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Midwestern Utility Evergy Pledges Carbon Cuts in Line With Paris Accord

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Since 2005, Evergy has reduced the share of coal-fired power in its 6.2-gigawatt gigawatt generation fleet from 52 percent to 40 percent, while reducing natural gas and oil from 38 percent to 26 percent. gigawatts of nameplate capacity as of 2020. Missouri’s RPS demands only 15 percent renewables by 2021.

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

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

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gigawatts of carbon-free resources to help meet grid reliability needs that will arise when four natural gas-fired power plants retire next year to reduce their environmental harm to coastal waters. The state’s 2013 mandate to bring 1.35 The state’s 2013 mandate to bring 1.35

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Looming Grid Shortfall Prompts 2.5GW California Procurement Proposal

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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. gigawatt reliability resources procurement between 2021 and 2023.

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Climate Sceptic Goes Unchallenged on BBC’s Today Programme

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Wind Power ‘Blackout’ Risk Porter told BBC Radio 4 listeners in the interview: “There were risks around blackouts this winter. The UK’s independent Climate Change Committee rebutted these arguments in 2013, after they were made by GWPF advisor Matt Ridley.

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Southern California Edison Inks Another Massive Round of Utility-Scale Battery Contracts

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Last month the CPUC launched a proceeding considering emergency steps to relieve the possibility of another grid emergency next summer, with options, ranging from bolstering supply-side resources like natural gas-fired power plants or utility-scale batteries to increasing demand-side resources like behind-the-meter batteries and demand response.

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MIT Study: Transmission Is Key to a Low-Cost, Decarbonized US Grid

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These results come from a linear optimization model that uses hourly weather data from 2007 to 2013, encompassing heat waves, winter storms and other weather events that can disrupt renewable power supply, Brown noted.