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With Oil Historically Cheap, Oil-Producing States Plow Into...Solar!

May 06, 2020
Source: Bloomberg Green
Where oil has flowed for decades, plunges in oil price can't make fossil fuels outshine solar in terms of cost.
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External News

Oil Giant BP Says It Will Cut Carbon Emissions to Net Zero by 2050

February 27, 2020
Source: New Scientist
BP has become the biggest oil and gas company to promise to cut its carbon emissions to net zero by 2050. Bernard Looney, BP’s new chief executive, said that it was “no longer enough” to provide reliable and affordable energy, it had to be cleaner too.
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Commentary

Rigging the System Against Clean Energy

February 27, 2020
Source: Bloomberg
"In the latest attempt by the Trump administration to obstruct the clean energy transition and artificially revive a dying coal industry, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission — or FERC — has issued an order creating new rules that unfairly favor electricity from coal plants over cleaner and less costly alternatives."
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Utilities Don't See Stranded Assets as a Top Risk. Should They?

February 27, 2020
Source: Utility Dive
Though 45% of utility employees surveyed in Utility Dive's 2020 State of the Electric Utility Survey see the transition's cost — including stranded assets — as a top risk for the sector, only 18% see generation retirements and stranded assets as a top concern and just 14% said stranded assets present a major challenge to a changing fuel mix.
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A Dirty Cousin of Green Bonds Starts to Attract Money and Skepticism

February 12, 2020
Source: Bloomberg
So-called transition bonds are designed to help issuers in dirty industries, such as oil production and coal mining, finance their shift to cleaner ways of doing business.
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Microsoft to Invest $1 Billion in Carbon-Reduction Technology

January 24, 2020
Source: Bloomberg
Microsoft unveiled plans to invest $1 billion to back companies and organizations working on technologies to remove or reduce carbon from the earth’s atmosphere, saying efforts to merely emit less carbon aren’t enough to prevent catastrophic climate change.
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Where Climate Meets Digital: Data Centers and Sustainability

January 24, 2020
Source: AVAIO Capital
In 2017 data centers in the U.S. alone used more than 90 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity, equal to the output of 34 power plants of 500 megawatts (MW) each. If all those plants were coal-fired, they’d have pumped out over 100 million tons of carbon dioxide - more than 2% of the CO2 produced by the entire U.S. economy in 2018. As demand for data centers picks up, so do the pressures – environmental, financial and regulatory – to develop them in a sustainable way.
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Ohio Supreme Court Dismisses Power Plant Lawsuit

December 18, 2019
Source: Toledo Blade
The Ohio Supreme Court threw out FirstEnergy Solutions’ lawsuit arguing that the recently enacted law bailing out its two nuclear power plants on Lake Erie cannot be subjected to voter referendum.

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