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Bloomberg report: Urgent deployment of existing technology can get world close to net zero

Envirotec Magazine

The new report indicates that the speed with which clean technologies and decarbonization of the power sector are scaled up is crucial. The power, transport, industry and buildings sectors transition at different speeds based on the technologies available for them to decarbonize, but all see emissions start to fall immediately.

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July 2020 Cleantech Roundup: Electric Vehicles Go Public | Energy Policy Scandals | SunRun…

Clean Energy Trust

July 2020 Cleantech Roundup: Electric Vehicles Go Public | Energy Policy Scandals | SunRun Acquires Vivint Solar Clean Energy Trust’s cleantech roundup highlights interesting cleantech news and perspective, across industry, technology, policy, and investing. Hint: it is not sales. but is heartbreak inevitable?

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Energy Innovation Policy & Technology® and RMI Launch 48 U.S. State EPS Models

Energy Innovation

By Olivia Ashmoore This week, Energy Innovation Policy & Technology LLC® and RMI published 48 state Energy Policy Simulator (EPS) models. The free, open-source, peer-reviewed, and nonpartisan EPS model empowers users to analyze the effects of hundreds of climate policies. climate goals. With the release of the U.S.

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Hunterston B nuclear power station poised for shutdown,sparking fresh questions over UK's new nuclear plans

Business Green

Closure of EDF's Ayrshire plant, which has operated on west coast of Scotland since 1976, leaves UK with just seven operational nuclear stations. The 1.2GW capacity power station first began operating in 1976, and although it was originally expected to operate for 25 years, EDF was able to extend the plant's lifespan a number of times. "It

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Think tank outlines possible clean energy industrial strategy for the UK

Envirotec Magazine

Accelerating the build-out of clean energy will reduce costs and make the UK more secure, write Josh Freed and Isabelle Chan of US think tank Third Way, which released a new policy paper on the topic on 29 September. With the right national policies, this shift could also spur a reindustrial revolution.

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How Bad Relations With China Could Mess With the Energy Transition

GreenTechMedia

In October 2015, Cameron and China’s President Xi Jinping signed another deal for China General Nuclear Power Group (CGN) to take a one-third stake in the new Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant. That trend is evident in electric vehicles as well as solar energy. Times have changed dramatically.

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A State-by-State Model of the US Net-Zero-Carbon Future

GreenTechMedia

But that doesn’t mean that states most reliant on fossil fuel extraction or industries powered by them must lose out in the transition. That’s a key finding of the Decarb America report released Thursday by Third Way, Clean Air Task Force and the Bipartisan Policy Center. That’s where the state-by-state data comes in.

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