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It’s become clear there’s not enough low-carbon energy to satisfy data centers’ needs, and natural gas will be key. It’s Climate Week in New York, and dominating the conversation has been the apparently insatiable appetite of artificial intelligence for power. The subject has been much in the news. Just last week, we learned that the infamous Three Mile …
Summary Resurrecting Three Mile Island could take awhile Local opponents hold memories of 1979 incident NRC busy with nuclear power permit requests NEW YORK/WASHINGTON Sept 24 (Reuters) – Constellation Energy and Microsoft plan to restart the Three Mile Island nuclear plant, hoping they have scored a quick source of enough climate-friendly energy to power rapidly …
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Three Mile Island power plant in Middletown, Pennsylvania in 2019.Photographer: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images The owner of the shuttered Three Mile Island nuclear plant in Pennsylvania will invest $1.6 billion to revive it, agreeing to sell all the output to Microsoft Corp. as the tech titan seeks carbon-free electricity for data centers to power the artificial intelligence …
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(Reuters) – Fossil fuels continue to rule the roost in the United States’ power sector, despite clean energy sources being rolled out at the fastest pace in history. For the past decade, U.S. power generators have prioritized clean power sources over fossil fuels, and since 2014 they have lifted clean electricity generation capacity by over …
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(Reuters) – The U.S. Senate on Tuesday passed a bill to accelerate the deployment of nuclear energy capacity, including by speeding permitting and creating new incentives for advanced nuclear reactor technologies. Expanding nuclear power has broad bipartisan support, with Democrats seeing it as critical to decarbonizing the power sector to fight climate change and Republicans …
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Bill Gates said he’s prepared to plow billions of dollars into a next-generation nuclear power plant project in Wyoming to meet growing US electricity needs. TerraPower LLC, a startup founded by Gates, broke ground for construction of its first commercial reactor last week in Wyoming, where a coal plant is shutting down, the billionaire co-founder …
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LONDON, June 6 (Reuters) – Global investment in clean energy technology and infrastructure is set to hit $2 trillion this year, twice the amount going into fossil fuels, an International Energy Agency report showed. Total energy investment is expected to exceed $3 trillion for the first time in 2024, the IEA said in its annual …
IEA Expects Global Clean Energy Investment to Hit $2 trillion in 2024 Read More »
(Reuters) – The United States could revive some of its recently retired nuclear power plants to help meet rising demand for zero-emissions electricity, or add reactors to existing sites, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said in an interview. The administration of President Joe Biden believes nuclear power is critical to meeting greenhouse gas reduction goals and …
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White House forms panel to aid construction, prevent delays Construction of the power plants has been hit by cost overruns The White House is throwing its weight behind building large-scale nuclear reactors to help mitigate industry risk associated with the construction of power plants that can cost tens of billions of dollars. During a White …
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A month after the US offered $1.5 billion to restart one shuttered nuclear power plant, there’s a growing sense among officials in the industry and government that it may not be the last. “There are a couple of nuclear power plants that we probably should, and can, turn back on,” said Jigar Shah, director of the US Energy …
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