Business Green

JUNE 30, 2022

International Energy Agency argues nuclear power can play a significant role in supporting transition to a renewables-dominated energy system worldwide. As a result, advanced economies have lost market leadership, as 27 out of 31 reactors that started construction since 2017 are Russian or Chinese designs.".

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Business Green

MAY 20, 2022

Developer reveals flagship project is facing further delays, as Public Accounts Committee raises alarm over wider nuclear industry decommissioning costs. The Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant is facing a further year delay and an additional £3bn of costs, according to an update from developer EDF.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

State regulators rejected NextEra’s next bid, an $18 billion offer for Texas utility Oncor , in 2017 on concerns that the deal would not protect the credit rating of the distribution utility amid the Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceeding of parent company Energy Future Holdings Corp. In 2016, NextEra’s $4.3 And Exelon Corp.,

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 2, 2020

In search of alternatives, utilities turned to domestic coal, nuclear power and natural gas. Alongside increased dependence on nuclear power, an accident at the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station in 1979 raised new concerns about the resilience of the nuclear fleet.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

French energy giant EDF has suffered another blow in the development of its controversial Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant in the U.K. government has stuck by its plans to pave the way for new nuclear capacity. 's eight existing nuclear power stations are set to go offline in the next 10 years. billion ($3.6

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Business Green

JULY 17, 2022

Advanced nuclear technologies, modular manufacturing methods and new approaches to project finance could usher a more cost-effective era for the UK's nuclear industry, writes LSE's Esin Serin. As part of its approach to dealing with energy security concerns, the UK government has turned to nuclear power.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

Wind Power ‘Blackout’ Risk Porter told BBC Radio 4 listeners in the interview: “There were risks around blackouts this winter. Porter’s article references a January 2017 post in which she wrote that “the charge of being unscientific is one which can be legitimately aimed at the IPCC”.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 2, 2020

That compares to 2017, the peak year for installation, when the U.K. Former Prime Minister David Cameron said in 2014 that the public had “had enough” of onshore wind before backing nuclear power and fracking as the keys to U.K. gigawatts of onshore wind. The contracts last 15 years. A new climate for U.K.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Gavin Newsom’s demands for greater safety, oversight and accountability. Under the bill, PG&E’s assets would be transferred to an entity called the Northern California Energy Utility District, with a governing board and operating duties similar to municipal utility districts.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 4, 2019

by far the world’s leading corporate renewables market, offshore wind remains in its infancy, and the offtake deals that have been made public with states and utilities remain expensive compared to other options for companies looking for clean power. operator of nuclear power plants. In the U.S.,

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

More than half of the 48 new reactors that the World Nuclear Association (WNA) lists as being built worldwide are in just four countries: China, India, the United Arab Emirates and Russia. It’s the same story in France, which has a higher proportion of nuclear energy on the grid than any other country in the world.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

EDF Energy owns and operates a raft of energy assets in the UK, including a gas and coal power station and several wind farms, in addition to developing Hinkley Point C nuclear power station in Somerset in partnership with China's CGN.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 27, 2020

The results of consultations on the funding of new nuclear power are also expected soon. The government is mulling the addition of solar and onshore wind to the CFD program, having blocked them from the 2017 and 2019 rounds on largely political grounds. The fourth auction is due in September 2021.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 27, 2020

.; its Southern Power competitive power arm which owns about 12.8 gigawatts of generation capacity, including substantial amounts of wind and solar; and its Southern Nuclear arm, which operates six nuclear power plants and is building the country’s only new nuclear capacity at its Vogtle site in Georgia.

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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2020

We're confident the price of nuclear power will fall from the £92.50 per Megawatt Hour for the first plant, closer to £60/MWh for the next wave of power stations reducing to around £40/MWh for further reactors.". Those who like nuclear want it to be true. Amazing how often this is trotted out.

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Clean Energy Canada

JULY 2, 2020

Hydrogen from other non-emitting sources—such as nuclear power—does not currently have an established colour designation. In 2017, the Canadian hydrogen and fuel cell sector had revenues of $207 million and provided over 1,600 jobs in Canada. This method does not produce direct emissions but requires electricity.

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Green Living Guy

AUGUST 9, 2020

Size of the global chemical industry exceeded US$5 trillion in 2017 and projected to double by 2030. The benefits of action to decrease impacts of chemicals estimated in high tens of billions of United States dollars annually. International treaties and voluntary instruments have reduced the risks of some chemicals and Continue Reading.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

The regime initially helped speed up the planning process - prior to the NSIP System, Sizewell B nuclear power station took seven years to be consented, for example, while the Norfolk Boreas offshore wind farm, consented in 2021, took two-and-a-half years from application to approval.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 17, 2020

CAISO’s peak demand levels over the weekend were lower than its historical highest peaks in 2006 and 2017. “In 2006, we had a lot more capacity on the system,” including the now-closed San Onofre nuclear power plant and thousands of megawatts of natural-gas plants that have since closed.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

EDF Energy owns and operates a raft of energy assets in the UK, including a gas and coal power station and several wind farms, in addition to developing Hinkley Point C nuclear power station in Somerset in partnership with China's CGN.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 22, 2020

The world’s leading nuclear power generator is betting big on a future of small-scale, distributed energy. Électricité de France operates 58 nuclear reactors in its home country and owns stakes in several U.S. nuclear plants that it's now moving to sell.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Stem also scored a coup in 2013 with an 85-megawatt contract with Southern California Edison as part of the utility’s first large-scale procurement of distributed energy resources to help replace grid capacity lost with the closure of the San Onofre nuclear power plant.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 30, 2021

Qi and Koenig, 2017 , CC BY. For example, concentrated solar power plants use mirrors to concentrate sunlight, which heats up hundreds or thousands of tons of salt until it melts. This approach allows concentrated solar power to work around the clock. In these devices both the electrolyte and the electrodes are liquids.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 1, 2021

In his 2017 book on EROI, subtitled "A Unifying Principle for Biology, Economics and Sustainability," Hall details how advanced societies require a surplus of energy to sustain the multitude of non-energy-producing activities that take place in modern life.

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Business Green

MARCH 28, 2022

The acquisition further strengthens Macquarie's interests in Britain's gas grid, with the Australian bank having previously snapped up leading gas distribution firm Cadent from National Grid in 2017. Macquarie is also the owner of Green Investment Group, previously known as the Green Investment Bank, which it acquired from the UK government.

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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! An Action Plan For 2017 and Beyond. link] [link] Thank you for your time, for your support and for reading and enacting this Power to the People Action Plan. Action Plan for 2017 & Beyond.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 17, 2020

Map indicating sites of grid hazards during fire-prevention blackouts in 2017 and 2018. In 2017 and 2018, PG&E lost roughly $1 billion in revenues from these shifts, primarily by residential and commercial customers choosing not to opt out of new CCAs' service, according to Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables analyst Fei Wang.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 25, 2022

.” 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.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 9, 2022

Shortly before Christmas in 2015 the power grid in Ukraine suffered a series of outages that impacted roughly a quarter of a million consumers and lasted several hours. [1] 1] Later, in 2017 the same group used ransomware to shutdown servers all over Ukraine, including at the infamous Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. [2]

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Unlike most utility grid modernization plans, however, Ameren Missouri’s plan also includes $1 billion for wind power. Ameren first outlined its goal in 2017 to acquire 700 megawatts of wind by the end of 2020, and has lined up two projects it hopes to acquire by year’s end, at a cost of about $1.2

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

What’s more, Mississippi Power’s showcase Kemper Plant carbon capture and sequestration pilot project was shut down in 2017 after failing to meet objectives and running billions of dollars over budget. Nuclear power plays a large role in PSEG’s carbon-reduction plans. Xcel Energy.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 27, 2020

” FirstEnergy Solutions, the owner of the nuclear power plants set to receive about $1.2 The affidavit filed by the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Southern District of Ohio doesn’t name FirstEnergy, referring instead to “Company A” and other unnamed subsidiaries.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2024

The fallout from the latest delays to the flagship Hinkley Point nuclear project are wide-ranging - and they present significant challenges for both the government and the opposition The more you look at the brief update from EDF confirming the budget and timetable for the Hinkley Point C nuclear budget has slipped yet again, the worse it gets.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 15, 2021

Kimiko Hirata, 50, fought coal plant construction in Japan following the 2011 meltdown of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Lavinge and others pushed back against the Bayou Bridge pipeline at an April 19, 2017 St. James to protest against the Bayou Bridge pipeline on June 22, 2017. James, including a $1.25

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 21, 2020

But Governor Andrew Cuomo has spent years trying to close the nuclear facility, saying New Yorkers will be able to “sleep a little better” once it’s shut down.

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Business Green

MARCH 26, 2020

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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Low Carbon Prosperity

MARCH 10, 2021

The largest and one of the fastest emissions growing sectors in the study, power sector emissions were skewed by low availability of zero-carbon resources, including below average hydropower availability and the unexpected shutdown in 2012 of the San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant. and PM10 following its 2013 introduction.”

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