Mr. Sustainability

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Ever wondered how long it takes to build a nuclear power plant? Summary - The conventional one gigawatt nuclear power plant takes almost 15 years to build if you are not from a major nuclear state*. The nuclear elephant in the room Or should we say, nuclear tortoise There are two types of people in this world.

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R-Squared Energy

JULY 13, 2022

It is a primary data source for numerous companies, government agencies, and non-government organizations. The remaining share of primary energy use consisted of hydroelectric power (6.8%), renewables (6.7%), and nuclear power (4.3%). Global carbon dioxide emissions rebounded from 2020 levels, growing by 5.9%

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R-Squared Energy

JUNE 28, 2020

It is a primary source of data for numerous companies, government agencies, and non-government organizations. The remainder of global energy consumption came from coal (27%), natural gas (24%), hydropower (6%), renewables (5%), and nuclear power (4%). Carbon dioxide emissions set a fourth consecutive new all-time high.

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R-Squared Energy

JULY 26, 2021

It is a primary data source for numerous companies, government agencies and non-government organizations. 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%). Global carbon dioxide emissions fell by 6.3% ” Oil.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 14, 2020

Clean energy groups warned, however, that any new regional power market must be organized in a transparent way to avoid undermining state-by-state efforts to boost clean power and reduce dependence on carbon-emitting power plants. First step toward an interstate transmission market. The Southeast and Western U.S.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

This story is told for the first time with over 130 slides and data visualizations that put 2020 performance in the context of past years, said the organizations. Renewables’ contribution to the power grid set another record, rising 11% year-on-year. power in 2020. This was despite a decline in nuclear output.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 1, 2021

Hall and scholars such as Jessica Lambert of Next Generation Energy Initiative, a nongovernmental organization, calculated that the minimum EROI required for crude oil extraction would be 1.1:1. ” Of all the carbon-free generation options studied, only hydropower emerged as a promising energy source, with an EROI of 84:1.

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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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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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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 17, 2023

1, 2020 rules adopted by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) came into effect that substantially decreased the amount of sulfur allowed in maritime fuels with the goal of cutting sulfur oxide emissions from ships by 77%. Source: Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller Center for Zero Carbon Shipping Liquid fuels are critical and sticky.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 16, 2021

There are both private and public service careers that help organizations and businesses create more environmentally friendly products or operate more sustainably. They develop strategies to reduce a company’s overall ecological footprint and minimize their carbon emissions. pollution or on managing regulations and compliance.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

that focus on some of the more visible, day-to-day sustainability and environmental problems like waste, pollution and carbon emissions. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) provides a wealth of information on the interaction between competition law and sustainability. Energy Use and Carbon Emissions.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 23, 2020

Local Law 97, one of 10 bills in the sweeping Climate Mobilization Act , requires New York City’s 50,000 largest buildings to reduce their carbon emissions by 40 percent by 2030 and by 80 percent by 2050. Owners of noncompliant buildings face the prospect of multimillion-dollar annual fines beginning in 2024.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 16, 2021

There are both private and public service careers that help organizations and businesses create more environmentally friendly products or operate more sustainably. They develop strategies to reduce a company’s overall ecological footprint and minimize their carbon emissions. pollution or on managing regulations and compliance.

Business Energy Monitoring 78

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 8, 2021

wide transmission build-out could also slash the costs of reaching a zero-carbon grid with wind, solar and battery technologies that are cost-effective today. In this scenario, a zero-carbon electricity system would drive wholesale power costs of about $90 per megawatt-hour on average. trillion pathway to a zero-carbon U.S.

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38 North Solutions

JULY 30, 2022

EXTENSION AND MODIFICATION OF CREDIT FOR CARBON OXIDE SEQUESTRATION. Under the bill, the deadline for 45Q carbon capture projects — as well as direct air capture or carbon utilization projects are extended, with the “commence construction” deadline from the end of 2025 to the end of 2032. The rate is also indexed for inflation.

Nuclear Power 76

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The Verge: Energy

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Hydrogen combustion releases water vapor, rather than planet-heating carbon dioxide emissions. The problem is that today, most hydrogen is made with the help of fossil fuels — mostly through a process called steam-methane reforming that produces carbon dioxide emissions. Industry groups aren’t so happy.

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Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 22, 2024

Just last week, the UK Government laid out its plan to quadruple nuclear power by 2050 and China approved construction for four new reactors. 🏭 Element Zero , a Perth, Australia-based zero-carbon metal processing platform, raised $10m in Seed funding from Playground Global.

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Clean Energy Trust

OCTOBER 8, 2021

The law will phase out fossil fuels in energy generation, provides additional funding for the construction of renewable energy projects, subsidizes some existing nuclear power plants in the state, and a host of other features. Although Entergy is part of the MISO regional transmission organization, it is not well connected.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

Harmful Wastes” Shell’s knowledge of the risks posed by the build-up of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) from burning fossil fuels can be traced to at least the early 1960s. At a time of mounting public concern over nuclear safety, the authors drew a striking parallel between the dangers posed by CO2 and radioactive waste.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 26, 2021

utilities have promised to eliminate their carbon emissions by midcentury. utilities are on track to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 80 percent by 2030 compared to a 2005 baseline, the target needed to prevent global warming beyond 1.5 Most of the biggest U.S. A new report from the Sierra Club finds that almost no U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Last February, ExxonMobil announced it would further expand its only active carbon capture and storage (CCS) operation in the United States, located at a gas processing facility in LaBarge, Wyoming. The official launch of the Boundary Dam carbon capture and storage facility at a coal power plant in Canada on Oct.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 12, 2021

Co-founders Scott Clavenna and Rick Thompson launched Greentech Media as a combination research, events and news organization, aimed at providing unsparingly tough but fair industry intelligence similar to how their previous venture, Light Reading, had covered the telecommunications industry.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 22, 2020

A sudden collapse of the industry - called a carbon crunch - could lead to economic disaster of epic proportions. Carbon Tracker states that the world is “witnessing the decline and fall of the fossil fuel system”. The transition is among us. Betting on a recovery is exactly what the second camp is doing however. military personnel.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Under that plan, offshore wind farms will almost certainly be priced out of the market, but state-subsidized onshore wind, solar power, nuclear power and demand-side resources may be able to win approval for bids low enough to clear. Carbon pricing and distributed energy market access as alternatives.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 23, 2020

DeWine’s call to overturn House Bill 6 at a Thursday press conference came just a day after he expressed support for the law, saying it is needed to retain zero-carbon energy output — and several thousand jobs — from the Davis-Besse and Perry nuclear power plants.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

electricity system to roughly 80 percent carbon-free power by 2030, a definition that includes hydro and nuclear power, up from around 40 percent today. has a chance to solidify an accelerated track towards cleaner energy. The Democrats in Congress are working on legislation that would push the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 7, 2023

Some, including the Environmental Protection Agency, oppose the plan for climate reasons, arguing that, in addition to carbon dioxide, the plant will emit methane, an even more powerful greenhouse gas. Cumberland, the largest remaining coal plant in the TVA’s fleet, generates enough power for 1.1

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 8, 2023

Some, including the Environmental Protection Agency, oppose the plan for climate reasons, arguing that, in addition to carbon dioxide, the plant will emit methane, an even more powerful greenhouse gas. Cumberland, the largest remaining coal plant in the TVA’s fleet, generates enough power for 1.1

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 30, 2020

To achieve further emissions reductions, the report encourages development of carbon-removal technologies, a controversial tool also included in the October 2018 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report that outlined the significant global changes needed for the world to remain under 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming.

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Grist

MAY 20, 2020

Working from home is erasing carbon emissions — but for how long? The measure repealed Ohio’s renewable and energy efficiency standards and enabled more than $1 billion subsidies for the owners of aging coal and nuclear power plants. DeWine called it a “power grab” that would harm Ohio’s coal industry.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 25, 2021

The Biden-Harris administration and the Democratic majority in Congress have an important backer in their quest to achieve an ambitious climate agenda — corporate America and its increasing hunger for carbon-free energy. On Monday, a notable subset of the largest U.S. renewable energy growth. renewable energy growth.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 21, 2021

Under the Republican majority in place at FERC since 2017, Glick has been a consistent, and often sole, vote against a string of policy decisions that have been seen as undermining state-subsidized clean energy and carbon reduction policies. ” Transmission policy, carbon pricing. Conflict over clean energy in capacity markets.

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