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2020, February, 10, 10:25:00
U.S. COAL + NUCLEAR: 25%
U.S. coal and nuclear power plants will collectively provide more than 25% of electricity generation through 2050.
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2020, February, 10, 10:20:00
GLOBAL CLIMATE CRISIS
Climate threats and associated risks are “very big complex problems that need complex solutions”
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2020, February, 10, 10:15:00
SMALL NUCLEAR INCREASING
If current developments with small modular reactors in first month of 2020 are any indication of interest in this scale of nuclear technology, the 2020s could be the decade that SMRs take off. Here are six reports of interest in SMRs the U.S. and Europe.
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2020, February, 10, 10:10:00
INDIA'S ELECTRICITY UPGRADE
India’s national transmission grid must urgently modernise to increase the rate of renewable energy adoption
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2020, February, 7, 10:45:00
COAL POWER TRANSFORMATION
The coal power industry acknowledges that to play a stable role in future power markets, it needs to modernize, and perhaps even overhaul its long-held status as a “conventional generator
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2020, February, 7, 10:35:00
U.S. RENEWABLES + GREENHOUSE
But the agency paints a deeply troubling picture for the country’s greenhouse gas emissions, with carbon pollution dipping briefly this decade, increasing in the 2030s, and falling only 4% overall by 2050,
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2020, February, 7, 10:15:00
SHELL: CLEAN ENERGY + DIGITALISATION
Two dominant energy industry themes—the move to cleaner energy and digitalisation—can be combined to “positively impact each other”, Shell CTO Yuri Sebregts told the annual meeting of energy technology heavyweight Baker Hughes in Florence on Tuesday.
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2020, February, 5, 11:10:00
NORD STREAM 2: REDUCTION CO2 EMISSIONS 50%
When replacing hard coal, natural gas achieves an immediate 50 percent reduction of CO2 emissions.
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2020, February, 5, 10:50:00
CLEAN FUEL: HYDROGEN
Hydrogen as a clean fuel is back with a new mission and better ways of producing it.
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2020, February, 5, 10:45:00
STIR/SHAKEN AGAINST SCRAMMERS
I'm wondering what other utilities are doing to combat scammers and are you using a 3rd party in your efforts?
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2020, February, 3, 11:40:00
UAE GAS WILL UP
"ADNOC will deploy capital, technology, and expertise to develop and produce shallow gas resources and conduct further exploration to assess further volumes and firm up development costs," it said Monday in a statement.
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2020, January, 31, 11:45:00
U.S. RENEWABLES WILL UP
U.S. electricity generation from renewable sources such as wind and solar to surpass nuclear and coal by 2021 and to surpass natural gas in 2045.
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2020, January, 31, 11:40:00
CANADA'S OIL SPENDING WILL UP TO C$37 BLN
CAPP forecasts overall spending for 2020 to rise to C$37 billion from C$35.1 billion. Conventional oil and gas spending is expected to reach C$25.4 billion, up C$1 billion, while spending in the oil sands may climb to C$11.6 billion from C$10.7 billion, CAPP said.
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2020, January, 31, 11:15:00
KAZAKHSTAN'S GDP GROWTH 3.6%-3.8%
Kazakhstan’s recovery has continued, with growth in the first nine months of 2019 reaching 4.3 percent. High domestic demand driven by major oil and gas investments and government and household consumption supported by wage increases and consumer lending has underpinned the economy’s strong performance.
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2020, January, 29, 13:15:00
INDIA'S COAL: +150 MLN. T
In November 2019, Coal India decided to advance its coal production target of 1 Gt/year by two years, from 2026 to 2024.