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Subsidies to biomass plant in Teesside must be stopped says environmental coalition

Envirotec Magazine

By comparison, the CfD awarded to Hinkley Point C nuclear power station is £106.12/MWh. The letter argued that the contract was entered into under the Energy Act 2013 for the project to be treated as generating a form of low carbon energy. Unlike cheap wind and solar power, biomass?power MWh at current rates.

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Looming Grid Shortfall Prompts 2.5GW California Procurement Proposal

GreenTechMedia

Even so, “given the imminence of the 2021 system reliability needs, there is not time to complete that analysis, allow additional input and vetting from parties, and still have procurement take place in time to meet a potential shortfall in the timeframe of Summer 2021,” administrative law judge Julie A. gigawatts by 2021, and 2.2

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Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren Demand Changes at New England’s Grid Operator

GreenTechMedia

The first is called Competitive Auctions With Sponsored Policy Resources, or CASPR ( PDF ), a complicated effort to balance zero-marginal-cost wind and solar power against fossil fuel and nuclear-powered generators in ISO-NE’s forward capacity auction.

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