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Is Europe’s Nuclear Phaseout Starting to Phase Out?

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In the depths of the 1970s oil crisis, French prime minister Pierre Messmer saw an opportunity to transform his country’s energy supply. The obvious answer might be solar and wind. After all, the cost of renewables continues to plummet. And other countries are charting new nuclear courses.

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War in Ukraine: We Need to Talk About Fossil Fuels

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Russia is the world’s second largest producer of crude oil, behind the United States and ahead of Saudi Arabia, and its second largest exporter, behind Saudi Arabia. On 28 February, British Petroleum announced it would divest itself of its nearly 20 percent share of Rosneft , Russia’s state oil company.

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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); 6 wind projects (€273.2 NER300 funding will provide up to 50% of the relevant costs of the project—i.e., the additional costs compared to existing, proven technologies; the rest will be covered by private investment and/or additional national funding. winowice project in Poland will receive a maximum of €30.9

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