GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 14, 2020

government’s long-awaited energy white paper is out with confirmation of fresh negotiations with EDF over a new nuclear power station and a drive to push up the price of carbon. Those ideas now begin their journey into law, offering the energy sector some welcome certainty at the same time. Detailing the U.K.'s

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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. The war didn't ban onshore wind.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Announcing the first stage of the 10-point plan, Johnson will tomorrow confirm a new increased target for 40GW of operational offshore wind power capacity to be delivered by the end of the decade, up from the existing target of 30GW by 2030, and marking a sizeable increase on the 10GW in operation today.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Plus Poland and South Korea coal-phase outs, Siemens Gamesa hydrogen project, and all the top green business news from around the world this week. Poland accelerates coal phase out, pushes for nuclear and offshore wind. EU set to push for more stretching 2030 climate target.

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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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GreenTechMedia

JULY 29, 2020

The EU's own new strategy for decarbonizing its energy system draws largely from European Commission projections from 2018, predicting that in 2050 more than 80 percent of the electricity supply will come from renewables and 15 percent from nuclear.

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Business Green

AUGUST 16, 2021

Aurora Energy Research contends thermal power generation equipped with hydrogen and CCS offers most cost-effective pathway to a net zero power system. Power sector decarbonisation is frequently characterised as the low hanging fruit of the UK's net zero transition.

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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

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

AUGUST 26, 2022

The plan would represent a major policy reversal a decade after the Fukushima disaster triggered a move to phase down the country's reliance on nuclear power. Canada and Germany agree 'hydrogen alliance'. We must look to resources like hydrogen which can and will be clean and renewable," Trudeau said. "We

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Business Green

OCTOBER 5, 2020

And, forming the first stage of the 10-point plan, Johnson will tomorrow announce a new increased target for 40GW of operational offshore wind power capacity by the end of the decade, up from the existing target of 30GW by 2030, and marking a sizeable increase on the 10GW in operation today.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

The Green Jobs Taskforce, which is to be chaired by Energy and Clean Growth Minister Kwasi Kwarteng and Skills Minister Gillian Keegan, aims to deliver an action plan to tackle the immediate and longer-term challenges of delivering skilled workers for the UK's net zero transition, the government said.

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Business Green

AUGUST 7, 2020

Climate Home News reported this week on plans from India's Power and Renewable Energy Ministry to imposedutires of up to 25 per cent on solar modules and 15 per cent on cells imported from China and Malaysia. Germany advances plans for green hydrogen hub.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

APRIL 24, 2024

Combined with a noticeable decline in political and economic support for the energy transition, the sector witnessed a standstill in the installation of new turbines, leading to financial losses, project cancellations, and auction failures. Last year, the world witnessed the installation of a record 117 gigawatts (GW) of new wind turbines.

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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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Business Green

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

The Green Jobs Taskforce, which is to be chaired by Energy and Clean Growth Minister Kwasi Kwarteng and Skills Minister Gillian Keegan, aims to deliver an action plan to tackle the immediate and longer-term challenges of delivering skilled workers to enable the UK's net zero transition, the government said.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

From fossil fuel incentives and the dilution of planning rules to energy efficiency funding and an end to the block on new onshore wind farms, BusinessGreen rounds up all the key green announcements from the government's Growth Plan this week. Block on onshore wind to be lifted. Net zero backing reasserted. "The

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Driving this sea change in long-term planning is a combination of public pressure and energy economics. The falling costs of wind and solar power are pushing utilities to find ways to incorporate them into their long-range plans, even as they struggle to define what resources can be relied on to provide the dispatchable power they need.

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 17, 2022

will need to nearly triple its 2020 growth rate for the grid to be 80% powered by clean energy by 2030. (As As difficult as that may sound, China reportedly installed 120,000 megawatts of wind and solar in 2020.). 3 ways to bring wind and solar into the grid. Clean microgrids are powered by renewable energy and batteries.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 20, 2021

While this much change in 15 years seems ambitious, our new report, “ Halfway to Zero ,” looks back at the past 15 and finds that power sector emissions are half of what they were projected to be. We analyzed the “business as usual” projection in the 2005 Annual Energy Outlook published by the Energy Information Administration , the U.S.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

There are plenty of short term solutions for supporting households and businesses, but in the long term a new approach is needed to boost investment in renewables and energy efficiency, writes RenewableUK CEO Dan McGrail. This year we risk energy bills rising by £700.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The United States can set a course to net-zero carbon by midcentury if it can radically overhaul its energy generation, transport, building and industrial sectors over the next decade, according to a major study from Princeton University. The Princeton study highlights the need for this kind of massive policy shift.

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Business Green

JUNE 4, 2021

Increasing carbon prices and gas becoming relatively cheaper compared to coal led to a significant reduction in coal use during 2019, which helped to drive down CO2 as the onus shifted towards gas and renewable energy sources, the EEA said. GWEC: Global wind power surge requires half a million new workers.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2021

The paper also backed plans to ramp up renewables deployment across the country, including through reforms to designate two per cent of Germany's land as suitable for wind power and new rules to require commercial buildings to install solar panels. "We Because the number one issue is the production of energy," he said.

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