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Is Europe’s Nuclear Phaseout Starting to Phase Out?

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The obvious answer might be solar and wind. This reality has come to the forefront as gas prices spiked over Europe’s past winter. Poland has begun forging ahead with French-backed plans to build a half dozen nuclear reactors by 2043. After all, the cost of renewables continues to plummet.

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UK MPs greenlight shale gas in new report

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Shale gas extraction could reduce the UK’s dependence on imported gas, but it is unlikely to have a dramatic effect on domestic gas prices, according to the report. years of total UK gas consumption (or 15 years of the UK’s current LNG imports) and worth approximately £28 billion (US$45 billion) at current prices.

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In a first, wind and solar overtake fossil fuels in the EU in 1H 2024

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Image: BASF Wind and solar generated more electricity than fossil fuels in the EU during the first six months of 2024 for the first time ever in a half-year period. New analysis from independent energy think tank Ember reveals that wind and solar grew to an all-time high of 30% of the EU’s electricity in the first half of 2024.

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BNEF: global investment in energy transition hit $500B in 2020; $139B on EVs and infrastructure

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billion in new renewable energy capacity in 2020, up 2% on the year, helped by the biggest-ever build-out of solar projects and a $50-billion surge for offshore wind. billion, level with 2019 despite falling unit prices. Overall, solar capacity investment was up 12% at $148.6 billion, down 12%. The US fell 20% to $49.3

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Mercedes-Benz announces VAN.EA electric architecture for midsize and large vans

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Mercedes-Benz Vans focuses on the upper price bands of the CEP industry, where it intends to offer a VAN.EA Mercedes-Benz Vans is reorganizing the global production network with its first pure electric light commercial vehicles (eLCV) plant in Jawor, Poland. CEP-specific version ex-factory for the first-time. The production network.

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War in Ukraine: We Need to Talk About Fossil Fuels

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Over the years, there have been brief supply interruptions and price swings, but nothing like what’s going on now. Over the years, there have been brief supply interruptions and price swings, but nothing like what’s going on now. The drop was steep enough to force Germany to produce more electricity from coal than from wind in 2021.

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The Future of Fission Reactors May Be Small

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When it comes online in 2026, Linglong One will have a capacity of 125 megawatts of electricity (MWe)—equivalent to around 40 onshore wind turbines. Even more discouragingly, nuclear’s per-unit cost increased 26 percent between 2009 and 2019—while solar and wind power prices plummeted instead.

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