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Shift in thinking on nuclear power
The Swedish parliament voted recently to change the country's energy goal from 100 percent renewable to 100 percent fossil free, a shift that will allow nuclear power to count toward the target and open the door to efforts to bolster the nation's existing nuclear plants and possibly add new ones. "This creates the conditions for nuclear power," Swedish Finance Minister Elisabeth Svantesson said in June .
Why Barnstable is integral to offshore wind plans
arnstable for the beaches, but offshore wind developers are coming to that section of Cape Cod for a different reason. Ken Kimmell, vice president of offshore wind development at Avangrid, said the Cape is a unique location as far as his industry is concerned. "One of the things I learned on this job is that there is a relative shortage of places along the East Coast that can connect to the electric grid and have the capacity to take the power," he said on The Codcast .
Grid shifts to operating reserves to deal with transmission outage
THE NEW ENGLAND power grid experienced a transmission outage at 6 p.m. Wednesday night and dealt with the electricity shortage by tapping resources it keeps on standby to deal with such events. The grid operator, ISO New England, said the transmission outage caused a significant decline in electricity imports from Canada at a time when consumer demand in the region was slightly higher than expected. About Bruce Mohl Bruce Mohl is the editor of CommonWealth magazine.
Mass. solar potential called enormous
THE HEALEY ADMINISTRATION unveiled a new mapping tool on Thursday that suggests the state has the potential to generate an enormous amount of solar power. In a press release, the governor's administration said the mapping tool indicates that "Massachusetts has more than enough solar potential to support its decarbonization requirements - about 15 to 18 times what is likely needed.
Campbell at odds with Healey on offshore wind
ATTORNEY GENERAL Andrea Campbell and Gov. Maura Healey are the closest of political allies, but they are staking out very different positions on the state's next offshore wind procurement. The Healey administration is proposing a very large procurement of up to 3,600 megawatts to not only make up for 2,400 megawatts worth of projects that were previously approved and now on the verge of being terminated but also push ahead with 1,200 megawatts of new wind.
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