R-Squared Energy

AUGUST 10, 2023

Overview The newest Review shows the world remains heavily reliant on fossil fuels for energy needs, even as renewables like solar and wind continue rapid growth. While renewable power expanded at record rates, fossil fuels maintained an 82% share of total primary energy consumption. growth in 2021.

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Business Green

JANUARY 4, 2023

As such, it sets out how the UK could accelerate its transition away from fossil fuels, secure its energy supplies, and tackle the looming affordability, security, and sustainability 'trilemma' through a raft of new policies. Britain will continue to need to access fossil fuel supplies during the Net Zero transition.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Renewable power sources are expected to dominate almost all the growth in the world's electricity supplies through to 2025, according to the IEA, and together with nuclear power they are set to meet the vast majority of the increase in global power demand over the period. remains a hugely challenging prospect.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Under certain conditions, gas and nuclear energy could be part of the mix, making it easier for private investors to inject money into both. EU members like Austria and Luxembourg already have raised the possibility of legal disputes as they challenge the green notion of nuclear. degrees Celsius (2.7 F) above pre-industrial times.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Findings illustrate case for government to invest in nuclear as part of net zero transition, Nuclear Industry Association CEO argues. A report published last week by the UN body that explored the lifecycle assessment of different types of electricity generation concluded nuclear produces between 5.1 CO2e per kWh.

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R-Squared Energy

JULY 26, 2021

The remainder of global energy consumption came from coal (27.2%), natural gas (24.7%), hydropower (6.9%), renewables (5.7%), and nuclear power (4.3%). Cumulatively, fossil fuels — shown below in shades of gray — still accounted for 83.1% Renewables and Nuclear Power. Europe contributed 0.7

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Business Green

MARCH 15, 2023

has bolstered its investment plans across Europe for the coming four years, arguing energy transition presents a major growth opportunity for its business. Birnbaum said the energy crisis triggered by Russia's invasion of Ukraine had highlighted the urgent need to move away from fossil fuel and towards cleaner energy.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 14, 2020

The path to a fully decarbonized energy system in Europe could depend on technologies that are out of bounds in today’s market, a consultancy forecast suggests. Afry modeled two possible avenues to decarbonize Europe's power, heat and transport sectors. Potential criticisms of the study.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 14, 2020

France has an abundance of nuclear power generation, while the UK's growing renewable energy capacity from offshore wind farms in particular is set to enable it to sell increasing amounts of its surplus generation to Europe in the coming years.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 20, 2022

By streamlining energy traders’ ability to match electricity supply to demand, the Tradenergy tool is aiming to help maintain the resilience and reliability of power grid operations. On a power grid, inertia is naturally produced by turbines and motors in fossil fuel generators that are synchronised to the same frequency.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 24, 2021

Offshore wind energy powerhouse Orsted demonstrates that a pivot away from fossil fuels is possible. Within 10 years, Ørsted has transformed from a conventional energy company reliant on fossil fuels for 85 per cent of its revenues to a renewable energy powerhouse, with 85 per cent of revenues coming from non-fossil sources.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

Porter states in her Twitter bio that she works with “businesses with projects across the electricity, gas and oil industries”, though these professional links to fossil fuel interests were not identified on the Today programme. In more recent blog posts, Porter has defended fossil fuel companies and criticised renewable energy.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 25, 2024

However, since then, the state has redefined its energy policy, including a revival of nuclear power, the acceleration of renewables and reindustrialisation through the development of low-carbon industrial zones.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Greenhouse gas emissions from burning coal and other fossil fuels accelerated, and over the past decade Earth has been losing around 1.2 The fossil fuel was on display in raw lumps and powered the machinery section through steam boilers. particularly those who got rich off fossil fuels.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

As an example of the scale of this issue, the IEA highlights that in Europe today around 60GW of onshore wind capacity – four-times the capacity commissioned in 2022 – is held up by various permitting procedures.

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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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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 22, 2022

Riot reports curtailing 11,717MWh in July for ERCOT as demand reached record highs in July, enough to power 13,121 average homes for one month. Cryptominer taps underutilised nuclear energy on Georgia grid Blockchain energy consumption should be transparent in Europe – a call Crypto mining and data centres – the green challenge.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

A combination of just-in-time energy procurement, an overreliance on insecure energy imports, increased weather risks and a reduction in nuclear and coal power stations will leave the UK energy prices vulnerable to instability into the next decade, unless action is taken, the forecast suggests. Have you read?

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

“We're looking at models for Europe, Australia and the U.S. As it stands Moixa has a small partnership in Ireland and a Europe-wide arrangement with H onda as its “smart charging partner. has a 40-gigawatt grid, of which 1-2 gigawatts comes via the interconnectors [with Europe]. So, 95 percent of U.K

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 3, 2022

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. Japan’s electricity sector is facing the triple challenges in the energy transition of energy security, cost and decarbonisation , writes James Tedd from GridBeyond.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2022

This science-based threshold — considered necessary to achieve emissions targets by 2050 — excluded all fossil fuels from being in the taxonomy. Initially, 10 member states, mostly in Eastern and Southern Europe, opposed the TEG’s criteria. But this didn’t suit everyone. The frequency of these meetings increased to 2.86

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Ministers should act now to make buildings more efficient and reduce the nation's dependency on fossil fuels, writes Energy Saving Trust's Mike Thornton. The UK has some of the draughtiest housing in Europe. Both the United Nations and the International Energy Agency have said that humanity must stop extracting fossil fuels.

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Business Green

APRIL 6, 2022

Previous reports have suggested the Chancellor has pushed back against colleagues' plans to significantly expand the UK's fleet of nuclear power stations , and has questioned the value for money of additional solar and onshore wind development. Nuclear costs continue?to There are now question?marks

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Business Green

JULY 22, 2021

A rapid shift away from fossil fuels is also needed alongside a major ramp up in renewable electricity capacity - largely provided by wind and solar projects - which will form the backbone of the future energy system, while development of hydrogen, carbon capture and new modular nuclear technologies is also crucial, the report warned.

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Business Green

MARCH 10, 2023

That is why we are fully committing to nuclear power in the UK, backing a new generation of small modular reactors, and investing tens of billions in clean energy through carbon capture. We don't want to see high bills like this again, it's time for a clean energy reset.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 12, 2022

One WMO official even warned climate impacts pose as big a threat to the global energy security as Russia's ongoing war in Ukraine, which has driven up energy prices worldwide and prompted a scramble in Europe for alternative supplies of fossil gas. "I

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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. As gas is a globally priced commodity, Europe and the UK are facing severe impacts.

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Business Green

MARCH 30, 2022

But how green are the energy sources powering our EVs? Currently, electricity in the UK is supplied by a variety of generators, including fossil fuels, nuclear power, and large and small-scale renewables. To investigate the problem, Polestar collaborated with the University of Gothenburg.

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Business Green

MARCH 7, 2022

For too long, Europe's dependence on Russian gas has left the Continent vulnerable to blackmail and allowed Putin to pull strings," Kwarteng said. He added that: "the good news is, Russia can't directly manipulate the price of renewable energy and nuclear power in the UK.

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Business Green

AUGUST 7, 2020

The study drew on data from 123 countries that together account for 99 per cent of fossil fuel emissions. In contrast, with an economic recovery tilted towards green stimulus and reductions in fossil fuel investments, it is possible to avoid future warming of 0.3C warming target at the heart of the Paris Agreement.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 8, 2022

Most inertia comes from big fossil fuel, nuclear and hydro generation. The solution, built on GE’s Wide Area Management (WAMS) applications, is designed to inform on grid inertia day to day as well as on long term investment assessments. With the shift to renewables, grid inertia is reducing.

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Business Green

MARCH 2, 2023

per cent thanks to a wave of gas-to-coal switching in Asia, and to a lesser extent Europe. The emissions savings could have been higher still were it not for the summer heat waves that hit the northern hemisphere and the fact an unusually large number of nuclear power plants were offline for sustained periods.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The fledgling hydrogen industry is expanding fast, and now nuclear operators are joining renewables developers in exploring how they could play a critical role in delivering zero emission hydrogen at large scale. The roadmap also emphasises the role that advanced modular reactors (AMRs) could play in powering green hydrogen production.

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2022

A 10-point plan published by the energy authority recommended that advanced economies like the UK introduce car-free Sundays and work from home policies, and make public transport, active travel, and car sharing more affordable and attractive in response to soaring oil prices and the growing desire to end Russian fossil fuel imports to Europe.

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Business Green

APRIL 7, 2022

The British Energy Security Strategy has been in the works since shortly after the Kremlin's decision to mount an invasion of Ukraine, which has prompted a fresh perspective on the need to reduce the country's dependence on volatile, risky and now very expensive fossil fuels, particularly gas from Russia.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

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. This summer's water shortages in Europe could dampen GDP growth by 0.25 In many areas, like power generation, the case for net-zero investment is irrefutable.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 17, 2022

On behalf of environmental group RePlanet, energy specialist Joris van Dorp offers a deep analysis of the key messages in Europe’s policy. It was a strong call to action in response to the multiple threats and opportunities faced by Europe. Making up for the loss of Russian fossil fuel supply is a mammoth task.

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