Prior to the Fukushima accident, nuclear power accounted for about 30% of Japan’s energy mix, but it has subsequently fallen to only 6.2 percent. Japan is aiming to revitalize its nuclear sector, seeing it as a critical component of its net-zero goals. Japan is the world’s second-largest LNG importer, and if it does not lessen …
Facebook, which renamed itself Meta in October 2021, has chosen Kuna, Idaho, as the location for its newest data center. The building, dubbed The Meta Kuna Data Center, will be powered entirely by renewable energy generated by new resources connected to Idaho Power’s grid, environmentalleader.com writes. Idaho Power launched its Clean Energy Your Way initiative …
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Amazon’s new 10-megawatt solar plant is already operational in South Africa’s Northern Cape Province, the country’s biggest province. The project is planned to create up to 28,000 megawatt-hours (MWh) of renewable energy each year, which is enough to power around 8,000 ordinary South African households for an entire year, Amazon announced. The solar facility in …
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The state’s electrical infrastructure remains vulnerable to extreme cold a year after a major winter storm triggered widespread outages in Texas. Recent research, however, shows that switching to 100 percent renewable energy might help avert future disruptions in Texas and elsewhere. Stanford researchers analyzed grid stability in 2050 in a scenario in which the United …
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Korkia, a Finnish investment business, has established a private equity fund to invest in renewable energy projects predominantly in Europe, with a transaction volume of more than 4GW. Focusing on project development, according to Korkia, would offer the fund a potential yearly revenue of more than 10%. Korkia’s investment strategy focuses on supporting renewable energy …
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Energy prices are skyrocketing, owing mostly to a significant increase in the price of natural gas. Few regions experience this more severely than Europe, which relies largely on gas imports for both heat and power. Natural gas currently costs up to €150 per megawatt-hour (MWh) in Europe, up from an average of €49/MWh last year. …
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The CEO of the Portuguese utility EDP has connected rapid renewables adoption to Europe’s energy independence, telling CNBC that investment in the field needs to be “far quicker.” “These are indigenous resources — wind, solar — that we have in Europe,” Miguel Stilwell de Andrade remarked on Friday morning’s “Squawk Box Europe.” “As a result, …
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Most energy-producing methods utilized today are unsustainable because they harm our planet’s natural ecosystem. In recent years, experts throughout the globe have been attempting to develop alternative energy solutions that make use of plentiful and natural resources. In addition to solar, wind, and marine energy options, several scientists and engineers have been investigating the prospect …
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Using sophisticated materials and ultrafast laser spectroscopy, a research team led by Lund University in Sweden demonstrated how solar power can transform carbon dioxide into fuel. The innovation might be a critical piece of the jigsaw in decreasing greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere in the future. The findings were reported in the journal Nature …
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According to local media, Ricardo Salinas Pliego, Mexico’s third wealthiest man, is considering mining Bitcoin using a geothermal power plant owned by one of his firms. Pliego is already a well-known personality in the bitcoin industry, and his firm Grupo Dragon is utilizing the Domo San Pedro geothermal power plant (part of Grupo Salinas). The …
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