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Argentina Signs $8B Deal for China’s Hualong One PWR

Energy Central

Argentina Signs $8B Deal for China’s Hualong One PWR OPINION – Why Argentina’s Nuclear Deal with China May Not Be in Its Best Interests UK / Regulators Announce Approval Of Chinese Hualong Nuclear Power Plant Brazil / Eletrobras Signs Contract To Restart Work On Angra-3 Nuclear Plant Argentina Signs $8B Deal for China’s Hualong One PWR (NucNet) State.

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How a powerful company convinced Georgia to let it bury toxic waste in groundwater

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This story was originally published by ProPublica. Sign up for their newsletter, The Big Story , to receive stories like this one in your inbox. For the past several years, Georgia Power has gone to great lengths to skirt the federal rule requiring coal-fired power plants to safely dispose of massive amounts of toxic waste they produced. But previously unreported documents obtained by ProPublica show that the company’s efforts were more extensive than publicly known.

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Wholesale Market Design: Theory Versus Practice

Energy Central

The Texas market failure during Storm Uri that nearly collapsed the Texas Grid, costs Texas consumers billions and resulted in some deaths and the California energy market failures are prime examples of theoretical energy market designs that failed to incorporate the realities of managing an energy grid to be reliable and resilient, under market rules.

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Oregon Econ Boost from Build Back Better Act

CleanTechnica

Salem, Oregon — A new NRDC analysis shows that the Build Back Better Act, as it currently stands, has the potential to significantly accelerate clean energy investment, economic activity, and job growth in Oregon. The Senate now needs to pass the Build Back Better Act as soon as possible to bring these climate and economic benefits […].

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Electrofuels Are the Future: The Driving Force to Decarbonizing Heavy Transport

Speaker: Ayesha Choudhury - Senior Vice President, Head of Capital Markets at Infinium

With the first wave of the energy transition, renewable energy sources (such as solar and wind) have begun replacing coal power generation. However, some sectors are lagging behind and struggling to decarbonize more than others, including large-scale transportation like commercial aviation, shipping, and rail transit. Electrofuels (aka eFuels) are the next generation of solutions to help the hardest-to-abate sectors pivot from their reliance on fossil fuels.

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8,600+ Jobs in Montana from Build Back Better Act

CleanTechnica

Bozemen, Montana — A new NRDC analysis shows that the Build Back Better Act, as it currently stands, has the potential to significantly accelerate clean energy investment, economic activity, and job growth in Montana. The Senate now needs to pass the Build Back Better Act as soon as possible to bring these climate and economic benefits to states […].

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Information Batteries Store Energy In The Form Of Information

CleanTechnica

“Information batteries” are a type of battery in which energy is stored in the form of information. A paper co-authored by Jennifer Switzer from UC San Diego and Barath Raghavan from USC takes a deep dive into IB. The paper, Information Batteries Storing Opportunity Power with Speculative Execution, explains how the authors took a distributed […].

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Vinfast Launches New California Adventure in LA

CleanTechnica

Vietnam is serious about bringing the electric fight to Tesla in the US.

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Stellantis Plans Electric Ram Pickup With Range Extender Engine

CleanTechnica

There are reports a battery electric Ram pickup truck with a range extender engine may be coming in 2024.

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Life With Tesla After 60,000 Miles: What I’ve Learned

CleanTechnica

What I've learned about Full Self Driving (FSD) Beta, Maintenance, Hauling, and More!

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Glut of Solar Panels is Coming in 2025

CleanTechnica

Profits for some polysilicon companies have rocketed up 300% during the pandemic.

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AR/VR Simulations for Sustainable, Regenerative, Circular Cities

Speaker: Nik Gowing, Brenda Laurel, Sheridan Tatsuno, Archie Kasnet, and Bruce Armstrong Taylor

With 191 country signatories to the Paris Climate Agreement now hard at work in the race to zero carbon by 2050, much of the heavy lifting in ecosystem sustainability falls on the shoulders of the world's densely populated urban centers. This conversation considers how today's AI-enabled simulation media, such as AR/VR, can be effectively applied to accelerate learning, understanding, training, and solutions-modeling to sustainability planning and design.

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Lincoln Plans To Add 5 New Electric SUVs By 2026

CleanTechnica

Sources tell Reuters that Lincoln, the luxury car division of Ford Motor Company, is planning to introduce at least five new battery electric sport utility vehicles through 2026. The new models will supplement or replace the current Lincoln Corsair, Nautilus, Aviator, and Navigator, the sources said. What the fifth vehicle might be is unclear. It’s […].