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2018 Exceptional Year for Nuclear Power Firsts

September 5, 2019 admin Business, climate change, Environmental, flexible operations, Gas, iaea, iea, International, load-following, Markets, news, Nuclear, nuclear power, nuclear retirements, nuclear subsidies, Technology, world nuclear association

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2019 13:18:54 +0000

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Last year, five of the world’s 449 operable nuclear reactors reached 50 years of operation for the first time, four first-of-their kind reactor designs were brought online, and while the industry showed capacity factor impacts from load-following, the global nuclear fleet performed at an average capacity factor of about 80%, says a new report from […]

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THE BIG PICTURE: A Spotlight on Oil-Fired Power

August 1, 2019 admin backup, big picture, Business, Coal, Diesel, Gas, general, iea, International, news, nuclear oil generation, petroleum liquids, Technology

Credit to Author: Tracey Lilly| Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2019 04:00:45 +0000

Discussions about fossil-fueled power capacity are typically centered on coal and natural gas. The former is seeing a marked decline amid climate concerns, and the latter is seeing unprecedented growth, owing to relatively low prices. Seemingly forgotten, but still a major source of power, are plants fired with petroleum liquids. In 2017, according to the […]

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The Clean Energy Conundrum

July 1, 2019 admin awea, clean energy, climate change, Environmental, iea, international energy agency, Markets, news, Nuclear, nuclear power, Renewables, report, scottmadden, seia, Solar, Wind

Credit to Author: POWER| Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0000

The worldwide movement toward a clean energy future is barreling ahead. Most clean energy advocates seem to focus on wind and solar power as their resources of choice, and it shows, as the installed capacity

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Nuclear Power Needed for Clean Energy Future

May 30, 2019 admin clean energy, climate change, Environmental, iea, International, international energy agency, Legislative, Markets, news, Nuclear, nuclear power, nuclear power in a clean energy system, report, Research and Development, Technology

Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Thu, 30 May 2019 14:37:37 +0000

“Without action to provide more support for nuclear power, global efforts to transition to a cleaner energy system will become drastically harder and more costly,” Fatih Birol, executive director of the International Energy Agency (IEA), wrote in his foreword to the IEA’s recently released report titled Nuclear Power in a Clean Energy System. The report […]

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Q&A With Geothermal Experts

May 1, 2019 admin Bill Gates, Business, DOE, egs, enhanced geothermal systems, forge, geothermal, geothermal resources council, Heat, iea, International, international geothermal association, news, Renewables, Research and Development, Technology, torsten rosenboom, Warren Buffett, Water, watson farley & williams, will pettitt, world bank

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Wed, 01 May 2019 04:01:04 +0000

Geothermal energy has been around forever, used as a heating source across the world. Today it has surfaced as another renewable resource, with advancements in drilling technology bringing down costs and opening new areas to development. In conjunction with the feature article on geothermal in the May 2019 issue of POWER, we sought opinions from […]

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For First Time, IEA Quantifies Coal’s Dominant Role in Global Temperature Increase

April 4, 2019 admin Business, Carbon Capture, carbon emissions, climate change, Coal, coal power, Gas, Global CCS Institute, iea, International, news, Paris, power sector, Renewables, Technology

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2019 14:22:56 +0000

Coal combustion was responsible for over 0.3 degrees C of the 1 degree C surge in global average annual surface temperatures above pre-industrial levels—and that makes coal the single largest source of the global temperature increase, the International Energy Agency (IEA) says in the new report. The finding, outlined in the IEA’s March 26–released Global […]

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DOE Chief: Nuclear Power, Clean Coal Technology Key to Reducing Emissions

February 28, 2019 admin Business, Carbon Capture, ccus, Coal, DOE, fatih birol, iea, International, news, Nuclear, Research and Development, rick perry, Technology

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2019 19:52:50 +0000

U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry on February 28 said nuclear power and the use of clean coal technology are the way to combat climate change and reduce emissions from the energy sector. Perry, speaking at a joint press conference in Washington, D.C., with Fatih Birol, director of the International Energy Agency (IEA), said, “We believe […]

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10 Takeaways from the IEA’s Newest World Energy Outlook

January 1, 2019 admin Business, climate change, Coal, distributed energy, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, Environmental, flexibility, Fuel, Gas, general, geothermal, History, iea, International, investment, news, Nuclear, ownership, Power Demand, power supply transformation, renewable costs, Renewables, Solar, Technology, timeline, variable sources, wholesale power markets, Wind, world energy outlook 2018

Credit to Author: POWER| Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2019 04:59:00 +0000

The International Energy Agency (IEA) deemed growth and disruptions of the world’s power sector so significant to the future of energy, it dedicated—for the first time—a four-chapter “special focus”

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THE BIG PICTURE: Power Around the World

December 30, 2018 admin climate change, Coal, energy transitions, Environmental, Gas, general, iea, Infographics, Markets, news, Nuclear, Renewables, world capacity by generation, world energy outlook 2018

Credit to Author: Tracey Lilly| Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2019 05:00:30 +0000

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Could High-Efficiency, Low-Emissions (HELE) Technology Revive U.S. Coal Power?

November 22, 2018 admin advanced ultrasupercritical, Business, China, Coal, coal first, DOE, Environmental, hele, iea, International, Japan, news, senator young, supercritical, Technology, ultrasupercritical

A newly introduced Senate bill aims to make federal loan guarantees available for new high-efficiency, low-emissions (HELE) coal power plants in the U.S. Although it spearheads considerable research and development initiatives to advance coal technology, the nation’s pipeline of coal builds remains virtually vacant, and it now lags painfully behind Asia and Europe in demonstration […]

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