Tag Archives: renewables

U.S. Solar and Wind Power Generation Tops Nuclear for First Time via OilPrice.com

Posted on 2024/07/15 by nfield

By Charles Kennedy – Jul 11, 2024, 11:30 AM CDT For the first time ever, U.S. electricity generation from utility-scale solar and wind exceeded nuclear power plants’ power output in the first half of 2024, according to data from energy think tank … Continue reading →

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We don’t need ‘miracle’ technologies to fix the climate. We have the tools now via The Guardian

Posted on 2023/02/08 by nfield

By Mark Z. Jacobson Wind, water and solar energy is cheap, effective and green. We don’t need experimental or risky energy sources to save our planet. Nearly 7 million people die each year from air pollution. Moreover, global warming is already causing … Continue reading →

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Ukraine still fears another Chernobyl-size disaster at Europe’s largest nuclear plant via Reader Supported News (NPR)

Posted on 2022/12/13 by nfield

Julian Hayda 13 december 22 Sophia Arkadiyivna remembers when the Soviet Union built the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in 1977, just 20 miles from the village where she served as mayor. After years of atomic energy powering big Russian cities … Continue reading →

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Noisy support for an obvious failure via Beyond Nuclear International

Posted on 2022/10/24 by nfield

By Andrew Stirling and Phil Johnstone At Edinburgh’s Haymarket station, on the route used by COP26 delegates hopping across to Glasgow last November, a large poster displayed a vista from the head of Loch Shiel. In the foreground, a monument … Continue reading →

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Why not new nuclear power? via Mark Z. Jacobson

Posted on 2022/05/26 by nfield
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Offshore wind farm balancing German power grid seen as energy transition “milestone” via Clean Energy Wire

Posted on 2022/05/20 by nfield

NEWS20 May 2022, 13:46 Benjamin Wehrmann GridWind Clean Energy Wire For the first time, offshore wind energy in Germany is being used to stabilise the country’s electricity system in case of grid fluctuations. The offshore wind farm Riffgrund 1, operated by Danish energy company Orsted, … Continue reading →

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Three myths about renewable energy and the grid, debunked via Beyond Nuclear International

Posted on 2022/05/06 by nfield

By Amory B. Lovins and M.V. Ramana This story was originally published in Yale Environment 360. […] Myth No. 1: A grid that increasingly relies on renewable energy is an unreliable grid. Going by the cliché, “In God we trust; all others bring data,” it’s … Continue reading →

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Nuclear Power Could Help Europe Cut Its Russia Ties, but Not for Years via New York Times

Posted on 2022/04/28 by nfield

April 26, 2022, 5:00 a.m. ETApril 26, 2022April 26, 2022 Liz Alderman and Stanley Reed PARIS — On the windswept coast of Flamanville, an industrial city in northwest France facing the choppy waters of the English Channel, a soaring concrete dome houses … Continue reading →

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Half of Ukraine’s renewable energy facilities threatened with destruction via Beyond Nuclear International

Posted on 2022/04/04 by nfield

By Linda Pentz Gunter “Due to the Russian war against Ukraine, half of the RES (Renewable Energy Source) facilities are threatened with complete or partial destruction,” wrote the Ukraine Association of Renewable Energy on its website earlier last month. Ukraine was, said … Continue reading →

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German politicians affirm rejection of nuclear power in EU sustainable finance taxonomy via Clean Energy Wire

Posted on 2021/11/08 by nfield

[…] “We don’t want nuclear energy, we don’t think it’s sustainable and we don’t want the EU to support it,“ the acting minister from the Social Democrats (SPD) told newspapers of the Funke Mediengruppe in an article carried by the Frankfurter Allgemeine … Continue reading →

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