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IEA: COVID-19 crisis causing the biggest fall in global energy investment in history

Green Car Congress

MAY 31, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has set in motion the largest drop in global energy investment in history, with spending expected to plunge in every major sector this year—from fossil fuels to renewables and efficiency—the International Energy Agency said in a new report.

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Global Energy Coal 2020

Obama climate plan calls for new fuel economy standards for heavy-duty vehicles post-2018; cleaner fuels and investment in advanced fossil energy

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JUNE 25, 2013

The plan also calls for accelerating the permitting for renewable power generation on public lands and upgrading the grid. In terms of investment in innovation for cleaner energy, the plan calls for: Investment in advanced fossil energy projects. of greenhouse gas emissions to 3% by 2020. Other efforts will include: Natural Gas.

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Obama Cleaner Climate Fuel Economy

Tsinghua University provincial-level lifecycle study finds fuel-cycle criteria pollutants of EVs in China could be up to 5x those of natural gas vehicles due to China’s coal-dominant power mix

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JANUARY 12, 2013

In regions where the share of coal-based electricity is relatively low, EVs can achieve substantial GHG reduction, the team reports in a paper in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology. According to the 12 th Five-Year Plan of the China Coal Industry (2011?2015) Earlier post.]

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Coal Pollution China Gas

IEA: carbon intensity of global energy supply has barely changed in last 20 years; “window of opportunity in transport”

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APRIL 18, 2013

by 2020, and 64% by 2050. The global energy supply became 6% cleaner from 1971 to 1990,in response to the oil shocks of the 1970s. The IEA said that this reflects the continued domination of fossil fuels—particularly coal—in the energy mix and the slow uptake of other, lower-carbon supply technologies. Source: IEA.

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Carbon Supplies Global Transportation

California ARB: GHG emissions fell below 1990 levels for first time in 2016; down 13% from 2004 peak; transportation emissions up 2%

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JULY 12, 2018

Under Assembly Bill 32 passed in 2006, California must reduce its emissions to 1990 levels (431 million metric tons) by 2020. Due to the carbon price signal created by the Cap-and-Trade Program that makes fossil fuel generation more expensive, cleaner out-of-state electricity is increasingly taking the place of fuels such as coal.

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2004 2016 Emissions California

Volkswagen Group now planning 22M EVs in ten years; 70 new electric models by 2028

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MARCH 12, 2019

Volkswagen is seeking to provide individual mobility for millions of people for years to come—individual mobility that is safer, cleaner and fully connected. Switch to renewable energy sources for power supply. The conversion of the power station in Wolfsburg from coal to gas will reduce CO 2 emissions by 1.5

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CO2 Electric Electrical All-Electric

Ninth annual Green Innovation Index finds California light-duty vehicle emissions spike; major challenge to 2030 climate goals

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AUGUST 22, 2017

If current rates of decline continue through 2020, the state will need to reduce emissions at a rate of 4.97% each year in the decade between 2020 and 2030, and produce even steeper declines in the period from 2030 to 2050, if it is to meet current climate goals. In 2015, California increased renewable electricity to 21.9%

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California Light Emissions Climate

BCG report finds advanced biofuels, concentrated solar power, and solar photovoltaic tracking to make significant market impact sooner than commonly assumed

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NOVEMBER 11, 2010

The report examines the state of those seven technologies and assesses each in terms of three issues: Can it achieve cost-competitiveness with conventional energy by 2020 and be economically viable without subsidies? By 2020, CSP could provide power at $0.10 Cleaner coal through carbon capture and sequestration.

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Solar Boston Consulting Group Power Powered

EIA projects decline in transportation sector energy consumption through 2037 despite increase in VMT, followed by increase

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JANUARY 28, 2019

EIA’s Annual Energy Outlook 2019 projects continued robust growth in US energy production, emergence of the United States as an energy exporter, and a cleaner S electric power generation mix. However, US coal shipments, which are primarily via rail, decline slightly.

Transportation

Transportation Energy Fuel Economy 2018

Heating Buildings With Solar Energy Stored in Sand

Cars That Think

JANUARY 18, 2023

When we turn up the heat in our homes and workplaces, we must balance our personal need for warmth with the global impact of burning fossil fuels like oil, gas, coal, and biomass. These initiatives have largely focused on renewable electric power generation, distribution, and storage. But we also have to cut emissions from heating.”

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Store Solar Building Oil-Sands

How to Hasten India’s Transition Away From Coal

Cars That Think

JUNE 24, 2022

per capita carbon dioxide emissions , according to a 2020 European Union report. Fossil fuels dominate even though renewable energy generation in many parts of the world now. Fossil fuels dominate even though renewable energy generation in many parts of the world now. While electricity from older coal plants in India costs 2.7

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Coal Energy Storage Wind India

Refiners and Truckers Associations Challenge California LCFS in Federal Court

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FEBRUARY 3, 2010

The California LCFS calls for at least a 10% reduction from 2006 levels in the carbon intensity (measured in gCO 2 e/MJ) of California’s transportation fuels by 2020. These charges echo those in a complaint against the LCFS filed by two ethanol trade groups—the Renewable Fuels Association (RFA) and Growth Energy—in December 2009.

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California Oil-Sands Oil 2005

ExxonMobil: global GDP up ~140% by 2040, but energy demand ~35% due to efficiency; LDV energy demand to rise only slightly despite doubling parc

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DECEMBER 10, 2014

Renewables in total will account for about 15% of energy demand in 2040. A major shift is seen as North America will likely become a net exporter of liquids by 2020 as supplies of tight oil, natural gas liquids and bitumen from oil sands increase.

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Energy Global 2010 Oil-Sands

IEA World Energy Outlook view on the transport sector to 2035; passenger car fleet doubling to almost 1.7B units, driving oil demand up to 99 mb/d; reconfirming the end of cheap oil

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NOVEMBER 13, 2011

Under the central New Policies Scenario, automotive sales in non-OECD markets exceed those in the OECD by 2020, with the center of gravity of car manufacturing shifting to non-OECD countries before 2015. The use of coal—which met almost half of the increase in global energy demand over the last decade—rises 65% by 2035.

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Oil Transportation Cheap Fleet

Europe moves forward on the Energy Union; transport key element

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FEBRUARY 26, 2015

Today, we launch the most ambitious European energy project since the Coal and Steel Community. More than €1 trillion needs to be invested into the energy sector in EU by 2020 alone. The right infrastructure is a precondition for completing the energy market, integrating renewables and security of supply. This cannot continue.

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Transportation Europe Energy Climate

The Solangelist’s Vision Shines Brighter

Creative Greenius

MARCH 22, 2009

And just like Woody, I’d like to sing you a song about a better way… My friends, with greenhouse gas emissions already in the danger zone, we needed to stop burning Killer Coal yesterday. But only 16% of that power is from renewable energy generation through the power mix Southern California Edison provides.

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Los Angeles Solar Renewable Coal

Inflation Reduction Act – How It Supercharges the Electric Vehicle Industry

EV Match

AUGUST 29, 2022

Volkswagen, which was the top-selling car company in the world as recently as 2020, announced in June 2022 that it was “actively in the process of looking at another production facility and also looking at a battery facility,” then began production of its first U.S. Tesla just opened its new Austin, Texas factory in April .

Electric Vehicles

Electric Vehicles Tax Credit Industrial Industry

Perspective: Why Carbon Emissions Should Not Have Been the Focus of the UN Climate Change Summit and Why the 15th Conference of the Parties Should Have Focused on Technology Transfer

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2009

Experts predict that by the year 2060 global warming, if left unchecked, could result in a temperature rise of seven degrees Fahrenheit higher than temperatures before the Industrial Revolution when man started widespread use of coal and other fossil fuels. The European Union (EU) is committed to a 20% cut in emissions by 2020.

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Climate Change Climate Carbon Emissions

Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2010

Cap-and-trade was first tried on a significant scale twenty years ago under the first Bush administration as a way to address the problem of airborne sulfur dioxide pollution–widely known as acid rain–from coal-burning power plants in the eastern United States. The program will reduce emissions fifteen percent below 2005 levels by 2020.

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Gas Climate Change Emissions Climate

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IEA: COVID-19 crisis causing the biggest fall in global energy investment in history

Obama climate plan calls for new fuel economy standards for heavy-duty vehicles post-2018; cleaner fuels and investment in advanced fossil energy

Tsinghua University provincial-level lifecycle study finds fuel-cycle criteria pollutants of EVs in China could be up to 5x those of natural gas vehicles due to China’s coal-dominant power mix

IEA: carbon intensity of global energy supply has barely changed in last 20 years; “window of opportunity in transport”

California ARB: GHG emissions fell below 1990 levels for first time in 2016; down 13% from 2004 peak; transportation emissions up 2%

Volkswagen Group now planning 22M EVs in ten years; 70 new electric models by 2028

Ninth annual Green Innovation Index finds California light-duty vehicle emissions spike; major challenge to 2030 climate goals

BCG report finds advanced biofuels, concentrated solar power, and solar photovoltaic tracking to make significant market impact sooner than commonly assumed

EIA projects decline in transportation sector energy consumption through 2037 despite increase in VMT, followed by increase

Heating Buildings With Solar Energy Stored in Sand

How to Hasten India’s Transition Away From Coal

Refiners and Truckers Associations Challenge California LCFS in Federal Court

ExxonMobil: global GDP up ~140% by 2040, but energy demand ~35% due to efficiency; LDV energy demand to rise only slightly despite doubling parc

IEA World Energy Outlook view on the transport sector to 2035; passenger car fleet doubling to almost 1.7B units, driving oil demand up to 99 mb/d; reconfirming the end of cheap oil

Europe moves forward on the Energy Union; transport key element

The Solangelist’s Vision Shines Brighter

Inflation Reduction Act – How It Supercharges the Electric Vehicle Industry

Perspective: Why Carbon Emissions Should Not Have Been the Focus of the UN Climate Change Summit and Why the 15th Conference of the Parties Should Have Focused on Technology Transfer

Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

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