GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

He expects blue hydrogen made from natural gas via steam reforming to meet around 80 percent of the 5 GW target, with HyNet alone planning for 3.5 Nuclear power will receive £525 million for the development of large and small-scale reactors. GW of blue hydrogen capacity by 2030. The hydrogen plans described above.

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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. Natural gas microgrid advocates reply that solar and batteries alone can’t provide more than several hours of backup at a reasonable cost.

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Business Green

AUGUST 16, 2021

At the same time, however, the intermittency of solar and wind power means poses challenges for ensuring the lights are kept on at all times in the UK, and that peak times of demand can be met regardless of when the wind blows and sun shines.

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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.

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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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R-Squared Energy

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

nuclear power supplied another 8.0%. has seen a drastic decline in coal consumption over the past decade (but global coal consumption has risen) as it has been displaced in the power sector by natural gas primarily, as well as renewables. There is always a political risk that energy companies have to consider.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The words of von der Leyen and Timmermans might turn out to be nothing more than mere political rhetoric – a prelude to blaming energy companies for seeking maximum profits during a crisis while they did their best to serve the common good. The country previously provided over 40% of all natural gas consumed in the EU.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 27, 2020

Unabated natural-gas use will be halved by 2038. The results of consultations on the funding of new nuclear power are also expected soon. The government is mulling the addition of solar and onshore wind to the CFD program, having blocked them from the 2017 and 2019 rounds on largely political grounds.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Oil and gas companies have for years marketed fracked gas from B.C. But an impending flood of liquefied natural gas exports from western Canada to Asia could make it harder for countries there to achieve their national climate targets and contribute to tens of thousands of additional deaths due to air pollution.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

Its Director General Tim Davie has said that while the BBC will cover debate on climate policy, human-caused climate change is not “politically controversial” and “the overwhelming consensus is that we, as humanity, are causing global warming”. Porter has also been associated with political groups leading the charge against climate action.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 14, 2020

With Hinkley Point C costs skyrocketing and timetables repeatedly slipping, at the same time as advances in wind, solar, and battery technologies continue to surpass all expectations, some had hoped the White Paper would mark the end to the UK government's long-running love affair with nuclear power.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

OCTOBER 9, 2023

It’s produced from various domestic resources such as natural gas, nuclear power, biomass, and renewable power like solar and wind. These qualities make it a promising option for both transportation and stationary power.

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R-Squared Energy

MARCH 3, 2021

In a recent article for WIRED — The Energy Sector Must Prepare for More Extreme Weather — I detailed some of the primary causes behind the recent power outages in Texas. One aspect I didn’t cover in that article was the political finger-pointing that went on as the incident unfolded. I am going to present a full picture below.

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Climate Tech VC

OCTOBER 15, 2024

As the country pushes ahead on boosting new renewable capacity (and closed down its last coal plant last month), energy storage is a must to smooth out generation in the long-term, while also reducing reliance on natural gas to avoid price volatility after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. 

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 20, 2020

In fact, many are still requesting that FERC reconsider the order and planning lawsuits to challenge it, or simply awaiting November’s election, which could shift political power in Washington D.C. in ways that could lead to FERC's order being overturned.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 5, 2020

utility group Dominion Energy agreed Sunday to sell most of its natural gas business and abandon its multi-billion dollar Atlantic Coast Pipeline project with Duke Energy meant to supply its home-state market of Virginia. a natural gas utility serving Utah. for about $9.7 for about $9.7

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R-Squared Energy

MARCH 4, 2022

That brings me to Russia’s natural gas. Let’s ignore for a second whether this is a good political weapon—as in, do you think Putin will pull rethink the war if Europe stops buying Russian gas? In the short-term, one of the issues is Europe’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) import capacity. The Power of U.S.

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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 Direct use in turbines: Japanese firm IHI and GE are retrofitting liquid natural gas power plant turbines to run on ammonia. Hawaii replaced its final coal-powered facility with a 565 MWh battery.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 8, 2021

Whether it’s politically possible for the U.S. -wide transmission build-out could also slash the costs of reaching a zero-carbon grid with wind, solar and battery technologies that are cost-effective today.

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Mr. Sustainability

MAY 30, 2021

In this article the different paths are described and compared, so that readers can recognize them and place the paths in today's context and political decisions. Wizards Wizards support big, high tech, centralized power plants based on concentrated energy sources like coal, oil, natural gas and uranium.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2022

The European Union’s scientific and political communities are locked in a battle over whether gas and nuclear can be considered green investments. It emphasised the need to “recognize the transitional and enabling role of natural gas,” referring to two of the taxonomy’s three categories.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 4, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic has not changed the grim reality facing workers at coal and nuclear power plants in the U.S. How those workers will fare in the years ahead will vary greatly based on where they live and the prevailing political winds. and Europe. ” One example that stands out in the U.S. In the U.S.,

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

announced plans Wednesday to separate its financially challenged nuclear power plant fleet and other generation assets from its multistate regulated utilities business. That scandal has scrambled Exelon’s efforts to seek out state aid for its financially struggling nuclear power plant fleet in Illinois. Exelon Corp.

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Climate Tech VC

MARCH 10, 2025

Bridging the natural gas turbine gap Amid record data center-fueled power demand projections and the White House’s “energy abundance” agenda, 2025 was set to be the year of natural gas. But one thing might make the sector run out of steam before it powers ahead: a shortage of gas turbines.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 22, 2020

They are doubling down on oil and natural gas and investing what amounts to pocket change in innovative climate-oriented efforts like small nuclear power plants and devices that suck carbon out of the air. State interests also intervene with political ambition, though Norway and China appear to be setting the stage.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 26, 2021

New research asserts most have undermined those goals by keeping coal plants running and building new natural gas plants meant to operate for decades to come. utilities that still rely on coal and natural gas for most of their generation capacity. All but one call for new natural gas plants.

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R-Squared Energy

AUGUST 15, 2023

So, it’s probably common in every country to blame political leaders for high gasoline prices, but that doesn’t necessarily mean they are the actual cause. This includes the category of lease condensate and natural gas liquids (NGLs), and I will do a deeper dive on this in the next article. For natural gas, the U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

But even as the freezing temperatures that caused the crisis have waned, the political stances over who to blame have been hardening. But these attacks have run up against the cold fact that the state’s natural gas infrastructure was central to its broader grid failure. Texas Republicans like Gov.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Congress is under pressure to pass both bills Monday to ensure continued funding of the federal government and complete a politically pressing extension of coronavirus pandemic relief measures passed in March. R&D for clean energy, energy storage, carbon capture and nuclear power. Nuclear power will receive $6.6

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 16, 2024

The siren server’s call Data centers have been racking up new players and partners this week, with a handful of new announcements tackling the load growth challenge with three different approaches to bringing more clean firm power generation online.  Key takeaways US energy majors go big on gas.   What happened?

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R-Squared Energy

DECEMBER 31, 2019

During the year, as she traveled the globe to challenge political leaders to take serious action on climate change, Thunberg addressed the United Nations and earned Time magazine’s ‘Person of the Year’ award. has been increasing renewable power capacity at a rapid clip over the past decade. Russia’s Floating Nuclear Power Plant.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

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

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Amid escalating tensions between the United States/NATO and Russia, all eyes are on Ukraine, but Nord Stream 2, a pipeline built to bring Russian gas under the Baltic Sea directly to Germany, is an integral part of the story. Since the 1960s when Europe first began importing Russian gas, Washington perceived Russian energy as a threat to U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Duke’s long-range plans and looming home-state political decisions. But for its more aggressive plans to reach 70 percent carbon reduction in the next decade, which could include offshore wind, nuclear power and long-duration energy storage, “having some legislative support…would be helpful.”

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R-Squared Energy

DECEMBER 28, 2021

That’s a recipe for higher oil prices, and subsequently higher gasoline and natural gas prices. Europe’s natural gas crisis. Europe suffered from a natural gas shortage this year. That was exacerbated near the end of the year by nuclear plant outages and cold weather.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Climate may be absent from the election campaign in name, but the subject has played a major role in defining recent German politics with debates over energy and industrial policy leading to this weekends snap election. People only deal with a problem when it is actually happening.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 6, 2020

For Dominion Virginia, this will mean securing enough renewables to replace coal plants that supply roughly one-quarter of its electricity, and natural gas plants that supply about another third. Dominion also gets more than one-third of its energy from nuclear power.

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