GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

He expects blue hydrogen made from natural gas via steam reforming to meet around 80 percent of the 5 GW target, with HyNet alone planning for 3.5 Nuclear power will receive £525 million for the development of large and small-scale reactors. GW of blue hydrogen capacity by 2030. The hydrogen plans described above.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2022

The European Union’s scientific and political communities are locked in a battle over whether gas and nuclear can be considered green investments. It emphasised the need to “recognize the transitional and enabling role of natural gas,” referring to two of the taxonomy’s three categories.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 17, 2020

And all of this must happen without excessively raising customer rates, if it’s to avoid political and customer backlash. Natural gas microgrid advocates reply that solar and batteries alone can’t provide more than several hours of backup at a reasonable cost.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

OCTOBER 9, 2023

It’s produced from various domestic resources such as natural gas, nuclear power, biomass, and renewable power like solar and wind. These qualities make it a promising option for both transportation and stationary power.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The words of von der Leyen and Timmermans might turn out to be nothing more than mere political rhetoric – a prelude to blaming energy companies for seeking maximum profits during a crisis while they did their best to serve the common good. The country previously provided over 40% of all natural gas consumed in the EU.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

Its Director General Tim Davie has said that while the BBC will cover debate on climate policy, human-caused climate change is not “politically controversial” and “the overwhelming consensus is that we, as humanity, are causing global warming”. Porter has also been associated with political groups leading the charge against climate action.

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Business Green

AUGUST 16, 2021

At the same time, however, the intermittency of solar and wind power means poses challenges for ensuring the lights are kept on at all times in the UK, and that peak times of demand can be met regardless of when the wind blows and sun shines.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 20, 2021

But that will require deploying renewables at an even faster pace than the current trajectory and increasing the utilization or load factor for those renewable energy projects, as well as converting coal-fired power plants to natural gas and growing hydro and nuclear power generation.

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R-Squared Energy

MARCH 4, 2022

That brings me to Russia’s natural gas. Let’s ignore for a second whether this is a good political weapon—as in, do you think Putin will pull rethink the war if Europe stops buying Russian gas? In the short-term, one of the issues is Europe’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) import capacity. The Power of U.S.

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R-Squared Energy

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

nuclear power supplied another 8.0%. has seen a drastic decline in coal consumption over the past decade (but global coal consumption has risen) as it has been displaced in the power sector by natural gas primarily, as well as renewables. There is always a political risk that energy companies have to consider.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

OCTOBER 25, 2023

” As Germany, Europe’s largest economy, has shut down its last nuclear power plants, its looking toward developing hydrogen infrastructure to help supply the power that so many of its industries desperately need. These projects would include repurposing existing gas lines and the building of new links.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 8, 2021

Whether it’s politically possible for the U.S. -wide transmission build-out could also slash the costs of reaching a zero-carbon grid with wind, solar and battery technologies that are cost-effective today.

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R-Squared Energy

MARCH 3, 2021

In a recent article for WIRED — The Energy Sector Must Prepare for More Extreme Weather — I detailed some of the primary causes behind the recent power outages in Texas. One aspect I didn’t cover in that article was the political finger-pointing that went on as the incident unfolded. I am going to present a full picture below.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 14, 2020

With Hinkley Point C costs skyrocketing and timetables repeatedly slipping, at the same time as advances in wind, solar, and battery technologies continue to surpass all expectations, some had hoped the White Paper would mark the end to the UK government's long-running love affair with nuclear power.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 5, 2020

utility group Dominion Energy agreed Sunday to sell most of its natural gas business and abandon its multi-billion dollar Atlantic Coast Pipeline project with Duke Energy meant to supply its home-state market of Virginia. a natural gas utility serving Utah. for about $9.7 for about $9.7

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 20, 2020

In fact, many are still requesting that FERC reconsider the order and planning lawsuits to challenge it, or simply awaiting November’s election, which could shift political power in Washington D.C. in ways that could lead to FERC's order being overturned.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

announced plans Wednesday to separate its financially challenged nuclear power plant fleet and other generation assets from its multistate regulated utilities business. That scandal has scrambled Exelon’s efforts to seek out state aid for its financially struggling nuclear power plant fleet in Illinois. Exelon Corp.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 4, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic has not changed the grim reality facing workers at coal and nuclear power plants in the U.S. How those workers will fare in the years ahead will vary greatly based on where they live and the prevailing political winds. and Europe. ” One example that stands out in the U.S. In the U.S.,

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Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 16, 2024

The current Haber Bosch process relies on fossil fuels (~ 70% natural gas, 30% coal) and emits 2.4 Direct use in turbines: Japanese firm IHI and GE are retrofitting liquid natural gas power plant turbines to run on ammonia. Hawaii replaced its final coal-powered facility with a 565 MWh battery.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 26, 2021

New research asserts most have undermined those goals by keeping coal plants running and building new natural gas plants meant to operate for decades to come. utilities that still rely on coal and natural gas for most of their generation capacity. All but one call for new natural gas plants.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Congress is under pressure to pass both bills Monday to ensure continued funding of the federal government and complete a politically pressing extension of coronavirus pandemic relief measures passed in March. R&D for clean energy, energy storage, carbon capture and nuclear power. Nuclear power will receive $6.6

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Amid escalating tensions between the United States/NATO and Russia, all eyes are on Ukraine, but Nord Stream 2, a pipeline built to bring Russian gas under the Baltic Sea directly to Germany, is an integral part of the story. Since the 1960s when Europe first began importing Russian gas, Washington perceived Russian energy as a threat to U.S.

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R-Squared Energy

AUGUST 15, 2023

So, it’s probably common in every country to blame political leaders for high gasoline prices, but that doesn’t necessarily mean they are the actual cause. This includes the category of lease condensate and natural gas liquids (NGLs), and I will do a deeper dive on this in the next article. For natural gas, the U.S.

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Mr. Sustainability

MAY 30, 2021

In this article the different paths are described and compared, so that readers can recognize them and place the paths in today's context and political decisions. Wizards Wizards support big, high tech, centralized power plants based on concentrated energy sources like coal, oil, natural gas and uranium.

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R-Squared Energy

DECEMBER 28, 2021

That’s a recipe for higher oil prices, and subsequently higher gasoline and natural gas prices. Europe’s natural gas crisis. Europe suffered from a natural gas shortage this year. That was exacerbated near the end of the year by nuclear plant outages and cold weather.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

That’s greater than its previous commitment to reduce net carbon emissions from its power sector by 80 percent by 2050 and methane emissions from its natural-gas operations by 65% by 2030 and 80% by 2040.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 6, 2020

For Dominion Virginia, this will mean securing enough renewables to replace coal plants that supply roughly one-quarter of its electricity, and natural gas plants that supply about another third. Dominion also gets more than one-third of its energy from nuclear power.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

But even as the freezing temperatures that caused the crisis have waned, the political stances over who to blame have been hardening. But these attacks have run up against the cold fact that the state’s natural gas infrastructure was central to its broader grid failure. Texas Republicans like Gov.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Duke’s long-range plans and looming home-state political decisions. But for its more aggressive plans to reach 70 percent carbon reduction in the next decade, which could include offshore wind, nuclear power and long-duration energy storage, “having some legislative support…would be helpful.”

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 22, 2020

They are doubling down on oil and natural gas and investing what amounts to pocket change in innovative climate-oriented efforts like small nuclear power plants and devices that suck carbon out of the air. State interests also intervene with political ambition, though Norway and China appear to be setting the stage.

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R-Squared Energy

DECEMBER 31, 2019

During the year, as she traveled the globe to challenge political leaders to take serious action on climate change, Thunberg addressed the United Nations and earned Time magazine’s ‘Person of the Year’ award. has been increasing renewable power capacity at a rapid clip over the past decade. Russia’s Floating Nuclear Power Plant.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 12, 2020

It would also maintain a quorum at FERC, which it lacked throughout much of 2017, leaving it unable to vote on key decisions for interstate electricity transmission and natural-gas projects.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

As coal mines shutter across the country and the prevalence of black lung increases, American coal workers say they are running out of hope for a political fix. Many coal miners have found new union jobs laying down pipelines for natural gas used to generate electricity. “We come here today to be part of this conversation.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 21, 2021

Thursday’s appointment was welcomed by clean energy groups as a critical early step to put a supporter of Biden’s energy and climate push in charge of setting the agenda of the federal agency that holds regulatory authority over interstate electricity transmission and natural gas networks.

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R-Squared Energy

MAY 7, 2023

The EIA is full of career employees from both major political parties. Yes, the categories are fossil fuels, nuclear power, and renewable energy. producers weren’t allowed to export oil, and we didn’t have enough excess natural gas to export that. You can see over 70 years of U.S. Is Coal Included? Because U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 28, 2020

That order could bar many wind, solar, demand response, energy storage and nuclear power resources from effectively competing against natural gas and coal-fired power plants in the market. Those include the Dec.

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CleanTechnica

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

Russia's ability to keep signing nuclear contracts in the midst of massive sanctions over its illegal invasion of Ukraine is a complicated story. I certainly wouldn’t be signing contracts for energy with Russia right now.

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