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What’s the Role for New Nuclear Power in the Fight Against Climate Change?

GreenTechMedia

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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Canadian LNG Will Stall Asia’s Shift to Renewables, Energy Experts in Asia Say

DeSmogBlog

That’s the assessment of major environmental organizations based in South Korea and Japan, whose representatives told DeSmog that rather than increasing east and southeast Asia’s dependance on an economically volatile and planet-warming energy source it would be much better for the region to shift from coal directly into renewables. “We

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New York’s Coronavirus Threat Pushes Grid Operators to Work and Live in Isolation

GreenTechMedia

Last week, 37 employees of state grid operator NYISO — 33 grid operators and managers, plus two facilities workers and two food service staff — volunteered to sequester themselves at the state’s two grid control centers near the state capitol, Albany. Nuclear plants taking special precautions.

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? Getting in tune with power markets

Climate Tech VC

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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New Sustainable Energy Factbook shows 2020 was ‘blockbuster’ year for renewables in America

Renewable Energy World

This story is told for the first time with over 130 slides and data visualizations that put 2020 performance in the context of past years, said the organizations. Notable clean energy statistics from the pandemic year include: Power Generation. Renewables’ contribution to the power grid set another record, rising 11% year-on-year.

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MIT Study: Transmission Is Key to a Low-Cost, Decarbonized US Grid

GreenTechMedia

transmission integration is approximately represented by the “US-AC-DC” category, which presumes the existence of significant transmission links within the footprints of the country’s existing regional transmission organizations (RTOs) and independent system operators (ISOs) but with relatively little linkage between them.

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The future of clean hydrogen in the US could hinge on a new tax credit

The Verge: Energy

This is meant to ensure that hydrogen production helps add new sources of clean energy to power grids rather than sucking that resource dry. The strict guidelines could also dash the dreams of aging nuclear power plants that thought they may have new customers in the hydrogen production business.