R-Squared Energy

JULY 26, 2021

The Review provides a comprehensive picture of supply and demand for major energy sources on a country-level basis. For example, as I will detail below, oil demand fell dramatically last year, but we already know that it has largely recovered in 2021. Global carbon dioxide emissions fell by 6.3% Renewables and Nuclear Power.

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Smart Energy International

JUNE 14, 2022

Nuclear enabled hydrogen is zero carbon, has low cost energy input, is large scale and offers co-location synergy and energy system connectivity. That is according to a new position paper from the UK Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Association (UKHFCA) on the role of nuclear enabled hydrogen in delivering net zero. Have you read?

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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. In Europe, however, offshore wind is no longer an outlier when it comes to cost. operator of nuclear power plants.

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R-Squared Energy

JUNE 16, 2020

as well as a surge of renewable capacity aided by legislation aimed at curbing carbon dioxide emissions. Even though demand growth for both of these commodities has been robust over the past decade, prices have plunged. This slowdown had a negative impact on fossil fuel demand. Underlying demand for clean energy is rising.

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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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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 20, 2022

By streamlining energy traders’ ability to match electricity supply to demand, the Tradenergy tool is aiming to help maintain the resilience and reliability of power grid operations. On a power grid, inertia is naturally produced by turbines and motors in fossil fuel generators that are synchronised to the same frequency.

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Business Green

MARCH 30, 2022

There is no doubt that greater access to rapid charge points is vital to get the EV revolution on the road, but more considerations must be made around low-carbon charging straight from the source. In Europe, the share of energy from renewable sources in gross electricity consumption is 34 per cent on average.

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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. Europe’s grid is receiving record levels of investment. Have you read? But is it enough?

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

At a time when lawmakers are scratching their heads over how to decarbonize national energy systems, nuclear is sitting on a technology that is low-carbon, mature and, despite the odd meltdown, relatively safe. Yet across North America and Europe, nuclear can’t seem to get a look-in. Meanwhile in the U.S.,

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Smart Energy International

MAY 17, 2022

New analysis from LCP has revealed that the UK Government’s recently released energy strategy will boost efforts to decarbonise power supply but create complex challenges in balancing the supply and demand of electricity across the grid from 2030 onwards.

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2022

In an analysis of the electricity market published late last week, the IEA warned the global economy could face three more years of turbulence and stagnating levels of carbon emisisons if national governments do not start to spend significantly more money on these clean energy and green grid technologies.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The energy industry's interest in low carbon hydrogen is building fast, and the nuclear industry reckons it could yet have a crucial role to play. The roadmap also emphasises the role that advanced modular reactors (AMRs) could play in powering green hydrogen production.

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Business Green

MAY 24, 2021

Fresh analysis warns plans for UK's largest BECCS facility in North Yorkshire could prove more expensive for billpayers than Hinkley Point C, but developer Drax rejects calculations and insists carbon capture technology is likely to prove a crucial component of the net zero transition.

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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. The “Roadmap to a U.S.

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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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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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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2020

The analysis also highlights how a new generation of nuclear projects could underpin other green industries by enabling the production of low carbon hydrogen and other fuels while also supporting district heating projects through the deployment of local small modular reactors (SMRs). Amazing how often this is trotted out.

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Business Green

APRIL 6, 2022

BEIS and Number 10 wanted to inject roughly £200m of public funds into the scheme annually in order to boost the number of homes that could be retrofitted each year, arguing the approach would help reduce energy bills, curb gas imports, and cut carbon emissions, while delivering significant economic and health benefits.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2022

In January 2021, representatives from the clean energy sector sent a joint letter welcoming the criteria recommended by the TEG and stating that “the inclusion of power generation with a carbon intensity above this limit would not only deviate from science, but would also harm the EU’s decarbonisation trajectory and its 2050 net-zero objectives.”.

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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

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

We set those targets because it was the right thing to do, and because we assessed that it makes economic sense for our customers and investors - ensuring that we reduce our exposure to the physical and financial risks of climate change, and capture returns from the growing low-carbon economy. A lot has happened since then. per cent to 0.5

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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.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2022

To become energy secure and genuinely resilient from volatile fossil fuel prices, the UK must accelerate its transition to a zero-carbon energy system, writes Nick Molho, from the Aldersgate Group. As gas is a globally priced commodity, Europe and the UK are facing severe impacts. Time to make a decisive shift.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

To date, the government has focused on energy supply, ignoring the vital issue of demand. The UK has some of the draughtiest housing in Europe. Less energy means fewer carbon emissions and an improvement in our health and comfort. As well as cutting energy demand, the government must also scale up green, renewable energy supply.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 17, 2022

On behalf of environmental group RePlanet, energy specialist Joris van Dorp offers a deep analysis of the key messages in Europe’s policy. It was a strong call to action in response to the multiple threats and opportunities faced by Europe. maintenance and replacement) and to provide investor returns.

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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

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Business Green

JULY 22, 2021

A rapid shift away from fossil fuels is also needed alongside a major ramp up in renewable electricity capacity - largely provided by wind and solar projects - which will form the backbone of the future energy system, while development of hydrogen, carbon capture and new modular nuclear technologies is also crucial, the report warned.

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

Meanwhile, the horrifying Russian atrocities coming to light in Ukraine are reigniting calls for more robust sanctions to be imposed on the Kremlin, including a full ban on energy exports to Europe. All the briefing suggests there will be two big winners in the new plan: offshore wind and nuclear power.

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Business Green

MARCH 2, 2023

Carbon emissions from coal grew by 1.6 per cent thanks to a wave of gas-to-coal switching in Asia, and to a lesser extent Europe. The resulting emissions savings may have been largely offset by the continued boom in demand for SUVs, but the transition towards a fully electric fleet is gathering serious momentum.

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Business Green

APRIL 7, 2022

After weeks of speculation, the government is set to publish its plan to boost Britain's energy security later today, with fresh targets announced for offshore wind, nuclear and low-carbon hydrogen alongside measures to accelerate the adoption of smart grid technologies. What is most revealing about this strategy is what is missing.

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2022

Meanwhile, fresh analysis published over the weekend by Carbon Brief noted that the impact of David Cameron's decision to pare back clean heat, household insulation, and renewable power funding are now costing each British household £150 annually in higher bills, or £8.4bn across the whole economy.

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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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Business Green

AUGUST 15, 2022

The Labour leader recalled that the Party had called on the government to deliver a major green home retrofit drive over a year ago in order to drive down bills and emissions, noting that houses in Britain "are the least energy efficient in Europe". ScottishPower and E.ON

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Hydrogen Fuel News

AUGUST 31, 2023

New technology is making carbon emission-free pink H2 possible at a very large scale. The US Department of Energy (DOE) is placing a major focus on nuclear hydrogen as a component of the US government’s proposed $7 billion push for clean H2 production. That said, no carbon emissions are produced along with those usable outputs.

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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. Low carbon energy is another major focal point for the report.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

This rapid increase in demand would lead to the development of additional capacity along the entire value chain. Since more than 15 players have already announced their intention to begin cell manufacturing in Europe alone, we expect the industry to consolidate. Winning companies will be those that act in the next few years.

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Business Green

MARCH 15, 2023

The confirmation of long-awaited plans to invest in small-scale nuclear and carbon capture were broadly welcomed as measures that could put the UK at the forefront of new industries and boost the UK's low carbon domestic energy supplies.

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