South Korea curbs plans for renewables in push for more nuclear
South Korea will boost nuclear power generation and downgrade its plans for renewable energy as the nation overhauls its electricity mix to meet emissions reduction targets.
South Korea will boost nuclear power generation and downgrade its plans for renewable energy as the nation overhauls its electricity mix to meet emissions reduction targets.
A nuclear power plant on the Philippinesโ western coast has sat idle for nearly four decades, costing billions of dollars and never producing a watt of electricity. Now, itโs at the center of a debate over whether the nation should finally adopt atomic energy.
The Government is to press ahead with building a new nuclear power plant at Sizewell C in Suffolk, the Chancellor announced.
US President Joe Biden and Indonesian President Joko Widodo announced a climate finance deal providing $20 billion to help Indonesia pivot away from coal power.
From energy rationing to onshore wind, the newly appointed business and energy secretary, Grant Shapps, has voiced opinions on a range of topics in the sector.
Rishi Sunak has reinstated a ban on fracking in England, in a reversal of his predecessor Liz Trussโ policy.
Melissa Fleming, UN under-secretary-general for global communications reported last month about how the UN has partnered with Google (NASDAQ:GOOGL) to manipulate search results on climate change. โWe own the science,โ said Fleming, who has no meaningful scientific training.
A nuclear plant and industrial giants in South Korea began taking precautions with the most powerful storm in the nationโs history poised to make landfall early Tuesday, after disrupting ports and air traffic across China and Japan.
Progress toward an Iranian nuclear deal has thrown the spotlight onto a sizeable cache of crude held by Tehran that could be swiftly dispatched to buyers in the event an agreement gets hammered out.
Surging oil and gas prices and European supply uncertainty resulting from Russiaโs ongoing attacks on Ukraine are the latest examples of the challenges and risks of global fossil fuel dependency.
Newly elected President Ferdinand Marcos Jr reiterated his support for more renewable energy, as well as nuclear power, and natural gas, in the Philippines, one of Southeast Asiaโs fastest growing economies. The news comes as plans to import maiden liquefied natural gas (LNG) cargoes into the country have stuttered due to surging global prices.
A potential resurgence in nuclear power combined with increasing renewable energy capacity could see less liquefied natural gas (LNG) fueled power projects built in South Korea than previously anticipated.
The coal plus renewables energy transition led by Asia Pacificโs largest growth markets โ China and India โ is gathering speed. Significantly, it is a lot cheaper than the natural gas plus renewables path followed by the EU and US to lower emissions.
Europe has botched an historic opportunity to create a global benchmark for sustainable investing after agreeing to treat gas as a green asset, according to bankers, investors, climate activists and their lawyers.
The French government will nationalise its financially-struggling nuclear giant Electricite de France to help it ride out Europeโs worst energy crisis in a generation.
Obsolete and bad information is plaguing the debate around new nuclear power developments in Scotland, according to one of the UKโs leading energy lawyers.
The Business Secretary has said the Government's nuclear power push may initially increase energy bills.
Nuclear power will play a crucial role in Chinaโs decarbonisation drive with capacity set to expand 7% every year to 2035, according to S&P Global Ratings.
A commitment to North Sea oil and gas while ramping up nuclear, hydrogen and offshore wind, is at the heart of a new UK strategy to protect consumers from future surges in energy bills.
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Europeโs ambitious timetable for building its way out of a dependence on Russian energy faces potential delays and billions of dollars in extra costs as the war in Ukraine makes steel, copper and aluminium scarce and more expensive.
Following presidential elections earlier this month, energy-short South Korea looks set to pivot back towards nuclear power, leaving the outlook for liquefied natural gas (LNG) imports less certain.
For the first time in more than a decade, a narrow majority of Japanese now support restarting idled nuclear reactors, according to a poll in the countryโs top business newspaper.
On the 24th February, the first of many Russian tanks rolled into Ukraine. And as Brian Wilson noted last week, some uncomfortable realities have kicked in here and across Europe.
The madness in Ukraine has dramatically fast-forwarded issues that were already in the making. Soaring energy prices, over-reliance on imported gas, storage which is essential to facilitate the growth of renewables โฆ the list goes on and on.