Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Global supply chain disruptions, workforce protection measures, and policy uncertainty required adaptation across the industry. Renewables’ contribution to the power grid set another record, rising 11% year-on-year. power in 2020. This was despite a decline in nuclear output. Renewable energy generated a fifth of U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 23, 2020

Researchers at NYU’s Marron Institute recently published a review of 2011 to 2016 data for 4,000 buildings finding that the city’s mandatory energy audits resulted in energy use reductions of 2.5 “The policy intention is the worst-emitting 20 percent of the buildings have to act first,” said Mandyck.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MARCH 10, 2021

The applicability of this observation is particularly influenced by boundary years, including: Remarkably low emissions in the starting year, 2011, a year heavily impacted by the great recession, and a notable decline in emissions starting in 2016 ( part 1, Figure 5 ). and PM10 following its 2013 introduction.”

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MARCH 10, 2021

The applicability of this observation is particularly influenced by boundary years, including: Remarkably low emissions in the starting year, 2011, a year heavily impacted by the great recession, and a notable decline in emissions starting in 2016 ( part 1, Figure 5 ). and PM10 following its 2013 introduction.”

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Clean Energy Trust

AUGUST 5, 2020

July 2020 Cleantech Roundup: Electric Vehicles Go Public | Energy Policy Scandals | SunRun Acquires Vivint Solar Clean Energy Trust’s cleantech roundup highlights interesting cleantech news and perspective, across industry, technology, policy, and investing. Hint: it is not sales. Link Is Tesla Forever?

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Earth Gratitude

AUGUST 27, 2017

Anti-Nuclear Power Plant Rally on 19 September 2011 at Meiji Shrine Outer Garden. Power to the People! Support an immigration policy that is fair and reasonable. Do everything in my power to abolish cronyism in our nation’s capital and corporations. There is great power in people power. Be pro truth.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

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. Foreign direct investment from China into Europe fell by 50 percent in 2018 compared to the 2016 peak.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Accelerating the build-out of clean energy will reduce costs and make the UK more secure, write Josh Freed and Isabelle Chan of US think tank Third Way, which released a new policy paper on the topic on 29 September. With the right national policies, this shift could also spur a reindustrial revolution.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

announced plans Wednesday to separate its financially challenged nuclear power plant fleet and other generation assets from its multistate regulated utilities business. That scandal has scrambled Exelon’s efforts to seek out state aid for its financially struggling nuclear power plant fleet in Illinois. Exelon Corp.

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Business Green

JANUARY 5, 2023

In the UK, hopes that the year of three Prime Ministers, four Chancellors, and yet another recession represents some sort of post-Brexit nadir from which the country can finally start to recover are betting against the harsh lesson of the post-2016 period: things can always get worse.

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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 7, 2023

The US grid got its first new nuclear power in nearly seven years last week. Plant Vogtle began commercial operations from the first of two new reactors, but the over-budget and years-delayed project could be the last hurrah for big nuclear construction in America. Happy Monday!

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 11, 2020

Since her election to the Senate in 2016, Harris has emerged as a leader among Democrats and has become known for her sharp questioning in congressional hearings. But Biden and Harris would need Congress to accomplish many of the more significant policies either has proposed.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The following examines a limited slice of what BP, Shell, Exxon, and API have been privately saying about carbon capture since 2016. In a February 2016 internal position paper on climate change, BP lists CCS among major options for limiting emissions, alongside improving agriculture, cutting coal consumption, and ramping up fossil gas.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 22, 2020

The second quarter of 2020 saw 18 bankruptcies, the highest quarterly total since 2016. The sentiment of these CEOs stems from three major underlying trends: continued growth of cheap and abundant renewables, financiers pulling out of oil and gas, and backing by favorable policies that are likely to increase in strength.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 17, 2020

While the details are complex and still in development, their result would be to force administratively set minimum prices on future wind and solar resources, energy efficiency, demand response, and nuclear power plants in PJM's capacity market. The particular threat for Illinois.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Menendez asked Perry whether Trump had asked him to convey his “desire for assistance in investigating one of his political opponents or their family members, or unsubstantiated theories related to Ukraine’s involvement in the 2016 U.S. nuclear arsenal and investing billions of dollars into advanced energy research.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Tuesday’s letter takes up three ISO-NE policies for specific critique. 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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R-Squared Energy

MAY 7, 2023

Yes, the categories are fossil fuels, nuclear power, and renewable energy. For context, that price was slightly higher than it was two years earlier ($2.52), and also above the price in January 2015 ($2.21), 2016 ($2.03), or 2017 ($2.38). Under President Trump we imported millions of barrels a day of oil throughout his term.

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