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

Business Green

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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Global Briefing: Coronavirus crisis will have 'negligible' impact on emissions without green recovery, study warns

Business Green

Climate Home News reported this week on plans from India's Power and Renewable Energy Ministry to imposedutires of up to 25 per cent on solar modules and 15 per cent on cells imported from China and Malaysia. Study: China accounts for over 90 per cent of planned global coal power capacity.

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The Net Zero Review: Everything businesses need to know

Business Green

This new Office should take ownership of delivering the net zero agenda with oversight from both the Cabinet Office and the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), working closely with devolved governments, the National Audit Office, and the Climate Change Committee (CCC), among other agencies. million by 2033.

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? Copper’s the new gold rush #184

Climate Tech VC

  KoBold Metals discovered a major copper deposit, which could be the start to solving growing supply and demand imbalances brought on by copper’s fundamental role in the energy transition.  Demand The most critical of energy transition minerals.   Big enough to matter.   Demand is on the rise.

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Think tank outlines possible clean energy industrial strategy for the UK

Envirotec Magazine

Accelerating the build-out of clean energy will reduce costs and make the UK more secure, write Josh Freed and Isabelle Chan of US think tank Third Way, which released a new policy paper on the topic on 29 September. For example, the UK has the Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy Department. Why industrial strategy?

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

Business Green

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. New Investment Zones will bring business investment and release land for new homes in communities across the country.

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🌏 The data center power shift #226

Climate Tech VC

A handful of new announcements from Exxon, Shell, Google, and more show how emerging clean firm technologies are scaling up to power the sector. In deals, $600m in data centers, $44 in lithium-ion energy storage and $35m in drone monitoring.   What happened? Chevron’s CEO also said that the company has similar plans.