GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 14, 2020

government’s long-awaited energy white paper is out with confirmation of fresh negotiations with EDF over a new nuclear power station and a drive to push up the price of carbon. carbon trading to begin next year. plans to slash the volume of allowances being traded by 5 percent to drive demand.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 19, 2024

Ahead of her keynote address to the Water Industry Forum on 25 September, Sharon Darcy, chair of the Linear Infrastructure Planning Panel, says competing demands with other sectors over allocation of resources means a collaborative approach is vital.

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Resilience Ethics Transportation Demand 147

AutoGrid

MARCH 30, 2022

How VPPs Reduce Both Costs and Emission in Meeting Peak Demands. Traditional peaking plants have been relied upon for decades to prop up regional power systems during spikes in demand throughout the U.S. combustion turbines burning natural gas or oil meet most of the peak power demands. By Peter Asmus. What are the alternatives?

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Clean Energy Canada

MAY 18, 2023

But the federal government isn’t yet taking full advantage of this opportunity, a new white paper finds. Accordingly, as jurisdictions look to cut climate pollution, demand for cleaner industrial products is on the rise. The steel, cement, and chemicals sectors account for 70% of these emissions.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 7, 2021

The planned timeline for ending coal power generation in Germany could cause the country significant challenges as it battles to meet future electricity demand. That’s a key conclusion from a new white paper on Germany’s coal phase-out plans by energy market data analyst EnAppSys.

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Business Green

MAY 19, 2021

Nuclear Industry Association (NIA), RenewableUK and Solar Energy UK team up to demand clearer, ambitious clean energy goals. However, today the UK's main clean energy trade bodies warned that an acceleration in clean power capacity deployment is required if emissions goals and rising demand for electricity is to be met.

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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 12, 2023

Heavy industry represents one of Canada’s biggest sources of carbon. The chemicals and fertilizers sector – which produces many things we use every day including pharmaceuticals and food – emits almost as much carbon as steel and cement combined. Since 2000, demand has outstripped that of other heavy industries.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

Renewable energy is in demand like never before. Businesses of all sizes are prioritising carbon reduction and environmental responsibility, driven both by government targets and by demand from customers for more sustainable products and services. Growing demand for carbon-free energy.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 10, 2022

Billions of pounds in household energy savings are at risk due to inefficient use of the grid, a new white paper by smart energy specialist geo and heating manufacturer Vaillant finds. Turning down demand is known as demand-side response (DSR). billion) per year reduction in costs and reduced carbon intensity.

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Energy Energy Demand Electric vehicle 59

AutoGrid

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Put simply, a VPP is an aggregated network of distributed energy resources (DERs) that can be remotely controlled and operated to balance the supply and demand of electricity on the grid. A bit complex for a 9-year-old, but solving this need is critical as electricity supply and demand have become extremely complex and much harder to manage.

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Demand Climate change Cooling Energy 89

Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Two years ago, the Chief Sustainability Officer (CSO) of a global bank embarked on their nature journey, assuming it would follow the same path as tackling carbon. After all, if they could gain C-suite buy-in for decarbonization and address investors’ demands on stranded fossil fuel assets, how difficult could bugs and bunnies be?

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Biodiversity Fossil fuels Climate change Technology 94

ThinkGeoEnergy

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Some 200 participants came together in Budapest, Hungary for the second edition of the Budapest Geothermal Energy Summit , organized by White Paper Consulting. Geothermal energy can be part of the solution, Mr Kapes suggested, as part of a diversified strategy that adds more renewables into the total energy mix.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 1, 2021

Through its ChargeForward program, Langton’s team at BMW has shown that charging can be aligned to off-peak hours — reducing strain on the grid — and even times when renewable energy is most abundant — reducing the carbon footprint of charging. Shifting vehicle charging times can do a lot to level out supply and demand on the grid.

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Business Green

AUGUST 30, 2020

That is the conclusion of independent research released today by Imperial College London and energy firm Drax, which saw experts assess the tumultuous impact of the coronavirus crisis on Britain's electricity system from April to June 2020, a period characterised by near historically low levels of demand for power.

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Nuclear Power Demand Fossil fuels Electricity 99

Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 30, 2021

Sustainable low-carbon energy is needed and fusion can help meet this demand. Fusion energy is an area of national and international priority and has been explicitly identified in Government’s Ten Point Plan for a Green Industrial Revolution, and in the December 2020 Energy White Paper.

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AutoGrid

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Its electricity demand reached an all-time demand peak of 223 gigawatts (GW) this past June, and projections indicate it could hit 340 GW by the decade’s end. To put that into perspective, the electricity demand for Germany in 2022 was 200 GW. Asset Diversity: As is the case in the U.S.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Ahead of tomorrow's Net Zero Festival, Toby Hill explores how carbon offset standards are evolving in a bid to assure clients and campaigners that promised carbon savings can be delivered. To find out more about the role of carbon offsets in the net zero transition, sign up now for a free pass to tomorrow's Net Zero Festival.

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Business Green

JULY 1, 2022

WWF predicts a 40 per cent gap between the global water supply and demand by 2030, and climate change is likely to increase water shortages and competition. It's a strategy similar to the policy of setting internal carbon pricing to account for the "cost" of carbon emissions as part of a product or service.

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Carbon Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 69

Business Green

MARCH 8, 2020

The Treasury should set in stone a new fiscal rule for an annually-increasing carbon price in the UK, argues SSE chief executive Alistair Phillips-Davies. Ahead of COP26 in Glasgow I think it's imperative the Treasury installs a new fiscal rule: the need for an annually increasing carbon price.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 7, 2021

At the same time, advanced voltage control systems, such as ENW’s CLASS project , are working to provide demand response and fast frequency response functions. And you're at the same time trying to contract flexibility services from consumers and aggregators to manage the load demand on the distribution network," he said.

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Carbon-negative Demand Nuclear Power Investment 130

Business Green

OCTOBER 28, 2021

But the Clean Creatives campaign argues the Ad Net Zero approach puts the sector out of joint with the "other major industries" that account for their products' carbon footprint, arguing the sector's decision to leave out its client work from its climate accounting amounted a to a "6.74 billion tonne loophole".

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Fossil fuels Demand Carbon Sustainability 61

Business Green

DECEMBER 22, 2020

That's even before you include the PM's pledge to set a new 2030 carbon reduction target of 68 per cent below 1990 levels, and last week's Climate Ambition Summit, which saw the UK government outline its plans to end financial support for fossil fuels overseas. And finally to the Energy White Paper.

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Business Green

JANUARY 28, 2021

It could also be accompanied by action on skilling up, with the government's Green Jobs Taskforce set to report soon, and building on the recent Skills for Jobs White Paper to tool up a generation of engineers, assessors and technicians. But grants are not the only way of incentivising home upgrades.

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Government Hydrogen Fossil fuels Carbon-neutral 90

GreenBiz

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Meanwhile, consumers increasingly are demanding responsible products, and attention to sustainability issues has become an employee expectation. Many investors evaluate nonfinancial performance based on corporate disclosures, with most finding value in assurance of the strength of an organization’s planning for climate and other ESG risks.

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Sustainability Earth Day Investment Demand 422

Planet Pulse

JANUARY 23, 2024

We are expanding this portfolio with a white paper guide to help navigate new sustainability reporting demands around nature-related impacts and dependencies – Accelerating Biodiversity and Ecosystem Reporting , written in collaboration with Microsoft, the Natural Capital Project, and the Gund Institute at the University of Vermont.

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Biodiversity Sustainability Carbon-neutral Lithium 113

GreenTechMedia

APRIL 23, 2020

Google’s highly ambitious goal to power all its data centers with clean energy on a 24/7 basis could get a boost from an in-house experiment that shifts server computing loads with the carbon intensity of the grid — if it can be scaled up across its global data center fleet.

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Energy Energy Fossil fuels Carbon 130

Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The first report, ABB’s digitalisation white paper, See the potential of digital faster , provides an overview of where industrial organisations are in their digitalisation journey and how they can scale the adoption of Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) technology. go.abb/electrification.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

GW of new long duration pumped hydro storage, with 90 GWh of storage, could save up to £690 million per year in energy system costs by 2050, as the UK transitions to a net-zero carbon emission system. A new study by independent researchers from Imperial College London has found that just 4.5

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Having consistently highlighted this Standard as the centrepiece of its plans to decarbonise new housing over recent months - not least in the recent Planning White Paper - the pressure was certainly on the government for this announcement to deliver. All eyes will now be on the response to the Planning White Paper.

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Government Carbon Policy Demand 83

Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 4, 2022

The business runs on 100% renewable energy , contributes to green causes, works to reduce their carbon footprint by lowering greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs), and efficiently minimizes the energy they use. Data centers are notorious for their high carbon footprint. For instance, the average web page produces ~0.5g CO 2 per page view.

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Business Green

JUNE 16, 2022

The Government's recent Food Strategy white paper represents a missed opportunity and does not go far enough to realise the potential that plant-based foods offer. The government intends to make funding available to farmers, to support the transition to low carbon farming practices.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Every car, van, replacement boiler, and the entire electricity grid must be zero carbon by the early 2030s, it said, and the economy as a whole must prepare to deliver deep decarbonisation at a pace that until recently had been expected to take an additional 15 years. He added such an approach was "really essential to meet the Paris goal".

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Carbon Policy Government Investment 87

Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The first report, ABB’s digitalization white paper See the full potential of digital, faster provides an overview of where industrial organizations are in their digitalization journey and how they can scale the adoption of IIoT.

Building Energy Monitoring 124

Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Organic 124

Clean Energy Canada

JUNE 5, 2023

In response, many of our G7 peers are pouring billions into cutting carbon from their heavy industries. As global net-zero commitments mount, demand for cleaner products is increasing. Budget 2023 included investment tax credits for carbon capture and clean hydrogen.

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Hydrogen Carbon Government Investment 52

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

A new report argues that with demand for clean hydrogen set to boom, the nascent mocular reactor industry could have a key role to play in meeting surging demand.

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Nuclear Power Hydrogen Fossil fuels Natural gas 95

Business Green

JULY 28, 2020

The sector has seen a 45 per cent reduction in current demand and signs of a protracted downturn and slow recovery. The impact was swift and extensive and we most likely have not seen the full extent of it as customers will have built up their stock during the lockdown, which will depress future demand.

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Investment Hydrogen Policy Carbon 65

Business Green

MARCH 19, 2021

Oil major announces intention to build major hydrogen plant just days after government grants funding for carbon transportation and storage network in region. Roughly two million tonnes of carbon dioxide emitted during the production process will be captured and sent for storage from the project annually by 2030, it added.

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Hydrogen Fossil fuels Carbon-neutral Transportation 66