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What’s the Role for New Nuclear Power in the Fight Against Climate Change?

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Small modular reactors (SMRs) — nuclear reactors using novel technologies to fit into much smaller and mass-producible packages than the behemoth nuclear power plants of today — are presented as a way of rapidly decarbonizing the grid in the face of an ever more pressing need to meet climate targets.

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Highlights from the 2022 BP Statistical Review

R-Squared Energy

It is a primary data source for numerous companies, government agencies, and non-government organizations. The remaining share of primary energy use consisted of hydroelectric power (6.8%), renewables (6.7%), and nuclear power (4.3%). Global coal consumption has been on a downward trend since peaking in 2014.

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Ohio Governor Calls to “Repeal and Replace” Scandal-Tainted Nuclear Bailout Bill

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DeWine’s call to overturn House Bill 6 at a Thursday press conference came just a day after he expressed support for the law, saying it is needed to retain zero-carbon energy output — and several thousand jobs — from the Davis-Besse and Perry nuclear power plants.

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Highlights From The BP Statistical Review Of World Energy 2021

R-Squared Energy

It is a primary data source for numerous companies, government agencies and non-government organizations. The remainder of global energy consumption came from coal (27.2%), natural gas (24.7%), hydropower (6.9%), renewables (5.7%), and nuclear power (4.3%). Renewables and Nuclear Power. In 2020, the U.S.

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Utilities Propose First Regional Grid-Balancing Market in Southeastern US

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Clean energy groups warned, however, that any new regional power market must be organized in a transparent way to avoid undermining state-by-state efforts to boost clean power and reduce dependence on carbon-emitting power plants. First step toward an interstate transmission market. The Southeast and Western U.S.

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Examining the Limits of ‘Energy Return on Investment’

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Hall and scholars such as Jessica Lambert of Next Generation Energy Initiative, a nongovernmental organization, calculated that the minimum EROI required for crude oil extraction would be 1.1:1. In a 2014 review , Hall, Lambert and Stephen Balogh of State University of New York found that PV had a mean EROI of around 10:1.

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Cancer Alley Activist Sharon Lavigne Among Goldman Environmental Prize Winners for 2021

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Kimiko Hirata, 50, fought coal plant construction in Japan following the 2011 meltdown of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Lavigne got her start in the environmental movement after attending a school board meeting in 2015, where she met members of a local organization called H.E.L.P. Her parents organized in St.