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Good News—and Bad—about Fossil Fuel Power Plants in 2023 

Union of Concerned Scientists

And fossil fuel power plants may not stick to their retirement schedules for a variety of reasons. The EPA’s Social Cost of Carbon was adjusted to 2025 to align with the emissions year of the NO x and SO 2 estimates.) GW of gas capacity set to retire, but also slightly outpacing the planned additions of wind power.

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Building a Better Power Grid for Minnesota

Union of Concerned Scientists

Minnesotans are facing concurrent crises of climate change, high energy prices and inflation, and the inequitable public health impacts of fossil fuel air pollution. Renewable energy will help with all of that—but we need a grid that is designed for wind and solar instead of having to rely on expensive coal and gas plants.

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Renewables are now an unstoppable juggernaut

Edouard Stenger

I previously noted that renewables are to become first global electricity source by 2025. PV Magazine published at the beginning of the year an article stating that fossil fuels already had peaked. ” A recent study by Ember Climate shows that King Coal is already on its way out as it is being replaced by solar and wind.

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Greece enters the offshore wind market

A Greener Life

This week, the country moved forward with plans to construct its first offshore wind farms. In a draft plan, the government of Greece Identified areas for private development, with the long-term intention of lessening dependence on fossil fuels. Last year it generated more than 50% of power from onshore wind, solar and hydro.

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Analysis: Is hydrogen the new oil?

A Greener Life

The 2020 Tokyo Olympics will be powered by hydrogen. Hydrogen may have lost the race to fuel electric cars but it looks a likely contender to replace fossil fuels in trucks, ships, planes and heavy industry. The Tokyo Olympics will be powered by a fuel with ambition – hydrogen. By Fred Pearce.

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The Atomic Energy Advancement Act: Preparing the Way for Advanced Nuclear Power Plants  

Cresforum

Increased electrification in both the industrialized and the developing world is projected to help meet emissions reduction goals, and nuclear power could provide much of the future needs for electricity. electricity generation, nuclear power produces more than half of the nation’s emissions-free electricity. Title II of H.R.

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Analysis: Can Inner Mongolia reach peak carbon this decade?

A Greener Life

Energy authorities in Inner Mongolia are aiming to connect 50 gigawatts of renewable power to the grid by 2025. The other is to improve the energy structure, replacing fossil fuel sources with alternatives. It should also link technology upgrades with capital allocation, creating new business models and opportunities.