Business Green

OCTOBER 12, 2022

The worsening impacts of climate change pose a major threat to the world's energy security, with clean energy supplies needing to double within the next eight years in order to avoid increased extreme weather and water stress that could further drive up the risk of blackouts and power plant outages.

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Business Green

AUGUST 19, 2022

Reports: Germany looking to postpone looming closure of nuclear plants. While such a move would likely be temporary, it would mark a major departure from German energy policy over the past two decades, with the government having opted to gradually shutter its nuclear power plants amid safety fears over atomic energy.

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Business Green

JUNE 18, 2020

Meanwhile, a new report from the LSE's Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and SOAS' Centre for Sustainable Finance today revealed how only a handful of central banks are taking sustainability considerations into account in their economic recovery policies.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MARCH 10, 2021

The largest and one of the fastest emissions growing sectors in the study, power sector emissions were skewed by low availability of zero-carbon resources, including below average hydropower availability and the unexpected shutdown in 2012 of the San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MARCH 10, 2021

The largest and one of the fastest emissions growing sectors in the study, power sector emissions were skewed by low availability of zero-carbon resources, including below average hydropower availability and the unexpected shutdown in 2012 of the San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant.

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 17, 2022

The original foundation was a combination of “base load” coal plants that operated 24 hours a day and large-scale hydropower. Beginning in 1958, these were augmented by nuclear power plants, which have operated nearly continuously to pay off their large capital investments. However, new nuclear plants in the U.S.

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R-Squared Energy

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

nuclear power supplied another 8.0%. Renewables, including hydropower, just 8.7%. Even though renewables are expanding rapidly, the percentage of energy we get from fossil fuels hasn’t changed that much over the years. It is a signal to the world that we are serious about combatting climate change.

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 26, 2021

EIA’s most recent “ Electric Power Monthly ” report reveals that renewable energy sources (i.e., biomass, geothermal, hydropower, solar, wind) provided 22.5% In April 2011, solar and wind accounted for 3.74% of the nation’s generating capacity while hydropower, biomass, and geothermal accounted for 10.23%.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 11, 2021

of Energy to demonstrate technology that produces clean hydrogen energy from nuclear power, as part of the agency's goal of reducing the cost of clean hydrogen production by 80%. Follow @EngelsAngle. An Arizona project will receive $20 million in funding from the U.S.

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Business Green

JULY 15, 2020

Investor Thrive Renewables claims removal of local planning barriers could unlock multi-billion pound potential of onshore wind, solar, and hydropower sectors.

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Business Green

MARCH 25, 2022

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) this week proposed fresh rules that would require listed firms to reveal both their greenhouse gas emissions and the ways in which climate change could impact their business. China latest mega-hydropower plant comes online. Belgium announces plan to delay nuclear exit.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 22, 2020

The first camp sees oil and gas as an industry that will inevitably decline as the world switches to renewables in a bid to combat climate change. As the public, governments and investors wake up to climate change, the clean-energy industry is gaining momentum. Decarbonization Ambitions.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 26, 2021

The same challenges hold true for other utilities that don’t already get a significant share of their energy from hydropower or nuclear power, the two primary carbon-free resources in the country. Wind and solar power accounted for just above 10 percent of U.S. generation capacity in 2020, according to federal data.

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Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 21, 2025

Lee Zeldin, nominee for EPA Administrator, testified before the Senate and revealed few details about plans to change or roll back environmental regulations, beyond pushing for fiscal responsibility. He recognized climate change and the problem of PFAS pollution. See full listings and deal analytics on Sightline Climate.

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Business Green

AUGUST 8, 2022

But overall the Senate's Climate Hawks have mounted a genuinely successful rear-guard action in defence of the Bill and protected many of its core emissions-reducing elements. As President Biden observed, the IRA "makes the largest investment ever in combatting the existential crisis of climate change".

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