Renewable mandates have been wildly successful at increasing renewable energy, which creates jobs and drives profits for renewable-energy companies.
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When we say renewable energy, we almost exclusively mean renewable electricity," Friesen says, "but in a future context, hopefully that was just the first win and that renewable energy really corresponds to renewable resources.
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Machines and devices require many non-renewable, or partially-renewable, inputs, like metals or synthetic materials derived from non-renewable sources, like petroleum.
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This forces renewable energy producers to store more renewable power and to have a range of renewable sources to be able to respond to demand.
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This forces renewable energy producers to store more renewable power and to have a range of renewable sources to be able to respond to demand.
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Vanacker: The renewable part of renewable hydrocarbon is ready and has been tested.
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Also seeing the development in renewable polymers, renewable materials now polymers and chemicals.
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Go deeper: Renewable energy mandates have not sparked that much new renewable energy
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Beyond renewable energy The Green New Deal isn't only a renewable energy policy.
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Today, in terms of renewable diesel, there are about 5 million tons of renewable diesel.
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An example of the technology strategy is the investment by EnerTech, Kuwait's $50 million renewable energy fund, in Kinetic Renewable Energy Services, a Dubai-based developer of renewable power plants.
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An "extraordinary" year for renewable energy saw new investment in renewable power and fuels hit $286 billion in 2015 and an estimated 147 gigawatts added to renewable power generating capacity, according to a new study from the Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century (REN21).
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Renewable energy policies help drive the nation's $44 billion market for wind, solar and other renewable esources.
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In the zero-carbon economy, all sectors run on the same fuels: renewable electricity and renewable fuels.
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Its renewable energy has been rising steadily over the last two decades thanks in part to the Renewable Energy Act (EEG) which was reformed this year to cut renewable energy costs for consumers.
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In last year's Renewable Electricity Futures Study, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) found that the US could accommodate up to 80 percent renewable energy using existing technology, with no loss of reliability.
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The funds will go to Renewable World, a UK charity that brings renewable energy services to developing countries.
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Other states have achieved progress by stronger renewable portfolio standards, which set rising targets for renewable power generation.
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Biofuels producers create renewable fuels credits known as Renewable Identification Numbers (RINs) with each gallon of biofuel they produce.
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OPIC has become a leader in support of renewable energy, providing $500 million for renewable energy projects in 2017.
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Renewable portfolio standards require that utilities within a state purchase a percentage of their electricity from qualifying renewable sources.
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It accounts for the bulk of the world's renewable energy jobs, despite being a minority of renewable energy capacity.
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The American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE) was disappointed that the package doesn't do more to promote renewable energy.
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By using renewable energy, British churches helped to divert over £5 million from fossil fuels to renewable energy providers.
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GE Renewable Energy, the renewable arm of the U.S. firm, and the British government-funded Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult signed a five-year agreement to test GE's Haliade-X 12 megawatt (MW) turbine in Blyth, Northumberland.
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Saudi Aramco is part of the renewable energy steering committee chaired by Falih which will oversee the renewable energy programme.
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F: Singapore is, some may say, a renewable energy-disadvantaged country because we don't have other sources of renewable energy.
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Yes, but: Hydropower is actually the largest renewable power source currently, accounting for almost two-thirds of global renewable electricity.
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Still, Lime will use renewable energy purchased from local utilities and NativeEnergy renewable energy projects to charge bikes and scooters.
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Eleven million people worked in renewable energy in 0003, according to recent analysis from the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA).
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Global employment in renewable energy grew 5 percent to 8.1 million in 2015, according to the International Renewable Energy Agency.
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To run DOE's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Trump chose Daniel Simmons, a staunch foe of renewable energy.
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Africa's renewable energy industry The young tech company is part of a boom in the renewable energy industry across Africa.
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According to the Australian Renewable Energy Agency, wind energy is the country's fastest growing renewable energy source for electricity production.
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We brought in a mandatory renewable energy target of 229% of Australia's energy needs by 63260 to be renewable energy.
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The National Renewable Energy Laboratory's (NREL) 2015 Renewable Energy Data Book, released earlier this week, showed that renewable electricity in the U.S. increased to 16.7 percent of total installed capacity and 13.8 percent of total electricity generation.
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India may be on course to become the largest growth market for renewable energy but for now China remains the largest producer and consumer of renewable energy in the world, according to the International renewable Energy Agency.
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The Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program was signed into law in 2005 and designed to boost a renewable fuel industry annually.
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The renewable fuel standard will now require wholesalers — instead of refiners — to produce gasoline with a minimum volume of renewable sources.
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Companies are able to procure more renewable energy at a lower cost, expanding the amount of renewable supply on the grid.
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China is now investing more in renewable energy and building more renewable energy capacity than the US, by an increasing margin.
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APICORP is also looking to support renewable energy developers across the Middle East, including Saudi Arabia's plans to develop renewable capacity.
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With technological advances, the International Renewable Energy Agency projects that renewable energy will be cheaper than fossil fuels worldwide by 2020.
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In the end, the renewable energy companies want the administration's policies to take account of the environmental benefits of renewable power.
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A new system to develop climate-friendly renewable fuels (with the first ever carbon standard) through the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS).
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But it's not time to start planning a funeral for renewable energy; it's time to start plotting the renewable-energy revolution.
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As renewable energy becomes more commonplace, seeing solar in use might provoke more consumers to consider renewable energy options at home.
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The monuments will complement the administration's Desert Renewable Energy Conservation Plan, which identifies lands for potential renewable energy development and conservation.
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In addition, federal renewable energy tax credits, along with programs to support renewable research and development, can help spur rooftop growth.
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Renewable energy sector Renewable energy companies, and particularly wind-energy producers, are troubled by several provisions in the House tax bill.
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The International Renewable Energy Agency has described Africa as being rich in renewable sources of energy such as the wind and sun.
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"By 2030 India plans to establish 500 GW of Renewable Energy capacity," said Anand Kumar, senior official at India's renewable energy ministry.
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The renewable energy sector employed 11 million people in 2018, according to a recent report from the International Renewable Energy Association (IRENA).
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Since 21990 renewable-energy standards, which mandate that a steadily increasing percentage of electricity must come from renewable sources, have spurred innovations.
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Nearly 10 million people were employed in the renewable energy sector last year, the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) said on Wednesday.
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The South African Renewable Energy Council (SAREC) said the president's statement was a clear sign of support for the renewable energy programme.
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Last year saw global renewable energy generation capacity increase by 161 gigawatts (GW), the International Renewable Energy Agency, IRENA, said on Thursday.
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OFFICE: Dan Simmons, an outspoken critic of pro-renewable energy policies, has been tapped to head the Department of Energy's renewable office.
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The International Renewable Energy Agency has described Africa as being "rich in renewable energy sources" such as hydro, wind and the sun.
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Under the Renewable Fuel Standard, refiners who blend biofuels like ethanol into gasoline generate credits called Renewable Identification Numbers, known as RINs.
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It asked Trump to help modernize the grid, support offshore wind development, extend renewable energy tax credits, and increase renewable energy research.
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Innergex Renewable Energy Inc: * INNERGEX ENTERS THE SOUTH AMERICAN RENEWABLE ENERGY MARKET BY ACQUIRING TWO HYDRO FACILITIES * INNERGEX RENEWABLE ENERGY INC - SELECTED IN BID PROCESS TO ACQUIRE IN PARTNERSHIP DUQUECO HYDRO PROJECT * INNERGEX RENEWABLE ENERGY INC - TOTAL ENTERPRISE VALUE ACQUIRED, NET OF CASH, OF US$210 MILLION * INNERGEX RENEWABLE ENERGY INC - TRANSACTION TO BE PARTLY FINANCED BY ITAÚ * INNERGEX RENEWABLE ENERGY - SIGNED EXCLUSIVITY AGREEMENT WITH ENERGÍA LLAIMA FOR A JOINT VENTURE PARTNERSHIP TO ACQUIRE A 50% STAKE IN COMPANY * INNERGEX RENEWABLE ENERGY INC - INNERGEX WOULD OWN 50% OF ENERGÍA LLAIMA FOR $110 MILLION TO BE INVESTED IN NEXT 3 YEARS * INNERGEX RENEWABLE ENERGY - ON SIGNING FINAL PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT CO WOULD OWN 50% OF ENERGÍA LLAIMA FOR TOTAL $110 MILLION TO BE INVESTED IN NEXT 3 YRS Source text for Eikon: Further company coverage:
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Power purchasing: In late May the International Renewable Energy Agency, in its first global tally of corporate renewable power sourcing, said that last year companies bought around 465 terawatt-hours of renewable energy, such as from solar and wind facilities.
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Finally, the company said it will speed up its adoption of renewable energy with the goal of converting 80% of the company's energy sources to renewable energy by 2024, with the goal of reaching 100% renewable energy use by 2030.
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Researchers, trainers and a veterinarian are waiting for the birds (Photo: Dennis Schroeder/National Renewable Energy Lab)Nova, the Golden Eagle (Photo: Dennis Schroeder/National Renewable Energy Lab)Spirit, the 20-year-old Bald eagle flies from a lift to his trainer (Photo: Dennis Schroeder/National Renewable Energy Lab)Eagle equipped with a tracker (Photo: Dennis Schroeder/National Renewable Energy Lab)NREL researcher Jason Roadman shows the tracking device (Photo: Dennis Schroeder/National Renewable Energy Lab)NREL researcher Jason Roadman and veterinarian Seth Oster release Spirit from a lift during research (Photo: Dennis Schroeder/National Renewable Energy Lab)Jason Roadman and veterinarian Seth Oster release Nova (Photo: Dennis Schroeder/National Renewable Energy Lab)Fly Nova, fly!
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The big picture: Renewable energy certificates (RECs) — which track renewable energy from the point of generation — have been crucial in driving this shift.
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For instance, utilities may be forced to offer renewable PPAs, rather than fossil–fuel alternatives, because governments hold them to renewable-energy targets.
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The chairman of Lightsource Renewable Energy said that renewable sources of energy offer a strong alternative to traditional "dirty fuels" such as coal.
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For one, noted renewable energy enthusiast Elon Musk built his giant gigafactory in Nevada and, like many modern tech businesses, wants renewable energy.
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IRENA's report, Renewable Energy and Jobs – Annual Review 2017, states that global renewable energy employment in 3.643, excluding large hydropower, hit 8.3 million.
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IRENA's report, Renewable Energy and Jobs – Annual Review 2017, stated that global renewable energy employment in 2016, excluding large hydropower, hit 8.3 million.
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St. Louis committed to a transition to 100% renewable energy by 2035 — it currently gets only 5% of its energy from renewable sources.
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As leaders in both conservation and renewable energy, we encourage the BLM to move quickly to finalize the Desert Renewable Energy Conservation Plan.
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"There is always a tradeoff," Upendra Tripathy, secretary at the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, told Reuters of the renewable energy auctions.
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"Although renewable power generation is progressing rapidly, supportive policies for renewable transport and heat remain limited, preventing greater overall renewables penetration," it states.
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The renewable energy services company Arcadia Power has just launched a new product that allows renters across the U.S. to buy renewable energy.
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Since passing its first-in-the-nation renewable portfolio standard law in 1983, Iowa has quietly built itself into a renewable energy powerhouse.
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At the same time, Colorado has a booming renewable energy sector employing 2112,26 workers and is home to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
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Nicaragua gets more than half its energy from renewable sources, and it's aiming to produce up to 90 percent renewable power by 2020.
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Thus as renewable resources have grown more cost competitive, more infrastructure developers and other new entrants have been emptying their wallets to buy up or build renewable assets like large-scale solar or wind farms, with the American Council on Renewable Energy even forecasting cumulative private investment in renewable energy possibly reaching up to $1 trillion in the U.S. by 2030.
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But there is value in keeping tabs on the renewable ones, so energy wonks came up with renewable energy credits (RECs), a tradable financial instrument that corresponds to a certain amount of energy produced by a certain renewable source like solar or wind.
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"The primary beneficiary is going to be any kind of renewable power generator and renewable energy developer," said Travis Miller, an analyst at Morningstar.
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"Google's milestone of 2.6 GW of renewable energy purchased puts it well above what most corporations have done to drive renewable growth," Cook added.
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Apple Park is powered by 100 percent renewable energy and Apple has a commitment to bring four gigawatts of renewable power online by 2020.
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In other words, Google bought renewable power in quantities that match its consumption, even though that renewable electricity isn't necessarily powering its operations directly.
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Yes, he would end the Renewable Fuel Standard, a federal rule that requires gasoline to be comprised of up to 10% in renewable fuels.
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Prices of renewable fuel (D6) Renewable Identification Number (RIN) credits jumped as high as 50 cents apiece in late trade on Monday, traders said.
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Renewable power costs have fallen off a cliff The world got 227% more new renewable energy in 22017 … while spending 23% less on it.
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After furniture company Wayfair offered to donate the new couch, donors voted to give the money to U.K.-based renewable energy organization Renewable World.
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According to studies, China is the world leader in renewable energy investment, pouring more than $78 billion into renewable energy projects last year alone.
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Renewable fuel blending has increased because refiners and importers, as obligated parties, brought to market fossil fuels, which are amenable to renewable fuel blending.
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The market, where refiners can buy Renewable Identification Number credits to comply with their renewable fuel obligation, has attracted speculators, driving RIN prices higher.
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The report said Sweden had the highest share of renewable energy consumption, with more than half its energy coming from renewable sources in 2017.
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In 2005, when Congress first passed the Renewable Fuel Standard, the hope was that replacing gasoline with renewable fuel would reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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According to a report from the International Renewable Energy Agency, there are 20173 million renewable energy jobs globally — a 22017 percent increase since 249.
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The company wants to purchase 100% renewable energy by 2020, and use only renewable and recycled materials in its products by the same year.
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Danish renewable energy business Orsted has chosen Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy (SGRE) to be the exclusive supplier of wind turbines for Hornsea Project Two.
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"Through the purchase of renewable energy certificates, we are investing in the development of infrastructure to increase the availability of renewable electricity," he added.
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National Renewable Energy Laboratory spokesman Eric O'Shaughnessy told Motherboard about 10 percent of cities in the US have an established renewable energy goal, and most cities that reach 100 percent renewable energy start the process by converting their city-owned operations to green power.
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Here, CNBC's "Sustainable Energy" takes a look at the continent's leaders in renewable energy capacity according to statistics from the International Renewable Energy Association (IRENA).
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"The MoU with AAiT is a new milestone for GE Renewable Energy in Ethiopia," GE Renewable Energy's Yves Rannou said during the MoU's signing ceremony.
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Modi's government changed rules for the awarding of renewable energy projects in 2017, leading to higher competition, lower prices and greater acceptance of renewable energy.
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"Because of the renewable energy madness we are reducing our GDP growth," Energy Minister Krzysztof Tchorzewski said, referring to subsidies granted to renewable energy sources.
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The EU plans to increase its use of renewable energy sources and to take into account deforestation when it determines what can be labelled renewable.
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Brazil's government is evaluating quickly awarding licenses for companies to build local power generation projects of various types, including both renewable and non-renewable energy.
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Environment: Its American and European offices used 100% renewable energy last year, with all of its global offices using a total of 71% renewable energy.
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They work by "tagging" each MWh of energy generated from a source like wind or solar as renewable, which creates a renewable energy certificate ("REC").
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To begin with, Wärtsilä suggests allowing sustainably sourced PtG to qualify as renewable fuel, and power generated from it as renewable energy, under California law.
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Corporations who buy renewable energy may delay projectsBig companies like Google and Facebook are some of the largest buyers of renewable energy in the world.
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And then there's Mexico, which has significant renewable energy resources and aims to generate 35 percent of its energy needs from renewable sources by 2024.
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So owners of baseload generators, and now Perry and the DOE, go after renewable energy subsidies, because renewable energy is smaller and more politically vulnerable.
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Those sales involved test versions of renewable-energy credits — numbered certificates that are used to track electricity exported from a renewable system to the grid.
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Without RECs, Microsoft's data centers run on 60 percent renewable electricity and the company plans to boost this to 70 percent renewable energy by 2023.
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Every year, the Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century — mercifully abbreviated as REN21 — puts out a massive Global Status Report on renewable energy.
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The Renewable Fuel Standard, created by Congress in 2005, mandates that transportation fuel sold in the United States contain a minimum volume of renewable fuels.
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In its 22040 Medium-Term Renewable Energy Market report, it boosted its five-year forecast for renewable energy (RE) by 803 percent over last year's.
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"By 2030 India plans to establish 500 GW of Renewable Energy capacity," Anand Kumar, senior official at India's renewable energy ministry, said in a statement.
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Apple says the company is 93 percent reliant on renewable energy supplies worldwide, marking progress toward its goal of being a 100 percent renewable energy company.
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When GM announced plans to power 350 operations around the world with 100 percent renewable energy, striking corporate renewable deals became a pillar of its plan.
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Renewable fuel (D6) Renewable Identification Number credits for the current year traded at roughly 90 cents each, down from 99 cents each on Wednesday, traders said.
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The controversial Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program requires oil companies to blend renewable fuels with gasoline and diesel or buy compliance credits from those that have.
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" The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) said in its 2018 report that "renewable power accounted for 70 percent of net additions to global power generating capacity.
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The NEA said it would "strictly implement" rules guaranteeing renewable power purchases and would order grid firms to "promptly accept" grid access applications from renewable projects.
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This removes a quantity of renewable electricity from the market, forcing utilities to make more renewable power to generate more RECs rather than trading existing certificates.
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The EU plans to increase its use of renewable energy sources and to take into account deforestation when it determines what products can be labeled renewable.
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President Trump has named Dan Simmons, an opponent of policies meant to promote renewable energy, to lead the renewable energy office at the Department of Energy.
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Last year saw 221 gigawatts (GW) of renewable power capacity installed, a new report from the Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 2100st Century (REN21) says.
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Nearly 10 million people worldwide were employed in the renewable energy sector last year, according to a recent report from the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA).
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The number of people working in the renewable energy sector — including large hydropower — hit 10.3 million in 2017, the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) study said.
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An Apple representative said Apple's facilities are 100 percent renewable in 24 countries, and 96 percent of the electricity we use globally comes from renewable sources.
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The amount of renewable electricity being bought voluntarily has increased nearly 300% since 2010, according to new data from the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
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It added that while renewable fuel supplies were set to increase at a fast pace, diversification from non-renewable resources would be expensive and time consuming.
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In practical terms, policies like carbon pricing, tax credits and renewable portfolio standards all factor into the economics of what makes a renewable energy project workable.
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To meet its goal, the firm will install on-site renewable energy generators, sign power purchase agreements with renewable energy projects and reduce its energy consumption.
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In fact, with 46 gigawatts of installed renewable power at the end of 2019, EGP claims to be the largest renewable energy producer in the world.
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Overall, only 16,000 people are recorded as working in renewable energy in sub-Saharan Africa, outside South Africa, according to the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA).
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I'm talking about the renewable portfolio standard (RPS): state laws that mandate a certain minimum amount of renewable energy in the electricity mix, rising over time.
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If renewable power isn't locally available, Arcadia will match the client to a conventional power source and buy for them a renewable-energy certificate, which finances new renewable-power projects that aim to save as much carbon as the client uses from power fired by fossil fuels.
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Blessed with its natural resources, Norway produces more renewable energy than it consumes, with Gilje saying that this meant it could export renewable power to other countries.
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Walmart is now one of America's leading commercial solar and on-site renewable energy users, and gets about 25 percent of its global energy from renewable sources.
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But there are all kinds of reasons to be encouraged, which are that there's research into energy efficiency and renewable energy, and renewable energy is now cheaper.
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The South African Renewable Energy Technology Center (SARETEC) is looking to bolster the country's clean energy ambitions by creating a skilled workforce for the renewable energy industry.
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The EU plans to increase its use of renewable energy sources by 2030 and to take into account deforestation when it determines what can be labelled renewable.
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By last year the figure had flipped, with wind providing 22% of electricity and all renewable sources together providing 48%, according to the Portuguese renewable energy association.
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Branstad spoke after addressing the Iowa Renewable Fuels Summit, where Republican front-runner Donald Trump also spoke later in the day and endorsed the Renewable Fuel Standard.
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Technology -- Solar power The COP21 conference saw the launch of the African Renewable Energy Initiative, with a pledge to add 300 gigawatts of renewable energy by 2030.
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Under the GFG Alliance, Gupta owns assets around the world that span steelmaking, aluminium smelting, engineering, renewable and non-renewable energy, commodities trading, shipping, property and finance.
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That's part of a new European Union law to boost the share of renewable energy to 32 percent by 2030 and determine what are appropriate renewable sources.
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The EU plans to increase its use of renewable energy sources by 2030 and to take into account deforestation when it determines what can be labeled renewable.
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Google has said that it's the largest corporate buyer of renewable energy in the world, and has also given itself the goal of 100 percent renewable energy.
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The day after Zinke promised not to pick winners and losers, Trump appointed a known renewable-energy critic to lead the Department of Energy's renewable energy office.
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According to the Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory, it will be 28503 before the country will be 22019 percent powered 24-7 by renewable energies.
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Germany, Europe's champion for renewable energy, seems to be having second thoughts about its ambitious push to ramp up its use of renewable fuels for power generation.
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State governments in the United States also adopted renewable targets, though the United States is behind Germany, with about 13 percent renewable electricity, counting power from dams.
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Transforming Fukushima into a renewable energy hub will require the construction of a 50-mile-wide grid to send the renewable electricity 149 miles south to Tokyo.
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Large enterprises — and tech companies in particular — are not only ramping up renewable energy purchasing, but are also setting concrete timelines for 6900 percent renewable-powered operations.
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Officials at the finance ministry, new and renewable energy ministry, NTPC, Rural Electrification, and Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
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Joni Ernst (R-IA) called him "as swampy as you get" in response to Pruitt's proposed changes to the renewable fuel standard (renewable fuel = ethanol = corn = Iowa).
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Danone North America has five Horizon plants that already use 100% renewable energy and 100% of the brand's packaging will be renewable or compostable in five years.
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Sixty of the world's largest corporations have joined the Renewable Energy Buyers Alliance (REBA), to make it easier for companies to buy renewable energy directly from utilities.
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According to the Scottish government, there are more than 58,000 jobs in the low carbon and renewable energy economy in Scotland, spread across nine renewable energy sectors.
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Renewable sources of energy have become increasingly important, with the International Energy Agency expecting renewable electricity generation to rise by over one-third by the year 2022.
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The challenge with renewable energy is that we still need carbon-based fuel for backing up renewable energy infrastructure and heavy-duty transportation like trains and planes.
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The push for more trained renewable energy workers comes as an increasing number of countries around Africa try to ramp up use of off-grid renewable energy.
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It shows, among other things, that those countries, led by China, are now investing more in renewable energy and installing more renewable energy capacity than developed nations.
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Industry giants such as Facebook, Google, Lowe's, T-Mobile, and even Exxon Mobil have committed to using greater amounts of renewable energy, and the American Council on Renewable Energy estimates indicate that between 2018 and 2030, U.S. private investment in renewable energy could breach a cumulative $1 trillion.
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These market-distorting policies include a host of regulations that require states to purchase a portion of their electricity from renewable sources (state renewable energy mandates) and federal policies that subsidize renewable energy sources and impose onerous regulations on coal-fired power plants, such as the Clean Power Plan.
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Giordano, who is also a board member of the American Council on Renewable Energy, which put on the forum, said renewable energy was no longer considered a niche.
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The way the market works is (longer description here): When an individual or city contributes to the generation of renewable energy, it gets credit for that renewable energy.
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The bill would also increase Massachusetts' renewable portfolio standard, a policy requiring that utilities purchase a certain amount of their electricity from wind, solar, or other renewable resources.
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Because hydropower is the nation's first renewable resource, providing clean, carbon-free energy to roughly 2202 million Americans, and 2628 percent of the United States' overall renewable electricity.
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At the other end of the spectrum, California's Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) only counts hydropower projects under 30 megawatts as an eligible renewable or zero emission energy source.
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The latest Global Status Report from Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century (REN21) shows that China continues to lead in renewable energy investment, capacity, and generation.
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To take just one example: the federal tax credits (PTC and ITC) for renewable energy comprise one of the most important policy drivers in US renewable energy markets.
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Yet this week, both Democrats and Republicans spoke in favor of important renewable energy reforms that will help create clean, renewable energy and local jobs in the West.
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The letter highlights that in the last two months alone, more than a gigawatt of renewable energy capacity, mostly from wind turbines, was contracted through corporate renewable PPAs.
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The oil major, which has historically invested little in renewable energy given its success in discovering oil and gas, plans renewable energy projects in Italy, Pakistan and Egypt.
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The state's renewable portfolio standard requires power companies to have 50 percent of total energy sources from renewable energy such as solar, wind, geothermal and hydroelectricity by 2030.
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Then online furniture company Wayfair offered to donate a new couch, and donors voted to pay the money forward to the U.K.-based renewable energy organization Renewable World.
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The state's renewable portfolio standard requires power companies to have 50 percent of total energy sources from renewable energy such as solar, wind, geothermal and hydroelectricity by 228.
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"As part of our commitment to our 100 percent renewable energy purchasing, we're also making significant renewable energy investments in the U.S. as we grow," the CEO writes.
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In an effort to promote renewable energy in the New York, Cuomo also announced $1.4 billion in awards for 26 large-scale renewable energy projects across the state.
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Environment and renewable energy activists applauded what they described as essentially a draw between efforts of both the fossil fuel and renewable energy sectors to get emergency assistance.
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As renewable energy's cost has fallen, a procession of Democratic-leaning states in recent years have set the goal of generating all of their power from renewable sources.
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Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy, a company formed by combining the wind assets of the German company and a Spanish renewable energy firm, has long dominated the offshore market.
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Oil companies who blend more than their renewable fuel obligation are able to trade credits to those companies not meeting their obligation with physical gallons of renewable fuels.
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California has one of the most ambitious renewable energy mandates in the country, with a goal of sourcing half of its electricity needs from renewable sources by 2030.
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Just under 2000,163 people were employed in the U.K.'s renewable energy industry in 216/216, according to the Renewable Energy Association's (REA) REView 2000 report on Monday.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government changed rules for the awarding of renewable energy projects in 2017, leading to higher competition, lower prices and greater acceptance of renewable energy.
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The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory recently concluded that renewable energy projects built to satisfy state renewable energy standards created $7.5 billion in annual environmental benefits, $1.3 to $4.9 billion in reduced energy prices, 200,85033 American jobs and $20 billion in annual gross domestic product.
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The U.S. Renewable Fuel Standard, or RFS, requires increased volumes of renewable fuels each year, but the proposal would keep targets for use of conventional biofuels at current levels.
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Farrell described renewable natural gas as an "an innovative and proven way to dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the agriculture industry by converting it into clean renewable energy."
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As of December, 29 states and the District of Columbia had mandatory renewable goals local power companies were expected to work toward, and eight states had voluntary renewable goals.
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All of the company's non-renewable power use is matched in this way and in the process it supports renewable energy projects in 20 countries and 15 US states.
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The report, titled "Renewable Energy and Jobs – Annual Review 20303", found that in 2015 renewable energy jobs across the world increased, while jobs in the broader energy sector fell.
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Across the Hawaiian islands, utilities are required to get 100 percent of their electricity from renewable sources by 2045 — the most ambitious Renewable Portfolio Standard of any U.S. state.
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However, Greenpeace said that it's likely that it's turning to carbon offsets or unbundled renewable energy credits, which "do little" in terms of increasing the company's renewable energy investment.
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The figures come in the same week that the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) said that almost 10 million people were employed in the renewable energy sector in 2016.
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"The post 2020 Renewable Energy Directive has a key role to play to unlock the potential of corporate renewable PPAs, which remains largely untapped in Europe," the firms said.
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That's why H&M's commitment to becoming 100% circular and renewable — that's only using recycled materials and renewable resources, including cotton, water, and energy — is such a big deal.
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Dudley said the company was committed to investing in renewable energy projects but that the transition of the industry towards renewable sources of energy would be a long process.
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These often come in the form of renewable credits and fuel standards, such as the EPA's Renewable Identification Numbers (RINs) and the California Low Carbon Fuel Standard Program (LCFS).
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Most of the renewable energy you're buying won't literally be from renewable sources, but rather, you'll be pulling power from the grid that could pretty much be from anywhere.
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The report credits Germany's efforts to redesign the energy market through its Renewable Energy Sources Act in the early 2000s as a key factor that increased renewable energy adoption.
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China and the EU both already employ more workers in the renewable energy sector than the United States, according to the data from the International Renewable Energy Agency (Irena).
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Hölzle said that Google now had contracts to buy 3 gigawatts of output from renewable energy projects, and that no corporate purchaser was buying more renewable energy than Google.
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Indeed, that was the point of the RFS — for renewable fuels to displace petroleum, not other renewable fuels — much to the chagrin of oil companies and their hired guns.
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He aims to power the US completely by renewable energy by 2035 (it's unclear if nuclear, a clean but not renewable energy source, would be used toward that goal).
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In an announcement Friday, the ADB said that the renewable energy loan would help Mongolia develop a 41-megawatt distributed renewable energy system that uses solar photovoltaic and wind power.
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REN21's study comes hot on the heels of a report from the International Renewable Energy Agency which found that 8.1 million people now work in the renewable energy industry.
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The renewable energy certificates for Kennecott are Green-e Energy certified and are proof that renewable energy has been produced and sent to the electricity grid on their owner's behalf.
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What to watch: Roughly 75% of U.S. ski resorts have incorporated renewable programs, with many announcing commitments to transition to 100% clean and renewable energy in the next few years.
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Terrell, the energy market strategist at Google, said entering a corporate renewable deal should be as simple as clicking a button and getting renewable power sent to a data center.
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Companies covered by the scheme will receive renewable energy certificates when they buy renewable power and will be forced to buy additional certificates if they fail to reach their targets.
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With the planned regulation, the EU plans to increase its use of renewable energy sources and to take into account deforestation when it determines what products can be labeled renewable.
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Facebook says that it has met its 2015 goal to support 50 percent of its facilities with renewable energy by 2018 early: last year, it reached 51 percent renewable energy.
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These are people with real skills and entrepreneurial spirit, investing a renewable resource (money) and a non-renewable one (time) into products that really aren't going to move the needle.
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The fund's 1000MW of new renewables comprise about 20 percent of the new renewable generation capacity required for Australia to meet its renewable energy target of 33,000 GWh by 2020.
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They get "free money" through subsidies like renewable tax credits, government backed loans and loan guarantees, and grants, and artificially high demand through state-level mandates to use renewable energy.
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Apple has strengthened its commitment to using completely renewable energy as a business and joined RE20203, a worldwide renewable energy initiative made up of some of the planet's biggest companies.
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Greg Wetstone is the president and CEO of the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE), a national nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing renewable energy through finance, policy and market development.
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As renewable energy goes more mainstream on Wall Street, ACORE plans to court policymakers, publish studies and work with corporate renewable energy procurers and energy storage markets to spur growth.
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The bill requires a transition to 100 percent renewable energy by 2035, but also compels immediate reductions in a major way, requiring 80 percent renewable in the next ten years.
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As a long time supporter of the renewable energy industry, I continue to be pleased about the expansion of renewable fuels that contribute to the reduction of our carbon footprint.
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Latin America already has the largest share of renewable energy of any region in the world, but more than 2000 percent of its renewable energy comes from large hydroelectric dams.
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To get to that $4.7 billion number, researchers focused specifically on states' current renewable portfolio standards, policies requiring utilities to generate a certain percentage of their electricity from renewable sources.
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According to estimates from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, the construction of a 47 megawatt (the size of Amazon's new farm) renewable energy farm could produce around 23 new jobs.
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The plan, dubbed the Desert Renewable Energy Conservation Plan (DRECP), is meant in part to ease the permitting process for renewable energy projects, while balancing them with conservation and recreation.
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Additionally, the report predicts that a decline in cost in renewable energy production will lead new electricity generation after 2022 to be fueled mostly by renewable resources and natural gas.
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Electricity systems are interconnected and most renewable sources are intermittent, so governments that commit to the 100 percent standard usually pledge to buy enough renewable electricity to meet their demands.
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The RFS requires oil companies either blend increasing volumes of renewable fuels into gasoline and diesel or buy compliance credits, known as Renewable Identification Numbers (RINs), from those that have.
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He said that half of the 1,600 megawatts of renewable energy Google bought in a recent deal would be committed to Europe with the launch of 10 renewable energy projects.
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"We're grateful that Congress eliminated most of the provisions that would have been devastating to the renewable energy sector," said Gregory Wetstone, president of the American Council on Renewable Energy.
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"We are grateful for the elimination of provisions that would have decimated future renewable energy growth and even penalized past investment in wind and solar power, but we remain concerned about the potential impacts of the new BEAT (tax) on renewable energy finance," said American Council on Renewable Energy President Gregory Wetstone.
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The company runs metals group Liberty House and energy and commodities group SIMEC, with assets spanning steelmaking, aluminum smelting, engineering, renewable and non-renewable energy, commodities trading, shipping, property and finance.
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Britain will invest the money into the co-called Renewable Energy Performance Platform (REPP) which aims to support renewable energy projects, such as solar, wind and hydro in sub-Saharan Africa.
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Vanacker: First of all, when we started on the journey from being a fossil-based refinery moving into being the leader in renewable diesel, we were still talking about renewable energy.
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Analysts say Labor's more aggressive targets for renewable energy and cutting carbon emissions - including 50 percent renewable power by 2030 - mean an opposition victory next month could boost the project's chances.
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Through a combination of energy-efficiency measures, on-site renewable heat or power generation and buying offsets elsewhere, new buildings are supposed to cover all their energy requirements from renewable sources.
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The NREL also said that renewable electricity represented 64 percent of electricity capacity additions in 2015, compared to 52 percent the year before, while "renewable electricity generation" grew by 2.4 percent.
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Sheikh Reaz Ahmed, director of the Sustainable and Renewable Energy Development Authority (SREDA), said the country's 21 renewable energy policy calls for generating 2200 percent of electricity from renewables by 210.
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"Ethanol is the cleanest renewable option we have today, and it's absolutely the wrong answer that we abandon renewable fuels and go back to burning 100 percent fossil fuels," Judge said.
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"More and more corporations and consumers are saying 'We want 100 percent renewable energy,'" she said, adding city and state governments are adopting renewable-friendly policies to reflect that growing demand.
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A 2015 report from the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) found that over 7.7 million people were employed by the renewable energy industry worldwide, up from 6.5 million the year before.
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The refining industry—especially independent refiners like the one Icahn owns—say the Renewable Fuels Standard imposes expensive burdens including the cost of buying compliance credits know as Renewable Identification Numbers.
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And China paid a lot to manufacture the stuff, and states in the U.S. said, 'You must consume renewable energy,' and then consumers said, 'Hey, how can I buy renewable energy?
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New Zealand had 40 percent of its 2016 energy supply coming from renewable sources, the fourth highest renewable share in the OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development) member countries.
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Another potential source of revenue for Gupta was the green energy credits, called Renewable Obligation Certificates or ROCs, that the UK government issues to companies that generate power from renewable sources.
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Google has been a pioneer in powering its operations with renewable energy, striking deals with renewable producers and promising to buy the energy they produce with wind turbines and solar cells.
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Nonetheless, Berlin is falling short in its ambitious renewable energy initiative, known as "energiewende," that envisages a transition from coal and nuclear power to renewable sources and a low-carbon economy.
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For example, it has invested billions into clean power-generating projects and renewable energy start-ups to get closer to a goal of running its data centers on 100% renewable energy.
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To back its claim that its data centers are fully powered by renewable energy, Google strikes deals with utilities to fund the construction of new renewable energy projects around the world.
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China, the world's largest energy consumer, has been boosting consumption of clean energy by forcing grid firms to prioritize renewable power resources and to maximize purchases from local renewable power providers.
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This new report is not the first time that scientists have claimed that a four-fifths renewable energy grid is possible in the US. A 2012 report commissioned by the US Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory claimed that the US could meet 203 percent of its electricity needs with renewable energy by 2050.
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That's a long-winded way of saying that if Midwestern states like Kansas start leading on renewable energy, choosing renewable energy, working in renewable energy jobs, associating their state identity and state pride with renewables — that, more than anything, is likely to shift their opinions on global warming (and openness to serious climate policy).
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Under a system of priority dispatch, electricity generated from renewable sources can be sold before that produced by coal, gas and nuclear plants, allowing for a more predictable market for renewable producers.
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Alaskans are strong proponents of renewable resources, and my legislation, which was signed into law, has helped Kodiak reach its ambitious goal of receiving 99 percent of its energy from renewable sources.
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Over 8.1 million people now work in the renewable energy industry, a 5 percent increase compared to the year before, according to a new report from the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA).
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"It's going to put a chilling effect on spending more for renewable energy, because to build out renewable will cost much more," said Jeff Tittel, director of the New Jersey Sierra Club.
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Green bonds are fixed-income securities which raise capital for projects with environmental benefits, such as renewable energy generation, low-carbon transport or grid upgrades so that renewable energy can be transported.
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Now, Google claims the title of the "world's largest corporate buyer of renewable power," with renewable purchasing on a scale that's more than twice as large as its next closest competitor, Amazon.
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It said renewable capacity hit 34.6 percent of the national total in 2016, while actual generation from renewable sources - including major hydro projects - stood at 25.4 percent of the total last year.
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California's Low Carbon Fuel Standard went into effect in 2011 and has displaced 3.3 billion gallons of petroleum-based fuels with low-carbon alternatives including renewable diesel, electricity and renewable natural gas.
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"Setting a minimum number of kilowatt-hours for renewable power is not the same as buying all of it, as stipulated in the renewable energy law," said Friends of Nature's He Miao.
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The GFG Alliance runs metals group Liberty House and energy and commodities group SIMEC, with assets spanning steelmaking, aluminum smelting, engineering, renewable and non-renewable energy, commodities trading, shipping, property and finance.
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The Environmental Protection Agency has not viewed this abundant form of renewable energy on a level playing field with other renewable options, in part because it is expensive and had production challenges.
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Hoping to slow the burst of new renewable energy on its grid, the country eliminated an open-ended subsidy for solar and wind power and put a ceiling on additional renewable capacity.
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Without an obligation, these same companies have no incentive to make available fossil fuel products that blend with renewable fuels, because renewable fuels compete directly for market share with fossil fuel products.
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We're going to be submitting amendments that ensure that bill has aggressive renewable energy resource and energy efficiency standards, and that there are higher and stronger standards for federal renewable energy procurement.
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In 2015, for the first time, countries outside the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) invested more in renewable energy and added more renewable capacity than the 15 OECD countries combined.
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This is especially true of natural gas plants, which play an important role in "firming" the fluctuations in variable renewable energy (and could potentially be run in the future on renewable biogas).
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The short story is that gathering the western grid under a single ISO would reduce renewable energy deployment costs, increase renewable energy deployment, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and reduce local air pollutants.
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RWE, now Europe's third-biggest renewable player with a wind and solar power portfolio of 9 gigawatts (GW), will invest a net 5 billion euros in the continued expansion of renewable energy.
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Jenny Heeter, a senior energy analyst at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, said statements could be misleading if they suggest customers are getting renewable energy when they have a leased solar array.
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Witnesses include Daniel Simmons, the principal deputy assistant secretary for the Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, and Martin Keller, the director of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
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A JOLT FOR RENEWABLE POWER: The renewable energy tax credits Congress extended last year are likely to increase solar and wind power in the United States and decrease the country's carbon emissions.
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"The economics, combined with public demand, as well as corporate demand, for renewable energy, is driving the transition to 100 percent renewable energy much faster than I think anybody anticipated," she said.
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The administration said it also plans to look at tightening supervision of grid firms, electricity trading firms and renewable power generators, in a bid to ensure electricity is bought from renewable sources.
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As reported by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, when Anheuser Busch wanted to transition its local plant to 100 percent renewable energy, they had to look out of state for renewable sources.
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"The old politicized arguments about renewable energy being for coastal liberals just don't play anymore in parts of the country where they're experiencing firsthand the economic benefits of renewable energy development and job creation," said Jodie Van Horn, the director of the Sierra Club's Ready for 100 campaign, which pushes American cities to commit to entirely renewable energy offerings.
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REN21 also added that if spending on hydropower projects bigger than 50 megawatts is included, then new investments in renewable power and fuels – excluding renewable heating and cooling – hit $328.9 billion in 2015.
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After China, the European Union will see the fastest growth in renewable energy deployment, topping the United States as the 28-nation bloc aims to achieve renewable energy targets in 603 and 2030.
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"The big difference – quite apart from the carbon issue – of renewable energy versus fossil fuel based energy, (is that) renewable energy is capex heavy, to build a plant is very expensive," he said.
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Big businesses pursue renewable energy for a variety of different reasons, as PwC found in a 2016 survey, but for utilities, these rationales all lead to increasing pressure to build more renewable energy.
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According to the International Renewable Energy Agency's new report, precipitous cost decline and supportive policies have accelerated deployment of renewable energy technologies and, along with it, a burst of growth in green jobs.
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Last year, the search giant announced that it had purchased 942 megawatts (MW) of renewable energy to power its data centers, marking the largest purchase of renewable energy by a non-utility company.
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The German software company has developed a system it calls utility-in-a-box that monitors renewable power production, manages groups balancing supply and demand, links renewable producers to customers and organizes billing.
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"As the Taiwanese government pursues further measures to remove market barriers and reduce renewable energy costs, we're hopeful that more companies will purchase renewable energy, driving even larger projects across Taiwan," said Hanna.
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DTE said it plans to build an additional 6,000 MW of renewable energy capacity – enough to supply nearly 2 million homes – supplementing the 1,000 MW of renewable energy it has built since 2009.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Renewable energy generation capacity expanded by 8.3 percent last year to 1,985 gigawatts globally, the fastest annual rate on record, data from the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) showed on Thursday.
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At issue this week was the Renewable Fuel Standard, a program that requires refiners to blend an increasing amount of renewable fuels such as corn-based ethanol into traditional fuels such as gasoline.
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LCOE measures also report the cost of producing electricity in optimal situations for renewable sources, rather than measuring the full cost of producing, transmitting or storing renewable electricity when it is actually needed.
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It also announced for the first time that the company is 22014 percent reliant on renewable sources of energy worldwide, marking progress toward its goal of being a 22015 percent renewable energy company.
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The National Renewable Energy Laboratory found that a "high-end" renewable energy standard could increase jobs in the sector—which already employs close to a million people in the U.S.—by 47 percent.
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The renewable fuel standards would address the percent of "cellulosic biofuel, biomass-based diesel, advanced biofuel, and total renewable fuel" required to be mixed into gasoline and diesel fuels in 2017 and 2018.
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"The proposal is currently under interagency review, which places the Trump administration on track to release the Renewable Fuel Standard Renewable Volume Obligations (RVOs) on time for the third consecutive year," he said.
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The measure was worded as a pro-solar power effort but decried by renewable energy and environmental groups as an effort by power companies to wrestle control of renewable energy away from residents.
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TO GROW RENEWABLE ENERGY, WE MUST RENEW THE SYSTEM In a political landscape tainted by the impacts of court decisions like Citizens United, renewable energy is never going to come out on top.
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In early trade on Wednesday, prices of renewable fuel credits Renewable Identification Number (RIN) credits (D6) fell as low as 77 cents in early trade from Tuesday's last levels around 83.25 cents apiece.
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And Amazon reiterated its commitment to be "net zero" carbon by 2040 and run on 100% renewable energy by 2030, in response to critics who say the company lacks concrete renewable energy goals.
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"As we transition to a wholly renewable electricity system, it's really important that we have a diversity of renewable electricity sources," Gina Hanrahan, WWF Scotland's acting head of policy, said in a statement.
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It wants 100% renewable energy by 2045 Nearly five years ago, Hawaii committed to an ambitious goal: leave the oil on the mainland and get all of the island's electricity from renewable sources.
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And in 2015 the state government signed legislation that turned its renewable-energy standard — which required utilities to purchase or generate 20 percent of peak demand from renewable sources — into a "voluntary" goal.
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As for investing in renewable energy, Jakobsen said oil and gas companies are still relevant for investors, particularly as they now trade at a 20% discount to companies in the renewable energy sector.
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Production of renewable power in the U.S. has doubled since 2008, but trails the 24% of power the International Energy Agency says is generated from renewable sources in developed nations as a whole.
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It already meets 350 percent of its electricity needs from renewables and aims to increase its use of renewable energy to 52 percent by 2030, according to the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA).
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That renewable energy powers the datacenter — no fossil fuels required.
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Ireland is already set to miss its 2020 renewable targets.
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Solutions China is already a world leader is renewable energy.
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Green commitment Google has a strong commitment to renewable energy.
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EGPB is a renewable energy subsidiary of the Enel Group.
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In Europe, new unsubsidized renewable energy projects are coming online.
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Now it's under immense pressure from the renewable energy boom.
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It's local firms that are relatively new to renewable energy.
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She has also pushed through a switch to renewable energy.
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Large renewable energy projects would be deployed on federal lands.
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Others would grow, like renewable energy because they're far cleaner.
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But these buildings will run on renewable energy by 2020.
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His term in office would last five years, renewable once.
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"The will to act is a renewable resource," he said.
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For India, too, cheaper renewable energy will be a boon.
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The company's last renewable energy project was two years ago.
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In some countries, mortgages are renewable after a set time.
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And even more -- 77% -- support funding for renewable energy research.
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The rest goes towards green investments, such as renewable power.
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In a very dangerous position, surviving only on renewable energy.
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Hydroelectric power Tesla was also a pioneer of renewable energy.
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To see why, consider that goal of 100% renewable energy.
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Companies must therefore buy their renewable power from third parties.
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There's a growing demand for greener, safer renewable energy sources.
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Graphic on renewable energy and CO2 emissions in EU: tmsnrt.
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For a graphic on India's renewable capacity growth, click tmsnrt.
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One hundred seventy five gigawatts of renewable power by 2022.
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Renewable power generation costs are coming down by the year.
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They know they have this option of cheap renewable energy.
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The agency is considering whether these plans will be renewable.
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The most direct path is to build new renewable capacity.
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It is still determining whether these plans could be renewable.
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Warren Buffett is looking for investment opportunities in renewable energy.
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Bob Dinneen is President & CEO of the Renewable Fuels Association.
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Because development requires energy and sustainable development requires renewable energy.
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St. Petersburg, Florida, committed to a full renewable energy transition.
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We needed renewable energy options to replace coal and gasoline.
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Apple has been making a broader push in renewable power.
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A renewable energy project typically takes two years to build.
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"I think renewable energy is definitely the future," said Kamdani.
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China is one the biggest investors in renewable energy solutions.
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The lights and water pumps aren't powered by renewable energy.
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But renewable fuels would rather not, thank you very much.
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Renewable energy will decide who leads and shapes this century.
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Instead, they promote renewable energy industries as a promising alternative.
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Things could certainly be better for the renewable energy industry.
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Switch uses clean and renewable energy to power data centers.
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They also pledged to accelerate the transition to renewable energy.
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Further, regulators should not prevent insurers from offering renewable STLDI.
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Ideas embrace more than transportation, renewable energy, or water projects.
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But continued support from governments for renewable energy isn't guaranteed.
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Hydroelectric and renewable energy provides only 6% of its electricity.
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India has big plans when it comes to renewable energy.
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The renewable energy industry is critical to these rural economies.
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A fraud alert lasts for a year and is renewable.
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The other half comes from renewable energies, including hydroelectric dams.
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MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish renewable energy and engineering company Abengoa (ABG.
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They should lower their carbon emissions and use renewable energy.
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These numbers will only rise as renewable purchasing options flourish.
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Specific policies supporting renewable energy would offer clear economic benefits.
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Hillary Clinton, meanwhile supported retraining miners to renewable energy jobs.
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He also said the nation should consider renewable power sources.
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"We're seeing the cost of renewable energy falling," said Clarkson.
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BP and Shell are also investing more in renewable energy.
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She pushed for renewable energy in the wake of Fukushima.
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Renewable generation passed coal generation in the EU in 2017.
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Samsung Electronics made a significant commitment to renewable energy Thursday.
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That's why in Iowa, the Renewable Fuel Standard is sacrosanct.
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She said that she thought she was supporting renewable energy.
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It is time the renewable energy industry address this problem.
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There is an alternative fuel that could: renewable natural gas.
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Disney's solar and renewable efforts are not limited to Florida.
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Even for Disney, renewable energy requires more than pixie dust.
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Remember the dilemma at the heart of renewable energy: variability.
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The status is renewable, lasting two years at a time.
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And if it adds renewable energy, that's an additional bonus.
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He should be embracing a clean, renewable energy future instead.
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It's important to test renewable energy over longer time spans.
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A proposal to mandate more renewable energy failed in Arizona.
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The industry processes it into renewable plastics, paper, and clothing.
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And so did the groups that campaign for renewable biofuels.
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Today, 13,000 Pittsburghers are employed in the renewable energy industry.
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Groundwater is a renewable resource, replenished through the hydrologic cycle.
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Jerry Brown of California, a vocal supporter of renewable energy.
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Google now buys more renewable energy than many large utilities.
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Renewable energy has become a huge part of our economy.
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The result: Renewable energy has cost more than it should.
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The move toward renewable energy is in its earliest stages.
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In addition, the renewable energy industry is sending mixed messages.
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A kind of certificate, RECs essentially track renewable energy generation.
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They want to accelerate the globe's adoption of renewable energy.
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Shareholders are increasingly urging power companies to adopt renewable energy.
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India is expected to promise more ambitious renewable energy targets.
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We have ultra fast electric vehicles and all renewable energy.
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India is expected to promise more ambitious renewable energy targets.
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Microsoft's latest announcement follows recent renewable energy deals in Asia.
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Andrew: Just as passionately as the "Renewable by 2050" crowd.
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EGPNA is part of the Enel Group's Renewable Energies division.
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Renewable energy will be critical to achieving those climate goals.
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Then India attacked renewable energy programs in several American states.
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They are also renewable for all four years of college.
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The rate of renewable energy usage will continue to grow.
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He's also represented Ameresco, a publicly traded renewable energy company.
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Renewable energy has gotten cheaper and CO2 conversion has improved.
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The American Council On Renewable Energy takes a similar approach.
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Moreover, use of renewable energy has doubled in RGGI states.
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And they are renewable for all four years of college.
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This does not mean we should not use renewable energy.
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They also committed to using only renewable energy by 2045.
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Renewable energy has long been part of Apple's corporate DNA.
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They're learning about renewable energy, they're learning about endangered species.
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The major driver to invest in wind in many states is renewable portfolio standards, which mandate a minimum amount of electricity to come from renewable sources, like hydroelectric, wind, solar, and geothermal power plants.
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As expected, the new total for the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) is well below the 24 billion gallons outlined in a 2007 law aimed at cutting U.S. oil imports and boosting renewable fuel use.
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This has been the second straight year of uncertainty for the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), a 2005 law requiring fuel producers to blend increasing volumes of renewable fuels like ethanol with petroleum-based counterparts.
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Instead of relying on those agencies, Stokes and Wood said Sanders could achieve the same goal with a national renewable energy standard that would force private utilities to buy renewable energy from private suppliers.
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Distributed renewable energy systems such as geothermal systems, micro-hydroelectric systems, solar panels and wind turbines can generate renewable energy close to where it is needed, including in isolated and hard to reach communities.
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The proposal will mark the first from the administration under President Donald Trump for the controversial Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), a 2005 law aimed at cutting U.S. oil imports and boosting renewable fuel use.
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The U.S. refining industry has widely blamed its economic misfortunes on the country's renewable fuel program, which forces refiners to either blend biofuels like ethanol into their fuel pool or buy renewable fuel credits.
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Wind power is the most productive piece of the U.K.'s renewable energy portfolio, contributing 20 percent of the nation's power, along with 12 percent from renewable biomass plants and 6 percent from solar.
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One of his first tasks will be to decide whether to restructure the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), which ensures a minimum volume of renewable fuels, like ethanol, are blended with fossil fuels, like gasoline.
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KUDLOW TARGETS ELECTRIC CAR, RENEWABLE ENERGY CREDITS: White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow said on Monday the Trump administration will seek to end subsidies for electric cars and renewable energy sources, according to reports.
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One of his first tasks will be to decide whether to restructure the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) – which ensures a minimum volume of renewable fuels, like ethanol, are blended with fossil fuels, like gasoline.
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Renewable energy accounted for 103.6 percent of mainland electricity consumption last month, the report by the Portuguese Renewable Energy Association and the Sustainable Earth System Association said citing data from power grid operator REN.
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"We have set a goal to power our global infrastructure with 100 percent renewable energy and are investing in renewable energy and energy efficiency innovations," said Kara Hurst, director of worldwide sustainability at Amazon.
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Organized by Architects Advocate, a Chicago-based, climate change-oriented coalition launched in September, the letter urges investments in renewable energy, subsidies for renewable energy technologies, and a commitment to the Paris Climate Agreement.
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As for renewable energy, the drivers of growth have been technological innovation, corporate and investor action, public opinion, declining costs, pollution's relation to climate change and renewable energy targets that countries have collectively adopted.
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It is also pledging that, by then, at least half of all the materials used in its products will be "recycled or renewable," and 100 percent of its packaging will be recycled or renewable.
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Thus, there is a growing market for renewable fuels, not a stagnant one, and there will be plenty of demand for cellulosic ethanol and other advanced biofuels to grow without cannibalizing existing renewable fuels.
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According to the state, California is on track to produce one-third of its power from renewable energy sources by 2020 and expects to generate half of its energy from renewable sources by 2030.
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"It is anticipated that almost all of the growth in listed renewable energy over the next decade will be driven by companies that do not have renewable energy as their main business," Jensen said.
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The deadlines the town set are ambitious — 100 percent renewable electricity for the town and its facilities by 1003, and 100 percent renewable across entire community, for not just electricity but energy, by 2050.
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There are now about 19503,000 Americans working in the renewable energy industry, according to the most recent figures from International Renewable Energy Agency, compared to 3.8 million in China and 1.2 million in Europe.
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Under the U.S. Renewable Fuels Standard oil refiners have to blend increasing volumes of biofuels into the nation's gasoline and diesel each year, or purchase credits - called Renewable Identification Numbers - from those who do.
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IRENA predicts that ongoing renewable energy innovation, including new business models and finance, will result in a 60 percent decrease in the cost of producing electricity from renewable mini-grids in the next 20143 years.
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However Cape Town has set a target to generate 10 -- 20% of its energy from renewable sources by 2020, according to Business Day, and even wants to see its residents making their own renewable energy.
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COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Offshore wind firm, DONG Energy, soon to be renamed Orsted, says big European companies are increasingly interested in buying renewable power directly from renewable developers as they seek to reduce their carbon footprint.
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In addition to that, we have the optionality that not just the plant produces renewable diesel for road transportation, but it also produces renewable jet fuel which needs to be completely separated from the diesel.
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In the latest indication that renewable energy sources like solar and wind power are ascendant worldwide, a new report finds that, in 2015, a record-breaking $286 billion was invested in renewable energy capacity worldwide.
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According to China's renewable energy law, grid companies are obliged to take on all electricity generated by renewable sources, but many projects have still been left with inadequate grid access, a problem known as curtailment.
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Saudi Arabia, for example, intends to invest $7 billion in renewable projects this year, while a Saudi industrial group is already developing 5 gigawatts of renewable projects globally, with a major focus on Latin America.
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This will make it trickier to finance some renewable projects, said Robert Sternthal, managing director at Rubicon Capital Advisors, who is putting together a team of bankers to advise on renewable deals in North America.
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The world's most populous country and top greenhouse gas emitter contributed more than 40 percent of global renewable energy growth in 20163, which helped it surpass the United States as the largest renewable power producer.
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At this point, nearly 18 percent of electricity in the US is produced by renewable energy sources like wind and solar, but most of this renewable energy stays in the region where it was generated.
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After Wyden's office released the bill, the Business Council for Sustainable Energy, Biotechnology Innovation Organization, Growth Energy, American Council on Renewable Energy, Renewable Fuels Association and Solar Energy Industries Association released statements praising the legislation.
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It is now more important than ever that state and local governments ramp up their solar investments — particularly in disadvantaged communities, lower regulatory barriers, and lead on renewable energy policies such as Renewable Portfolio Standards.
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It is made using patented rotary compression technology, which transforms abundant, annually renewable agricultural waste residue into a renewable fuel that, when blended with traditional coal, can produce a cleaner, more sustainable source of electricity.
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The Green Party plan calls for the United States to achieve 100 percent renewable energy by 2030 and is specific that renewable sources are wind, solar, tidal and geothermal, not gas, biomass or nuclear power.
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Icahn, formerly a special adviser to Trump on regulations, had sought changes to the Renewable Fuel Standard, a program that requires fuel refiners to blend renewable biofuels like corn-based ethanol into gasoline and diesel.
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Icahn, formerly a special advisor to Trump on regulations, had sought changes to the Renewable Fuel Standard, a program that requires fuel refiners to blend renewable biofuels like corn-based ethanol into gasoline and diesel.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany raised the proportion of its power produced by renewable energy to 35 percent in the first half of 2017 from 33 percent the previous year, according to the BEE renewable energy association.
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SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Southeast Asia is a potential hotspot for renewable energy, yet the region has not met expectations because it lacks policy frameworks that would encourage investment, the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) told Reuters.
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As renewable energy use surges in the U.S. and the effects of global climate change become more visible, companies like Arcadia Power are pitching a nationwide service to make renewable energy available to residential customers.
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HollyFrontier said it incurred $57 million in costs during the quarter to comply with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Renewable Fuel Standard program, which requires refiners to blend more renewable fuel, or buy paper credits.
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In New York, Quiniones said NYPA was evaluating over 100 renewable projects to the company's request for proposals to meet a state mandate to get 50 percent of its electricity from renewable sources by 2030.
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Under the U.S. Renewable Fuels Standard, oil refiners have to blend increasing volumes of biofuels into the nation's gasoline and diesel each year, or purchase credits - called Renewable Identification Numbers (RINs) - from those who do.
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Which brings us to ... Renewable energy skeptics like to claim that natural gas power plants are required on the grid to balance out variable renewable energy, which comes and goes with the wind and sun.
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My OFF Fossil Fuels Act includes details on how to achieve 100 percent renewable energy goals by 2035, including: Renewable energy mandate, zero-emission vehicle mandate, electrification of transit, electric vehicle rebate program for consumers.
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At the same time, renewable energy sources, such as solar and wind energy, in combination with improved energy efficiency, are already cost-competitive, according to the latest report from the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA).
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Dutch paints and coatings business AkzoNobel has set itself the target of being carbon neutral and using 100 percent renewable energy by 2050, while insurance giant AXA has targeted 100 percent renewable electricity by 2025.
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WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland's upper house of parliament approved an amendment to the renewable sources of energy law on Friday meant to remove obstacles to green energy investment and help Warsaw meet EU renewable energy targets.
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Renewable energy, carbon content In Arizona, Proposition 127 would have changed the state Constitution to require nongovernmental providers to generate at least half of their annual electricity sales from certain renewable energy sources by 2030.
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FRANKFURT, Oct 11 (Reuters) - A surcharge levied on German consumers to support renewable power will likely fall by 4.2 percent in 2019, helping relieve end customers' bills, renewable energy lobby group BEE said on Thursday.
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Amazon has already initiated 15 utility-scale wind and solar renewable energy projects that will generate 1.3 gigawatts of renewable capacity and deliver some 3.8 million megawatt hours of clean energy, according to the company.
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Earlier this month, the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) said Southeast Asia is a potential hotspot for renewable energy, yet the region has not met expectations because it lacks policy frameworks that would encourage investment.
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The company's renewable assets are only 490,000 kilowatt (kW) generation capacity, mainly solar and onshore wind power assets in Mexico, but it aims to raise global renewable assets tenfold to 5 million kW by 2030.
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A Powering Jobs campaign, launched in October at an international off-grid renewable energy conference in Singapore, aims to train up to a million people globally by 143 to meet demand for renewable energy workers.
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For years, the government has pushed a rapid buildout of renewable energy; the country now boasts the highest renewable energy growth rates and the most wind and solar capacity of any country in the world.
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In both Ohio and Pennsylvania, the majority of Republicans support the goal of transitioning to 100% renewable energy, and voters from both parties say they are more likely to back candidates who support renewable energy.
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The state has committed to using 100% renewable energy by 2045.
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That will add a hefty 5% to Mexico's renewable-energy capacity.
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Graphic on renewable energy and CO2 emissions in EU: http://tmsnrt.
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Hawaii has passed a law that mandates its renewable energy goal.
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Several Latin American countries are turning their attention to renewable energy.
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He said renewable energy projects would be likely to attract investors.
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The need to curb emissions also motivates expansion of renewable energy.
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Renewable energy currently covers only about 3 percent of Egypt's needs.
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Pavegen converts the kinetic energy generated from footsteps into renewable electricity.
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The Enel Group is developing several renewable energy projects in Mexico.
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In many ways, questions around EVs parallel questions around renewable energy.
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The country's been kicking the world's butt on renewable energy spending.
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Renewable energy forms under 5 percent of its total portfolio size.
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SA) stake in Brazilian renewable energy company Renova Energia SA (RNEW11.
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Hydrogen can also be used for long-term renewable energy storage.
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He added that the state's experiment into renewable energy had failed.
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Democrats grumble about possible leaks, and prefer investing in renewable energy.
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In the U.S., that means increasing investment in renewable energy systems.
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Indeed, many renewable-energy federal incentives are backed by many Republicans.
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Expanding renewable energy is beneficial to the economy and job creation.
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But reactions from renewable energy experts and advocates have been mixed.
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The United States, she said, will shift to cleaner renewable energy.
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Wind power is a crucial part of Scotland's renewable energy mix.
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We have been slow to adapt to electric, or renewable energy.
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Apple aims to make the campus completely sustainable on renewable energy.
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In addition, we have been slow to switch to renewable energies.
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It has virtually zero impact on developing electricity from renewable energy.
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Zuckerberg promised similar commitments to renewable energy in a Facebook post.
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They pushed for action on climate change and renewable energy development.
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Renewable energy has considerable potential in South Africa over fossil fuels.
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The answer is likely renewable energy sources like wind and solar.
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One, H 2836, would target economy-wide renewable energy by 2045.
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Other drivers include renewable energy, stagnant power demand and energy efficiency.
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A generous price subsidy for renewable generation was scrapped in 2012.
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Alongside LNG, other renewable energy sources for cars are being investigated.
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"Hydropower is the best renewable energy we could find," Damblon says.
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Financial innovation is creating new ways of investing in renewable energy.
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Renewable energy such as solar and wind is abundant but intermittent.
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This way, the building is powered by 100 percent renewable energy.
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""None of our 100 percent renewable energy goals have a date.
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The money sought by Sonelgaz will go mainly to renewable projects.
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Renewable sources account for 7.5% of ZE PAK's current energy production.
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SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazilian renewable energy firm Renova Energia SA (RNEW11.
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The UK Renewable Energy Strategy – Recurring cost: £270bn a year 245.
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The project reflects APRI's commitment to renewable energy in the region.
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The parent company of Google is fully powered by renewable energy.
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That makes renewable infrastructure one of the largest capital expenditures globally.
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"The RFS (Renewable Fuel Standard) would deadline in 2022," he said.
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Renewable energy forms under 33 percent of its total portfolio size.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bankrupt renewable power plant developer SunEdison Inc SUNEQ.
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Shares of the aluminum and renewable energy firm gained 3.06 percent.
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The densely populated country is committed to moving to renewable energy.
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We have to do the RVO (Renewable Volume Obligation) every year.
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Your visa is valid for four years and renewable after that.
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They were discussing the cost of the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS).
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Presently, North America draws 37% of its power from renewable sources.
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Indeed, there are a few stalwarts in the renewable-energy race.
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Of course, renewable-energy projects aren't the only ones facing resistance.
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Others pertain to industries including renewable energy, horse racing and motorsports.
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Other renewable energy companies have also focused on home storage products.
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That represents a significant lost opportunity for investment in renewable technologies.
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Tudenggongbu is the Center for Biological Diversity's senior renewable energy campaigner.
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He is also a board member of the Renewable Fuels Association.
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Innovation in renewable energy technologies has advanced in leaps and bounds.
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Renewable energy was practically non-existent on federal land before 85033.
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There are two loan guarantee programs that benefit renewable energy companies.
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SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazilian renewable energy company Renova Energia SA (RNEW11.
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Bob Dinneen is president and CEO of the Renewable Fuels Association.
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The gap has been filled by gas, and by renewable energy.
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Last year, China invested around US$6900 billion in renewable energy.
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That means rapidly accelerating the transition to renewable energy, already underway.
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We'll be well down the path to 6900 percent renewable energy.
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Carbon pricing will help to spur the growth of renewable energy.
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Gensler opted for charred timber, a material that's renewable but sturdy.
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Apple's move comes as prices for renewable energy continue to plummet.
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That means the path ahead must be based on renewable energy.
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He also cited increased competition from natural gas and renewable energy.
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Over 100 U.S. cities have adopted 100 percent renewable energy goals.
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SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil's renewable energy company Renova Energia SA (RNEW11.
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Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn have a rich and renewable legacy.
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That's what drones are for—powered by renewable energy, of course.
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Then there's his 28503 percent proposed cut to renewable energy research.
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This transition to renewable-focused energy will require supportive government policies.
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California, New York, Iowa -- all are pursuing important renewable energy strategies.
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The renewable, clean energy coming from the devices was another positive.
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The deal marks Google's entry into the Asian renewable energy market.
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Such feedback mechanisms can be critical to distributed renewable energy systems.
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SunEdison, a renewable energy company, was once a hedge fund darling.
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As well as hitting renewable output, the heatwave also depressed demand.
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Tweed's agreement with Snoop starts with a three-year renewable deal.
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The debate over 100 percent renewable energy isn't about that division.
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I get asked a lot about my stance on renewable energy.
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Ready to get your mayor on board for clean renewable energy?
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Go deeper: Nuclear, Renewable firms fund new group pushing carbon tax
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Philippe Rapeneau: Renewable energy has traditionally been underdeveloped in our region.
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Renewable energy is one area where that typical dynamic is inverted.
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And it's potentially a game changer for the renewable energy movement.
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It's one of dozens of American cities pledging more renewable energy.
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Quantifying renewable energy's health and environmental benefits is super, super complicated.
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A number of big businesses are looking to embrace renewable energy.
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Ensure 80% of Britain&aposs electricity use comes from renewable sources.
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Growth percentage in renewable energy investment in Costa Rica in 2016.
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Renewable energy grew by 14.5%, nearing the record increase in 2017.
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Climate campaigners are eager to see a transition to renewable energy.
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But do not expect the renewable energy firms to endorse it.
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How should policymakers be prioritizing them relative to, say, renewable energy?
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But the investment opportunities, beyond renewable energy, have received less attention.
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The Sahara Desert is a dream location for renewable energy industries.
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It also notes that renewable energy is variable and requires balancing.
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He said renewable energy can reduce the local municipality's electric bills.
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The energy that we use is from 100 percent renewable sources.
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This alone will sharply curtail the climate benefits of renewable power.
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And though geothermal is considered renewable energy, it does have pitfalls.
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The lesson: An oil company doesn't become a renewable-energy company.
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Right now, parts of Japan are betting heavily on renewable energy.
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You don't have to be a [renewable fuel standard] policy expert.
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Go deeper: Airports embrace renewable energy to cut air travel emissions
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Go deeper: The amount of voluntary renewable energy purchases keeps rising
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It would undermine the ability to grow the renewable fuels industry.
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Other awards can be renewable if you submit transcripts or reapply.
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"It's worth remembering that political will is itself a renewable source."
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Hydro power is a major source of renewable energy in China.
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Solar is not the only renewable resource making waves in Texas.
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Africa has huge untapped potential when it comes to renewable energy.
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"Renewable energy should not be considered an alternative technology," he said.
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"We will be the largest investor in renewable energy," he said.
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Bob Dinneen is President and CEO of the Renewable Fuels Association.
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SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazilian renewable energy firm Renova Energia SA (RNEW11.
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The credits are generated with each gallon of renewable fuel produced.
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According to most people, Perry will be terrible for renewable energy.
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This was renewable for five years, subject to satisfying certain conditions.
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The experts are not opposed to aggressive investments in renewable energy.
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Hydrogen gas made with an electrolyzer that's powered by renewable energy.
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The pushback against renewable energy has been years in the making.
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The U.K. and Russia have previously signed agreements for renewable electricity.
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Switching to renewable power is the easiest and most common idea.
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Already cities and states are committing to 100 percent renewable energy.
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Hawaii is planning to use 100 percent renewable energy by 2045.
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Much has changed since state Renewable Portfolio Standards were widely adopted.
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Neither natural gas plants nor renewable generators store fuel on site.
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Most state governments even guarantee renewable fuels a fixed market share.
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In 2017, Google says, it will run on renewable energy alone.
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A number of major businesses are embracing renewable sources of power.
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The costs of renewable energy are plummeting, making decarbonization eminently feasible.
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The European Union and Japan challenged Canadian incentives on renewable energy.
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Now is the time to increase investment in renewable energy sources.
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Buss is the former CFO of SolarCity, Musk's renewable energy venture.
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Interestingly, hydropower is still one of our largest renewable energy sources.
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In January, Eneco bought Lichtblick, Germany's largest independent renewable energy supplier.
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Google today announced its largest package of renewable energy deals yet.
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The company's technology connects the entire home to a renewable system.
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"Democratic money in this cycle has been renewable resource," he added.
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Jobs in renewable energy are among the fastest growing in America.
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"Remember that political will is itself a renewable resource," Gore added.
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Woods has been appointed for a renewable term of five years.
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Worldwide, the renewable energy companies employed 9.8 million people in 2016.
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The division has been slammed by the rise of renewable energy.
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But what about the unreliability of renewable energy sources by comparison?
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Like its PIF has announced, it will focus on renewable energy.
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Common renewable energy sources are solar, wind, geothermal, biomass and hydropower.
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More and more businesses are committing themselves to using renewable fuels.
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California's government is trying to increase the use of renewable energy.
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The fossil-fuel and renewable energy programs would be abolished entirely.
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He also helped spearhead the military's research into renewable fuel sources.
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It's actually three programs: energy efficiency, renewable energy, and sustainable transportation.
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"Sustained low wind energy prices and solid growth in installations helped make 2015 one of the best years for our nation's renewable energy market," said Acting Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, David Friedman.
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"The market response to the Kingdom's invitation to its first renewable energy projects has been overwhelmingly positive, demonstrating market confidence in our vast renewable energy potential and investment environment," Saudi Energy Minister Khalid Al Falih said.
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Several lawmakers with strong renewable power output in their states have said that the Energy Department had already completed long-term studies of renewable power's impact on the grid that concluded there has been no harm.
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In 2015, a renewable-energy expert from Canada began using homemade wind turbines and solar panels to build a network of renewable energy electrical stations to supply power to homes and medical clinics in the area.
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He predicted that U.S. companies involved in environmentally friendly technologies will relocate renewable technology research and development centers to Asia, helping countries such as India, Indonesia and Vietnam that need foreign capital to reach renewable goals.
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RTE said power from renewable energy sources continued an upward trend in 2015, contributing 18.7 percent of power output due to abundant wind and sunny spells during the year despite a slow increase in renewable capacity.
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In 85033, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory estimated that if the United States were to attempt to derive 90 percent of its electricity from renewable sources, it would have to double its high-voltage transmission capacity.
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Matthews' commentary is just another tired example of anti-renewable energy special interests spreading misinformation in order to cloud the reality that renewable energy is affordable and reliable and the future of our global energy supply.
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Low interest rates are especially beneficial for renewable energy projectsThe price of renewable electricity is largely determined by the upfront cost of construction — what a company charges to build a solar or wind farm, for example.
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Where renewables are 26 percent of global electricity, they represent less than 10 percent (renewable electricity less than 2 percent) of heating and cooling and just 3.3 percent (renewable electricity only 0.3 percent) of transportation energy.
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The country is a renewable energy powerhouse, and is aiming to get 90 percent of its energy from renewable sources by 2020, and it encouraged Paris negotiators to set tougher climate goals when crafting the accord.
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A day after news of the deal with the Renewable Fuels Association, the White House denied there was any plan to change the renewable fuel requirements, and no such change was made, according to the magazine.
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When those options are not available, Apple says it aims to have suppliers sign power-purchase agreements with new renewable energy projects and using purchases of renewable energy credits only when there are no other options.
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The trend for cut-price renewable energy is already set but the report by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) gives fresh evidence of the speed of the decline, driven by increased production runs and technology improvements.
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At the time it also said renewable energy sources act as a natural hedge against rising energy costs and it was on track to get roughly half of its gross energy consumption from renewable energy by 2020.
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Apple has also previously claimed a 93 percent renewable energy use rate for its global operations, and also said that its organizations in the U.S., China and 21 additional companies are already at 100 percent renewable power.
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Through last year, companies signed enough corporate renewable deals to support nearly 16 gigawatts of new renewable energy capacity in the U.S. REBA aims to accelerate that activity and grow the market to 60 gigawatts by 2025.
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"Where feasible, we produce our own renewable energy by building our own renewable energy facilities, including solar arrays, wind farms, biogas fuel cells, and micro-hydro generation systems," the company writes in its 2017 Environmental Responsibility Report.
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Icahn expressed worries about the market for renewable identification number (RIN) credits, which the EPA calls the "currency" of a renewable fuel standard program designed to reduce reliance on imported oil and the emission of greenhouse gases.
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The letter came from a broad coalition of groups that have otherwise been at odds over the country's Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), the controversial program that requires fuel companies use increasingly volumes of renewable fuels each year.
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Under the first policy, called the Renewable Portfolio Standards, Energy Secretary Alfonso Cusi said power distribution utilities will be mandated to source a minimum portion of energy from renewable sources, thus guaranteeing a market for RE producers.
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"The issue of power being wasted is continually improving as the government actively adopts measures to encourage consumption of renewable energy," said Li Chuangjun, deputy director of the renewable energy department at the NEA at the briefing.
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Over the past year, renewable-energy groups and advocates of nuclear power have come together to help enact policies in New York and Illinois to keep open financially struggling nuclear reactors, while also further encouraging renewable energy.
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India challenges US renewable energy programs at WTO: India has filed a new dispute against the United States at the World Trade Organization (WTO) challenging domestic content requirements and subsidies in renewable energy programs across eight states.
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Renewable energy is being seen as a growth sector for India, a signatory of the Paris climate accord, with an ambitious plan to raise renewable energy capacity to 175 gigawatts (GW) by 2022, from 57 GW currently.
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If Trump were a renewable-friendly president, he could propose a federal version of the Renewable Portfolio Standard, a policy implemented in 29 states, which require utilities to produce a certain percentage of their electricity from renewables.
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The Renewable Fuel Association, a biofuels industry group, said it was pleased EPA didn't scale back the levels, but argued the Renewable Fuel Standard needs to be a "forward-looking program" to drive investment in new technologies.
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This is approximately twice the price of electricity today, and it is more than the prices of most major sources of renewable energy, which the International Renewable Energy Agency predicts will drop over the next few decades.
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David Friedman, the deputy assistant secretary for the DOE's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, will speak at an Environmental and Energy Study Institute event on energy efficiency and renewable energy in President Obama's 2017 budget.
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Do we believe in putting our nation on a path to 100% renewable energy, or should we put forth a mix of laws that address climate change and prioritize renewable energy while still embracing some fossil fuels?
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Kusterer said that among renewable producers no longer eligible for fixed subsidies under the German Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG), there was a need to find partners taking on the output volumes over a longer time horizon.
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The premium is partly supported by the niche market for biofuels compliance credits known as Renewable Identification Numbers (RINs), which oil refiners and importers are required to have to prove compliance with the government's Renewable Fuel Standard.
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In a fact sheet put out as part of the GOP nominee's economic speech Thursday, the Renewable Identification Number (RIN) program, a piece of the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), was identified as a regulation he would repeal.
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The group, called the Renewable Energy Buyers Alliance (REBA), aims to work toward a zero-carbon future, where every organization has the ability to offset as much of their energy use as it desires from renewable sources.
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Muhammad Abdur Rahman, managing director of Innosol, a company that imports and installs renewable energy systems, said that cheap imports of renewable energy systems from China remain the main barrier to building more such systems in Pakistan.
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A look inside an opaque $6 billion industry that challenges the very idea of renewable energy It's tough to write a scintillating headline when the topic of the story is something called "renewable energy certificates," or RECs.
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Equinor has made some steps towards building a renewable business and plans to spend up to $2 billion-$3 billion a year in 2022-2023 on renewable projects, out of a total capital spending of $12 billion.
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Scaling back or ending renewable energy and electric vehicle tax breaks, as the House Republican plan does, would come closer to putting renewable energy on a level playing field with fossil fuels, while saving the government money.
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These jobs are focused on 100 percent clean, renewable energy by 2030.
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Once they mix it with rock, they have a natural, renewable asphalt.
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And despite the recent turmoil in energy markets, renewable industries are prospering.
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So far, having a large renewable portfolio is working in SSE's favor.
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The growing use of renewable energy is another positive trend, said Ripple.
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They have already managed to suppress renewable energy growth in the state.
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There is strong support for renewable energy at the state level, too.
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Last year renewable sources accounted for around 1 percent of total generation.
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Consolidation in Chile's dispersed renewable energy sector has also been heating up.
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Energy America's renewable energy sector reached a big milestone earlier this spring.
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For a graphic on Sovereign funds diversify into renewable energy, see - tmsnrt.
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Renewable energy advocates cheered FERC's decision to seek feedback from grid operators.
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For another, the government started building the shit out of renewable energy.
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I was very involved in passing the renewable portfolio standard [in 2006].
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According to Raspe, the towers will be powered by 100% renewable energy.
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Renewable energy is growing, but more interconnections and energy storage are needed.
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Renewable energy sources—solar, wind and hydroelectricity—are different from fossil fuels.
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So it's not enough to use renewable energy for your own facilities.
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The group is from the renewable energy and media industries, Bloomberg reported.
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Let's fund cutting edge research on being a leader in renewable energy.
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Moving the country to 100% renewable electricity by 2035 at the latest.
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Her proposed "Green New Deal" includes a transition to 100% renewable power.
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Apple has a renewable energy capacity equivalent to its total energy use.
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Almost half the power it ships comes from renewable sources, particularly wind.
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The site will provide clean, renewable energy to help run Amazon's business.
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The IEA describes hydropower as the world's largest source of renewable electricity.
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Global investment in renewable power fell by 7%, to $298bn, last year.
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That's what we have been doing 10 years ago with renewable diesel.
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It's made with renewable energy and 228.99 percent post-consumer recycled material.
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But renewable energy is variable — it comes and goes with the weather.
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Here, CNBC takes a closer look at these titans of renewable energy.
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Renewable energy costs have dropped more than predicted then (as Bloomberg said).
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More predictable usage would also make renewable power sources easier to deploy.
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Google now buys enough renewable energy to match its annual energy demand.
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EGPE is working on a number of renewable energy projects in Spain.
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The Australian Government blamed the failure of renewable energy to cover usage.
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Go deeper: Prices of renewable energy sources plummeted between 2009 and 2017
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Other states, such as Hawaii, have passed 100 percent renewable energy legislation.
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The bill must address climate change, with major investments in renewable energy.
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We lead the transition towards a zero-emission future and renewable energy.
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Inter Far East group runs renewable energy, waste management and hotel businesses.
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Renewable energy accounted for 17.4 percent last year, little changed from 2016.
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It's matching what it consumes with equal amounts of purchased renewable energy.
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The tax credits for renewable energy generation will accelerate and ensure progress.
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The pro-industry group following him, America's Renewable Future, claimed a victory.
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The company earned "F's" in energy transparency, renewable energy commitment and advocacy.
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Vermont, for instance, uses 100 percent renewable energy, according to the report.
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Renewable energy currently covers only about 3 percent of the country's needs.
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But the announcement may trigger criticism of the U.S. Renewable Fuel Standard.
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Renewable energy is also getting cheaper, leading to an expected 8 percent
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It raises the state's renewable energy standard to 60 percent by 2030.
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In that same period, jobs in renewable energy technologies grew by 175,000.
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Take, for example, Amazon's maneuverings in the renewable energy credit (REC) market.
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The bulk of the support on the left is for renewable energy.
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He's hostile to investment in offshore wind turbines that deliver renewable energy.
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These agreements allow companies to purchase renewable electricity directly from a producer.
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And that's true of a lot of current renewable-versus-nuclear arguments.
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The drive toward renewable energy is generating enthusiasm in the private sector.
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The presidential election results have been deemed "a disaster" for renewable energy.
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