Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 17, 2022

As long as there are enough suppliers (such as renewables and nuclear) with low marginal costs, the price paid for electricity by consumers also remains low. But as soon as demand outstrips the capacity of these low-cost producers, prices jump to the price bid by gas-fired generators, which depends largely on the price of natural gas.

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R-Squared Energy

OCTOBER 24, 2019

There, the plant is expected to provide power to about 100,000 homes. The success of this project could mark a sharp change in the way nuclear power is deployed in areas where renewable energy cannot be implemented— and could herald new advances in the fight against climate change. No Free Lunch.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Last month the CPUC launched a proceeding considering emergency steps to relieve the possibility of another grid emergency next summer, with options, ranging from bolstering supply-side resources like natural gas-fired power plants or utility-scale batteries to increasing demand-side resources like behind-the-meter batteries and demand response.

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

It refers to the global shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources, aiming to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and combat climate change. Energy Information Administration During the previous century, the use of oil and natural gas steadily increased. Nuclear power began to ramp up in the mid-1960s.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 2, 2020

In search of alternatives, utilities turned to domestic coal, nuclear power and natural gas. Alongside increased dependence on nuclear power, an accident at the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station in 1979 raised new concerns about the resilience of the nuclear fleet.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 19, 2021

It also highlights the threat climate change poses to maintaining grid reliability while using traditional methods to calculate the reserves needed to keep demand from outstripping supply. No quick fixes to grid challenges.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Oil and gas companies have for years marketed fracked gas from B.C. as a global climate solution, with some industry boosters even going so far as to call Canada’s supply of the fossil fuel the “cleanest in the world.” Burning all that gas could release 13.7 Even ostensibly progressive politicians are on board, with B.C.’s

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 6, 2021

But rising temperatures from climate change are just one challenge. California and other states are pushing to use clean electricity to power vehicles and buildings to cut carbon, which will increase demand. And the state’s last nuclear power plant and numerous coastal gas power plants are facing retirement.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

The global energy agency put the halt in CO2 growth down to declining emissions from power generation in advanced economies such as the EU and the USA, thanks in large part to the expanding role of renewable energy such as wind and solar. per cent in 2018. per cent drop in CO2, amounting to 140 million tonnes.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 14, 2020

California regulators have allowed utilities to replace capacity from the closed San Onofre nuclear power plant with new gas-fired peaker plants, though they also required Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas & Electric to seek out batteries, energy efficiency and demand response to meet part of the shortfall.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

He expects blue hydrogen made from natural gas via steam reforming to meet around 80 percent of the 5 GW target, with HyNet alone planning for 3.5 Nuclear power will receive £525 million for the development of large and small-scale reactors. ” Lord Deben, Chairman of the Climate Change Committee, the U.K.’s

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R-Squared Energy

MARCH 1, 2020

In the previous installment of this series, I highlighted Jeff Bezos’s recent commitment of $10 billion to fight climate change. The primary culprits that add carbon dioxide to the atmosphere are the coal, oil, and natural gas — the fossil fuels — we consume for energy. Consider coal, for example. Oil Replacements.

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Energy Innovation

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Fighting climate change is the challenge of our time—cutting emissions at the speed and scale science deems necessary will determine the future of nearly all living things on the planet for generations. To generate electricity, they harness natural processes like wind, the sun’s rays, the earth’s heat, and the flow of water.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 12, 2023

Rees-Mogg suggested that the development of nuclear small modular reactors (SMRs) could be an outlet for quick investment. All but one of the UK’s nuclear power stations are due to close by 2030, and the government has launched a challenge, backed by Treasury funding, to test whether SMR technology is viable.

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Global Renewable News

DECEMBER 2, 2024

HIGHLIGHTS SOLAR IS 78% OF NEW US GENERATING CAPACITY YTD AND THE LARGEST SOURCE OF NEW CAPACITY FOR 13 MONTHS STRAIGHT AT 11% OF NEW CAPACITY, WIND ADDED MORE THAN NATURAL GAS & NUCLEAR POWER.

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Business Green

MARCH 26, 2020

The UK's domestic greenhouse gas emissions fell 3.6 per cent last year as renewable power sources once again sent records tumbling, provisional data released today shows, prompting the government to hail the country's "extraordinary progress in tackling climate change". In 2019 total UK greenhouse gas emissions were 45.2

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Energy Innovation

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Fighting climate change is the challenge of our time—cutting emissions at the speed and scale science deems necessary will determine the future of nearly all living things on the planet for generations. To generate electricity, they harness natural processes like wind, the sun’s rays, the earth’s heat, and the flow of water.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 17, 2020

Many more long-term challenges await PG&E, such as adapting to large portions of its customer base being served by community choice aggregators (CCAs), or its natural gas network being rendered obsolete by the state’s zero carbon by 2045 mandate. Gavin Newsom’s Wildfires Blue Ribbon Commission.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 24, 2021

The first, biggest step to slowing climate change is switching electricity generation from coal and gas to wind and sun. This needs to happen fast, with coal phased out no later than 2030 and gas not far behind. France built nuclear power. Iceland tapped geothermal. The US ultimately found fracking.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2022

On December 18, 2020, the day when the public consultation came to a close, “the gas bloc” — Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Greece, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia — submitted an unofficial document expressing their concerns to the European Commission.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The fledgling hydrogen industry is expanding fast, and now nuclear operators are joining renewables developers in exploring how they could play a critical role in delivering zero emission hydrogen at large scale. The roadmap also emphasises the role that advanced modular reactors (AMRs) could play in powering green hydrogen production.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 20, 2021

“Without decisive action this decade, India's aggregate emissions could soar to become the world's largest by midcentury — a body blow to global efforts to rein in climate change.” Source: Brookings Institute " Coal in India " report.

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Business Green

JULY 19, 2022

Technically, National Grid ESO's remit is "networked energy" - the electricity, natural gas and future hydrogen networks that share a grid network and are considered part of one overarching system. The ESO hailed this as evidence of just how far decarbonisation ambition and technical feasibility had progressed in recent years.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

He (conveniently) argued the government is "committed to give more power to councils to make their own decisions on planning issues". It is an argument I am sure will be noted by Suffolk County Council, which has refused planning permission for EDF's proposed Sizewell C nuclear power station.

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Business Green

MARCH 30, 2023

Great British Nuclear (GBN): As expected, today sees the launch of a new agency based in Greater Manchester tasked with overseeing the rollout of a new fleet of nuclear power capacity through both large scale and small modular reactors (SMR). Detailing £11.6

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Hydrogen Fuel News

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Hydrogen, while still costly to produce using renewable energy sources, is seen as a key pillar in achieving long-term energy security and tackling climate change. While this process is economically viable, it contributes significantly to greenhouse gas emissions. ” Funding Details The $2.2

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Climate Tech VC

OCTOBER 15, 2024

As the country pushes ahead on boosting new renewable capacity (and closed down its last coal plant last month), energy storage is a must to smooth out generation in the long-term, while also reducing reliance on natural gas to avoid price volatility after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. 

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R-Squared Energy

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

nuclear power supplied another 8.0%. Even though renewables are expanding rapidly, the percentage of energy we get from fossil fuels hasn’t changed that much over the years. As a result, natural gas consumption has increased by nearly 40% over the past decade in the U.S. . of our energy in the U.S.;

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R-Squared Energy

MARCH 4, 2022

That brings me to Russia’s natural gas. Schlesinger Chair in Energy and Geopolitics with the Energy Security and Climate Change Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). In the short-term, one of the issues is Europe’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) import capacity. Natural Gas.

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Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Natural gas Energy 60

DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

Research by DeSmog shows that Porter has a track record of publicly casting doubt on established science on human-caused climate change. The BBC regularly covers climate change and the dangers of climate misinformation. She also spoke at a webinar run by GWPF’s campaign arm Net Zero Watch last June.

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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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Hydrogen Nuclear Power Natural gas Energy 95

Renewable Energy World

JUNE 28, 2021

In 2010, solar power was just 4 percent of new electric generating capacity and there was a patchwork of state solar policies and renewable portfolio standards. [1] These dramatic changes did not happen in a vacuum. In the US, battery electric vehicles represent about 2.5

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Business Green

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Industry Voice: Schneider Electric's Amy Haddon ponders whether the UN Climate Change Summit delivered on businesses' hopes. In November, I had the privilege to represent Schneider Electric at the UN's Conference of Parties (COP) on climate change in Glasgow. One aim of the conference was to 'keep 1.5

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 26, 2021

Its latest 3-year data foresee the net capacity for coal, oil, natural gas, and nuclear power combined dropping by more than 14 gigawatts (GW) whereas renewables – mostly solar and wind – are forecast to grow by over 64 GW. adding about 1.35% to its share each year).

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

The catastrophic breakdown of Texas’ natural gas and electricity system last week lacks a single villain to blame for it all. “We set up rules very deliberately to say, 'Give us the cheapest gas, power and water you can get, and don’t bother me about all that other stuff,'” she said.

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Mr. Sustainability

MAY 30, 2021

Wizards Wizards support big, high tech, centralized power plants based on concentrated energy sources like coal, oil, natural gas and uranium. Once the nuclear plant is running, it is reliable and the downtime derives mainly from maintenance. They do believe that substituting coal by uranium is.

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Climate Tech VC

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Award winners took a broad swath of color approaches, from green hydrogen powering heavy-duty trucks and port operations, to pink nuclear-powered hydrogen, and blue hydrogen (natural gas with carbon capture) in the Appalachian Hub.  First climate change came for your coffee, tea, and grapes for wine.

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