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New Sustainable Energy Factbook shows 2020 was ‘blockbuster’ year for renewables in America

Renewable Energy World

The ninth edition of the Sustainable Energy in America Factbook tells the story of American energy efficiency, natural gas and renewable energy in a volatile year. Figure 2 shows that natural gas and renewable generation continued to expand their share of the resource mix. power in 2020. A record 33.6

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Treasury Department Announces Second Round of Section 48C Tax Credit for Clean Energy Manufacturing Facilities

38 North Solutions

Overview When Congress passed the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA), it reinstated (and expanded) the Section 48C tax credit from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. Refurbishes an industrial or manufacturing facility with equipment designed to reduce GHG emissions by at least 20 percent through the installation of: a.

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A Nordic energy giant shows how a carbon turnaround happens

Business Green

France built nuclear power. Yet, despite years of government R&D and subsidies, Danish wind power didn't become commercially viable until, in 1991, the nation instigated a feed-in tariff - a subsidy that guarantees a long-term, fixed price for renewable power plants. Iceland tapped geothermal.

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Like the solar transition, federal action is critical to launching the e-mobility economy

Renewable Energy World

In 2010, solar power was just 4 percent of new electric generating capacity and there was a patchwork of state solar policies and renewable portfolio standards. [1] The 2009 U.S. These dramatic changes did not happen in a vacuum. These dramatic changes did not happen in a vacuum.

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

GreenTechMedia

” 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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Pipeline Politics Hits Multipolar Realities: Nord Stream 2 and the Ukraine Crisis

DeSmogBlog

Since the 1960s when Europe first began importing Russian gas, Washington perceived Russian energy as a threat to U.S. More recently, with fracking, the United States has become the world’s largest gas producer and a major exporter of liquefied natural gas (LNG). leadership and Europe’s energy security.

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Big Oil’s Been Secretly Validating Critics’ Concerns about Carbon Capture

DeSmogBlog

A natural gas demonstration plant in Texas tests carbon capture technology. Credit: NET Power , CC BY-SA 4.0 But this gas-as-a-guiding-star underpinning doesn’t appear in the framework itself, a point not lost on Democratic lawmakers. There is mounting evidence, however, that CCS is ineffective.

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