GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 4, 2020

” At the same time, Crane noted the company is “in the middle of trying to work through legislative strategy in Illinois” that would offer its nuclear power plants in the state an alternative path to earning capacity market revenue that is seen as a critical component of their future financial viability.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 26, 2021

UK consumers are set to pay up-front for the construction of a fresh fleet of large-scale nuclear power plants through their energy bills under a new financing model unveiled by the government today, which looks set to provide a key building block of its plans to deliver a net zero energy system.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 7, 2021

will lay the foundations for a flexibility platform encompassing centralized and decentralized assets — the latest step in the country's push to enlist distributed energy resources (DERs) at grand scale to balance an increasingly renewable-powered grid. A new active network management project in the U.K.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 5, 2020

needs a massive green hydrogen industry to decarbonize its electricity, transportation and industrial sectors, and major investments and policy changes today to enable it to grow to its full potential in the decades to come. lags behind China, Japan and the European Union in infrastructure and research investments to reach this potential.

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Climate Tech VC

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Longtime transmission guru Carl Zichella once called the American electric grid the “most complicated machine we’ve ever built”, and with $1T of IRA-driven renewable investments in the pipeline, it’s only going to get more complex. In other locations, grids stretch across international borders.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 17, 2020

The San Francisco-based utility is emerging from bankruptcy with a massive debt load that could make it harder to raise the tens of billions of dollars of investment needed to prevent its power grid from causing more devastating wildfires. PG&E plans to invest about $40 billion over the next five years into its power grid.

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

We’re going to make a major investment to build 1.5 He didn’t mention nuclear power or carbon sequestration in this speech, but his website does mention them among four specific goals designed to decarbonize the power sector. Biden’s plan calls for: Grid-scale storage at one-tenth the cost of lithium-ion batteries.

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Business Green

MARCH 28, 2022

The deal, which was announced yesterday and values the business at around £9.6bn, is expected to complete in the second half of the year, and will see a consortium comprising Macquarie Asset Management and British Columbia Investment Management Corporation acquire a 60 per cent stake.

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Business Green

JULY 21, 2022

Earlier this year, the government published an Energy Security Strategy, which ramped up targets for offshore wind and solar power while also promising to develop new oil and gas fields in the North Sea, in a bid to reduce exposure to risky, global fossil fuel markets.

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Climate Tech VC

MARCH 4, 2024

  Lots of spice for clean investment this week. The US Clean Investment Monitor published its annual report for 2023, which saw clean investment total $239bn, up 38% from 2022. 14% of total investment came from the feds, with $33.7B 14% of total investment came from the feds, with $33.7B Happy Monday! 

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 20, 2021

” Achieving India’s target to deploy 450 gigawatts of renewable energy by 2030 is critical if the country is going to succeed in displacing coal generation on the power grid as overall energy consumption grows. “All of this will require substantial investment in a modern, flexible electricity system.”

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2022

It is not a surprise that in its recent 10 Point Plan to help the European Union reduce its dependence on Russian gas by over a third, the International Energy Agency majored on the importance of accelerating investment in renewables, energy efficiency and electric heat pumps. It's also about investment and jobs.

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Business Green

MAY 24, 2021

The project is designed to burn wood pellets sourced from well-managed forests to generate power and then capture emissions and transport them to geological storage sites under the North Sea, resulting in negative emissions. Today's report from Ember is unequivocal that BECCS plants carry the risk of becoming net emitters of carbon.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2023

But underneath the bonnet of that central contention, there is a huge amount of important and knotty details contained in the CCC's 130-page assessment that present major implications for policy, investment, and green business. Moreover, for climate and energy security reasons, a net zero power grid is essentially non-negotiable.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2024

That move came just a week after the government published a new Nuclear Roadmap, reiterating its commitment to a new fleet of small modular reactors (SMRs) and promising to explore proposals for a third large scale new nuclear power plant project. The latest setback at Hinkley Point begs two critical questions.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 8, 2021

These results come from a linear optimization model that uses hourly weather data from 2007 to 2013, encompassing heat waves, winter storms and other weather events that can disrupt renewable power supply, Brown noted. transmission grid. The differences in costs add up to big numbers over the course of the next two decades, he said.

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 17, 2022

Beginning in 1958, these were augmented by nuclear power plants, which have operated nearly continuously to pay off their large capital investments. Unlike coal and nuclear, solar and wind are variable; they provide power only when the sun and wind are available. Innovations that make 100% clean power possible.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

This marks Dominion Energy’s first solar energy investment in Ohio, where the company owns and operates a Cleveland-based natural gas local distribution company serving 1.2 Shaw Renewable Investments purchased the 160 MW Rancho Seco Solar II Project in Sacramento, California from Lendlease, an international property and infrastructure group.

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2023

Speeding up investment in our power grid will enable more of this cheap, natural energy to flow to homes, so bringing down bills.". The report estimated that the UK's grid battery capacity is now sufficient to provide support to the grid during times of tight supply equivalent to around two nuclear power stations.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 11, 2022

million) for nine projects to oversee the digitisation and modernisation of Romania’s transmission network and power grid. The contracts were signed yesterday between the country’s Ministry of Energy and the national electric power transport company, Transelectrica SA. Romania’s investment. million ($411.8

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The Verge: Energy

DECEMBER 22, 2023

The Clean Hydrogen Production Credit was established through the Inflation Reduction Act, the biggest investment the US has made yet to tackle climate change. This is meant to ensure that hydrogen production helps add new sources of clean energy to power grids rather than sucking that resource dry.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 17, 2022

But the money that would be invested in climate represents the country’s largest investment in climate change mitigation to date with more than $400 billion in spending over a 10-year period. Energy Transitions Podcast: Weighing the future of nuclear power in Europe. This article was originally published on Power Grid.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

First, it’s one of the largest-ever efforts to aggregate distributed energy resources (DERs) at a scale that can help California’s power grid meet its capacity needs. The CCAs have set targets for at least 20 percent of this investment into DERs to be made in low-income and disadvantaged communities.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Politicians and regulators have highlighted power plant operators’ failure to winterize equipment against cold temperatures, despite guidance to do so after similar, if much smaller-scale, winter rolling blackouts in 2011.

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Bidgely

MARCH 3, 2021

In the hours immediately following the power failure in Texas in which power grids operated by ERCOT, SPP and MISO were crippled, critics were quick to point the finger at renewable energy as the cause. DERs are Part of the Solution, Not the Problem.

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Bidgely

MARCH 3, 2021

In the hours immediately following the power failure in Texas in which power grids operated by ERCOT, SPP and MISO were crippled, critics were quick to point the finger at renewable energy as the cause. DERs are Part of the Solution, Not the Problem.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

But to deliver this scenario requires investment of around five per cent global GDP each year, amounting to an additional $33tr of additional investment in energy efficiency, renewables, end-use electrification, power grids, flexibility, hydrogen infrastructure, and myriad other clean tech innovations, it said.

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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. Nuclear power will receive $6.6 Another $2.36

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Clean Energy Trust

MARCH 5, 2021

February 2021 Cleantech Roundup: Climate Software Gold Rush | Lone Star State Struggles | Jobs and the Energy Transition Credit: Poole Group This month, we’re covering the rush of investing into startups that quantify, manage, and verify carbon emissions reductions, Texas’ grid troubles, new research on transitioning fossil fuel workers, and more!

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

After a week of the country’s worst power grid collapse in decades — an event that's taken a dreadful toll in dozens of lives lost and billions of dollars in economic damage — the lights are back on in Texas. In different ways, the very cold weather and snow has impacted every type of generator.”

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