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GM reduced energy intensity and carbon intensity per vehicle in 2013

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One of the challenges we face is that our 2020 renewable energy goal was based on doubling solar capacity by 2015. Complexity of solar purchase power agreements and the cost competitiveness of solar energy in various regions of the world are impacting the pace at which we can add solar capacity. MWh per vehicle.

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Our Energy crisis is self made in europe

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We have started to find out the hard way that wind and solar are pitiful in winter especially when we have no meaningful wind for days on end. Europe has made its own bed, disassembling dispatchable fuel diversity by closing well-operating coal and nuclear power plants. Meghan O’Sullivan. In the U.K.,

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Solar Smackdown in Torrance – Installer Sues City on Behalf of the Sun

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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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EU greenhouse gas emissions from transport increased for the second year in a row in 2015; on-road up 1.6%

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if emissions from international aviation are excluded. Spain, Italy and the Netherlands accounted for the largest increases in greenhouse gas emissions in the EU. Other findings for the year 2015: The reduction in total EU greenhouse gas emissions compared with 1990 was 23.7% Electricity production from hydro and nuclear declined.

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IEEE Discusses 6 Simple Solutions to Climate Change at COP27

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At COP27, he said that even though the first legally binding international treaty on climate change, known as the Paris Agreement , was adopted nearly a decade ago, countries have yet to come to a consensus on how to stop burning fossil fuels, among other issues. One type is the ultrasupercritical coal-fired steam power plant.