Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 10, 2022

Energy Information Administration (EIA) says nearly half of planned capacity additions in 2022 will be solar energy resources. power grid this year. The agency says another 5% of the country’s planned electric capacity additions in 2022 will come from two new reactors at the Vogtle nuclear power plant in Georgia.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 24, 2024

The IEA’s Electricity 2024 report records electricity demand growth easing in 2023 but is projected to accelerate over the next three years through 2026. The update finds that world demand for electricity grew by 2.2% Nuclear power generation also is expected to reach an all-time high, with growth averaging close to 3% per year.

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R-Squared Energy

JULY 13, 2022

Last week the BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2022 was released, covering energy data through 2021. The remaining share of primary energy use consisted of hydroelectric power (6.8%), renewables (6.7%), and nuclear power (4.3%). Renewables and Nuclear Power. Nuclear consumption grew in 2021 by 4.2%

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Clean Energy Canada

MARCH 25, 2024

Japan’s LNG imports, for one, have steadily declined over the last decade and fallen to their lowest level in 14 years as the country restarts nuclear power plants and builds out renewables. Expansion would also come at a cost to the province’s electricity system. s intended export markets. In the past, B.C.

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Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2023

National Grid ESO data reveals a number of fresh records, as zero carbon power sources made up more than half of Britain's power for extended periods of the year. The electricity grid achieved its lowest ever carbon intensity month in February 2022, which delivered an average of 126g CO2/kWh over the period, the data reveals.

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Business Green

JANUARY 31, 2023

The findings, published by energy think tank Ember, suggest Europe weathered a "triple crisis" in the energy sector last year, as the industry faced soaring costs, a scramble to wean the continent off Russian gas supplies, and the lowest levels of hydro and nuclear generation in two decades. Any fears of a coal rebound are now dead."

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 30, 2020

The modern American nuclear power industry is not known for its punctuality, but the spread of a tenacious virus certainly doesn't help. Southern Company subsidiary Georgia Power owns the largest stake in the project near Augusta, Georgia. Southern Company's electricity mix nudged in a cleaner direction in 2020 to date.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 3, 2020

Hawaiian Electric this week revealed the full list of winners from its second large-scale procurement of energy storage and renewables for the islands of Oahu, Maui and Hawaii. formerly 174 Power Global), a U.S.-based Hanwha Energy USA Holdings Corp.

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Previous topics covered were: Global carbon dioxide emissions Overall highlights Oil production and consumption Natural gas production and consumption Coal production and consumption Global nuclear power trends Today, I will cover renewable energy in detail. Global Renewable Energy Consumption 1965-2022. exajoules, up 0.7%

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

New study reveals Britain exported more power to Europe than ever before in the second quarter of the year, making it a net exporter of electricity for the first time in over a decade. The 5.5TWh of exported power represented a new quarterly record.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Since 2022, the site has been primarily focused on nuclear waste processing and storage, and nuclear decommissioning (image credit: Dom Crayford , CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 On 11th March 2011, a major earthquake followed by a tsunami caused an unprecedented accident in the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan. license ).

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Business Green

MARCH 15, 2023

In financial results posted this morning, the company said it would invest €33bn in its retail solutions and electricity infrastructure over the next four years in a bid to shape an "accelerated energy transition in Europe". At a press conference this morning, E.ON We thus see big growth potential for our business in the years ahead."

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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. At present, nuclear is still the world's second largest source of low carbon power after hydro electricity, with atomic power plants spread across 32 countries.

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Business Green

APRIL 30, 2021

Overall generation from clean energy projects delivered through the Contracts for Difference scheme is set hit 25.8TWh across 2021, equivalent to roughly 10 per cent of all generation on Britain's electricity grid, according to analysts.

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R-Squared Energy

AUGUST 10, 2023

Primary Global Energy Consumption 2022 ROBERT RAPIER Global energy demand grew by 1.1% in 2022 to a new record, but slower than the 5.5% Renewable power (excluding hydro) grew 14% in 2022, slightly below the previous year’s growth rate of 16%. in 2022, to the highest level of coal consumption since 2014.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

power forecast , the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ( FERC ) has predicted major declines for fossil fuels and nuclear power alongside strong growth in renewables by 2022, according to a review of the data by the SUN DAY Campaign, a pro-renewables research and education nonprofit.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 5, 2021

This is largely to make up for lost revenue from the electricity they could otherwise have sold. In the wake of the Fukushima disaster in 2011, the German government closed down eight reactors and announced all the nation’s nuclear power would close by 2022. The majority of the €2.4 billion ($2.9 While the U.K.,

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Clean Energy Canada

MARCH 25, 2024

It’s a bet on a particularly draining use of our electricity system over other priorities in need of power. Japan’s LNG imports, for one, have steadily declined over the last decade and fallen to their lowest level in 14 years as the country restarts nuclear power plants and builds out renewables. Many of B.C.’s

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Smart Energy International

JULY 13, 2022

Blockchain energy consumption should be transparent in Europe – a call 100% renewable powered Bitcoin mining facility to prove concept. Over 60% of electricity powering the EZ Blockchain data centre campus in West Point is reported as from emission-free resources, primarily from nuclear power.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

The IEA’s updated Net Zero Roadmap identifies the doubling of grid investments by 2030 as a key milestone for the electricity sector towards its net zero scenario. While the build out of the electricity grids is already accelerating, averaging 1.9

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Business Green

APRIL 25, 2022

Fossil gas' share of electricity supplies shrinks to less than 15 per cent over weekend as wind power meets more than half of UK demand. Just shy of 80 per cent of Great Britain's electricity generation was produced by low carbon sources on Saturday, according to the latest stats from the electricity system operator.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 7, 2021

A coal power plant in Lünen, Germany (image credit: Daniel Grothe , CC BY 2.0 The planned timeline for ending coal power generation in Germany could cause the country significant challenges as it battles to meet future electricity demand. This provides critical challenges for Germany, both politically and economically.

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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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Business Green

JULY 19, 2022

The Nuclear Fuel Fund will seek to award grants to projects that can increase the UK's domestic nuclear fuel sector, reducing the need for foreign imports and creating the material used in nuclear power stations to generate electricity with funding set to support the design and development of new facilities, BEIS said.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Renewable power sources are expected to dominate almost all the growth in the world's electricity supplies through to 2025, according to the IEA, and together with nuclear power they are set to meet the vast majority of the increase in global power demand over the period. remains a hugely challenging prospect.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The recent missile barrage caused the country’s grid frequency to drop down and jump from an optimal 50 Hertz, thereby tripping the country’s four nuclear power plants across 15 units, although some had already been shut down at the Zaporizhzhia power plants, stated Utkin. attacks have damaged almost half of ???? energy system.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Led by French energy giant EDF - which is also currently constructing a nuclear power plant of the same size at Hinkley Point in Somerset - the Sizewell C project had been expected to provide up to seven per cent of the UK's total electricity needs. — Darren Jones MP (@darrenpjones) November 4, 2022.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Pacific Gas & Electric is asking state regulators to approve another massive round of energy storage procurements, including its first large-scale contract for behind-the-meter batteries to serve grid needs. The 15-year agreement calls for Nexus Renewables U.S., gigawatt-hours, of energy storage projects.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 4, 2022

In terms of maintaining an economically optimal supply of power, the energy sector refers to the sequence in which electricity-producing power plants operate on an electricity trading platform as a merit order. Graphically, the principle appears like this: The Merit Order Effect In Electrical Energy Trading.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 4, 2022

In terms of maintaining an economically optimal supply of power, the energy sector refers to the sequence in which electricity-producing power plants operate on an electricity trading platform as a merit order. Graphically, the principle appears like this: The Merit Order Effect In Electrical Energy Trading.

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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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38 North Solutions

MAY 3, 2024

Overview When Congress passed the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA), it reinstated (and expanded) the Section 48C tax credit from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. Refurbishes an industrial or manufacturing facility with equipment designed to reduce GHG emissions by at least 20 percent through the installation of: a.

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 26, 2022

California’s Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) is proposing to add nearly 1,600 MW/6,400 MWh of battery energy storage across nine projects in the state. MW BESS comprised of Tesla Megapacks – which is anticipated to be operational before summer 2022, pending final testing and certification. . -50 GW of new resources.

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Global Renewable News

JULY 7, 2022

HIGHLIGHTS RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES SET.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 11, 2024

Transport tidbits A freeze on fuel duty continued a long-standing policy of successive budgets (14, so far), with the 5p cut introduced in 2022 – to address rising fuel costs – also to be kept in place for another year. The health of consumers’ wallets takes priority over emissions reductions, in this case, or so many observed.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

“This structural situation has determined that mainland coal-fired thermal power plants are not competitive, and therefore their operation in the electricity generation market is not foreseeable in the future.” Spain is targeting a 100 percent renewables electricity system by 2050. billion ($1.4

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 12, 2020

German utility RWE confirmed plans Thursday to build another 4 gigawatts of renewables by 2022, expanding the scope for its annual investments into wind and solar. In total, RWE will spend €5 billion by 2022 growing its renewables portfolio, with 20 percent earmarked for Germany. billion to €2 billion (or as much as $2.2

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