GreenTechMedia

JULY 14, 2020

Since its launch in 2014 , the EIM has led to an estimated $920 million in benefits for participating utilities, by allowing them to correct for gaps between exchanges organized via day- or hour-ahead agreements and fluctuating real-time energy demands. Eight more Western U.S.

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Business Green

JANUARY 19, 2021

Opponents of the mine have noted that if the government is successful in catalysing the development of green steel production, as the UK's net zero targets suggest it must be, then the new mine risks seeing demand for its coal curtailed in the coming years. Nuclear power is essential," he told MPs.

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

Speculation continues to mount over what will feature in the government's crucial new Energy Security Strategy with Ministers at loggerheads over key parts of the plan - here's the latest on what policies could make the cut. All the briefing suggests there will be two big winners in the new plan: offshore wind and nuclear power.

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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. Since these issues are so important, it’s worthwhile addressing some of the key messages of this historic speech, as these will serve as the basis for EU policy in the years ahead.

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Business Green

JULY 19, 2022

But the report stresses the policy response to delivering a decarbonised energy system must take a broad view of energy and the linkages between sectors in order to be effective and efficient. ESO's report details how day-ahead wholesale gas prices have shot up from an average of around 50p per therm (1.7

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Business Green

APRIL 7, 2022

Recognising the difficulties in implementing effective policy quickly, it is still disappointing not to see more on energy efficiency and on supporting households to make changes that can cut their energy bills now. Instead, the government has prioritised policies that will keep us dependent on high cost fossil fuels and nuclear power.

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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

JANUARY 4, 2023

As such, it sets out how the UK could accelerate its transition away from fossil fuels, secure its energy supplies, and tackle the looming affordability, security, and sustainability 'trilemma' through a raft of new policies. How has the report been received?

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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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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 19, 2021

West pushed electricity demand past available supply, and problems with California’s resource adequacy program and market practices for ensuring adequate grid capacity failed to correct the imbalance. Simply put, the heat waves that blanketed the U.S.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 20, 2021

This drop happened thanks to policy, market and technology drivers. Overall demand for electricity in 2020 was almost exactly the same as in 2005, and 24% lower than projected by federal energy forecasters. has also become more energy efficient since 2005, thanks to policies and technology improvements. The other 50%.

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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. GW of solar, 3 GW of onshore wind, and 4.4 Duke's utilities serve 7.7 GW by 2035.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2023

But underneath the bonnet of that central contention, there is a huge amount of important and knotty details contained in the CCC's 130-page assessment that present major implications for policy, investment, and green business. Moreover, for climate and energy security reasons, a net zero power grid is essentially non-negotiable.

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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

JUNE 28, 2021

In 2010, solar power was just 4 percent of new electric generating capacity and there was a patchwork of state solar policies and renewable portfolio standards. [1] The technological advances and dramatic drop in cost would not have been possible without robust federal, state, and local policies and investments.

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Business Green

MAY 17, 2021

However, it stresses that bolder policies and investment decisions are urgently required to put the world on track for delivering on its net zero emissions goals. The required solar power additions alone amount to installing the world's largest existing solar power plant every single day over the next decade, it added.

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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. That will need to change, quickly.

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Business Green

APRIL 8, 2022

Offshore wind, nuclear, and oil and gas may all have received supportive new policies, but observers have warned these sectors will take years to bring new projects online and will prove more expensive than the onshore renewables and efficiency projects that could help cut gas imports over the next two years.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 21, 2020

But the tax-credit extensions contained in the bill could provide a significant boost for the primary federal incentive structure for wind and solar power by extending the expiration dates set by Congress late last year. energy sector, said Ravi Manghani, head of solar research for Wood Mackenzie. Solar tax credit impacts.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 26, 2021

The analysis underscores the gap between the policy imperatives of the environmental community and the Biden-Harris administration, which has set a goal of zero carbon emissions from the U.S. Wind and solar power accounted for just above 10 percent of U.S. electricity sector by 2035, and the cost imperatives of U.S.

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Mr. Sustainability

MAY 30, 2021

Increasing population and affluence subsequently increases overall demand, be it in the form of food, water or energy. Once the nuclear plant is running, it is reliable and the downtime derives mainly from maintenance. Costs - The construction of a nuclear power plant is costly, producing the electricity is cheap.

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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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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 6, 2020

Dominion also gets more than one-third of its energy from nuclear power. And to help balance intermittent wind and solar power, it calls for Dominion to procure at least 2.7 “The thing that’s notable here is the speed at which we’re changing this policy.” For example, Dominion’s 2.6-gigawatt

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Its carbon-free portfolio includes nuclear power supplying about one-third of its generation needs, and just over 5 percent renewable, most of that hydropower and biomass. At the same time, the utility has been pushing forward with significant investments into renewable energy — most notably, its massive, 2.6-gigawatt

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Under that plan, offshore wind farms will almost certainly be priced out of the market, but state-subsidized onshore wind, solar power, nuclear power and demand-side resources may be able to win approval for bids low enough to clear.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 17, 2020

While the details are complex and still in development, their result would be to force administratively set minimum prices on future wind and solar resources, energy efficiency, demand response, and nuclear power plants in PJM's capacity market. The particular threat for Illinois.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Tuesday’s letter takes up three ISO-NE policies for specific critique. The first is called Competitive Auctions With Sponsored Policy Resources, or CASPR ( PDF ), a complicated effort to balance zero-marginal-cost wind and solar power against fossil fuel and nuclear-powered generators in ISO-NE’s forward capacity auction.

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Business Green

JULY 24, 2020

The Democratic Party's draft platform for fighting the crucial US election in November sets out a litany of policies aimed at combatting climate change, with a headline goal for the world's biggest economy to achieve net zero emissions by 2050, according to The Hill. UN: Greener air conditioning and fridges could save world $2.9tr.

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