Business Green

JULY 24, 2020

Democrats' US election platform calls for net zero by 2050. The Democratic Party's draft platform for fighting the crucial US election in November sets out a litany of policies aimed at combatting climate change, with a headline goal for the world's biggest economy to achieve net zero emissions by 2050, according to The Hill.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 14, 2020

The path to a fully decarbonized energy system in Europe could depend on technologies that are out of bounds in today’s market, a consultancy forecast suggests. Afry modeled two possible avenues to decarbonize Europe's power, heat and transport sectors. Despite growing hype, clean hydrogen remains in its infancy.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 4, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic has not changed the grim reality facing workers at coal and nuclear power plants in the U.S. and Europe. In Europe, the retirement of aging plants is increasingly seen as a matter of national concern. In Europe, Austria and Sweden both closed their last coal-fired units recently.

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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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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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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 5, 2020

LONDON — Europe needs an immense rollout of energy storage and other flexible energy resources if it's going to hit its 2050 net-zero target. To date, Europe's big successes on the energy storage front have come from tenders to provide frequency response and other grid services. Leave the markets to it.

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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. When the U.K. Since then, three other U.K.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Dominion’s own emissions-reduction plan pledges to eliminate emissions of carbon dioxide and methane on a net basis by 2050. That’s greater than its previous commitment to reduce net carbon emissions from its power sector by 80 percent by 2050 and methane emissions from its natural-gas operations by 65% by 2030 and 80% by 2040.

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Smart Energy International

JUNE 14, 2022

The UK’s 2030 low carbon hydrogen production target is 10GW, with 3GW of nuclear power able with today’s technology to meet almost one-quarter of this target. The UKHFCA, which sets out a vision for 40GW of nuclear enabled hydrogen generating capacity by 2050, is not the only organisation investigating the potential.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

trillion by 2040 before dropping back to around $850 billion by 2050. As an example of the scale of this issue, the IEA highlights that in Europe today around 60GW of onshore wind capacity – four-times the capacity commissioned in 2022 – is held up by various permitting procedures. Have you read?

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Under certain conditions, gas and nuclear energy could be part of the mix, making it easier for private investors to inject money into both. EU members like Austria and Luxembourg already have raised the possibility of legal disputes as they challenge the green notion of nuclear.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

French energy giant EDF has suffered another blow in the development of its controversial Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant in the U.K. A series of delays at Hinkey Point C have seen EDF’s internal rate of return slide away, a familiar story for a number of nuclear projects attempted or planned in Europe and the U.S.

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Business Green

AUGUST 5, 2021

Nova Innovation believes the global market for tidal energy could reach £126bn by 2050, arguing that development costs have already been falling rapidly as the industry scales up.

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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. million jobs by 2050, it states.

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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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Business Green

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

He (conveniently) argued the government is "committed to give more power to councils to make their own decisions on planning issues". It is an argument I am sure will be noted by Suffolk County Council, which has refused planning permission for EDF's proposed Sizewell C nuclear power station. Going green won't be cheap.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

The move - which would form part of the EU's proposed new climate law to deliver net zero emissions by 2050 across the continent - marks a significant jump from the existing 2030 goal to reduce greenhouse gases by 40 per cent, and would need approval by a majority of the 27 EU Member States as well as the European Parliament to come into force. "The

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Business Green

JULY 6, 2022

Green groups threaten legal action after EU Parliament votes to retain fossil gas and nuclear projects in green finance labelling system. The UK is also currently developing its own green taxonomy, and is likely to use the EU's green investment criteria as a template.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2022

This science-based threshold — considered necessary to achieve emissions targets by 2050 — excluded all fossil fuels from being in the taxonomy. Initially, 10 member states, mostly in Eastern and Southern Europe, opposed the TEG’s criteria. But this didn’t suit everyone. An Unholy Alliance’.

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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

JUNE 24, 2020

Ahead of the publication of the Committee on Climate Change's annual progress report on the UK's decarbonisation efforts tomorrow, the Nuclear Industry Association (NIA) today published a major new report warning the UK's net zero goal is "at risk" without a new wave of nuclear development. Amazing how often this is trotted out.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 11, 2023

climate envoy John Kerry announced 24 countries including France, Japan and the UK pledged to triple nuclear capacity by 2050. Italy installed its National Platform for Sustainable Nuclear Power in September. The committee will draft a plan to reintroduce nuclear for the first time since 1990.

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Business Green

JULY 22, 2021

The influential research firm's latest annual New Energy Outlook yesterday underscored the huge scale of the challenge ahead to ramp up green investment, transform economies, and drive down emissions towards net zero by 2050, as it mapped out three distinct potential scenarios for delivering on the world's climate goals.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Why does the Biden administration want to build so much wind power at sea? to achieve net-zero emissions economywide by 2050. For context, the capacity of a large fossil fuel or nuclear power plant is about 1 gigawatt. Scientists have studied these issues in Europe , and U.S. (Courtesy: Shaun Dakin/Unsplash).

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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. Japan’s electricity sector is facing the triple challenges in the energy transition of energy security, cost and decarbonisation , writes James Tedd from GridBeyond.

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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. The report analysed a number of recovery scenarios.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

And that was reflected in our new targets: to cut emissions from the assets we control and influence by 50 per cent by 2030, and to be a net zero business by 2050. Globally, the transition to renewable power could result in estimated savings of $12tr by 2050. per cent to 0.5

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 9, 2020

But these commitments almost always pick a deadline of 2045 or 2050. This also means that the country needn’t ditch the carbon-free nuclear power that delivers one-fifth of annual electricity production right now. The Biden-Sanders taskforce pushes up the timeline by 10 or 15 years.

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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 Net zero by 2050 is the aim," he said.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

The body also welcomed the passing of the UK's 2050 net zero target into law last year, as well as the government's plans to build 40GW of offshore wind capacity by 2030 and bring forward its proposed fossil fuel car phase out to 2035 at the latest.

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Business Green

AUGUST 12, 2022

Europe opens largest solar plant, Poland advances SMR plans, and Canada seeks more sustainable potatoes in this week's Global Briefing. There had also been speculation that candidates from Asia or Africa were likely to be preferred given the past four holders of the post have been from Latin America and Europe.

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Climate Tech VC

MARCH 4, 2024

for a new fund that focuses on digitization and decarbonization investments in Europe. The law also aims to restore 20% of member countries’ land and sea by 2030 and all ecosystems in need of restoration by 2050, as well as placing restoration obligations on specific types of habitat and identified protected areas.

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Business Green

MARCH 12, 2020

It is also the Group's first intervention since the new EU Commission announced plans for a European Green Deal and a 2050 net zero target for the continent, all of which is reflected in the report's recommendations. If fully adopted, the impact of the recommended taxonomy criteria could be significant. "The

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Business Green

MARCH 28, 2022

Martin Bradley, head of Macquarie Asset Management's real assets team in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, said the consortium's investment would help ensure Britain's gas transmission system plays a "leading role" in preparing the energy system for a net zero emission economy. "The

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Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 22, 2024

At COP28 , 30 nations vowed to triple global nuclear energy production by 2050. Just last week, the UK Government laid out its plan to quadruple nuclear power by 2050 and China approved construction for four new reactors. More uranium deals were struck last year than in the past decade.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2023

Given the totemic green grid target is just 13 years away, and the decarbonisation of the grid represents the backbone of the UK's entire 2050 net zero project, it is hard to underestimate this particular mission. By 2050, the situation may have changed, but over the next 15 years or so, [hydrogen capacity] is pretty tight," Stark warned. "So

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Business Green

JUNE 4, 2021

Emissions also fell in other industrial sectors and residential buildings that year due to a warmer winter and lower demand for heating, but CO2 from the transport sector continued to increase, largely driven by growing fuel consumption from passenger cars on Europe's roads. France seeks culture change towards plant-based diets.

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