Share of Electricity in Total Final Energy Consumption, 2005-2030
Environmental Law Reporter
NOVEMBER 1, 2022
Share of Electricity in Total Final Energy Consumption, 2005-2030. Rachel Jean-Baptiste. Tue, 11/01/2022 - 05:04.
Minnesota: Will This Be the Year for a 100-Percent Carbon-Free Electricity Policy?
Union of Concerned Scientists
JANUARY 30, 2023
Now it’s on to the state Senate, where the question is: Will this be the year Minnesota sets a path toward 100-percent carbon-free electricity? Those scenarios showed that the IRA would accelerate solar and wind deployment and reduce carbon emissions to 80 percent below 2005 levels by 2030.
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Schneider Electric Is Working to Cut Its Suppliers’ CO2 Emissions By Half
Environmental Leader
SEPTEMBER 2, 2022
In 2005, Schneider Electric became one of the first companies to highlight its goals on people, the planet, and profit. The post Schneider Electric Is Working to Cut Its Suppliers’ CO2 Emissions By Half appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.
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Reevaluating the Role of Fossil Gas in a Decarbonizing Grid
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. To meet our climate goals and reach net zero emissions by 2050, most studies show that we need to dramatically reduce gas use for generating electricity, heating homes and businesses, and running industrial processes.
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Ask a Scientist: The US Has to Do More to Meet Its Carbon Emissions Reduction Goals
Union of Concerned Scientists
NOVEMBER 16, 2023
The legislation committed nearly $400 billion to support, among other things, wind and solar power, battery storage, electric vehicles, and other clean energy technologies that will make a significant dent in US heat-trapping emissions. First, decarbonizing the electricity sector mainly with wind and solar to replace coal and fossil gas.
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What’s Been Killing U.S. Coal?
Legal Planet
OCTOBER 10, 2023
From 1960 to 2005, coal use grew more or less steadily by 18 million tons per year. electricity to about one-fifth today. In fact, there was a surge in construction of new coal plants after 1970 due to high electricity demand. electricity use hit a ceiling , and it has risen only slightly since then. In 2010, U.S.
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Renewables on the Rise 2021: The Rapid Growth of Renewables, Electric Vehicles and Other Building Blocks of a Clean Energy Future
Environmental News Bits
DECEMBER 20, 2021
The number of homes heated with clean, efficient electric heat pumps increased by 28% in a decade from 2005 to 2015. Wind turbines and solar panels made up a tiny fraction of our energy infrastructure 10 years ago. Today, they are everyday parts of America’s energy landscape. Just a few years ago,… Read more →
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Germany’s Role in Climate Policy
Legal Planet
OCTOBER 2, 2023
The Federal Cabinet adopts its first climate target, a 25-30% cut in carbon emissions by 2005 under 1987 levels. Fifteen percent of electricity is renewable. Renewables are a third of electricity consumption. Renewables are 42% of electricity. trillion tons.] Feed-in tariffs are replaced by auctions for renewables.
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Statement on Canada’s Latest Greenhouse Gas Emissions Data
Enviromental Defense
APRIL 14, 2023
The new information shows that in 2021 GHG emissions were over eight per cent lower than in 2005. However, to reach the federal government’s 2030 climate targets – a 40-45 per cent reduction from 2005 levels – significantly more reductions are needed. This is thanks to fuel economy regulations and more electric vehicles on the roads.
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Grid Investments are Critical to Our Clean Energy Future
Union of Concerned Scientists
FEBRUARY 13, 2024
Last November, the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) released an interdisciplinary study exploring the various pathways to meeting US goals to cut heat-trapping emissions economywide 50 to 52 percent below 2005 levels by 2030 and achieve net-zero emissions no later than 2050. The good news? How are we doing on that?
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Emissions by the Big Utilities: Where They Are, What They’re Aiming For
Legal Planet
MARCH 31, 2022
67% cut from 2005 by 2025. American Electric Power. Carbon Reduction Goal : Reduce CO2 emissions rate by 67% by 2025 from an adjusted 2005 baseline. 6) American Electric Power. This was accelerated in 2021 from a 2050 goal after achieving a 54% reduction from 2005 levels in 2020. Fossil Fuel Use. VHC = Coal + Oil).
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Building a Better Power Grid for Minnesota
Union of Concerned Scientists
JULY 22, 2022
However the Midcontinent Independent System Operator, or MISO, the Midwest’s regional grid manager, has stepped up to approve long-awaited upgrades that will improve the reliability of the electricity system across the region, including Minnesota as well as Illinois and Michigan. That’s not a Minnesota utility…is it?
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It’s Time to Repeal the Clean Power Plan
Legal Planet
DECEMBER 6, 2021
When fully implemented, the Clean Power Plan was intended to cut carbon emissions 30% below the 2005 level by 2030. The reason why the plan has no further practical relevance is a rapid shift in the mix of sources for generating electricity. Between 2015 and 2019, the amount of electricity generated from coal dropped by a third.
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Is Canada’s proposed Clean Electricity Standard constitutional?
Manning Law
MARCH 15, 2022
Today, the Minister of Environment and Climate Change, the Honourable Steven Guilbeault, launched consultations to develop Canada’s Clean Electricity Standard (CES) intended to drive progress towards a net-zero electricity grid by 2035. Manning Environmental Law is a Canadian law firm based in Toronto, Ontario.
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Is It Possible to Phase Out Petroleum and Transform our Transportation System?
Union of Concerned Scientists
SEPTEMBER 26, 2022
Replacing petroleum with renewable electricity as the primary source of transportation energy will leave us all much better off. To achieve net-zero emissions in 2050 we must have 100% of new sales of light-duty passenger vehicles be electric by 2035, and of medium- and heavy-duty trucks at the latest by 2040.
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HotSpots H2O: Flash Floods and Landslides Devastate Western Venezuela
Circle of Blue
AUGUST 30, 2021
A state of emergency was declared in nine western and northwestern provinces, and more than 55,000 residents remain without electricity. In 2005, close to 500 people died and hundreds were injured in this region, the Mocoties Valley, after similar destruction caused by landslides and these same overflowing rivers.
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Subnational Climate Action in the UK
Legal Planet
JUNE 2, 2022
Scotland set a 2020 goal of 100% renewable energy electricity generation. This covers electricity, heating, transportation, etc., and is separate from their 2020 goal which centered just on electricity. At least 70% of electricity must come from renewables in 2030. In 2020, they just missed this goal, at 97.4%
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The EIA Just Released a 30 Year Energy Outlook. It’s… Not Great
Union of Concerned Scientists
MARCH 16, 2022
They just released their 2022 “Annual Energy Outlook” (AEO), which is a big deal: it tells us where electricity is headed over the next 30 years. Here are five key takeaways from this year’s AEO, focused primarily on the electricity sector: 1. Relying on market trends is nowhere near enough to do the job. Carbon emissions remain high.
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What’s Stalling the Transition to a Modern Electricity Grid?
Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 16, 2024
Much of our electricity system is 50 to 70 years old, yet current plans for domestic manufacturing, electric vehicle fleets, community solar gardens and more clean energy all depend on a modern grid. New demands for electricity and the need to reduce climate-changing emissions are driving new grid planning efforts.
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Predictions of IRA’s Success Solidify
Legal Planet
SEPTEMBER 21, 2023
Despite the IRA’s substantial assist to emission cuts, we will need additional policies to push emissions 50% below 2005 levels. A mid-August 2022 report from a Princeton research group, concluded that IRA would close two-thirds of the remaining emissions gap between current policy and the nation’s 2030 climate target (50% below 2005).
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States Can Plan Ahead for Clean Energy
Union of Concerned Scientists
JULY 17, 2023
States’ roles in electricity decisions stem from their authority over public health, safety, and consumer protection. States’ jurisdiction on electricity supply and reliability are not limited to only reviewing proposed construction. States should be heard on transmission When regulators make policy, utilities listen.
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DEP Publishes Final Air Quality General Permit For Installation Of Coal-Mine Methane Enclosed Flares
PA Environment Daily
SEPTEMBER 22, 2023
million metric tons in 2005 and natural gas production greenhouse gas emissions increased from 8.74 million metric tons in 2005. DEP’s latest Pennsylvania Greenhouse Gas Emission Inventory shows coal mining-related greenhouse gas emissions in 2019 totaled an estimated 11.91 million metric tons, just behind natural gas production at 12.33
Ontario: Now is the time to increase renewable energy, not fossil gas
Enviromental Defense
OCTOBER 6, 2022
Ontario recently re-contracted four gas-fired power plants to generate electricity for the province and appears poised to contract more in the near future. . Yes, Ontario needs new electricity generation. This is a national-level policy being developed to decarbonize electricity systems across the country.
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The Ontario government boasts about a “clean energy advantage” while dismantling it
Enviromental Defense
APRIL 3, 2023
The only reason Ontario’s energy grid is relatively clean (though getting dirtier now) is because previous governments (from other parties) responded to public pressure for cleaner air and lower emissions and phased out the use of coal to generate electricity in the province.
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The European Energy Transition is well underway and accelerating
Edouard Stenger
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
First off, some facts and figures from Ember, which recently stated that both fossil fuels generation and CO2 emissions from the European electricity sector fell 19 percent last year alone. Renewables now account for 44% of the EU electricity mix and wind power is now producing more electricity than natural gas.
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Ontario is building new gas plants; the Feds need to step in now
Enviromental Defense
JANUARY 19, 2023
Ontario recently announced it would contract new polluting gas plants to generate electricity for the province. This is outrageous, especially given that Ontario successfully phased out coal-fired power plants between 2005 and 2017 and brought down greenhouse gas emissions from the electricity sector by 93 per cent.
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Ontario is selling our Clean Energy Credit out from under us
Enviromental Defense
NOVEMBER 21, 2022
The government’s recent Economic Outlook document claims “[f]unds generated through the purchases of CECs could be returned to ratepayers, help lower electricity costs, or support future clean energy generation…” ( emphasis added ). We lose our claim to clean electricity . Allowing others to pollute . Doesn’t decrease emissions .
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FERC Proposes to Implement Expanded Transmission Siting Authority
Law and Environment
DECEMBER 19, 2022
Although no National Corridor designations are currently in effect, the Inflation Reduction Act provides $2 billion for loans to support electric transmission lines in National Corridors. Whether that process will be successful—thus allowing FERC to exercise its expanded permitting authority—remains to be seen. Background.
Statement on the Auditor General’s Report that Canada is on Track to Miss its Climate Targets Once Again
Enviromental Defense
NOVEMBER 7, 2023
This highlights the need to quickly move to cap emissions from the oil and gas sector, align private finance with net-zero, finalize clean electricity rules, and phase out gasoline powered car and truck sales by 2035. In 2021, the Government of Canada set out a target to reduce 40-45 per cent of its emissions by 2030, from 2005 levels.
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Why Energy Bills Will Be Even Higher This Winter
Union of Concerned Scientists
DECEMBER 20, 2022
US ratepayers very likely will pay even more for electricity and heating this winter compared to the already-expensive winter of 2021-2022. Consequently, residential gas prices are expected to be 22 percent higher this winter compared to last year’s, and residential electricity prices are expected to be 6 percent higher on average.
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Why is Congress’s Climate Breakthrough Such a Big Deal? Because Without It, We’d Be Irreparably Off Course.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JULY 29, 2022
Over the past year, precisely as our ability to identify the specific magnitude of action required to hit 2030 climate targets of 50-52 percent below 2005 levels has resolved into ever clearer view, the range of viable pathways for meeting those targets has consistently and considerably narrowed. No pivoting, just pivotal.
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Analysis: New coal mines add question mark to India’s climate commitments
A Greener Life
FEBRUARY 14, 2024
Despite a significant uptake of renewable energy, India still relies on coal plants for more than half of its installed electricity supply. As the mainstay of its energy supply – thermal power plants (coal, oil and gas) supply 56% (239 GW) of the country’s total installed electricity – coal remains crucial for Indian energy security.
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Frontiers for Young Minds articles for kids showcase impact of award-winning math on everyday life
Frontiers
NOVEMBER 30, 2023
To view more scientific articles for kids and teens, visit the Frontiers for Young Minds website. About the authors Professor Noga Alon was awarded the 2005 Gödel Prize, jointly with Prof Yossi Matias and Prof Mario Szegedy, for the work laid the foundations of the analysis of data streams using limited memory.
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We need a government in Ontario that cares about climate change – and will do something about it
Enviromental Defense
MAY 5, 2022
After having phased out coal and successfully decreased pollution between 2005 and 2017, emissions started to rise again in 2018 – when the current government came into power. The Goreway Power Station in Brampton uses polluting fossil gas to generate electricity. And its policies since have not helped to turn the tide.
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Climate Choices Part I — N.C. and the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative
Smith Enviorment
JANUARY 4, 2023
By coincidence rather than design, two different approaches to reducing greenhouse gas emissions from the electric power sector have been under discussion by North Carolina agencies since 2021. The two approaches share goals of reducing greenhouse gas emissions 70% by 2030 (from a 2005 baseline) and achieving carbon neutrality by 2050.
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Estimating the impact of ‘eco’ jet fuel: How much could it reduce CO2 emissions by 2050?
Frontiers
NOVEMBER 28, 2021
However, with entirely electric-powered aircraft some way off from becoming commonplace and limited in range, airlines have turned to cleaner jet fuels to help reduce their impact on the planet in the meantime. Estimates suggest that the sector is responsible for about 2.5% SAF is not a silver bullet.
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How Much Land Would it Require to Get Most of Our Electricity from Wind and Solar?
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. Examining Supply-Side Options to Achieve 100% Clean Electricity by 2035.) Map courtesy NREL: Denholm et al.
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The Auditor General gives Ontario a failing grade on its climate progress
Enviromental Defense
NOVEMBER 25, 2021
Ontario does have a target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 30 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030. For example, the province could phase-out the use of gas plants (which utilize fossil fuels) to generate electricity for the province. Especially Ontario, which is the second most polluting province in Canada.
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - April 8
PA Environment Daily
APRIL 7, 2023
PA Bulletin, page 2005 ) -- Coterra Energy, Inc. - PA Bulletin, page 2005 ) -- EQT Corporation - Pale Ale Well Pad: DEP received a Final Report on remediation of soil contaminated with aluminum, barium, boron, chloride, iron, lithium, manganese, selenium, strontium, vanadium, and zinc in Jackson Twp., Susquehanna County. (
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House Environmental Committee Hearing June 22 On Pennsylvania CO2 And Climate
PA Environment Daily
JUNE 3, 2021
Pennsylvania is the fourth largest emitter of greenhouse gases in the United states and the third biggest electric power generation state. The latest EPA Greenhouse Gas Inventory presented in 2020 shows a 19 percent reduction in emissions between 2005 and 2017, primarily due to the switch from coal to natural gas-fired electricity generation.
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The Ontario government boasts about a “clean energy advantage” while dismantling it
Enviromental Defense
APRIL 1, 2023
The only reason Ontario’s energy grid is relatively clean (though getting dirtier now) is because previous governments (from other parties) responded to public pressure for cleaner air and lower emissions and phased out the use of coal to generate electricity in the province. It will be something to watch.
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Fast-Tracking Pilots the Right Way Can Ensure Michigan’s Clean Energy Transition
Union of Concerned Scientists
SEPTEMBER 20, 2022
The state plans to reduce heat trapping emissions 28 percent by 2025 and 52 percent by 2030 below 2005 levels, and to become carbon neutral by 2050. Pilot projects also can help spur widespread implementation of community solar, electric vehicle charging infrastructure, and smart meters and thermostats.
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Analysis: Energy needs drive deforestation in Pakistan-administered Kashmir
A Greener Life
SEPTEMBER 6, 2023
With low access to electricity, many turn to felling trees to keep warm and cook. to 45% between 2000 and 2005, then down to 42% by 2010. This timing coincides with the massive 2005 Kashmir earthquake and the reconstruction that followed. to 39.3%, or 6,103 km2 to 5,226 km2. First published in The Third Pole.
India prepares to ramp up clean energy capacity
A Greener Life
APRIL 7, 2023
India is looking to cut its emissions by 45% from 2005 levels by 2028. GW of electricity generation capacity, while solar makes up half of the installed renewable energy capacity and wind power one-third. The fast-growing Asian economic powerhouse is predicted to overtake China as the world’s most populous country in the coming years.
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