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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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 30, 2020

House of Representatives Select Committee on the Climate Crisis unveiled a mammoth and wide-ranging policy plan to embed climate action and resilience within the country’s economy. The report — which sought to put racial and environmental justice at the center of its recommendations — laid out policies to help the U.S.

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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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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has today reiterated the government's commitment to delivering on the UK's international climate responsibilities, confirming support for the planned Sizewell C nuclear power plant, announcing a new long-term target for UK energy efficiency, and promising continued investment in clean tech innovation.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

My very simple objective is to create the economy with the cheapest wholesale electricity price by 2035," Shapps told the paper. He also highlighted how the government was committed to securing private sector capital to deliver the new Sizewell C nuclear plant.

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Business Green

JANUARY 31, 2023

The findings, published by energy think tank Ember, suggest Europe weathered a "triple crisis" in the energy sector last year, as the industry faced soaring costs, a scramble to wean the continent off Russian gas supplies, and the lowest levels of hydro and nuclear generation in two decades. Any fears of a coal rebound are now dead."

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Business Green

OCTOBER 5, 2020

The Prime Minister will use his Conservative Party Conference speech tomorrow to trail a hotly-anticipated 10-point plan for a "green industrial revolution" - full details of which are set to be unveiled later this year - as well as announcing a major package of support for offshore wind.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Companies need to be informed as new policies are enacted across the globe and ensure their practices abide by these changes. Many businesses have faced instability and uncertainty over the last few years from the combined impact of shifts in power, the U.K.’s New regulations are emerging across the U.S.

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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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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

And there were conflicting reports over the price tag attached to the new support package. Truss ally Iain Duncan Smith told The Times the package was likely to cost in the region of £90bn, while other reports put the estimated cost at £100bn and Bloomberg reported the total cost could reach £130bn.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Electric vehicles get turbo-charged. Nuclear power will receive £525 million for the development of large and small-scale reactors. The electric vehicle support described above, plus £500 million ($663 million) for the development of a domestic battery manufacturing industry.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Carbon capture, hydrogen, nuclear, EVs, and renewables all set to benefit from £12bn government stimulus plan, but critics warn funding falls well short of the level required to trigger a green recovery.

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Business Green

AUGUST 22, 2022

Against this sobering backdrop, political leaders are scrambling for policy fixes to try and mimimise the looming economic storm. Separately, the Truss campaign this weekend sought to offer further assurances that it was working on plans for a substantial new support package to help households and businesses cope with soaring energy bills.

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Business Green

JUNE 18, 2020

The analysis calculates that integrating clean energy goals into economic recovery and stimulus packages over the next three years could boost global economic growth by an average of 1.1 Birol acknowledged that policy makers were "having to make hugely consequential decisions in a very short space of time as they draw up stimulus packages".

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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2020

Major new report urges government to provide clarity on nuclear development plans and insists sector can bring down costs - but will Ministers be convinced? The intervention comes at a critical time for the UK's nuclear industry. We're confident the price of nuclear power will fall from the £92.50 But it isn't.".

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

A slow transition away from fossil fuels would be “more expensive” than a rapid shift to renewable energy, according to a new study, a conclusion that stands in sharp contrast to fossil fuel industry talking points aimed at heading off aggressive climate policy currently being shaped in Congress. trillion budget package. CC BY-NC 2.0).

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 23, 2020

When the legislation passed, progressives on the New York City Council called the package of bills “the largest single carbon-reduction effort that any city, anywhere, has ever put forward.” “The policy intention is the worst-emitting 20 percent of the buildings have to act first,” said Mandyck.

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Business Green

APRIL 1, 2021

American Jobs Plan promises massive wave of new investment in clean energy generation, grids, electric vehicles, and green buildings. The White House said the package would "unify and mobilize the country to meet the great challenges of our time: the climate crisis and the ambitions of an autocratic China".

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Business Green

OCTOBER 5, 2020

The Prime Minister will use his Conservative Party conference speech tomorrow to trail a hotly-anticipated 10-point plan for a "green industrial revolution" - full details of which are set to be unveiled later this year - as well as announcing a major package of support for offshore wind.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 18, 2021

The much-delayed package includes a new £450m grant scheme to encourage households to switch to heat pumps and other low carbon heating systems, £60m of innovation funding to help drive down the cost of heat pump technologies, and a goal to end the installation of conventional gas boilers by 2035.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The government confirmed a new package of 18 deals worth £9.7bn, which are set to ramp up investment in a host of clean infrastructure projects, including offshore wind, hydrogen development, carbon capture and storage (CCS), and green homes. "The

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Business Green

MARCH 16, 2022

But what policies do experts think shuold feature to the government’s upcoming Energy Security Strategy and Spring Statement? And today, E3G details how there are major savings to be made if Ministers leverage existing policies and mechanisms to reduce business and household demand for energy. It was a glaring omission.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

I would much rather that we focused on the things where we are brilliant and where the environmental damage is really minimal, like offshore wind… Of course, we need a diversified policy where local communities want different solutions, they should be allowed to go for different solutions.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 12, 2021

Two months later, Barack Obama was elected president and began work on the stimulus package, passed in February 2009, that reinjected life into the faltering clean energy sector. I’d like to think that GTM helped expand the understanding of these imperatives before they had grown into clear crises.

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Business Green

MARCH 30, 2023

Prior media reports suggested the government had intended to badge all of its announcements under the banner of 'Green Day', but instead it appears to have gone with the name 'Powering Up Britain', evidently keen to place as much focus as possible on energy security issues.

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Climate Tech VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

It’s a superior electricity conductor, which makes it fundamental to power cables and wires, transformers and inverters, electrical motors, and photovoltaic cells.  🚗 Snap-E Cabs , a Kolkata, India-based electric cab service provider, raised $2m in Seed funding from Inflection Point Ventures.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Industry Voice: Schneider Electric's Amy Haddon ponders whether the UN Climate Change Summit delivered on businesses' hopes. In November, I had the privilege to represent Schneider Electric at the UN's Conference of Parties (COP) on climate change in Glasgow. COP is and remains, fundamentally, a policy event.

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Business Green

MARCH 10, 2022

However, to date there has been little indication as to what measures the government is planning to take to reduce gas imports in the short term and Ministers have thus far ducked calls for the Treasury to come forward with a more generous support package for households that are set to see energy bills increase by around 50 per cent from next month.

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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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Business Green

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

The South African government's plans to build new coal-fired power stations is set to be challenged through the courts, after three civil society organisations launched legal action in the North Gauteng high court, arguing that current energy policy is incompatible with the national constitution.

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Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 16, 2024

The state aid package marks the first time the EU has allowed individual state aid to match IRA subsidies. Meanwhile, nuclear demand heightened with the UK Government laying out its plan to quadruple nuclear power by 2050 to 24GW and China approving construction for four new reactors.    U.S.

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Business Green

MARCH 15, 2023

But players across the green economy were quick to point out the government's package of policies and tax changes was notably bereft of focus on three other critical 'E's that are planks of a prosperous economy: environment, energy, and efficiency. Investment in this sector is simply throwing good money after bad.

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Business Green

APRIL 8, 2022

Offshore wind, nuclear, and oil and gas may all have received supportive new policies, but observers have warned these sectors will take years to bring new projects online and will prove more expensive than the onshore renewables and efficiency projects that could help cut gas imports over the next two years.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2022

Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Labour Leader Keir Starmer clashed over the UK's energy policy at Prime Minister's Questions this lunchtime, trading barbs over who precisely was to blame for soaring domestic energy bills and the country's suddenly worrying reliance on imported fossil fuels.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 18, 2023

🔋 Renewables + storage turned out to be price competitive against fossil fuels after Lazard’s Levelized Cost of Electricity analysis included intermittency costs for the first time. Proterra, the dominant electric bus maker, was just one high profile example. ☢️ US nuclear power saw mixed results.

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Business Green

JANUARY 4, 2023

The main policy announcement briefed to the press ahead of the speech was a plan to make school pupils learn maths right through to age 18, a tweak to the curriculum which risked further fuelling accusations that the PM is out of touch with the inflation, strikes, and crumbling public services that are currently ravaging economic confidence.

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Business Green

AUGUST 8, 2022

Finally climate policy action is getting real," he said. It is significantly larger than the clean tech focused stimulus package the Obama administration passed in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, which played such a big role in accelerating US renewables and electric vehicle deployment.

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