Business Green

AUGUST 16, 2021

Earlier this month, government figures confirmed that renewables ousted fossil fuels as the dominant source of power on Britain's grid for the first time ever in 2020, supplying 38 per cent of the island's power.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

The newly approved changes will boost those targets dramatically for investor-owned utilities Arizona Public Service and Tucson Electric Power, mandating a 50 percent cut in carbon emissions from 2016 to 2018 average levels by 2032 and a 75 percent cut by 2040. are facing bigger and more devastating wildfires.

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Business Green

JANUARY 4, 2023

As such, it sets out how the UK could accelerate its transition away from fossil fuels, secure its energy supplies, and tackle the looming affordability, security, and sustainability 'trilemma' through a raft of new policies. Britain will continue to need to access fossil fuel supplies during the Net Zero transition.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Importantly, the Roadmap concludes that, if we don’t build more than 30 GW of offshore wind, we’re going to need to construct new nuclear power plants to reach our decarbonization target. We’re still going to need some fossil fuels. The Roadmap views the “Limited Offshore Wind” pathway as anything less than 30 gigawatts.

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2022

It argued that investments in renewables, energy efficiency, and smart grid solutions should be at the heart of any response to the crisis, noting how these green investments will enable nations to drastically reduce their reliance on polluting and volatile fossil fuel markets.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Dubbed Great British Energy, the new venture would enable British people to profit from the nation's clean energy resources, he said, stressing that state-backed energy companies from France, China, and Sweden were all currently profiting from wind and nuclear power generated in Britain. British power to the British people.".

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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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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 15, 2021

Kimiko Hirata, 50, fought coal plant construction in Japan following the 2011 meltdown of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Lavigne’s advice for others living near fossil fuel projects is simple: “Tell them to be vigilant of what’s going on in their community,” she said. “If

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Business Green

APRIL 6, 2022

The government will tomorrow publish its long-awaited Energy Security Strategy, promising that the sweeping new plan will 'supercharge' clean energy deployment and put the UK on track to source 95 per cent of its power from domestic low carbon sources by 2030.

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The Guardian: Energy

JUNE 24, 2024

The opposition claims Australia is an outlier in the developed world in not having nuclear, yet Germany and Italy have closed their plants Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our morning and afternoon news emails , free app or daily news podcast So much has been said by the Coalition about what nuclear energy could do for Australia, (..)

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Led by French energy giant EDF - which is also currently constructing a nuclear power plant of the same size at Hinkley Point in Somerset - the Sizewell C project had been expected to provide up to seven per cent of the UK's total electricity needs. The Treasury was considering a request for comment at the time of going to press.

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The Guardian: Energy

MAY 27, 2024

The Coalition has no climate policy. But Labor’s positions are undermined by its confused stance on gas and the delay of new environmental laws Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our morning and afternoon news emails , free app or daily news podcast Federal parliament is back for the next fortnight and I have a wishlist.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Our green industrial revolution will be powered by the wind turbines of Scotland and the North East, propelled by the electric vehicles made in the Midlands and advanced by the latest technologies developed in Wales, so we can look ahead to a more prosperous, greener future.".

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Business Green

JANUARY 11, 2023

Yesterday's draft strategy also reasserts the Scottish Government's long-held opposition to building any new nuclear power capacity in Scotland "under current technologies", arguing the investment would be better focused on renewables and energy efficiency projects. "We

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The Guardian: Energy

AUGUST 19, 2024

The opposition has still produced nothing to back up its widely disputed claim that Australia could have an operational nuclear industry before the 2040s Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our morning and afternoon news emails , free app or daily news podcast Journalists are obsessed with the new.

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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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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 17, 2020

And all of this must happen without excessively raising customer rates, if it’s to avoid political and customer backlash. gigawatt-hours , of energy storage systems to help meet a statewide need for resources to maintain grid stability in the absence of natural gas power plants set to close in the coming years.

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Business Green

APRIL 6, 2022

Decarbonising the gas and electricity grid remains one of the country's most urgent net zero challenges, and the issue has been thrust further up the political agenda this year due to soaring fossil fuel prices and energy security concerns in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

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Climate Tech VC

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

The rate cut lowers debt servicing costs, making clean energy developments more financially attractive, but broader economic and political uncertainty may still temper investments. The project will add 800 MW of nuclear power to the grid and create 1,000 construction jobs and 300 permanent positions.

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The Guardian: Energy

OCTOBER 18, 2024

The Liberal National party’s reluctance to say how it would meet the state’s emissions reduction targets while backing coal-fired power has become an election issue Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Two years ago, former US vice-president and climate change campaigner Al Gore took to a pre-Elon Musk Twitter to congratulate (..)

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

A week is a long time in politics - but the last year has felt like decades in climate and energy policy. 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. At country level, new targets were submitted. per cent to 0.5

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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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Earth Gratitude

AUGUST 27, 2017

Anti-Nuclear Power Plant Rally on 19 September 2011 at Meiji Shrine Outer Garden. Power to the People! I will vote in leaders who will place sustainability and preserving the planet above the insatiable greed of those with ties to the fossil fuel industry. Support a ban on nuclear weapons.

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Business Green

MARCH 16, 2022

Insulation, LED lighting, flexibility services, and smart metering may not garner as much political attention as giant offshore wind farms and nuclear power plants, but experts have long pointed out they are far cheaper and quicker to deploy at scale and will shave money off household energy bills far more quickly.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 4, 2025

Plug Power and Bloom Energy, known for their early investments in clean hydrogen technology, enjoyed stock increases of 10% and 8%, respectively. Constellation Energy stands to benefit from the inclusion of nuclear power in the eligibility criteria for clean electricity, alongside wind and solar, to produce green hydrogen.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

funding boost to support heavy industrial firms - including steel, ceramics, pharmaceuticals and food production - switch away from expensive fossil fuels towards cheaper, greener fuels and energy sources. Separately today, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) announced a £49.4m

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2023

The findings of his Review may do little to convince the net zero sceptics in his own party, but if they take the time to read it they might find themselves pleasantly surprised by how reasonable its 129 recommendations are - and how economically, politically, and socially rational to boot. Agriculture and nature.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2021

There were notable fresh announcements regarding business rates relief for green technology investments, £1.7bn funding for a new nuclear power plant this Parliament, and fresh funding for skills, but these were counterbalanced by a hike in Air Passenger Duty and yet another freeze in fuel duty.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Announcing plans to approve the new Sizewell C nuclear power plant, increase energy efficiency funding from 2025, and retain clean tech R&D budgets, Hunt said the UK would continue to pursue energy independence as it strives to deliver on its climate goals. This is completely backwards.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU) acting director Sepi Golzari-Munro said: "This strategy is an economic and political plan as well as a climate one. What's more, by focusing on technologies like nuclear power - which cannot supply the clean power we need in time - the natural environment will be put at further risk.".

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Business Green

MARCH 27, 2023

Tom Burke, a co-founder of the E3G thinktank, told the Guardian : "This is Fawlty Towers politics - don't mention the environment! Green day was supposed to be an opportunity to get back in the green race, but this is just supporting [fossil fuel] lobbies." It is not Green Day," one insider told the paper.

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Any time I write about nuclear power, it evokes passionate responses from readers. That was certainly the case following my previous article, Nuclear Power Could Cut The World’s Carbon Emissions In Half. There is always a contingent who are convinced that all we need is solar power. Where is nuclear power growing?

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R-Squared Energy

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

You may count me among those who want to see society move beyond fossil fuels. We all know there are negative consequences associated with fossil fuel usage, such as the emission of carbon dioxide and various other pollutants. Most people drastically underestimate our ongoing dependence on fossil fuels.

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Business Green

JANUARY 4, 2023

Yet as anyone working across the UK's green economy would tell the him if he deigned to ask, the Prime Minister does have a ready-made, straight-forward-to-follow recipe at his disposal that could well help ease a number of the government's most pressing political and economic woes. A far cry, perhaps, from the Britain of today.

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Business Green

JULY 1, 2024

The UK's relatively rapid decarbonisation was delivered through a mix of multi-billion dollar investments, technological innovation, effective policy interventions, and political signals that were often inconsistent, but tended to ultimately push in the right direction. The government arguably deserves more credit than it has been getting.

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Business Green

MARCH 7, 2022

By taking Britain down its ruinous path, the political class in Westminster has made a decision on behalf of the rest of us without any public debate being held, saddling taxpayers with a debt that few politicians are brave enough to quantify publicly and even fewer economists are clever enough to forecast accurately. "For

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Energy Innovation

JULY 14, 2020

Because our economies are still coupled with the burning of fossil fuels, this markedly reduced greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Every $1 million invested in renewable energy or energy efficiency created nearly three times as many jobs compared to the same investment in fossil fuels. As such, Hanna et al.

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