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. Another major motivator is climate change. Other areas, meanwhile, have decided to go well beyond 100 percent clean electricity.

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Business Green

MARCH 23, 2023

It comes at a time in which private sector funding for larger nuclear power stations is proving to be extremely difficult. The Rolls-Royce design is a 470MW pressurised water reactor, which is bigger than one of the reactors at Fukushima in Japan that suffered serious damage in the 2011 tsunami.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Instead, “it’s all of us” in Texas “not pushing our regulators and politicians” to take steps to protect the grid and natural-gas network from temperature drops that, while rare in the past, may be far more prevalent in a future of climate-change-driven weather extremes.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Along with a significant share of the state’s ample wind power fleet that lacked the cold weather hardening typical of wind farms in northern climes, coal and nuclear power plants also tripped offline as safety instruments and cooling systems froze up. electric grid away from coal-fired power plants.

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