Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2024 17:05:30 +0000
On one hand, 2024 is likely to be the year of global peak energy emissions. “It is a historic moment,” cheers the World Economic Forum (WEF) in this year’s edition of DNV’s Energy Transition Outlook. On the other hand, we have so much more work to do before we can … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2024 04:30:02 +0000
This is an interesting story, and I have to say I knew nothing about this region’s electricity grid before today. The US Department of Energy has the full, long story, but I’m going to summarize it and cut to the chase in parts. The focus is Alaska’s Railbelt electric grid, … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2024 19:26:38 +0000
For the past eight years, the United States has been missing in action in climate leadership globally. Biden’s climate policy experiments, aimed as much at attempting to deal with the root causes of working class and middle class grievance as at useful emissions reductions, will persist in some diminished form. … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Cynthia Shahan| Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2024 04:13:49 +0000
Shared Micromobility Trips in North America Averaged 1.5 Miles and 15 Minutes in 2023 The typical shared micromobility trip in North America in 2023 was 1.5 miles and 15 minutes long. E-bike excursions were the longest on average, covering 2.0 miles and lasting 20.3 minutes. Pedal bike journeys averaged 1.4 … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2024 18:16:48 +0000
In the 1990s, numerous countries both within and outside Europe launched vehicle scrappage schemes with multiple goals. Greece, Hungary, Denmark, Spain, France, Ireland, Norway, and Italy each implemented programs during this period, aimed at scrapping older cars to promote the purchase of newer, safer, and more efficient vehicles. For example, … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2024 18:25:38 +0000
Tuesday’s election, which will return Donald Trump to the White House and grant the U.S. Senate a Republican majority, could have sizeable implications for the power industry. In reactions sent […]
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Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2024 15:32:45 +0000
Headlines out of Canada are making palms meet faces around the world. In Canada, the faces are often red with embarrassment about other Canadian’s actions. Other faces are red with anger. But it’s all theatrics during the inevitable dissolution of the oil sands. What are the headlines? Alberta’s ruling party … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2024 18:50:43 +0000
One of the amusing side notes of my recent foray into the challenges that the Canadian Urban Transit Research and Innovation Consortium (CUTRIC) is having was the tone deaf and counterproductive social media responses of their board member from Enbridge, the biggest natural gas firm in North America. When that … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2024 22:55:35 +0000
Wind energy investors are finding a friendly home in Texas, partly on account of the rising demand for electricity from oil and gas operations.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2024 19:15:12 +0000
The latest research claims gas stoves kill up to 40,000 people a year in the EU and UK. So why are so many committed to using them?
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