GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

The newly approved changes will boost those targets dramatically for investor-owned utilities Arizona Public Service and Tucson Electric Power, mandating a 50 percent cut in carbon emissions from 2016 to 2018 average levels by 2032 and a 75 percent cut by 2040. are facing bigger and more devastating wildfires.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Led by French energy giant EDF - which is also currently constructing a nuclear power plant of the same size at Hinkley Point in Somerset - the Sizewell C project had been expected to provide up to seven per cent of the UK's total electricity needs.

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2022

It argued that investments in renewables, energy efficiency, and smart grid solutions should be at the heart of any response to the crisis, noting how these green investments will enable nations to drastically reduce their reliance on polluting and volatile fossil fuel markets.

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Business Green

JULY 1, 2024

The UK's relatively rapid decarbonisation was delivered through a mix of multi-billion dollar investments, technological innovation, effective policy interventions, and political signals that were often inconsistent, but tended to ultimately push in the right direction. The government arguably deserves more credit than it has been getting.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2022

To become energy secure and genuinely resilient from volatile fossil fuel prices, the UK must accelerate its transition to a zero-carbon energy system, writes Nick Molho, from the Aldersgate Group. Developing new sources of fossil fuel production: a tempting but inadequate answer to the crisis.

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The Guardian: Energy

JUNE 24, 2024

The key assertion by Peter Dutton and Ted O’Brien is that nuclear would lead to a “cheaper, cleaner and consistent” electricity supply. None of this has been supported. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup Continue reading.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

OCTOBER 9, 2023

If the cost of carbon is factored into the price of hydrogen, green hydrogen could become more competitive compared to blue or grey hydrogen, which are produced using fossil fuels. Hydrogen Energy as a Solution The role of Hydrogen fuel in Europe’s heavy industries and residential and commercial electricity is crucial.

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Business Green

JANUARY 11, 2023

Yesterday's draft strategy also reasserts the Scottish Government's long-held opposition to building any new nuclear power capacity in Scotland "under current technologies", arguing the investment would be better focused on renewables and energy efficiency projects. "We

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

The body also welcomed the passing of the UK's 2050 net zero target into law last year, as well as the government's plans to build 40GW of offshore wind capacity by 2030 and bring forward its proposed fossil fuel car phase out to 2035 at the latest. to switch off in January after the failure of a Western Link HVDC.

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Business Green

APRIL 6, 2022

The government has confirmed plans to set up a new public body to oversee the transition of Britain's energy system towards net zero emissions, as more green technologies such as renewables, batteries, electric vehicles (EVs), hydrogen, and carbon capture systems come online over the coming years. The FSO will do just that.".

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Business Green

APRIL 6, 2022

The government will tomorrow publish its long-awaited Energy Security Strategy, promising that the sweeping new plan will 'supercharge' clean energy deployment and put the UK on track to source 95 per cent of its power from domestic low carbon sources by 2030.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Von der Leyen announced a plan to collect up to 140 billion euros in windfall profit taxes from energy companies that produce electricity at low cost, e.g. wind, solar, hydro and nuclear. Also, electricity companies aren’t likely to be generous. Electricity markets reform. Schematic marginal cost merit order chart.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

A week is a long time in politics - but the last year has felt like decades in climate and energy policy. The recent explosion in energy prices, driven by the high cost of fossil fuels, could increase household energy costs by £100bn in the next year alone. At country level, new targets were submitted. per cent to 0.5

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 20, 2021

Solar prices hit record-lows, firmly ousting coal as the cheapest source of electricity. Also, while renewable energy capacity is dramatically increasing, coal still provides around 70 percent of the country’s electricity. “All of this will require substantial investment in a modern, flexible electricity system.”

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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

JANUARY 13, 2023

The findings of his Review may do little to convince the net zero sceptics in his own party, but if they take the time to read it they might find themselves pleasantly surprised by how reasonable its 129 recommendations are - and how economically, politically, and socially rational to boot. Agriculture and nature.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

funding boost to support heavy industrial firms - including steel, ceramics, pharmaceuticals and food production - switch away from expensive fossil fuels towards cheaper, greener fuels and energy sources. Separately today, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) announced a £49.4m

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 17, 2020

Pacific Gas & Electric is on the verge of escaping from its 18-month bankruptcy , only to begin a years-long effort to prevent a repeat of the disasters that pushed it into insolvency in the first place. And all of this must happen without excessively raising customer rates, if it’s to avoid political and customer backlash.

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Unsustainable

APRIL 30, 2019

This means obvious things: roads, bridges, drinking water, sewage systems, electricity, public education, providing access to at least basic healthcare, and a regulated, stable banking system. Today, more than 70% of the electricity used in France is produced in nuclear power plants. But have you tried it?

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R-Squared Energy

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

You may count me among those who want to see society move beyond fossil fuels. We all know there are negative consequences associated with fossil fuel usage, such as the emission of carbon dioxide and various other pollutants. Most people drastically underestimate our ongoing dependence on fossil fuels.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Prime Minister Boris Johnson said: "The UK's path to ending our contribution to climate change will be paved with well-paid jobs, billions in investment and thriving green industries - powering our green industrial revolution across the country. No commitments have been made to protect the seabed - a glaring absence.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2021

There were notable fresh announcements regarding business rates relief for green technology investments, £1.7bn funding for a new nuclear power plant this Parliament, and fresh funding for skills, but these were counterbalanced by a hike in Air Passenger Duty and yet another freeze in fuel duty.

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Business Green

JULY 6, 2022

Green groups threaten legal action after EU Parliament votes to retain fossil gas and nuclear projects in green finance labelling system. With gas in the Taxonomy, the European Union has missed its chance to set a gold standard for sustainable finance," she said, adding that "politics and vested interests have won over science".

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Business Green

MARCH 23, 2023

It comes at a time in which private sector funding for larger nuclear power stations is proving to be extremely difficult. They are smaller than current stations which produce 1,200MW to 1,700MW of electricity. Electricity is acknowledged to be the easiest sector to decarbonise.

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Business Green

JANUARY 4, 2023

Yet as anyone working across the UK's green economy would tell the him if he deigned to ask, the Prime Minister does have a ready-made, straight-forward-to-follow recipe at his disposal that could well help ease a number of the government's most pressing political and economic woes. A far cry, perhaps, from the Britain of today.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2023

BusinessGreen rounds up the critical lessons for business, investors, and the government if the UK is to build a decarbonised power system by 2035 When the Climate Change Committee (CCC) has something to say, it is usually well worth listening. The CCC's analysis tested the resilience of a zero carbon grid very strenuously indeed.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 8, 2021

transmission grid will play a key role in decarbonizing the country’s electricity system. Whether it’s politically possible for the U.S. The chart below indicates the linkage between transmission build-out and electricity cost, with costs falling as the integration between existing transmission grid regions increases.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Recent weeks have seen a new 2030 emissions target, the National Infrastructure Strategy, the Treasury's Spending Review, the confirmation of an end to overseas financing of fossil fuel infrastructure, and, of course, Boris Johnson's Ten Point Plan for a Green Industrial Revolution.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Importantly, the Roadmap concludes that, if we don’t build more than 30 GW of offshore wind, we’re going to need to construct new nuclear power plants to reach our decarbonization target. We’re still going to need some fossil fuels. The Roadmap views the “Limited Offshore Wind” pathway as anything less than 30 gigawatts.

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R-Squared Energy

MARCH 4, 2022

and Germany will continue to rapidly deploy renewable power and electric vehicles. Fossil fuel usage will plummet. Of course, renewables and electric vehicles will help alleviate this dependence over time. In an ideal world, developed countries like the U.S. No need for Germany to rely on Russian gas. I doubt it).

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Announcing plans to approve the new Sizewell C nuclear power plant, increase energy efficiency funding from 2025, and retain clean tech R&D budgets, Hunt said the UK would continue to pursue energy independence as it strives to deliver on its climate goals.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

DECEMBER 23, 2023

However, this policy shift may also have substantial implications for the nuclear industry. The proposal addresses the high electricity demand of clean hydrogen production. Producers must document their electricity usage through “energy attribute certificates,” which will help determine the credits they qualify for.

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Business Green

MARCH 16, 2022

Insulation, LED lighting, flexibility services, and smart metering may not garner as much political attention as giant offshore wind farms and nuclear power plants, but experts have long pointed out they are far cheaper and quicker to deploy at scale and will shave money off household energy bills far more quickly.

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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 17, 2023

Further, many of the largest businesses are state- or family-owned, beholden not just to the laws of the free market, but political dynamics to boot. More Coming Soon: Applying mitigation measures from adjacent industries Some are charting a course irrespective of fuel types or efficiency gains. The biggest shipping companies (i.e.,

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Earth Gratitude

AUGUST 27, 2017

Anti-Nuclear Power Plant Rally on 19 September 2011 at Meiji Shrine Outer Garden. Power to the People! Walk, ride a bike, take public transportation or drive an electric car to reduce my personal oil consumption by half or more this year. Support a ban on nuclear weapons. © WikiMedia Commons. Used with permission.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Baseload is the minimum level of demand on an electrical grid over a span of time. This means that there must be a constant level of power in the national grid to keep the lights on at all times. We need an unvarying, reliable level of output in the power system. The government's baseload strategy is to use nuclear power.

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Business Green

APRIL 8, 2022

After weeks of delay and much political wrangling, the UK's Energy Security Strategy was finally released yesterday , sparking a decidedly mixed response from across the green economy. Moreover, various briefings to the media over the past month suggested these bold measures had cheerleaders in all the right places within government.

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