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WEBFossil Phaseout Pledge at Risk as UN Climate Finance Negotiations Bog Down. Petrostates preparing for this year’s United Nations climate summit, COP29, are pushing to roll back the signature commitment to phase out fossil fuels that countries adopted at the end of last year’s COP negotiations. Energy Politics.
‘Massive Victory’ for Nuclear as Three Mile Island Plant Set to …
WEB15 hours ago · Primary Author: Marc Levy and Marc O’Brien. The owner of the shuttered Three Mile Island nuclear power plant said Friday that it plans to restart the reactor under a 20-year agreement that calls for tech giant Microsoft to buy the power to supply its data centres with carbon-free energy. The announcement by Constellation Energy, the country ...
Regulations Work Best to Bring On ‘Positive Tipping Points’, Hit …
WEB15 hours ago · Governments have just five years to cut enough emissions to limit global temperature rise to 1.5°C, and regulation is needed to push key sectors towards positive decarbonization tipping points where “the new technology becomes more attractive than the old,” says a new report from the University of Exeter.
Massive New Alberta Pipeline Pitches Decarbonization Amid …
WEB15 hours ago · The CCS industry itself has admitted the technology falls short of the decarbonization goals it committed to a decade ago. In May, Edmonton-based Capital Power canceled its C$2.4-billion CCS project, despite previously claiming that “CCS is a technically viable technology,” after determining the project was “not economically feasible.”.
Manitoba Plans 600-MW Wind Procurement with Majority …
WEB15 hours ago · Now, the Winnipeg Free Press says the loan guarantee will be included in the 2025 provincial budget, and Manitoba Hydro will issue a call for expressions of interest in wind projects with at least 51% Indigenous ownership. The utility will be looking to those projects for up to 600 MW of new generating capacity.
Germany Won’t Need Canadian Gas as Renewables Surge, Green …
WEB15 hours ago · Germany will be looking to Canada for green hydrogen exports, but not so much for natural gas, as the country continues its shift off fossil fuels, the country’s climate envoy told Canadian media late last week. “All studies show that the market is going to shrink,” Jennifer Morgan, Germany’s first-ever state secretary and special envoy ...
Cleantech Sector ‘Energized’ By U.S. Fed Rate Cut
WEB15 hours ago · On September 18, for the first time in four years, the U.S. Federal Reserve lowered its benchmark interest rate—the rate at which banks lend one another reserve money overnight—by half a percentage point to about 4.9%.. The rate cut’s importance by itself is minimal and won’t immediately have dramatic effects for most businesses’ day-to-day decisions, columnist Paul Krugman wrote in ...
Ontario’s Latest Plan to Acquire Electricity Supply Could Sideline ...
WEB15 hours ago · Barney Panofsky/Twitter. Ontario’s latest call for new electricity projects, which ditched its focus on non-emitting resources to open the door to fossil fuels, may end up proving unfavourable for some renewables projects, say experts. Working to address the province’s rising demand, Ontario’s Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO ...
California Hits 100% Renewables for (Parts of) 100 Days Straight
WEBAug 20, 2024 · SHARES. California recently hit a new renewable energy milestone: 100 days of 100% renewable energy powering the state’s electricity grid, run by the California Independent System Operator (CAISO), for at least part of the day. Mark Jacobson, director of the Atmosphere/Energy program at Stanford University, posted …
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