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Small modular nuclear reactor that was hailed by Coalition as future cancelled due to rising costs

The Guardian: Energy

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

NuScale Power announced on Wednesday that it had dropped plans to build a long-promised “carbon free power project” in Idaho. It blamed the decision on a lack of subscribers for the plant’s electricity. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup Continue reading.

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MIT Study Lays Bare Why Nuclear Costs Keep Rising

GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 8, 2020

A Massachusetts Institute of Technology team has shed light on a key challenge for the nuclear industry: the rising cost of new plants. This period was studied because it has reliable data on all the components of a Westinghouse four-loop nuclear plant. This is the logic behind incentives for new nuclear in the U.K.,

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FirstEnergy Scandal is Latest Example of Utility Corruption, Deceit

DeSmogBlog

JULY 26, 2020

Read time: 13 mins By Matt Kasper , originally published at Energy and Policy Institute. in exchange for passing a law that bailed out that company’s nuclear and coal plants. . Tags: electric utilities FirstEnergy Southern Company Entergy Corp exelon

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Labor Helps Obama Energy Secretary Push and Profit from 'Net Zero' Fossil Fuels

DeSmogBlog

MAY 24, 2020

But major labor unions and President Barack Obama’s Energy Secretary have far different plans. On the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, the AFL - CIO and the Energy Futures Initiative ( EFI ) — a nonprofit founded and run by former Obama Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz — launched the Labor Energy Partnership.

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New Estimates Predict a Lot More Renewable Power Growth in the U.S. Very Soon

DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

power forecast , the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ( FERC ) has predicted major declines for fossil fuels and nuclear power alongside strong growth in renewables by 2022, according to a review of the data by the SUN DAY Campaign, a pro-renewables research and education nonprofit.

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Duke Energy Lays Out Its Long-Term Clean Energy Pathways — and Price Tags

GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Duke Energy has detailed the various paths its utilities in the Carolinas could take over the next 15 years, a choice that will determine how quickly Duke cuts its carbon footprint and how much it will cost. All of the scenarios go well beyond Duke’s previous IRPs in leaning more heavily on solar, onshore wind and energy storage.

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Is this it? Are we at risk of over-estimating the neo-climate sceptics?

Business Green

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Over the past decade this loose grouping has argued against renewables, only to watch them become the lowest cost form of new power capacity and backbone of the energy system. They've argued against electric vehicles, only to watch them become the driving force in the auto market. It's quite the track record.

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Liz Truss prepares to announce energy price freeze plan

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Incoming Prime Minister Liz Truss is expected to announce a sweeping new plan to freeze energy bills, as one of her first acts upon taking office this week. It also revealed that the plan had been briefed to energy industry leaders yesterday, who were said to be broadly receptive to the proposals.

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Could UK gas power stations still play a role on a net zero grid?

Business Green

AUGUST 16, 2021

Aurora Energy Research contends thermal power generation equipped with hydrogen and CCS offers most cost-effective pathway to a net zero power system. But a report from Aurora Energy Research today cautions that the latter phases of power sector decarbonisation could well be set to diverge from the aforementioned narrative.

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Oil Market Collapse No Impact On Renewable Outlook

Christopher Kemper

MARCH 22, 2020

There are two main exceptions: Northeastern US markets whereby homeowners consume oil for heating 2) markets where gas is tied to oil pricing, which can impact the input pricing for energy. Nut shell: Decentralized energy (solar and storage) for residential consumers is largely uncorrelated to the residential solar power and energy storage.

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Oil Market Collapse No Impact On Renewable Outlook

Christopher Kemper

MARCH 22, 2020

There are two main exceptions: Northeastern US markets whereby homeowners consume oil for heating 2) markets where gas is tied to oil pricing, which can impact the input pricing for energy. Nut shell: Decentralized energy (solar and storage) for residential consumers is largely uncorrelated to the residential solar power and energy storage.

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Oil Market Collapse No Impact On Renewable Outlook

Christopher Kemper

MARCH 22, 2020

There are two main exceptions: Northeastern US markets whereby homeowners consume oil for heating 2) markets where gas is tied to oil pricing, which can impact the input pricing for energy. Nut shell: Decentralized energy (solar and storage) for residential consumers is largely uncorrelated to the residential solar power and energy storage.

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The government has made this crisis worse than it needed to be

Business Green

AUGUST 26, 2022

The government's repeated failure to promote energy saving, enhance energy efficiency, and deliver more domestic energy generation is condemning the UK to an era of rolling crises. Be in no doubt, one man bears primary responsibility for the energy crisis gripping the UK and the rest of Europe.

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Government set to lift fracking ban, confirm gas price freeze plan

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Sweeping energy support package set to be announced later today, as campaigners urge government to prioritise energy efficiency measures and renewables projects. As a result, domestic energy bills should stay at around current levels through this winter.

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Saudi Arabia’s Plan to Rule the $700 Billion Hydrogen Market from a Marine Perspective

Mr. Sustainability

MARCH 17, 2021

The 4 gigawatt plant will be completely powered by wind and solar energy. The task of turning a patch of desert the size of Belgium into a metropolis powered by renewable energy falls to Peter Terium, the former chief executive officer of RWE AG , Germany’s biggest utility, and clean-energy spinoff Innogy SE.

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Saudi Arabia’s Plan to Rule the $700 Billion Hydrogen Market from a Marine Perspective

Mr. Sustainability

MARCH 17, 2021

The 4 gigawatt plant will be completely powered by wind and solar energy. The task of turning a patch of desert the size of Belgium into a metropolis powered by renewable energy falls to Peter Terium, the former chief executive officer of RWE AG , Germany’s biggest utility, and clean-energy spinoff Innogy SE.

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'A poor use of public funds': Should the government subsidise biomass and carbon capture technology?

Business Green

MAY 24, 2021

The long-running debate over whether biomass energy can deliver promised emissions savings has been reignited this morning, after fresh analysis from think tank Ember warned plans for the UK's largest biomass with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) plant could undermine the UK's net zero transition and land the taxpayer with a hefty bill.

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NuScale Faces Questions on Nuclear Reactor Safety and Financing Its First Project

GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 27, 2020

NuScale Power wants to build the first small modular nuclear reactor complex in the U.S. But its reactor design faces significant safety questions that were not resolved by a Nuclear Energy Commission (NRC) review completed in August. And while the Department of Energy has issued a $1.36

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Everything you need to know about the UK's landmark Energy White Paper

Business Green

DECEMBER 14, 2020

After several delays spanning at least a year, the government has finally unveiled vision for a future net zero energy system - here are the eight things you need to know about the long-awaited Energy White Paper. Nuclear projects - large, small, and fusion - are part of the net zero vision.

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Truss confirms 'extraordinary measures' to freeze bills, reform energy markets, and lift fracking ban

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Prime Minister sets out strategy for curbing household energy bills, as she confirms plan to significantly ramp up UK's domestic supplies of energy and reform UK's marginal pricing regime.

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'More UK gas won't bring down bills': The green economy reacts to the government's energy crisis plan

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Liz Truss is planning a major overhaul of the UK energy market alongside support for homes and businesses facing soaring bills this winter - here is all the top reaction frombusiness figures, politicians, campaigners and experts. Beyond the headline support package, major energy market changes are being planned too.

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? Big oil’s big CCS play #158

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JULY 17, 2023

deal on Thursday, ExxonMobil acquired Denbury , a Texas-based energy company focused on carbon capture and storage (CCS) and enhanced oil recovery (EOR) that controls the largest network of CO2 pipelines in the US. 💼 Find or share roles on our job board here. Exxon captures Denbury In a $4.9B

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Bernie Sanders' Plan to Phase out Nuclear Power Draws Attacks — Here's Why They're Wrong

DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 30, 2019

One line of attack, coming from many different sources, focuses on Sanders' plan to phase out nuclear power, but the arguments, and who is behind them, deserve a closer look.

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'We are the good guys': IRENA's Francesco La Camera on hydrogen, nuclear, and the energy crisis

Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

Director-general of the clean energy agency offers his thoughts on the energy crisis, green and blue hydrogen, and why renewables must be the priority in the 2020s. Through it all, IRENA has continued to make the compelling social, environmental, and economic case for accelerating the shift to clean energy systems worldwide.

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'Fifteen years of anaemic growth cannot be repeated': The green economy reacts to the government's Growth Plan

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

But the promise of streamlining the planning process may also offer a much-needed boost for major low carbon energy projects such as nuclear power plants and offshore wind farms. And we're accelerating new road, rail and energy projects by removing restrictions that have slowed down progress for too long. "We

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Price Spikes Puncture Fracking’s Promise to Keep Natural Gas Prices Low

DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2021

deals to sell natural gas this winter carry a price tag that’s roughly double or triple the costs in recent years , with a few traders placing bets that U.S. energy portfolio, heavily relying on come-and-go energies, is unwise, bordering on foolishness. and politicians promised an era of American “ energy dominance. ”

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? Old nuclear, new-clear #161

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!

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Energy Transfer’s Gulf Run Pipeline to Export Fracked Gas from Louisiana set to Begin Construction

DeSmogBlog

JULY 1, 2021

In June, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) narrowly approved the construction of a new 42” diameter gas pipeline that will connect shale wells in Louisiana, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Ohio to a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal on the Gulf Coast, carrying over a billion cubic feet of fracked gas to be transported overseas every day.

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Big Oil’s Been Secretly Validating Critics’ Concerns about Carbon Capture

DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Only 3 percent of the Wyoming project’s CO2 has been geologically stored in the same formation from which the original gas was extracted, according to estimates from the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA). C and with the net-zero energy transition.

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Dominion and Virginia Lawmakers Race to Define Clean Energy Goals, Offshore Wind Plans

GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Dominion Energy, Virginia’s dominant utility, is racing to get ahead of the expanding clean-energy ambitions of state Democratic legislators. On Tuesday Dominion announced a 100 percent net-zero emissions plan on the eve of a key vote for even more aggressive renewable energy bills, while promoting its planned 2.6-gigawatt

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The Railroad Industry Loved Modern Brakes and Safety, Until They Didn’t

DeSmogBlog

MARCH 8, 2023

One of the best examples of this early support is a 2004 presentation by the Association of American Railroads in which it was arguing for regulators to allow the transport of nuclear waste by rail. The purpose] is you get a much quicker application, you reduce that kinetic energy involved with that train.” billion in pre-tax income.

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Small modular nuclear reactor that was hailed by Coalition as future cancelled due to rising costs

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Labor Helps Obama Energy Secretary Push and Profit from 'Net Zero' Fossil Fuels

New Estimates Predict a Lot More Renewable Power Growth in the U.S. Very Soon

Duke Energy Lays Out Its Long-Term Clean Energy Pathways — and Price Tags

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Liz Truss prepares to announce energy price freeze plan

Could UK gas power stations still play a role on a net zero grid?

Oil Market Collapse No Impact On Renewable Outlook

Oil Market Collapse No Impact On Renewable Outlook

Oil Market Collapse No Impact On Renewable Outlook

The government has made this crisis worse than it needed to be

Government set to lift fracking ban, confirm gas price freeze plan

Saudi Arabia’s Plan to Rule the $700 Billion Hydrogen Market from a Marine Perspective

Saudi Arabia’s Plan to Rule the $700 Billion Hydrogen Market from a Marine Perspective

'A poor use of public funds': Should the government subsidise biomass and carbon capture technology?

NuScale Faces Questions on Nuclear Reactor Safety and Financing Its First Project

Everything you need to know about the UK's landmark Energy White Paper

Truss confirms 'extraordinary measures' to freeze bills, reform energy markets, and lift fracking ban

'More UK gas won't bring down bills': The green economy reacts to the government's energy crisis plan

? Big oil’s big CCS play #158

Bernie Sanders' Plan to Phase out Nuclear Power Draws Attacks — Here's Why They're Wrong

'We are the good guys': IRENA's Francesco La Camera on hydrogen, nuclear, and the energy crisis

'Fifteen years of anaemic growth cannot be repeated': The green economy reacts to the government's Growth Plan

Price Spikes Puncture Fracking’s Promise to Keep Natural Gas Prices Low

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Energy Transfer’s Gulf Run Pipeline to Export Fracked Gas from Louisiana set to Begin Construction

Big Oil’s Been Secretly Validating Critics’ Concerns about Carbon Capture

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