Energy Central

MARCH 27, 2022

The problem is the DOE assumes it will take until 2050 when mass EV adoption will occur 2025-2030. Natural gas electricity generation is relatively easily scaled to handle a sharp increase in demand. More solar and nuclear power can be added to. Read moreRead More

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 12, 2020

power utilities, with 7.4 million natural-gas customers across six states in the Southeast and Midwest. Despite near-term headwinds, Duke stood behind its long-term plan to reach net-zero emissions by 2050, starting with a target of 50 percent greenhouse gas reductions by 2030. Duke is among the largest U.S.

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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. s total emissions in 2030, assuming the province met its climate target. s intended export markets. It is far more likely that B.C.

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Clean Energy Canada

MARCH 25, 2024

s proposed LNG projects would come online in a global LNG market anticipated to see export capacity increase by 43 per cent by 2030, but there is no consensus from governments or industry on future global demand. s LNG industry is the question of where the electricity will come from to power new projects. Many of B.C.’s

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 27, 2020

utilities in setting a net-zero carbon target for 2050, aiming to balance the emissions from its sizable fossil fuel-fired generation fleet and sprawling natural gas business with reductions to be gained by expanding its portfolio of renewable energy and energy efficiency. its Southern Power competitive power arm which owns about 12.8

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Since 2005, Evergy has reduced the share of coal-fired power in its 6.2-gigawatt gigawatt generation fleet from 52 percent to 40 percent, while reducing natural gas and oil from 38 percent to 26 percent. gigawatts of nameplate capacity as of 2020. Similarly, Xcel Energy, which serves about 3.3 million electric and 1.8

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 24, 2024

To meet the IEA’s net zero by 2050 pathway, the share must near 30% in 2030 and thus electrification needs to accelerate rapidly, the Electricity 2024 publication states. Nuclear power generation also is expected to reach an all-time high, with growth averaging close to 3% per year. annually through 2026. “The

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Those include a deal with state power agency Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems to build 12 of its 50-megawatt modules by 2030 to deliver power across the Intermountain West as part of UAMPS’ Carbon Free Power Project. NuScale says it has also signed agreements with entities in the U.S.,

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 4, 2020

Under the law, Dominion Virginia and the smaller Appalachian Power Co. must supply 30 percent of their power from renewables by 2030, and Dominion must close all carbon-emitting power plants by 2045. Retreat from natural gas not enough for environmental advocates.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 30, 2020

They include a $750 million investment in repowering four wind projects to add a collective 650 megawatts of generation capacity and $650 million to install 450 MW of solar near one of the coal power plants of a Minnesota state fleet it has pledged to retire by 2030. EVs, green hydrogen and energy storage.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

In November last year, Spain’s government said its last coal and nuclear power plants would be closed by 2030. It also revealed tax breaks for natural gas that were not extended to coal. Endesa’s CEO responded at the time by saying he expected the coal plants to remain in place for backup beyond 2030.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Oil and gas companies have for years marketed fracked gas from B.C. But an impending flood of liquefied natural gas exports from western Canada to Asia could make it harder for countries there to achieve their national climate targets and contribute to tens of thousands of additional deaths due to air pollution.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Hydrogen Economy” report forecasts that hydrogen from low-carbon sources could supply roughly 14 percent of the country’s energy needs by 2050, including hard-to-electrify sectors now dependent on natural gas such as high-heat industrial processes or manufacturing fertilizer. already generates about 11.4

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

A new 5-gigawatt “low-carbon” hydrogen target for 2030 has been revealed, along with an ambition to heat an entire town with hydrogen by the end of the decade. Up until this point the government talked about two clusters, one by 2025 and one by 2030. GW of blue hydrogen capacity by 2030. A £1.3

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

gigawatt "all-source" procurement that will pit new renewables, energy storage, demand response and other clean resources against natural gas-fired power plants in a race to meet what could be a major shortfall in grid capacity in the next four years. The all-source procurement is technically open to existing natural gas plants.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Arizona Public Service promised in January to reach zero-carbon energy by 2050 , with interim 2030 goals to exit its remaining coal-fired power plants and reach 65 percent clean electricity, including 45 percent renewable energy and carbon-free power from its Palo Verde nuclear power plant.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 27, 2020

roads by 2030, more than there are globally today. Residential gas boilers will be a thing of the past, with 8 million heat pumps installed to replace them. Unabated natural-gas use will be halved by 2038. The results of consultations on the funding of new nuclear power are also expected soon. If the U.K.

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Clean Energy Canada

JULY 2, 2020

Currently, the majority of hydrogen around the world is produced from fossil fuels (76% from natural gas, 23% from coal). Hydrogen from other non-emitting sources—such as nuclear power—does not currently have an established colour designation. This means its potential role has similarities with that of electricity.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 14, 2020

California regulators have allowed utilities to replace capacity from the closed San Onofre nuclear power plant with new gas-fired peaker plants, though they also required Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas & Electric to seek out batteries, energy efficiency and demand response to meet part of the shortfall.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 12, 2023

Rees-Mogg suggested that the development of nuclear small modular reactors (SMRs) could be an outlet for quick investment. All but one of the UK’s nuclear power stations are due to close by 2030, and the government has launched a challenge, backed by Treasury funding, to test whether SMR technology is viable.

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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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Business Green

DECEMBER 24, 2021

The first, biggest step to slowing climate change is switching electricity generation from coal and gas to wind and sun. This needs to happen fast, with coal phased out no later than 2030 and gas not far behind. France built nuclear power. Iceland tapped geothermal. The US ultimately found fracking.

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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. Last month it announced contracts for 423 megawatts, or nearly 1.7

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

At the very least, utilities will need plans that can get them most of the way there, while rushing ahead with next-generation technologies: long-duration energy storage, small modular nuclear reactors or green hydrogen and methane to fuel natural gas peaker plants. Here's a look at the five largest U.S. Dominion Energy.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 20, 2021

” Achieving India’s target to deploy 450 gigawatts of renewable energy by 2030 is critical if the country is going to succeed in displacing coal generation on the power grid as overall energy consumption grows. What happens after 2030 and 2035?” “Now, the question is what happens after that?

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2022

On December 18, 2020, the day when the public consultation came to a close, “the gas bloc” — Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Greece, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia — submitted an unofficial document expressing their concerns to the European Commission.

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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).

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 26, 2021

However, unless accelerated, that growth will fall short of President Biden’s clean power goals for 2030. electrical generation in 2030. EIA’s most recent “ Electric Power Monthly ” report reveals that renewable energy sources (i.e., Could renewables surpass 33% by 2030? in 2020 to 20.6%

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Business Green

JULY 19, 2022

Technically, National Grid ESO's remit is "networked energy" - the electricity, natural gas and future hydrogen networks that share a grid network and are considered part of one overarching system. The ESO hailed this as evidence of just how far decarbonisation ambition and technical feasibility had progressed in recent years.

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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. These projects would include repurposing existing gas lines and the building of new links.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 11, 2021

of Energy to demonstrate technology that produces clean hydrogen energy from nuclear power, as part of the agency's goal of reducing the cost of clean hydrogen production by 80%. Follow @EngelsAngle. An Arizona project will receive $20 million in funding from the U.S. But hydrogen has its share of skeptics.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 8, 2021

All of these benefits can be captured with solar, wind, existing hydropower and lithium-ion battery technologies at projected 2030 prices, he added. Another study led by Princeton University released last month, which charts a $2.5 trillion pathway to a zero-carbon U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 27, 2020

This could prove problematic for NuScale’s first project, the 12-reactor Carbon Free Power Project (CFPP) in Idaho Falls, Idaho. billion and its completion date moved from 2026 to 2030, putting pressure on parent company Fluor Corp. SMRs could provide zero-carbon power for U.S.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 28, 2021

In 2010, solar power was just 4 percent of new electric generating capacity and there was a patchwork of state solar policies and renewable portfolio standards. [1] These dramatic changes did not happen in a vacuum. In the US, battery electric vehicles represent about 2.5

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Business Green

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Recent weeks have seen a new 2030 emissions target, the National Infrastructure Strategy, the Treasury's Spending Review, the confirmation of an end to overseas financing of fossil fuel infrastructure, and, of course, Boris Johnson's Ten Point Plan for a Green Industrial Revolution. Carbon capture and hydrogen are on the cards.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 7, 2021

These included: India's announcement that it will reach net zero emissions by 2070 with 50 per cent renewable electricity by 2030 (a helpful analysis of this target can be found here ). Another pledge by more than 100 countries to cut methane by 30 per cent by 2030, essential for reducing this potent and prevalent greenhouse gas.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 5, 2020

utility group Dominion Energy agreed Sunday to sell most of its natural gas business and abandon its multi-billion dollar Atlantic Coast Pipeline project with Duke Energy meant to supply its home-state market of Virginia. a natural gas utility serving Utah. for about $9.7 for about $9.7

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