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Month: November 2022

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SaskPower announces 700 MW of new renewable generation for south-central Saskatchewan

November 29, 2022 Energi Staff

According to SaskPower, the government of Saskatchewan has approved 700 megawatts (MW) of new renewable generation to be added in the south-central area of the province by 2027. The new capacity will include 400 MW [Read more]

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IEA welcomes Indonesia’s Just Energy Transition Partnership

November 29, 2022 Energi Staff

This article was published by the International Energy Agency on Nov. 16, 2022. IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol heralded the new Just Energy Transition Partnership that Indonesia and a group of leading economies launched at [Read more]

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Swift reduction in global coal emissions key to reaching climate targets

November 29, 2022 Energi Staff

This article was published by the International Energy Agency on Nov. 15, 2022. The world must move quickly to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from coal significantly in order to avoid severe impacts from climate change, [Read more]

Opinion

A call to clean energy

November 28, 2022 Energi Staff

This article was published by the International Monetary Fund By Fatih Birol The global energy crisis is fuelling fierce debate around the world over which new energy projects should or shouldn’t go ahead. Conversations about [Read more]

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Nearly a quarter of the operating U.S. coal-fired fleet scheduled to retire by 2029

November 24, 2022 Energi Staff

This article was published by the US Energy Information Administration on Nov. 7, 2022. By M. Tyson Brown Due to continued competition from natural gas and renewable resources, 23 per cent of the 200,568 megawatts [Read more]

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U.S. electric-generating capacity for combined-cycle natural gas turbines growing

November 24, 2022 Energi Staff

This article was published by the US Energy Information Administration on Nov. 4, 2022. By Mark Morey Eight new natural gas-fired combined-cycle gas turbine (CCGT) power plants have come online or will come online in [Read more]

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France to require all large parking lots to be covered by solar panels

November 24, 2022 Energi Staff

This article was published by Grist on Nov. 14, 2022. By Alex Lawson This story was originally published by The Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. All large car parks in France will [Read more]

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Draft COP27 agreement fails to call for ‘phase-down’ of all fossil fuels

November 24, 2022 Energi Staff

This article was published by Grist on Nov. 18, 2022. By Sandra Laville & Bibi van der Zee This story was originally published by The Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The United Nations climate [Read more]

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Tuvalu joins call for an international treaty to stop fossil fuel expansion

November 14, 2022 Energi Staff

This article was published by Grist on Nov. 9, 2022. By Joseph Lee The island nation of Tuvalu has become the second country in the world to call for an international Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty. Modelled [Read more]

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Biden touts methane crackdown at COP27

November 14, 2022 Energi Staff

This article was published by Grist on Nov. 11, 2022. By Emily Pontecorvo President Joe Biden made a brief appearance at COP27, the annual United Nations climate conference, on Friday to try and convince the [Read more]

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Countries pledged to slash methane, but are still replacing coal with natural gas

November 14, 2022 Energi Staff

This article was published by Grist on Oct. 5, 2022. By Emily Pontecorvo Just over a year ago, President Joe Biden joined with Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, to announce the Global [Read more]

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Will offshore wind bring ‘good-paying, union jobs’? Texas workers aren’t so sure.

November 14, 2022 Energi Staff

This article was published by Grist on Oct. 14, 2022. By Emily Pontecorvo The Biden administration is gearing up to turn the Gulf of Mexico, long a hub for offshore oil and gas drilling, into [Read more]

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Starved of new talent: Young people steering clear of oil jobs

November 14, 2022 Energi Staff

This article was published by Grist on Oct. 18, 2022. By Kate Yoder In late May, António Guterres, the secretary-general of the United Nations, stood in blue graduation robes in front of a podium at [Read more]

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NASA satellite launched to detect dust discovers huge methane leaks

November 14, 2022 Energi Staff

This article was published by Grist on Oct. 28, 2022 By Avery Schuyler Nunn On the evening of July 14, NASA launched the Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation, or EMIT, 250 miles up to perch on [Read more]

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The world’s healthiest forests are on Indigenous land. Here’s why.

November 14, 2022 Energi Staff

This article was published by Grist on Oct. 28, 2022. By Joseph Lee The world’s healthiest, most biodiverse, and most resilient forests are located on protected Indigenous lands. That’s according to a new study that suggests that [Read more]

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NET Power to build near-zero emissions natural gas-fired power plant in Permian Basin

November 14, 2022 Energi Staff

NET Power plans to develop and build the world’s first utility-scale natural gas-fired power plant with near-zero atmospheric emissions. The company says the project will fully integrate power production with transportation and underground sequestration of [Read more]

Markham on Energy

Fall statement exposes flaw of Liberal economic policy: weak industrial policy

November 3, 2022 Markham Hislop

“…what Canadian workers need is a government with a real, robust industrial policy…” – Chrystia Freeland fall statement remarks “The global green transition calls for an industrial transformation comparable in scale only to the Industrial [Read more]

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Norway remains a significant natural gas supplier to the European Union

November 3, 2022 Energi Staff

This article was published by the US Energy Information Administration on Nov. 1, 2022. By Kimberly Peterson Norway is among the top 10 natural gas-producing nations in the world and has always been an important [Read more]

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U.S. construction costs drop for solar, rise for wind and natural gas generators

November 3, 2022 Energi Staff

This article was published by the US Energy Information Administration on Nov. 3, 2022. By Alex Mey Construction costs for solar photovoltaic systems continued to decrease in the United States in 2020; the capacity-weighted average [Read more]

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Record-high EV sales in Canada

November 3, 2022 Energi Staff

This article was published by the Canada Energy Regulator on Oct. 26, 2022. Electric vehicle (EV) sales are increasing in Canada and across the world.(1) A record 86,032 electric vehicles were registered in Canada in [Read more]

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Huge battery plant subsidies are price Canada pays for lagging in clean energy industry

by Markham Hislop in Markham on Energy

China dominates clean energy industry, US and Europe race to catch up Government subsidies totalling $28.2 billion for two Ontario battery plants require 20-year pay back, according to Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) Yves Giroux. Clean [Read more]

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