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Can Gas-Fired Power Plants Coexist with a Net-Zero Target? Yes, Southern Company Insists

GreenTechMedia

utility can reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 while still keeping natural gas as a central part of its business, both to generate electricity and to sell to its customers. That includes a recommitment to reaching its 2030 goal of reducing carbon emissions below 50 percent of their 2007 levels, potentially ahead of schedule.

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NuScale’s Federal Safety Approval Moves US Modular Nuclear Reactors a Step Closer to Reality

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While small modular reactors have powered naval ships for decades and are also in use in other military applications, they’ve yet to be approved for use in commercial power generation. In terms of cost, NuScale is targeting a levelized cost of energy of $65 per megawatt-hour and a cost to build that would equate to $2.9

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How To Leverage $10 Billion To Reduce Carbon Emissions

R-Squared Energy

The primary culprits that add carbon dioxide to the atmosphere are the coal, oil, and natural gas — the fossil fuels — we consume for energy. coal consumption has dropped by 44% since 2007. The primary reason is that utilities have moved away from coal to produce power. Consider coal, for example. In the U.S. In the U.S.,

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Comment: Europe’s struggle to understand energy economics

Envirotec Magazine

After all, consumer prices have become much higher than the cost of producing wind and solar power. As long as there are enough suppliers (such as renewables and nuclear) with low marginal costs, the price paid for electricity by consumers also remains low. Electricity generated by fuel, Denmark, 1971-2007. Source: IEA).

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DOE Awards $160M to TerraPower and X-Energy to Build Advanced Nuclear Plants by 2027

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Department of Energy has awarded $160 million to X-energy and TerraPower with the potential for billions more in federal funding, as the companies strive to build a working model of their smaller scale, more flexible advanced nuclear reactor designs by 2027. DOE intends to invest about $3.2

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