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. The white paper estimates that demand for low-carbon power will double, leaving the country with “overwhelmingly decarbonized power in the 2030s."

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Renewable energy is an increasingly accepted and growing energy sector, but there are widespread concerns that conventional renewables - wind and solar - will on their own not be able to cover all our energy demands and crucially not produce a reliable baseload. The government's baseload strategy is to use nuclear power.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

While small modular reactors have powered naval ships for decades and are also in use in other military applications, they’ve yet to be approved for use in commercial power generation. The advantages of nuclear modularity. NuScale still has multiple steps ahead of it before it can build its first commercial reactor.

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R-Squared Energy

APRIL 28, 2023

In 2019, the International Energy Agency (IEA) released Nuclear Power in a Clean Energy System , which highlights the importance of nuclear power in decarbonizing the world’s energy sector. To be clear, nuclear power will face headwinds as long as the public perceives that such risks still exist.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 26, 2021

UK consumers are set to pay up-front for the construction of a fresh fleet of large-scale nuclear power plants through their energy bills under a new financing model unveiled by the government today, which looks set to provide a key building block of its plans to deliver a net zero energy system.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 13, 2022

The Arrol Gibb Innovation Campus (AGIC) will work with companies in the marine, nuclear power and energy-transition sectors to transform large-scale manufacturing through innovation and skills development. It is the first facility to open in a recently launched multi-partner innovation centre at Babcock’s Rosyth site.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 20, 2020

Wednesday’s filing from PJM lays out how the 11-state grid operator will comply with FERC’s order to assign a minimum bidding price to all state-subsidized resources, including new solar and wind projects and existing nuclear power plants. The silver lining in PJM's compliance plan. Big roadblock for offshore wind.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Developers in the space are concerned that the coronavirus pandemic’s impact on the economy will depress demand for tax equity investments, as banks and financial institutions will have less appetite for credits to offset tax liabilities in a year when profits were depressed. Solar tax credit impacts.

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Smart Energy International

JUNE 14, 2022

With the revival of interest in nuclear energy, interest is growing in the potential for nuclear enabled hydrogen, otherwise sometimes known as ‘pink’ hydrogen, to meet the anticipated demand for hydrogen at scale. 400GW nuclear globally. Have you read? Sign up to our newsletter and stay informed.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

More than half of the 48 new reactors that the World Nuclear Association (WNA) lists as being built worldwide are in just four countries: China, India, the United Arab Emirates and Russia. It’s the same story in France, which has a higher proportion of nuclear energy on the grid than any other country in the world. and Canada.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 30, 2020

More immediately, the utility aims for 2030 goals of 45 percent renewable electricity, with the Palo Verde nuclear power plant bringing the tally up to 65 percent carbon-free power. But in 2018 the Arizona Corporation Commission declined to acknowledge the gas-heavy IRPs from APS and Tucson Electric Power Co.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

GW of utility-scale capacity is under construction. Facebook will take the electricity generated at the facility as well as the renewable energy credits, under a long-term agreement signed prior to the project’s construction. Anheuser-Busch and Energy Transfer Partners have signed 15-year power purchase agreements with the project.

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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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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 19, 2021

West pushed electricity demand past available supply, and problems with California’s resource adequacy program and market practices for ensuring adequate grid capacity failed to correct the imbalance. A debate over supply vs. demand solutions. Simply put, the heat waves that blanketed the U.S.

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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. The last network development plan was published in 2019. Have you read? But is it enough?

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 4, 2021

The new project will be called Natrium, and it brings together TerraPower, Gates’ company, with PacifiCorp, Buffett’s power company. They plan to produce 500 megawatts of power at peak demand times and foresee powering 400,000 homes. “Nuclear power is clearly a part of my all-of-the-above strategy for energy.”

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Business Green

JUNE 27, 2022

Improving the thermal performance of UK homes could deliver climate and energy security at a fraction of the cost of nuclear power, argues Kingspan's Rita Singh. As for nuclear power, it needs to be part of the UK's energy mix, but it won't come online or deliver cost benefits for consumers for several decades.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 17, 2020

While the details are complex and still in development, their result would be to force administratively set minimum prices on future wind and solar resources, energy efficiency, demand response, and nuclear power plants in PJM's capacity market. The particular threat for Illinois.

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Clean Energy Canada

MARCH 25, 2024

s proposed LNG projects would come online in a global LNG market anticipated to see export capacity increase by 43 per cent by 2030, but there is no consensus from governments or industry on future global demand. s LNG industry is the question of where the electricity will come from to power new projects. Many of B.C.’s

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

That’s because those plants provide critical flexibility to meet peaks in grid demand and deliver power when wind and solar resources may not be reliably producing enough to meet customers’ needs. The natural gas conundrum. Department of Energy.

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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. electricity.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Energy demand for electricity and transportation fell by 3.8% This fall in emissions (see Figure 1) is the most significant on record and puts the United States on track to meet its 2025 Paris Agreement commitment, though energy demand and emissions are expected to rebound with widespread vaccinations in 2021. Figure 1: U.S.

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Planet Pulse

MAY 12, 2020

While oil prices have fallen in the United States and there’s been a dramatic decrease in demand for oil due to COVID-19, Saudi Arabia has shipped a record amount of 50.4 NK News investigated the barge using Planet data, showing a series of Planet stories and images in a recent report depicting construction over time.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The investments aim to both modernise electricity transmission capacities and improve energy efficiency , security and flexibility in the country, through the construction of new overhead power lines and their interconnection to the SEN (National Energy System). million) Construction of a 400kV LEA (double circuit) Constan?a

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 25, 2020

Europe's electricity giants are grappling with the demanding challenge of safeguarding staff, keeping the lights on and contributing to the relief effort — all while rolling ahead with their own energy transition plans. EDF to lower nuclear forecast. In the U.K., Ørsted unhindered…for now.

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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 7, 2023

The US grid got its first new nuclear power in nearly seven years last week. Plant Vogtle began commercial operations from the first of two new reactors, but the over-budget and years-delayed project could be the last hurrah for big nuclear construction in America. Happy Monday!

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R-Squared Energy

DECEMBER 27, 2023

nuclear output increases Georgia Power, a subsidiary of Atlanta-based Southern Co. Along with Vogtle Unit 4, these are the first newly constructed nuclear units built in the United States in more than three decades. nuclear power has fallen far behind China, but the addition of these units will help the U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Like other net-zero carbon goals , Ameren’s will rely on “further advancements in innovative, carbon-free technologies and constructive federal and state energy and economic policies” to reach its final goal, CEO Warner Baxter said in a Monday statement. GW of nuclear, 820 megawatts of hydroelectric and 13 MW of solar.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 2, 2020

Over the last 30 years, the transition away from centralized energy infrastructure, global climate events like the devastating hurricanes of 2017, extreme volatility in the cost of fossil fuels, and a growing demand for renewable energy have shaped an unfamiliar theoretical term into not only a buzzword but a cornerstone of infrastructure planning.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Politicians and regulators have highlighted power plant operators’ failure to winterize equipment against cold temperatures, despite guidance to do so after similar, if much smaller-scale, winter rolling blackouts in 2011. There’s no corresponding peak in natural gas demand during heat waves, he said.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 26, 2021

70% say customers are demanding sustainable alternatives to traditional energy products and 38% are concerned that failure to become sustainable will turn customers to their competitors. Carbon is one specific area that the sector is struggling with, with 71% stating that the industry is unable to comply with the government regulations.

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Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 16, 2024

  Ammonia demand for fertilizer and other existing uses by IEA scenario (Source: IEA ) Shipping fuel: Maritime shipping, which accounts for 3% of CO2 emissions, is betting big on ammonia. EV fleet and reinvest in gasoline cars, citing low demand and high repair costs for EVs. of global emissions. 

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Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 22, 2024

Nuclear was in the doldrums for years following Fukushima, with few new plants planned and stagnant investment in new uranium mines and enrichment facilities. Now as nuclear makes a comeback, increased demand combined with a neglected supply chain has fueled a uranium price spike.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Soon after pipeline construction began in 2018, the United States passed a law threatening sanctions on the Swiss ship laying the pipe. In 2021, with construction almost complete, German Chancellor Angela Merkel visited the White House, insisting on Nord Stream 2. Gazprom wants to deliver its own gas via its pipeline to Europe.

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Clean Energy Canada

DECEMBER 6, 2021

This massive ramp-up in clean electricity will require significant investment from governments and utilities, along with their co-operation on measures and projects such as interprovincial power lines. Our closest trading partners and many of the world’s largest companies and investors are demanding cleaner goods.

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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2020

The last Labour government promised a "nuclear renaissance" over 12 years ago, but since then a series of project delays and deferred policy decisions has seen only one project start construction - EDF's high profile and controversial Hinkley Point development. We're confident the price of nuclear power will fall from the £92.50

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

This is notable because it would actually boost the demands on the power sector, which will increase the challenges of decarbonizing the sector. He didn’t mention nuclear power or carbon sequestration in this speech, but his website does mention them among four specific goals designed to decarbonize the power sector.

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