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Bloomberg
3 days ago
- Business
- Bloomberg
Big Tech Is Green Power's Best Defense Against the GOP
Under attack from President Donald Trump, the cause of greening America's power grid now relies to a large degree on some of his most recent converts in Silicon Valley. This has nothing to do with politics; rather wealth, scale and urgent need are working together to advance both renewable energy and nuclear power, albeit in different ways. The Trump tax bill working its way through Congress is a huge blow to renewables. Senate Republicans were expected to dilute the zealous anti-greenery in the House version of the bill, but the latest language out of the Senate Finance Committee, is only a little less harsh. Tax credits supporting wind and solar projects will phase down to zero by the end of 2027. That might pull forward some projects, but it will ultimately bump renewable energy costs up considerably. For example, removing the investment tax credit raises a typical solar project's electricity price by around 40%, according to Lazard Inc. Together with regulatory efforts to boost the fortunes of coal and gas-fired electricity, this would ultimately suppress appetite for new renewables projects.
Washington Post
09-06-2025
- Business
- Washington Post
Amazon to spend $20B on data centers in Pennsylvania, including one next to a nuclear power plant
HARRISBURG, Pa. — Amazon said Monday that it will spend $20 billion on two data center complexes in Pennsylvania, including one it is building alongside a nuclear power plant that has drawn federal scrutiny over an arrangement to essentially plug right into the power plant. Kevin Miller, vice president of global data centers at Amazon's cloud computing subsidiary, Amazon Web Services, told The Associated Press that the company will build another data center complex just north of Philadelphia.
NHK
19-05-2025
- Climate
- NHK
TEPCO reports lowest daily increase of contaminated water at Fukushima Daiichi
The operator of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant says the average daily increase of contaminated water in the year through March was the lowest since the 2011 accident. Tokyo Electric Power Company, or TEPCO, says about 70 tons of polluted water was generated per day in fiscal 2024, or around one-seventh of the level of the peak year of fiscal 2015. Contaminated water has been accumulating at the plant since it suffered a triple meltdown following a massive earthquake and tsunami in March 2011. Water used to cool molten nuclear fuel mixes with rain and groundwater that flow into damaged reactor buildings, creating the contaminated water. The utility treats the water to remove most radioactive substances before storing it in tanks. The treated water, which still contains tritium, is stored in more than 1,000 tanks at the plant compound. The operator has taken various measures to reduce the inflow of groundwater into reactor buildings. One is to create a frozen soil wall around the buildings. The ground around them has also been covered with concrete and other materials. TEPCO says the water inflow also decreased because annual rainfall in the last fiscal year was around two-thirds of the usual figure. The utility has set a target of reducing the daily level of contaminated water generation to between 50 tons and 70 tons by fiscal 2028.
Times
18-05-2025
- Science
- Times
Welcome to Britain's biggest building site. There's a ‘fish disco'
Two miles off the Somerset coast, a strange sound is playing. About 20 metres below the slate-grey surface of the Bristol Channel, a small device called a ceramic transducer blasts out a high-pitched acoustic beam at a frequency far higher than can be detected by the human ear. This machine — once disparaged by the former environment secretary Michael Gove as a 'fish disco' — is being tested to see if it can scare off the salmon, herring, shad, eel and sea trout that in six years' time will start being sucked in their millions into massive water inlets that have been built near by. Hinkley Point C nuclear power station is late and over budget. This is the biggest building site in Britain, possibly
