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Ontario: Now is the time to increase renewable energy, not fossil gas

Enviromental Defense

But rather than ramping up the use of polluting fossil gas, this is the perfect moment for the province to transition to clean and safe renewable energy. One is that gas plant contracts signed (or renewed) before 2025 will be able to evade meeting the national CERs beyond 2035 which is when the regulations are supposed to kick in. .

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Building a Better Power Grid for Minnesota

Union of Concerned Scientists

Minnesotans are facing concurrent crises of climate change, high energy prices and inflation, and the inequitable public health impacts of fossil fuel air pollution. Renewable energy will help with all of that—but we need a grid that is designed for wind and solar instead of having to rely on expensive coal and gas plants.

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Analysis: Bolstering Southeast Asia’s clean energy transition

A Greener Life

In June, SPP issued a $3 million grant to the ASEAN Centre for Energy (ACE) to increase renewable energy in the region’s power systems. The cooperation has resulted in the installation of 10,000 megawatts of new energy capacity, enough to power nearly 8 million homes. Japan and other partners.

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Renewables are now an unstoppable juggernaut

Edouard Stenger

I previously noted that renewables are to become first global electricity source by 2025. Renewables are indeed on an exponential, as “By 2024, renewable energy capacity is expected to be twice that of the total cumulative installed capacity in 2019.

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Boosting Michigan’s Energy Future with Regional Transmission Upgrades

Union of Concerned Scientists

The 18 projects approved by MISO in Tranche 1 address reliability needs in the Upper Midwest while helping ensure utilities can transition from older, more expensive-to-run coal plants to cleaner, affordable wind and solar power. Source: MISO. What’s in it for Michigan?

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The Atomic Energy Advancement Act: Preparing the Way for Advanced Nuclear Power Plants  

Cresforum

Increased electrification in both the industrialized and the developing world is projected to help meet emissions reduction goals, and nuclear power could provide much of the future needs for electricity. Moving the Ball Forward on U.S.

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Good News—and Bad—about Fossil Fuel Power Plants in 2023 

Union of Concerned Scientists

The EPA’s Social Cost of Carbon was adjusted to 2025 to align with the emissions year of the NO x and SO 2 estimates.) GW of gas capacity set to retire, but also slightly outpacing the planned additions of wind power. GW of new gas capacity is planned to come online in 2023, outpacing not only the 4.8