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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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

In the first half of 2019, the company generated half as much power from its coal fleet as it did in the same period last year, without closing any capacity. In November last year, Spain’s government said its last coal and nuclear power plants would be closed by 2030. Europe's coal phase out.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 15, 2020

gigawatt Hinkley Point C nuclear power station in 2012, it proudly proclaimed that the arrangement proved new nuclear did not need direct subsidy. A 2014 study found that of a global sample of 180 nuclear power plants, 97 percent ended up over budget. ” RAB: Nuclear's next top model? When the U.K.

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Business Green

MARCH 15, 2023

has bolstered its investment plans across Europe for the coming four years, arguing energy transition presents a major growth opportunity for its business. The company said the Heysham 1 and Hartlepool nuclear power stations are now expected to close two years later than originally planned in March 2026.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Along with permitting grid connections also need to be expedited in order to meet another key net zero milestone for the electricity sector – a tripling of the global renewables capacity from the level of 3,630GW in 2022 to over 10,000GW by 2030.

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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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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Ukrainian electricity, which was exported after synchronisation to the EU and via separate lines to Moldova and Poland, helped Europe support the stability of the European energy system. Exporting electricity from Ukraine helped Europe reduce the consumption of Russian energy resources.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 22, 2022

Riot reports curtailing 11,717MWh in July for ERCOT as demand reached record highs in July, enough to power 13,121 average homes for one month. Cryptominer taps underutilised nuclear energy on Georgia grid Blockchain energy consumption should be transparent in Europe – a call Crypto mining and data centres – the green challenge.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

“We're looking at models for Europe, Australia and the U.S. As it stands Moixa has a small partnership in Ireland and a Europe-wide arrangement with H onda as its “smart charging partner. As it stands Moixa has a small partnership in Ireland and a Europe-wide arrangement with H onda as its “smart charging partner.”

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Smart Energy International

JULY 29, 2022

The most obvious and potentially easiest option is to power mining with renewable energies. In its latest report, the Bitcoin Mining Council estimates that by the end of Q2 of 2022 the Bitcoin mining sustainable electricity mix had increased to almost 60% globally, with a 6% increase over the past year.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

They are evidence that the ground-breaking research and innovation being done here in the UK, and via collaboration with our partners across Europe, is making fusion power a reality," he said. Want to help celebrate and showcase the best of the green economy?

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2022

Low-carbon energy technologies including renewables, energy efficiency and nuclear power, alongside an expansion of robust and smart electricity grids are all part of the solution, he added. "Policy makers should be taking action now to soften the impacts on the most vulnerable and to address the underlying causes."

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Smart Energy International

MAY 17, 2022

It shows that during more than half of the time across 2030 (53% of the hours in the year), the UK’s electricity grid is expected to have an oversupply of renewable and nuclear power. For comparison, it is expected that in 2022, the UK will experience an oversupply from these sources for just 6% of the hours.

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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. The claim plays on the idea, often promoted by opponents of climate action, that renewable energy from wind and solar power is unreliable.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The fledgling hydrogen industry is expanding fast, and now nuclear operators are joining renewables developers in exploring how they could play a critical role in delivering zero emission hydrogen at large scale. The roadmap also emphasises the role that advanced modular reactors (AMRs) could play in powering green hydrogen production.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 3, 2022

Since the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, the nuclear power generation fleet has had its output been effectively mothballed with output below 20% of earlier levels. GridBeyond team meeting Japanese Irish Prime Minister in Japan, July 2022. Image: GridBeyond. Demand side measures.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2022

In January 2021, representatives from the clean energy sector sent a joint letter welcoming the criteria recommended by the TEG and stating that “the inclusion of power generation with a carbon intensity above this limit would not only deviate from science, but would also harm the EU’s decarbonisation trajectory and its 2050 net-zero objectives.”.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Andy Marsh, CEO of report sponsor Plug Power, noted Monday that the company’s hydrogen fuel cell-powered forklifts and distribution center vehicles used by customers like Amazon, Walmart, Home Depot and Lowe’s are using about 27 million tons of hydrogen per day, supplied by its more than 100 fueling stations across the country.

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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

OCTOBER 12, 2022

One WMO official even warned climate impacts pose as big a threat to the global energy security as Russia's ongoing war in Ukraine, which has driven up energy prices worldwide and prompted a scramble in Europe for alternative supplies of fossil gas. "I

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Business Green

MARCH 2, 2023

The think tank's new analysis, titled CO2 Emissions in 2022 , shows global energy-related CO2 emissions grew just 0.9 per cent thanks to a wave of gas-to-coal switching in Asia, and to a lesser extent Europe. Why then didn't the feared increase in emissions materialise? per cent last year, even as economic growth rose 3.2

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Business Green

AUGUST 7, 2020

A new report published in the journal Scientific Reports has warned that extreme droughts are set to become much more frequent across central Europe in the coming decades as climate impacts escalate. Study: China accounts for over 90 per cent of planned global coal power capacity. Fresh warnings of European drought risks.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 17, 2022

EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen delivers a speech during a special plenary session of the EU Parliament in Brussels on March 01, 2022 (image credit: Alexandros Michailidis / Shtterstock.com). On behalf of environmental group RePlanet, energy specialist Joris van Dorp offers a deep analysis of the key messages in Europe’s policy.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 21, 2022

The Sizewell B nuclear Power on the Suffolk coast, September 2021 (image credit: Debra O’Connor / Shutterstock.com). Recently the UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson boldly stated that the government plan is to “build a nuclear reactor every year rather than once every decade”. Additionally, Scotland wants out.

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Business Green

MARCH 12, 2020

It paves the way for a new Taxonomy Regulation which, due to come into force from 2022, will set out the framework and environmental objectives for the Taxonomy, while also establishing new legal obligations for financial firms, large companies, the EU and its member states.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2022

As gas is a globally priced commodity, Europe and the UK are facing severe impacts. UK energy bills were already set to increase by over 50 per cent in 2022 prior to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, with further increases now feared. Developing new sources of fossil fuel production: a tempting but inadequate answer to the crisis.

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2022

A 10-point plan published by the energy authority recommended that advanced economies like the UK introduce car-free Sundays and work from home policies, and make public transport, active travel, and car sharing more affordable and attractive in response to soaring oil prices and the growing desire to end Russian fossil fuel imports to Europe.

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Business Green

MAY 25, 2021

The UK is lagging far behind the rest of Europe in the race to decarbonise the steel industry, a study by the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU) has warned. But the report warned the UK is lagging behind Europe's progress on a number of fronts.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

OCTOBER 25, 2023

” As Germany, Europe’s largest economy, has shut down its last nuclear power plants, its looking toward developing hydrogen infrastructure to help supply the power that so many of its industries desperately need. The law to accelerate hydrogen infrastructure development is expected to be presented this year.

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Business Green

AUGUST 15, 2022

Labour said its £29bn plan would be paid for in part by backdating to January 2022 the government's so-called ‘windfall tax' on the vast profits enjoyed by oil and gas firms during the energy crisis, which has been largely driven by soaring global prices for fossil gas.

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Business Green

MARCH 29, 2022

Doubling clean power capacity additions from 40GW to 80GW each year could drive down costs, bills, emissions and geopolitical risk, according to new analysis from Wärtsilä.

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Business Green

JANUARY 4, 2023

The last year, with Russia's aggression in Europe choking energy supplies, has shown us just how vulnerable our over-reliance on imported fossil fuels can make us. With Russia weaponising energy across Europe, it is vital we boost our homegrown energy supply," the said. Bold action is needed now," said Dunne.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Renewable power capacity added worldwide rose by about a quarter in 2022. And now, nuclear power is making a strong comeback." BloombergNEF said Russia's war in Ukraine had prompted Europe to accelerate its renewables roll out with the sector overtaking nuclear as the continent's biggest single power source.

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2023

Renewables has overtaken gas to become the biggest single source of power on the UK grid so far this winter, with power generated by wind, hydro and solar reaching a record 34TWh from 1 October 2022 to 13 January 2023.

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R-Squared Energy

MARCH 4, 2022

He explains in great detail the dynamics of Europe’s current dependence on Russian gas. Can Europe live without Russian gas right now? Let’s ignore for a second whether this is a good political weapon—as in, do you think Putin will pull rethink the war if Europe stops buying Russian gas? I doubt it). Let’s just focus on numbers.

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Climate Tech VC

MARCH 4, 2024

The US Clean Investment Monitor published its annual report for 2023, which saw clean investment total $239bn, up 38% from 2022. Winners include manufacturing, up 133% from 2022, and emerging climate technologies that saw a whopping 10x jump to $4.3bn.   Lots of spice for clean investment this week. of dollars put to work.

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Business Green

JANUARY 4, 2023

The government remains absolutely committed to net zero, but with Russia weaponising energy across Europe, we must make sure we reach our target in a way that protects energy security and does not place undue burdens on businesses or consumers," it said.

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