GreenTechMedia

JULY 17, 2020

Illinois’ Future Energy Jobs Act, passed in late 2016, qualified Exelon’s Clinton and Quad Cities nuclear power plants to receive hundreds of millions of dollars per year as zero-carbon resources. Under a landmark 2011 state law, ComEd has spent $2.6 ComEd is also struggling to justify its $9.53

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Hydrogen Fuel News

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The country is working on making a “hydrogen acceleration law” a reality. The law to accelerate hydrogen infrastructure development is expected to be presented this year. The Economy Ministry stated that the plan is to present the law to fast-track hydrogen this year.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 3, 2020

New Jersey utility Public Service Enterprise Group (PSEG), facing state clean energy mandates and an economic imperative to shift its business to regulated assets, is seeking to exit its merchant fossil and solar generation business, while retaining its nuclear power plants and exploring a major expansion into offshore wind.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 15, 2024

Vince Zabielski is a Partner with law firm Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman. What fate awaits the power sector under what will likely be a Labour government, and why is the question so important? gigawatts of nuclear power lost between now and 2028, and Hinkley Point C won’t be online until after 2030 at the earliest.

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Business Green

JULY 19, 2024

The ADVANCE Act positions the US nuclear energy sector to expand at a pace not seen for decades

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 29, 2020

APS has committed to 100-percent clean power by 2050 , including an interim target of 65 percent by 2030. That target will make use of the roughly 25 percent of its capacity provided by the Palo Verde nuclear power plant, as well as 45 percent renewable energy, largely solar power.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

available installed generating capacity – a share significantly greater than that of coal (18.88%) and more than three times that of nuclear power (8.32%). “And this growth can only accelerate if recent COP26 commitments are kept and the proposed federal Build Back Better legislation is enacted into law.”

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 27, 2020

” FirstEnergy Solutions, the owner of the nuclear power plants set to receive about $1.2 The affidavit filed by the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Southern District of Ohio doesn’t name FirstEnergy, referring instead to “Company A” and other unnamed subsidiaries.

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Canary Media

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Ohio environmental advocates are questioning the intent of a pending state law that would add nuclear power to the states legal definition of green energy. House Bill 308s sponsors say the legislation is meant to signal that Ohio is open for business when it comes to nuclear power research and development, but

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 23, 2020

Saturday marked the one-year anniversary of the passage of perhaps the most ambitious law ever adopted by a U.S. Local Law 97, one of 10 bills in the sweeping Climate Mobilization Act , requires New York City’s 50,000 largest buildings to reduce their carbon emissions by 40 percent by 2030 and by 80 percent by 2050.

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POWER Magazine

JULY 25, 2024

who is now a senior policy advisor for the law firm Van Ness Feldman and co-chair of the Natural Allies Leadership Council, is keen […] The post Landrieu: Natural Gas Is ‘Not the Enemy, It Is Part of the Solution’ to Achieving Climate Goals appeared first on POWER Magazine. Former U.S. Mary Landrieu (D-La.),

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 14, 2020

government’s long-awaited energy white paper is out with confirmation of fresh negotiations with EDF over a new nuclear power station and a drive to push up the price of carbon. Those ideas now begin their journey into law, offering the energy sector some welcome certainty at the same time. The £12 billion ($16.1

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2022

Campaigners have launched a legal challenge against the government's decision to grant planning permission to the Sizewell C Nuclear Power Station in Suffolk, arguing that development consent has been granted unlawfully. The ExA accepted the arguments in part, and recommended refusal of development consent.

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The Guardian: Energy

MAY 27, 2024

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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GreenTechMedia

MAY 4, 2020

Utility Dominion Energy is planning a major shift toward renewable energy and batteries as it looks to comply with Virginia's ambitious new clean energy law. Under the law, Dominion Virginia and the smaller Appalachian Power Co.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 10, 2021

By comparison, the CfD awarded to Hinkley Point C nuclear power station is £106.12/MWh. It is led jointly by Biofuelwatch, Stand.earth, Dogwood Alliance, NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council) and the Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC).?. ?. MWh at current rates.

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

In the previous article , I discussed some of the developments that are taking place to make nuclear power safer, such that a major accident like those at Chernobyl and Fukushima are simply no longer possible. Ramping up Nuclear Power. is doing to kick start nuclear power in the U.S., and push U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 12, 2020

Nuclear power is also set to play a big role, with Duke hoping to renew operating licenses for its 11 reactors to extend their lives by another two decades. That has brought opposition from environmental groups. Unlike many other large-scale solar developers, Duke has built relatively little energy storage so far.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 1, 2020

For the past nine years, Chicago-based utility ComEd has earned excessive profits from a regulatory structure set in place by a 2011 state law whose passage has been linked to a bribery scandal that’s embroiled key state lawmakers and ComEd’s former CEO.

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The Guardian: Energy

DECEMBER 14, 2024

These issues can be broadly listed under three headings: the economics, the environment and the law. Australians have a right to consider all the issues they are being asked to vote on, with facts rather than political rhetoric.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Are we here to talk about constitutional law, or do I need to put some pants on? As the turkey takes hold in your bellies and your eyelids begin to droop, you’ll know it’s time to do for your dinner party what Californians do with massive amounts of carbon-free nuclear power: shut it down.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Senate Bill 917 would authorize the state to use eminent domain to acquire the assets and ownership of a utility if it “has been convicted of one or more felony criminal violations of laws enacted to protect the public safety within 10 years” — language tailored specifically to PG&E’s 2017 conviction on six criminal charges (..)

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Even so, “given the imminence of the 2021 system reliability needs, there is not time to complete that analysis, allow additional input and vetting from parties, and still have procurement take place in time to meet a potential shortfall in the timeframe of Summer 2021,” administrative law judge Julie A.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 1, 2021

Freezing temperatures caused cascading problems in the state’s natural-gas production and delivery network that restricted fuel supply to the power plants relied upon for about two-thirds of wintertime electricity supply. It also froze up sensors and cooling systems that forced natural gas, coal and nuclear power plants to trip offline.

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The Guardian: Energy

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

In response, Dr Philip Thomas, a researcher at the University of Exeter, proclaims (2 February) that cold fusion is a pseudo-scientific fringe theory in violation of the laws of nature. Which laws, in particular, Dr Thomas does not say. There is, however, a constructive middle ground between Josephsons fervour and Thomass denigration.

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R-Squared Energy

JUNE 16, 2020

A Place for Nuclear Power. However, existing infrastructure of fossil fuels will create some headwinds for renewables, as well as nuclear power, the world’s largest source of low-carbon energy. Nuclear power can be part of a low-carbon sustainable future along with renewable energy.

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R-Squared Energy

JULY 14, 2020

However, the laws of thermodynamics require that it always takes more energy to split water into hydrogen and oxygen than you can obtain from the hydrogen. That means either renewable or nuclear power – if the price isn’t too high. When an electric current is passed through water, the reaction can be represented as: 2 H 2 O ?

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Climate Tech VC

MARCH 4, 2024

  In other news the EU parliament passed a law to restore 20% of the EU’s land and sea by 2030, England requires all new buildings to improve biodiversity, and the US Congress finds something they can agree on with nuclear policy, while the SEC may be set to announce watered down rules on reporting.  

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Business Green

MAY 22, 2022

Pick boasts more than 25 years' experience of advising on the development of energy projects worldwide, including legal work at the law firms Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Shearman & Sterling.

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38 North Solutions

JULY 30, 2022

Current law taxes the performance-based compensation paid to managers of certain investment partnerships at long-term capital-gains rates rather than as ordinary income provided that a three-year holding period is met. Should this bill become law, from 2022-2024, these credits are extended and restored to their full value. 13101/ SEC.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 16, 2021

Environmental consultants are experts in sustainability and offer their knowledge and insight on the latest environmental standards, regulations and laws. Environmental geologists help prevent contamination of soil and groundwater by determining geologically safe locations for new landfills, coal ash disposal sites and nuclear power plants.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The offers of nuclear power, coal and gas come next. The energy producers offer the capacity of their power plants in the daily auctions for their marginal costs. Especially for Germany, with phasing-out of nuclear power a low cost power generation element is gone and has to be replaced with other sources.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The offers of nuclear power, coal and gas come next. The energy producers offer the capacity of their power plants in the daily auctions for their marginal costs. Especially for Germany, with phasing-out of nuclear power a low cost power generation element is gone and has to be replaced with other sources.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

The body also welcomed the passing of the UK's 2050 net zero target into law last year, as well as the government's plans to build 40GW of offshore wind capacity by 2030 and bring forward its proposed fossil fuel car phase out to 2035 at the latest.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

The move - which would form part of the EU's proposed new climate law to deliver net zero emissions by 2050 across the continent - marks a significant jump from the existing 2030 goal to reduce greenhouse gases by 40 per cent, and would need approval by a majority of the 27 EU Member States as well as the European Parliament to come into force.

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Business Green

JANUARY 19, 2021

And the last thing I'll say about that is that there'll be legislation in the summer which will seek to put into law the sixth carbon budget targets that were put forward by the CCC.". However, Kwarteng insisted nuclear remained a vital plank of the UK's net zero transition plans. Nuclear power is essential," he told MPs.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2022

Between March and July 2020, nuclear lobbies met with EU representatives twice as often as they did in 2018, according to the non-governmental organization Reclaim Finance. In response, the European Commission asked its Joint Research Centre (JRC) to assess the absence of significant environmental harm from nuclear power.

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