Smart Energy International

MARCH 25, 2024

The proposal, part of RTE’s next ‘Ten-year network development’ plan for the period from 2025 to 2040, is aimed to deliver one of the most significant developments since its creation to ensure that the French network is able to meet the country’s and Europe’s energy and climate objectives. Have you read? But is it enough?

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

That is the conclusion of new research released today by Imperial College London on behalf of energy firm Drax, which estimates that carbon emissions from Britain's grid fell by 16 per cent last year as a result of the growth of green power and plummeting energy demand during Covid-19 lockdowns. Nuclear power, meanwhile, provided 17.5

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 16, 2020

The state has set targets of 1,500 MW of storage by 2025 and 3,000 MW by 2030, and it has created a set of policies including incentives for storage developers and procurement requirements for its biggest utilities.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has today reiterated the government's commitment to delivering on the UK's international climate responsibilities, confirming support for the planned Sizewell C nuclear power plant, announcing a new long-term target for UK energy efficiency, and promising continued investment in clean tech innovation.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Offshore wind has largely been stuck on the sideline of the corporate renewables market, as demand for onshore wind and solar has surged from corporate giants like Google, Walmart and even oil companies like Shell. operator of nuclear power plants. That looks set to change. gigawatt global renewables procurement.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 7, 2021

At the same time, advanced voltage control systems, such as ENW’s CLASS project , are working to provide demand response and fast frequency response functions. And you're at the same time trying to contract flexibility services from consumers and aggregators to manage the load demand on the distribution network," he said.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Energy demand for electricity and transportation fell by 3.8% This fall in emissions (see Figure 1) is the most significant on record and puts the United States on track to meet its 2025 Paris Agreement commitment, though energy demand and emissions are expected to rebound with widespread vaccinations in 2021. A record 33.6

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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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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Thursday’s 3-2 vote by the Arizona Corporation Commission approved a plan that’s been the subject of a months-long debate among regulators over the best way to renovate the state’s renewable energy mandates, which have been set at 15 percent of generation by 2025 for more than a decade.

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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

OCTOBER 14, 2020

NYPA’s peaker fleet, installed in the early 2000s, doesn’t face the need to close by 2025 under state air-quality regulations, as do older, more polluting peaker plants in downstate New York. “We want to be a first mover; we want to lead by example.” ” Balancing health and reliability.

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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2020

We're confident the price of nuclear power will fall from the £92.50 per Megawatt Hour for the first plant, closer to £60/MWh for the next wave of power stations reducing to around £40/MWh for further reactors.". Those who like nuclear want it to be true. Amazing how often this is trotted out.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 19, 2020

PG&E picked the winning projects from 23 unique offers from 12 different parties, including demand response and existing natural gas-fired power plants. gigawatt total online by August 2021. The state’s 2013 mandate to bring 1.35

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Meanwhile, green groups have been pushing for an even more ambitious 2030 climate target for the bloc, and on Thursday MEPs on the EU Parliament's Environment Committee voted in favour of a 60 per cent goal, alongside calls for a phase out of fossil fuel subsidies by 2025.

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Business Green

APRIL 7, 2022

Nuclear targets increased to 24GW by 2050. Arguably the biggest change from the UK's previous energy plans is the Strategy's goal to deliver 24GW of nuclear power capacity by 2050, which it said would result in around 25 per cent of UK electricity demand being met by a major fleet of both large and small new reactors.

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Smart Energy International

JULY 29, 2022

Crypto mining operations and data centres are both in essence banks of IT systems – energy hungry with the demand for round-the-clock computation and the necessary cooling. Another approach growing in popularity is the use of waste energy, including nuclear and flared gas, for crypto mining. Energy reporting.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

She was invited on the show (1:24) to discuss the National Grid’s ‘demand flexibility service’ scheme, under which households and some businesses receive payments for using less energy at times of peak demand. She added: “And so whenever it isn’t windy we’re starting to get into issues of the grid being stressed”.

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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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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. It also relies on assumptions about increased energy efficiency.

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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. Similarly, legislation should ensure all new non-domestic buildings must achieve an EPC rating of B from 2025.

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Business Green

JANUARY 19, 2021

Opponents of the mine have noted that if the government is successful in catalysing the development of green steel production, as the UK's net zero targets suggest it must be, then the new mine risks seeing demand for its coal curtailed in the coming years. Nuclear power is essential," he told MPs.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2022

Their price will vary depending on international changes to energy supply and demand as well as major economic and political events. Russia is a significant producer and exporter of oil and gas, with 32 per cent of the EU's gas demand in 2021 having come from Russia.

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Business Green

JANUARY 4, 2023

But critics argued the Strategy failed to mobilise sufficient near term action to boost renewables supplies and curb energy demand, and through the subsquent changes in Prime Minister the government has sought to quietly plug some of the gaps in the strategy. million properties a year by the end of the decade.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2022

But because of the gas bloc’s pushback, “the European commission went back to the drawing table to try to accommodate their demands,” Olivier Vardakoulias, finance and subsidies coordinator at Climate Action Network (CAN) Europe, explained. Between 2021 and 2025, Euratom agreed to provide 532 million euros to the JRC.

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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. The plan would represent a major policy reversal a decade after the Fukushima disaster triggered a move to phase down the country's reliance on nuclear power.

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Business Green

MARCH 30, 2023

Great British Nuclear (GBN): As expected, today sees the launch of a new agency based in Greater Manchester tasked with overseeing the rollout of a new fleet of nuclear power capacity through both large scale and small modular reactors (SMR). An government action plan on the topic is then slated for summer this year.

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Business Green

JULY 22, 2021

BNEF's analysis this week points to a key role for hydrogen across all of its potential net zero pathways, although it varies significantly from between 190 million metric tonnes of new demand in 2050 under a net zero pathway heavily reliant on CCS and 1.3 billion metric tonnes under a renewables-heavy pathway.

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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. Next year, the existing EU MRV system will be applied to 40% of shipping emissions under EU ETS, increasing to 70% in 2025 and 100% in 2027. Maersk, MSC, Evergreen).

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Business Green

DECEMBER 14, 2020

In this morning's update , the government also confirmed its intention to set up a domestic Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) from 1 January 2021 and enter into negotiations with French energy giant EDF over proposals to build a major nuclear power station at Sizewell in Suffolk. million petrol cars off the road.

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Business Green

APRIL 6, 2022

As expected, the nuclear and offshore wind industries are set to emerge as the big winners, with the Strategy proposing a series of reforms designed to accelerate development. For example, the strategy will include a new ambition to develop up to 24GW of nuclear capacity by 2050, delivering around a quarter of anticipated power demand.

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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

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Virginia’s Clean Economy Act demands that the state's flagship utility, Dominion Virginia, supply at least 30 percent of its electricity from renewables by 2030 and shut down all carbon-emitting power plants by 2045. Nuclear power plays a large role in PSEG’s carbon-reduction plans. PSEG’s $3.5

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 17, 2020

After all, if PG&E keeps raising rates for electricity that can’t be relied on during emergencies, customers may demand options to defect from its service — a real-life version of the “ utility death spiral ” threat supposedly posed by rooftop solar and behind-the-meter batteries that has yet to emerge in the real world.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

to install an average of 30 GW of solar capacity per year between now and 2025, then 60 GW per year from 2025. The project has a 30-year Power Purchase Agreement in place with the Sacramento Municipal Utility District and was built on the site of a decommissioned nuclear power plant. That would require the U.S.

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Business Green

MARCH 16, 2022

But while leaders have highlighted the need to rapidly boost clean energy generation and diversify sources of gas, so-called demand-side policies designed to reduce the amount of energy businesses and households are generating have gained notably less traction among policymakers. It was a glaring omission.

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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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Business Green

MARCH 15, 2023

By laying out measures to boost retrofit demand and creating a generation of skilled retrofit workers, he could have not only generated savings for struggling households, but also given businesses the confidence needed to generate over 200,000 new energy efficiency jobs. Investment in this sector is simply throwing good money after bad.

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