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Inside Clean Energy: Indian Point Nuclear Plant Reaches a Contentious End Few topics divide clean energy advocates as much as the role of nuclear power. May 6, 2021 The Indian Point nuclear power plant is seen March 18, 2011 in Buchanan, New York. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images Related Share this article At 11 p.m. on April 30, employees shut down the nuclear reactor at Indian Point Energy Center Unit 3, marking the end of a power plant that has been an essential part of New York City’s ener...

Print This is the April 29, 2021, edition of Boiling Point, a weekly newsletter about climate change and the environment in California and the American West. Sign up here to get it in your inbox. Something remarkable happened over the weekend: California hit nearly 95% renewable energy. I’ll say it again: 95% renewables. For all the time we spend talking about how to reach 100% clean power, it sometimes seems like a faraway proposition, whether the timeframe is California’s 2045 target or P...

Inside Clean Energy: Denmark Makes the Most of its Brief Moment at the Climate Summit The Scandaniavian nation is building an “energy island,” the latest step after decades of being ahead of the curve. April 29, 2021 Denmarks Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen smiles as she stands on a boat with wind turbines of the Middelgrunden offshore wind farm in the background, in Oeresund between Denmark and Sweden, outside Copenhagen, on April 22, 2021. Credit: Emil Helms/Ritzau Scanpix/AFP via Getty ...

The Biden proposals Much of the $2.3 trillion AJP investment would go toward modernize U.S. highways, roads, bridges, trains, buses, stations and airports. It would also retool U.S. manufacturing to build zero emission transportation infrastructure like zero emission vehicle fueling and charging stations. Analysts estimate around $200 billion would go to the energy transition and power system transformation. The proposal would also transition U.S. buildings away from fossil fuel heating and ...

Dive Brief: Tesla deployed 445 MWh of battery storage in the first quarter of 2021 as demand for the companys Powerwall battery unit outstripped its production rate, company executives said on Mondays Q1 earnings call. The deployment total represented a 71% increase compared to Q1 of the previous year, although storage was down over the previous two quarters. Solar deployments topped 92 MW in Q1, the companys strongest quarter in more than two years. In the Q4 earnings call in January, CEO Elo...

Inside Clean Energy: Some Straight Talk about Renewables and Reliability A former watchdog for Texas’ grid operator speaks out on legislation that would penalize wind and solar. April 22, 2021 Blades from a wind turbine rotate in a field, April 16, 2021 near Eldorado, Texas. Credit: Sergio Flores/AFP via Getty Images Related Share this article Five hours into a Texas legislative hearing this month, it was Beth Garza’s turn to talk. Anybody who had dozed off was about to wake up. Garza appro...

Outlook for This Week in the Nation’s Capital Congress. The House and Senate are both in session this week. The House will take up the DC statehood bill (H.R. 51), the NO BAN Act (H.R. 1333), which would prohibit religious discrimination in immigration-related decisions, and the Access to Counsel Act of 2021 (H.R. 1573), which would require lawyers to be given to migrants in danger of deportation. The Senate will consider the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act (S. 937), which addresses the increase of ...

Dive Brief: Facebook said Thursday it had procured enough new renewable projects to meet 100% of energy needs for its global operations through clean resources, as of last year. The company has contracts in place for more than 6.1 GW of wind and solar across 18 states and five countries, within the same electric grids that power its data centers and operations. Of the energy contracted, Facebook said it currently has 2 GW of solar and 1.3 GW of wind online, along with 720 MW of energy storage....

Published April 15, 2021 Ron Jenkins via Getty Images The following is a contributed article by Hala Ballouz, owner and president of Electric Power Engineers, in Austin, Texas; Joel Mathias, a PhD candidate in the Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Florida; Prof. Sean Meyn, Robert C. Pittman Scholar Chair at the Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Florida, and the Internation...

Former NRC chair questions economic feasibility of new nuclear in US,  Without further aid from Congress and the White House, the prospects for the U.S. nuclear industry will dwindle in the face of cheaper resources that are getting built faster than new nuclear generators, according to a former Chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission……… Excepting NuScale Power, which has advanced in permitting with the NRC, the near-term potential for other small modular reactor designs to ...