Business Green

AUGUST 26, 2022

The move, which follows similar proposals from the EU, is a first for the US and would deliver a huge boost to electric vehicle (EV) demand in America's largest auto market. The plan would represent a major policy reversal a decade after the Fukushima disaster triggered a move to phase down the country's reliance on nuclear power.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

The move comes as the Prime Minister gears up to shortly announce his hotly-anticipated 10-point green recovery plan, which is expected to feature support for offshore wind, nuclear power, hydrogen, and carbon capture and storage (CCS), among other areas.

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Business Green

JULY 22, 2021

Indeed, it estimates more than three-quarters of the effort to cut carbon emissoins in the next nine years falls to the power sector, primarily through faster development of wind and solar PV capacity. Hydrogen, CCS, and nuclear.

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Business Green

MARCH 30, 2023

However, today's announcements, while including a host of measures impacting renewables, nuclear, carbon capture, hydrogen, and energy efficiency, extend far beyond energy, stretching into green finance, electric vehicles, carbon border adjustment mechanisms, and nature markets.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

All-you-need-to-know on the green policies, tax changes and regulatory plans outlined as part of the government's new Growth Plan. Modest boost for energy efficiency.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Advocates of clean energy may get a last-minute present from Congress this year in the form of a bipartisan package of programs to boost funding for renewable energy, energy storage, electric vehicles, carbon capture and other low-carbon and electric technologies.

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 17, 2022

Beginning in 1958, these were augmented by nuclear power plants, which have operated nearly continuously to pay off their large capital investments. Unlike coal and nuclear, solar and wind are variable; they provide power only when the sun and wind are available. However, new nuclear plants in the U.S.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

So let's be clear, this hike in bills isn't to cover the cost of net zero, periods of low wind power, nuclear power plant outages, new clean boilers or the switch to electric vehicles. This year we risk energy bills rising by £700.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Tuesday’s report comes as President-elect Joe Biden is pressing for a major shift in federal energy and climate policy, including a $2 trillion clean energy and infrastructure spending plan that faces the likelihood of strong opposition from Republicans in Congress. In the U.S., In the U.S.,

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 21, 2020

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. ” Wind tax credit impacts. Wind power will also benefit from the tax extensions provided for in the bill.

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Business Green

JUNE 4, 2021

Emissions from passenger cars in Europe have been rising for the past five years even despite growing demand for electric vehicles, in many cases due to increasing sales of carbon-intensive sports utility vehicles (SUVs) and other larger and heavier cars, the EEA said. EU carbon border import tax plans take shape.

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