Hydrogen Fuel News

AUGUST 31, 2023

Scientists at four nuclear power plants in the US are attempting to improve electrolysis processes to make it more practical, affordable and feasible at scale. Why use nuclear energy to produce hydrogen? Nuclear energy can provide the consistent, high-temperature heat needed for efficient electrolysis.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 17, 2020

ComEd was able to convince some pro-clean energy groups to include this so-called “fixed resource requirement” proposal in a state bill called the Clean Energy Jobs Act (CEJA), which combines a mandate for 100 percent renewables by 2050 with other carbon reduction, electric transportation and job creation policies.

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

In the previous article , I discussed some of the developments that are taking place to make nuclear power safer, such that a major accident like those at Chernobyl and Fukushima are simply no longer possible. In fact, nuclear plants have simply stored the waste on site, but that isn’t a long-term solution to the problem.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 24, 2023

We foresee fast growing demand for hydrogen and hydrogen-derived fuels in some industries and for heavy-duty transport”, explains Anne Neumann, Chair of the EASAC Working Group. In addition, in many regions, nuclear power plants risk becoming vulnerable to climate change effects such as cooling water scarcity”, concludes Gillett.

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R-Squared Energy

JULY 13, 2022

The remaining share of primary energy use consisted of hydroelectric power (6.8%), renewables (6.7%), and nuclear power (4.3%). Coal remained the dominant fuel for global power generation in 2021, with its share increasing to 36%, up from 35.1% Renewables and Nuclear Power. global share.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

DECEMBER 23, 2023

However, this policy shift may also have substantial implications for the nuclear industry. Anticipated growth in hydrogen demand could stimulate industries involved in hydrogen storage and transportation, fostering innovation in related fields such as fuel cell development and advanced materials science.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 11, 2024

Transport tidbits A freeze on fuel duty continued a long-standing policy of successive budgets (14, so far), with the 5p cut introduced in 2022 – to address rising fuel costs – also to be kept in place for another year. He wanted to see a greater focus on public transport options. This brings the fund up to £1.1

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 24, 2024

annually through 2026 through an improving economic outlook and particularly in advanced economies the ongoing electrification of the residential and transport sectors. Nuclear power generation also is expected to reach an all-time high, with growth averaging close to 3% per year. Have you read? annually through 2026. “The

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R-Squared Energy

JULY 26, 2021

About three-fourths of the decline came from oil, as the pandemic dramatically impacted the world’s transportation systems. Small declines were also reported in coal, natural gas, and nuclear consumption, while renewables and hydropower recorded gains. Renewables and Nuclear Power. share of all energy consumption.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The United States can set a course to net-zero carbon by midcentury if it can radically overhaul its energy generation, transport, building and industrial sectors over the next decade, according to a major study from Princeton University. To transport that power to where it’s needed, the existing U.S.

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Business Green

JUNE 4, 2021

Emissions also fell in other industrial sectors and residential buildings that year due to a warmer winter and lower demand for heating, but CO2 from the transport sector continued to increase, largely driven by growing fuel consumption from passenger cars on Europe's roads. France seeks culture change towards plant-based diets.

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POWER Magazine

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The Department of Defense (DOD) has moved to develop a second transportable microreactor under Project Pele, granting X-energy a contract option to advance the design of its mobile advanced nuclear […] The post DOD Advances X-Energy Mobile Nuclear Microreactor as Second Project Pele Design appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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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. Most of Germany’s existing grid can transport hydrogen.

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Charged

DECEMBER 29, 2021

This means no fossil fuels, carbon capture, direct air capture, bioenergy, blue hydrogen or nuclear power.”. The scenarios modeled a massive scale-up of offshore wind turbines and rooftop solar panels—none of which take up new land—as well as onshore wind turbines, utility-scale solar farms and concentrated solar power plants.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Led by French energy giant EDF - which is also currently constructing a nuclear power plant of the same size at Hinkley Point in Somerset - the Sizewell C project had been expected to provide up to seven per cent of the UK's total electricity needs. Nuclear power is a choice, not a necessity," he said.

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The Environmental Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

In nuclear power plants, radioactive materials are used to generate electricity. These regulations govern the handling, transportation, storage, and disposal of toxic chemicals. The controlled use of chlorine has significantly improved public health worldwide.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

energy produced (and 12.71% of the energy consumed) for electricity, transportation, heating, and other uses. By comparison, production by the nation’s nuclear power plants in 2021 dropped by 2.81% and 4.07% compared to 2020 and 2019 levels.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

. - by Michael Holder ( @michaelholder ) 'Shovel ready': National Grid helps 20GW of clean energy projects jump connections queue National Grid moves capacity equivalent to six Hinkley Point C nuclear power stations up connections queue, promising major boost to energy storage developers. -

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Charged

MAY 10, 2023

David Cebon is a Cambridge professor who has dedicated decades to transport research, and the current Director of the Centre for Sustainable Road Freight. Three times more electricity means you need three times more wind turbines, three times more solar panels or nuclear power stations.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 14, 2020

The major decarbonization pathways modeled by Afry (formerly AF Pöyry), an international engineering, design and advisory firm, envision big contributions from either new nuclear or carbon capture and storage (CCS) — neither of which is an energy system front-runner at present. Potential criticisms of the study.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 1, 2020

Hitachi ABB Power Grids is the new company formed Wednesday by the close of Hitachi’s acquisition of an 80.1 percent stake in the venerable power grids unit of the Swiss-Swedish engineering giant. ABB will now focus on industrial automation, electric transportation and digital solutions.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2022

It also has set and met ambitious clean energy and has the potential to produce an enormous amount of clean electricity, heat, and hydrogen with offshore wind and nuclear power. It will also require an extensive build out of nuclear power and a 3.5x increase in the pace of renewables deployment.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

APRIL 24, 2024

Such an output is capable of powering nearly 90% of the European Union’s electricity needs. The sector is poised to surpass nuclear power as the world’s most significant source of clean energy, trailing only behind hydroelectric power, within the next year. terawatt-hours of electricity in 2023.

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 8, 2021

Hydrogen can be produced from a variety of resources, such as natural gas, nuclear power, biomass, and renewable power like solar and wind. These qualities make it an attractive fuel option and input for transportation, electricity generation and industrial applications, such as in trucks, buildings, and manufacturing.

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Business Green

JUNE 30, 2020

Plans for a low carbon energy hub in south Cumbria that would link together a new 3.2GW nuclear power station with renewables projects and hydrogen production plants are being touted by a clutch of major energy firms, developers, and trade unions in the North East.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 21, 2020

R&D for clean energy, energy storage, carbon capture and nuclear power. Another $500 million will fund carbon-emissions reduction research for hard-to-decarbonize industrial sectors like steel and cement manufacturing and transportation sectors like shipping and aviation. Nuclear power will receive $6.6

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Business Green

AUGUST 30, 2020

The situation reduced the need for fossil fuel power such as coal and gas, and also led to curbed demand for nuclear power, as cheaper forms of renewable power such as wind and solar shouldered the lion's share of Britain's electricity needs.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 19, 2024

The network upgrade plan would see new infrastructure delivered to connect both onshore and offshore wind power where needed alongside solutions that can optimise the location of strategic, flexible demand connections in the future.

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Business Green

JULY 17, 2022

Advanced nuclear technologies, modular manufacturing methods and new approaches to project finance could usher a more cost-effective era for the UK's nuclear industry, writes LSE's Esin Serin. As part of its approach to dealing with energy security concerns, the UK government has turned to nuclear power.

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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 7, 2023

The US grid got its first new nuclear power in nearly seven years last week. Plant Vogtle began commercial operations from the first of two new reactors, but the over-budget and years-delayed project could be the last hurrah for big nuclear construction in America. Happy Monday! Department of Agriculture.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 10, 2020

That leaves a massive gap to be filled by clean energy, since more than half of the state’s carbon-free emissions today come from nuclear power, as shown in the chart below. percent in 2018, and hitting 100 percent zero-carbon emissions by 2040. Source: NYISO. Source: NYISO.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 7, 2020

It’s also contracted for hundreds of megawatts of behind-the-meter batteries under a 2014 plan to replace the capacity lost from the closure of the San Onofre nuclear power plant. But SCE sees more grid reliability needs arising by mid-decade, as the state’s last nuclear power plant, Diablo Canyon, closes down.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Along its route, there is already significantly more energy produced from wind power and photovoltaic plants than is needed locally. In the future, this green energy will be transported to the major centres of consumption. It is thus considered an important step for the energy transition and security of supply.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 7, 2021

With huge investment required from transmission and distribution operators to deliver a low carbon grid capable of underpinning the vast electrification of heat and transport, every penny counts. The potential savings of £250 million include a large chunk of avoided system balancing costs. Those costs are substantial.

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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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Business Green

JULY 26, 2021

The pension provider said the revamped fund would no longer invest in companies involved in the extraction, production, supply and transportation of fossil fuels, nor firms that generate power from, or own reserves of, fossil fuels.

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