GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

But most jurisdictions use the broader term “clean energy,” which can also include resources like large hydroelectric generation and nuclear power. Some 100 percent targets, like Hawaii’s, are focused exclusively on renewable energy, or sources that cannot be depleted, like wind, solar and geothermal.

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Energy Innovation

JULY 14, 2020

The survey evaluated 700 economic recovery policies from 2008-2020 (categorized into 25 archetypes) and their ability to be implemented reasonably quickly, reduce GHG emissions, and provide large economic multipliers (as authors define it the long-term return for every dollar of expenditure). From Hepburn et al. As such, Hanna et al.

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Business Green

AUGUST 7, 2020

It estimates that if the recovery emulates the recovery from the 2008 financial crisis then global temperature will rise by more than 1.5C "We do not have to go back to where we were, because times of crisis are also the time to change.". The report analysed a number of recovery scenarios. goal within reach.

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R-Squared Energy

MARCH 4, 2022

If it was removed from the market today, the price of oil would skyrocket far past the previous record price set in 2008. So, just as we need to do with oil, we need to keep growing America’s natural gas and LNG export capabilities, while working on ways to displace LNG demand with renewable sources of energy and nuclear power.

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Business Green

MARCH 26, 2020

Electricity generation from natural gas fired power plants also fell back slightly by 2.2 per cent, while nuclear power dropped 14 per cent to its lowest level since 2008 due to a series of prolonged outages at Dungeness B and Hunterson B last year, the statistics show.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MARCH 10, 2021

The largest and one of the fastest emissions growing sectors in the study, power sector emissions were skewed by low availability of zero-carbon resources, including below average hydropower availability and the unexpected shutdown in 2012 of the San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant. and PM10 following its 2013 introduction.”

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MARCH 10, 2021

The largest and one of the fastest emissions growing sectors in the study, power sector emissions were skewed by low availability of zero-carbon resources, including below average hydropower availability and the unexpected shutdown in 2012 of the San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant. and PM10 following its 2013 introduction.”

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Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 22, 2024

A supply-demand chain reaction for uranium prices Uranium prices went nuclear on Monday, blasting past $100/lb for the first time since 2008. While prices spiked due to a shortage from the top global uranium producer, the supply-demand mismatch has been mushrooming for over a decade amid changing tides for more nuclear development.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 14, 2020

” Brouillette's comments are a nod to the United States’ relatively slow progress in advanced nuclear power compared to countries like Russia, which has the world’s only full-scale testing platform for smaller-scale nuclear reactors, and China, which is building units today, albeit with less modern designs.

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R-Squared Energy

DECEMBER 27, 2023

When you look back on 2008—when U.S. Along with Vogtle Unit 4, these are the first newly constructed nuclear units built in the United States in more than three decades. nuclear power has fallen far behind China, but the addition of these units will help the U.S. ” In a closely related story, the U.S. Growth in U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

He died in 2008. From 1974-1977, Shell was among the multinational companies that funded and loaned staff to a study known as the Workshop on Alternative Energy Strategies — or WAES — coordinated by Carroll Wilson, a professor at MIT who had begun to champion coal after becoming disenchanted with nuclear power.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 24, 2019

The bill, which went into effect on Tuesday, slashes the state’s existing efficiency and renewable energy mandates, a long-term goal of the Ohio GOP, and redirects the hundreds of millions of dollars a year to support bankrupt utility FirstEnergy Solutions’ nuclear power plants.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 12, 2021

I came to GTM in the fall of 2008, just in time to catch the start of the cleantech VC bubble bursting around our San Francisco Bay Area editorial offices. Two months later, Barack Obama was elected president and began work on the stimulus package, passed in February 2009, that reinjected life into the faltering clean energy sector.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 7, 2023

A video clip playing on a screen near the podium celebrated a utopian vision of the agency’s past and present: happy workers, hydroelectric dams, nuclear power plants, and glittering solar fields. “We In Kingston, mismanagement of the plant’s massive coal ash landfill resulted in a notorious billion-gallon spill in 2008.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 8, 2023

A video clip playing on a screen near the podium celebrated a utopian vision of the agency’s past and present: happy workers, hydroelectric dams, nuclear power plants, and glittering solar fields. “We In Kingston, mismanagement of the plant’s massive coal ash landfill resulted in a notorious billion-gallon spill in 2008.

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Business Green

AUGUST 8, 2022

It is significantly larger than the clean tech focused stimulus package the Obama administration passed in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, which played such a big role in accelerating US renewables and electric vehicle deployment. And advanced nuclear power production tax credits of 1.5

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