Smart Energy International

MARCH 25, 2024

However, since then, the state has redefined its energy policy, including a revival of nuclear power, the acceleration of renewables and reindustrialisation through the development of low-carbon industrial zones. Have you read? Europe’s grid is receiving record levels of investment. But is it enough?

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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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Business Green

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

Another record year for renewables saw clean power sources overtake fossil fuels on Britain's grid for the first time in 2020, but new nuclear and emerging technologies such as hydrogen and bioenergy carbon capture and storage are likely to be required to deliver a fully decarbonised energy system.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

OCTOBER 9, 2023

As of October 1, 2023, the EU’s CBAM has entered into its transitional phase The Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) is a groundbreaking strategy devised by the European Union (EU). It’s designed to equalize the price of carbon between domestic products and imports, thereby ensuring fair competition in terms of carbon costs.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 26, 2021

UK consumers are set to pay up-front for the construction of a fresh fleet of large-scale nuclear power plants through their energy bills under a new financing model unveiled by the government today, which looks set to provide a key building block of its plans to deliver a net zero energy system.

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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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Smart Energy International

APRIL 8, 2022

Most inertia comes from big fossil fuel, nuclear and hydro generation. What’s left is harder to measure because much of it is coming from demand, smaller generators and ‘below the surface’ grid behaviour. With the shift to renewables, grid inertia is reducing. Sign up to our newsletter and stay informed.

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Business Green

MARCH 30, 2023

Prior media reports suggested the government had intended to badge all of its announcements under the banner of 'Green Day', but instead it appears to have gone with the name 'Powering Up Britain', evidently keen to place as much focus as possible on energy security issues.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

To be a true leader on electric vehicles, the government must plump the market by requiring manufacturers to produce a set percentage of low-carbon vehicles, writes Energy UK's Yumann Siddiq. Its sucess hinges on driving uptake of EVs that is aligned with the UK's carbon budgets.

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Climate Tech VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

  KoBold Metals discovered a major copper deposit, which could be the start to solving growing supply and demand imbalances brought on by copper’s fundamental role in the energy transition.  Demand The most critical of energy transition minerals.   Demand is on the rise. Why is this important now? 

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Look forward to 2024 predictions from many of your favorite clairvoyant climate voices. The S&P Global Clean Energy index dropped 30% YTD weighed down by higher interest rates and supply / demand imbalances. 100B of deals went down in the Permian basin and Shell abandoned a $100M per year carbon credit pipeline.

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2023

After all, the Net Zero Review - or Mission Zero, as it is officially titled - does not demand a revolutionary overhaul of government policy backed by a blank cheque from the Treasury to spur on decarbonisation efforts. Government should also set out options for further legislative steps by 2024 to decarbonise maritime sector.

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Business Green

AUGUST 26, 2022

The move, which follows similar proposals from the EU, is a first for the US and would deliver a huge boost to electric vehicle (EV) demand in America's largest auto market. UK and US banks accused of financing Russian 'carbon bombs'. Investing in Russian carbon bombs is the worst thing you can do today.".

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Over the past three years, some of the country’s biggest utilities have been committing to a goal that few may have predicted they’d undertake on their own: weaning themselves off carbon-emitting generation by 2050. Utilities in many states now face mandates to move to 100 percent renewable energy or cut carbon to zero by 2050.

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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 17, 2023

With the growth of e-commerce and demand for faster shipping (which means burning more fuel), maritime emissions increased nearly 5% between 2020 and 2021. IMO will assign a CII rating, with A being the best, least carbon-intensive and E being the worst, most carbon-intensive. What’s new? Maersk, MSC, Evergreen).

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

All the briefing suggests there will be two big winners in the new plan: offshore wind and nuclear power. The Sunday Telegraph reported yesterday that the UK could get up to seven new nuclear power plants through the new Strategy, after Kwarteng told the paper "there is a world where we have six or seven sites in the UK".

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 23, 2020

Local Law 97, one of 10 bills in the sweeping Climate Mobilization Act , requires New York City’s 50,000 largest buildings to reduce their carbon emissions by 40 percent by 2030 and by 80 percent by 2050. Owners of noncompliant buildings face the prospect of multimillion-dollar annual fines beginning in 2024.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 7, 2020

August’s rolling blackouts during a regionwide heatwave highlighted the state’s need for grid resources that can store and shift its growing share of generation to serve demand peaks coming later in the day, as the sun goes down and solar power fades. ” Moving toward California’s 2045 zero-carbon goal.

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Business Green

AUGUST 12, 2022

LUT University and 14 other contributing universities suggested an energy system based largely on solar and wind energy, energy storage, sector coupling, and direct or indirect electrification of almost all energy demand could plausibly meet global energy needs. "A Ford revs up largest US renewables deal.

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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. billion in 2021 to as much as $60 billion by 2024.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2024

That move came just a week after the government published a new Nuclear Roadmap, reiterating its commitment to a new fleet of small modular reactors (SMRs) and promising to explore proposals for a third large scale new nuclear power plant project. The government's Nuclear Roadmap was already a hugely ambitious undertaking.

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Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 22, 2024

  Maybe it was Barbenheimer, but nuclear is in for 2024. Nuclear was in the doldrums for years following Fukushima, with few new plants planned and stagnant investment in new uranium mines and enrichment facilities. At COP28 , 30 nations vowed to triple global nuclear energy production by 2050. Not a subscriber yet?

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

According to research group Zero Carbon Analytics, the European Union has already substituted almost 75 per cent of Russian fossil gas imports with alternative sources of energy, while global gas demand has plateaued for the first time and is now forecast to peak by the end of the decade.

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Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 16, 2024

The last few months have brought a slew of major announcements signaling ammonia’s potential future as a low-carbon fuel.    Ship Orders  Yara Eyde, a joint venture between Yara Clean Ammonia and North Sea Container Line, aims to be the  world’s first clean ammonia-powered container ship.

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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 7, 2023

The US grid got its first new nuclear power in nearly seven years last week. Plant Vogtle began commercial operations from the first of two new reactors, but the over-budget and years-delayed project could be the last hurrah for big nuclear construction in America. Happy Monday! Not a subscriber yet?

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Developers in the space are concerned that the coronavirus pandemic’s impact on the economy will depress demand for tax equity investments, as banks and financial institutions will have less appetite for credits to offset tax liabilities in a year when profits were depressed. Solar tax credit impacts. utilities and energy companies.

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Climate Tech VC

OCTOBER 16, 2023

⚡ Elyos Energy , a London, UK-based energy flexibility and demand response platform, raised $3M in Seed funding from Rebel Fund, Zeno Partners, Endgame Capital, and Y Combinator. 💨 CNaught , a San Francisco, CA-based carbon credit marketplace, raised $2M in Pre-Seed funding from Greycroft, Carthona Capital and Long Run Capital.

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Business Green

AUGUST 8, 2022

The landmark legislation's climate provisions could unlock billions of dollars of low carbon investment and millions of green jobs - but it also paves the way for new fossil fuel infrastructure. Clean power producers would be eligible to receive 1.5 The US is set to get its first ever carbon equivalent tax - on methane.

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