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Trump will throw US clean power into question

Donald Trump’s election sent clean energy stocks tumbling, and some firms have paused investments. “Stock prices fell because the market expects less policy support for clean energy,” says Derrick Flakoll, North America policy associate at Bloomberg New Energy Finance. Green energy transition ‘already under way’ Though President-elect Trump has publicly called the IRA a “waste”, he has yet to specify …

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3 months, 3 weeks ago

Three Mile Island’s nuclear plant to reopen, help power Microsoft’s AI centers

Live Mint

A deal between Constellation Energy and Microsoft will restart Pennsylvania’s Three Mile Island, the site of the country’s worst nuclear accident, to help power the tech giant’s growing artificial intelligence ambitions. Three Mile Island’s undamaged Unit 1 reactor sits next to Unit 2, which was shut down after a partial core meltdown in 1979 led to five days of panic. …

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3 months, 4 weeks ago

US nuclear repository is among the federally owned spots identified for renewable energy projects

The Independent

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1 year, 8 months ago

The Most Valuable U.S. Power Company Is Making a Huge Bet on Hydrogen

Live Mint

NextEra Energy grew into a clean-energy powerhouse by investing early in wind and solar farms. NextEra now says it sees the potential to invest more than $20 billion in so-called green hydrogen after the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act, which provides significant tax credits for such projects. PHOTO: ZACK WITTMAN FOR THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Rebecca Kujawa, chief executive …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Inside climate activists’ uneasy relationship with ‘net-zero’

Salon

In the premier episode of Apple TV's climate show, Extrapolations, it's 2037 and Earth is in turmoil. Although the concept of global net-zero is rooted in climate science, today's carbon neutrality pledges from individual governments and corporations have been criticized in some quarters as a "con," because they allow polluters to continue emitting greenhouse gases. "Global net-zero is nonnegotiable if …

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2 years, 3 months ago

Tiny Oregon town hosts 1st wind-solar-battery ‘hybrid’ plant

Associated Press

PORTLAND, Ore. — A renewable energy plant in Oregon that combines solar power, wind power and massive batteries to store the energy generated there officially opened Wednesday as the first utility-scale plant of its kind in North America. The project is “getting closer and closer to having something with a very stable output profile that we traditionally think of being …

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2 years, 9 months ago

Wind energy company kills 150 eagles in US, pleads guilty

Associated Press

— A subsidiary of one of the largest U.S. providers of renewable energy pleaded guilty to criminal charges and was ordered to pay over $8 million in fines and restitution after at least 150 eagles were killed at its wind farms in eight states, federal prosecutors said Wednesday. In addition to those deaths, the company acknowledged the deaths of golden …

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4 years, 2 months ago

Exxon is cutting 1,900 US jobs as oil prices crumble again

CNN

New York CNN Business — ExxonMobil is cutting jobs at home and overseas as oil prices tumble on coronavirus fears. “These actions will improve the company’s long-term cost competitiveness and ensure the company manages through the current unprecedented market conditions,” Exxon said in a statement. Besides weak oil prices, Exxon and other fossil fuel companies are being shunned by investors …

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4 years, 3 months ago

Exxon briefly dethroned as America’s most valuable energy company

CNN

New York CNN Business — The clean energy revolution just hit another major milestone. Solar and wind company NextEra Energy dethroned ExxonMobil as America’s most valuable energy company. NextEra Energy, the nation’s largest renewable energy company, briefly surpassed Exxon in market capitalization on Friday, according to UBS. “In the context of Covid, in particular, utilities have felt very little impact …

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5 years, 7 months ago

An abandoned mine near Joshua Tree could host a massive hydropower project

LA Times

The defunct Eagle Mountain iron mine, on the edge of Joshua Tree National Park, could become the site of a major hydropower project. His bill would require the California Independent System Operator, which runs the power grid for most of the state, to buy at least 2,000 megawatts worth of power from “one or more long duration energy storage projects” …

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5 years, 11 months ago

NextEra fires ‘warning shot’ at PG&E over power contracts