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Why Data Centers and Nuclear Plants Can’t Just ‘Go It Alone’

Union of Concerned Scientists

This demonstration of the connections between people and systems, and the need for collective solutions to complicated problems, came to mind when I read about an idea for a different real estate host technology: nuclear power plant owners seeking to bring large data centers to co-locate on their land. Modernize, or bypass, the grid?

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Ontario is selling our Clean Energy Credit out from under us

Enviromental Defense

Last week, on Monday November 14, as part of its Economic Outlook and Fiscal Review , the Ontario government officially announced it would be developing a voluntary clean energy credit (CEC) registry. million between 2022 and 2026. We lose our claim to clean electricity . This plan is a total sham, in so many ways. .

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Reevaluating the Role of Fossil Gas in a Decarbonizing Grid

Union of Concerned Scientists

It’s worth delving into because it has some important implications for our clean energy future. US Electricity Generation Wind and solar lead the way in decarbonizing the power sector to meet near-term climate targets. Decarbonizing the power sector also plays a critical long-term role by replacing fossil fuels in other sectors.

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Western Grid Regionalization Is Back on the Drawing Board. Why Now?

Union of Concerned Scientists

Change #1: 100% clean energy goals have spread At the beginning of 2018, the only state in the country with a 100% clean or renewable energy goal was Hawaii. Now, 22 states plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico have 100% clean energy goals on the books. The list goes on, but you get the point.

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Sen. Yaw Proposes Independent Energy Office To Promote Development Of PA’s Diverse Energy Portfolio - Natural Gas, Nuclear Power, Coal

PA Environment Daily

And what happens is, you've mentioned this, that 95% of the [proposed] energy [facilities], the new coming online in the [JPM] queue, is wind and solar and that means only 5% is natural gas, or coal, or nuclear or whatever. So it seems to me, and I love it when people say, oh, well by 2035 we're going to have totally clean energy.

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September Is Here. That Means Another Nail-Biter for California’s Grid.

Union of Concerned Scientists

This summer, Newsom managed to get a sweeping energy budget bill passed that gives a state agency the authority to buy electricity from existing fossil fuel power plants and build new emergency or temporary power plants as well. All that being said, it’s still 2022 and September is upon us.

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Three Reasons Why Spring is a Great Time for Renewable Energy

Union of Concerned Scientists

That means that any renewable energy generation will supply a larger portion of demand. That lower-than-expected electricity demand also makes spring (and the other “shoulder” season, fall) the go-to seasons for fossil fuel and nuclear power plants to go offline for scheduled maintenance—or refueling, in the case of the nuclear plants.