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Can Gas-Fired Power Plants Coexist with a Net-Zero Target? Yes, Southern Company Insists

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utility can reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 while still keeping natural gas as a central part of its business, both to generate electricity and to sell to its customers. But Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi, the states where Southern Company’s electric utilities serve about 4.2 Department of Energy.

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Fukushima on track to become a renewable energy hub

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In hopes of reinventing its image, new life is breathing into Fukushima, the Japanese northeastern prefecture that was devastated by a 2011 tsunami and consequent nuclear power plant meltdown. Estimated costs for all the green energy construction runs upward of 300 billion Japanese yen, or $2.75 billion in U.S.

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Dominion Targets 24GW of Renewables and Storage in Move Toward Virginia’s Clean Energy Goals

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Dominion’s new IRP is driven by Virginia's Clean Economy Act passed earlier this year, which calls for 100 percent carbon-free electricity by 2045 and sets targets for energy efficiency, energy storage, and in-state solar and wind power. Under the law, Dominion Virginia and the smaller Appalachian Power Co.

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New Sustainable Energy Factbook shows 2020 was ‘blockbuster’ year for renewables in America

Renewable Energy World

Energy demand for electricity and transportation fell by 3.8% The impacts of cleaner electricity generation will persist. Electricity Generation By Fuel Type in 2020. Notable clean energy statistics from the pandemic year include: Power Generation. power in 2020. This was despite a decline in nuclear output.

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A 21st-century reinvention of the electric grid is crucial for solving the climate change crisis

Renewable Energy World

Then, beginning around 2009, first wind turbines and then solar photovoltaic panels decreased enough in cost to become competitive in electricity markets. will need to nearly triple its 2020 growth rate for the grid to be 80% powered by clean energy by 2030. is headed in that direction. in 2020, according to BloombergNEF data.

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NuScale Faces Questions on Nuclear Reactor Safety and Financing Its First Project

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These design changes and safety reviews will be the responsibility of the Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems (UAMPS), the first customer for 213 megawatts of the 720 MW the CFPP will produce, under a combined construction and operating license process. SMRs could provide zero-carbon power for U.S.

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Solar, Wind Tax Credit Extensions and Energy R&D Package in Spending Bill Before Congress

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Schumer’s office, the two-year extension of the federal Investment Tax Credit for solar projects will retain the current 26 percent credit for projects that begin construction through the end of 2022, rather than expiring at the end of 2020 as they would have under existing law.

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