GreenTechMedia

MAY 27, 2020

utilities in setting a net-zero carbon target for 2050, aiming to balance the emissions from its sizable fossil fuel-fired generation fleet and sprawling natural gas business with reductions to be gained by expanding its portfolio of renewable energy and energy efficiency. Counting on 'negative carbon' solutions.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 3, 2020

New Jersey utility Public Service Enterprise Group (PSEG), facing state clean energy mandates and an economic imperative to shift its business to regulated assets, is seeking to exit its merchant fossil and solar generation business, while retaining its nuclear power plants and exploring a major expansion into offshore wind.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 4, 2020

” At the same time, Crane noted the company is “in the middle of trying to work through legislative strategy in Illinois” that would offer its nuclear power plants in the state an alternative path to earning capacity market revenue that is seen as a critical component of their future financial viability.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 29, 2020

Tucson Electric Power on Friday released a long-term energy plan that calls for closing its remaining coal plants by 2032, on the way to 70 percent renewables by 2035. Colorado wants to get half of its power from renewable by 2030 and 90 percent by 2050. In 2018, Public Service Co. Xcel Energy, which owns Public Service Co.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

million customers in Kansas and Missouri, was formed in 2018 by the merger of Westar Energy and Great Plains Energy, the parent company of Kansas City Power & Light. and meeting Virginia's new mandate to eliminate carbon emissions by 2045. Evergy, which serves 1.6 And Exelon Corp., And Exelon Corp.,

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 10, 2021

On the day that MGT Teesside misses its latest deadline to begin operations (10 December), the Cut Carbon Not Forests (CCNF) coalition warns the Low Carbon Contract Company (LCCC) to reject any further deadline extensions for the biomass power plant. The most recent delay was caused by a multi-day fire on-site in November.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Financial think tank Carbon Tracker has urged the government to take its "foot off the gas" when planning future energy supply. The UK is committed to phasing out the UK's last 6GW of coal power by 2025, by which date almost half the country's 9GW nuclear fleet is due to be decommissioned.

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R-Squared Energy

JUNE 28, 2020

last year, which was less than half the rate of 2018 (2.8%). The remainder of global energy consumption came from coal (27%), natural gas (24%), hydropower (6%), renewables (5%), and nuclear power (4%). Carbon dioxide emissions set a fourth consecutive new all-time high. Primary energy consumption grew by 1.3%

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 10, 2020

New York state’s zero-carbon energy goals will require new transmission to carry upstate wind and hydro to downstate markets, plus a wave of new batteries and other balancing agents to balance the state's increasingly intermittent renewable mix. percent in 2018, and hitting 100 percent zero-carbon emissions by 2040.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 28, 2020

Duke told GTM that its support of the concept is one of its efforts to explore technologies that may help it achieve its goal of net-zero carbon electricity by midcentury. TerraForm and GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy was selected to begin contract negotiations for the DOE’s VTR project. degrees Celsius.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Arizona may soon join a lengthening list of states pledging to reach 100 percent carbon-free power by 2050, although a final decision on its plan to get there won’t be made until after Tuesday’s election. By midcentury, these utilities will be required to phase out all fossil-fueled generation.

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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. A series of delays at Hinkey Point C have seen EDF’s internal rate of return slide away, a familiar story for a number of nuclear projects attempted or planned in Europe and the U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

But Newsom’s demand is backed by a rising chorus of public opinion that the utility responsible for deadly disasters including the 2010 San Bruno gas pipeline explosion and the 2018 Camp Fire, as well as the multi-million customer power outages last fall, can’t be allowed to continue running as it has in the past.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 4, 2020

That’s nearly quadruple the targets laid out in Dominion’s 2019 IRP, and a major shift from a 2018 IRP that was rejected by Virginia’s regulator, the State Corporation Commission (SCC). Under the law, Dominion Virginia and the smaller Appalachian Power Co. gigawatts of energy storage over the next 15 years.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Carbon emissions from energy stayed the same in 2019 despite expectations of further growth, latest International Energy Agency data indicates. Fuel sources switching from coal to natural gas as well as rising nuclear power generation also played a key role in these economies, it said. per cent in 2018.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 1, 2020

billion it spent from 2015 to 2018, the height of its smart grid spending. Lawmakers are also promising greater scrutiny over Exelon’s attempts to win support for its languishing nuclear power plant fleet. ComEd’s current $9.53 billion capital plan for 2020 through 2023 is slightly higher than the $9.51

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

What’s the problem with nuclear energy? At a time when lawmakers are scratching their heads over how to decarbonize national energy systems, nuclear is sitting on a technology that is low-carbon, mature and, despite the odd meltdown, relatively safe. China alone accounts for a quarter of the total. Meanwhile in the U.S.,

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

The government has set its sights on delivering two million green skilled jobs across the UK by 2030, as it today launched a new Taskforce to chart a long-term plan to fill the growing green skills gap and support workers in high carbon industries as the economy shifts towards a net zero footing.

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Clean Energy Canada

JULY 2, 2020

The clean-burning fuel does not produce carbon emissions upon consumption and so can replace fossil fuels in many sectors including heavy industry, transportation and heating. Hydrogen from other non-emitting sources—such as nuclear power—does not currently have an established colour designation. This is known as blue hydrogen.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Itochu invested £5 million in January 2018, a year after Japanese utility TEPCO had put in £500,000. gets more than half its power from low carbon sources, nuclear, wind and solar, we're very dependent as a nation state on technology to manage balancing and flexibility.” Because the U.K.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Simone Rossi, UK CEO of EDF, said EVs would be "crucial in reducing the UK's carbon emissions and fighting climate change". With the addition of charge points, we can help our customers to reduce their carbon footprints and benefit from lower fuel costs by going electric," he explained.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 14, 2020

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. Roy Cooper in 2018 to design an energy and climate change plan for the state.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

power in 2020. Power from all zero-carbon sources (renewables plus nuclear power) set another record, meeting 40% of demand. This was despite a decline in nuclear output. power generation at 41%, though its 2019-2020 growth was slower than 2018-19. Renewable energy generated a fifth of U.S.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Sweden leads the group of high-performing countries, as it did in the 2018 and 2019 Indices. However, the Index states that, “additions of renewable power generation outpaced net installations of fossil fuel and nuclear power”. The US is in last place. Morocco ranked high based on its ambitious 2030 targets.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

The government has set its sights on delivering two million green skilled jobs across the UK by 2030, as it today launched a new Taskforce to chart a long-term plan to fill the growing green skills gap and support workers in high carbon industries as the economy shifts towards a net zero footing.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2022

The Push for Gas and Nuclear. Prior to the Platform on Sustainable Finance’s report, in July 2018, the European Commission established a Technical Expert Group (TEG) to develop the taxonomy’s screening criteria. meetings per week with gas and nuclear players between January 2018 and July 7, 2020.

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Business Green

JUNE 18, 2020

Governments around the world have a unique opportunity to shift the world onto a sustainable development path over the next 12 months, or else risk locking in a new generation of high carbon infrastructure that would make it near impossible to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement.

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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. Kathryn Porter’s 2017 blog confusingly quotes without context reports about how climate models warm in response to carbon dioxide. Porter declined to comment.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

But most jurisdictions use the broader term “clean energy,” which can also include resources like large hydroelectric generation and nuclear power. Six utilities across the United States have set their own 100 percent clean or carbon-free electricity targets. How CCAs are driving renewable energy deployment.

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Business Green

AUGUST 7, 2020

However, the report also highlights how engineering a 'green recovery' backed by major investment in low carbon infrastructure could significantly increase the chances of the world meeting the 1.5C warming target at the heart of the Paris Agreement. In contrast, it suggests a 'green recovery' that sees 1.2 goal within reach.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 17, 2020

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. Map indicating sites of grid hazards during fire-prevention blackouts in 2017 and 2018.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 2, 2021

Currently, electric cars rely on lithium and cobalt batteries to run, which, whilst undoubtedly better for the environment than carbon, aren’t entirely clean. The Sales de Jujuy plant produced 14,000 tonnes of lithium in 2018 , using up to 420 million litres of water – the equivalent of 168 olympic sized pools. Cobalt mining.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Josh Burke at LSE's Grantham Research Institute navigates the costs, opportunities, advantages and disadvantages of different carbon capture and negative emissions technologies. This approach is encouraged by the use of discounting within models and the high future global carbon prices that result. Inclusion in carbon markets.

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Business Green

MARCH 12, 2020

Yet in the rapidly-growing world of ESG - a market which reached more than $30tr in 2018 - it is far from uncommon to find investment practices that would appear to belie the 'environmental' label. If fully adopted, the impact of the recommended taxonomy criteria could be significant.

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Unsustainable

APRIL 30, 2019

In 2014 , the average emission of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) to the atmosphere per person was 4.6 According to the World Bank in 2018, the GDP per person (adjusted for purchasing power parity, aka PPP) was $59 K in the US and $43 K in France, which is officially only a 1.4 Here is a case in point. metric tons in France, 6.5

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R-Squared Energy

JULY 14, 2020

In a previous article , I analyzed the carbon footprint of producing hydrogen from fossil fuels. To recap, the carbon footprint of hydrogen production from natural gas in a steam methane reformer (SMR) is higher than from directly burning the natural gas. kilograms of carbon dioxide emitted per kilogram of hydrogen produced.

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Jigar Shah

MARCH 29, 2019

Clean Electricity Like their peers, Amazon has been transitioning to fuel its data centers with solar and wind power. In January 2018, AWS stated that it had achieved 50% renewable energy usage. or, just save the nuclear power plant currently slated to be shutdown in Ohio. Here’s where he can start.

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