Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

.” The green labeling system from the European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, would define what qualifies as an investment in sustainable energy in the 27-nation bloc. Under certain conditions, gas and nuclear energy could be part of the mix, making it easier for private investors to inject money into both.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 30, 2020

billion in new wind and solar investments in the next 12 months and is outlining plans for electric vehicle charging, energy storage and green hydrogen production pilot programs to meet its goal to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. billion, five-year capital investment plan from the multistate utility.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 19, 2024

billion) of further, direct investment into electricity networks to facilitate the connection of clean assets and renewable energy sources. National Grid forecasts a 64% growth in power demand to 2035, the UK’s target for net zero. National Grid ESO has released a network upgrade plan, calling for £58 billion ($73.6

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 3, 2020

New Jersey utility Public Service Enterprise Group (PSEG), facing state clean energy mandates and an economic imperative to shift its business to regulated assets, is seeking to exit its merchant fossil and solar generation business, while retaining its nuclear power plants and exploring a major expansion into offshore wind.

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Clean Energy Canada

MARCH 25, 2024

LNG in the coming years and decades as forecasts for future LNG demand vary significantly. 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 intended export markets.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2022

The European Union’s scientific and political communities are locked in a battle over whether gas and nuclear can be considered green investments. It’s a “green investment guidebook,” said Henry Eviston, spokesperson on sustainable finance at WWF European Policy Office. It Pays to Be Green.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 25, 2024

French TSO RTE has proposed investments prioritising developments of its network of the order of €100 billion by 2040. However, since then, the state has redefined its energy policy, including a revival of nuclear power, the acceleration of renewables and reindustrialisation through the development of low-carbon industrial zones.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The lowest marginal costs, or the extra costs by a power plant for the most recent megawatt hour generated, are used to determine the merit ranking. As a result, the merit order is unaffected by a power generation technology’s fixed costs. Up till the demand is covered, power plants with larger marginal costs are added.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The lowest marginal costs, or the extra costs by a power plant for the most recent megawatt hour generated, are used to determine the merit ranking. As a result, the merit order is unaffected by a power generation technology’s fixed costs. Up till the demand is covered, power plants with larger marginal costs are added.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 13, 2022

The Arrol Gibb Innovation Campus (AGIC) will work with companies in the marine, nuclear power and energy-transition sectors to transform large-scale manufacturing through innovation and skills development. It is the first facility to open in a recently launched multi-partner innovation centre at Babcock’s Rosyth site.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 26, 2021

UK consumers are set to pay up-front for the construction of a fresh fleet of large-scale nuclear power plants through their energy bills under a new financing model unveiled by the government today, which looks set to provide a key building block of its plans to deliver a net zero energy system.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 10, 2020

That leaves a massive gap to be filled by clean energy, since more than half of the state’s carbon-free emissions today come from nuclear power, as shown in the chart below. percent in 2018, and hitting 100 percent zero-carbon emissions by 2040. Source: NYISO.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 7, 2021

At the same time, advanced voltage control systems, such as ENW’s CLASS project , are working to provide demand response and fast frequency response functions. And you're at the same time trying to contract flexibility services from consumers and aggregators to manage the load demand on the distribution network," he said.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

The IEA’s updated Net Zero Roadmap identifies the doubling of grid investments by 2030 as a key milestone for the electricity sector towards its net zero scenario. Thereafter the investment also needs to remain at a high level, approaching a peak of $1.1 trillion by 2040 before dropping back to around $850 billion by 2050.

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Clean Energy Canada

MARCH 25, 2024

s proposed LNG projects would come online in a global LNG market anticipated to see export capacity increase by 43 per cent by 2030, but there is no consensus from governments or industry on future global demand. s LNG industry is the question of where the electricity will come from to power new projects. Many of B.C.’s

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Business Green

JUNE 27, 2022

Improving the thermal performance of UK homes could deliver climate and energy security at a fraction of the cost of nuclear power, argues Kingspan's Rita Singh. As for nuclear power, it needs to be part of the UK's energy mix, but it won't come online or deliver cost benefits for consumers for several decades.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

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. NuScale investors include major government contractors and nuclear energy engineering firms such as Ares Corp.,

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 14, 2020

government’s long-awaited energy white paper is out with confirmation of fresh negotiations with EDF over a new nuclear power station and a drive to push up the price of carbon. billion) of government investment will trigger another £36 billion in private money by 2030, it claims. Nuclear talks with EDF to resume.

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Business Green

JULY 26, 2021

The pension provider said the revamped fund would no longer invest in companies involved in the extraction, production, supply and transportation of fossil fuels, nor firms that generate power from, or own reserves of, fossil fuels. Responsible investing enables investors to seize new opportunities and manage risk," she added. "By

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has today reiterated the government's commitment to delivering on the UK's international climate responsibilities, confirming support for the planned Sizewell C nuclear power plant, announcing a new long-term target for UK energy efficiency, and promising continued investment in clean tech innovation.

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The Guardian: Energy

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Guardian investigation has revealed areas that need attention at nuclear site in Cumbria The GMB trade union has called on the government and nuclear authorities to take “urgent action” to address concerns over safety at Sellafield. Continue reading.

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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. A diversified approach to infrastructure investment.

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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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Business Green

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

That is the conclusion of new research released today by Imperial College London on behalf of energy firm Drax, which estimates that carbon emissions from Britain's grid fell by 16 per cent last year as a result of the growth of green power and plummeting energy demand during Covid-19 lockdowns. Nuclear power, meanwhile, provided 17.5

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Evergy has become the latest utility to pledge to long-term carbon cuts even though the states it serves, Kansas and Missouri, aren’t demanding them. On Monday, Evergy signed a power-purchase agreement with AEP Renewables for 128 megawatts of wind power from its Flat Ridge 3 project in Kansas, the first project on the list.

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R-Squared Energy

OCTOBER 13, 2020

If you had invested in Florida-based utility NextEra Energy a decade ago, your total return through this week, including dividends, would have been 600%. In contrast, if you had invested in ExxonMobil a decade ago, you have seen the share value decline by half. NextEra’s dividend is considered as safe as an investment-grade bond.

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Business Green

JANUARY 31, 2023

The findings, published by energy think tank Ember, suggest Europe weathered a "triple crisis" in the energy sector last year, as the industry faced soaring costs, a scramble to wean the continent off Russian gas supplies, and the lowest levels of hydro and nuclear generation in two decades.

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Business Green

MARCH 28, 2022

It will also come weeks after the European Commission unveiled its own sweeping energy security strategy, pledging to ramp up investment in renewables, energy efficiency measures, and alternative sources of gas. Reports have indicated the new strategy could include a range of measures that would not place new spending demands on the Treasury.

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Climate Tech VC

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Longtime transmission guru Carl Zichella once called the American electric grid the “most complicated machine we’ve ever built”, and with $1T of IRA-driven renewable investments in the pipeline, it’s only going to get more complex. These generator bids are stacked up (A, B, C, etc…) in price order. 

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Stem is one of the last pure-play energy storage startups and has raised about $210 million in equity investment over the years, culminating in a 2018 Series D for $106 million. Similarly, virtual power plant software and services provider Enbala was acquired by Generac in October. billion in late 2019 to about $2.7

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 20, 2023

However, base load refers to the minimum amount of demand on an electrical grid over a given period of time, not a minimum level of constant supply. These batteries match approximately 25 percent of peak demand in all but summer, and approximately 12.5 percent of summer peak demand for four hours, twice a day.” GW commercial.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 3, 2020

formerly 174 Power Global), a U.S.-based Bright Canyon has primarily invested in wind power projects to date, including ownership stakes in Missouri and Minnesota projects being developed by Tenaska. Hanwha Energy USA Holdings Corp. Bright Canyon Energy, a subsidiary of Pinnacle West Capital Corp.,

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 5, 2020

” “When we take nuclear power and coal offline in Germany and add in renewables the market might then send the price up again — we will see.". That includes demand-side response, interconnectors and gas peakers as well as energy storage. But there's only so much demand to turn up and down.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 26, 2021

70% say customers are demanding sustainable alternatives to traditional energy products and 38% are concerned that failure to become sustainable will turn customers to their competitors. respectively), and increase their investment into new energy sources (15%). The post-COVID energy mix. The role of data and technology.

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Climate Tech VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

  KoBold Metals discovered a major copper deposit, which could be the start to solving growing supply and demand imbalances brought on by copper’s fundamental role in the energy transition.  Mingomba could drive further investment in what might eventually become a major copper supplier.   Demand is on the rise.

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Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2023

During the month more than 50 per cent of the country's power came from zero carbon sources, a feat also achieved in May, October, November and December, the operator said. Favourable conditions then saw that record once again broken by the year-end, with 20.918GW of wind power generated on 30 December.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 16, 2020

But downstate New York is facing significant supply-demand imbalances that will require large-scale energy storage to manage, he noted. New York’s plan to close the Indian Point nuclear power plant by next year and retire its most polluting power plants by 2025 will only exacerbate this imbalance.

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