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B.C.’s late LNG bet appears risky in a competitive market

Clean Energy Canada

Japan’s LNG imports, for one, have steadily declined over the last decade and fallen to their lowest level in 14 years as the country restarts nuclear power plants and builds out renewables. s LNG industry is the question of where the electricity will come from to power new projects. Many of B.C.’s As for whether B.C.

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Three-Quarters of New US Generating Capacity in 2020 Will Be Renewable, EIA Says

GreenTechMedia

gigawatts of natural gas-fired plants to come online this year. gigawatts of wind power capacity to come online in 2020 surpasses 2012’s record of 13.2 gigawatts of wind power capacity to come online in 2020 surpasses 2012’s record of 13.2 gigawatts, and pushes total U.S. gigawatts, and pushes total U.S.

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Amid Depressed Power Demand, Duke Sticks to Plan to Double Renewables Base

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power utilities, with 7.4 million natural-gas customers across six states in the Southeast and Midwest. Despite near-term headwinds, Duke stood behind its long-term plan to reach net-zero emissions by 2050, starting with a target of 50 percent greenhouse gas reductions by 2030. Duke is among the largest U.S.

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

GreenTechMedia

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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Behind the Buzzword: A Brief History of Energy ‘Resiliency’

GreenTechMedia

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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A Nordic energy giant shows how a carbon turnaround happens

Business Green

As the oil crises of the 1970s shattered perceptions of energy security, nations frantically invested in domestic research and development initiatives. France built nuclear power. Ørsted, then named DONG (short for Danish Oil Natural Gas), was an energy utility like all the others, dependent on fossil fuels.

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Can Joe Biden Decarbonize The U.S. Power Sector By 2035?

R-Squared Energy

We’re going to make a major investment to build 1.5 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. Small modular nuclear reactors at half the construction cost of today’s reactors.