Green Car Congress

JANUARY 23, 2022

After declining in 2020, the combined production of US fossil fuels (including natural gas, crude oil, and coal) increased by 2% in 2021 to 77.14 Of the total US fossil fuel production in 2021, dry natural gas accounted for 46%, the largest share. In 2020, US coal production had fallen to its lowest level since 1964.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 3, 2022

The Supreme Court is considering a case that challenges the EPA's ability to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from coal power plants.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 29, 2024

In a historic agreement, the G7 just agreed to phase out coal in the first half of the 2030s, according to statements made today. The US is in line with the G7 average (16%), while the other G7 members have mostly already phased out coal: France (0.4%), the UK (1.4%), Canada (5%), and Italy (5.3%). Get started here. –

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Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2021

Renewables are expanding quickly but not enough to satisfy a strong rebound in global electricity demand this year, resulting in a sharp rise in the use of coal power that risks pushing carbon dioxide emissions from the electricity sector to record levels next year, according to a new report from the International Energy Agency.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 9, 2022

billion tonnes, their highest ever level, as the world economy rebounded strongly from the COVID-19 crisis and relied heavily on coal to power that growth, according to new IEA analysis. Coal accounted for over 40% of the overall growth in global CO 2 emissions in 2021, reaching an all-time high of 15.3 billion tonnes.

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Electrek

JANUARY 18, 2022

The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) has forecast in its January Short-Term Energy Outlook that rising electricity generation from clean energy such as solar and wind will reduce generation from fossil fuel-fired power plants over the next two years.

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Teslarati

MARCH 30, 2023

Energy Information Administration (EIA) revealed that the United States generated more electricity from renewable energy sources than coal last year. electric power demand through 2050 in all cases,” noted the EIA. The EIA states that renewables are increasingly meeting power demand.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 24, 2023

Increased use of renewable energy will help reduce electricity generation from coal and natural gas power plants, according to the U.S. 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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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2022

EPA that the EPA lacks the authority to set emission standards for power plants so strict as to force a shift of power generation from fossil fuels. It located that newfound power in the vague language of an “ancillary provision[]” of the Act, Whitman, 531 U.S., The Supreme Court of the US (SCOTUS) has ruled in West Virginia v.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Photo: China News Service Renewable energy costs in Asia last year were 13% cheaper than coal and are expected to be 32% cheaper by 2030, according to a new study. This is significant because it marks a shift toward making renewables increasingly competitive with coal, a mainstay in APAC’s energy mix.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2023

by Michael Sivak, Sivak Applied Research The overall advantage of battery electric over gasoline vehicles, in terms of well-to-wheels emissions of greenhouse gases, has been well documented. However, the emissions of electric vehicles depend greatly on the energy source used to generate the electricity that powers them.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 24, 2018

US electric power sector CO 2 emissions have declined 28% since 2005 because of slower electricity demand growth and changes in the mix of fuels used to generate electricity, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). In 2005, noncarbon sources accounted for 28% of the US electricity mix.

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Electrek

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) is projecting that there will be 22% more coal-fired electricity generation in the US in 2021 than in 2020 due to higher natural gas prices – but the coal spike won’t last. more… The post US coal-powered electricity will grow in 2021, but don’t panic.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

This FOA, issued in August 2017, is a $50-million funding opportunity for projects supporting cost-shared research and development to design, construct, and operate two large-scale pilots to demonstrate transformational coal technologies. Echogen Power Systems. General Electric. Organization. Description.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 7, 2021

In 2020, total consumption of fossil fuels in the United States, including petroleum, natural gas, and coal, fell to 72.9 Petroleum products, including motor gasoline, distillate fuel oil (diesel), and hydrocarbon gas liquids (HGLs), accounted for 44% of US fossil fuel consumption in 2020.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 19, 2012

In August 2012, coal produced 39% of US electricity, up from a low of 32% in April 2012, when the natural gas share of generation equaled that of coal. The August coal share of generation is still notably lower than the 50% annual average over the 1990-2010 period. Data for 2011 and 2012 are preliminary.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2023

In 2022, US natural gas consumption averaged a record 88.5 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d)—the highest annual natural gas consumption, according to records beginning in 1949, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). US natural gas consumption last year increased 5% (4.5

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 11, 2021

Increased economic activity and a changing fuel mix in the electric power sector in 2021 will lead to a significant increase in energy-related carbon dioxide emissions this year, according to the US Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) August Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO). billion metric tons this year.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2023

million from the federal government of Germany and the states of Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, and Saarland for its project for the initial industrialization of stationary solid-oxide fuel cell (SOFC) systems:“Bosch Power Units”. The heart of the system is the SOFC stack, where chemical energy is converted into electrical energy.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 16, 2017

The US Department of Energy (DOE) will award up to $36 million ( DE-FOA-0001791 ) to continue the development of carbon capture technologies to either the engineering scale or to a commercial design, with an eye to reducing fossil fuel power plant emissions. The DOE will not consider testing on natural gas flue gas.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 14, 2020

NYK Line, Japan Marine United Corporation (JMU), and Nippon Kaiji Kyokai (ClassNK) signed a joint R&D agreement for the commercialization of an ammonia-fueled ammonia gas carrier (AFAGC) that would use ammonia as the main fuel, in addition to an ammonia floating storage and regasification barge (A-FSRB).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 27, 2021

This vessel was developed to provide a means of transporting liquefied hydrogen at 1/800 of its original gas-state volume, cooled to –253°C, safely and in large quantities over long distances by sea. J-POWER) to form the CO 2 -free Hydrogen Energy Supply-chain Technology Research Association (HySTRA). IMO) standards, in early December.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2022

SK E&S and SK Plug Hyverse—a joint venture (JV) formed in January of this year by SK E&S and Plug Power—will work with Korea Southeast Power Generation (KOEN) to cooperate with green hydrogen and green ammonia projects based on renewable energy resources in Korea and abroad.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Photo: Hornsea Project Europe’s coal electricity generation tanked by 26% and gas by 15% in 2023, according to a new report from energy think tank Ember. That collapse resulted in an impressive 19% reduction in the EU’s power sector emissions. Wind and solar power are now taking center stage. compared to 2022.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2019

Power Systems business unit signs letter of intent for the construction of a demonstration plant for the production of synthetic fuels Schell: “We will be electrifying the entire system, including the fuel” Important step towards sector coupling and decarbonising propulsion systems and power generation.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2015

Panda Power Funds has financed the 1,124 megawatt Panda “Hummel Station” power plant—one of the largest coal-to-natural gas power conversion projects in the United States. The plant will be located at the site of the retired Sunbury coal-fired power plant near Shamokin Dam in Snyder County, Pennsylvania.

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Electric Cars are for Girls

JANUARY 28, 2012

How are electric powered cars fueled with electricity from coal power plants better than the gas-guzzler I'm already driving?

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Teslarati

JULY 5, 2021

Tesla Energy firmly argued against using coal and gas generators to support a proposed low-cost, reliable, secure, and zero-emissions grid in Australia. . The project was aimed at providing a more robust and lower emissions power system for Australians. Tesla Powerpack battery steps in after coal plant explodes in Australia.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 28, 2014

EIA’s Annual Energy Outlook 2014 (AEO2014) features several accelerated retirements cases that represent conditions leading to additional coal and nuclear plant retirements in order to examine the potential energy market and emissions effects of the loss of this capacity. Nuclear power and renewables do not emit CO 2. Source: EIA.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 11, 2022

EIA also published its annual Summer Electricity Industry Outlook , which forecasts that continued US economic growth will increase electricity use by 0.4% EIA forecasts that retail sales of electricity to the industrial sector will grow by 2.8% of US electricity generation this summer, up from 9.6% and by 1.5%

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Electrek

AUGUST 9, 2021

Florida utility Tampa Electric Co. has announced it will retire three coal units and double its solar output within two years. more… The post A Florida utility ditches coal, doubles its solar, and leaves out a big part of its story appeared first on Electrek.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2018

All large-scale energy systems have environmental impacts, and the ability to compare the impacts of renewable energy sources is an important step in planning a future without coal or gas power. In the journal Joule , Harvard researchers report the most accurate modelling yet of how increasing wind power would affect climate.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2013

The largest drop in emissions in 2012 came from coal, which is used almost exclusively for electricity generation. During 2012, particularly in the spring and early summer, low natural gas prices led to competition between natural gas- and coal-fired electric power generators.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2013

The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) has taken steps to transition out of the use of coal-fired electricity earlier than mandated by California state law. LADWP currently owns a 21% interest in the 2250 megawatt (MW) Navajo Generating Station, receiving 477 MW of coal-fired power from the plant.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2012

CPS Energy of San Antonio has signed a Power Purchase Agreement for approximately 200 MW of power from the Texas Clean Energy Project (TCEP), located just west of Midland-Odessa. The agreement marks the first US purchase by a utility of low-carbon power from a commercial-scale, coal-based power plant utilizing carbon capture.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 6, 2020

In the short- to medium-term, hydrogen technology could be used to replace compressed natural gas (CNG) in some areas with minor changes to the existing infrastructure, according to GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company. The availability of these sources is not always commensurate with demand for power.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 9, 2017

In 2016, about 57% of India’s steel was produced using electric-based methods—the second-highest proportion of electric-based steel production among major steel producers, behind only the United States, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). Most other large producers use basic oxygen steelmaking processes.

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