R-Squared Energy

JUNE 4, 2020

This surge is better shown by the following graphic, which highlights the three categories of modern renewables that have driven the consumption surge: Wind power, solar power, and biofuels. So, how does the consumption of renewables and coal compare to our consumption of petroleum, natural gas, and nuclear power?

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Cities and utilities across the United States are starting to reject natural gas — and not just for environmental reasons. San Jose, the tenth largest city in the country, recently joined a string of cities banning gas utility connections for new homes and buildings.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Key highlights include: Advanced Hydrogen Power Generation The facility uses 21 units of 5 kW pure hydrogen fuel cell generators, delivering stable energy supply while balancing operating hours to ensure smooth maintenance. This energy is seamlessly integrated with the hydrogen fuel cells and storage batteries.

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Solar Power World

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Sharp declines are foreseen for fossil fuels and nuclear power while renewable energy is forecast to experience… The post Latest FERC three-year forecast shows no new coal and drops in oil and natural gas, while renewables soar appeared first on Solar Power World.

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Solar Power World

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Americans are in an energy renaissance, desiring to replace fossil fuel and natural gas resources with green energy to sustain our homes. At… The post AI forecasting can ensure solar installations meet customer expectations appeared first on Solar Power World.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

AUGUST 9, 2024

Replacing fossil fuel dependence Currently, about 97 percent the country’s electricity is generated by means dependent on fossil fuel.    The most used fossil fuel in the country is natural gas , 47 percent of which is imported from other countries, primarily Algeria (as of data from June 2023). 

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Green Living Guy

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Renewable energy development is key for Thailand to cut its dependency on fossil fuel imports, as gas-based thermal power generation accounted for nearly 61.3% GlobalData’s latest report, ‘Thailand Power Market Size, Trends, Regulations, Competitive Landscape and Forecast, 2022-2035’, reveals […].

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Hydrogen Fuel News

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

The Role of Green Hydrogen in the Steel Industry Green hydrogen, produced using renewable energy sources like wind and solar, is seen as a sustainable alternative to fossil fuels in hard-to-decarbonize sectors such as steelmaking. Today, solar energy is indispensable in the global energy mix.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 23, 2020

This foray into behind-the-meter battery aggregation comes as part of PG&E’s efforts to meet the California Public Utilities Commission’s call for energy storage to help balance the state’s increasingly solar power-influenced grid.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 26, 2024

Maintaining and improving global energy security; empowering Indigenous communities; seizing the global LNG opportunity — these were some of the talking points speakers were keen to discuss throughout the Canada Gas Exhibition & Conference, which took place in Vancouver in May.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 1, 2020

Most of the winning projects will be co-located with existing solar farms that will charge the batteries, making them useful for integrating and smoothing the intermittency of the state’s growing share of renewable generation, as well as providing resource adequacy (RA) for times of peak demand in the late afternoons and evenings.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 4, 2019

DENVER — It's become a cliche to compare today's energy storage market to where the solar industry was a certain number of years ago. But these tools proved unexpectedly useful when the Aliso Canyon natural-gas leak jeopardized fuel supplies for Southern California power plants.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 9, 2025

These challenges are particularly pressing given that fossil fuels remain a key contributor to the countrys emissions, exacerbating the effects of climate change. The strategy combines constructing new pipelines with retrofitting existing natural gas pipelines, helping to optimize costs and accelerate implementation.

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Clean Energy Canada

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Feb 2, 2023 OTTAWA — In Alberta and Ontario, wind can now produce electricity at lower costs than natural-gas-fired power—with even more reductions on the horizon, according to a new report from Clean Energy Canada, which was informed by research commissioned from Dunsky Energy + Climate Advisors.

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Green Living Guy

MARCH 12, 2021

Solar power is a renewable alternative to the greenhouse gas-emitting fossil fuels affecting the atmosphere and the climate. Nonrenewable energy sources, like oil, natural gas, and coal, pollute the environment and. The post A History of Solar Power appeared first on Green Living Guy.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 16, 2021

The expected decreased demand for fossil fuels, coupled with the falling costs associated with renewable energy projects, are driving major oil and gas companies – including bp, Total and Shell – to actively restructure their businesses to add more renewable power projects to their portfolios. over the same period.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 20, 2020

Adding solar farms to that list of assets could offer grid operators a new tool to deal with the challenge of integrating more and more carbon-free, yet intermittent and sometimes unpredictable, wind and solar power, said Troy Lauterbach, senior vice president of First Solar’s Energy Services business.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

DECEMBER 23, 2024

This connectivity underlines RWEs role in providing practical solutions for decarbonizing sectors still reliant on fossil fuels. Projects like Pembroke Green Hydrogen are vital to achieve this benchmark, reducing dependency on natural gas and advancing a resilient renewable energy system.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Duke's regulated utilities serve electricity to nearly 8 million people in six states and operate a 51-gigawatt generation fleet, one-third of it coal and nearly three-quarters fossil-fueled. The gas question. This reliance on natural gas aligns Duke with most U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

utility can reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 while still keeping natural gas as a central part of its business, both to generate electricity and to sell to its customers. utility has yet fully fleshed out how it intends to eliminate natural gas power plants from its generation portfolio. To be sure, no U.S.

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Global renewable power generation is growing at an unprecedented rate , driven by the favourable economics of wind and solar along with energy security concerns around oil and gas (largely caused by recent wars), and emissions goals. Both find wind and solar to be cost-competitive with natural gas-fired electricity in the U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

It continues to refine its drilling technology to make residential drilling and heat pump installation easier and more competitive with incumbent fossil fuels. Compared to the myriad companies selling home solar power, Dandelion is notable for the lack of competitors in its lane.

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Solar Industry

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

While oil and natural gas are central to Alaska’s economy and remain Alaska’s primary energy sources, residents and state leaders alike recognize the need to diversify the state’s energy generation. Today, 70%-80% of South-Central Alaska’s power and most of its heat is generated using a single source: Cook Inlet natural gas.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 1, 2021

Take the Intermountain Power Project , the coal-fired power plant in Utah converting to turbines that will use natural gas blended with 30 percent hydrogen, a proportion that will rise to 100 percent hydrogen over the coming decades. gigawatt Okeechobee power plant, and it could be online by 2023.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JULY 13, 2024

The Heart of the Argument The scientists argue that while hydrogen cars like the Toyota Mirai emit zero carbon at the tailpipe, the reality is that 96% of global hydrogen production still relies on fossil fuels such as methane gas. In many regions, the electricity grid is still heavily reliant on fossil fuels.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Here, hydrogen replaces fossil fuels used in conventional reduction processes. As an example, SKF’s Indian factories in Bangalore and Mysore have made solar power purchase agreements and now use more than 80% renewable energy. Some is generated on site and some at off-site solar farms.

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Sunrun

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Accessing power straight from the source makes more sense than paying for it indirectly from your local power plant. Clearly, solar power is more cost-effective than “regular” or standard electricity.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 9, 2020

PacifiCorp’s integrated resource plan identifies Wyoming as the likely site of most of its new wind power, where new transmission lines are being built to capture the state’s high wind potential, including Rocky Mountain Power's Gateway West project.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 25, 2020

The surge in spending on all-electric homes is expected even though many consumers are unfamiliar with the natural gas-displacing electric appliances on the market today. Around 70 million American homes burn natural gas, oil, or propane for home space and water heating, according to Navigant Research.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

DECEMBER 3, 2023

According to the US Department of Energy , hydrogen fuel can be produced from a broad spectrum of different technologies and energy sources.    These include “fossil fuels, biomass, and water electrolysis with electricity.” Making hydrogen fuel at home requires only the most basic materials.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Pacific Gas & Electric is contracting seven battery projects totaling 423 megawatts , or nearly 1.7 Municipal utility Los Angeles Department of Water and Power has contracted for up to 300 megawatts/1.2 gigawatt-hours of storage being built alongside 400 megawatts of solar power being built by 8Minute Energy.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 4, 2020

Dominion Virginia’s new integrated resource plan (IRP), announced Friday, represents a potentially historic shift for the state’s largest utility, which has seen previous plans rejected by Virginia regulators for their over-reliance on fossil fuel power plants and infrastructure to be paid for by ratepayers.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 23, 2020

Fossil-fueled combined-heat-and-power systems will continue to take a back seat to distributed solar and energy storage for behind-the-meter generation — although resilience against wildfires, hurricanes and other extreme weather events will drive adoption of both. market by 2025, according to Maze-Rothstein.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Global annual hydrogen supply in 2020 accounted for 90 Mt, with the bulk (59%) coming from fossil fuel-based steam methane reformation from natural gas, with 19% coming from coal-to-hydrogen gasification – while less than 1% currently is sourced from electrolysis. of total global emissions. Conclusion.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JUNE 7, 2024

Researchers used the sun and agricultural waste to produce H2 with far less required energy Scientists from the University of Illinois, Chicago (UIC) have announced that they’ve developed a new process using a form of agricultural waste called biochar to produce hydrogen fuel using substantially less energy.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 22, 2024

and other fossil fuel companies are urging the European Union to relax targets to boost climate-friendly “green” hydrogen, hoping to win greater support for projects to manufacture the fuel using natural gas. But the oil and gas industry is pushing hard for increased use of “blue” hydrogen.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Fossil fuels, primarily gas, are a fixture in millions of American homes and businesses, but the building sector’s climate impact hasn’t received the same scrutiny as coal and gas in the power sector or oil in the transportation sector. Fortunately, that’s changing. One in four U.S.

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