R-Squared Energy

JULY 14, 2020

To recap, the carbon footprint of hydrogen production from natural gas in a steam methane reformer (SMR) is higher than from directly burning the natural gas. That means either renewable or nuclear power – if the price isn’t too high. That is how over 95% of the world’s hydrogen is currently produced. Putting it into Practice.

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Energy Innovation

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

The five policies are: clean electricity standards, zero-emission vehicle standards, clean building equipment standards, industrial efficiency and emissions standards, and standards for methane detection, capture, and destruction. The five-policy scenario includes strong methane capture and destruction.

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Energy Innovation

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Renewables are a bedrock climate solution, they’re the cheapest form of power today and will keep getting cheaper over time , and we know how to reliably manage an electric grid with a high share of renewable energy. Nuclear plants can provide around-the-clock zero-carbon power, meaning they’re an important part of a clean grid.

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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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Energy Innovation

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Renewables are a bedrock climate solution, they’re the cheapest form of power today and will keep getting cheaper over time , and we know how to reliably manage an electric grid with a high share of renewable energy. Nuclear plants can provide around-the-clock zero-carbon power, meaning they’re an important part of a clean grid.

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38 North Solutions

JULY 30, 2022

Methane and Superfund. -$15 ZERO EMISSION NUCLEAR POWER PRODUCTION CREDIT. Creates a new production tax credit for nuclear power. . -$100 billion. . . Total Spending. -$485 485 billion. 470 billion. 15% Corporate Minimum Tax. 315 billion. IRS Enforcement. 125 billion. Closure of Carried Loophole. $15 15 billion.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 24, 2023

The document highlights the extremely high global warming potential of largely unrecorded methane leakages along the whole natural gas supply chain. Methane emissions have a lifetime in the atmosphere of only about 10 years, which is ten times shorter than that of carbon dioxide. We can’t argue our way out of drastic changes.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

At the very least, utilities will need plans that can get them most of the way there, while rushing ahead with next-generation technologies: long-duration energy storage, small modular nuclear reactors or green hydrogen and methane to fuel natural gas peaker plants. Here's a look at the five largest U.S.

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R-Squared Energy

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Last month the Akademik Lomonosov, a first-of-its-kind floating nuclear plant built by Russian state nuclear energy corporation, Rosatom, arrived at Pevek, a port town on the remote Chukotka Peninsula in the Russian Arctic. There, the plant is expected to provide power to about 100,000 homes. No Free Lunch.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 14, 2020

Afry modeled two possible avenues to decarbonize Europe's power, heat and transport sectors. ” The European Commission's €1 trillion Green Deal has a provision to develop CCS, but nuclear power was not included in the roadmap to becoming net-zero by 2050. Potential criticisms of the study.

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Clean Energy Canada

MARCH 25, 2024

Japan’s LNG imports, for one, have steadily declined over the last decade and fallen to their lowest level in 14 years as the country restarts nuclear power plants and builds out renewables. s LNG industry is the question of where the electricity will come from to power new projects. Adding further uncertainty to B.C.’s

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Clean Energy Canada

MARCH 25, 2024

Japan’s LNG imports, for one, have steadily declined over the last decade and fallen to their lowest level in 14 years as the country restarts nuclear power plants and builds out renewables. LNG in the coming years and decades as forecasts for future LNG demand vary significantly. s intended export markets.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

From 1974-1977, Shell was among the multinational companies that funded and loaned staff to a study known as the Workshop on Alternative Energy Strategies — or WAES — coordinated by Carroll Wilson, a professor at MIT who had begun to champion coal after becoming disenchanted with nuclear power.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 18, 2023

☢️ US nuclear power saw mixed results. The first American power plant in 7 years came online and fusion hit a major milestone , but NuScale’s cancelled Utah SMR project left us feeling a bit uneasy.   COP29 was announced and will be held in Baku, Azerbaijan. Clear(er) skies for IRA SAF tax credit.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

China, currently the world’s largest importer of LNG, is attempting to meet its ambitious climate goals in part by shifting from coal power plants to gas plants. Gas releases less emissions when burned than coal.

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R-Squared Energy

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Along with Vogtle Unit 4, these are the first newly constructed nuclear units built in the United States in more than three decades. nuclear power has fallen far behind China, but the addition of these units will help the U.S. Growth in U.S. Israel goes to war I had a tough time with this one.

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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 17, 2023

BioLNG can be used as a drop-in fuel replacement and due to the higher methane concentration, BioLNG is often a better burning fuel. Electrification: Hydrofoil technologies, battery electric, and even nuclear-powered ships are charging up, but are typically more suitable for short-duration voyages. Ease of Adoption: Easiest.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 17, 2024

” Wilkinson returned to this dilemma in his conclusion, again noting the dangers posed by “emissions and discharges” caused by fossil fuels and nuclear power. As a minimum statement, therefore, human activities must have contributed to the increase in carbon dioxide and methane.”

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 5, 2020

billion including debt, giving a major boost to its goal to reach net-zero emissions of carbon and methane by 2050. Dominion Virginia now gets about 25 percent of its power from coal, one-third from natural gas and more than one-third from nuclear power. for about $9.7

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Business Green

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Another pledge by more than 100 countries to cut methane by 30 per cent by 2030, essential for reducing this potent and prevalent greenhouse gas. A pledge by more than 100 countries - including Brazil - to end deforestation by 2030, a critical first step towards carbon sink and biodiversity preservation. degree Celsius warming trajectory.

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The Verge: Energy

DECEMBER 22, 2023

The problem is that today, most hydrogen is made with the help of fossil fuels — mostly through a process called steam-methane reforming that produces carbon dioxide emissions. Methane is an even more powerful greenhouse gas than CO2, and routinely escapes along the supply chain from production to final use.

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Energy Innovation

JANUARY 17, 2025

An electrolyzers relationship with the power grid whether it causes fossil fuel power plants to increase their output affects the carbon intensity of hydrogen production. Methane-based hydrogen involves splitting hydrogen from methane molecules, typically using another source of methane to provide heat.

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Business Green

MARCH 25, 2022

Washington and Brussels team up in support of wide-ranging plan to diversify Europe's sources of LNG, ramp up renewables development, plug methane leaks, and boost energy efficiency. EU and US team up for energy security push.

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EDF + Business

MARCH 10, 2025

Unleashing American Energy Directs review of all existing regulations that impose burden on development and use of domestic energy – particularly with attention to oil, gas, coal, hydropower, biofuels, critical minerals, and nuclear power. Sets as U.S. EDF Report : Production Underway at Dozens of U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The oil major’s “Princeton Carbon Mitigation Initiative” document from April 2016 also concedes that CCS is not faring as well as renewable energy, noting that wind, solar, and vehicle fuel efficiency are taking off while carbon capture, hydrogen, and nuclear power are “faltering.”

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Dominion’s own emissions-reduction plan pledges to eliminate emissions of carbon dioxide and methane on a net basis by 2050. That’s greater than its previous commitment to reduce net carbon emissions from its power sector by 80 percent by 2050 and methane emissions from its natural-gas operations by 65% by 2030 and 80% by 2040.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 7, 2023

Its officials insist that methane burns cleaner than coal, and they echo a common argument in claiming that it provides a tidy bridge between coal and truly renewable energy. Though bulldozing the units remains an option, the TVA believes a conversion to methane may give these plants a new life and benefit the climate.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 8, 2023

Its officials insist that methane burns cleaner than coal, and they echo a common argument in claiming that it provides a tidy bridge between coal and truly renewable energy. Though bulldozing the units remains an option, the TVA believes a conversion to methane may give these plants a new life and benefit the climate.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

That, in turn, guides how much reliance might be placed on alternative decarbonization technologies such as biomass and carbon-neutral biofuels, zero-carbon fuels such as green hydrogen, advanced nuclear power, and carbon capture and storage. ” State-by-state breakdown of clean energy’s growth potential.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2021

It is important to note that while natural gas carries a lower carbon dioxide footprint when compared to coal, it also results in methane leaks up and down the supply chain. Methane arguably wipes out the perceived benefit of gas over coal. Another tranche of bills is aimed at supporting nuclear energy.

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Business Green

AUGUST 8, 2022

The US is set to get its first ever carbon equivalent tax - on methane. Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas with a global warming potential many times higher than that of CO2. The IRA introduces a charge on methane emissions starting at $900 per metric tonne, before rising to $1,500 per tonne after two years.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 2, 2024

We got to invest more in it,” Vance said, with no acknowledgment of the role methane plays alongside carbon in driving the greenhouse effect. My intuition is maybe we have lots of forests and a few nuclear power plants and then they’d power the whole country,” Thiel said. His policy prescription? More fossil fuels.

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Climate Tech VC

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

  ⚡ Sniffer Robotics , an Ann Arbor, MI-based drones for methane emission detection service provider, raised $1m in Seed funding.  In the US, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) also proposed a new licensing framework for advanced nuclear technologies like small modular and microreactors.

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Climate Tech VC

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

🐄 Agteria Biotech , a Stockholm, Sweden-based methane-reducing feed additive service provider, raised $6m in Seed funding from AgriZeroNZ, Industrifonden, Mudcake (prev. Trellis Road), and Norrsken Launcher.  Can’t get enough deals?

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Amy Klobuchar criticized the Trump administration's decision to kill methane regulations calling it "very dangerous". Cory Booker said that while he will not try to change what people eat he will employ nuclear power in the fight against climate change. She also said, "We need environmental justice in this country."

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