The Guardian: Energy

JANUARY 9, 2024

French energy company to invest a further £1.3bn in its British nuclear fleet up to 2026 EDF Energy is planning to extend the life of four nuclear power stations in the UK and step up investment in its British nuclear fleet.

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R-Squared Energy

JUNE 15, 2023

Certainly, these renewable sources will continue to grow in importance, but in the short-term, we can’t expect coal-fired power plants to be replaced with intermittent renewables. However, nuclear power is a viable option for meeting this need. The biggest challenge is the cost and time to build new nuclear power plants.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 8, 2021

Small modular reactors (SMRs) — nuclear reactors using novel technologies to fit into much smaller and mass-producible packages than the behemoth nuclear power plants of today — are presented as a way of rapidly decarbonizing the grid in the face of an ever more pressing need to meet climate targets.

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Business Green

MARCH 10, 2023

Ministers are gearing up to launch a consultation on changes to the government's taxonomy rules - which classify what constitutes a 'green' investment - in order to redefine nuclear power projects as environmentally sustainable, The Financial Times reported this morning.

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Mr. Sustainability

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Nuclear power is up to three times more expensive than wind or solar Summary - Costs of renewables continue to fall incrementally and are at a record low of around €40 per MWh. Nuclear power plants, especially in the West, are confronted with high construction costs, extreme delays and more stringent safety measures.

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R-Squared Energy

MAY 4, 2021

Since then, billions of dollars have been invested in an attempt to realize this vision. Depending on the process, blue hydrogen can be produced from fossil fuels, but it can also be produced from nuclear power. For example, electricity from solar power can be used to electrolyze water into its constituents, hydrogen and water.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Sizewell C project takes major step forward as government unveils plans to establish Great British Energy, a new arms-length public body to oversee UK nuclear power pipeline. However, confirmation of direct investment in the Sizewell C project garnered a mixed response.

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Forbes Green Tech

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

While nuclear power is growing in some parts of the world, such investments are seen as quite radioactive in the US. Time will tell if small modular reactors are able to provide a new nuclear renaissance, but it appears that the days of building the large plants are over.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Instead, LucidCatalyst argues governments should consider investing in hydrogen produced by a new generation of advanced modular reactors that are "very different from current large nuclear power plants" and manufactured with new, modular shipyard manufacturing process.

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The Guardian: Energy

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Prospective investors will be subject to ‘strict national security checks’, minister vows Prospective investors in the proposed Sizewell C nuclear power plant in Suffolk will undergo “strict national security checks”, the government has said, as it formally kicked off a hunt for outside investment.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

North Teeside will host the first Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) in the UK, with facilities to be delivered by a collaboration between US nuclear firm Westinghouse Electric Company and Community Nuclear Power (CNP), based in Cumbria.

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Business Green

JULY 23, 2020

Peter Michaelis, head of Liontrust's Sustainable Investment Team, considers whether new nuclear power is a worthwhile investment in the race to net zero. Nuclear fission generates heat from the splitting of Uranium 235 nuclei. The succinct answer? It can also provide a perpetual source of low carbon electricity.

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The Guardian: Energy

AUGUST 28, 2023

Swedish teenager Ia Anstoot says group’s ‘unscientific’ opposition to EU nuclear power serves fossil fuel interests An 18-year-old climate activist has called for Greenpeace to drop its “old-fashioned and unscientific” campaign against nuclear power in the EU. Continue reading.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 15, 2024

gigawatts of nuclear power lost between now and 2028, and Hinkley Point C won’t be online until after 2030 at the earliest. gigawatts, which will leave us with less nuclear power in 2030 than we had in 2023. Hartlepool nuclear power station is among those scheduled for closure (image credit: user:geni , CC BY-SA 4.0

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Energy Central

MARCH 9, 2024

IAEA’s Grossi Calls for World Bank Funding for Nuclear Energy European Investment Bank Calls SMRs “Bankable” NRC Sets Path Forward for Part 53 Proposed Rule on Advanced Reactor Licensing Amazon Acquires Talen’s Nuclear Powered Data Center Fuel loading Begins at Indian Fast Breeder Reactor Great British Nuclear Buys Wylfa and (..)

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The Guardian: Energy

JANUARY 27, 2024

But in the summer of 2016 there was little they could do to stop the French government from investing in what would soon become the most expensive power station in the world. All six trade union representatives on the board of Électricité de France (EDF) voted against a deal to build a nuclear power station in the UK.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 1, 2020

That’s the charge leveled in a Tuesday report from the Illinois Public Interest Research Group, asking state lawmakers to force the utility to align its capital investments with its customers' interests. billion smart grid investment plan that included a 4.2-million

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Impact Alpha

AUGUST 26, 2019

By 2030, the South Africa wants to reduce coal’s role in its energy mix to 46% and boost clean and renewably-based generation to more than 30% (including hydro and nuclear power).

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Business Green

MARCH 22, 2022

Following a meeting with industry figures yesterday, the Prime Minister revealed plans to significantly expand the share of UK's electricity produced by nuclear power from around 16 per cent today to 25 per cent by 2050 - a move which would require major investment in new nuclear power capacity in the coming years, according to various reports.

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Energy Central

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Deal with Argonne lab Blue Wave AI Labs and Constellation Invest in AI Software Ghana / Site For First Commercial Nuclear Reactor Will Be Chosen Soon Kenya Seeks Public Views on 4000MWe Nuclear Power Project Molten.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 4, 2021

The plan was developed in response to a 2018 SMR roadmap and followed a CAD$20 million (USD $16 million) investment in the Canadian molten salt reactor developer Terrestrial Energy in October. gigawatts of capacity in South Africa’s independent power producer program, the report said. Meanwhile in the U.K., and the U.K.

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Energy Central

JANUARY 15, 2024

China Inks Approval for Four New Reactors India and Russia to Add Units to Kudankulam France to Build as Many as 14 New EPRs Indonesia National Energy Council Endorses ThorCon Puget Sound Energy Invests $10 million in Plan for X-Energy HTGR China Inks Approval for Four New Reactors (NucNet) China has approved the construction of four new nuclear power (..)

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

.” The green labeling system from the European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, would define what qualifies as an investment in sustainable energy in the 27-nation bloc. Under certain conditions, gas and nuclear energy could be part of the mix, making it easier for private investors to inject money into both.

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Forbes Green Tech

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

could save money, reduce the risk of blackouts and more quickly achieve net zero carbon emissions by abandoning plans to build more nuclear power plants and instead invest in a flexible electricity grid, new analysis has found.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 1, 2021

At the heart of this debate is one of the most important physical metrics you’ve never heard of: energy return on investment, or EROI. Hall and others, the basic principle behind EROI, also called energy returned on energy invested, is simple: A source of energy is only useful if you can get more energy out of it than what you put in.

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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. CEO Leonhard Birnbaum said the company's investment programme would depend on the right policy frameworks being introduced. "We At a press conference this morning, E.ON

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 30, 2020

billion in new wind and solar investments in the next 12 months and is outlining plans for electric vehicle charging, energy storage and green hydrogen production pilot programs to meet its goal to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. billion, five-year capital investment plan from the multistate utility.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 12, 2023

Former Business and Energy Secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg spoke of his desire for people to “stop demonising oil and gas” in a private meeting with the head of the United Arab Emirates’s state investment company, DeSmog can reveal. Rees-Mogg agreed with Khaldoon Khalifa Al Mubarak that “hydrocarbons need to be part of the [energy] solution”.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 5, 2021

million were made to EnBW and EON/PreussenElektra to make up for investments made at plants when their licenses were renewed in 2010. Part of RWE’s compensation also covers some investments made. In 2016 and 2020, the Federal Constitutional Court in Germany indicated compensation for lost power generation was fair.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 3, 2020

New Jersey utility Public Service Enterprise Group (PSEG), facing state clean energy mandates and an economic imperative to shift its business to regulated assets, is seeking to exit its merchant fossil and solar generation business, while retaining its nuclear power plants and exploring a major expansion into offshore wind.

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Business Green

JUNE 30, 2022

International Energy Agency argues nuclear power can play a significant role in supporting transition to a renewables-dominated energy system worldwide. And the nuclear industry must quickly address the issues of cost overruns and project delays that have bedevilled the construction of new plants in advanced economies.

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Eco-Business

MARCH 24, 2021

Governments are investing in a new range of small nuclear power plants, with little chance they’ll ease the climate crisis.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Hitachi has confirmed it is walking away from a proposed new nuclear power plant in the U.K., raising serious questions about government plans to fund new nuclear projects. has 9GW of nuclear power capacity, most of which will be retired in the early 2030s. The China General Nuclear Corporation, CGN, owns 33.5

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 21, 2022

The European Investment Bank (EIB) is providing Dutch-German TSO TenneT with a loan of €450 million ($440 million) for the construction of a 185km electricity transmission corridor — the Ostbayernring — connecting Redwitz to Schwandorf in the south-east of Germany.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 24, 2024

Nuclear power generation also is expected to reach an all-time high, with growth averaging close to 3% per year. This is largely thanks to the huge momentum behind renewables, with ever cheaper solar leading the way, and support from the important comeback of nuclear power, whose generation is set to reach a historic high by 2025.

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Eco-Business

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Countries investing in renewables are achieving carbon reductions far faster than those which opt to back nuclear power.

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Business Green

JULY 19, 2022

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy kicks off new Nuclear Fuel Fund to encourage investment and in nuclear supply chain. The UK government has launched a new £75m fund that aims to catalyse investment in the nuclear fuel sector.

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