GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 28, 2020

Exelon is following through with a threat to close two of its Illinois nuclear power plants by next year unless it receives state support to boost their financial viability, a move that could undermine the state's carbon-free electricity goals. Both states have aggressive zero-carbon energy policies.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 11, 2024

” The budget statement “predictably majored on pre-election giveaways political dividing lines”, said Ashden policy lead Will Walter, adding that it “will do nothing for those living in cold, damp, expensive to heat homes or for local authorities struggling to provide basic services.” A pivotal deal? This brings the fund up to £1.1

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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. Sizewell C is the next active nuclear project in the U.K.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 7, 2021

Another challenge outlined in the white paper is the feasibility of planned renewable developments, which would be needed to fill the demand gap left by declining coal generation and the ongoing decommissioning of nuclear power plants. This provides critical challenges for Germany, both politically and economically.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Plans for a new nuclear plant at Sizewell are reportedly under review by the government as it seeks to cut spending in a bid to tackle the UK's deficit, heightening fears that the 3.2GW low carbon power development could face further delays or even be axed altogether.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Arizona may soon join a lengthening list of states pledging to reach 100 percent carbon-free power by 2050, although a final decision on its plan to get there won’t be made until after Tuesday’s election. By midcentury, these utilities will be required to phase out all fossil-fueled generation.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

OCTOBER 9, 2023

As of October 1, 2023, the EU’s CBAM has entered into its transitional phase The Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) is a groundbreaking strategy devised by the European Union (EU). It’s designed to equalize the price of carbon between domestic products and imports, thereby ensuring fair competition in terms of carbon costs.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has today reiterated the government's commitment to delivering on the UK's international climate responsibilities, confirming support for the planned Sizewell C nuclear power plant, announcing a new long-term target for UK energy efficiency, and promising continued investment in clean tech innovation.

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CleanTech Alliance

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Contrary to claims by those who just don’t like nuclear, every time nuclear plants close, carbon emissions go up. Using opaque financial jargon, grandiose claims for renewables, and political spin, doesn’t change this. The unnecessary closing of the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power […].

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Business Green

APRIL 2, 2020

Nuclear plants, CCS, and whole-building retrofits should not be prioritised over smaller cheaper alternatives, study argues, while acknowledging small scale technologies do not offer a panacea. Large 'silver bullet' technologies like nuclear power or carbon and capture storage are politically seductive," he argued.

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Business Green

AUGUST 30, 2020

The situation reduced the need for fossil fuel power such as coal and gas, and also led to curbed demand for nuclear power, as cheaper forms of renewable power such as wind and solar shouldered the lion's share of Britain's electricity needs.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

billion tonnes of planet-warming emissions into the atmosphere, leading international climate researchers to deem Montney the world’s sixth-largest “carbon bomb.” China, currently the world’s largest importer of LNG, is attempting to meet its ambitious climate goals in part by shifting from coal power plants to gas plants.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 27, 2020

actually hitting its targeted carbon reductions. National Grid ESO itself has a goal of being able to support a carbon-free grid by 2025, which it is on track to achieving. needs to see immediate action on carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS), with projects built across multiple industrial clusters in place by 2030.

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Business Green

MARCH 10, 2020

Less meat consumption and flying, huge scaling up of carbon capture and clean energy capacity, and transformational changes to land use are all to deliver net zero emissions by 2050, major new study argues.

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Business Green

MARCH 27, 2023

Tom Burke, a co-founder of the E3G thinktank, told the Guardian : "This is Fawlty Towers politics - don't mention the environment! "It is not Green Day," one insider told the paper. Green commentators responded angrily to the news. It's a sop to the right wing.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

He highlighted how Labour's plans for the green economy provided a working example of the new approach, explaining that the overarching commitment to create a clean energy superpower had been translated into a specific target to deliver a zero carbon electricity system by 2030. The pattern is always the same," he said.

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Business Green

AUGUST 16, 2021

But a report from Aurora Energy Research today cautions that the latter phases of power sector decarbonisation could well be set to diverge from the aforementioned narrative. Hydrogen and carbon capture technologies can be deployed in several different ways to decarbonise thermal assets, according to the report.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 2, 2020

But that support for new land-based wind and solar projects is even politically possible now is a big victory for the sector. Former Prime Minister David Cameron said in 2014 that the public had “had enough” of onshore wind before backing nuclear power and fracking as the keys to U.K. The contracts last 15 years.

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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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Energy Innovation

JULY 14, 2020

The authors combined the survey results with a literature review to make specific COVID-19 recovery policy recommendations that invest in: Renewable energy infrastructure (assets, storage, grid modernization) and carbon removal technologies. Habitat restoration and regenerative agriculture, especially in carbon-rich habitats.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2022

The European Union’s scientific and political communities are locked in a battle over whether gas and nuclear can be considered green investments. Between March and July 2020, nuclear lobbies met with EU representatives twice as often as they did in 2018, according to the non-governmental organization Reclaim Finance.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Dubbed Great British Energy, the new venture would enable British people to profit from the nation's clean energy resources, he said, stressing that state-backed energy companies from France, China, and Sweden were all currently profiting from wind and nuclear power generated in Britain. British power to the British people.".

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

To be a true leader on electric vehicles, the government must plump the market by requiring manufacturers to produce a set percentage of low-carbon vehicles, writes Energy UK's Yumann Siddiq. Its sucess hinges on driving uptake of EVs that is aligned with the UK's carbon budgets.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

A week is a long time in politics - but the last year has felt like decades in climate and energy policy. That's because in many sectors, low carbon technologies cost less than their high carbon alternatives. And second, because by investing in low-carbon solutions we can accelerate the transition across multiple sectors.

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Business Green

APRIL 6, 2022

The government has confirmed plans to set up a new public body to oversee the transition of Britain's energy system towards net zero emissions, as more green technologies such as renewables, batteries, electric vehicles (EVs), hydrogen, and carbon capture systems come online over the coming years.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

Its Director General Tim Davie has said that while the BBC will cover debate on climate policy, human-caused climate change is not “politically controversial” and “the overwhelming consensus is that we, as humanity, are causing global warming”. Porter has also been associated with political groups leading the charge against climate action.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Carbon capture, hydrogen, nuclear, EVs, and renewables all set to benefit from £12bn government stimulus plan, but critics warn funding falls well short of the level required to trigger a green recovery.

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Business Green

JANUARY 11, 2023

Moreover, the draft strategy reiterates the government's backing for carbon capture utilisation and storage (CCUS) development in Scotland, most notably through the Acorn project in Aberdeen.

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Business Green

AUGUST 19, 2022

Reports: Germany looking to postpone looming closure of nuclear plants. While such a move would likely be temporary, it would mark a major departure from German energy policy over the past two decades, with the government having opted to gradually shutter its nuclear power plants amid safety fears over atomic energy.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Greenpeace UK welcomed Labour's ambitious spending pledge, with Rebecca Newsom, head of politics, noting that the shadow chancellor's speech "hits the right mark". The move would remove China General Nuclear Power Group (CGN), the Chinese state-owned outfit that currently owns a 20 per cent stake in the planned plant, from the development.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Former Number 10 advisor debuts new campaign to try and accelerate UK low carbon infrastructure development. wind farms, nuclear, grid connections); new housing; new local transport connections (why doesn't Leeds have a tram network?!). "We We believe that Britain's economic decline is not inevitable, but a result of political choices.

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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. Their price will vary depending on international changes to energy supply and demand as well as major economic and political events.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 2, 2021

Currently, electric cars rely on lithium and cobalt batteries to run, which, whilst undoubtedly better for the environment than carbon, aren’t entirely clean. However, the mining of cobalt is fraught with political issues. Cobalt mining. In Britain, there are exciting developments in the lithium industry.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The words of von der Leyen and Timmermans might turn out to be nothing more than mere political rhetoric – a prelude to blaming energy companies for seeking maximum profits during a crisis while they did their best to serve the common good. Source: World Nuclear Association). Carbon intensity of electricity generation, 2021.

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Unsustainable

APRIL 30, 2019

In 2014 , the average emission of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) to the atmosphere per person was 4.6 But the truth is just that we’re embarrassingly carbon-inefficient. Today, more than 70% of the electricity used in France is produced in nuclear power plants. Here is a case in point. metric tons in France, 6.5

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Business Green

APRIL 7, 2020

If we are to draw parallels between the climate crisis and the pandemic then the correct analogy is not between carbon emissions and the coronavirus, but between climate breakdown and the wildlife trade. What happens if the monsoons fail and Himalayan water supplies shared by three nuclear powers become unreliable?

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Business Green

OCTOBER 19, 2021

BusinessGreen rounds up the best of the reaction from the low carbon economy to the government's flagship roadmap for achieving net zero emissions by 2050. Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU) acting director Sepi Golzari-Munro said: "This strategy is an economic and political plan as well as a climate one.

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