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How energy providers can prepare for summer heat with innovative solutions

Renewable Energy World

California and other states are pushing to use clean electricity to power vehicles and buildings to cut carbon, which will increase demand. And the state’s last nuclear power plant and numerous coastal gas power plants are facing retirement. But rising temperatures from climate change are just one challenge.

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Global Briefing: Activists bemoan slow progress in UN ocean treaty talks

Business Green

Germany is planning to postpone the closure of its last three nuclear power plants to help cushion the impact of soaring energy prices and possible shortages of fossil gas supplies this winter amid worsening geopolitical tensions with Russia, according to myriad reports this week.

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Hydrogen as part of Canada’s energy transition

Clean Energy Canada

This method does not produce direct emissions but requires electricity. Hydrogen produced from renewable electricity (wind, solar, hydropower, tidal, etc.) Hydrogen from other non-emitting sources—such as nuclear power—does not currently have an established colour designation. is known as green hydrogen.

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Can the US Catch Up in the Green Hydrogen Economy?

GreenTechMedia

needs a massive green hydrogen industry to decarbonize its electricity, transportation and industrial sectors, and major investments and policy changes today to enable it to grow to its full potential in the decades to come.

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A 21st-century reinvention of the electric grid is crucial for solving the climate change crisis

Renewable Energy World

The original foundation was a combination of “base load” coal plants that operated 24 hours a day and large-scale hydropower. Beginning in 1958, these were augmented by nuclear power plants, which have operated nearly continuously to pay off their large capital investments. However, new nuclear plants in the U.S.

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Solar, Wind Tax Credit Extensions and Energy R&D Package in Spending Bill Before Congress

GreenTechMedia

They could also set the industries in a more advantageous position to seek further federal policy support as President-elect Joe Biden takes office and seeks to implement ambitious decarbonization goals for the U.S. R&D for clean energy, energy storage, carbon capture and nuclear power. Energy storage will receive $1.08

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New Report Shows Gap Between Utility Carbon Pledges and Climate Change Imperatives

GreenTechMedia

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. electricity sector by 2035, and the cost imperatives of U.S. Wind and solar power accounted for just above 10 percent of U.S.