Green Energy Consumers

APRIL 18, 2025

Climate change is the greatest threat to natural landscapes, marine ecosystems, and fishing industries in Rhode Island and Massachusetts. These changes will drastically alter the fishing industry and the economy. These changes will drastically alter the fishing industry and the economy.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 4, 2011

The many new and expanded strong policy initiatives and green targets in China’s 12 th Five year Plan, released on 5 March 2011, provide “ clear evidence ” that China’s low-carbon policies remain global best-in-class, according to a new report from DB Climate Change Advisors (DBCCA). Source: DBCCA. —DBCCA.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2016

Canada’s First Ministers (The Prime Minister of Canada and the provincial and territorial premiers) issued a joint communiqué and released the Pan-Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change following the First Ministers’ Meeting. The Framework outlines actions that will grow the economy while reducing GHG emissions.

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Climate Change Clean Cleaning Climate 150

Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2011

Sample label for a plug-in gasoline hybrid-electric vehicle, which features fuel economy ratings for both electricity and gasoline. The US Department of Transportation (DOT) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) unveiled the next-generation of fuel economy labels. Click to enlarge. Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEVs).

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Fuel Economy Economy EPA Fuel 225

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2009

The US will need to expand and modernize its outdated power transmission grid to incorporate more renewable energy sources, but balkanized ownership and regulation are going to make that process slow and difficult, according to a new Duke University analysis. —Chi-Jen Yang of the Duke-based Climate Change Policy Partnership (CCPP).

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 28, 2023

However, achieving either goal would likely require governments offering hundreds of billions of dollars, if not trillions, in EV subsidies to ICE owners over the next decade, not to mention significant investments in EV charging infrastructure and the electrical grid. billion to more than 2 billion.

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Climate Change Climate San Diego Emissions 144

Green Car Congress

MARCH 18, 2017

Global energy-related carbon dioxide emissions were flat for a third straight year in 2016 even as the global economy grew, according to the International Energy Agency. gigatonnes last year, the same as the previous two years, while the global economy grew 3.1%, according to estimates from the IEA.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

The Administration said that the ambitious target is grounded in analysis of cost-effective carbon pollution reductions achievable under existing law and will keep the United States on a trajectory to achieve deep economy-wide reductions on the order of 80% by 2050.

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China CO2 Climate Change United States 300

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 6, 2021

OPG and GE Hitachi will collaborate on the SMR engineering, design, planning, preparing the licencing and permitting materials, and performing site preparation activities, with the mutual goal of constructing Canada’s first commercial, grid-scale SMR, projected to be completed as early as 2028. GEH SMR Technologies Canada, Ltd.,

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Canada Climate Change Estonia United Kingdom 334

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 17, 2021

Addressing climate change requires not only a clean electrical grid, but also a clean fuel to reduce emissions from industrial heat, long-haul heavy transportation, and long-duration energy storage. However, they note, a clean US hydrogen economy will require a comprehensive strategy and a 10-year plan.

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Hydrogen Economy Clean Cleaning 199

Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2012

System-level implications include the decarbonization of the grid and the addition of additional generation capacity. However, predicting the need for additional capacity over the long term (until 2050 and beyond) is far less certain and will depend on the future grid mix and the degree of interaction with other sectors.

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Industry Industrial Climate Change Grid 301

Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2011

million by 2030 if the UK is to achieve its climate change targets. All three scenarios also assume near decarbonization of the grid by 2030. It is vital that people start consuming and travelling less to make a transition to a low-carbon economy and reduce our dependency on oil and emissions from cars.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2021

Highlights from the report include the following: To reach the 2045 target while electrifying other sectors to meet the state’s economy-wide climate goals, California will need to roughly triple its current electricity grid capacity. A clean electricity grid is necessary to achieve economywide carbon neutrality.

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Clean Cleaning Grid California 170

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

California has a strong interest in promoting the adoption of electric vehicles, based on the benefits to the economy, environment, and quality of life. Plan for and facilitate deployment of a well-planned and easy-to-use charging infrastructure network. —“Electric Drive by ’25”. The author of this policy paper is Ethan N.

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California Electric Vehicles Climate Change Vehicles 265

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 19, 2009

Building a more efficient electric grid based on clean and renewable generation. The two leaders discussed practical ways the United States and Canada could encourage the development of clean energy technologies to reduce greenhouse gases and combat climate change.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 18, 2013

Smart grids, for example, make it easier and cheaper to replace fossil-fired power with renewables without jeopardizing the reliability of the energy system. Emerging economies are stepping up their efforts to promote and develop clean energy. We must invest heavily in infrastructure that improves the system as a whole.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 19, 2024

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Cheap Grid Re-Charge Battery 145

Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2019

This scenario assumes a full global consensus for action on climate change. G20 countries build a generous Green Climate Fund, well above the $100-billion-a-year goal in the Paris climate agreement. The result is a win–win for climate and security. Big green deal. ?This Geopolitical friction is low.

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Carbon Europe Climate Change Saudi Arabia 207

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Four California state agencies and the independent power grid operator have released a new plan and vision for California’s energy future in advance of the Air Resources Board consideration of a first-in-the-nation rule requiring that a third of California electricity come from renewable sources by 2020. California inter-agency roadmap.

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Plug-in California 2020 Transportation 210

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

We will work together to overcome strategic, political, and technical barriers, accelerate the production of zero emission vehicles and increase economies of scale, to make the transition faster, lower cost, and easier for everyone. Unilever; Vattenfall; Zenith; Zurich.

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Dominican Republic Emissions Cape Verde El Salvador 199

Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2009

The bill also directs the President to work with the relevant Federal agencies and California to harmonize, to the maximum extent possible, the federal fuel economy standards, any emission standards promulgated by EPA, and the California standards for light-duty vehicles. Smart Grid and Electricity Transmission.

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Climate Standards Carbon California 186

Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2010

Yesterday, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the National High Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) jointly established increasingly stringent greenhouse gas emission standards under the Clean Air Act for 2012 through 2016 model-year vehicles and fuel economy standards under the Corporate Average Fuel Economy program, respectively.

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EPA Standards Light PHEV 236

Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2019

in addition to Opus 12, they are: WILDCOAST (Imperial Beach, California) is working to secure a resilient coastline to help protect communities, economies and ecosystems from climate change impacts in the Gulf of California. Solar Sister (Great Falls, Virginia) invests in women’s enterprises in off-grid communities in Africa.

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2019 Lesotho Conversion CO2 207

Green Car Congress

JULY 7, 2014

Though numerically the MHDV segment is a small portion of the vehicle parc, it consumes a far greater portion of the total fuel and energy consumed in the road transportation sector because of the low average fuel economy and high annual mileage typical of MHDVs.

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Market Alternative Fuels Engine Gas-Electric 273

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2009

The report’s authors, Max von Bismarck and Anuradha Gurung from the World Economic Forum, and Chris Greenwood and Michael Liebreich from New Energy Finance, argue that “ enormous investment in energy infrastructure is required to address the twin threats of energy insecurity and climate change.

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Green Stimulus Package Climate Change 2008 150

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2012

Interrelationship between EV energy economy (y-axis) and and the electricity grid emissions intensity (x-axis) in determining full fuel cycle greenhouse gas emissions. The step change in both EV calculations reflects impacts arising from the single battery replacement forecast. Source: “Environmental Impacts”. Click to enlarge.

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Gas-Electric Emissions Gas Grid 225

Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2013

Germany has embarked on a large-scale Energiewende (energy transition)—a policy-driven shift away from nuclear and fossil energy to a renewable energy economy. This would create an energy market in which only the amount of electricity actually in demand is fed into the grid. Climate Change Europe Policy Power Generation'

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Creative Greenius

JANUARY 11, 2010

Inspired by President Obama’s election and the collapse of the ponzi scheme economy, I decided to work full time, pro bono, on the issues I cared about most – climate change, renewable energy, energy conservation and sustainability. The Greenius Decade is all about V2G, the smart grid and the smart garage.

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2010 Grid Climate Change Solar 186

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2009

The Commission believes that the Strategic Energy Technology Plan (SET-Plan), which is the technology pillar of the EU’s energy and climate policy, should be the catalyst for securing a low carbon economy. SETIS evaluates and monitors the noted technologies that will fuel Europe’s drive to meet its energy and climate change targets.

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Carbon Energy Climate Change Coal 170

Creative Greenius

APRIL 23, 2009

I think it only fair and just that the people responsible for producing the most pollution and climate changing carbon pay for the costs their products and actions impose on all of us. When they were given the chance, they screwed our childrens’ futures with their lack of actions on climate change thus far.

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Carbon Corporation Climate Change Tax 150

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Overall, declining costs for solar and wind played a considerable factor in the fall in absolute dollar investment in emerging economies. Despite the spike in coal-fired generation, the pace of new coal capacity added to grids in developing nations is slowing, according to Climatescope.

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Coal Clean Cleaning Financing 243

Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2013

As a result, they suggested, vehicle window stickers, fuel economy standards, and life cycle studies using average lab-test vehicle efficiency estimates are incomplete. The fuel economy and emissions of vehicles depend on the way they are driven, including daily driving distance and driving conditions. —Karabasoglu and Michalek.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 12, 2025

Azerbaijan built its economy on its abundant fossil fuels. The plant supplies up to 230 megawatts of power to Azerbaijans grid. In November, Baku hosted the 29th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference. It stoked fire worship in ancient times. Undersea Cable Could Boost E.U.

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Azerbaijan Energy Armenia Power 101

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2021

The company will also continue to increase fuel efficiency of its traditional internal combustion vehicles in accordance with regional fuel economy and greenhouse gas regulations. Supply Chain and Infrastructure. GM’s carbon-neutral commitment applies to its global product portfolio and owned operations.

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General Motors Carbon Emissions GM 199

Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2021

US President Joe Biden announced a new target for the United States to achieve a 50-52% reduction from 2005 levels in economy-wide net greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in 2030. Biden has already announced goals to create a GHG-free power sector by 2035 and a net-zero emissions economy by no later than 2050. over the same period.

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2005 Emissions Renewable 2019 243

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2020

This pilot project addresses the need to do more—beyond cleaning up school buses—to reduce exposure to harmful air pollution by children and others in and around schools, These projects will set up the schools to address climate change, reduce air pollution, and lead the next generation in learning about and using clean mobility options.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JANUARY 1, 2025

Key Takeaways: Tailor charging solutions for heavy-duty trucks at stops and depots Modular and standard component choices are key to scalability Optimize charging for local and grid resiliency, and utility engagement The principles of cause and effect have deep roots in scientific exploration, ancient philosophy, and religious teachings, and later, (..)

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