The Verge: Energy

OCTOBER 5, 2024

. | Photo: Getty Images Major tech firms, in search of carbon pollution-free electricity for data centers, are helping to revive nuclear energy in the US. Tech giants are increasingly eyeing nuclear reactors to power their energy-hungry data centers. Nuclear power plants typically provide steady “baseload” power.

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Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2023

In November, thanks to windy conditions, the country also generated more than 20GW of power from wind turbines for the first time ever, representing more than 70 per cent of all electricity generated on that day in Britain, it said. Nuclear power plants, meanwhile, provided 15.5 per cent, National Grid ESO's data shows.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

Nuclear power, meanwhile, provided 17.5 per cent of Britain's power last year, while imports accounted for just under seven per cent. per cent of Britain's electricity in 2020, rising to 56 per cent when nuclear power is included. per cent of Britain's power supplies, with coal supplying just 1.6

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Grid stability is consistently brought up as a key puzzle that needs to be solved to reach our net zero targets. One often overlooked piece, states Bernard Salha, group technical director and R&D director for French energy giant EDF, might be found in nuclear power.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

AUGUST 7, 2024

On the Made in Washington Study Mission, you’ll see: Inside the Sila Nanotechnologies plant and learn about Sila’s battery storage solutions; followed by an evening dinner cruise on the Columbia River Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), working to help develop a smart power grid that meets the complex challenges of the future The Columbia (..)

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 17, 2024

Using its 410 MHz spectrum holdings, ESB Networks is implementing a national private mobile network to meet the wireless connectivity needs of smart grid applications for the control, protection and management of Ireland’s utility assets.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 4, 2020

” At the same time, Crane noted the company is “in the middle of trying to work through legislative strategy in Illinois” that would offer its nuclear power plants in the state an alternative path to earning capacity market revenue that is seen as a critical component of their future financial viability.

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 10, 2022

power grid this year. The agency says another 5% of the country’s planned electric capacity additions in 2022 will come from two new reactors at the Vogtle nuclear power plant in Georgia. Energy Information Administration (EIA) says nearly half of planned capacity additions in 2022 will be solar energy resources.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 24, 2024

Managing power grid complexity: The 5 biggest priorities for utilities in 2024 Energy Transitions Podcast: Accelerating decarbonised power generation at scale Notable expansion of the data centre sector also is likely, with consumption from data centres, AI and the cryptocurrency sector potentially doubling by 2026.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 26, 2021

UK consumers are set to pay up-front for the construction of a fresh fleet of large-scale nuclear power plants through their energy bills under a new financing model unveiled by the government today, which looks set to provide a key building block of its plans to deliver a net zero energy system.

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R-Squared Energy

JULY 24, 2023

A Reliable Power Grid is a Lifesaver If there’s one thing to be thankful for, it’s that we don’t suffer many blackouts in Phoenix. I have never been without power for an extended period in my home. power plant. power plant. and the 2nd largest of any U.S. and the 2nd largest of any U.S.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 20, 2022

By streamlining energy traders’ ability to match electricity supply to demand, the Tradenergy tool is aiming to help maintain the resilience and reliability of power grid operations. On a power grid, inertia is naturally produced by turbines and motors in fossil fuel generators that are synchronised to the same frequency.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 14, 2020

National Grid views subsea interconnector power cables as crucial to delivering a net zero energy system, as they allow the UK to trade clean electricity with neighbouring countries by exporting power during periods of excess generation, and vice versa.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 31, 2020

Last week, 37 employees of state grid operator NYISO — 33 grid operators and managers, plus two facilities workers and two food service staff — volunteered to sequester themselves at the state’s two grid control centers near the state capitol, Albany. Nuclear plants taking special precautions.

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Business Green

JUNE 4, 2020

On April 30th, Spain's renewable generation reached a record 74 per cent share, an increase of 23 percentage points on the annual average that resulted in nuclear power output being dialled down to make room for peak renewable power generation.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 21, 2022

According to the EIB, there has recently been a significant increase in the renewable energy available in the northern parts of Germany near the North Sea and the Baltic Sea, while several thermal and nuclear power plants in Bavaria have been shut down.

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Climate Tech VC

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Longtime transmission guru Carl Zichella once called the American electric grid the “most complicated machine we’ve ever built”, and with $1T of IRA-driven renewable investments in the pipeline, it’s only going to get more complex. In other locations, grids stretch across international borders.

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Vote Solar

AUGUST 17, 2017

In fact, the California Independent System Operator, the managers of our statewide power grid, say they have been planning for this event for over a year and are confident that our power won’t be interrupted. In fact, solar is already proving more reliable than California’s traditional power plants during summer heat waves.

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 24, 2021

But what if an attack like this happens again and it affects our power grid? Whether you use gas or another source of electricity to power your home, you are probably aware that your consumption (and your energy bills) has two seasonal peaks. This time the temporary crisis mainly affected transportation. Peak Energy Usage.

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2023

Speeding up investment in our power grid will enable more of this cheap, natural energy to flow to homes, so bringing down bills.". 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.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Thursday’s proposed decision from the California Public Utilities Commission ( PDF ) is the culmination of more than a year of study and debate over the state’s grid reliability needs, as part of its Integrated Resource Plan proceeding.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 11, 2022

million) for nine projects to oversee the digitisation and modernisation of Romania’s transmission network and power grid. The contracts were signed yesterday between the country’s Ministry of Energy and the national electric power transport company, Transelectrica SA. Contracts have been signed valuing €424.4 million ($411.8

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 8, 2021

Small modular reactors (SMRs) — nuclear reactors using novel technologies to fit into much smaller and mass-producible packages than the behemoth nuclear power plants of today — are presented as a way of rapidly decarbonizing the grid in the face of an ever more pressing need to meet climate targets.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Notable clean energy statistics from the pandemic year include: Power Generation. Renewables’ contribution to the power grid set another record, rising 11% year-on-year. power in 2020. Power from all zero-carbon sources (renewables plus nuclear power) set another record, meeting 40% of demand.

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Bidgely

MARCH 3, 2021

In the hours immediately following the power failure in Texas in which power grids operated by ERCOT, SPP and MISO were crippled, critics were quick to point the finger at renewable energy as the cause. DERs are Part of the Solution, Not the Problem.

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Bidgely

MARCH 3, 2021

In the hours immediately following the power failure in Texas in which power grids operated by ERCOT, SPP and MISO were crippled, critics were quick to point the finger at renewable energy as the cause. DERs are Part of the Solution, Not the Problem.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 4, 2020

Dominion’s Virginia generation portfolio today is roughly one-third natural gas, one-third nuclear and one-quarter coal, with just over 5 percent ascribed to renewable energy, much of it hydropower and biomass. Major boosts for solar, offshore wind and energy storage.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2023

A power system running solely on clean energy technologies is entirely feasible During a media briefing yesterday, CCC officials made a point of emphasising the huge amount of work it has put into producing its most detailed and comprehensive analysis of the UK's energy system to date.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 9, 2022

Shortly before Christmas in 2015 the power grid in Ukraine suffered a series of outages that impacted roughly a quarter of a million consumers and lasted several hours. [1] 1] Later, in 2017 the same group used ransomware to shutdown servers all over Ukraine, including at the infamous Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. [2]

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 19, 2020

The state’s 2013 mandate to bring 1.35

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Business Green

JANUARY 19, 2021

In a wide-ranging appearance before the BEIS Committee, Kwarteng also defended the government's support for nuclear power, reiterating hopes that Hinkley Point C would come online by 2025 and act as a forerunner for another major nuclear project, as well as a fleet of small modular rectors developed in future.

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

He didn’t mention nuclear power or carbon sequestration in this speech, but his website does mention them among four specific goals designed to decarbonize the power sector. Biden’s plan calls for: Grid-scale storage at one-tenth the cost of lithium-ion batteries. power grid by 2050.

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Business Green

MARCH 30, 2022

But how green are the energy sources powering our EVs? Currently, electricity in the UK is supplied by a variety of generators, including fossil fuels, nuclear power, and large and small-scale renewables. To investigate the problem, Polestar collaborated with the University of Gothenburg.

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Business Green

JULY 21, 2022

Earlier this year, the government published an Energy Security Strategy, which ramped up targets for offshore wind and solar power while also promising to develop new oil and gas fields in the North Sea, in a bid to reduce exposure to risky, global fossil fuel markets.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2024

That move came just a week after the government published a new Nuclear Roadmap, reiterating its commitment to a new fleet of small modular reactors (SMRs) and promising to explore proposals for a third large scale new nuclear power plant project. The latest setback at Hinkley Point begs two critical questions.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

First, it’s one of the largest-ever efforts to aggregate distributed energy resources (DERs) at a scale that can help California’s power grid meet its capacity needs. It breaks ground on multiple fronts.

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Business Green

MARCH 28, 2022

It came as National Grid separately announced today that its IFA2 subsea interconnector cable linking Britain's power grid with France's has already paid off its carbon cost within less than a year of the project being operational.

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