Business Green

OCTOBER 26, 2021

UK consumers are set to pay up-front for the construction of a fresh fleet of large-scale nuclear power plants through their energy bills under a new financing model unveiled by the government today, which looks set to provide a key building block of its plans to deliver a net zero energy system.

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Climate Tech VC

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Longtime transmission guru Carl Zichella once called the American electric grid the “most complicated machine we’ve ever built”, and with $1T of IRA-driven renewable investments in the pipeline, it’s only going to get more complex.   Wholesale power markets serve two primary functions: 1.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 7, 2021

will lay the foundations for a flexibility platform encompassing centralized and decentralized assets — the latest step in the country's push to enlist distributed energy resources (DERs) at grand scale to balance an increasingly renewable-powered grid. A new active network management project in the U.K.

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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. investment. million jobs by 2050, it states. A roadmap for green hydrogen expansion.

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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. PG&E plans to invest about $40 billion over the next five years into its power grid. Of that, about $7.8

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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. This is notable because it would actually boost the demands on the power sector, which will increase the challenges of decarbonizing the sector.

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Business Green

MARCH 28, 2022

The deal, which was announced yesterday and values the business at around £9.6bn, is expected to complete in the second half of the year, and will see a consortium comprising Macquarie Asset Management and British Columbia Investment Management Corporation acquire a 60 per cent stake.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 20, 2021

Solar prices hit record-lows, firmly ousting coal as the cheapest source of electricity. The government held creative auctions designed to facilitate adding greater amounts of intermittent renewables on the grid. “All of this will require substantial investment in a modern, flexible electricity system.”

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2022

Putting the UK on track for net zero emissions by 2050 - as required by the Climate Change Act - involves building a zero-carbon power system predominantly based on renewable energy by 2035, whilst significantly improving the energy efficiency of homes and buildings. It's also about investment and jobs.

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Business Green

JULY 21, 2022

Earlier this year, the government published an Energy Security Strategy, which ramped up targets for offshore wind and solar power while also promising to develop new oil and gas fields in the North Sea, in a bid to reduce exposure to risky, global fossil fuel markets.

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Climate Tech VC

MARCH 4, 2024

  Lots of spice for clean investment this week. The US Clean Investment Monitor published its annual report for 2023, which saw clean investment total $239bn, up 38% from 2022. 14% of total investment came from the feds, with $33.7B 14% of total investment came from the feds, with $33.7B Happy Monday! 

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Business Green

MAY 24, 2021

Energy giant Drax has long maintained that a proposed BECCS plant at its power station in North Yorkshire can play a crucial role in delivering on the UK's net zero ambitions by generating electricity with negative emissions. As a result, Drax is entirely reliant on public subsidy to operate."

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 17, 2022

Then, beginning around 2009, first wind turbines and then solar photovoltaic panels decreased enough in cost to become competitive in electricity markets. The Biden administration’s goal is to have a carbon emissions-free grid by 2035. The foundation of this transition is a dramatic change in the electric grid itself.

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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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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2023

That is the headline finding from the latest edition of the Energy Climate and Intelligence Unit's (ECIU) Winter Power Tracker , which found that renewables have produced 2TWh more electricity than gas over the winter months to date. million homes' gas use for the entire winter, or 78 tankers of liquified natural gas (LNG).

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 8, 2021

transmission grid will play a key role in decarbonizing the country’s electricity system. wide transmission build-out could also slash the costs of reaching a zero-carbon grid with wind, solar and battery technologies that are cost-effective today. ” Breaking down transmission’s costs and benefits.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

electricity supply from solar by 2050. Robins Air Force Base Solar Project (Courtesy: E Light Electric). The 128 MW Robins Air Force Base Solar Project is owned by Georgia Power, a subsidiary of Southern Company, and is located adjacent to the Robins Air Force Base. The project was Georgia power's sixth working with the U.S.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 11, 2022

million) for nine projects to oversee the digitisation and modernisation of Romania’s transmission network and power grid. The contracts were signed yesterday between the country’s Ministry of Energy and the national electric power transport company, Transelectrica SA. Romania’s investment. million ($411.8

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 17, 2022

What the bill means for electricity providers. The bill provides a historic amount of money for climate change mitigation that is billed as helping electric utilities deliver cleaner energy including money for energy efficiency, electric vehicles (EVs), home and business electrification, plus tax credits for renewable energy developers.

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The Verge: Energy

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Moreover, it can run on electricity generated by renewables or carbon-free nuclear energy. The Clean Hydrogen Production Credit was established through the Inflation Reduction Act, the biggest investment the US has made yet to tackle climate change. An electrolyzer can split water into oxygen and hydrogen molecules.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

First, it’s one of the largest-ever efforts to aggregate distributed energy resources (DERs) at a scale that can help California’s power grid meet its capacity needs. The CCAs have set targets for at least 20 percent of this investment into DERs to be made in low-income and disadvantaged communities.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

The catastrophic breakdown of Texas’ natural gas and electricity system last week lacks a single villain to blame for it all. Freezing instrumentation and cooling systems caused outages at coal plants and one of Texas’s nuclear power plants, as well as at natural-gas plants.

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Bidgely

MARCH 3, 2021

In the hours immediately following the power failure in Texas in which power grids operated by ERCOT, SPP and MISO were crippled, critics were quick to point the finger at renewable energy as the cause. DERs are Part of the Solution, Not the Problem. household for two days.

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Bidgely

MARCH 3, 2021

In the hours immediately following the power failure in Texas in which power grids operated by ERCOT, SPP and MISO were crippled, critics were quick to point the finger at renewable energy as the cause. DERs are Part of the Solution, Not the Problem. household for two days.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

Inevitably, the Italian former politician's in-tray has been dominated by the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on the global energy system, and all at a time when the transition to cleaner sources of electricity has continued to gather pace. The fact is that new nuclear cannot be effective in this decade - perhaps later," La Camera said. "So

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Developers in the space are concerned that the coronavirus pandemic’s impact on the economy will depress demand for tax equity investments, as banks and financial institutions will have less appetite for credits to offset tax liabilities in a year when profits were depressed. Nuclear power will receive $6.6 Another $2.36

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Clean Energy Trust

MARCH 5, 2021

February 2021 Cleantech Roundup: Climate Software Gold Rush | Lone Star State Struggles | Jobs and the Energy Transition Credit: Poole Group This month, we’re covering the rush of investing into startups that quantify, manage, and verify carbon emissions reductions, Texas’ grid troubles, new research on transitioning fossil fuel workers, and more!

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

After a week of the country’s worst power grid collapse in decades — an event that's taken a dreadful toll in dozens of lives lost and billions of dollars in economic damage — the lights are back on in Texas. In different ways, the very cold weather and snow has impacted every type of generator.”

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