge by moving to a 100% clean economy. Transforming to 100% clean means shifting the country away from polluting sources of energy.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Hydrogen Economy” report forecasts that hydrogen from low-carbon sources could supply roughly 14 percent of the country’s energy needs by 2050, including hard-to-electrify sectors now dependent on natural gas such as high-heat industrial processes or manufacturing fertilizer. million jobs by 2050, it states.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 10, 2019

The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities approved new solar incentives late last week, laying out the transition credit that will bridge the state's move from generous incentives to more moderate ones as it works to reach 100 percent clean energy by 2050. In June, New Jersey unveiled its draft plan for 100 percent clean energy by 2050.

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Business Green

APRIL 5, 2022

The global wind industry has shown impressive resilience through the COVID-19 pandemic, but growth rates still need to quadruple by 2030 if the sector is to play a full role in keeping the Paris Agreement's 1.5C per cent less than the year-over-year wind energy growth rate in 2020. temperature goal "alive".

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Moreover, a ‘grid delay case’ developed for the report suggests that with slower uptake of renewables and higher fossil fuel use, the cumulative CO2 emissions from the power sector to 2050 would be 58Gt higher than a scenario aligned with national climate targets. o C, with a 40% chance of exceeding 2 o C.

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Global Renewable News

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

With lots of solar and wind power, energy storage, and advanced extreme weather impact modeling, Puerto Rico could achieve a 100% renewable power grid by 2050. These and other recommendations are the.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Shell-owned energy tech company Limejump has secured a contract to trade the electricity produced by Scotland's first subsidy-free wind farm, it announced yesterday. The project is currently under development, consisting of 10 turbines which are expected to provide enough power to supply almost 45,000 homes.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Offshore wind is a key component of New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy’s Energy Master Plan to achieve 100 percent clean energy by 2050. To that end, the state is committing to investing more than $150 billion to produce 7,500 MW of offshore wind power capacity by 2035.

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 5, 2022

Appalachian Power said it wants to acquire or contract for 294 MW of solar and 204 MW of wind power over the next three years as part of its plan to meet targets set in 2020 by the Virginia Clean Economy Act (VCEA). The plan filed with the SCC is the company’s second update since the VCEA became law.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 29, 2020

A request for information (RFI) released this week is the opening step toward meeting CPS’ “ Flexible Path ” plan, which calls for an 80 percent non-carbon-emitting energy portfolio by 2040 and reaching net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. They are among a growing number of U.S.

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