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

Envirotec Magazine

The MGT Teesside plant – which is the largest dedicated biomass-burning power station in the world – will burn over one million tonnes of imported wood pellets a year. The UK Government awarded it subsidies under the Contract for Difference (CfD) scheme in April 2014, and it was to start running by September 2018. MWh at current rates.

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Will Covid-19 Permanently Shrink The Fossil Fuel Industry?

R-Squared Energy

A Place for Nuclear Power. However, existing infrastructure of fossil fuels will create some headwinds for renewables, as well as nuclear power, the world’s largest source of low-carbon energy. Nuclear power can be part of a low-carbon sustainable future along with renewable energy. However, the Klaip?da

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Utilities Propose First Regional Grid-Balancing Market in Southeastern US

GreenTechMedia

Since its launch in 2014 , the EIM has led to an estimated $920 million in benefits for participating utilities, by allowing them to correct for gaps between exchanges organized via day- or hour-ahead agreements and fluctuating real-time energy demands. While energy imbalance markets have brought benefits to the Western U.S.,

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‘This Needs to Be Fixed’: Nuclear Expert Calls Radioactivity Levels Found Outside Ohio Oilfield Waste Facility ‘Excessive’

DeSmogBlog

.” The Ohio and Pennsylvania advocacy groups sent the Austin Master samples to Marco Kaltofen, a nuclear forensics scientist in Massachusetts who has extensive experience examining radioactive waste from the nuclear weapons, nuclear power generation, and oil and gas industries. “Waste Falling Off the Truck”.

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An Open Letter to the U.S. Government

Unsustainable

But we’re overdue for more from the governments that we, as tax-payers, voters, and (generally) law-abiding citizens, have contracted to manage our societies. In 2014 , the average emission of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) to the atmosphere per person was 4.6 Here is a case in point. metric tons in France, 6.5

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How Bad Relations With China Could Mess With the Energy Transition

GreenTechMedia

In June 2014, Prime Minister David Cameron signed a £14 billion ($18.5 In October 2015, Cameron and China’s President Xi Jinping signed another deal for China General Nuclear Power Group (CGN) to take a one-third stake in the new Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant. is a case in point. Back in the U.K,

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The Top Energy Stories Of 2021

R-Squared Energy

Consumers saw that, as gasoline prices rose to their highest levels since 2014. trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act was signed into law by President Biden in November. Winter Storm Uri in Texas caused a major power crisis there that left more than 200 people dead. Demand has returned, but supply hasn’t caught up.