Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 15, 2022

And all that’s before you consider packaging or the use of plastic! The firm’s Sureground TM technology is a departure from many conventional practices in that there’s no packaging, no plastic geogrids are used, no material is taken offsite, and no materials are taken to landfill when it’s decommissioned. Ways of minimising waste.

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Business Green

MARCH 10, 2023

Next week's Budget will feature a wide-ranging new clean energy package designed to mobilise £20bn of investment in the UK, Treasury confirms The Chancellor will next week promise to "reset" the UK's decarbonisation and energy security plans through an "unprecedented" £20bn investment in carbon capture and clean energy infrastructure.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Arizona Public Service promised in January to reach zero-carbon energy by 2050 , with interim 2030 goals to exit its remaining coal-fired power plants and reach 65 percent clean electricity, including 45 percent renewable energy and carbon-free power from its Palo Verde nuclear power plant.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has today reiterated the government's commitment to delivering on the UK's international climate responsibilities, confirming support for the planned Sizewell C nuclear power plant, announcing a new long-term target for UK energy efficiency, and promising continued investment in clean tech innovation.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

And there were conflicting reports over the price tag attached to the new support package. Truss ally Iain Duncan Smith told The Times the package was likely to cost in the region of £90bn, while other reports put the estimated cost at £100bn and Bloomberg reported the total cost could reach £130bn.

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Business Green

JULY 29, 2021

The government has set out its suggested approach for constructing the UK's first Advanced Modular Reactor (AMR) demonstrator today, bolstering its ambition for the next generation of small nuclear power plants to be up and running within the next decade.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 23, 2020

” Amcor is an Australian-based company that makes packaging materials for foods and beverages, pharmaceuticals, personal care and other products; it has several facilities in PG&E’s Northern California service territory. The 15-year agreement calls for Nexus Renewables U.S.,

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Business Green

OCTOBER 5, 2020

The Prime Minister will use his Conservative Party Conference speech tomorrow to trail a hotly-anticipated 10-point plan for a "green industrial revolution" - full details of which are set to be unveiled later this year - as well as announcing a major package of support for offshore wind.

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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2020

Major new report urges government to provide clarity on nuclear development plans and insists sector can bring down costs - but will Ministers be convinced? We're confident the price of nuclear power will fall from the £92.50 Those who like nuclear want it to be true. Amazing how often this is trotted out.

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Business Green

JANUARY 31, 2023

However, the think tank stressed that "it could have been worse" and that the growth in renewables capacity helped to prevent a much larger rise in coal-fired power use across Europe last year. Europe's clean power transition emerges from this crisis stronger than ever," said Jones.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Carbon capture, hydrogen, nuclear, EVs, and renewables all set to benefit from £12bn government stimulus plan, but critics warn funding falls well short of the level required to trigger a green recovery.

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Business Green

AUGUST 22, 2022

It has been widely reported over the weekend that Boris Johnson has backed plans to part-fund EDF's proposed Sizewell C nuclear power plant, which now looks set to mark one of his last major interventions as Prime Minister before his successor is announced on 5 September.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

He said the creation of the new Department for Energy Security and Net Zero was "a pretty clear guide or indication" the government would be moving ahead with plans for a Great British Nuclear (GBN) agency to help identify new sites for nuclear power plants and support their development, adding that an announcement was likely in the coming weeks.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

These priority project areas are heavily tipped to include offshore wind farms, nuclear power plants, new roads. The Treasury pointed out that last year it took 65 per cent longer to get consent for major infrastructure projects compared to 2012, and that no new nuclear power stations have been built in the UK since 1995.

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Energy Innovation

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

EPS users can design policy packages that achieve net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions across the economy and pinpoint which policies are most effective at reducing emissions while creating economic and health benefits. Many states already have clean electricity standards or renewable portfolio standards in place.

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Energy Innovation

JULY 14, 2020

And yet, opportunities exist through climate-friendly recovery packages to not only stimulate economies, but also reduce emissions while promoting social and environmental co-benefits. They point to the EU’s $1 trillion, 10-year Green New Deal as an example of a climate-friendly, politically right-sized recovery package. Hepburn et al.

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Business Green

JUNE 18, 2020

The analysis calculates that integrating clean energy goals into economic recovery and stimulus packages over the next three years could boost global economic growth by an average of 1.1 Birol acknowledged that policy makers were "having to make hugely consequential decisions in a very short space of time as they draw up stimulus packages".

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Nuclear power will receive £525 million for the development of large and small-scale reactors. Germany’s stimulus package includes €2.5 Grants of up to £3,500 per new vehicle are already available. The full plan is: The already announced offshore wind target of 40 GW by 2030.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 18, 2021

The much-delayed package includes a new £450m grant scheme to encourage households to switch to heat pumps and other low carbon heating systems, £60m of innovation funding to help drive down the cost of heat pump technologies, and a goal to end the installation of conventional gas boilers by 2035.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

All around the world, countries are gearing up for an almighty race for the opportunities of tomorrow," he said, in a thinly veiled reference to the new green subsidy packages being introduced on both sides of the Atlantic. Britain must be on the start line - not back in the changing room tying its laces."

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Business Green

MARCH 28, 2022

The FT reported that the latest delay appeared to be largely the result of Treasury concerns over the cost of the new package. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has repeatedly indicated that he wants to put a major expansion of nuclear power at the heart of the new strategy.

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Business Green

MARCH 10, 2022

However, to date there has been little indication as to what measures the government is planning to take to reduce gas imports in the short term and Ministers have thus far ducked calls for the Treasury to come forward with a more generous support package for households that are set to see energy bills increase by around 50 per cent from next month.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Poland accelerates coal phase out, pushes for nuclear and offshore wind. Poland is the only member of the EU which has so far refused to commit to net zero emissions by 2050, with the country seeking more time to reconfigure its economy, which is heavily reliant on coal-fired power stations and coal mining.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The government confirmed a new package of 18 deals worth £9.7bn, which are set to ramp up investment in a host of clean infrastructure projects, including offshore wind, hydrogen development, carbon capture and storage (CCS), and green homes. "The

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Business Green

OCTOBER 5, 2020

The Prime Minister will use his Conservative Party conference speech tomorrow to trail a hotly-anticipated 10-point plan for a "green industrial revolution" - full details of which are set to be unveiled later this year - as well as announcing a major package of support for offshore wind.

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Business Green

MARCH 27, 2023

Britain is the country that gave birth to the Industrial Revolution, split the atom and turned on the first commercial nuclear power station. There is no reason why we cannot be a clean energy superpower."

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Grist

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Although some companies have voluntarily decided to phase out the use of PFAS in their products and packaging, the chemicals are already ubiquitous, pervading farms and military sites alike. They’ve been linked to a host of health problems, including kidney and testicular cancer, liver damage, and suppressed immunity.

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Business Green

AUGUST 15, 2022

Moreover, the emergency package sets out £6bn a year for a ‘Warm Homes Plan', which the Party said would insulate 19 million homes over the next decade, in a move it claimed would slash the average family energy bill by £1,000 a year. The remaining funding for the plan would be secured by reducing inflation, the Party said.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Liz Truss restated her commitment to net zero, renewables, and nuclear power, as well as North Sea oil and gas, in her keynote speech to the Conservative Party conference this morning, which saw the embattled Prime Minister decry climate activists who briefly interrupted her from the audience as "anti-growth".

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2022

The Treasury last month announced a major package of support, which will see households provided with a loan of £200 to help curb the uplift in bills. But since then inflation has continued to rise prompting widespread calls for Ministers to do more to stop millions of households being pushed into fuel poverty.

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Jigar Shah

MARCH 29, 2019

or, just save the nuclear power plant currently slated to be shutdown in Ohio. Action: Buy a Retail Electricity Provider like Just Energy for $500m and sell consumer power from the renewable energy projects they already have under contract, increasing their return on those investments.

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Business Green

MARCH 15, 2023

Multi-billion pound Carbon capture utilisation and storage (CCUS) package - As widely trailed, Hunt today confirmed plans to provide £20bn of support for "early deployment" of CCUS projects over the next 20 years, with a shortlist of the projects vying for this support to be unveiled later this month.

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Business Green

MARCH 7, 2022

He added that: "the good news is, Russia can't directly manipulate the price of renewable energy and nuclear power in the UK. Now, more than ever, we must focus on generating cheaper, cleaner power in Britain, for Britain.

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Business Green

APRIL 6, 2022

However, with calls growing for European governments to impose sanctions on fossil fuel exports from Russia in response to the latest atrocities in Ukraine, campaigners slammed the proposed package of measures arguing that it was badly underpowered and would "do nothing to help the UK get off Russian gas this year".

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

The increase in funding for energy efficiency schemes is likely to be welcomed, but the promised funding falls well short of the £5bn package the industry backed Energy Efficiency Infrastructure Group (EEIG) had proposed. Separately today, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) announced a £49.4m

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Climate Tech VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

📦 Voidless , a Milan, Italy-based on-demand packaging solutions platform, raised $2m in Seed funding from 360 Capital and CDP Venture Capital. 🚗 Snap-E Cabs , a Kolkata, India-based electric cab service provider, raised $2m in Seed funding from Inflection Point Ventures.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 18, 2023

☢️ US nuclear power saw mixed results.    📦 Woola , a Tallinn, Estonia-based wool-based packages developer, raised €3M ( $3M) from Metaplanet Holdings, Lemonade Stand, and Future Ventures.   Key market supply and demand indicators ended the year down.

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