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

GreenTechMedia

For one, it uses mechanical water-cooling systems that don’t require additional water, pumps and valves or backup generators or batteries to run those systems in event of emergency. NuScale’s design doesn’t require some of the key safety features for large-scale reactors.

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What Alberta Premier Danielle Smith Gets Wrong About Heat Pumps

DeSmogBlog

percent annually from 2013 to 2020. In November, he instructed his province’s public utilities, SaskPower and SaskEnergy, to stop collecting carbon taxes on natural gas as of January 1, 2024, if the federal government didn’t extend the same carbon price carve out to his province. Stanford University climate scientist Mark Z.

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Looming Grid Shortfall Prompts 2.5GW California Procurement Proposal

GreenTechMedia

Although the proposed ‘all-source’ procurement would allow existing natural gas-fired peaker plants to compete, it could also open a massive new market for renewable energy, energy storage, demand response and other preferred alternatives to fossil fuels.

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Recent Changes to California’s Self-Generation Incentive Program, Explained

GreenTechMedia

Seven of the 10 most destructive wildfires in the state’s history have occurred since 2013, and 2018 was the deadliest year ever, including the Camp Fire in Butte County that claimed 86 lives. California faces unprecedented risks from wildfires.

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A decidedly impartial review of Mark Jacobson’s 100% Clean, Renewable Energy and Storage for Everything

Renewable Energy World

Meeting of The Solutions Project and Sierra Club at Cornell University on April 20, 2013. Mark Jacobson appears on The Late Show with David Letterman on September 23, 2013 © Mark Jacobson. Jacob justification is a cost benefit analysis whereby the external costs of coal, natural gas and oil far exceed the investment costs for WWS.

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Interview – Harnessing the potential of geothermal to scale up by 2030

ThinkGeoEnergy

Depending on where you are, somewhere between 30% to 70% of primary energy is spent on heating and cooling. This presents a massive decarbonization opportunity, one reason why geothermal heating and cooling is growing and will continue to grow rapidly. This is inherently wasteful and it comes with a price tag of emissions.

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Build Louisiana Back Resilient

Renewable Energy World

This project would further solidify Entergy’s commitment to natural gas investment in the future and ensures that the communities it serves remain unable to access clean, resilient, and reliable power technologies. Distributed solar+storage systems would avoid installing dozens of polluting natural gas generators.