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GM secures all energy needed to achieve renewable energy goal for 2025; 25 years ahead of target set in 2016

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General Motors has finalized energy sourcing agreements required to secure 100% of the energy needed to power all its US facilities by 2025. Sourcing renewable energy is a critical component of GM’s plans to decarbonize. This is the main way through which GM is achieving its renewable energy goal.

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GM to reach 100% renewable energy in US by 2025, 5 years ahead of schedule

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General Motors plans to source 100% renewable energy to power its US sites by 2025—five years earlier than previously announced, and 25 years ahead of its initial target that was set in 2016. Sourcing renewable energy is a critical component of GM’s plans to decarbonize its portfolio.

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LevelTen Energy raises $20.5M in Series B; expanding renewable energy procurement platform

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LevelTen Energy , a renewable energy procurement platform, closed a $20.5-million As part of the financing, Tim Woodward, managing director at Prelude Ventures, will join LevelTen Energy’s board of directors. LevelTen also facilitated a groundbreaking aggregated procurement deal with Bloomberg, Cox Enterprises, Gap Inc.,

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EEA: rising energy consumption, particularly in transport, slows EU progress on renewables and energy efficiency targets

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Progress on increasing the use of renewable energy and improving energy efficiency is slowing across the European Union, putting at risk the EU’s ability to achieve its energy and emissions reduction targets. EU progress towards 2020 and 2030 targets on climate and energy. Progress on renewables.

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3 Oil Majors That Bet Big On Renewables

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Despite the much-vaunted megatrend involving the global electrification drive and shift to renewable energy , the most ambitious pledges by Big Oil to pursue net-zero agendas remain weak at best. Let this sink in: In 2018, Big Oil spent less than 1% of its combined budget on green energy projects. 1 Equinor. 2 Total SA.

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Two-thirds of world's new energy capacity in 2016 was renewable: IEA

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For years, renewable energy has been cast as the most expensive option to reduce emissions and the world's reliance on fossil fuels. But 2016 may have marked a turn for the renewable energy sector, with solar energy in particular rising significantly in output.

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DOE researchers investigate economic and environmental impacts of converting wet waste to renewable diesel

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demand in 2016. On the environmental side, using waste feedstocks for energy production could offer great GHG emission reduction potentials relative to petroleum diesel fuels. Skaggs et al. 1c06561.

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