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Unraveling LA’s Hydrogen Combustion Experiment

Legal Planet

Green hydrogen––produced with renewable electricity and water­­––is often described as a tool for decarbonizing the challenging last 10% of greenhouse gas emissions. Natural gas plants retrofitted to blend hydrogen, supporters insist, can cheaply and reliably fill this need with infrastructure that already exists.

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The European Energy Transition is well underway and accelerating

Edouard Stenger

Renewables now account for 44% of the EU electricity mix and wind power is now producing more electricity than natural gas. Spain reached this milestone with solar PV accounting for 14 %, solar thermal, 1,8 % ; wind power 23,5% ; hydro 9,5 % and other renewables : 1,4 %. and 9 GW of onshore wind.

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Circle of Blue - Untitled Article

Circle of Blue

Hydropower generation across California and the American West has declined in this extremely dry year, meaning that electricity providers will lean more heavily on natural gas, solar, and wind power. In recent years, systems began capturing energy from that biogas and using it to produce electricity or natural gas.

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Bad News: Ontario offers contracts for six new polluting gas projects

Enviromental Defense

In the middle of a climate crisis, Ontario is following through on what it said it would do by announcing a flurry of “naturalgas plant projects across Southern Ontario. Naturalgas… sounds good, right? The name is a misleading and cunning rebrand of fossil gas by the oil and gas industry.

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Ontario could easily phase out polluting fossil gas – if it wanted to

Enviromental Defense

Ontario has a large potential supply of wind and solar energy that could be developed to help phase-out dirty gas plants. It estimated that we would need an additional 843 MW of solar and an additional 4,545 MW of wind capacity (along with a basket of other sources) to ensure the province’s energy needs are met. .

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Ontario: Now is the time to increase renewable energy, not fossil gas

Enviromental Defense

Ontario has a successful track record when it comes to building renewable power. Between 2005 and 2017 Ontario phased-out coal plants, reducing greenhouse gas pollution from our electricity system by 93 per cent. And between 2009 and 2016, Ontario built over 2000 MW of solar power and about 3000 MW of wind power.

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Op-ed: We can grow the economy, strengthen security — and reduce emissions

Cresforum

In the Unites States’ march to transition to clean energy and reduce greenhouse gasses, resilience may be the most important word to summarize 2021. In 2021, solar and wind power were built at a record pace due to surging demand by companies, households and sound economics. produced natural gas grew 9.4