GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

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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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 17, 2022

The original foundation was a combination of “base load” coal plants that operated 24 hours a day and large-scale hydropower. Beginning in 1958, these were augmented by nuclear power plants, which have operated nearly continuously to pay off their large capital investments. However, new nuclear plants in the U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 8, 2021

All of these benefits can be captured with solar, wind, existing hydropower and lithium-ion battery technologies at projected 2030 prices, he added.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 20, 2021

Many technologies could fill this gap, such as longer-duration storage, hydrogen or synthetic fuels, fossil or biomass generation with carbon capture, advanced nuclear power, and geothermal energy. Using this much wind and solar raises the question of how to meet the last portion of demand on cloudy or windless days.

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Business Green

MARCH 25, 2022

But it also stressed that such measures would be "in alignment with climate objectives" and would include work to curb methane emissions, boost renewables capacity, and ensure new gas infrastructure is hydrogen-ready. China latest mega-hydropower plant comes online. Belgium announces plan to delay nuclear exit.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 26, 2021

The same challenges hold true for other utilities that don’t already get a significant share of their energy from hydropower or nuclear power, the two primary carbon-free resources in the country. Wind and solar power accounted for just above 10 percent of U.S. generation capacity in 2020, according to federal data.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

The IRP’s base-case scenario, set to reduce emissions by 50 percent to 55 percent by 2030 through new renewables and retiring its roughly 10,000 megawatts of coal-fired power plants, can be done “under existing statutes,” Good stated. ” Duke's decarbonization plans haven't been embraced by all stakeholders.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 22, 2020

We should discuss how the industry should create true value , economic, social and environmental.Granted that we undeniably need the products and services provided by the oil and gas industry, we should put our efforts into pivoting the industry towards biofuels, synthetic fuels and hydrogen. + How could the industry recover?

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Business Green

AUGUST 8, 2022

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. And advanced nuclear power production tax credits of 1.5

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