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Nacero awards 20-year wind power purchase agreement to NextEra for natural gas-to-gasoline plant in Texas

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Texas-based Nacero, a company seeking to produce low- and zero-lifecycle carbon footprint gasoline blendstock ( earlier post ) has awarded a subsidiary of NextEra Energy Resources, LLC a 20-year power purchase agreement to supply wind power to Nacero’s planned flagship manufacturing facility in Penwell, Texas. Renewable natural gas.

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Carbon emissions from generating electricity for electric vehicles vary greatly across the individual US states

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These results indicate that coal and oil are the energy sources leading to most emissions, and that hydro, wind, and nuclear are the energy sources leading to least emissions. Therefore, biomass as energy source was assumed to produce no additional carbon emission. Geothermal 0 0 Solar 0 8.8 Nuclear 0 0 Wind 2.5

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DTE Energy partners with Ford on new rooftop solar installation and battery storage

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DTE Energy has commissioned a new solar array at the Ford Research & Engineering Center in Dearborn, Michigan. The solar array, the third DTE has constructed with Ford, can generate 1,127 MWh of clean energy. The new solar array is just one of several steps both companies are taking to reduce carbon emissions.

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Oil sands company Suncor Energy strengthens its focus on hydrogen and renewable fuels, divesting wind and solar

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Suncor also plans to divest its wind and solar assets. energy projects in Canada and since then, Suncor has developed eight wind power projects in three provinces—Saskatchewan, Alberta and Ontario. While Suncor is in the fortunate position of being long on opportunities, we are adjusting our portfolio for fit and focus.

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BloombergNEF: solar, wind, batteries to attract $10T to 2050; curbing emissions long-term will require other technologies

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Deep declines in wind, solar and battery technology costs will result in a grid nearly half-powered by the two fast-growing renewable energy sources by 2050, according to the latest projections from BloombergNEF (BNEF). Wind and solar grow from 7% of generation today to 48% by 2050.

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Harvard team finds large-scale US wind power would cause warming that would take roughly a century to offset

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Extracting energy from the wind causes climatic impacts that are small compared to current projections of 21 st century warming, but large compared to the effect of reducing US electricity emissions to zero with solar. They find that large-scale wind power generation would warm the Continental United States 0.24

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MITEI study finds hydrogen-generated electricity is a cost-competitive candidate for backing up wind and solar

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A team at MITEI (MIT Energy Initiative) has found that hydrogen-generated electricity can be a cost-competitive option for backing up wind and solar. If we’re to achieve zero-carbon electricity, we must replace all greenhouse gas-emitting sources. —Emre Gençer, co-author. —Drake Hernandez.

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