Business Green

APRIL 2, 2020

Nuclear plants, CCS, and whole-building retrofits should not be prioritised over smaller cheaper alternatives, study argues, while acknowledging small scale technologies do not offer a panacea. They then tested how well these technologies performed against a range of metrics, such as cost, innovation, and accessibility.

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38 North Solutions

MAY 3, 2024

property designed to produce energy conservation technologies; or g. any other industrial technology designed to reduce GHG emissions, as determined by the U.S. any other industrial technology designed to reduce GHG emissions, as determined by the U.S. fuel cells, microturbines or an energy storage systems and components; c.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 2, 2021

With the ban of new petrol and diesel cars in place in the UK by 2030, sales of electric cars are expected to surge. Plug-in hybrid and electric vehicles accounted for more than 1 in 10 vehicle registrations in 2020, up from 1 in 30 in 2019, according to data published by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders.

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Business Green

AUGUST 30, 2020

As offices and factories shut up shop and millions of people were furloughed or working from home across the country during the second quarter of the year, electricity demand plummeted and renewable electricity took up its highest ever share of the energy mix, leading to record low CO2 emissions from the grid.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 27, 2020

stays on track, there will be 11 million electric vehicles on U.K. “Consumer technology choices today will influence [decarbonization] pathways and options for efficient whole system operation in the future. Adding more wind, solar and electric vehicles seems achievable, if challenging. A year ago the U.K.

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Business Green

MARCH 10, 2023

That is why we are fully committing to nuclear power in the UK, backing a new generation of small modular reactors, and investing tens of billions in clean energy through carbon capture. We don't want to see high bills like this again, it's time for a clean energy reset.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Electric vehicles get turbo-charged. The new plan sets an earlier 2030 target for the phase-out of sales of new internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles, up from a previous target of 2040. Nuclear power will receive £525 million for the development of large and small-scale reactors.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 14, 2020

The government has unveiled further details of its hotly-anticipated vision for the UK's net zero transition, signalling a major overhaul of Britain's energy market to scale up renewables, clean heating, nuclear, energy efficiency, carbon capture, and hydrogen technologies over the coming decade and beyond.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 30, 2020

billion in new wind and solar investments in the next 12 months and is outlining plans for electric vehicle charging, energy storage and green hydrogen production pilot programs to meet its goal to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. Xcel Energy is asking Minnesota regulators to approve $1.4

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Clean Energy Canada

JULY 2, 2020

As Canada navigates the clean energy transition, cleaner technologies and solutions are attracting attention. But its full potential for reducing emissions depends on how it is produced, which in turn is influenced by costs and technologies. This method does not produce direct emissions but requires electricity.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

To be a true leader on electric vehicles, the government must plump the market by requiring manufacturers to produce a set percentage of low-carbon vehicles, writes Energy UK's Yumann Siddiq. Meanwhile, 80 per cent of vehicles produced in the UK are exported. Today, EVs make up 14 per cent of the new car market.

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Automotive Electric vehicle Policy Nuclear Power 36

Business Green

JUNE 24, 2020

The nuclear industry has continued to maintain that decarbonising the entire UK grid will prove extremely challenging and expensive without some new nuclear capacity. We're confident the price of nuclear power will fall from the £92.50 Those who like nuclear want it to be true. There is zero evidence for it.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Our green industrial revolution will be powered by the wind turbines of Scotland and the North East, propelled by the electric vehicles made in the Midlands and advanced by the latest technologies developed in Wales, so we can look ahead to a more prosperous, greener future.".

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Business Green

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Announcing the first stage of the 10-point plan, Johnson will tomorrow confirm a new increased target for 40GW of operational offshore wind power capacity to be delivered by the end of the decade, up from the existing target of 30GW by 2030, and marking a sizeable increase on the 10GW in operation today. "We

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Boris Johnson has unveiled his much-vaunted 10-point green recovery plan, promising a multi-billion pound package of investment across the green economy designed to create an estimated 250,000 new jobs in the carbon capture, electric vehicle, nuclear, hydrogen and renewables sectors.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Prime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to unveil his hotly anticipated 10-point green recovery plan in the next week or so, with support for offshore wind, nuclear power, carbon capture and storage (CCS), and hydrogen all expected to feature.

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Business Green

MARCH 27, 2023

Writing on Twitter, former COP26 President Alok Sharma said the key test of the 'Green Day' announcements would be whether it serves to meaningfully accelerate investment in green technologies and jobs. "[The

Fossil fuels 85

Fossil fuels Government Packaging Policy 85

Business Green

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Separately, Johnson touted the launch of a new Catalyst programme, which will see the UK government work with Gates' Breakthrough Energy Catalyst to bring together businesses, governments, philanthropists, and individuals to invest in early stage climate technologies.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Figures from conservation group WWF, the Construction Industry Training Board, the Engineering Construction Industry Training Board, the East London Institute for Technology, Retrofit Works, and the University of Edinburgh will also sit on the Taskforce. "It

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Government Nuclear Power Construction Carbon 65

Business Green

JULY 22, 2021

Up to $173tr may be needed to fund the global economy's net zero transformation over the next 30 years, although the precise decarbonisation pathway the world will follow remains highly uncertain due to the different potential mixes of clean technologies available, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF). Hydrogen, CCS, and nuclear.

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Fossil fuels Energy Energy Aviation 69

GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 4, 2020

The SPAC model has become an enormously popular way for green technology startups to access public markets to finance growth in fast-growing markets, led by a host of electric vehicle startups including Nikola Motor and Fisker Automotive, EV charging providers ChargePoint and Nuvve , and battery manufacturer Eos Energy Storage.

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R-Squared Energy

MARCH 1, 2020

Policies and technologies that reduce that consumption will lower the amount of carbon dioxide emitted. Electric vehicles (EVs) are growing rapidly, but even at those rapid growth rates it’s going to take a while before they really make a significant dent in oil consumption. Consider coal, for example. In the U.S. In the U.S.,

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 5, 2020

But it highlights the need for capital to build the hydrogen production and transport infrastructure to carry it to end users, incentives to stimulate private-sector investment, codes and standards to regulate a growing supply chain, and research into still-nascent technologies.

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

He said his administration would “build and install a network of 500,000 charging stations along our existing and new highways” so electric vehicles (EVs) can displace gasoline. He also mentioned plans to offer cash rebates to trade in older vehicles.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Areas targeted by the green capital investment programme would be electric vehicle battery factories, offshore wind, UK-based wind turbine manufacturing, hydrogen, tree-planting, flood defences, energy efficiency and active travel, Reeves said. "As

Nuclear Power 69

Nuclear Power Investment Government Energy 69

Business Green

APRIL 6, 2022

FSO will take 'whole-systems' approach to integration of green energy technologies such as renewables, hydrogen, and CCUS, government confirms.

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Business Green

MARCH 2, 2023

IEA credits 'outstanding growth of renewables, EVs, heat pumps and energy efficient technologies' with delivering lower than expected increase in emissions It is the dog that didn't bark. The answer, according to the IEA, is simple: clean technologies rode to the rescue. Why then didn't the feared increase in emissions materialise?

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Hydrogen Fuel News

AUGUST 31, 2023

New technology is making carbon emission-free pink H2 possible at a very large scale. The US Department of Energy (DOE) is placing a major focus on nuclear hydrogen as a component of the US government’s proposed $7 billion push for clean H2 production. Why use nuclear energy to produce hydrogen? How is pink hydrogen made?

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Business Green

JULY 8, 2022

The sharp fall in the cost of decarbonisation is largely a result of higher gas prices, which mean a failure to invest in clean technologies and energy efficiency improvements would leave the economy facing higher than expected energy costs for years to come. "It

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Business Green

DECEMBER 22, 2021

It covers the development of nuclear power, investment in electric vehicles and other green technology, and the decarbonisation of homes. They're the ones who should be writing the cheques; the burden can't rest on the shoulders of households, which are already struggling with rising energy costs.

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Climate Tech VC

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

But while the grid serves as the underlying infrastructure, the power markets keep the entire operation humming and direct the complex flow of electrons from generators to consumers.  But first, we’ll set the stage for how the power markets work, who the players are, and how the grid of the future is starting to take shape.

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Demand Power grid Electricity Innovation 72

Business Green

JULY 19, 2022

From 2047 onwards, the energy system could then become net negative, absorbing more emissions than it produces through a mix of carbon capture technologies and solutions, which operate on both a standalone basis and while attached to power stations. BECCS is key to delivering net zero.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Figures from conservation group WWF, the Construction Industry Training Board, the Engineering Construction Industry Training Board, the East London Institute for Technology, Retrofit Works, and the University of Edinburgh will also sit on the Taskforce. "It

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

He said the creation of the new Department for Energy Security and Net Zero was "a pretty clear guide or indication" the government would be moving ahead with plans for a Great British Nuclear (GBN) agency to help identify new sites for nuclear power plants and support their development, adding that an announcement was likely in the coming weeks.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 14, 2020

The government has today finally published its long-awaited Energy White Paper , setting out its vision for building a zero emission energy system for the UK featuring ambitious plans to scale up renewables, clean heating, nuclear, energy efficiency, smart grid, carbon capture, and hydrogen technologies over the coming decade and beyond.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2022

The good news is that the UK has already made some important progress in building a non-fossil-fuel based power system, with over 60 per cent of electricity demand met by renewables and nuclear power in February 2022 and renewables alone having provided around 40 per cent of the UK's electricity demand in the last two years.

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Fossil fuels Resilience Investment Electric vehicle 36

Business Green

MARCH 15, 2023

But businesses, NGOs, and think tanks decried the Spring Statement's lack of focus on boosting more established and inexpensive clean energy technologies, such as solar, wind, and energy efficiency measures. On science, innovation, technology, we should be leading, not lagging. The announcements today are nowhere near the mark.

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