GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 20, 2021

The cost-competitiveness of renewable energy alternatives, air pollution regulations and water scarcity have also been putting pressure on the coal sector — and that was before the COVID-19 pandemic cratered energy demand. But in absolute terms, coal use will increase as India’s overall energy demand grows.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 27, 2023

“Increasing nuclear capacity is vital to meet our net zero obligations, so to encourage private sector investment into our nuclear programme, I confirm, subject to consultation, nuclear power will be classed as environmentally sustainable.” the “U” in “CCUS”). A handful of markets accounts for the other 10%.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 22, 2020

The world’s leading nuclear power generator is betting big on a future of small-scale, distributed energy. Électricité de France operates 58 nuclear reactors in its home country and owns stakes in several U.S. nuclear plants that it's now moving to sell.

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Business Green

MARCH 12, 2020

Even more worrying is a fact David Wallace-Wells points out in his best-selling book Uninhabitable Earth : more than half of the carbon emitted in the atmosphere today was emitted in the past 30 years. For nearly two decades nuclear power had been officially excluded from the multilateral UN climate negotiations process.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

These included Shell-produced content such as the Time For Energy film, and a book called Energy published the same year. In 1962, Shell’s chief geologist, Houston-based Marion King Hubbert, produced a book-length report on energy for the U.S. A parallel world of Shell-backed publications brushed such warnings aside.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Liz Truss restated her commitment to net zero, renewables, and nuclear power, as well as North Sea oil and gas, in her keynote speech to the Conservative Party conference this morning, which saw the embattled Prime Minister decry climate activists who briefly interrupted her from the audience as "anti-growth". he asked on Twitter.

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Clean Energy Trust

MARCH 5, 2021

Everything’s Bigger in Texas, Including the Power Grid Failures Credit: Ron Jenkins / Getty Images People had a bad time in Texas when extreme weather created demand and supply shocks which led to rolling blackouts. Bill Gates is out with a very consumer friendly book on how to address our climate challenges. What went wrong?

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 22, 2020

As the coronavirus struck the global economy earlier this year, demand for oil dropped by more than a fifth and prices collapsed. Many sources now suggest that oil demand has already passed its peak. I do not expect oil prices or demand for our products to recover in the medium term." The industry as we once knew it, is gone.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

But the promise of streamlining the planning process may also offer a much-needed boost for major low carbon energy projects such as nuclear power plants and offshore wind farms. Boosting the ECO scheme could well end up being cost neutral on Treasury with insulation cutting gas demand and so the overall price tag of the bailout.

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