Business Green

JANUARY 4, 2023

As such, it sets out how the UK could accelerate its transition away from fossil fuels, secure its energy supplies, and tackle the looming affordability, security, and sustainability 'trilemma' through a raft of new policies. The government will insist that considerable progress has been made since the political chaos of the summer months.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2023

The Committee's overarching conclusion is both clear as day and extremely pertinent at the current geopolitical juncture: a net zero energy system is technologically, financially, and politically achievable within the 2035 timeframe, but the government simply cannot afford to waste anymore time in building it.

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Clean Energy Trust

AUGUST 5, 2020

July 2020 Cleantech Roundup: Electric Vehicles Go Public | Energy Policy Scandals | SunRun Acquires Vivint Solar Clean Energy Trust’s cleantech roundup highlights interesting cleantech news and perspective, across industry, technology, policy, and investing. Hint: it is not sales.

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Business Green

APRIL 8, 2022

After weeks of delay and much political wrangling, the UK's Energy Security Strategy was finally released yesterday , sparking a decidedly mixed response from across the green economy. The government's new plan to build eight new nuclear power plants is hugely ambitious and could play a starring role in the drive a zero-carbon grid.

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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. energy sector, said Ravi Manghani, head of solar research for Wood Mackenzie.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 26, 2021

The analysis underscores the gap between the policy imperatives of the environmental community and the Biden-Harris administration, which has set a goal of zero carbon emissions from the U.S. Wind and solar power accounted for just above 10 percent of U.S. electricity sector by 2035, and the cost imperatives of 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. Once the nuclear plant is running, it is reliable and the downtime derives mainly from maintenance. Safety - As measured by the amount of deaths in the whole energy chain.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 12, 2021

It was a set of circumstances that bears some resemblance to where the United States finds itself today, with the Biden administration pledging to invigorate clean energy and decarbonization efforts that have faced four years of hostile policy from the Trump administration.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 6, 2020

Dominion also gets more than one-third of its energy from nuclear power. And to help balance intermittent wind and solar power, it calls for Dominion to procure at least 2.7 “The thing that’s notable here is the speed at which we’re changing this policy.” For example, Dominion’s 2.6-gigawatt

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 22, 2020

The sentiment of these CEOs stems from three major underlying trends: continued growth of cheap and abundant renewables, financiers pulling out of oil and gas, and backing by favorable policies that are likely to increase in strength. Capital markets have shifted: clean-power stocks are up by 45% this year.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Its carbon-free portfolio includes nuclear power supplying about one-third of its generation needs, and just over 5 percent renewable, most of that hydropower and biomass.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

But that doesn’t mean that states most reliant on fossil fuel extraction or industries powered by them must lose out in the transition. That’s a key finding of the Decarb America report released Thursday by Third Way, Clean Air Task Force and the Bipartisan Policy Center. That’s where the state-by-state data comes in.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 17, 2020

While the details are complex and still in development, their result would be to force administratively set minimum prices on future wind and solar resources, energy efficiency, demand response, and nuclear power plants in PJM's capacity market. The particular threat for Illinois.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 21, 2021

Under the Republican majority in place at FERC since 2017, Glick has been a consistent, and often sole, vote against a string of policy decisions that have been seen as undermining state-subsidized clean energy and carbon reduction policies. Conflict over clean energy in capacity markets.

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CleanTechnica

DECEMBER 28, 2020

We have been publishing monthly US power capacity reports and monthly US electricity generation reports for a long time. Going into 2021, CleanTechnica is taking a look at electricity generation changes over the past decade. However.

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CleanTechnica

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

How does one renew an area devastated by nuclear waste? One of the dreams depicts the horror and abyss after the fallout of a nuclear accident. I think of brilliant Kirusowa's film Dreams. Indeed, in real life, there are farmlands in Japan that are ruined, land that cannot be cultivated anymore.

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