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

GreenTechMedia

While small modular reactors have powered naval ships for decades and are also in use in other military applications, they’ve yet to be approved for use in commercial power generation. NuScale investors include major government contractors and nuclear energy engineering firms such as Ares Corp.,

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Midwestern Utility Evergy Pledges Carbon Cuts in Line With Paris Accord

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Evergy has become the latest utility to pledge to long-term carbon cuts even though the states it serves, Kansas and Missouri, aren’t demanding them. Above and beyond states' demands. Missouri’s RPS demands only 15 percent renewables by 2021. Missouri’s RPS demands only 15 percent renewables by 2021.

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Behind-the-Meter Battery Pioneer Stem to Take SPAC Route to Public Markets

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Stem was founded in 2009 as power electronics startup Powergetics and rebranded as Stem in 2012 , becoming one of the first pure-play providers of batteries to help building owners and operators shave peak-demand usage and cut back on their utility bills.

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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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Vistra, LS Power Top Winners in PG&E?s 420MW Storage Procurement

GreenTechMedia

PG&E picked the winning projects from 23 unique offers from 12 different parties, including demand response and existing natural gas-fired power plants. The state’s 2013 mandate to bring 1.35 gigawatt total online by August 2021.

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Climate Sceptic Goes Unchallenged on BBC’s Today Programme

DeSmogBlog

She was invited on the show (1:24) to discuss the National Grid’s ‘demand flexibility service’ scheme, under which households and some businesses receive payments for using less energy at times of peak demand. She added: “And so whenever it isn’t windy we’re starting to get into issues of the grid being stressed”.

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'Green energy sprint': Labour unveils energy security plan, as fracking row intensifies

Business Green

From home energy efficiency to onshore and offshore wind, hydrogen and tidal to solar and nuclear power, it is time to turbocharge the shift to green energy," he said. million homes by 2027 could reduce UK gas demand by four per cent, which is roughly equivalent to UK imports of Russian gas.

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