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Can Gas-Fired Power Plants Coexist with a Net-Zero Target? Yes, Southern Company Insists

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Southern Company also won’t include in its zero-carbon metrics the carbon emissions generated by customers of its natural gas distribution business burning the fuel it supplies them, although it will move to reduce methane leakage and help customers use the fuel more efficiently. Department of Energy.

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? 2023’s Most Headliney-Headlines #178

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for grid enhancements and $7B for hydrogen fuel hubs. ☢️ US nuclear power saw mixed results.    🌊 Hydrogrid , a Vienna, Austria-based planning hydropower plants developer, raised $9M in Series A funding from Inven Capital, SET Ventures, CNB Capital, and SET Ventures.  

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The 5 Biggest US Utilities Committing to Zero Carbon Emissions by 2050

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At the very least, utilities will need plans that can get them most of the way there, while rushing ahead with next-generation technologies: long-duration energy storage, small modular nuclear reactors or green hydrogen and methane to fuel natural gas peaker plants. Here's a look at the five largest U.S.

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Global Briefing: EU and US launch Joint Task Force on Energy Security

Business Green

Washington and Brussels team up in support of wide-ranging plan to diversify Europe's sources of LNG, ramp up renewables development, plug methane leaks, and boost energy efficiency. China latest mega-hydropower plant comes online. At an altitude of 3,000 metres it is the highest hydropower project in China.

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Inflation Reduction Act: 10 ways it will turbocharge US climate action (and one way it won't)

Business Green

Firstly, current federal tax credits for developing onshore and offshore wind, solar, biomass, landfill gas, waste-to-energy, hydropower, geothermal, and marine renewable power projects - which had faced cuts from 2022 - are to be extended until 2025 under the Act. The US is set to get its first ever carbon equivalent tax - on methane.