Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

One often overlooked piece, states Bernard Salha, group technical director and R&D director for French energy giant EDF, might be found in nuclear power. Nuclear power plants can follow the load, and consequently, they can help to bring stability on the grid.” Join Enlit Europe in Paris.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

National Grid ESO in the UK has released its Winter Outlook for 2023/2024, predicting a positive outlook of electricity supply and a return to demand side measures such as virtual power plants to maintain grid stability.

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Business Green

MARCH 4, 2022

Snap analysis explores how Europe could rapidly curb Russian oil and gas imports and tap into long term energy security and environmental gains. The Tony Blair Institute (TBI) has today published a new paper detailing how Europe could bring an end to imports of Russian Gas in direct response to Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Renewable power sources are expected to dominate almost all the growth in the world's electricity supplies through to 2025, according to the IEA, and together with nuclear power they are set to meet the vast majority of the increase in global power demand over the period. remains a hugely challenging prospect.

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R-Squared Energy

AUGUST 10, 2023

While renewable power expanded at record rates, fossil fuels maintained an 82% share of total primary energy consumption. Natural gas and coal demand stayed nearly flat with oil rebounding close to pre-pandemic levels. Primary Global Energy Consumption 2022 ROBERT RAPIER Global energy demand grew by 1.1% Oil demand grew by 3.1%

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 5, 2020

LONDON — Europe needs an immense rollout of energy storage and other flexible energy resources if it's going to hit its 2050 net-zero target. To date, Europe's big successes on the energy storage front have come from tenders to provide frequency response and other grid services. As of today, the market is largely stuck.

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R-Squared Energy

JULY 26, 2021

The Review provides a comprehensive picture of supply and demand for major energy sources on a country-level basis. For example, as I will detail below, oil demand fell dramatically last year, but we already know that it has largely recovered in 2021. Renewables and Nuclear Power. share of all energy consumption.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Offshore wind has largely been stuck on the sideline of the corporate renewables market, as demand for onshore wind and solar has surged from corporate giants like Google, Walmart and even oil companies like Shell. In Europe, however, offshore wind is no longer an outlier when it comes to cost. operator of nuclear power plants.

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R-Squared Energy

JUNE 16, 2020

Even though demand growth for both of these commodities has been robust over the past decade, prices have plunged. Despite strong demand growth for its products, the prices of oil and natural gas have fallen by more than 50% in recent years. This slowdown had a negative impact on fossil fuel demand. A Place for Nuclear Power.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 20, 2022

By streamlining energy traders’ ability to match electricity supply to demand, the Tradenergy tool is aiming to help maintain the resilience and reliability of power grid operations. On a power grid, inertia is naturally produced by turbines and motors in fossil fuel generators that are synchronised to the same frequency.

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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. Sign up to our newsletter and stay informed.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

At a time when lawmakers are scratching their heads over how to decarbonize national energy systems, nuclear is sitting on a technology that is low-carbon, mature and, despite the odd meltdown, relatively safe. Yet across North America and Europe, nuclear can’t seem to get a look-in. Meanwhile in the U.S., and the U.S.

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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. We’re Europe’s biggest operator of energy networks. EDF to lower nuclear forecast.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 19, 2024

National Grid forecasts a 64% growth in power demand to 2035, the UK’s target for net zero. The network upgrade plan would see new infrastructure delivered to connect both onshore and offshore wind power where needed alongside solutions that can optimise the location of strategic, flexible demand connections in the future.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 17, 2022

New analysis from LCP has revealed that the UK Government’s recently released energy strategy will boost efforts to decarbonise power supply but create complex challenges in balancing the supply and demand of electricity across the grid from 2030 onwards.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

As an example of the scale of this issue, the IEA highlights that in Europe today around 60GW of onshore wind capacity – four-times the capacity commissioned in 2022 – is held up by various permitting procedures.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Under certain conditions, gas and nuclear energy could be part of the mix, making it easier for private investors to inject money into both. EU members like Austria and Luxembourg already have raised the possibility of legal disputes as they challenge the green notion of nuclear.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 25, 2024

The proposal, part of RTE’s next ‘Ten-year network development’ plan for the period from 2025 to 2040, is aimed to deliver one of the most significant developments since its creation to ensure that the French network is able to meet the country’s and Europe’s energy and climate objectives. Have you read? But is it enough?

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2022

Low-carbon energy technologies including renewables, energy efficiency and nuclear power, alongside an expansion of robust and smart electricity grids are all part of the solution, he added. In its forecast, gas-fired power will grow by about one per cent annually, while coal-fired power will fall slightly.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

A combination of just-in-time energy procurement, an overreliance on insecure energy imports, increased weather risks and a reduction in nuclear and coal power stations will leave the UK energy prices vulnerable to instability into the next decade, unless action is taken, the forecast suggests. Have you read?

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Smart Energy International

JULY 29, 2022

Crypto mining operations and data centres are both in essence banks of IT systems – energy hungry with the demand for round-the-clock computation and the necessary cooling. Another approach growing in popularity is the use of waste energy, including nuclear and flared gas, for crypto mining. Energy reporting.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

She was invited on the show (1:24) to discuss the National Grid’s ‘demand flexibility service’ scheme, under which households and some businesses receive payments for using less energy at times of peak demand. She added: “And so whenever it isn’t windy we’re starting to get into issues of the grid being stressed”.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The fledgling hydrogen industry is expanding fast, and now nuclear operators are joining renewables developers in exploring how they could play a critical role in delivering zero emission hydrogen at large scale. The roadmap also emphasises the role that advanced modular reactors (AMRs) could play in powering green hydrogen production.

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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2020

We're confident the price of nuclear power will fall from the £92.50 per Megawatt Hour for the first plant, closer to £60/MWh for the next wave of power stations reducing to around £40/MWh for further reactors.". Amazing how often this is trotted out.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2022

In January 2021, representatives from the clean energy sector sent a joint letter welcoming the criteria recommended by the TEG and stating that “the inclusion of power generation with a carbon intensity above this limit would not only deviate from science, but would also harm the EU’s decarbonisation trajectory and its 2050 net-zero objectives.”.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 17, 2022

On behalf of environmental group RePlanet, energy specialist Joris van Dorp offers a deep analysis of the key messages in Europe’s policy. It was a strong call to action in response to the multiple threats and opportunities faced by Europe. maintenance and replacement) and to provide investor returns.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Poland accelerates coal phase out, pushes for nuclear and offshore wind. Poland is the only member of the EU which has so far refused to commit to net zero emissions by 2050, with the country seeking more time to reconfigure its economy, which is heavily reliant on coal-fired power stations and coal mining.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 8, 2022

Most inertia comes from big fossil fuel, nuclear and hydro generation. What’s left is harder to measure because much of it is coming from demand, smaller generators and ‘below the surface’ grid behaviour. With the shift to renewables, grid inertia is reducing. Sign up to our newsletter and stay informed.

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Business Green

APRIL 6, 2022

Previous reports have suggested the Chancellor has pushed back against colleagues' plans to significantly expand the UK's fleet of nuclear power stations , and has questioned the value for money of additional solar and onshore wind development. marks over whether any further nuclear power stations will be required at all.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Andy Marsh, CEO of report sponsor Plug Power, noted Monday that the company’s hydrogen fuel cell-powered forklifts and distribution center vehicles used by customers like Amazon, Walmart, Home Depot and Lowe’s are using about 27 million tons of hydrogen per day, supplied by its more than 100 fueling stations across the country.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Specifically, it said the UK should look to maintain access to future electricity interconnector projects and Europe's energy markets after leaving the EU in order to support decarbonisation, and for the Electricity Act to be amended to define energy storage as a distinct subset of power generation.

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Business Green

MARCH 30, 2022

But how green are the energy sources powering our EVs? Currently, electricity in the UK is supplied by a variety of generators, including fossil fuels, nuclear power, and large and small-scale renewables. In Europe, the share of energy from renewable sources in gross electricity consumption is 34 per cent on average.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 12, 2022

One WMO official even warned climate impacts pose as big a threat to the global energy security as Russia's ongoing war in Ukraine, which has driven up energy prices worldwide and prompted a scramble in Europe for alternative supplies of fossil gas. "I

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

Meanwhile, the horrifying Russian atrocities coming to light in Ukraine are reigniting calls for more robust sanctions to be imposed on the Kremlin, including a full ban on energy exports to Europe. All the briefing suggests there will be two big winners in the new plan: offshore wind and nuclear power.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

To date, the government has focused on energy supply, ignoring the vital issue of demand. The UK has some of the draughtiest housing in Europe. As well as cutting energy demand, the government must also scale up green, renewable energy supply. This cannot continue. The cheapest energy is the energy we don't use.

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Business Green

MARCH 7, 2022

For too long, Europe's dependence on Russian gas has left the Continent vulnerable to blackmail and allowed Putin to pull strings," Kwarteng said. He added that: "the good news is, Russia can't directly manipulate the price of renewable energy and nuclear power in the UK.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Globally, the transition to renewable power could result in estimated savings of $12tr by 2050. On the demand side, the case for investing to reduce our energy consumption was already strong, and is now even stronger. This summer's water shortages in Europe could dampen GDP growth by 0.25 per cent to 0.5

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