Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Michigan legislators recently passed a series of energy-related bills that Gov. It adds Michigan to the growing list of states, including Illinois and Minnesota , that have adopted standards to increase renewable energy on the grid and move toward 100-percent decarbonization of the power sector.

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Energy and Climate Law

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

The German Federal Constitutional Court decided yesterday that the way in which compensation under the Atomic Energy Amendment Act of 10 July 2018 has been organized infringes the German constitution. The aftermath of the nuclear phase out in Germany is becoming a never-ending story.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 12, 2022

Nearly all of the alliance members have a renewable electricity standard (RES), which requires utilities in their jurisdiction to increase their use of renewable energy to a particular percentage by a specific year. We found that states have technically feasible and highly beneficial ways to achieve 100-percent renewable energy.

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Cresforum

MAY 13, 2024

Over the past few months, electric utilities have been focused on projections of new demand for electric power, which is projected to increase by several times that of previous estimates. As the need for electricity continues to skyrocket, Congress must ensure demand can be met. 870, the Fire Grants and Safety Act.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 12, 2024

Fossil gas power plants currently provide the largest source of electricity generation and capacity in the United States. However, as we replace fossil fuels with clean electricity for heating and transportation to meet our climate goals, these peak demands will increasingly shift to the winter in many parts of the country.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 2, 2023

At the global level, however, Germany has its own claim to a leadership role, particularly in its early support for renewable energy. Although its track record has some complexities, this timeline of German actions shows just its early and sustained attention to clean energy policy: 1990. Renewables are 6% of power.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 13, 2024

Josh Shapiro unveiled a cap-and-invest PA Climate Emissions Reduction Initiative in legislation to reduce carbon pollution from power plants to protect and create nearly 15,000 energy jobs, lower utility bills for Pennsylvania households, and take real action to address carbon pollution. Doing nothing is not an option,” said Gov.

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Earth 911

JANUARY 22, 2024

The post Earth911 Podcast: Can Nano Nuclear Energy’s Microreactors Deliver Equitable Electricity? Despite its other environmental impacts, including toxic waste that requires centuries or millennia of storage. appeared first on Earth911.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

As of 2016, half of its total emissions are from the power sector, with 20% from industry and 15% from transportation, and. According to the Energy Information Agency , South Korea’s power sector is heavily reliant on fossil fuels. 50% coal, 26% gas, and 25% nuclear. With economic growth have come carbon emissions.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Although the nuclear bailout was repealed and refunded in 2021, some of the law’s other egregious provisions requiring ratepayers across the state to subsidize money-losing coal plants and gutting renewable energy and energy efficiency standards are still in place today. The Union of Concerned Scientists opposed H.B. Since H.B.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 3, 2023

Federal energy policy A. Energy efficiency standards for new appliances and lighting sources. Nuclear power regulation D. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission rules bearing on electricity transmission E. FERC rules for wholesale markets that impact renewable energy. State climate and energy policy A.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 30, 2023

Crew Does Newburg Stream Work; Needs Permit -- GridPhilly.com: At Former Philadelphia Refinery, Pollution Concerns Persist Under The Surface -- Delaware County’s 2nd Annual Sustainability Conference June 8 , Widener University, Chester, 8:00 a.m.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 30, 2023

“We don’t want to see high bills like this again,” he said of the country’s current energy costs. It’s time for a clean energy reset. That is why we are fully committing to nuclear power in the UK, backing a new generation of small modular reactors.” The latest estimate is that it will cost £32 billion.

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Global Green

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Chris Johnston is co-author of The Arrival of the Electric Car – An Overview of the EV Revolution Happening Now. The fastest way to shift the transportation sector to environmental sustainability is to accelerate the transition to electric vehicles (EVs). This makes EVs two to three times more efficient than gas-powered vehicles.

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Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The feasibility and performance of nuclear energy coupled with Negative Emission Technology (NET)processes were investigated in this report. Download the report.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 31, 2022

For California power grid experts, September is a nerve-wracking month, still very much part of danger season on the West Coast. At any point in the summer, extreme heat could trigger electricity supply shortages and rotating power outages. But September is the month when this type of power outage is most likely in California.

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Frontiers

APRIL 26, 2022

A crewed mission to Mars will require transporting equipment for creating electricity to power life support systems. The choice for the type of device used will require a tradeoff between mass and energy efficiency. The main source of power for some NASA Mars rovers comes from a multipanel solar array.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Last week, on Monday November 14, as part of its Economic Outlook and Fiscal Review , the Ontario government officially announced it would be developing a voluntary clean energy credit (CEC) registry. Now, the Ontario government is crafting an official Clean Energy Credit system that will presumably require transparency.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 28, 2023

By Dave Jenkins, Conservatives For Responsible Stewardshi p The following goest essay first appeared in the Erie Times on March 27, 2023 -- We are at an inflection point on energy: 2022 was the first year when global investment in carbon-free sources of energy matched investment in fossil fuels. High overseas demand for U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 26, 2022

Energy Information Agency’s 2022 Annual Energy Outlook webpage for lots more detail. Energy Consumption Will Grow Thru 2050, Outpacing Energy Efficiency Gains -- EIA Projects Petroleum And Natural Gas Are Most-Used Fuels In U.S. Electricity By 2050 -- EIA Projects U.S. Here are some key takeaways from the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 21, 2023

. -- Shapiro Administration Announces Long-Term Presence In Beaver County To Assist Residents Affected By Norfolk Southern Train Derailment [PaEN] -- The Center Square - Anthony Hennen: Western PA Residents Want More Testing- And Attention-- After Train Derailment -- PA Capital-Star: Norfolk Southern Will Be There ‘As Long As It Takes,’ CEO Tells PA (..)

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Physics World

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Tricky problem Nuclear energy is often not viewed as a low-carbon energy source. According to a poll carried out in 2020 by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE), only a quarter of people aged between 18 and 24 in the UK are aware that nuclear is a low-carbon source of energy. Young support.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 26, 2022

Forty-three years ago on March 28, 1979, Pennsylvanians woke up to a much different world -- the accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Dauphin County. Unit 2 at Three Mile Island has been closed since the accident and is now in the process of decommissioning by Energy Solutions. Wasn’t there a bubble?

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

David Althoff, Director of DEP’s Energy Programs Office, said DEP was looking for feedback from the Committee on the ways to present these recommendations and the detail needed for the proposals in the Climate Action Plan.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 9, 2023

Third Annual Breeding Bird Blitz For Conservation - Donate To Your Favorite Team By June 19 [PaEN] -- DEP/EPA AirNOW Forecasts Code ORANGE Air Quality Action Day Friday, June 9 Across PA -- TribLive: Code ORANGE Air Quality Alert Issued For Region -- PA Capital-Star - John Micek: What The Wildfires Teach Us - We Might Not Survive Our Own Climate Foolishness, (..)

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 15, 2023

On October 13, the PJM Interconnection formally submitted proposed electric market reforms designed to support reliability of the electric grid now and in the future amid increasingly extreme weather and a changing generation fleet.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 11, 2023

While it is a heavily polluting fossil fuel that is set to continue declining as a fuel source for US electricity generation over the next decade, coal still accounted for roughly 20 percent of the country’s generation in 2022. So, what does this mean for the power system? But that focus may need to be broadened.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 7, 2023

By Anders Lorenzen Tenders for 250 gigawatts (GW) of clean energy by 2028 are set to be unveiled by the Indian government, according to a government memo. 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.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

By Anders Lorenzen Analysis from the International Energy Agency (IEA) predicts that the rise in renewable energy technologies such as solar and wind as well as nuclear energy is to dominate the growth in global power supply over the course of the next three years. Asia also dominated the growth in demand.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 19, 2023

This would have enabled the CAISO to expand its operations into the rest of the west as a regional transmission organization (RTO), an independent entity that plans and operates the electricity grid. The overall idea, often referred to as grid regionalization , was to create one grid operator and power market for the entire west.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The International Energy Agency , at the request of the United Kingdom, did an analysis of what it will take for world emissions to reach net-zero by 2050 – a key milestone for achieving the Paris 1.5°C Replacing the whole world’s energy infrastructure is slow, and the changes required to achieve the net-zero 2050 goal are enormous.

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Law and Environment

MAY 4, 2023

The gold standard—so-called “ green ” hydrogen—is hydrogen produced via electrolysis using renewable electricity from wind or solar. When water and electricity are introduced to the electrolyzer, water splits at the anode into oxygen and positively charged hydrogen ions. Energy Storage. I’ve mentioned green and grey hydrogen.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

By Anders Lorenzen Even though Germany significantly ramped up its coal consumption in the wake of the decommissioning of its nuclear power plants, Turkey is on track to surpass Europe’s economic powerhouse as the continent’s biggest coal consumer. As a result, Turkish coal-power plants increased their output by 3.5%

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The Grohnde plant is one of the German nuclear power plants which is due to shut down at the end of 2021. A recent report has shed light on the scale of the climate cost of Germany decommissioning its nuclear power plants. For Germany, keeping its nuclear reactors open is one of the cheapest ways to reduce emissions.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 13, 2024

On March 13, 2024, the US Energy Information Administration posted an article describing how winter storms disrupt US natural gas production. Related Articles - Gas: -- Pennsylvania’s Electric Grid Is Dependent On One Fuel To Generate 59% Of Our Electricity; Market Moving To Renewables + Storage [PaEN] -- Gov.

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Law and Environment

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Last week, the Department of Energy released a proposed rule that would be the death knell for the incandescent light bulb. The proposed rule would implement the so-called “backstop” provisions of the Energy Policy and Conservation Act, and impose an efficiency standard for general service lamps of 45 lumens per watt.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 19, 2022

While Macron has positioned himself as a pro-climate action word leader he is unpopular amongst many climate activists and people on the left, with many disliking his support for nuclear power and pro-business views. billion), and insist that energy produced from them be sold at the market rate. Banning wind turbines.

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