Business Green

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

Nuclear power, meanwhile, provided 17.5 per cent of Britain's power last year, while imports accounted for just under seven per cent. per cent of Britain's electricity in 2020, rising to 56 per cent when nuclear power is included. per cent of Britain's power supplies, with coal supplying just 1.6

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Grid stability is consistently brought up as a key puzzle that needs to be solved to reach our net zero targets. One often overlooked piece, states Bernard Salha, group technical director and R&D director for French energy giant EDF, might be found in nuclear power.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 17, 2024

Using its 410 MHz spectrum holdings, ESB Networks is implementing a national private mobile network to meet the wireless connectivity needs of smart grid applications for the control, protection and management of Ireland’s utility assets.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 24, 2024

Managing power grid complexity: The 5 biggest priorities for utilities in 2024 Energy Transitions Podcast: Accelerating decarbonised power generation at scale Notable expansion of the data centre sector also is likely, with consumption from data centres, AI and the cryptocurrency sector potentially doubling by 2026.

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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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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 10, 2022

power grid this year. The agency says another 5% of the country’s planned electric capacity additions in 2022 will come from two new reactors at the Vogtle nuclear power plant in Georgia. Energy Information Administration (EIA) says nearly half of planned capacity additions in 2022 will be solar energy resources.

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R-Squared Energy

JULY 24, 2023

A Reliable Power Grid is a Lifesaver If there’s one thing to be thankful for, it’s that we don’t suffer many blackouts in Phoenix. I have never been without power for an extended period in my home. power plant. power plant. and the 2nd largest of any U.S. and the 2nd largest of any U.S.

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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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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 20, 2022

By streamlining energy traders’ ability to match electricity supply to demand, the Tradenergy tool is aiming to help maintain the resilience and reliability of power grid operations. On a power grid, inertia is naturally produced by turbines and motors in fossil fuel generators that are synchronised to the same frequency.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 14, 2020

National Grid views subsea interconnector power cables as crucial to delivering a net zero energy system, as they allow the UK to trade clean electricity with neighbouring countries by exporting power during periods of excess generation, and vice versa.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 31, 2020

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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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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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 21, 2022

According to the EIB, there has recently been a significant increase in the renewable energy available in the northern parts of Germany near the North Sea and the Baltic Sea, while several thermal and nuclear power plants in Bavaria have been shut down.

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Business Green

JUNE 4, 2020

On April 30th, Spain's renewable generation reached a record 74 per cent share, an increase of 23 percentage points on the annual average that resulted in nuclear power output being dialled down to make room for peak renewable power generation.

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 24, 2021

But what if an attack like this happens again and it affects our power grid? Whether you use gas or another source of electricity to power your home, you are probably aware that your consumption (and your energy bills) has two seasonal peaks. This time the temporary crisis mainly affected transportation. Peak Energy Usage.

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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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Vote Solar

AUGUST 17, 2017

In fact, the California Independent System Operator, the managers of our statewide power grid, say they have been planning for this event for over a year and are confident that our power won’t be interrupted. In fact, solar is already proving more reliable than California’s traditional power plants during summer heat waves.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

That’s because current market dynamics in the country “motivate the fossil fuel generators to continuously construct new plants and delay the phaseout of those that contribute little to the power grid,” Gyuri Cho of Solutions for Our Climate said last year. This could have dire health impacts.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Thursday’s proposed decision from the California Public Utilities Commission ( PDF ) is the culmination of more than a year of study and debate over the state’s grid reliability needs, as part of its Integrated Resource Plan proceeding.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

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. power in 2020. Power from all zero-carbon sources (renewables plus nuclear power) set another record, meeting 40% of demand.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 4, 2020

Dominion’s Virginia generation portfolio today is roughly one-third natural gas, one-third nuclear and one-quarter coal, with just over 5 percent ascribed to renewable energy, much of it hydropower and biomass. Major boosts for solar, offshore wind and energy storage.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Hydrogen to power fuel cells will also augment battery-powered vehicles in decarbonizing the transportation sector, particularly for vehicles requiring long range and fast refueling times such as long-haul trucks, Jack Brouwer, a professor at the University of California at Irvine and associate director of the National Fuel Cell Research Center (NFCRC), (..)

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Smart Energy International

MAY 9, 2022

Shortly before Christmas in 2015 the power grid in Ukraine suffered a series of outages that impacted roughly a quarter of a million consumers and lasted several hours. [1] 1] Later, in 2017 the same group used ransomware to shutdown servers all over Ukraine, including at the infamous Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. [2]

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 19, 2020

The state’s 2013 mandate to bring 1.35

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Business Green

JANUARY 19, 2021

In a wide-ranging appearance before the BEIS Committee, Kwarteng also defended the government's support for nuclear power, reiterating hopes that Hinkley Point C would come online by 2025 and act as a forerunner for another major nuclear project, as well as a fleet of small modular rectors developed in future.

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

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. power grid by 2050.

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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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Business Green

MARCH 30, 2022

But how green are the energy sources powering our EVs? Currently, electricity in the UK is supplied by a variety of generators, including fossil fuels, nuclear power, and large and small-scale renewables. To investigate the problem, Polestar collaborated with the University of Gothenburg.

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Business Green

MARCH 28, 2022

It came as National Grid separately announced today that its IFA2 subsea interconnector cable linking Britain's power grid with France's has already paid off its carbon cost within less than a year of the project being operational.

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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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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2022

The good news is that the UK has already made some important progress in building a non-fossil-fuel based power system, with over 60 per cent of electricity demand met by renewables and nuclear power in February 2022 and renewables alone having provided around 40 per cent of the UK's electricity demand in the last two years.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Batteries are emerging as a critical ingredient in the transition to a more sustainable future because of their role in electrifying transportation and balancing power grids. In this environment, cell manufacturers should focus on building plants that will be cost competitive from day one.

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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. Source: Brookings Institute " Coal in India " report.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2023

A power system running solely on clean energy technologies is entirely feasible During a media briefing yesterday, CCC officials made a point of emphasising the huge amount of work it has put into producing its most detailed and comprehensive analysis of the UK's energy system to date.

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Business Green

MAY 24, 2021

But today, Ember has published a study that calculates the BECCS project could require £31.7bn in government subsidy over its lifetime - more than the controversial Hinkley Point C nuclear power station.

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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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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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