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Electrify America enters into 15-year VPPA for 100% renewable energy for network

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Electrify America entered into a 15-year virtual power purchase agreement (VPPA) with developer Terra-Gen to build a solar photovoltaic renewable energy generation project in San Bernardino County, California called Electrify America Solar Glow 1. The solar project is targeted to be operational by mid-2023.

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If You Can’t Beat Them, Buy Them — Mike Cannon-Brookes Tries To Buy & Shut Down Worst Coal Plant In Australia

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In an astounding turn of events, Atlassian Founder Mike Cannon-Brookes has teamed up with Canadian asset manager Brookfield to put in a bid for Australia’s most polluting power company. It was a case of “if you can’t beat them, buy them.” ” Green capital is trying to push out the old legacy coal barons.

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Study finds pairing a PEV with a green electricity program increases buyer interest by 23%

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Car buyers are more likely to buy a plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) if they know that the electricity used to charge it is from a renewable energy source, according to a study in the IOP journal Environmental Research Letters (ERL). —Jonn Axsen.

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Earth Day and the Importance of Green Energy

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In this celebration, we acknowledge the future of green technology is not only healthier for the planet and its residents, but more high-tech than more archaic, higher polluting options. These green tech solutions suitable replacements for pollution-creating solutions. But the sun doesn’t have to be shining to use solar energy.

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Cutting Non-CO2 Pollutants Can Delay Abrupt Climate Change; The Fast Action Climate Agenda

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Cutting HFCs, black carbon, tropospheric ozone, and methane can buy us about 40 years before we approach the dangerous threshold of 2°C warming. —co-author With indoor air pollution killing 1.6 co-author Dr. Veerabhadran Ramanathan, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD. Ramanathan. Tropospheric ozone. It also lowers crop yields.

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IRENA report finds renewable power costs at parity or below fossil fuels in many parts of world

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Solar photovoltaic (PV) is leading the cost decline, with solar PV module costs falling 75% since the end of 2009 and the cost of electricity from utility-scale solar PV falling 50% since 2010. Northeast Utilities and its subsidiary NStar had agreed to buy 27.5% of Cape Wind output; National Grid had agreed to buy 50%.

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Gravity Batteries, Green Hydrogen, and a Thorium Reactor for China

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We’ll still have to do the hard work of cutting carbon emissions, but geoengineering could be a way to buy us some time. Solar-to-Hydrogen Tech Sees "Remarkable" Efficiency Jump Another big development in the energy sector is the return of the hydrogen economy. Most of the world’s hydrogen comes from deeply polluting methods.

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