GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 16, 2020

New York City and environs make up most of the state’s electricity demand but have less than one-third of the state’s current renewable energy capacity, and there’s not enough transmission capacity to carry all of New York’s ample upstate wind and hydropower to its downstate load centers.

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Business Green

AUGUST 19, 2022

Reports: Germany looking to postpone looming closure of nuclear plants. While such a move would likely be temporary, it would mark a major departure from German energy policy over the past two decades, with the government having opted to gradually shutter its nuclear power plants amid safety fears over atomic energy.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 12, 2022

The UN agency warned that water stress could jeopardise low carbon energy sources such as nuclear power plants and hydropower, both of which rely heavily on water supplies in order to operate, while rising sea levels and extreme weather are also posing a growing threat to energy infrastructure.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Smith continued: “I’ll tell you what I know about batteries, because I talked to somebody who was thinking of investing in a 200-megawatt plant, $1 million to be able to get each megawatt stored. That’s $200 million for his plant alone. And he would get one hour of storage.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Moreover, due to the premature shutdown of nuclear plants in Germany, Sweden, France and Switzerland in recent years, a failure to invest in sufficient new low-cost generation, and an unusually large number of nuclear plant outages in France, gas-fired generators are being used much more often this year than in previous years.

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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. Policy makers should be taking action now to soften the impacts on the most vulnerable and to address the underlying causes."

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Climate tech venture capital dropped 40% in H1’23 but climate-focused funds have still been steadily stacking the green, with at least $33B of investable dry powder ready to deploy in climate tech startups. ☢️ US nuclear power saw mixed results. ❄️ Macro market cools climate tech venture.

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Business Green

JUNE 18, 2020

That is the stark warning from the International Energy Agency (IEA), which today published sweeping proposals detailing how governments could help mobilise $1tr a year of investment in clean technologies and infrastructure over the next three years, averting a global depression and slashing greenhouse gas emissions in the process.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Ameren has experience with smart meters and other smart grid investments in Illinois, which mandated them nearly a decade ago. gigawatt generation fleet comes from coal-fired power plants, while natural gas makes up about a quarter more, and nuclear power one-tenth. About half of Ameren Missouri’s existing 10.3-gigawatt

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Georgia Power’s latest IRP plans to add 2,260 MW of wind, solar and biomass and 80 MW of battery storage, boost its hydropower capacity and shutter five coal plants. It’s also investing in Ørsted’s 1.1-gigawatt Nuclear power plays a large role in PSEG’s carbon-reduction plans.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 27, 2020

These design changes and safety reviews will be the responsibility of the Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems (UAMPS), the first customer for 213 megawatts of the 720 MW the CFPP will produce, under a combined construction and operating license process. SMRs could provide zero-carbon power for 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. It co-optimizes grid capacity investments and hourly operations costs of generation, storage, and transmission to meet projected electricity demand in 2040. transmission grid.

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R-Squared Energy

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

nuclear power supplied another 8.0%. Renewables, including hydropower, just 8.7%. If we don’t need it because our oil consumption declines, then they lost money on the investment. of our energy in the U.S.; A private company created jobs to build something they believe will be needed.

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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

APRIL 23, 2020

“Mandatory audits, by themselves, create an insufficient incentive to invest in energy efficiency at the scale needed to meet citywide carbon-reduction goals,” wrote the co-authors. Building owners can avoid fines and stay under their emissions caps by investing in energy efficiency and clean energy.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MARCH 10, 2021

The largest and one of the fastest emissions growing sectors in the study, power sector emissions were skewed by low availability of zero-carbon resources, including below average hydropower availability and the unexpected shutdown in 2012 of the San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MARCH 10, 2021

The largest and one of the fastest emissions growing sectors in the study, power sector emissions were skewed by low availability of zero-carbon resources, including below average hydropower availability and the unexpected shutdown in 2012 of the San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant.

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Business Green

JULY 15, 2020

Investor Thrive Renewables claims removal of local planning barriers could unlock multi-billion pound potential of onshore wind, solar, and hydropower sectors.

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Business Green

MARCH 25, 2022

At the same time, we must invest equally in adaptation and resilience. In addition to sourcing 100 per cent renewable power, the stores features a host of green features such as a CO2-based refrigeration system, low-carbon concrete flooring, and an array of electric vehicle charge points. Belgium announces plan to delay nuclear exit.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Developers in the space are concerned that the coronavirus pandemic’s impact on the economy will depress demand for tax equity investments, as banks and financial institutions will have less appetite for credits to offset tax liabilities in a year when profits were depressed. The massive spending bill awaiting passage by the U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 26, 2021

Instead, most utilities’ integrated resource plans (IRPs), which set their generation investment pathways over a decade-plus horizon, will set them on a path to much more modest carbon reductions, the report finds. Wind and solar power accounted for just above 10 percent of U.S. and around the world.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 6, 2020

Virginia has become the latest state to pass a law that sets it on a path to 100 percent carbon-free electricity by 2050, as well as setting targets for massive investments in energy efficiency, energy storage and in-state solar and wind power. Dominion also gets more than one-third of its energy from nuclear power.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Its carbon-free portfolio includes nuclear power supplying about one-third of its generation needs, and just over 5 percent renewable, most of that hydropower and biomass. At the same time, the utility has been pushing forward with significant investments into renewable energy — most notably, its massive, 2.6-gigawatt

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Duke has shifted the $2 billion it planned to invest in the canceled Atlantic Coast Pipeline project to more clean energy and grid investments to reach its goal to double its share of renewables from 8 gigawatts to 16 GW by 2025. Bipartisan promise for infrastructure investments and regulatory reform.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Betting on rising oil demand growth is now effectively saying that global vehicle makers will fail in their multi-billion dollar investments to shift to electric cars and trucks, that renewables won’t continue to get cheaper and easier to store, that carbon taxes won’t continue to rise or become more widespread. From oil to energy majors.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 7, 2023

A video clip playing on a screen near the podium celebrated a utopian vision of the agency’s past and present: happy workers, hydroelectric dams, nuclear power plants, and glittering solar fields. “We If you count hydropower and nuclear as clean energy sources, as the TVA does, that number bumps up to about 50 percent.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 8, 2023

A video clip playing on a screen near the podium celebrated a utopian vision of the agency’s past and present: happy workers, hydroelectric dams, nuclear power plants, and glittering solar fields. “We If you count hydropower and nuclear as clean energy sources, as the TVA does, that number bumps up to about 50 percent.

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Business Green

AUGUST 8, 2022

The landmark legislation's climate provisions could unlock billions of dollars of low carbon investment and millions of green jobs - but it also paves the way for new fossil fuel infrastructure. As President Biden observed, the IRA "makes the largest investment ever in combatting the existential crisis of climate change".

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