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 selling point for nuclear is that it is a relatively low-carbon source of power that can replace fossil fuel electricity generation in the UK and elsewhere.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 18, 2023

In news this week, COP28 wraps up with a landmark agreement on transitioning away from fossil fuels, DOE announces a new office focused on AI, and over 2M Teslas were recalled.  ❄️ Macro market cools climate tech venture. ☢️ US nuclear power saw mixed results.

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Climate Tech VC

MARCH 4, 2024

Weaker residential construction activity cooled the HVAC sector, and heat pump sales bore the brunt at a 16% decline compared to 2022.  Compared with CIM’s previous analyses, the current clean investment boom indicates a disproportionately positive impact on underserved and historically fossil fuel-dependent communities.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 20, 2021

But that will require deploying renewables at an even faster pace than the current trajectory and increasing the utilization or load factor for those renewable energy projects, as well as converting coal-fired power plants to natural gas and growing hydro and nuclear power generation. “Coal will no longer be the king.”

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 29, 2022

The main causes include a lack of fuel for diesel power plants, technical difficulties, and low water levels at the dams where hydropower is produced. This year (2022), France has been struggling with a lack of cooling water for its nuclear power facilities due to an extremely dry period.

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Business Green

MARCH 31, 2022

Boris Johnson stresses that offshore wind has ‘massive potential’, sparking speculation that Number 10 is cooling on proposals to ease planning restrictions. Should the government continue to provide tax breaks or financial support to the fossil fuel industry? Security of energy supply is absolutely vital.

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Unsustainable

APRIL 30, 2019

Meanwhile, global warming-driven climate change, caused by our combustion of fossil fuels and slash-and-burn domestication of the landscape, crescendos increasingly toward catastrophe. Today, more than 70% of the electricity used in France is produced in nuclear power plants.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The recent explosion in energy prices, driven by the high cost of fossil fuels, could increase household energy costs by £100bn in the next year alone. In many areas, like power generation, the case for net-zero investment is irrefutable. This summer's water shortages in Europe could dampen GDP growth by 0.25

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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 17, 2023

Despite fears about cost increases and low-sulfur fuel availability, the change was a success in terms of decreasing pollution that contributes to ocean acidification and harms the health of humans and marine life. What’s new? New regulations focused on CO2 are taking effect this year.

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Climate Tech VC

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Amazon will also lead the $500m C-1 round of X-energy, which is developing High Temperature Gas-cooled Reactors (HTGR) SMRs. Plus, Amazon has signed an MOU with Dominion Energy to explore building an SMR near the company's North Anna nuclear power plant in Virginia.

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Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 16, 2024

The current Haber Bosch process relies on fossil fuels (~ 70% natural gas, 30% coal) and emits 2.4 Also, Ammonia’s high toxicity has led to occupational hazard concerns for seafarers who would face prolonged exposure onboard ammonia-powered vessels and already experience dangerous working conditions. of global emissions. 

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 6, 2025

Alongside its operational investment, Microsoft is also exploring innovative energy solutions to sustain its growing computational needs, such as harnessing energy through nuclear power, a significant first for the recently recommissioned Three Mile Island nuclear power plant. households.

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Business Green

APRIL 16, 2021

A draft White House order obtained by Politico suggests Biden is preparing to instruct federal agencies as well as businesses to embed climate risk assessment and disclosure into their strategies and investments, with fresh regulations reportedly set to cover every sector of the economy including banking, fossil fuels, housing and agriculture.

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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. Many communities are switching to clean energy in order to save money, now that the cost calculation is increasingly in favor of renewables over fossil fuels.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 26, 2024

At the Grand Hôtel, as well as later in the 1990s, loyalty ties were forged between leaders in the Atlas network and several Moderates who later gained positions of power in contemporary government – relationships that would come to be exploited by the fossil fuel industry. from signing the Kyoto Protocol.

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Climate Tech VC

OCTOBER 7, 2024

  🏠 Submer , a Barcelona, Spain-based data center cooling solutions, raised $56m in Growth funding from M&G Investments, Norrsken VC, Mundi Ventures, and Planet First Partners.  In parallel, Sweden is planning to start building a new nuclear reactor by 2026 as part of its long-term energy strategy.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

The US federal government is on Wednesday launched an auction of more than 80 million acres of the gulf for fossil fuel extraction, despite Biden's insistence at the COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow that the US would lead by example in its pursuit of net zero emissions. Reports: Indonesia to launch new carbon trading policy.

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The Verge: Energy

JANUARY 2, 2025

Two cooling towers being rehabilitated for nuclear power generation under Microsoft at Crane Clean Energy Center, previously known as Three Mile Island, stand tall over the residential and farm lands to the east across the Susquehanna River, on Wednesday, October 30th, 2024, in Middletown, Pennsylvania.

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Clean Energy Trust

MARCH 5, 2021

February 2021 Cleantech Roundup: Climate Software Gold Rush | Lone Star State Struggles | Jobs and the Energy Transition Credit: Poole Group This month, we’re covering the rush of investing into startups that quantify, manage, and verify carbon emissions reductions, Texas’ grid troubles, new research on transitioning fossil fuel workers, and more!

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Climate Tech VC

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

°C goal is increasingly out of reach, hosting a climate summit that draws hundreds of industry lobbyists, in a nation whose president hails fossil fuels as a “gift from God,” alongside allegations of human rights abuses, has understandably sparked skepticism. With scientists warning that the 1.5°C

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Climate Tech VC

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Meanwhile, the Trump administration is going all in on fossil fuels — i.e. "drill, baby, drill" It’s backing off on the National Environmental Policy Act, which requires federal agencies consider environmental consequences in project approvals. New nuclear-powered boxship is making waves.

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CleanTechnica

MARCH 8, 2023

In February, Nine Mile Point nuclear power station in upstate New York started making its own hydrogen. Normally, this would be the point where I’d do the math and explain why this is a terrible idea, but in this case they got it right. So, what are they doing and why? The Nine Mile Point […]

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