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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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Nuclear power is unique among energy sources. It can be scaled up to very large plants, it is firm power (available upon demand), and it produces no carbon dioxide while generating electricity. You have to wonder where things would stand today if not for the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster. It’s understandable.

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Today we will cover nuclear power. Nuclear power is unique among energy sources. It can be scaled up to very large power plants, it is firm power (available upon demand), and it produces no carbon dioxide while generating electricity. In 2022, nuclear generation actually declined by 4.4%.

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R-Squared Energy

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

That’s why nuclear power could play a critical supporting role in reining in global carbon dioxide emissions. Yet, nuclear power is concentrated in a handful of countries, and very few are growing their nuclear energy production. France recently announced it would build up to 14 new nuclear reactors by 2050.

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R-Squared Energy

JULY 15, 2019

Renewables Catching Nuclear Power In Global Energy Race. Today, I want to discuss nuclear energy. First, I will cover the statistics on nuclear energy, but then I want to highlight why it is important that we continue to develop and advance nuclear technology. Nuclear: By the Numbers. In 2018, the U.S.

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The Verge: Energy

JUNE 19, 2024

Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant in California on Oct. Laura Dickinson/San Luis Obsipo Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images Congress has passed a bill aimed at giving nuclear energy a boost in the US. Other groups are concerned about health and environmental risks with nuclear energy.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

On 11th March 2011, a major earthquake followed by a tsunami caused an unprecedented accident in the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan. Fukushima Dai-ichi reactors suffered core meltdowns in the following days.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 5, 2021

In the wake of the Fukushima disaster in 2011, the German government closed down eight reactors and announced all the nation’s nuclear power would close by 2022. There are currently around 8 GW of operational nuclear power in Germany. Germany has a rather unique relationship with nuclear energy.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

available installed generating capacity – a share significantly greater than that of coal (18.88%) and more than three times that of nuclear power (8.32%). Renewables now provide more than a quarter (25.39%) of total U.S. By comparison, a year ago, renewables’ share was only 23.28%. rooftop) solar. That growth continues.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 17, 2020

Illinois’ Future Energy Jobs Act, passed in late 2016, qualified Exelon’s Clinton and Quad Cities nuclear power plants to receive hundreds of millions of dollars per year as zero-carbon resources. Under a landmark 2011 state law, ComEd has spent $2.6 ComEd is also struggling to justify its $9.53

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 1, 2020

For the past nine years, Chicago-based utility ComEd has earned excessive profits from a regulatory structure set in place by a 2011 state law whose passage has been linked to a bribery scandal that’s embroiled key state lawmakers and ComEd’s former CEO. The workings of the 2011 Energy Infrastructure Modernization Act.

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The Guardian: Energy

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

UN-approved release to go ahead despite China’s ban on all Japanese sea imports following first batch Japan will begin releasing a second batch of wastewater from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant from next week, its operator has said, an exercise that angered China and others when it began in August. Continue reading.

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Business Green

JUNE 30, 2022

International Energy Agency argues nuclear power can play a significant role in supporting transition to a renewables-dominated energy system worldwide. However, it still expects renewable electricity sources to dominate the global energy mix, with nuclear power projected to make up only around eight per cent of the mix by mid-century.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Some coal and nuclear power plants have been forced offline, most likely due to freezing temperatures shutting down cooling systems or instrumentation required to keep them running safely. “We’ve lost multiple gigawatts of coal, we’ve had a nuclear power plant trip offline” — the 2.4-gigawatt

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R-Squared Energy

JULY 26, 2021

The remainder of global energy consumption came from coal (27.2%), natural gas (24.7%), hydropower (6.9%), renewables (5.7%), and nuclear power (4.3%). As with energy consumption, this was also the largest decline since 1945, and put annual emissions back at levels last seen in 2011. Renewables and Nuclear Power.

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 14, 2021

Ten years after an earthquake and tsunami caused meltdowns at the Fukushima nuclear power plant , Japan has announced plans to release contaminated water from the plant into the ocean. Workers used more than 1 million metric tons of water to cool the three reactors that melted down in 2011. Via BBC Image via TEPCO / IAEA.

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TIME Ecocentric

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

If there was one thing that seemed certain in the wake of the Fukushima Daiichi meltdown in 2011—the worst atomic accident since Chernobyl—it was that nuclear power in Japan and the rest of the world was in major trouble. Other countries took note, too.

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Business Green

MARCH 24, 2023

The development is also a major milestone for the Hinkley Connection Project, which aims to connect six million buildings in the South West to local, low carbon energy supplies, including the Hinkley Point C nuclear power station currently under construction in the area.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 4, 2021

Related: Fukushima nuclear power plant to release contaminated water into ocean Wyoming Governor Mark Jordan has embraced the project, both for creating energy while reducing CO2 emissions as well as for the hundreds of operation and construction jobs the project promises. But not everybody is celebrating. The rest is here:Â .

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 27, 2020

The plan included a possibility of its power coming from nuclear energy, an option that is widely contested in the country. After a 2011 nuclear power accident in Fukushima, the Japanese public has remained opposed to nuclear energy.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 3, 2022

Since the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, the nuclear power generation fleet has had its output been effectively mothballed with output below 20% of earlier levels. While there has been growth in the solar sector, most generation is provided by gas and coal.

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Business Green

MARCH 23, 2023

It comes at a time in which private sector funding for larger nuclear power stations is proving to be extremely difficult. The Rolls-Royce design is a 470MW pressurised water reactor, which is bigger than one of the reactors at Fukushima in Japan that suffered serious damage in the 2011 tsunami.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 23, 2020

Researchers at NYU’s Marron Institute recently published a review of 2011 to 2016 data for 4,000 buildings finding that the city’s mandatory energy audits resulted in energy use reductions of 2.5 The proposed Champlain Hudson Power Express transmission line would carry hydropower from Quebec south to New York City.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MARCH 10, 2021

Carbon trading, co-pollutants, and environmental equity: Evidence from California’s cap-and-trade program (2011-2015) ) In this Part 2, I provide some extended details on the assessments presented in Part I. The paper reports that 52% of facilities considered reported emission increases between 2011-12 and 2013-15.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MARCH 10, 2021

Carbon trading, co-pollutants, and environmental equity: Evidence from California’s cap-and-trade program (2011-2015) ) In this Part 2, I provide some extended details on the assessments presented in Part I. The paper reports that 52% of facilities considered reported emission increases between 2011-12 and 2013-15.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

In hopes of reinventing its image, new life is breathing into Fukushima, the Japanese northeastern prefecture that was devastated by a 2011 tsunami and consequent nuclear power plant meltdown. Eight years ago, in March 2011, a magnitude-9.0 Decontamination of Fukushima’s nuclear plant and surroundings are ongoing.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 15, 2021

Kimiko Hirata, 50, fought coal plant construction in Japan following the 2011 meltdown of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. This year’s Goldman honorees have claimed a wide array of environmental victories worldwide.

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CleanTech Alliance

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

31, 2019 By now, more Japanese have died from the closing of Japan’s nuclear power plants following the 2011 Tohoku quake than from the tsunami and the earthquake combined, which was about 20,000 people. Source: James Conca, Forbes, Oct.

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Earth Gratitude

AUGUST 27, 2017

Anti-Nuclear Power Plant Rally on 19 September 2011 at Meiji Shrine Outer Garden. Power to the People! © WikiMedia Commons. Used with permission. An Action Plan For 2017 and Beyond. Over the past few weeks, I’ve seen a long list of “I Will Not” circulating on the Internet.

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Any time I write about nuclear power, it evokes passionate responses from readers. That was certainly the case following my previous article, Nuclear Power Could Cut The World’s Carbon Emissions In Half. There is always a contingent who are convinced that all we need is solar power. Where is nuclear power growing?

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R-Squared Energy

AUGUST 23, 2020

My thinking is more along the lines of “Can we meet global carbon dioxide emission targets without nuclear power?” and European Union are the areas with the world’s greatest nuclear power consumption, as well as the greatest dependence on nuclear power. I believe the answer to that is “No.”. Today the U.S.

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The Verge: Energy

JULY 20, 2024

Earlier this month, President Joe Biden signed bipartisan legislation into law meant to speed the development of next-generation nuclear reactors in the US by streamlining approval processes. Next-generation reactors are smaller and modular, meant to make them cheaper and easier to build than old-school nuclear power plants.

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R-Squared Energy

APRIL 28, 2023

In 2019, the International Energy Agency (IEA) released Nuclear Power in a Clean Energy System , which highlights the importance of nuclear power in decarbonizing the world’s energy sector. To be clear, nuclear power will face headwinds as long as the public perceives that such risks still exist.

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 26, 2021

A decade earlier, during the first four months of 2011, renewables provided 13.75% of electrical production. in April 2011 (year-to-date) to 13.9% A decade earlier – i.e., in April 2011, renewables’ share of generating capacity was 13.97%. in April 2021 (YTD). adding about 1.35% to its share each year).

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

But most jurisdictions use the broader term “clean energy,” which can also include resources like large hydroelectric generation and nuclear power. Some 100 percent targets, like Hawaii’s, are focused exclusively on renewable energy, or sources that cannot be depleted, like wind, solar and geothermal.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

APRIL 21, 2022

relates to the Global Energy Sector Intrusion Campaign, which occurred from approximately 2011 through 2018 and targeted US and international energy sector networks. The co-conspirators targeted a variety of organizations in the energy sector, including oil and gas firms, nuclear power plants, and utility and power transmission companies.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Politicians and regulators have highlighted power plant operators’ failure to winterize equipment against cold temperatures, despite guidance to do so after similar, if much smaller-scale, winter rolling blackouts in 2011.

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