Clean Energy Canada

JULY 2, 2020

Through media briefs, we aim to provide journalists with useful factual and contextual information related to Canada’s clean energy transition. As Canada navigates the clean energy transition, cleaner technologies and solutions are attracting attention. Hydrogen has made headlines globally as a vital component of future energy systems.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Sizewell C project takes major step forward as government unveils plans to establish Great British Energy, a new arms-length public body to oversee UK nuclear power pipeline.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 24, 2023

To mitigate climate change, it is crucial to stop using all fossil fuels, to ban new natural gas boilers, and to massively ramp up renewable electricity production. That’s why there is no alternative to replacing natural gas with renewables at once,” says Neven Duić, Chair of EASAC’s Energy Steering Panel.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 5, 2020

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. million metric tons of hydrogen per year, with an estimated value of about $17.6

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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. Challenges.

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Business Green

MARCH 22, 2022

Briefings by senior ministers ahead of Energy Security Strategy suggest plan will include new target for nuclear, cheap heat pumps loans, and planning reforms to fast track onshore wind development.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 30, 2021

Kerry Rippy , National Renewable Energy Laboratory. In recent decades the cost of wind and solar power generation has dropped dramatically. of Energy projects that renewable energy will be the fastest-growing U.S. energy source through 2050. However, it’s still relatively expensive to store energy.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has revealed a ten-point plan to set the country on its way toward its 2050 net-zero plan, with an accelerated EV rollout and a new hydrogen target the standout pledges. Parkin is the project director of the HyNet cluster in Merseyside, which proposes an integrated network of CCS and hydrogen infrastructure.

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38 North Solutions

MAY 2, 2024

Treasury released final guidance on transferability of clean energy tax credits. The purpose of the provision is to provide taxpayers greater flexibility to monetize energy-related credits, even if the taxpayer that earns the credit lacks sufficient tax liability to utilize that credit. On April 25, the U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 30, 2020

Arizona Public Service released its plan for reaching zero-carbon by 2050 , with multiple options to balance the costs and carbon benefits of switching from coal and natural gas to renewables, batteries, distributed energy resources and as-yet-untested technologies. million-customer utility, said in a Tuesday interview.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Incentivizing Green Hydrogen: The CBAM could incentivize the production of green hydrogen , which is produced using renewable energy sources and emits no carbon dioxide. It ensures that all hydrogen producers, regardless of their location, face similar production costs in terms of carbon pricing.

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38 North Solutions

MAY 3, 2024

Treasury announced the second round of the 48C tax credit for clean energy manufacturing. Key Takeaways Inflation Reduction Act renewed the Section 48C of the Internal Revenue Code, providing $10 billion in credits for qualifying advanced energy products. billion set aside for projects in energy communities.

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Charged

DECEMBER 29, 2021

How many times this week have you read that renewable energy is unreliable, and will never be able to completely replace fossil fuels on the electrical grid? The new study, published in the journal Renewable Energy , analyzed grid stability under multiple all-renewable scenarios. million permanent jobs.

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Clean Energy Canada

MARCH 25, 2024

It’s a bet on a particularly draining use of our electricity system over other priorities in need of power. Japan’s LNG imports, for one, have steadily declined over the last decade and fallen to their lowest level in 14 years as the country restarts nuclear power plants and builds out renewables. Many of B.C.’s

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The energy industry's interest in low carbon hydrogen is building fast, and the nuclear industry reckons it could yet have a crucial role to play. There may be on-going debates about how best to use hydrogen - should it be deployed to heat buildings, provide energy storage, decarbonise heavy industry, or fuel trains and planes?

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Business Green

APRIL 25, 2022

Fossil gas' share of electricity supplies shrinks to less than 15 per cent over weekend as wind power meets more than half of UK demand. Just shy of 80 per cent of Great Britain's electricity generation was produced by low carbon sources on Saturday, according to the latest stats from the electricity system operator.

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Business Green

APRIL 6, 2022

Latest round of reports on long-overdue energy independence plan suggest Number 10 and 11 continue to be at loggerheads over the cost of actions that could protect consumers from record energy bills.

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R-Squared Energy

JANUARY 19, 2023

Last month the National Ignition Facility at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in California announced a significant breakthrough in nuclear fusion research. First, let’s discuss some basics of nuclear fusion. That energy can then be turned into electricity. So, what’s the problem?

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Business Green

MARCH 10, 2023

Next week's Budget will feature a wide-ranging new clean energy package designed to mobilise £20bn of investment in the UK, Treasury confirms The Chancellor will next week promise to "reset" the UK's decarbonisation and energy security plans through an "unprecedented" £20bn investment in carbon capture and clean energy infrastructure.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 14, 2020

The path to a fully decarbonized energy system in Europe could depend on technologies that are out of bounds in today’s market, a consultancy forecast suggests. Afry modeled two possible avenues to decarbonize Europe's power, heat and transport sectors. The trouble is that the prospects for new nuclear in Europe are not good.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 24, 2021

Offshore wind energy powerhouse Orsted demonstrates that a pivot away from fossil fuels is possible. The first, biggest step to slowing climate change is switching electricity generation from coal and gas to wind and sun. A core reason for this trend is that electric utilities aren't mandating the switch over.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Xcel Energy is asking Minnesota regulators to approve $1.4 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. In Minnesota, Gov.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 11, 2024

Veolia’s Gavin Graveson saw the budget as “a missed opportunity” given the dearth of measures to deliver decarbonized and local energy. Nuclear energy received attention commensurate with its status as “a critical part of the government’s plan for delivering energy security and a decarbonised power sector”.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 27, 2020

’s power sector will be operating on a negative-emissions basis by 2033 at the latest if the country sticks to its plan to reach net-zero emissions across the economy by 2050, according to system operator National Grid ESO. stays on track, there will be 11 million electric vehicles on U.K. A year ago the U.K. A year ago the U.K.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

Another record year for renewables saw clean power sources overtake fossil fuels on Britain's grid for the first time in 2020, but new nuclear and emerging technologies such as hydrogen and bioenergy carbon capture and storage are likely to be required to deliver a fully decarbonised energy system.

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Business Green

JULY 19, 2022

The latest edition of National Grid ESO's Future Energy Scenarios report was released this week, setting out the energy system operator's detailed vision for how the net zero transition could accelerate.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

utility can reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 while still keeping natural gas as a central part of its business, both to generate electricity and to sell to its customers. utility has yet fully fleshed out how it intends to eliminate natural gas power plants from its generation portfolio. To be sure, no U.S.

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Business Green

MARCH 27, 2023

The government is widely expected to unveil a wave of decarbonisation and energy policies on Thursday as part of a package that had been badged as 'Green Day' by Whitehall insiders. It also reported Number 10 is keen to see gas play a critical role in the new package of measures.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Simplified installation procedures and new tax credit One of the aims of France 2030 was to encourage innovation in the areas of nuclear power, green hydrogen and other renewable energies. This is in addition to the CIR (research tax credit) and may be as high as 45% of the cost of the investment.

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Energy Innovation

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

By Olivia Ashmoore This week, Energy Innovation Policy & Technology LLC® and RMI published 48 state Energy Policy Simulator (EPS) models. To illustrate how the EPS can inform state action, Energy Innovation® and RMI developed a five-policy scenario and modeled this policy package across six states. climate goals.

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Business Green

JULY 17, 2022

As part of its approach to dealing with energy security concerns, the UK government has turned to nuclear power. While near-term targets look at expanding existing forms of nuclear power, the UK also has a strong commitment to developing the next generation of civil nuclear technologies.

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Business Green

JULY 22, 2021

Between $92tr and $173tr of investment needed to drive net zero energy transition over next 30 years, major new report estimates. At present, however, global emissions are moving in the wrong direction, with global energy emissions in 2019 having ticket up 0.9 per cent even despite the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic worldwide.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Long-awaited Energy White Paper set to be unleashed alongside plan to establish domestic UK emissions trading scheme from 2021. Overall, it said the strategy would cut UK carbon emissions by 230 million metric tonnes over the next decade, the equivalent to permanently removing 7.5 million petrol cars from the roads.

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Business Green

JULY 29, 2021

Government touts High Temperature Gas Reactors (HTGRs) to help decarbonise power and produce hydrogen. AMRs are typically smaller than conventional nuclear power stations, offering greater flexibility and which can also be built at a fraction of the cost.

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Business Green

MAY 9, 2022

The UK's new clean energy targets must be matched by a major electricity infrastructure and demand-side flexibility blitz, experts have warned.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Business stands ready to deliver the investment and innovation needed to turn ambition into reality, and the proposals outlined in the Energy White Paper will give firms further confidence to deliver new infrastructure'. We have been waiting years for this energy White Paper and what we need and expect is a proper long-term plan.

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Business Green

APRIL 7, 2022

After several weeks of delay and wrangling in Cabinet, the British Energy Security Strategy was unveiled today , setting out the government's plan to reduce the country's reliance on oil and gas from Russia following the war in Ukraine. Nuclear targets increased to 24GW by 2050. Solar tipped for a five-fold increase by 2035.

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