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

GreenTechMedia

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. utility has yet fully fleshed out how it intends to eliminate natural gas power plants from its generation portfolio. To be sure, no U.S.

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NuScale’s Federal Safety Approval Moves US Modular Nuclear Reactors a Step Closer to Reality

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Those include a deal with state power agency Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems to build 12 of its 50-megawatt modules by 2030 to deliver power across the Intermountain West as part of UAMPS’ Carbon Free Power Project. The advantages of nuclear modularity. What sets NuScale apart in the SMR world.

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Gridlock: Could electricity infrastructure bottlenecks derail the UK's net zero agenda?

Business Green

The UK's new clean energy targets must be matched by a major electricity infrastructure and demand-side flexibility blitz, experts have warned.

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The UK's automated power system will help keep the lights on

Business Green

With more workers staying at home during the current Covid-19 crisis, automated electricity generation is taking up the strain, writes Ed Birkett. The government is rightly focusing on supporting key workers in the NHS, but other vital infrastructure such as UK electricity supply could also be at risk from worker shortages.

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Energy Security Strategy: Nuclear and hydrogen tipped for big wins, but will Treasury block efficiency plans?

Business Green

Latest round of reports on long-overdue energy independence plan suggest Number 10 and 11 continue to be at loggerheads over the cost of actions that could protect consumers from record energy bills.

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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. (As 3 ways to bring wind and solar into the grid.

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The Net Zero Review: Everything businesses need to know

Business Green

This new Office should take ownership of delivering the net zero agenda with oversight from both the Cabinet Office and the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), working closely with devolved governments, the National Audit Office, and the Climate Change Committee (CCC), among other agencies. million by 2033.