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. The free, open-source, peer-reviewed, and nonpartisan EPS model empowers users to analyze the effects of hundreds of climate policies. climate goals.

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Business Green

JUNE 30, 2022

International Energy Agency argues nuclear power can play a significant role in supporting transition to a renewables-dominated energy system worldwide. At present, nuclear is still the world's second largest source of low carbon power after hydro electricity, with atomic power plants spread across 32 countries.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 22, 2024

Although prevailing wisdom holds that time is running out, BloombergNEF’s New Energy Outlook 2024 seemingly shows how the world could still achieve the major goal of the Paris Agreement – holding global warming to well below 2°C and avoiding the worst impacts of climate change – and what it would take to get there. is buildings).

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 12, 2023

Former Business and Energy Secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg spoke of his desire for people to “stop demonising oil and gas” in a private meeting with the head of the United Arab Emirates’s state investment company, DeSmog can reveal. Rees-Mogg agreed with Khaldoon Khalifa Al Mubarak that “hydrocarbons need to be part of the [energy] solution”.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 26, 2021

The need to become sustainable is posing “an existential crisis” for the energy industry, according to a new survey into the sustainability of this sector by French software firm Dassault Systèmes. On top of government regulation, energy companies are also dealing with more eco-conscious clients. The post-COVID energy mix.

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R-Squared Energy

JUNE 4, 2020

Last week the Energy Information Administration (EIA) reported something extraordinary. There are two interrelated reasons for this: The collapse of coal consumption over the past decade, which was fueled by the rise of cheaper alternatives. The brief was based on the EIA’s Monthly Energy Review. energy consumption.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 24, 2021

Offshore wind energy powerhouse Orsted demonstrates that a pivot away from fossil fuels is possible. Once this largest source of carbon emissions is greened up, the second-largest, transportation, can tap renewable energy via electric vehicles. France built nuclear power. Iceland tapped geothermal.

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Business Green

JANUARY 4, 2023

Just hours after Prime Minister Rishi Sunak gave a New Year speech setting out his priorities for 2023 in which he barely mentioned climate action , the Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) has today published a sweeping new report warning that a "war effort" is urgently needed to deliver on the UK's climate and energy security goals.

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Energy Innovation

JULY 14, 2020

Energy Innovation partners with the independent nonprofit Aspen Global Change Institute (AGCI) to provide climate and energy research updates. Because our economies are still coupled with the burning of fossil fuels, this markedly reduced greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. From Hepburn et al.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s recent comments about the use of batteries for renewable energy infrastructure surprised experts, one of whom described the premier’s comments as possibly ideologically motivated misinformation. Power responded, “Batteries.” Jacobson, who also leads the institution’s Atmosphere/Energy Program.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

It will focus on the feasibility of using nuclear power as an energy source to power steam assisted gravity drainage process , also known as SAGD. Paul Dorfman, chair of the Nuclear Consulting Group and visiting fellow with the Science Policy Research Unit at the University of Sussex.

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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

JUNE 27, 2022

Improving the thermal performance of UK homes could deliver climate and energy security at a fraction of the cost of nuclear power, argues Kingspan's Rita Singh. The announcement came following April's Energy Security Strategy, which proposed eight new nuclear reactors and the continual replacement of boilers with heat pumps.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 1, 2021

The energy transition isn’t just sounding the death knell for fossil fuels. According to some experts, it has also revealed flaws in an idea that has bugged some academics for decades: As we move to less energy-dense fuels, could we end up without enough surplus for society? Oil is an energy-dense fuel.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 3, 2022

Japan’s electricity sector is facing the triple challenges in the energy transition of energy security, cost and decarbonisation , writes James Tedd from GridBeyond. Since the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, the nuclear power generation fleet has had its output been effectively mothballed with output below 20% of earlier levels.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union on February 2 proposed including nuclear energy and natural gas in its plans for building a climate-friendly future, dividing member countries and drawing outcry from environmentalists as “greenwashing.” New nuclear plants producing electricity or heat are allowed until 2045.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 25, 2024

The proposal, part of RTE’s next ‘Ten-year network development’ plan for the period from 2025 to 2040, is aimed to deliver one of the most significant developments since its creation to ensure that the French network is able to meet the country’s and Europe’s energy and climate objectives. Have you read?

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

Kathryn Porter was introduced as an “energy consultant at Watt-Logic” by business presenter Sean Farrington on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, which has an audience of around six million, on Monday morning (June 19). She also spoke at a webinar run by GWPF’s campaign arm Net Zero Watch last June.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Midwestern utility Evergy pushed back Tuesday against a report from Reuters that it rebuffed a $15 billion acquisition bid from NextEra Energy, the U.S. renewable energy leader that's been seeking to take advantage of its high stock price to expand its roster of regulated utilities in recent years. Evergy, which serves 1.6

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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

JANUARY 2, 2020

There’s no shortage of “resilience” talk in the energy industry, but it hasn’t always been that way. Actual energy generation looked different: Power was generated at centralized power plants by heavy machinery, protected from weather elements inside large buildings.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

“An enormous amount of authority still rests with the states for determining your energy future. These distinctions will carry a lot of weight as the policy discussion shifts from setting goals to actually meeting targets. One key attribute is whether a target is based on renewable or clean energy resources.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Great British Energy would cut energy bills and deliver energy independence for the UK, Labour Leader tells party conference. Labour Leader Keir Starmer has pledged that a Labour government would set up a publicly owned clean energy company within a year of being elected to power.

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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

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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Business Green

AUGUST 30, 2020

Impact of lockdown offers glimpse of how a net zero energy system could operate in the future, highlighting need for more grid flexibility, study argues. At the same time wholesale electricity prices also fell dramatically by 42 per cent as a result of plummeting power demand and the low marginal cost of renewable power.

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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'. Here, BusinessGreen rounds up all the reaction to the long-awaited policy document from across the green economy.

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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. The 237-page report is dense and it has landed during the hottest week on record and in the midst of a Conservative leadership race.

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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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Business Green

MARCH 15, 2023

CEO of energy generation and supply business eyes 'big growth potential' as energy transition gathers pace Germany energy giant E.ON has bolstered its investment plans across Europe for the coming four years, arguing energy transition presents a major growth opportunity for its business.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Thursday’s 3-2 vote by the Arizona Corporation Commission approved a plan that’s been the subject of a months-long debate among regulators over the best way to renovate the state’s renewable energy mandates, which have been set at 15 percent of generation by 2025 for more than a decade.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Government touts RAB funding model as 'win-win' for climate and consumers, but pushing upfront costs onto energy bills could prove controversial. The new financing rules are likely to provide a major boost for EDF's hopes of building a £20bn nuclear power plant at Sizewell C in Essex.

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2022

The global economy could face many more years of energy market turbulence if governments do not take steps to turbocharge their clean energy and technology investments, the IEA has warned. The stakes for nations that fail to unhitch themselves from gas markets are incredibly high, according to the global energy think tank.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Financial think tank Carbon Tracker has urged the government to take its "foot off the gas" when planning future energy supply. The UK is committed to phasing out the UK's last 6GW of coal power by 2025, by which date almost half the country's 9GW nuclear fleet is due to be decommissioned.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 12, 2022

World Meteorological Organisation calls for doubling of clean energy supplies within eight years alongside increased focus on adaptation and resilience. We need a complete transformation of the global energy system.". Net zero by 2050 is the aim," he said.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Stabilizing the energy system with energy storage Gridspertise CEO highlights digital leapfrog opportunities for European DSOs Coupled with this is the need for regulatory and policy reforms to facilitate the timely and efficient development and modernisation of the grids, with current grid building efforts potentially taking more than a decade.

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