Business Green

JANUARY 4, 2023

As such, it sets out how the UK could accelerate its transition away from fossil fuels, secure its energy supplies, and tackle the looming affordability, security, and sustainability 'trilemma' through a raft of new policies. Britain will continue to need to access fossil fuel supplies during the Net Zero transition.

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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. degrees Celsius (2.7 F) above pre-industrial times.

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Business Green

MARCH 10, 2023

Next week's Budget will feature a wide-ranging new clean energy package designed to mobilise £20bn of investment in the UK, Treasury confirms The Chancellor will next week promise to "reset" the UK's decarbonisation and energy security plans through an "unprecedented" £20bn investment in carbon capture and clean energy infrastructure.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Renewable power sources are expected to dominate almost all the growth in the world's electricity supplies through to 2025, according to the IEA, and together with nuclear power they are set to meet the vast majority of the increase in global power demand over the period. remains a hugely challenging prospect.

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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. CCS: The cheaper option? Potential criticisms of the study.

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R-Squared Energy

JULY 26, 2021

The remainder of global energy consumption came from coal (27.2%), natural gas (24.7%), hydropower (6.9%), renewables (5.7%), and nuclear power (4.3%). Cumulatively, fossil fuels — shown below in shades of gray — still accounted for 83.1% Global carbon dioxide emissions fell by 6.3% Renewables and Nuclear Power.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 14, 2020

per cent of Britain's electricity needs - delivering enough zero carbon power for up to one million homes, while avoiding 1.2 IFA2 is National Grid's fourth subsea interconnector cable running between Britain and Europe, and the second linking directly to France. The high voltage direct current cable is expected to help meet 1.2

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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.

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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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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

Porter states in her Twitter bio that she works with “businesses with projects across the electricity, gas and oil industries”, though these professional links to fossil fuel interests were not identified on the Today programme. 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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Grist

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Greenhouse gas emissions from burning coal and other fossil fuels accelerated, and over the past decade Earth has been losing around 1.2 The fossil fuel was on display in raw lumps and powered the machinery section through steam boilers. particularly those who got rich off fossil fuels.

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2022

It argued that investments in renewables, energy efficiency, and smart grid solutions should be at the heart of any response to the crisis, noting how these green investments will enable nations to drastically reduce their reliance on polluting and volatile fossil fuel markets.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

“We're looking at models for Europe, Australia and the U.S. As it stands Moixa has a small partnership in Ireland and a Europe-wide arrangement with H onda as its “smart charging partner. has a 40-gigawatt grid, of which 1-2 gigawatts comes via the interconnectors [with Europe]. So, 95 percent of U.K

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 22, 2022

Riot reports curtailing 11,717MWh in July for ERCOT as demand reached record highs in July, enough to power 13,121 average homes for one month. Cryptominer taps underutilised nuclear energy on Georgia grid Blockchain energy consumption should be transparent in Europe – a call Crypto mining and data centres – the green challenge.

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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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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 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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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.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Ministers should act now to make buildings more efficient and reduce the nation's dependency on fossil fuels, writes Energy Saving Trust's Mike Thornton. The UK has some of the draughtiest housing in Europe. Less energy means fewer carbon emissions and an improvement in our health and comfort. This cannot continue.

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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. Smart meter data integration and analysis platform to test in Japan ‘Nudging’ Carbon Reduction one Japanese household at a time. Image: GridBeyond. Have you read?

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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. The frequency of these meetings increased to 2.86

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Business Green

AUGUST 7, 2020

However, the report also highlights how engineering a 'green recovery' backed by major investment in low carbon infrastructure could significantly increase the chances of the world meeting the 1.5C The study drew on data from 123 countries that together account for 99 per cent of fossil fuel emissions. goal within reach.

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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

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

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. We still see emissions growing from fossil fuels, hindering efforts to meet the world's climate targets," he said. The growth in emissions - which resulted in yet another annual record of 36.8

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 8, 2022

Most inertia comes from big fossil fuel, nuclear and hydro generation. The solution, built on GE’s Wide Area Management (WAMS) applications, is designed to inform on grid inertia day to day as well as on long term investment assessments. With the shift to renewables, grid inertia is reducing.

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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

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.

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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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Unsustainable

APRIL 30, 2019

Meanwhile, global warming-driven climate change, caused by our combustion of fossil fuels and slash-and-burn domestication of the landscape, crescendos increasingly toward catastrophe. In 2014 , the average emission of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) to the atmosphere per person was 4.6 Here is a case in point. metric tons in France, 6.5

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Business Green

MARCH 28, 2022

National Grid's 7,660-kilometre transmission system plays a critical role in the UK energy landscape, transporting the gas needed to heat homes and power industry and electricity generation. In total, the firm estimates the subsea cable enables the UK to import enough clean electricity to power around one million homes.

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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. Making up for the loss of Russian fossil fuel supply is a mammoth task.

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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

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. What about fossil fuels?

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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

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".

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