Business Green

JULY 19, 2022

What could the UK's energy system look like in 2050, once offshore wind energy is the backbone of the electricity grid, fossil fuel vehicles are increasingly scarce, hydrogen fuel has gone from vision to reality, and energy efficiency is an everyday consideration for families and businesses alike?

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Business Green

APRIL 7, 2022

After weeks of speculation, the government is set to publish its plan to boost Britain's energy security later today, with fresh targets announced for offshore wind, nuclear and low-carbon hydrogen alongside measures to accelerate the adoption of smart grid technologies.

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Business Green

MARCH 10, 2022

From home energy efficiency to onshore and offshore wind, hydrogen and tidal to solar and nuclear power, it is time to turbocharge the shift to green energy," he said. million homes by 2027 could reduce UK gas demand by four per cent, which is roughly equivalent to UK imports of Russian gas.

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Business Green

APRIL 6, 2022

As expected, the nuclear and offshore wind industries are set to emerge as the big winners, with the Strategy proposing a series of reforms designed to accelerate development. For example, the strategy will include a new ambition to develop up to 24GW of nuclear capacity by 2050, delivering around a quarter of anticipated power demand.

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

All the briefing suggests there will be two big winners in the new plan: offshore wind and nuclear power. The Sunday Telegraph reported yesterday that the UK could get up to seven new nuclear power plants through the new Strategy, after Kwarteng told the paper "there is a world where we have six or seven sites in the UK".

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Business Green

JANUARY 4, 2023

But critics argued the Strategy failed to mobilise sufficient near term action to boost renewables supplies and curb energy demand, and through the subsquent changes in Prime Minister the government has sought to quietly plug some of the gaps in the strategy. How has the report been received?

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Energy Innovation

JULY 14, 2020

strongly emphasize that recommendations for climate-friendly recovery policy be filtered to those that maximize job retainment and growth like R&D investments, keeping nuclear power plants open, and wind and solar power plant expansion. Energy Demand and Emissions Impacts of COVID-19 with the Energy Policy Simulator.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The falling costs of wind and solar power are pushing utilities to find ways to incorporate them into their long-range plans, even as they struggle to define what resources can be relied on to provide the dispatchable power they need. Here's a look at the five largest U.S. Duke's utilities serve 7.7

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2023

Moreover, for climate and energy security reasons, a net zero power grid is essentially non-negotiable. It factored in a 50 per cent increase in power demand in 2035 compared to today, so as to reflect the expected rise in electricity use from electric vehicles (EVs), industry, heat pumps, and buildings in the coming years.

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 17, 2022

Then, beginning around 2009, first wind turbines and then solar photovoltaic panels decreased enough in cost to become competitive in electricity markets. Beginning in 1958, these were augmented by nuclear power plants, which have operated nearly continuously to pay off their large capital investments. Dennis Schroeder/NREL.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 20, 2021

Overall demand for electricity in 2020 was almost exactly the same as in 2005, and 24% lower than projected by federal energy forecasters. Many devices that power our lives, such as LED lights , get more performance from a kilowatt-hour of electricity now than they did 15 years ago. Emission-free nuclear generation largely held steady.

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Business Green

MAY 17, 2021

"The unwavering policy focus on climate change in the net zero pathway results in a sharp decline in fossil fuel demand, meaning that the focus for oil and gas producers switches entirely to output - and emissions reductions - from the operation of existing assets," it explains.

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Business Green

MARCH 26, 2020

In the power sector, coal's fortunes continued to decline as the UK pressed on with efforts to phase out the carbon intensive power source altogether by 2023. It means generation from renewables such as bioenergy, waste, wind, solar and hydro is now 15 times that of coal, when as recently as 2012 coal output was greater.

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Clean Energy Canada

DECEMBER 6, 2021

With an abundance of sunshine and blustery plains, Alberta and Saskatchewan have wind- and solar-power potential that rivals the best on the continent. Meanwhile, British Columbia, Manitoba, Quebec, and Newfoundland and Labrador have long excelled at generating low-cost hydro power. times between today and 2050.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

Director-general of the clean energy agency offers his thoughts on the energy crisis, green and blue hydrogen, and why renewables must be the priority in the 2020s. On green and blue hydrogen. BusinessGreen was there to listen in on what the self-styled 'good guys' of the global energy transition are currently thinking.

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Business Green

APRIL 8, 2022

And some of the measures set out in the plan were duly welcomed by the green economy, with developers and investors broadly praising the increased targets for offshore wind, nuclear, and hydrogen projects. Instead, the government has prioritised policies that will keep us dependent on high cost fossil fuels and nuclear power.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 26, 2021

The gas-free scenario is also reliant on the greatest mix of as-yet untested technologies such as long-duration energy storage or small modular nuclear reactors — and it would involve keeping some of its coal plants open past 2030, to ensure it can provide reliable power in the winter when solar power is scarce.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 22, 2020

As the coronavirus struck the global economy earlier this year, demand for oil dropped by more than a fifth and prices collapsed. Many sources now suggest that oil demand has already passed its peak. I do not expect oil prices or demand for our products to recover in the medium term." The industry as we once knew it, is gone.

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