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US shift toward wind and solar will cut coal, make EVs cleaner

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Energy Information Administration (EIA) in turn making EVs cleaner. The EIA forecasts that wind and solar will together account for 16% of total electricity generation in 2023, up from 14% in 2022 and 8% in 2018.

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Gas prices due to drop in 2024, as EVs plug into cleaner energy

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Energy Information Administration (EIA) expects combined electricity generation from solar and wind to exceed coal for the first time in 2024. Solar alone is expected to increase 39% from 2023 thanks to continual increases in generating capacity.

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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 degrees Celsius.

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As states continue to use less coal for electricity, driving electric vehicles becomes even cleaner

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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. On the two extremes, coal and oil result in about 176 times the emissions from hydro. Energy source. Proportional amount of emissions relative to hydro. Natural gas.

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Maersk parterning with 6 companies to source at least 730,000 tpy of green methanol by end of 2025

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To boost the global production capacity of green methanol, A.P. The six companies are CIMC ENRIC, European Energy, Green Technology Bank, Orsted, Proman, and WasteFuel. To transition towards decarbonization, we need a significant and timely acceleration in the production of green fuels. Maerskā€™s green methanol sourcing partners.

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SGH2 building largest green hydrogen production facility in California; gasification of waste into H2

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Energy company SGH2 is bringing the worldā€™s biggest green hydrogen production facility to Lancaster, California. SGH2 says that its green hydrogen is cost competitive with ā€œgrayā€ hydrogen produced from fossil fuels such as natural gas—the source of the majority of hydrogen used in the United States. —Lancaster Mayor R.

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Wind-to-Hydrogen Tech Goes to Sea

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Wind and solar parks produce a large portion of their energy. Then, as now, wind farms are operating off the worldā€™s coastsā€”but not all of these offshore sites are connected to the mainland via underwater power cables. Some of the wind farms instead sit in clusters more than 100 kilometers out at sea.

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