Smart Energy International

JUNE 7, 2024

In this week’s edition of Smart Energy’s Power Playbook, Yusuf Latief reports on an investment update from the International Energy Agency (IEA) which has found that of the total $3 trillion expected to be invested in energy, the lion’s share will go into renewables and the power grid, surpassing fossil fuels.

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The Guardian: Energy

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Fatih Birol, head of International Energy Agency, says countries planning expansion are ‘misjudging market trends’ Countries and companies planning to expand their fossil fuel production are taking “very unhealthy and unwise economic risks” as their investments may not be profitable, the world’s foremost energy adviser has warned.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2024

The UK government’s move to award £22 billion in subsidies to carbon capture projects followed a sharp increase in lobbying by the fossil fuel industry, DeSmog can reveal. Others engaging regularly with ministers on CCS policy include heavy manufacturing companies, CCS technology firms, lobby groups, and investment funds.

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Business Green

JUNE 17, 2022

University of Oxford academics argue investments in fossil fuels in response to energy crunch will have a smaller economic and energy security impact than those in energy efficiency and clean energy infrastructure. Gas investment can be significantly slower.". Energy efficiency and green energy measures are much faster.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Major fossil fuel firms have committed tens of millions in finance to UK universities since 2022, DeSmog can reveal. Previous reporting from openDemocracy and the Guardian found that, between 2017 and December 2021, £89 million had been given to UK universities from some of the world’s biggest fossil fuel companies.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

OCTOBER 16, 2024

The growing focus has led to a surge in demand for environmental consultants. Here’s why environmental consulting jobs are in such high demand today — let’s begin! This has significantly boosted the demand for consultants who specialize in understanding and navigating these complex regulations.

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The Guardian: Energy

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Exclusive: Sultan Al Jaber says Adnoc has to meet demand for fossil fuels, and hails ‘unprecedented’ Cop deal The president of the Cop28 climate summit will continue with his oil company’s record investment in oil and gas production , despite coordinating a global deal to “transition away” from fossil fuels.

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Business Green

JANUARY 27, 2023

BNEF reports that global investment in the clean energy transition rose 30 per cent last year to record levels Global investment in the clean energy transition soared to record levels last year, surpassing $1tr as the sector matched the level of investment in fossil fuels for the first time.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2022

“Investing in new fossil fuel infrastructure is moral and economic madness,” UN Secretary-General António Guterres said as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released part of its latest report on Monday. The IPCC’s call to action was urgent. “We The extinction of a million species of plants and animals.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 31, 2022

A fossil fuel executive recently told Fortune , “Appalachia is the elephant in the room,” referring to the claim that demand for natural gas is rising, while supply in Appalachia and the United States is falling. But what he gets wrong is that the future does not entail further dependence on fossil fuels.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

But the data compiled by Brussels-based research and advocacy group Food & Water Action Europe, and shared with DeSmog, shows that 57 percent of 147 hydrogen projects under consideration by the European Commission are designed to also carry natural gas, or “blue” hydrogen made from the fossil fuel.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The findings underscore concerns over the role of the fossil fuel industry at the negotiations, known as COP27, which have become a focal point for deals to exploit African natural gas. These talks are supposed to be about moving us away from fossil fuels, phasing them out,” Sabido told DeSmog. Conflict of interest.

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GreenBiz

JULY 15, 2020

Could trash-to-energy technology feed hydrogen demand? One novel spin on emerging hydrogen fuel options is "clean hydrogen" made from trash. . Clean hydrogen could cut greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel by up to 34 percent, reported Bloomberg New Energy Finance. . Arlene Karidis. Wed, 07/15/2020 - 01:00.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 4, 2024

Three-quarters of prizes at the UK’s top sustainable advertising awards went to agencies who work for the fossil fuel industry, a DeSmog analysis has revealed. billion investment in the UK’s green energy transition. Both agencies are owned by the London-based global media group WPP. Credit: Sam Whitham.

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Business Green

MARCH 19, 2021

Study from IEA and Imperial highlights decade of clear evidence that renewables firms are performing better than fossil fuel-focused businesses. Our research demonstrates that all over the world renewable power has outperformed fossil fuels," he said.

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Impact Alpha

JUNE 3, 2020

The signposts are clear: the fossil fuel industry is in long-term decline as demand shifts to clean energy. Fossil fuel producers, however, continue to invest $5 trillion a year in new production despite falling demand and calls to limit emissions and planetary warming. Low-cost renewables.

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Business Green

JANUARY 11, 2023

Campaign group One for One warn fossil fuels should be viewed as the highest risk class of assets and urges government to tighten financial regulations to avert risk of a financial crash. The One for One rule will ensure that banks making high-risk fossil fuel investments shoulder that risk themselves," she added. "It

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R-Squared Energy

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Over the past decade, climate and environmental activists have pushed organizations to divest fossil fuel investments. The purpose of the divestment movement is to starve fossil fuel companies of the investments they need to develop new resources. However, I still use fossil fuels in my daily life.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 19, 2021

The environmental activist group Extinction Rebellion (XR) is planning a series of protests targeting the City of London to demand an end to investments in fossil fuels around the world. No New Fossil Fuel Investments’. It’s not a very radical demand”, she added. It’s very obvious.”.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 1, 2022

Banks, pension funds and investors are unshackling themselves from problematic investments in companies and states complicit in destruction in Ukraine – and they’re doing it fast. Fossil Fuel Conflict. Climate breakdown and war have a cause in common – the fossil fuel economy.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

French environmental organizations Notre Affaire à Tous, Friends of the Earth France, and Oxfam France last week filed what they say is the world’s first climate lawsuit against a commercial bank, suing BNP Paribas over its continued funding of fossil fuels. They also say that the financial sector more broadly is on notice.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 27, 2022

We can stop investing in businesses that harm the planet and the people that inhabit it. Divestment is a tactic in which an organization, such as an institution or individual, divests itself of stocks, bonds, or investment funds that are unethical or morally ambiguous. What Is Responsible Divestment?

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Smart Energy International

MAY 28, 2024

New York’s Consolidated Edison, one of the largest investor-owned energy companies in the US, has invested $2.3 In Westchester County, investments to improve the reliability of overhead lines in New Rochelle, Larchmont and the villages within Mount Pleasant. Last year’s peak was 11,565MW, which occurred on July 27, 2023.

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Low Impact

AUGUST 11, 2021

We have to stop burning fossil fuels and leave them in the ground. It looks as though, in a corporate-dominated, growth economy, no fossil fuels are going to be left unburnt. Recently, Bloomberg NEF and Bloomberg Philanthropies produced a report on the scale and impact of global fossil fuel subsidies.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

OCTOBER 19, 2024

The majority of projects remain in their earliest stages, said the report, and the project pipeline faces notable potential struggles as demand signals are unclear.  Demand for H2 worldwide has the potential to grow by about 3 million tons this year, focused primarily on the refining and chemical sector , said the report. 

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NRDC onEarth

JULY 5, 2023

No fossil fuels, no problem? Texas investments in wind and solar pay off, generating record-breaking renewable power to meet all-time high electricity demand during nearly 10-day heat dome—despite fossil fuel plant failures.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2021

An in-depth article by the website Carbon Brief argues that the fuel is unlikely to be taken up universally, particularly as “the volume required to satisfy all the possible applications for low-carbon hydrogen would likely far exceed the amount available, even if production is significantly scaled up.”. Credit: Gaia Lamperti.

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Planet Pulse

JANUARY 11, 2024

In this week’s issue : We kick off our energy series with the top dog: fossil fuels Orange rivers in Alaska A river mystery in Colombia Feature Story: Energy: Fossil Fuels If you’re reading this then you owe gratitude to fossil fuels. But fossil fuel companies aren’t quite shaking in their boots yet.

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Business Green

JUNE 16, 2021

Policymakers must step up efforts to deliver major 'structural shift' away from fossil fuels across all societal and economic activities, report warns. Policymakers must significantly ramp up their efforts to tackle climate change by working together to deliver a "structural shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy", REN21 warned.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The world's first public database tracking fossil fuel production, reserves, and emissions has officially launched this morning, in a bid to foster more transparency around fossil fuel production, national energy policies, and stranded asset risks.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 8, 2021

Over €8 billion is being invested in hydrogen and “renewable gas” projects in southern Europe using EU Covid-19 recovery funds, thanks to extensive lobbying by the fossil fuel industry, a new report has found. . The over-emphasis on hydrogen as a result of lobbying could lock Europe into decades more of fossil fuels.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

The commissioners cited multiple complementary benefits as justification for the decision: greenhouse gas emissions reductions, the ability to soak up surplus renewable electricity, and grid demand flexibility. NRDC’s Delforge said the SGIP HPWH incentive program is expected to be online by the end of 2020. A view from the field.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Fossil fuels such as coal, oil and natural gas are the source of just over 80% of the world’s energy. To avert catastrophic warming, the global community must rapidly reduce how much of these fuels it extracts and burns. target because it was already at its limit, given our projections of fossil fuel demand in the near future.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 3, 2023

Policy Exchange, one of Westminster’s most prominent think tanks, engaged in a high-level influencing campaign over the UK’s North Sea oil and gas policies while being funded by fossil fuel interests, DeSmog can reveal. Fossil fuel firms tout CCUS and hydrogen as green energy solutions, yet the reality is more complicated.

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Business Green

AUGUST 4, 2022

And I urge people everywhere to send a clear message to the fossil fuel industry and their financiers: this grotesque greed is punishing the poorest and most vulnerable people, while destroying our only home.". All countries - and especially developed countries - must manage energy demand," he said. in tax relief.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Ursula von der Leyen sets out plans to mandate revenue cap on electricity generators and secure a 'crisis contribution' from fossil fuel companies in her State of the European Union address. We are in a fossil fuel crisis, the fossil fuel industry has a special duty too," she said.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

primary energy demand, according to the Department of Energy. At many of these facilities, fossil fuels, and especially natural gas, are the energy feedstock used for process heating applications. But what if the sun’s energy could take over the job much of the time and displace fossil fuels? in Lemoore.

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