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Investment Risk for Energy Infrastructure Construction Is Highest for Nuclear Power Plants, Lowest for Solar

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A new study from the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability finds that construction costs run over budget for more than 60% of energy infrastructure projects worldwide. By Laura Hurley Between now and 2050, the International Energy Agency projects that more than $100 trillion will be spent on building net-zero energy infrastructure globally. … [continued]

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TotalEnergies Inaugurates its Largest Solar Field in Europe — in Spain

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TotalEnergies inaugurates 263 MW of solar projects in Spain near Sevilla This solar field is TotalEnergies’ largest in Europe It is producing renewable electricity for over 150,000 Spanish households Seville, France — TotalEnergies (Paris:TTE) (LSE:TTE) (NYSE:TTE) inaugurates its largest solar power plant cluster in Europe, near Sevilla in Spain. It … [continued]

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Republican Bill in Congress Threatens 300 US Factories, 300,000 American Jobs

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It’s been such a big part of the US Republican Party for so long that it’s hard to keep in mind how insane opposition to clean energy is. Solar and wind energy power millions of homes, and they provide hundreds of thousands of US jobs, and they don’t cause cancer, … [continued]

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Utility-Scale Outshining Rooftop Solar As Global Solar Market Explodes

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Diving into the Snapshot of Global PV Markets report from the International Energy Agency’s Photovoltaic Power Systems Program (IEA PVPS) earlier today, I found a handful of interesting highlights. A few more were buried toward the end. We’ve already reported on the fact that solar power now dominates new power capacity … [continued]

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