GreenTechMedia

JUNE 29, 2020

APS has committed to 100-percent clean power by 2050 , including an interim target of 65 percent by 2030. That target will make use of the roughly 25 percent of its capacity provided by the Palo Verde nuclear power plant, as well as 45 percent renewable energy, largely solar power. In 2018, Public Service Co.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 29, 2020

The EU's own new strategy for decarbonizing its energy system draws largely from European Commission projections from 2018, predicting that in 2050 more than 80 percent of the electricity supply will come from renewables and 15 percent from nuclear.

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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. Evergy, which serves 1.6 It was under pressure from shareholder Elliott Management Corp. And Exelon Corp.,

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 28, 2020

TerraForm and GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy was selected to begin contract negotiations for the DOE’s VTR project. As is the case with all nuclear power, cost and construction timelines will be heavily scrutinized. To keep costs down even more, the Natrium unit’s non-nuclear equipment is housed in a different building.

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Business Green

MARCH 15, 2023

spun off its gas electricity generation business as Uniper in 2016, offloading its remaining stake in the business in 2018. News of the German energy firm's investment spree comes as British Gas parent company Centrica announced plans to extend the lives of two nuclear power stations in England a bid to "bolster security of [energy] supply".

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 8, 2020

After a change in government administrations, the rates attached to the projects when they were first awarded in 2018 were cut by around 5.7 gigawatts of offshore wind by 2035 as it phases out its nuclear power plants.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The MGT Teesside plant – which is the largest dedicated biomass-burning power station in the world – will burn over one million tonnes of imported wood pellets a year. The UK Government awarded it subsidies under the Contract for Difference (CfD) scheme in April 2014, and it was to start running by September 2018. MWh at current rates.

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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. In January, Hitachi hit the pause button on its own new-build nuclear plans in the U.K., In November 2018, Toshiba scrapped its own plans to develop new nuclear capacity in the U.K.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 10, 2020

percent in 2018, and hitting 100 percent zero-carbon emissions by 2040. That leaves a massive gap to be filled by clean energy, since more than half of the state’s carbon-free emissions today come from nuclear power, as shown in the chart below. Source: NYISO. Source: NYISO.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Xcel expects regulators to approve this plan, which also includes coal-closure commitments and extending its nuclear power plant operations through at least 2040, by the end of this year. Xcel made waves in late 2018 by setting its own net-zero carbon plans in advance of state mandates.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 30, 2020

More immediately, the utility aims for 2030 goals of 45 percent renewable electricity, with the Palo Verde nuclear power plant bringing the tally up to 65 percent carbon-free power. But in 2018 the Arizona Corporation Commission declined to acknowledge the gas-heavy IRPs from APS and Tucson Electric Power Co.

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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

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

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Still, Evergy hasn’t moved as aggressively into harnessing the region’s rich wind power resource compared to neighboring utilities. Similarly, Xcel Energy, which serves about 3.3 million electric and 1.8 Similarly, Xcel Energy, which serves about 3.3 million electric and 1.8

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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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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). The new plan, by contrast, sets out a goal of nearly 16 gigawatts of solar, more than 5 gigawatts of offshore wind, and 2.7

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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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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

The newly approved changes will boost those targets dramatically for investor-owned utilities Arizona Public Service and Tucson Electric Power, mandating a 50 percent cut in carbon emissions from 2016 to 2018 average levels by 2032 and a 75 percent cut by 2040.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 7, 2023

TEPCO subcontractors collect sea water samples near the damaged Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in 2013 (image credit: IAEA Imagebank , CC BY-SA 2.0 Based on our collective professional experience in nuclear science and nuclear power, we have reached the same conclusion. In the Pacific Ocean there is 7.4

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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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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.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Poland accelerates coal phase out, pushes for nuclear and offshore wind. Poland is the only member of the EU which has so far refused to commit to net zero emissions by 2050, with the country seeking more time to reconfigure its economy, which is heavily reliant on coal-fired power stations and coal mining.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

The global energy agency put the halt in CO2 growth down to declining emissions from power generation in advanced economies such as the EU and the USA, thanks in large part to the expanding role of renewable energy such as wind and solar. per cent in 2018. per cent drop in CO2, amounting to 140 million tonnes.

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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. ” Last month the Japanese car giant has brought forward its plans to switch to manufacturing electric-only cars from 2025 to 2022. Honda led the most recent £8.6 million ($11 million) investment round into Moixa in May.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 14, 2020

Roy Cooper in 2018 to design an energy and climate change plan for the state. Kendal Bowman, Duke’s vice president for regulatory affairs, revealed the plan in a Monday meeting with groups involved in North Carolina’s Executive Order 80 , passed by Gov. The Charlotte Business Journal first reported on the plan on Tuesday.

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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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Business Green

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

It comes as the Prime Minister gears up to shortly announce is hotly-anticipated 10-point green recovery plan, which is expected to feature support for offshore wind, nuclear power, hydrogen, and carbon capture and storage (CCS), among other areas.

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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

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Stem is one of the last pure-play energy storage startups and has raised about $210 million in equity investment over the years, culminating in a 2018 Series D for $106 million. That will allow the company to “significantly accelerate” its growth in its current markets of the U.S., billion in late 2019 to about $2.7

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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. Companies include: Ballard Power Systems in Burnaby, B.C., This method does not produce direct emissions but requires electricity. is known as green hydrogen. It was acquired by major U.S.

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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

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

The new NIC report also comes as the government prepares to issue its formal response in the coming months - potentially alongside next month's Budget - to the Commission's 2018 assessment, which called for a sweeping overhaul of UK infrastructure to prepare the country for the worsening impacts of climate change.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

As a result, it urges the government to rethink plans to enable billions of pounds of investment in new gas power plants when seeking energy supply capacity to replace the coal and nuclear power plants that are slated to close over the coming decade.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

The move comes as the Prime Minister gears up to shortly announce his hotly-anticipated 10-point green recovery plan, which is expected to feature support for offshore wind, nuclear power, hydrogen, and carbon capture and storage (CCS), among other areas.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

In hopes of reinventing its image, new life is breathing into Fukushima, the Japanese northeastern prefecture that was devastated by a 2011 tsunami and consequent nuclear power plant meltdown. The Japanese are optimistic about the electrical power that will be generated, given the region’s current trajectory.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 17, 2020

“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. ” California has also lost a good deal of the generation capacity that it had in years past, he said.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Raskin’s early experiments involved using mustard to extract heavy metal pollutants half a mile from Ukraine’s Chernobyl nuclear power plant, which unleashed catastrophic amounts of radioactive material when a reactor melted down in the mid-1980s. Its roots are deep and profuse — the better to uptake pollutants from soil.

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