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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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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

Those include changes to how CPUC calculates the effective load-carrying capacity of utility-scale solar farms being built by developers under power purchase agreements with CCAs — changes that could, in effect, de-rate how much solar power is determined to be worth to the grid during different times of the day, week, and year.

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Climate Sceptic Goes Unchallenged on BBC’s Today Programme

DeSmogBlog

Year on year our underlying risk of blackouts is actually increasing, and this is because we’re replacing generation we can control – such as gas, coal, and nuclear power stations – with generation that’s dependent on the weather, primarily wind.” Another of her sources, Paul Homewood, has written for the GWPF.

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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. This is the safest, quickest route to national energy security. In doing so, we can create good jobs and a vibrant economic future for the whole nation.".

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

GreenTechMedia

Municipal utility Los Angeles Department of Water and Power has contracted for up to 300 megawatts/1.2 gigawatt-hours of storage being built alongside 400 megawatts of solar power being built by 8Minute Energy. Pacific Gas & Electric is contracting seven battery projects totaling 423 megawatts , or nearly 1.7

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The Future(s) of Fossil Fuels - 2020

Mr. Sustainability

Their goal is to create synthetic fuel by directly capturing CO2¬ and water from the air using solar power. They are doubling down on oil and natural gas and investing what amounts to pocket change in innovative climate-oriented efforts like small nuclear power plants and devices that suck carbon out of the air.