R-Squared Energy
SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
Today we will cover nuclear power. Nuclear power is unique among energy sources. It can be scaled up to very large power plants, it is firm power (available upon demand), and it produces no carbon dioxide while generating electricity. In 2022, nuclear generation actually declined by 4.4%.
R-Squared Energy
SEPTEMBER 1, 2022
Nuclear power is unique among energy sources. It can be scaled up to very large plants, it is firm power (available upon demand), and it produces no carbon dioxide while generating electricity. You have to wonder where things would stand today if not for the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster. It’s understandable.
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Renewable Energy World
NOVEMBER 23, 2021
available installed generating capacity – a share significantly greater than that of coal (18.88%) and more than three times that of nuclear power (8.32%). Wind and solar accounted for 100% of the 915 MW of new capacity additions in September. Renewables now provide more than a quarter (25.39%) of total U.S. respectively.
R-Squared Energy
JULY 26, 2021
The remainder of global energy consumption came from coal (27.2%), natural gas (24.7%), hydropower (6.9%), renewables (5.7%), and nuclear power (4.3%). As with energy consumption, this was also the largest decline since 1945, and put annual emissions back at levels last seen in 2011. Renewables and Nuclear Power.
AGreenLiving
NOVEMBER 14, 2019
In hopes of reinventing its image, new life is breathing into Fukushima, the Japanese northeastern prefecture that was devastated by a 2011 tsunami and consequent nuclear power plant meltdown. Eight years ago, in March 2011, a magnitude-9.0 Decontamination of Fukushima’s nuclear plant and surroundings are ongoing.
GreenTechMedia
FEBRUARY 16, 2021
And while the state’s 22-gigawatt wind power fleet has faced problems stemming from icing of wind turbine blades and relatively low wind conditions that have reduced its ability to contribute to the grid, the primary failure is from the state’s natural-gas, coal and nuclear generator fleet, according to ERCOT data.
Renewable Energy World
JULY 26, 2021
A decade earlier, during the first four months of 2011, renewables provided 13.75% of electrical production. Almost all the growth can be attributed to wind and solar which expanded from 3.3% in April 2011 (year-to-date) to 13.9% in April 2021 (YTD). adding about 1.35% to its share each year).
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