GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 23, 2020

” Amcor is an Australian-based company that makes packaging materials for foods and beverages, pharmaceuticals, personal care and other products; it has several facilities in PG&E’s Northern California service territory. The 15-year agreement calls for Nexus Renewables U.S.,

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Business Green

MARCH 30, 2023

Prior media reports suggested the government had intended to badge all of its announcements under the banner of 'Green Day', but instead it appears to have gone with the name 'Powering Up Britain', evidently keen to place as much focus on energy specifically.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 27, 2023

This included a £20bn package to support carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS), a renewed focus on nuclear (including the decision to reclassify it as environmentally sustainable) and a refresh of the Control for Low Carbon Levies mechanism on energy policy costs.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Arizona Public Service promised in January to reach zero-carbon energy by 2050 , with interim 2030 goals to exit its remaining coal-fired power plants and reach 65 percent clean electricity, including 45 percent renewable energy and carbon-free power from its Palo Verde nuclear power plant.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 15, 2022

And all that’s before you consider packaging or the use of plastic! The firm’s Sureground TM technology is a departure from many conventional practices in that there’s no packaging, no plastic geogrids are used, no material is taken offsite, and no materials are taken to landfill when it’s decommissioned. Ways of minimising waste.

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Business Green

MARCH 27, 2023

The government is widely expected to unveil a wave of decarbonisation and energy policies on Thursday as part of a package that had been badged as 'Green Day' by Whitehall insiders. It also reported Number 10 is keen to see gas play a critical role in the new package of measures. "It It is not Green Day," one insider told the paper.

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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2020

Major new report urges government to provide clarity on nuclear development plans and insists sector can bring down costs - but will Ministers be convinced? We're confident the price of nuclear power will fall from the £92.50 Those who like nuclear want it to be true. Amazing how often this is trotted out.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Carbon capture, hydrogen, nuclear, EVs, and renewables all set to benefit from £12bn government stimulus plan, but critics warn funding falls well short of the level required to trigger a green recovery.

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Business Green

JULY 29, 2021

The government has set out its suggested approach for constructing the UK's first Advanced Modular Reactor (AMR) demonstrator today, bolstering its ambition for the next generation of small nuclear power plants to be up and running within the next decade.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 5, 2020

The Prime Minister will use his Conservative Party Conference speech tomorrow to trail a hotly-anticipated 10-point plan for a "green industrial revolution" - full details of which are set to be unveiled later this year - as well as announcing a major package of support for offshore wind.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Some coal and nuclear power plants have been forced offline, most likely due to freezing temperatures shutting down cooling systems or instrumentation required to keep them running safely. “We’ve lost multiple gigawatts of coal, we’ve had a nuclear power plant trip offline” — the 2.4-gigawatt

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has today reiterated the government's commitment to delivering on the UK's international climate responsibilities, confirming support for the planned Sizewell C nuclear power plant, announcing a new long-term target for UK energy efficiency, and promising continued investment in clean tech innovation.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Nuclear power will receive £525 million for the development of large and small-scale reactors. Germany’s stimulus package includes €2.5 Grants of up to £3,500 per new vehicle are already available. The full plan is: The already announced offshore wind target of 40 GW by 2030.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

And there were conflicting reports over the price tag attached to the new support package. Truss ally Iain Duncan Smith told The Times the package was likely to cost in the region of £90bn, while other reports put the estimated cost at £100bn and Bloomberg reported the total cost could reach £130bn.

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Business Green

MARCH 10, 2023

Next week's Budget will feature a wide-ranging new clean energy package designed to mobilise £20bn of investment in the UK, Treasury confirms The Chancellor will next week promise to "reset" the UK's decarbonisation and energy security plans through an "unprecedented" £20bn investment in carbon capture and clean energy infrastructure.

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Business Green

JUNE 18, 2020

The analysis calculates that integrating clean energy goals into economic recovery and stimulus packages over the next three years could boost global economic growth by an average of 1.1 Birol acknowledged that policy makers were "having to make hugely consequential decisions in a very short space of time as they draw up stimulus packages".

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Business Green

JANUARY 31, 2023

However, the think tank stressed that "it could have been worse" and that the growth in renewables capacity helped to prevent a much larger rise in coal-fired power use across Europe last year. Europe's clean power transition emerges from this crisis stronger than ever," said Jones.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Although some companies have voluntarily decided to phase out the use of PFAS in their products and packaging, the chemicals are already ubiquitous, pervading farms and military sites alike. They’ve been linked to a host of health problems, including kidney and testicular cancer, liver damage, and suppressed immunity.

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Business Green

AUGUST 22, 2022

It has been widely reported over the weekend that Boris Johnson has backed plans to part-fund EDF's proposed Sizewell C nuclear power plant, which now looks set to mark one of his last major interventions as Prime Minister before his successor is announced on 5 September.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 18, 2021

The much-delayed package includes a new £450m grant scheme to encourage households to switch to heat pumps and other low carbon heating systems, £60m of innovation funding to help drive down the cost of heat pump technologies, and a goal to end the installation of conventional gas boilers by 2035.

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Energy Innovation

JULY 14, 2020

And yet, opportunities exist through climate-friendly recovery packages to not only stimulate economies, but also reduce emissions while promoting social and environmental co-benefits. They point to the EU’s $1 trillion, 10-year Green New Deal as an example of a climate-friendly, politically right-sized recovery package. Hepburn et al.

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2023

The report estimated that the UK's grid battery capacity is now sufficient to provide support to the grid during times of tight supply equivalent to around two nuclear power stations. In addition, the report confirmed that battery storage capacity was up five-fold from last winter and currently stands at 2.5GW.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Poland accelerates coal phase out, pushes for nuclear and offshore wind. Poland is the only member of the EU which has so far refused to commit to net zero emissions by 2050, with the country seeking more time to reconfigure its economy, which is heavily reliant on coal-fired power stations and coal mining.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

He said the creation of the new Department for Energy Security and Net Zero was "a pretty clear guide or indication" the government would be moving ahead with plans for a Great British Nuclear (GBN) agency to help identify new sites for nuclear power plants and support their development, adding that an announcement was likely in the coming weeks.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The government confirmed a new package of 18 deals worth £9.7bn, which are set to ramp up investment in a host of clean infrastructure projects, including offshore wind, hydrogen development, carbon capture and storage (CCS), and green homes. "The

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 23, 2020

When the legislation passed, progressives on the New York City Council called the package of bills “the largest single carbon-reduction effort that any city, anywhere, has ever put forward.” The proposed Champlain Hudson Power Express transmission line would carry hydropower from Quebec south to New York City.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 5, 2020

The Prime Minister will use his Conservative Party conference speech tomorrow to trail a hotly-anticipated 10-point plan for a "green industrial revolution" - full details of which are set to be unveiled later this year - as well as announcing a major package of support for offshore wind.

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Energy Innovation

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

EPS users can design policy packages that achieve net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions across the economy and pinpoint which policies are most effective at reducing emissions while creating economic and health benefits. Many states already have clean electricity standards or renewable portfolio standards in place.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

All around the world, countries are gearing up for an almighty race for the opportunities of tomorrow," he said, in a thinly veiled reference to the new green subsidy packages being introduced on both sides of the Atlantic. Britain must be on the start line - not back in the changing room tying its laces."

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

These priority project areas are heavily tipped to include offshore wind farms, nuclear power plants, new roads. The Treasury pointed out that last year it took 65 per cent longer to get consent for major infrastructure projects compared to 2012, and that no new nuclear power stations have been built in the UK since 1995.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 30, 2024

All of these things are true, but what is less clear is whether the package goes far enough to earn its position alongside the historic Labour Budgets of the post war period, the 1960s, and 1997, which Reeves deliberately referenced as she reflected on how it had once again fallen to Labour to "rebuild Britain" after a period of Conservative rule.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Liz Truss restated her commitment to net zero, renewables, and nuclear power, as well as North Sea oil and gas, in her keynote speech to the Conservative Party conference this morning, which saw the embattled Prime Minister decry climate activists who briefly interrupted her from the audience as "anti-growth".

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Business Green

AUGUST 15, 2022

Moreover, the emergency package sets out £6bn a year for a ‘Warm Homes Plan', which the Party said would insulate 19 million homes over the next decade, in a move it claimed would slash the average family energy bill by £1,000 a year. The remaining funding for the plan would be secured by reducing inflation, the Party said.

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Business Green

MARCH 28, 2022

The FT reported that the latest delay appeared to be largely the result of Treasury concerns over the cost of the new package. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has repeatedly indicated that he wants to put a major expansion of nuclear power at the heart of the new strategy.

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Business Green

MARCH 10, 2022

However, to date there has been little indication as to what measures the government is planning to take to reduce gas imports in the short term and Ministers have thus far ducked calls for the Treasury to come forward with a more generous support package for households that are set to see energy bills increase by around 50 per cent from next month.

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Jigar Shah

MARCH 29, 2019

or, just save the nuclear power plant currently slated to be shutdown in Ohio. Action: Buy a Retail Electricity Provider like Just Energy for $500m and sell consumer power from the renewable energy projects they already have under contract, increasing their return on those investments.

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Business Green

MARCH 7, 2022

He added that: "the good news is, Russia can't directly manipulate the price of renewable energy and nuclear power in the UK. Now, more than ever, we must focus on generating cheaper, cleaner power in Britain, for Britain.

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