Creative Greenius

JULY 11, 2022

Oil, gas and coal workers have all known for more than a dozen years that their work was helping to destroy people’s health and well being. So the justice I want to see is first, second and third for the victims in the sacrifice zones created by the oil, gas and coal companies. None of them are innocent bystanders.

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Coal Oil Clean Cleaning 355

Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2020

Energy company SGH2 is bringing the world’s biggest green hydrogen production facility to Lancaster, California. SGH2 will provide a complete performance guarantee of the Lancaster plant by issuing a total output guarantee of hydrogen production per year, underwritten by the largest reinsurance company in the world.

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Waste Hydrogen Green California 448

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 2, 2022

Investment in new large- and small-scale solar projects rose to a record-breaking $120 billion, up 33% from the first half of 2021. After a very strong first half in 2021, public market issuances for renewable energy companies dropped 65% in 1H 2022, totaling $10.5 Wind project financing was up 16% from 1H 2021, at $84 billion.

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Creative Greenius

APRIL 5, 2011

My favorite part of this next CicLaVia is t he Bike Parade coming from my friends at Greenpeace and Sierra Club which they’re calling ROLL AGAINST COAL. In case you didn’t know, the City of Los Angeles still gets 40% of its electricity from coal-fired power plants, the dirtiest polluters and greenhouse gassers on the planet.

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Coal Sierra Los Angeles Green 257

Green Car Congress

MAY 31, 2020

The World Energy Investment 2020 report’s assessment of trends so far this year is based on the latest available investment data and announcements by governments and companies as of mid-May, tracking of progress on individual projects, interviews with leading industry figures and investors, and the most recent analysis from across the IEA.

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Global Energy Coal 2020 344

Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2014

The University of California, Riverside is opening its Sustainable Integrated Grid Initiative to research the integration of: intermittent renewable energy, such as photovoltaic solar panels; energy storage, such as batteries; and all types of electric and hybrid electric vehicles. Solar carport. 27 electric vehicle charging stations.

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Grid Solar Energy Energy Storage 287

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 12, 2013

The solution combines weather prediction and big data analytics to forecast accurately the availability of wind power and solar energy. This will enable utilities to integrate more renewable energy into the power grid, the company says. This project builds upon another IBM smarter analytics initiative at Denmark’s Vestas Wind Systems.

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Creative Greenius

APRIL 5, 2011

My favorite part of this next CicLaVia is t he Bike Parade coming from my friends at Greenpeace and Sierra Club which they’re calling ROLL AGAINST COAL. In case you didn’t know, the City of Los Angeles still gets 40% of its electricity from coal-fired power plants, the dirtiest polluters and greenhouse gassers on the planet.

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Coal Sierra Los Angeles Green 150

Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2022

The cost of new-build onshore wind has risen 7% year on year, and fixed-axis solar has jumped 14%, according to the latest analysis by research company BloombergNEF (BNEF). New-build onshore wind and solar projects are now around 40% lower than BNEF’s global benchmarks for new coal- and gas-fired power.

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Cost Of Renewable Wind Egypt 210

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Four companies—Pathfinder Renewable Wind Energy, Magnum Energy, Dresser-Rand and Duke-American Transmission—have proposed a first-in-the-US, $8-billion green energy initiative that would bring large amounts of clean electricity to the Los Angeles area by 2023. million LA-area homes.

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Utah Wyoming Wind Los Angeles 261

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

Advanced biofuels, concentrated solar power (CSP), and solar photovoltaic power (PV) will see accelerating adoption and growth and are on track to change the global energy mix far earlier than is often assumed, according to a new report from The Boston Consulting Group (BCG). Cleaner coal through carbon capture and sequestration.

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Solar Boston Consulting Group Power Powered 295

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Heating buildings. In November, Hydro-Québec published a snapshot of its energy resources which presents the company’s forecasts regarding its future electricity needs and the means by which it will meet them. Although demand will increase in Québec, the company will continue to have a major surplus of available electricity.

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Hydrogen Clean Cleaning Gas-Electric 243

Green Car Congress

APRIL 16, 2018

The vision of the technology and capital goods group is to move away from coal and coke via bridging technologies based on natural gas, as is already the case at the direct reduction plant in Texas, and finally on to the greatest possible use of green hydrogen. —Wolfgang Eder, Chairman of the Management Board of voestalpine AG.

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Hydrogen Industrial Industry Green 240

Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2019

Hydrogen can help to tackle various critical energy challenges, including helping to store the variable output from renewables like solar PV and wind to better match demand. A wide variety of fuels are able to produce hydrogen, including renewables, nuclear, natural gas, coal and oil. —Dr Birol. million by 2030.

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Clean Cleaning Affordable Future 255

Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2015

At Consumer Electronics Show Asia, Ford launched a strategic collaboration with Haier (home appliance), Trina Solar (solar power) and Delta Electronics (power management) to introduce MyEnergi Lifestyle ( earlier post ) to China, a holistic approach for lowering the energy costs and carbon footprint of Chinese families.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2011

billion loan guarantee to support the Mojave Solar Project and a conditional commitment for up to a $681.6 million loan guarantee to support the Genesis Solar Project. billion loan guarantee to support the Mojave Solar Project and a conditional commitment for up to a $681.6 DOE is offering a conditional commitment for a $1.2

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Solar Power Powered New Mexico 186

Teslarati

JULY 23, 2021

Tesla has launched its Virtual Power Plant (VPP) program in California, allowing customers to utilize their Powerwall batteries and solar panels to help the state’s grid. Tesla solar and Powerwall customers could do their part by helping create one of the largest distributed battery systems in the world.

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Power Powered Grid Coal 145

Green Car Congress

MAY 8, 2010

The US Department of Energy has selected 13 projects for investment of up to $62 million over five years to research, develop, and demonstrate Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) systems capable of providing low-cost electrical power. The thirteen award selections announced today fall into two areas: Concentrating Solar Power Systems Studies.

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Teslarati

MAY 14, 2021

A few years ago, Tesla teamed up with the Government of South Australia and various energy authorities to build South Australia’s Virtual Power Plant. During the Q1 2021 earnings call, Elon Musk explained Tesla’s reason for integrating its solar and Powerwall products. Tesla plans to install 5kW solar and 13.5

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Power Powered Energy Tesla 120

Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2019

Efforts to shift away from fossil fuels and replace oil and coal with renewable energy sources can help reduce carbon emissions but do so at the expense of increased inequality, according to a new study by researchers at Portland State University (PSU) and Vanderbilt University. —Julius McGee.

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Renewable Energy Portland Climate Change 292

Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2013

Shell and its affiliates will build two additional small-scale natural gas liquefaction units to provide liquefied natural gas (LNG) fuel for marine and heavy-duty on-road customers in North America. The Interlake Steamship Company is expected to be the first marine customer in this region, as it begins the conversion of its vessels.

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North America Transportation America Building 218

Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2022

CO 2 CirculAir’s a smart-buffer system assures a continuous 24h/d CO 2 absorption and enables the use of low-cost electricity for regeneration at moments of surplus or by direct use of electricity from solar cells or wind turbines. Lapwing Energy Limited, “Reverse Coal”. Reverse Coal is a disruptive system change that can be scaled to?remove

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Carbon Coal Gas-Electric Waste 305

Blink Charging

APRIL 20, 2023

Savvy consumers and businesses want more from the companies they deal with. Now, a company that wants to be successful has to prove that it is also socially responsible, as consumers have overwhelmingly stated that they want to deal with companies that are environmentally responsible.

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Charging CO2 Grid Carbon 73

Cars That Think

MAY 5, 2022

The IEEE Life Fellow is also founder and chairman of BEM Controls , a software company in McLean, Va., that provides buildings with energy-efficiency solutions. We are not a power company, a government, or a business that has a target to achieve, but a neutral platform. If you use less electricity, you will burn less coal.

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Climate Change Climate Coal Solar 94

Cars That Think

DECEMBER 25, 2022

The carbon-free rigs will pack 50 kilos of hydrogen zapped from water using electricity from the refinery’s dedicated solar power plant. And while coal plants still supplied over half of Australia’s power in 2021, change is afoot. Welcome to Australia, where a green-hydrogen boom is in full swing. Yet many more are actually needed.

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Australia Hydrogen Green Renewable 145

Creative Greenius

JUNE 26, 2009

I attended the Southern California Edison’s free Solar session for homeowners last night. Overall it was a good workshop with lots of solid basic information for people who don’t know much about solar but are considering a solar electric system.

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Climate Change Climate Companies Solar 150

Creative Greenius

MAY 14, 2009

After a decade in the solar power installation business, Bradley Bartz is tired of being Mr. Nice Guy. He’s filed suit against Torrance, the proud home of Exxon/Mobil’s refinery, for stopping him from installing solar panels in the Hillside Overlay district. “ Idiots ! “ Idiots !&#

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Solar Installation California Building 210

Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2014

In 2009, ARPA-E began its electrofuels program ( earlier post ) , providing $49 million in funding to 11 academic institutions and an additional two companies to develop microbial organisms capable of converting carbon dioxide and hydrogen into liquid fuels. Biotech Fuels Solar' Background. Hydrogen-to-fuels.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2011

Perspective by The Townsend Company. However, when peak demand is not required the inefficiencies of idling coal, nuclear and gas powered power plants has become both very uneconomic and non-responsive to changes in demand for today’s market. Solar field annual output. Typical daily grid demand. Click to enlarge.

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Store Grid Energy Storage Wind 279

Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2015

TransAlta will use commercial-scale lithium-ion batteries to reduce energy costs for the customer; 5 commercial-scale Tesla Powerpack batteries will be installed, each about the size of a household fridge, in a medium-sized building, such as a large grocery store, apartment block, post-secondary institution building or small office tower.

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Energy Storage Commercial Energy Lithium Ion 150

Baua Electric

DECEMBER 31, 2023

This involves the seamless blending of renewable energy, such as solar, wind, hydro, and geothermal power, into the overall energy infrastructure to meet the growing demand for clean and sustainable energy. Renewable energy integration refers to the process of efficiently incorporating renewable energy sources into existing energy systems.

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Renewable Energy Energy Storage Wind 52

Creative Greenius

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Why would your Creative Greenius walk away from his high-paying, highly rewarding executive role at CBS EcoMedia where I was working to fund environmental, education, and wellness projects all across the USA, just as the company hit more growth milestones and was likely to pay generous bonuses? ” What a no-brainer.

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Climate Change Climate Oil Chevron 358

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

Coal-powered synthetic natural gas (SNG) plants being planned in China would produce seven times more greenhouse gas emissions than conventional natural gas plants, and use up to 100 times the water as shale gas production, according to a new study by Duke University researchers published in the journal Nature Climate Change. Resources.

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Gas Mercury Climate Change Fuel 220

Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2009

Developing technologies for the conversion of biomass and coal-to-liquid fuels. By 2035, cellulosic ethanol and/or coal-and-biomass-to-liquid (CBTL) fuels with carbon capture and storage could replace about 15% of current fuel consumption in the transportation sector (1.7–2.5 emissions, according to the report.

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Coal Conversion Light Future 150

The Truth About Cars

MAY 17, 2023

Honda CEO Toshihiro Mibe even stated that, despite the company having worked so hard to develop hydrogen cars, he wondered how realistic it would be to see them ever become mainstream solutions for transportation. Presently, the vast majority of hydrogen is produced using coal or natural gas as feedstocks.

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Hydrogen Power Powered Japan 119

Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Energy-system models that marry engineering, physics, economics, and policy constraints and concerns allow us to test assumptions, explore actions, and build intuitions about how those systems work. The best we can do is to build tools that allow us to explore possible futures.” Back to top Until recently, energy modeling by the U.S.

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Clean Cleaning Energy Emissions 96

Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2013

The new goal is that efficiency standards for appliances and federal buildings set in the first and second terms combined will reduce carbon pollution by at least 3 billion metric tons cumulatively by 2030—equivalent to nearly one-half of the CO 2 emissions from the entire US energy sector for one year.

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