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China Poised To Surpass The U.S. As The World’s Top Nuclear Power Producer

R-Squared Energy

Previous articles discussed the trends in global carbon dioxide emissions , the overall highlights of the Review, the production and consumption of petroleum, natural gas production and consumption, and coal production and consumption. Today we will cover nuclear power. Nuclear power is unique among energy sources.

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California’s Shift From Natural Gas to Solar Is Playing a Role in Rolling Blackouts

GreenTechMedia

Electricity demand for air conditioning throughout the region stretched California's power capacity and limited the state's ability to import power from nearby states. CAISO’s peak demand levels over the weekend were lower than its historical highest peaks in 2006 and 2017. Friday and Saturday.

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Behind the Buzzword: A Brief History of Energy ‘Resiliency’

GreenTechMedia

Over the last 30 years, the transition away from centralized energy infrastructure, global climate events like the devastating hurricanes of 2017, extreme volatility in the cost of fossil fuels, and a growing demand for renewable energy have shaped an unfamiliar theoretical term into not only a buzzword but a cornerstone of infrastructure planning.

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Climate Sceptic Goes Unchallenged on BBC’s Today Programme

DeSmogBlog

She was invited on the show (1:24) to discuss the National Grid’s ‘demand flexibility service’ scheme, under which households and some businesses receive payments for using less energy at times of peak demand. She added: “And so whenever it isn’t windy we’re starting to get into issues of the grid being stressed”.

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The 4 Things PG&E Must Do to Survive and Thrive Post-Bankruptcy

GreenTechMedia

Many more long-term challenges await PG&E, such as adapting to large portions of its customer base being served by community choice aggregators (CCAs), or its natural gas network being rendered obsolete by the state’s zero carbon by 2045 mandate. Credit: PG&E). Gavin Newsom’s Wildfires Blue Ribbon Commission.

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The 5 Biggest US Utilities Committing to Zero Carbon Emissions by 2050

GreenTechMedia

At the very least, utilities will need plans that can get them most of the way there, while rushing ahead with next-generation technologies: long-duration energy storage, small modular nuclear reactors or green hydrogen and methane to fuel natural gas peaker plants. Here's a look at the five largest U.S. Dominion Energy.

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'Extraordinary progress': UK emissions fell 3.6 per cent in 2019 amid clean power record

Business Green

However, separate government data released last week shows the UK's carbon footprint is also shrinking, falling by three per cent between 2017 and 2018 as the economy simultaneously grew. Electricity generation from natural gas fired power plants also fell back slightly by 2.2

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