Environmental News Bits

JUNE 8, 2021

The protein supplier has announced it will reduce GHG emissions across its entire domestic supply chain 30 percent by 2030 as well as obtain 50 percent of its electricity from renewable sources, such as solar and wind power, over the same time period. Read the full story in Food Engineering. Read more →

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Environmental News Bits

DECEMBER 10, 2021

GE’s renewable energy unit said Tuesday it would manufacture zero waste wind turbine blades by the year 2030, becoming the latest operator in the sector to try to develop more sustainable production processes.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 7, 2023

India missed its target to install 175 GW of renewable energy by 2022, and is now trying to make up for that by boosting solar, wind, nuclear, hydropower and bio-power to 500 GW by 2030. Overall, India is also looking to boost its share of non-fossil capacity, which can include big hydro and nuclear to 50% by 2030.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 30, 2022

The flagship wind farm made headlines as the operator, Swedens’s Vattenfall in 2018 won the concession to build it without government subsidy. 20 GW before 2030. The Netherlands plans to connect more than 20 GW of wind power before 2030.

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Edouard Stenger

MAY 2, 2023

I wrote about it before, both solar photovoltaic and wind power are on exponential curves. Analysts say yes and predict that annual installation will be of 1 TW by 2030. Even the IEA has stopped denying it. When I discovered solar photovoltaic in 2004, the global capacity was around 5 GW. Earlier this year it surpassed 1,000 GW.

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A Greener Life

JULY 1, 2022

Copenhagen is full of sustainability initiatives, such as a promising and exciting green hydrogen project close to Copenhagen Airport called H2RES developed by some of Denmark’s largest companies and their ‘energy island project’ North Sea Wind Power Hub located offshore close to the Danish island of Bornholm.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 22, 2022

Ontario has a large potential supply of wind and solar energy that could be developed to help phase-out dirty gas plants. The Independent Electricity System Operator recently produced a theoretical plan for phasing out gas plants by 2030. Between 2009 and 2016, Ontario built over 2000 MW of solar power and about 3000 MW of wind power.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 25, 2022

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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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 9, 2023

On August 9, the Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority announced it would be committing to the purchase of wind power and the use of clean energy to support the production and operations of water services. PWSA holds the largest share at 30% of the total, underlining our strong commitment to sustainable energy practices. “It

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A Greener Life

JULY 26, 2021

Ravindra Puranik, Oil and Gas Analyst at GlobalData, said: “Global power demand is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 2.5% from 2020 to 2030. A significant portion of this will be fulfilled by renewable power generation. BP and Total are also leading the way in terms of upcoming solar power capacity.”.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Global Data’s research found that looking at current projects and pipelines, Croatia will grow its onshore wind capacity to 1.99 gigawatts (GW) by 2030 which will exceed its target by 0.39 This means that by 2030 Croatia’s electricity market will be getting 36.4% of total consumption by 2030. of total consumption by 2030.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 16, 2022

This is in total opposition to the US commitment under the Paris Agreement to achieve a 50-52 percent emissions reduction below 2005 levels by 2030, and net-zero by 2050. Coal generation also remains 10 percent of the US mix through 2050 even as EIA is showing substantial coal plant retirements by 2030.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 22, 2022

More than 200 gigawatt-hours of used electric vehicle batteries will be available for energy storage reuse by 2030, which would satisfy projected grid storage battery demand. How are Lithium-ion Batteries that Store Solar and Wind Power Made? Increase access to information. Click to learn more!

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 22, 2022

Southwest Minnesota and the Dakotas have a lot of wind power—and the potential for even more. The company’s recently approved resource plan includes over 4,500 megawatts of new solar, wind, and battery storage on its way toward 80 percent of electricity generation from carbon-free resources by 2032—and no new gas.

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Law and Environment

MAY 4, 2023

According to the Department of Energy (“DOE”), PEM electrolyzers can operate “effectively at a range of loads with sub-second response times,” making them “particularly compatible with variable energy sources, such as sun and wind power.”

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 3, 2023

CEJA provides $380 million a year in new funding to ramp up solar and wind power to 40 percent of Illinois’ power mix by 2030 and 50 percent by 2040. CEJA also extends the state’s successful energy efficiency programs and expands the savings goals utilities must meet.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 31, 2022

Just two months before COP26, the government released Vietnam’s eighth power development plan (PDP8) which covered 2021–2030 and relied heavily on foreign investment in non-renewable energy. The PDP8 would have doubled coal power capacity by 2030, with more to come in the five years after that. Human costs and backlash.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 4, 2022

But despite this, the EU plans have lacked serious urgency and they have only pledged to end the import of Russian oil, gas and coal “well before 2030”. . Implementing a war economy. If all these actions were to be implemented, 155 billion cubic metres of gas could be saved over the year if Russian imports are to end entirely.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The analysis predicts that by the end of 2030, floating wind capacity could reach 11 GW in the UK, 21 GW in Europe and 41 GW globally. Commenting on the research, the CEO of RenewableUK Dan McGrail said: “The growth of floating offshore wind is surging ahead at a phenomenal rate year on year around the world.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 23, 2023

GW of gas capacity set to retire, but also slightly outpacing the planned additions of wind power. degrees Celsius, coal power should be entirely phased out by 2030. More gas plants, uncertain coal retirements As you may have noticed in the first table toward the top of the page, about 7.4

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 21, 2022

When the Paris Agreement was celebrated in 2015, no one was talking about hydrogen as a climate solution, the idea of net-zero targets had not been invented yet, and offshore wind power was mainly a European venture. But in this space particularly, innovation and advancements are moving faster than most sectors.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 31, 2023

The province’s gas ramp-up is projected to increase electricity-sector emissions by over 400 per cent by 2030 and by almost 800 per cent by 2040. It seems obvious that we should remove the middle process and use solar and wind power for our electricity needs directly.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Last year it generated more than 50% of power from onshore wind, solar and hydro. Its offshore wind strategy sets out to build installed capacity of at least two gigawatts (GW) from offshore wind by 2030, representing one-tenth of its onshore capacity.

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Edouard Stenger

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

GW of wind capacity in September 2016, which produced 21 TWh in 2015. Wind power currently employs a little less than 15,000 people. Then, we have at our disposal so many other efficient technologies such as LED light bulbs or other renewables such as wind power and so many others. click to enlarge.

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Ocean Conservancy

MAY 27, 2022

While a wind-powered cargo vessel may seem like a 19 th Century idea, the Grain de Sail may be a herald of a greener future rather than a nostalgic nod to the past. After agreeing to a very weak short-term measure in November 2020, the discussions last week focused on new measures that could take effect by 2030.

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Building the world’s largest offshore wind farm during a global pandemic has been a challenge that the team have overcome with flying colours. The UK is targeting at least 50 GW of offshore wind capacity by 2030. I am so proud of how our team has worked together to safely deliver this remarkable project.”.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 9, 2021

Hydropower generation across California and the American West has declined in this extremely dry year, meaning that electricity providers will lean more heavily on natural gas, solar, and wind power. President Biden’s goal is to cut the country’s greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030, and to reach net zero emissions by 2050.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 25, 2021

We want to make electricity from sustainable sources more accessible and affordable for all” Ingka shed some light on the plan, revealing that their plan to offer electricity from solar and wind parks originated around five years ago, and they saw it as a way to encourage the building of more renewable energy parks.

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The Energy Law Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2020

In August, BP set forth its strategy towards net-zero emissions, which includes plans to have 50 gigawatts of renewable generating capacity by 2030, up from the 2.5 As these companies are moving towards clean energy, an emerging source of renewable energy is wind power. gigawatts it currently has. within the next ten years.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Acknowledging that the United States is a leading contributor to carbon emissions, the Biden administration has committed to cutting US emissions 50 to 52 percent below 2005 levels by 2030.

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

I thoroughly enjoyed moderating a panel in the Nature Zone at COP27 with representatives from the International Renewable Energy Agency and Orsted, a leader in offshore wind power production based in Denmark, focusing on the potential of offshore wind energy and how to sustainably and equitably advance its development.

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The Energy Law Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2020

In August, BP set forth its strategy towards net-zero emissions, which includes plans to have 50 gigawatts of renewable generating capacity by 2030, up from the 2.5 As these companies are moving towards clean energy, an emerging source of renewable energy is wind power. gigawatts it currently has. within the next ten years.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 18, 2023

The newly updated legislation (LD 1895), which the legislature is considering this week, builds on recommendations from Maine’s Offshore Wind Roadmap and policies adopted by other leading states. That said, offshore wind development will be critical to meet state and regional climate and clean energy requirements.

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E2 Law Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Enacted in 2019, the CLCPA transformed the state’s earlier clean energy standard efforts from administrative fiat to law and sets more aggressive goals to reduce statewide greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions economy-wide to 60% from a 1990 baseline by 2030, and 15% from a 1990 baseline by 2050.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Mining rare earth elements can also involve serious human and environmental health threats.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 24, 2023

The progress in the numbers The new numbers are from the federal Energy Information Administration (EIA), which collects data from power plant operators from across the country. Solar power increased the most among renewable electricity sources in percentage terms, up 24 percent. It supplied 10.5 percentage points).*

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A Greener Life

JULY 9, 2021

Getting there by 2030 will require high-quality economic growth and reductions in carbon intensity, according to Du Xiangwan, a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, who was speaking at the Forum on National Affairs in mid-May. It has huge potential for renewables, with vast areas of sparsely populated land and plenty of wind and sun.

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