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Mercedes-Benz Cars plants in Germany to be supplied with CO2-neutral energy from 2022

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Thereby, we completely forego coal-based electricity and obtain our electrical energy from only renewable sources. Already existing highly efficient gas CHP systems additionally generate local heat and power at the factories. In Jawor (Poland), a new CO 2 -neutral engine plant is being built.

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How Russia Sent Ukraine Racing Into the “Energy Eurozone”

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Just a few hours before massed Russian troops and missiles surged over borders with deadly force last month, Ukraine’s grid operator opened a series of high-voltage breakers, disconnecting the nation’s grid from those of Belarus, Russia and the rest of the giant UPS/IPS synchronous AC power zone controlled from Moscow.

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OPG, GE Hitachi to deploy small modular reactor at Darlington station in Canada

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Ontario Power Generation (OPG) will work together with GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) to deploy a Small Modular Reactor (SMR)—the BWRX-300—at the Darlington new nuclear site, the only site in Canada currently licensed for a new nuclear build. GEH SMR Technologies Canada, Ltd., Spur SMR deployment elsewhere in Canada and abroad.

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Why EVs Aren't a Climate Change Panacea

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However, achieving either goal would likely require governments offering hundreds of billions of dollars, if not trillions, in EV subsidies to ICE owners over the next decade, not to mention significant investments in EV charging infrastructure and the electrical grid. billion to more than 2 billion.

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The Future of Fission Reactors May Be Small

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Even more discouragingly, nuclear’s per-unit cost increased 26 percent between 2009 and 2019—while solar and wind power prices plummeted instead. Still, a steadfast consensus remains that nuclear power isn’t just desirable for a clean-energy transition— it’s necessary. Linglong One is the only one of its kind under construction today.

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EC awards €1.2B from NER300 “Robin Hood” mechanism for 23 renewable energy projects; 5 advanced biofuel projects targeted for €516.8M

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million, US$363 million); 4 concentrated solar power projects (€203.3 1 geothermal power project (€39.3 million, US$52 million); 1 distributed renewable management (smart grids), with €8.2 winowice project in Poland will receive a maximum of €30.9 million, or US$687 million) for maximum funding of €629.3 million (US$836.5

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