Legal Planet

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Here’s more: “California’s climate ambitions will be met only by deploying clean energy and transportation on an unprecedented scale, and China has a lot to offer on that score. China is also a world leader on offshore wind energy production, an area Newsom has sought to emphasize in California.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 22, 2024

Josh Shapiro joined Department of General Services Secretary Reggie McNeil, Constellation President & CEO Joseph Dominguez, and Lightsource bp Senior Vice President Alyssa Edwards to unveil the Commonwealth’s renewable energy initiative, the Pennsylvania Project to Utilize Light and Solar Energy (PA PULSE). Josh Shapiro.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 22, 2022

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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Legal Planet

MARCH 6, 2023

Hydrogen’s supply-side has been buttressed by incentives from state and federal governments, refineries and utilities looking to extend the life of fossil fuel infrastructure, and renewable energy companies seeking to take advantage of the huge amounts of clean energy needed to produce green hydrogen.

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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. It estimated that we would need an additional 843 MW of solar and an additional 4,545 MW of wind capacity (along with a basket of other sources) to ensure the province’s energy needs are met. .

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 12, 2022

All told, they represent 56 percent of the US population, generate 62 percent of the country’s gross domestic product, and are responsible for 43 percent of the country’s annual carbon emissions. We found that states have technically feasible and highly beneficial ways to achieve 100-percent renewable energy.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Forecasts of cool weather and expectations of lower wind power output had driven up demand for more fossil-fuel produced energy. The EU’s emissions trading system forces manufacturers, power companies and airlines, to pay for each tonne of CO2 they emit, in an effort to reduce emissions and to meet climate targets.

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E2 Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

11, 2023, the City Planning Commission approved amendments to the New York City Zoning Resolution, called “City of Yes for Carbon Neutrality,” proposed by Mayor Adams’ administration to advance the city’s climate goals, including an 80% reduction in carbon emissions by 2050. onshore wind turbines) (ZR 62-825).

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 6, 2022

Water in Powell is released through turbines in the dam, generating power that electrifies homes, businesses, rural coops, and irrigation pumps across six states and more than 50 Native American tribes. The failure of Glen Canyon Dam to produce hydropower, in isolation, would be bothersome for energy markets but not a catastrophe.

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A Greener Life

MAY 23, 2024

million “new energy” vehicles on the road, the vast majority of which require electricity. This change is precipitating increasingly large spikes in energy demand, which strain the grid. This will become increasingly important as solar and wind power expands because these energy flows are more difficult to adjust than, say, coal power.

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Frontiers

APRIL 24, 2023

Keeping with the topic of climate change, one part of the inequality is evident and it’s the discussion about carbon debt. There’s one estimate that says that 80% of the carbon emissions between 1850 and 2011 (more than one and a half centuries) were caused by rich countries who made up 14% of the global population.

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A Greener Life

JULY 23, 2021

Japan, once a passionate advocate of nuclear energy , now has serious hydrogen ambitions. There is talk that a global “hydrogen economy” can emerge to save the climate from carbon emissions. Hydrogen could power trucks, ships and planes and be used to produce everything from cement to steel and fertiliser.

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The Energy Law Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2020

With recent increased investments in wind power, the development of floating offshore wind farms presents the potential to access areas previously unavailable. This allows the wind turbines to operate in deeper waters. [1] Click here to read more about different oil majors’ investments in wind energy. [1]

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

In particular, the Department should take a hard look at how Local Law 97’s renewable energy credit (or REC) compliance mechanism currently undermines Local Law 97’s integrity. Renewable Energy Credits as a Compliance Mechanism. Local Law 97 and the rules we are discussing today allow the use of RECs as a tool for compliance.

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A Greener Life

JULY 9, 2021

The region will need to change its industrial structure and energy mix to meet national carbon targets, requiring policy and financial support from central government. Energy authorities in Inner Mongolia are aiming to connect 50 gigawatts of renewable power to the grid by 2025. By Gao Baiyu. The Kubuqi desert.

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The Energy Law Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2020

With recent increased investments in wind power, the development of floating offshore wind farms presents the potential to access areas previously unavailable. This allows the wind turbines to operate in deeper waters. [1]. Click here to read more about different oil majors’ investments in wind energy. [1]

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Cresforum

MARCH 10, 2022

In the Unites States’ march to transition to clean energy and reduce greenhouse gasses, resilience may be the most important word to summarize 2021. Nine months after the pandemic first upended lives and the economy, the market fundamentals for clean energy looked unstoppable. And while emissions have slightly risen, the U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 22, 2024

When it comes to the transition to clean energy, 2023 was quite a year for progress: record-breaking amounts of solar installed in the United States, a solid drop in carbon emissions from the US power sector, more than one million electric vehicles sold in the country for the first time, “breakneck” growth in renewable energy globally, and more.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 1, 2022

This month, the Michigan Public Service Commission (MPSC) is holding a public hearing on DTE Energy’s plans for Michigan’s energy future. These types of long-term energy plans include forecasting the amount of electricity customers will need and examining different options for supporting that need. What’s in DTE’s proposed plan?

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A Greener Life

MARCH 19, 2023

News that the Pakistan government plans to secure financing and start construction on a long-stalled 300-megawatt coal-fired power plant in the port city of Gwadar has triggered a debate on the direction of the country’s energy sector. Pakistan’s energy sector is dominated by fossil fuels.

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Law Columbia

JULY 31, 2015

By Nancy Rader, Executive Director of the California Wind Energy Association, and Michael B. Most of this, the assessment shows, will need to come from utility-scale wind and solar resources, in addition to rooftop solar, aggressive energy efficiency, a rapid ramp-up in zero-emission vehicles and many other measures.

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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

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Critics of wind and solar routinely raise concerns about how much land would be required to decarbonize the US power sector. 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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Edouard Stenger

OCTOBER 29, 2018

To limit climate change to runaway levels, the report mentions a deadline and a target: in the next 12 years we need to essentially halve global emissions. If renewables are booming and energy efficiency is gaining some traction, greenhouse gases emissions are still growing and the atmospheric concentration of carbon is still rising.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 29, 2024

Fourteen states now have net-zero emissions targets for the economy as a whole, and sixteen have zero-carbon targets for the grid. New California legislation will require corporations to disclose their carbon emissions. Climate policy has been boosted by dramatic changes in the economics of clean energy.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 25, 2016

As detailed in the RGGI investment plan , these funds are typically used to support energy efficiency and renewable energy programs in New York State. Most of the carbon allowances are auctioned and the proceeds of those auctions are typically used to promote energy conservation and renewable energy programs.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The results include two developers cancelling their offshore wind power contracts with states and utilities, another cancelling two projects altogether, and hesitation elsewhere. The good news-bad news balance, though, would seem to tip decidedly in favor of a whole lot more offshore wind.

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Legal Planet

JULY 22, 2021

Net metering policies are often criticized by economists as inefficient in terms of the money spent per unit of carbon emissions reduced. They are also often criticized as subsidizing wealthy homeowners who have more capacity to invest in the installation of solar panels. There is a lot of truth to these criticisms.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Murray Energy Corp. S ierra Club Enumerated Shortcomings in Department of Energy NEPA Review for LNG Exports. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) authorization of the export of natural gas from Dominion Cove Point LNG, LP’s (Dominion’s ) facility in Maryland. United States Department of Energy , No. McCarthy , No.

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Environmental Progress

APRIL 20, 2021

Testimony before the United States House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce For a hearing on “Power Struggle: Examining the 2021 Texas Grid Failure” Written statement submitted by: Michael D. Some have argued that weather-dependent energies would, paradoxically, make electricity even more reliable.

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Edouard Stenger

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

— Unleashing energy efficiency’s HUGE potential. Any energy use entails carbon emissions, some more than others. When a city like New York unveils a plan to tackle its buildings’ energy consumption, you know the story is big. — Ditching coal and natural gas for solar and wind.

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Environmental Science

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Many are not aware that deserts are a net carbon sink, providing some relief from the increase in greenhouse gases. This will be problematic while carbon emissions continue to increase, and world governments will need to do something about it in the future. Deserts are also useful sources of wind power.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 17, 2024

Renwand To Receive PA Bar Assn. Bradford County [PaEN] -- The Derrick: Public Utility Commission Starts Investigation Into Possible Order For Another Utility To Permanently Acquire Venango Water Company Impacted By Conventional Oil Well Spill [PaEN] -- DEP Issues Violation To CNX Gas Company For Withdrawing Over 1.8

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Environmental Progress

MARCH 11, 2021

Congress took questions relating to the security of America’s electricity supply seriously before more than a dozen states experienced energy shortages last month, but those events make this hearing all the more urgent. The price of solar panels and wind turbines has declined 75 percent and 25 percent, respectively, since 2011. [5]

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

The others, established through New York’s Clean Energy Standard, compensate renewable generators and nuclear plants for their low-carbon attributes. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”) is responsible for overseeing wholesale markets to ensure they result in reliable supplies of electricity at just and reasonable rates.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 8, 2024

The changes target emissions from the production and transport of building materials like concrete, steel, insulation and wood. In addition, the Energy Commission adopted a new “virtual power plant” rule, allowing consumer-owned batteries to be aggregated and treated as power plants when they deliver power to the wholesale electricity market.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 27, 2024

Announcing recently that the world broke a record by generating 30 percent of all electricity from renewable sources in 2023, the British think tank Ember said the data proves we are in a “new era” of energy in which a permanent decline in fossil fuels is “inevitable.” More on that shortly. But first, the undeniably good news.

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