The Guardian: Energy

JUNE 5, 2024

Low-carbon electricity investment driven by solar projects but oil and gas spending still too high to meet climate goals Global investment in low-carbon electricity will rise to 10 times as much as fossil fuel power this year due to an increase in spending on solar projects, according to the International Energy Agency.

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The Guardian: Energy

JUNE 26, 2024

No, not nuclear power. Last Friday, while everyone was racing down nuclear-powered rabbit holes, the environment department (led by the environment minister, Tanya Plibersek) approved a coal seam gas pipeline in Queensland.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 14, 2024

million from fossil fuel interests, climate science deniers, and highly polluting industries. Until April 2024, Farmer held shares in the fossil fuel giants Shell and BP, each worth more than £100,000. From the 2019 general election to the start of the 2024 election campaign, the Tories had accepted at least £8.4

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The Guardian: Energy

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

There is little difference between this government’s and its Conservative predecessor’s policies on expansion There seems to be no difference between Conservative and Labour policies on nuclear power. Continue reading.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

In fact, some predictions expect investing will into low-CO2 power be nearly twice that in fossil fuel Worldwide spending on clean energy infrastructure and tech is currently aligned to reach $2 trillion by the close of this year, even as new projects face challenges due to higher financing costs. ”

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TechXplore

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

The demand for electricity is growing rapidly as the world transitions from fossil fuels to low carbon-emitting forms of energy. However, making this transition will be difficult.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

For instance, utilizing hydrogen derived from nuclear energy could be a pivotal step forward. Nuclear-powered electrolysis, where reactors supply the heat and electricity needed to split water into hydrogen and oxygen, represents a promising pathway. The company has hinted at utilizing green hydrogen in the future.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

But Imperial College London analysis warns emerging technologies and negative emission power plants are likely to be needed to unlock full decarbonisation of the grid. Nuclear power, meanwhile, provided 17.5 per cent of Britain's power last year, while imports accounted for just under seven per cent.

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The Guardian: Energy

JANUARY 23, 2024

Experts say world is ‘past peak fossil power’ but warn against uneven development of energy projects Nuclear power generation is likely to break records in 2025 as more countries invest in reactors to fuel the shift to a low-carbon global economy, while renewable energy is likely to overtake coal as a power source early next year, data has shown.

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Canary Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Solar and wind power are more popular among Americans than nuclear power or fossil fuels, according to a May survey from Pew Research… Canary Media’s chart of the week translates crucial data about the clean energy transition into a visual format. Canary thanks Clean Energy Counsel for its support of the column.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Instead, LucidCatalyst argues governments should consider investing in hydrogen produced by a new generation of advanced modular reactors that are "very different from current large nuclear power plants" and manufactured with new, modular shipyard manufacturing process.

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Business Green

JULY 26, 2021

Scottish Widows has claimed that its £250m Environmental Fund now boasts the widest fossil fuel exclusions of any pension provider in the UK, as it unveiled a reboot of the 31-year-old scheme this morning. Outfits that receive revenue from nuclear energy or nuclear uranium mining will also be excluded, it added.

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R-Squared Energy

JUNE 28, 2020

The remainder of global energy consumption came from coal (27%), natural gas (24%), hydropower (6%), renewables (5%), and nuclear power (4%). Cumulatively, fossil fuels — shown below in shades of gray — still accounted for 84% of the world’s primary energy consumption in 2019.

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Thus, those huge growth rates aren’t yet translating into enough energy consumption to even stall global fossil fuel consumption growth. Nuclear power is unique among energy sources. You have to wonder where things would stand today if not for the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster. It’s understandable.

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Mr. Sustainability

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Nuclear power is up to three times more expensive than wind or solar Summary - Costs of renewables continue to fall incrementally and are at a record low of around €40 per MWh. Nuclear power plants, especially in the West, are confronted with high construction costs, extreme delays and more stringent safety measures.

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Solar Power World

JANUARY 11, 2023

Renewable energy sources like solar and wind are consistently outpacing the new deployment of fossil fuels and nuclear energy in the United States.

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The Guardian: Energy

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Nuclear power is too costly and risky, Ramana says. You’d be forgiven for thinking that the debate on nuclear power is pretty much settled. But what if this optimism were in fact wrong, and nuclear power can never live up to its promise? Why then, he asks in his new book, do governments still back it?

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Hydrogen Fuel News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

In a groundbreaking study, experts from the National Nuclear Laboratory (NNL) have unveiled a promising vision for the future of clean energy. This innovative approach not only promises economic viability but also underscores the role of nuclear energy as a sustainable, low-carbon power source.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

The IEA's Fatih Birol recently described the global clean energy transition as "irreversible", as he highlighted how 85 per cent of new power capacity in 2023 was renewables, compared to five per cent nuclear and 10 per cent fossil fuels. To fund, build, and operate nuclear power plants?

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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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Business Green

JANUARY 7, 2022

Closure of EDF's Ayrshire plant, which has operated on west coast of Scotland since 1976, leaves UK with just seven operational nuclear stations. The 1.2GW capacity power station first began operating in 1976, and although it was originally expected to operate for 25 years, EDF was able to extend the plant's lifespan a number of times. "It

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

power forecast , the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ( FERC ) has predicted major declines for fossil fuels and nuclear power alongside strong growth in renewables by 2022, according to a review of the data by the SUN DAY Campaign, a pro-renewables research and education nonprofit.

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Charged

DECEMBER 29, 2021

How many times this week have you read that renewable energy is unreliable, and will never be able to completely replace fossil fuels on the electrical grid? This means no fossil fuels, carbon capture, direct air capture, bioenergy, blue hydrogen or nuclear power.”. million permanent jobs.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 20, 2023

A nuclear power plant in the Czech Republic. Selective adsorption of radioactive caesium ions (Cs+) in highly acidic conditions is a major challenge in nuclear powerplant wastewater treatment. Nuclear power is typically considered a cleaner way of generating power compared to fossil fuels.

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R-Squared Energy

MAY 4, 2021

Grey hydrogen denotes hydrogen produced from fossil fuels, such as via the SMR process. Depending on the process, blue hydrogen can be produced from fossil fuels, but it can also be produced from nuclear power. The Nuclear Option. This is where nuclear power can make a huge impact.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

By comparison, production by the nation’s nuclear power plants in 2021 dropped by 2.81% and 4.07% compared to 2020 and 2019 levels. As a consequence, energy provided by renewable sources thus far in 2021 exceeded nuclear generation by more than 50% (6.160 quads vs. 4.007 quads). energy consumption. energy consumption.

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R-Squared Energy

JUNE 15, 2023

As coal-fired power plants are retired, there is a need for reliable and affordable zero-emission power replacements. Although it is cleaner than coal, natural gas is still a fossil fuel and therefore has associated greenhouse gas emissions. However, nuclear power is a viable option for meeting this need.

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R-Squared Energy

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

These include advanced fossil fuel extraction methods, next-generation nuclear power, geothermal energy, and hydropower. remains the leading global energy producer in oil, natural gas, and nuclear power. This new policy direction comes at a time when the U.S.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Sizewell C project takes major step forward as government unveils plans to establish Great British Energy, a new arms-length public body to oversee UK nuclear power pipeline. Several academic institutes have shown we can have a 100 per cent renewable system that would be cheaper than those based on nuclear or fossil fuels.

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The Guardian: Energy

JULY 1, 2024

Dutton’s policy latches on to genuine concerns about power prices and disruption evident in the latest Guardian Essential report, but what are its real motivations? In 1959 the US government hatched a covert scheme to replace every single bird with a replicant surveillance drone to spy on its own citizens.

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The Guardian: Energy

JANUARY 28, 2025

A number of companies have been able to make these low-energy nuclear reactions work reliably, write Brian Josephson , David J Nagel , Alan Smith , Dr Jean-Paul Biberian and Yasuhiro Iwamura Luca Garzotti observes ( Letters, 22 January ) that serious challenges face the production of energy from processes based on thermonuclear fusion, but failed to (..)

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The Guardian: Energy

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

Dr Philip Thomas responds to a letter claiming that cold fusion could be a viable alternative to fossil fuels I was disappointed to see a letter promoting a pseudo-scientific fringe theory ( Cold fusion may be a viable energy alternative to end reliance on fossil fuels, Letters, 28 January ).

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 4, 2023

The reduction in the global nuclear arsenal to just over 12,000 (of which 4,000 are on operational standby) has ebbed the threat of all-out nuclear war, prompting some to question whether the limited climate models used in the 1980s had understated the consequences of a global nuclear war.

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Science Daily: Renewable Energy

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Nuclear power is considered one of the ways to reduce dependence on fossil fuels, but how to deal with nuclear waste products is a concern. New research reveals a method to more accurately measure, predict and model a key part of the process to make nuclear waste more stable.

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Business Green

JULY 21, 2022

A new report by the think tank maps out the green energy jobs potential across England and Wales, estimating that low carbon power sources such as renewables and nuclear could create three times more secure, skilled jobs than gas power, while the wind and solar sectors hold potential to deliver five times more employment than fossil fuel plants.

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R-Squared Energy

JUNE 4, 2020

So, how does the consumption of renewables and coal compare to our consumption of petroleum, natural gas, and nuclear power? Further, it shows that fossil fuels still dominate our energy consumption. Nuclear power consumption has remained flat for years, and like coal, has been surpassed by renewables.

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Solar Power World

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Sharp declines are foreseen for fossil fuels and nuclear power while renewable energy is forecast to experience… The post Latest FERC three-year forecast shows no new coal and drops in oil and natural gas, while renewables soar appeared first on Solar Power World. electrical generating capacity mix.

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