Energy Central

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

In its 2022 report on the role of nuclear power in fighting climate change, “Nuclear Power and Secure Energy Transitions”, the International Energy Agency (IEA) says “Nuclear energy can help make the energy sector’s journey away from unabated fossil fuels faster and more secure.”

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 26, 2021

The gas-free scenario is also reliant on the greatest mix of as-yet untested technologies such as long-duration energy storage or small modular nuclear reactors — and it would involve keeping some of its coal plants open past 2030, to ensure it can provide reliable power in the winter when solar power is scarce.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 24, 2023

To mitigate climate change, it is crucial to stop using all fossil fuels, to ban new natural gas boilers, and to massively ramp up renewable electricity production. However, climate change is progressing so fast that now we must focus on impacts within the next ten years.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

MARCH 30, 2021

Senior Policy Advisor for Nuclear Power | Third Way | Washington DC. Third Way is seeking a Senior Policy Advisor who can lead national advocacy work supporting advanced and existing nuclear power as a key tool to address climate change and provide well-paying jobs to American workers. Job description.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Policy Advisor for Nuclear Power | Third Way | Washington DC. Third Way is seeking a Policy Advisor who can work as part of our team on national advocacy work supporting advanced and existing nuclear power as a key tool to address climate change and provide well-paying jobs to American workers.

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Energy Central

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

As we navigate the challenges of climate change, it's crucial to explore all sustainable options. Nuclear energy often sparks heated debates. Despite concerns, technological advancements make it a cleaner and more efficient alternative.

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POWER Magazine

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

India has begun commercial operation of its first domestically designed 700-MWe pressurized heavy water reactor (PHWR) at the Kakrapar nuclear power plant in Gujarat, state-owned Nuclear Power Corp.

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 17, 2022

Beginning in 1958, these were augmented by nuclear power plants, which have operated nearly continuously to pay off their large capital investments. Unlike coal and nuclear, solar and wind are variable; they provide power only when the sun and wind are available. However, new nuclear plants in the U.S.

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R-Squared Energy

OCTOBER 24, 2019

There, the plant is expected to provide power to about 100,000 homes. The success of this project could mark a sharp change in the way nuclear power is deployed in areas where renewable energy cannot be implemented— and could herald new advances in the fight against climate change. A Growing Dilemma.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 4, 2021

and Canada, three major nuclear markets, all signaled growing support for SMRs in the closing weeks of 2020. Canada, for example, launched a 27-point SMR national action plan to demo and deploy the technology, update regulations, create employment and exploit foreign market opportunities. NuScale is intending to bid for 2.5

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POWER Magazine

OCTOBER 25, 2023

A variety of industries are looking at nuclear power as a way to reduce their carbon footprint and provide a reliable source of electricity. Technology companies, along with industries such […] The post The POWER Interview: Nuclear Set to Energize, Decarbonize Industry appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

MAY 25, 2024

Decarbonization requires better sources of hydrogen gas However, with climate change already wreaking havoc on our planet, and decarbonization of being a high priority in countries around the globe, finding new ways to cleanly obtain hydrogen gas.

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Business Green

MARCH 22, 2022

Following a meeting with industry figures yesterday, the Prime Minister revealed plans to significantly expand the share of UK's electricity produced by nuclear power from around 16 per cent today to 25 per cent by 2050 - a move which would require major investment in new nuclear power capacity in the coming years, according to various reports.

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POWER Magazine

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Entergy’s Grand Gulf 1—the largest single-unit nuclear power plant in the U.S.—has

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The Guardian: Energy

MARCH 24, 2024

Fewer than one in 10 investors were exploring new investments in nuclear technology in the survey of the Investor Group on Climate Change, whose 100 members include super funds and asset managers looking after the funds of 15 million Australians.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 11, 2021

of Energy to demonstrate technology that produces clean hydrogen energy from nuclear power, as part of the agency's goal of reducing the cost of clean hydrogen production by 80%. Follow @EngelsAngle. An Arizona project will receive $20 million in funding from the U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 28, 2020

TerraPower, founded by Gates in 2008, is developing two separate SMR technologies. The technology’s developers believe the extra revenue makes the technology more attractive to investors, and they are bullish about its development timeline. — SMR technologies attempt to get the same result from doing the opposite.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

But Imperial College London analysis warns emerging technologies and negative emission power plants are likely to be needed to unlock full decarbonisation of the grid. Nuclear power, meanwhile, provided 17.5 per cent of Britain's power last year, while imports accounted for just under seven per cent.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Then, two top presidential candidates are calling for a ban on fracking and promising to phase out nuclear power. Should we just give up and stop pretending we can do anything about climate change? What would be the consequences if a democrat actually put those promises into action?

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Energy Innovation

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

By Olivia Ashmoore This week, Energy Innovation Policy & Technology LLC® and RMI published 48 state Energy Policy Simulator (EPS) models. The free, open-source, peer-reviewed, and nonpartisan EPS model empowers users to analyze the effects of hundreds of climate policies. climate goals. sulfur oxides, and nitrogen oxides.

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R-Squared Energy

MAY 25, 2023

However, the IRA also includes significant climate change initiatives. These incentives represent the largest climate investment in U.S. Investment in clean energy technologies will play a vital role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and combating climate change.

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Business Green

JULY 17, 2022

Advanced nuclear technologies, modular manufacturing methods and new approaches to project finance could usher a more cost-effective era for the UK's nuclear industry, writes LSE's Esin Serin. As part of its approach to dealing with energy security concerns, the UK government has turned to nuclear power.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Our electric vehicle priorities not only provide a way to meet our climate change targets but importantly offers ways to protect consumers from rising bills, through a three-prong approach of increased use of electric vehicles, smart charging and vehicle-to-grid technology which together can help drive down costs for all GB bill payers.".

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 30, 2020

But the policy priorities it contains, laid out over more than 500 pages, demonstrate a marked shift in congressional dialogue and focus around climate change. clean energy and climate policy, told The Guardian. manufacturing in the space. degrees Celsius of warming.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 9, 2021

Renewable energy advocates offered reactions on Monday to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report that warned of a “code red for humanity” due to global warming. This means using every low and zero-emissions technology, including nuclear power, carbon removal and carbon capture, renewables, and hydrogen.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 17, 2024

Vatan Hüzeir , a climate activist and doctoral candidate in sociology at Rotterdam’s Erasmus University, unearthed the documents over five years of research , gathering thousands of pages of Shell-related material from archives, former employees, and other sources. “You have to ‘crack the shell,'” Hüzeir told DeSmog.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

In October 2015, Cameron and China’s President Xi Jinping signed another deal for China General Nuclear Power Group (CGN) to take a one-third stake in the new Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant. Times have changed dramatically. concern around Chinese investment in new nuclear power is also rising.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

If we’re going to save the world from climate change, these are the guys who are going to have to weigh in on whether this is a good investment.” New energy technologies tend to scare away investors that want to see long track records of performance in the field. Novelty, though, is a matter of perspective.

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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

DECEMBER 14, 2020

government’s long-awaited energy white paper is out with confirmation of fresh negotiations with EDF over a new nuclear power station and a drive to push up the price of carbon. is reinforcing its effort to establish itself as a climate leader. It will host the next round of the UN climate change negotiations in 2021.

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The Verge: Energy

DECEMBER 22, 2023

The Clean Hydrogen Production Credit was established through the Inflation Reduction Act, the biggest investment the US has made yet to tackle climate change. The strict guidelines could also dash the dreams of aging nuclear power plants that thought they may have new customers in the hydrogen production business.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 2, 2020

In search of alternatives, utilities turned to domestic coal, nuclear power and natural gas. Alongside increased dependence on nuclear power, an accident at the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station in 1979 raised new concerns about the resilience of the nuclear fleet.

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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. They then tested how well these technologies performed against a range of metrics, such as cost, innovation, and accessibility.

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Business Green

MARCH 24, 2023

The development is also a major milestone for the Hinkley Connection Project, which aims to connect six million buildings in the South West to local, low carbon energy supplies, including the Hinkley Point C nuclear power station currently under construction in the area.

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Business Green

MARCH 10, 2020

Assessing hundreds of potential pathways to reaching net zero by 2050 or sooner, the ESC today stressed there were "massive economic opportunities for the UK to lead the world" in the development of net zero technologies and services.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 2, 2020

Once the preceding renewable obligation scheme closed to large-scale solar in 2015 and wind the year after, all available backing for the technologies ended. 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.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 8, 2021

Jigar Shah has decades of experience bringing clean energy technologies to commercial scale. As CEO and co-founder of SunEdison, he helped pioneer the solar power-purchase agreement (PPA) model now central to the industry. DOE's role in deploying, not just developing, clean technologies. and around the world, he said.

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