Business Green

JUNE 30, 2022

International Energy Agency argues nuclear power can play a significant role in supporting transition to a renewables-dominated energy system worldwide. And the nuclear industry must quickly address the issues of cost overruns and project delays that have bedevilled the construction of new plants in advanced economies.

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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. To illustrate how the EPS can inform state action, Energy Innovation® and RMI developed a five-policy scenario and modeled this policy package across six states. Bureau of Economic Analysis, U.S.

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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. ” RAB: Nuclear's next top model? When the U.K.

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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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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Schulz was joined by Justin Riemer, CEO of Emissions Reduction Alberta (ERA), and Laura Kilcrease, CEO of Alberta Innovates. ERA’s Technology Innovation and Emissions Reduction (TIER) fund is financing the project. Cenovus says the study will take several years and cost a total of $26 million.

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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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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 28, 2020

TerraPower, the Bill Gates-backed nuclear innovation firm, has launched a new small modular reactor system paired with a molten salt storage unit. The new concept, dubbed Natrium, is being developed in partnership with GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy. Earlier this week, a consortium of Bechtel National Inc.,

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 12, 2020

gigawatts under construction. More than half of RWE’s projects currently under construction are in the Americas, including the 440-megawatt Big Raymond onshore wind project in Texas. In the past, RWE set itself apart from its peers by mining its own coal for its power stations, said CEO Rolf Martin Schmitz.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 26, 2021

These problems have led to 76% of businesses having to postpone implementation of their sustainability goals and 64% struggling to innovate. As the report ‘A sustainable future for business post-COVID’ relates, many energy businesses have struggled to make significant progress on their sustainability and resiliency journeys.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 4, 2022

They noted that the plant would benefit from being located in a region which has a heritage in energy generation and is in close proximity to "world-leading" research capabilities at regional universities, as well as manufacturing and construction firms. "We

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Planet Pulse

MAY 12, 2020

NK News investigated the barge using Planet data, showing a series of Planet stories and images in a recent report depicting construction over time. Some steel mills and power plants remain in operation around Beijing, China during the COVID-19 crisis. Pollution Pervades. © 2020, Planet Labs Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 2, 2020

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. It has said floating offshore wind will be eligible for innovation funding. Several unsubsidized solar projects have been constructed recently.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 14, 2020

As part of the announcement, the government confirmed it is entering into negotiations with French energy giant EDF over proposals to build a major nuclear power station at Sizewell in Suffolk, which would follow the firm's existing Hinkley Point C project currently under construction in Somerset.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 24, 2021

The critical elements were supportive government policy at home, a laser-focus not only on renewables but the one renewable niche where its advantage lay, a bit of luck early on and a financing innovation that turbo-charged its transition once underway. France built nuclear power. Iceland tapped geothermal.

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38 North Solutions

MAY 3, 2024

Special Consideration: Related to Battery Manufacturing: Similarly, if a battery manufacturing facility was constructed using 48C, then it is ineligible for the Section 45X (advanced manufacturing credit). However, this would only apply to the facility in question, meaning a company could use 48Cfor one facility, and 45X for another.

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Biden didn’t mention how this would be achieved in this speech, other than to say that we have to get work right away, that we need to improve and innovate new technologies, and that we know how to do it. Small modular nuclear reactors at half the construction cost of today’s reactors.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

The spike in numbers has been driven by the development of a pipeline of new nuclear projects across the country, including the Hinkley Point C nuclear power station which is under development in Somerset and employs around 8,000 people, up from 6,300 in 2021, at what is the largest construction site in Europe.

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Business Green

APRIL 7, 2022

Nuclear targets increased to 24GW by 2050. Arguably the biggest change from the UK's previous energy plans is the Strategy's goal to deliver 24GW of nuclear power capacity by 2050, which it said would result in around 25 per cent of UK electricity demand being met by a major fleet of both large and small new reactors.

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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 17, 2023

Notably, alternative fuel levers are highly dependent on innovation in the O&G industry happening upstream (closer to the well) than the wakes on open sea. Innovators : Companies such as JAX LNG are moving biogas/biomethane facilities to the coast, decreasing delivery costs. Fuel Maturity: The least mature. Fuel Maturity: Mature.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Almost 40 new 'Innovation Zones'. The government today said it was in discussions with 38 local and mayoral authorities in England over setting up new 'Innovation Zones' that would benefit from a host of low tax incentives and relaxed regulations, in a bid to spur business investors and attract developers.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2022

The good news is that the UK has already made some important progress in building a non-fossil-fuel based power system, with over 60 per cent of electricity demand met by renewables and nuclear power in February 2022 and renewables alone having provided around 40 per cent of the UK's electricity demand in the last two years.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Past experience in battery manufacturing - but also in other capital-expenditure-heavy industries such as solar cell manufacturing and nuclear power plants - shows that manufacturers can typically reduce costs 15 to 30 per cent as they build each subsequent plant, applying what they have learned from the construction process.

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Business Green

APRIL 7, 2022

E3G campaigns director Ed Matthew said: "With no new support to save energy and by holding back on solar power and on-shore wind, this strategy will do nothing to help the UK get off Russian gas this year. Instead, the government has prioritised policies that will keep us dependent on high cost fossil fuels and nuclear power.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

APRIL 24, 2024

Such an output is capable of powering nearly 90% of the European Union’s electricity needs. The sector is poised to surpass nuclear power as the world’s most significant source of clean energy, trailing only behind hydroelectric power, within the next year. terawatt-hours of electricity in 2023.

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Business Green

MARCH 30, 2023

Great British Nuclear (GBN): As expected, today sees the launch of a new agency based in Greater Manchester tasked with overseeing the rollout of a new fleet of nuclear power capacity through both large scale and small modular reactors (SMR).

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Business Green

MARCH 12, 2020

"The Taxonomy comes at a time where there is a lot of concern about potential greenwashing," explained TEG member Felicity Spors, head of international affairs at the EU's climate innovation initiative Climate-KIK. The Taxonomy is designed to give confidence and assurance to investors.".

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Business Green

MARCH 15, 2023

On science, innovation, technology, we should be leading, not lagging. Nuclear power is much more expensive than renewables and innovations in energy storage will soon make it redundant for balancing energy needs during periods of low wind or solar. Here, BusinessGreen rounds up all of the reaction from the green economy.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

OCTOBER 11, 2023

A University of Wyoming (UW) research team has received $693,514 in funding from the Wyoming Innovation Partnership (WIP) for a new blue hydrogen project, to support their efforts to create a new hydrogen economy in the state. The project focuses on nuclear powered hydrogen production.

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2023

Consider creating separate delivery agencies - The Review urges Ministers to explore whether further dedicated delivery agencies are needed to drive long-term decarbonisation programmes in specific sectors, such as for electric vehicle charging infrastructure roll out or new nuclear power plans.

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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. Innovations that make 100% clean power possible.

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Climate Tech VC

MARCH 4, 2024

Weaker residential construction activity cooled the HVAC sector, and heat pump sales bore the brunt at a 16% decline compared to 2022.  Zacuna Ventures, a San Francisco, CA-based investment firm, announced a $56m debut fund that focuses on investments in construction tech companies.    Can’t get enough deals?

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

These lawful constructs are put in place to serve and protect the world at large and public concerns over environmental and social wellbeing are on the rise. Point 10 “Green Finance and Innovation” looks to raise R&D investment and commercialize green technology such as disruptive artificial intelligence for energy.

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Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 22, 2024

60 reactors are currently under construction worldwide with 110 more planned. Just last week, the UK Government laid out its plan to quadruple nuclear power by 2050 and China approved construction for four new reactors. More uranium deals were struck last year than in the past decade.

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Clean Energy Trust

OCTOBER 8, 2021

The law will phase out fossil fuels in energy generation, provides additional funding for the construction of renewable energy projects, subsidizes some existing nuclear power plants in the state, and a host of other features.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Currently, we use fossil fuels, biofuels and nuclear power to provide this baseload. Tidal range, stream and lagoon power are obvious solutions which currently do not get the political attention they deserve. The government's baseload strategy is to use nuclear power.

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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. concern around Chinese investment in new nuclear power is also rising. Times have changed dramatically.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Construction of this reactor type has gone massively over budget and over schedule whenever they try to build it in Europe, and isn't operating as advertised anywhere," he said. The contrast between these lumbering white elephants and the dynamic, cost cutting, innovative technologies in the renewables sector could barely be more striking.".

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