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🇨🇦 Canada announces $304 million loan for design of the CANDU Monark, a gigawatt-scale heavy water reactor This is a fully domestic reactor, which is tariff-proof 🔌💡 #onpoli www.canada.ca/en/natural-r...

submitted 3 days ago • 41 comments

Both NYISO and ISO-NE import millions of cheaper MWhs per year from Canada. With just 10% tariffs, this price advantage is nearly eliminated. Both NYISO and ISO-NE import millions of cheaper MWhs per year from Canada. With just 10% tariffs, this price advantage is nearly eliminated. 🔌💡

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

The #tradewar is on. Real-time electricity prices doubled few minutes after midnight EST in New England. 🔌💡

submitted 6 days ago • 128 comments

ZELENSKYY: Putin broke the ceasefire. What kind of diplomacy, JD, are you speaking about? VANCE: I think it's disrespectful to come into the Oval Office and try to litigate this in front of the American media

submitted 9 days ago • 4368 comments

youtube.com/watch?v=JloY... Chainsaw wielding, drug addled sociopath Leon, aka Mump, continues chaos clown parade. Firing uniquely qualified, irreplaceable workers at nuclear, NASA agencies.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

It's nuclear power. Onna boat. www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/kor... 🔌💡⚛️⛴️

submitted 24 days ago • 14 comments

Yee-Haw!🤠🐂 #Spain's Congress of Deputies, which represents the will of the people, has voted in favour of asking the Government to cancel its long-standing #Nuclear phase-out plan🧾✂️ and keep Spain's 7 reactors producing over 7 Gigawatts of 24/7 #CarbonFree #electricity🇪🇸⚛️⚡🤠🐂 #Uranium #EnergySecurity

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

India has agreed to jointly develop a new generation of nuclear reactors with France, signaling New Delhi’s intent to partner with other nations for cutting-edge technology as the US threatens to upend global trade

submitted 25 days ago • 14 comments

Hot take: the Baltic states could've cut the power line to Russia sooner if Germany hadn't pressured Lithuania into shutting down its huge RBMK....

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

I just wrote a @sbtcoalition letter: URGENT ACTION: Tell Ed Miliband to Say No to New Tree Burning Subsidies. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/urge...

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

As a Canadian, it’s exciting to watch other, smaller countries face their bully neighbours and win.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

⚡️ The historic moment of Estonia leaving the Russian-fed power grid. On February 8, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia left Russia and Belarus energy system. By the end of the day today, they will have joined the European grid.

submitted 28 days ago • 461 comments

This Politico story from last October shows how easy it is to launder lies through the press. It claimed Trump would ban anyone tied to Project 2025 from a job in a second Trump administration. “Clearly people working on Project 2025 are blacklisted,” said an unidentified Trump insider. 1/4🧵

submitted 29 days ago • 202 comments

From S&P: a chart which shows for each renewable tech (solar, wind) the min price that would be needed in a 10 year PPA or CFD to cover new build capital, opex and financing costs. Prices are in current €/MWh

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

"Boycotting American produce, meat, and dairy isn't just a matter of Canadian patriotism, it's also a matter of public health."

submitted 35 days ago • 7 comments

Odds that Trump proclaims victory on Monday and never triggers the tariffs? Seriously, the only way to stop this shit is to call his bluff. Yes, the U.S. economy can better absorb a trade war than Mexico and Canada can. But here’s the deal: the politics are asymmetric and likely favor them. —>

submitted 36 days ago • 6 comments

How could we actually structure a market system that is actually capable of deep decarbonization? Energy only markets are going to get stuck on cannibalization and undervaluing reliability. Vertical utilities tend to be slow and under capitalized...

submitted 492 days ago • 2 comments

🇮🇹 🤌 ⚛️ Italy to finalize legislation that will overturn nuclear moratorium 🫂 Legislation allows large and small modular reactors 🎯 Goal is 10-20% mix of nuclear on the grid by 2050 The country of Enrico Fermi wants to get back on track! 🔌💡 www.nucnet.org/news/italy-s...

submitted 45 days ago • 1 comment

Huge news: South Carolina utility Santee Cooper is set revive the V.C. Summer nuclear project that fell apart and infamously led to two execs going got jail. It was supposed to be the second pair of AP-1000 reactors in the U.S. after the two at Vogtle. www.wsj.com/business/ene...

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

At some point someone will have to write a book about all the things that have gone on in Europe to attempt to sabotage the French nuclear fleet. It’s mind blowing stuff. But despite the deep rot, they still produce a headline like this. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 46 days ago • 3 comments

Rachel @maddow.msnbc.com told me to join Bluesky last night and it only took me 24 hours to figure it out.

submitted 47 days ago • 8456 comments

I can’t get over the irony of someone who would be a racist King or worse being inaugurated as our president . . . on Martin Luther King Day. Vive La resistance!

submitted 48 days ago • 89 comments

Thanks, Steve Sack! #Resist #NeverTrump #WakeUp www.startribune.com/sack-cartoon...

submitted 112 days ago • 10 comments

Uncanceled Units xkcd.com/3038

submitted 53 days ago • 185 comments

Decent increase in coal generation in the NEM last calendar year (+2 TWh) - first increase in about a decade. Why? Well - in a nutshell - demand increased by more than the increased in RE generation (smallest increase in RE generation for many years). 🔌💡

submitted 60 days ago • 7 comments

Jeff Bezos never wanted this cartoon to become public. He killed it, and as a result, pulitzer prize editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes quit. Make sure everyone sees this cartoon.

submitted 64 days ago • 1088 comments

Just yesterday 😆

submitted 63 days ago • 15 comments