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Retail Electricity Customers Denied Relief from Uri

Energy & the Law

Takeaway: Texas does not recognize a legal duty owed by wholesale power generators to retail customers to provide continuous electricity to the electric grid and ultimately to the customers. The claims Hundreds of retail electricity customers sued hundreds of entities involved in virtually every aspect of the Texas electricity market.

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German Atomic Energy Act Amendment Illegal - Case Comment BVerfG 1 BvR 1550/19

Energy and Climate Law

In essence the court agreed with Vattenfall that it had been expropriated because it was not allowed to make use of the so called residual electricity volume (Reststrommenge) that had been allocated for this particular plant. The residual electricity volumes are a key-instrument of the Atomic Energy Act and the German nuclear phase out.

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Progress Continues for US Residential Solar: Reviewing the Latest Numbers

Union of Concerned Scientists

percent for systems installed in 2002 to 20.1 The BOS, or balance of system, is the equipment other than the module and the inverter, the piece that converts the DC power from the modules to AC for the home and the electricity grid. PV modules keep getting more efficient. One finding is that the efficiency of PV modules keep climbing.

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Nanocolumnar films: applications in medicine, energy and aerospace

Physics World

After obtaining his PhD in physics at UCM (Spain) in 1999, he was a Marie Curie postdoc at Paris-Sud University (France) in 2000–2002. This webinar will start with showing that nanocolumnar films can be manufactured by magnetron sputtering using the glancing angle deposition configuration.

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Top 10 Stories: Harrisburg/PA Politics Reported By Local News Media Last Week

PA Environment Daily

PA- $3.24 -- PUC Invites Stakeholder Comments On The Issue Of The Adequacy Of Electricity Supplies In Pennsylvania [PaEN] -- Public Citizen: LNG Gas Exports Could Cost Pennsylvanians Up To $16 Billion More In Energy Costs [PaEN] -- Baker Hughes: PA Natural Gas Drilling Rigs Same As Last Week At 15; Aug. Ohio- $3.03

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What’s Up With Water – June 21, 2021

Circle of Blue

It’s the largest in Africa and is expected to be a key source of electricity. Between 2002 and 2015, the number of wells nearly doubled but they were able to pump out less and less water. The dam is in Ethiopia, on the Blue Nile. In research news, a new study is sounding the alarm on groundwater depletion in Iran.

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Something Stinks: California Must End Manure Biomethane Accounting Gimmicks in its Low Carbon Fuel Standard

Union of Concerned Scientists

A quick glance at the latest data from CARB shows there are three large and growing sources of credits: bio-based diesel, biomethane and electricity. Bio-based diesel, biomethane and electricity are the largest and fastest growing sources of LCFS credits in recent years. Dairy Farming highlights that “[t]he number of licensed U.S.