French MEPs divided on gas and nuclear in EU taxonomy ahead of key vote
While lawmakers acknowledge the role of nuclear and gas in ensuring a stable transitional energy supply, they consider that “the technical review standards proposed by the Commission […] do not respect the criteria of environmentally sustainable economic activities,” the European Parliament wrote in its press release. By Paul Messad EP plenary session – Presentation of the programme...
Canada and a renewable grid by 2035
“To make it happen, Canada must expand its renewable energy sector in an unprecedented leap, building more than 50,000 megawatts of new wind and solar every five years by 2050. That’s more than five times the previous record of 9,200 MW built between 2011 and 2015, but the foundation says recent policy changes in other...
Lawmakers seek to ease decommissioning of New York’s Indian Point nuclear plantLawmakers seek to ease decommissioning of New York’s Indian Point nuclear plant
Spent nuclear fuel rods at the closed Indian Point Energy Center in the lower Hudson Valley will be taxed as real property under a measure given final approval by state lawmakers this month. The bill is meant to ease the complications surrounding by the decommissioning process for the facility and ease the tax burden for the...
