Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

In 2020, America generated almost four times as much renewable electricity from the sun and the wind as in 2011, with wind and solar now producing 11% of the nation’s electricity. Advances in energy efficiency, electric vehicles, battery storage, electric home heating and other technologies mean… Read more →

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2011 Clean Energy Electricity 2020 97

Legal Planet

MARCH 21, 2022

In 2011, EPA had estimated that the compliance cost would work out to $9.6 quarter of EPA original estimate); an estimate by an industry group (the Edison Electric Institute) was only slightly higher. For example, natural gas production went up by around 50% from 2011-2015, displacing a lot of coal-fired generation.

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2011 Regulations Natural Gas Pollution Control 221

Circle of Blue

JUNE 6, 2022

Besides the kilowatt-hours it generates, Glen Canyon provides key services to the electric grid. The country’s second largest reservoir and a lynchpin in the intermountain electric grid, Powell is more dirt than water these days. Hydropower generation will likely shut down when Lake Powell’s elevation drops below 3,490 feet.

Electricity 338

Electricity Fossil Fuels Carbon Emissions Wind Power 338

Energy and Climate Law

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

The background of the case goes back to the year 2011. 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.

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Nuclear Power 2018 Electricity 2016 239

Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 26, 2022

It has been reported that on August 25, the plant temporarily lost all of its off-site electrical power from the grid, which is essential for its safe operation, forcing it to rely on on-site backup power. Despite continued shelling, it does not appear that its safety systems have suffered significant damage.

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Cooling Electricity Radiation Fossil Fuels 335

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. FERC Order No.

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Energy Policy Act 2009 2005 Electricity 130

Energy and Climate Law

APRIL 29, 2020

Germany The legislator in Germany reacted in early March and established three so called ´moratoria´ for the duraction of three months: one safeguarding tenants who cannot pay their rent anymore, one affecting private borrowers and a third one that applies to electricity and gas customers.

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Law Renewable Energy 2020 Electricity 130

CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

We saw a continued focus on incentivizing affordable and infill developments on the condition that the project pay prevailing wages (AB 2011), reducing barriers for specified sustainable transit projects (SB 922), and amendments akin to “pet project exemptions” that are targeted to solving a narrower set of concerns (SB 118 and SB 886).

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2023 2011 Greenhouse Electricity 76

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 16, 2023

On June 15, S&P Global reported on the results of a joint inquiry by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and North American Electric Reliability Corp into the impact of Winter Storm Elliot that caused a wave of unplanned power plant outages in December 2022, particularly in the PJM Interconnection electric grid region.

Natural Gas 69

Natural Gas 2011 Electricity 2014 69

PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 2024

Kraybill's involvement in climate activism began after watching the documentary, "Who Killed the Electric Car?" As a result, he volunteered with several climate action groups to advocate for renewable energy and electric vehicle infrastructure. In 2011, Kraybill purchased his first electric car, a Chevy Volt.

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Climate Change Fossil Fuels Clean Energy 2006 113

A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

The nuclear energy industry has struggled following the fallout of the 2011 tsunami in Japan as nuclear reactors were shut down not only in Europe but across the world and Germany accelerated its nuclear phaseout. WNA expects nuclear energy capacity to increase by 14% by 2030 and surge by 76% to 686 GW by 2040.

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Physics World

APRIL 29, 2022

This an effect that Salahuddin first predicted in 2008 and demonstrated experimentally in 2011. Negative capacitance arises in ferroelectric materials, whose spontaneous electric polarization can be reoriented with the application of an external electric field.

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2008 2011 Electricity 106

Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

A new report found that despite lockdown orders, hotels in Oahu, Hawaii continued to use massive amounts of water and electricity, according to Honolulu Civil Beat. TODAY’S TOP WATER STORIES, TOLD IN NUMBERS. MILLION GALLONS. The neighborhood of Waikiki reportedly consumed 2.5 369 LAKES .

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2021 Nuclear Power Ocean 2011 130

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 29, 2022

Yet the future is clearly one dominated by renewables, not these fossil fuels, as evidenced by the pending Senate bill that will direct hundreds of billions of dollars to boosting clean energy with initiatives like tax breaks for electric vehicles and solar panels. That’s the gravy train the supermajors should ride.

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Fossil Fuels Coastal Erosion Carbon Dioxide Biofuels 258

Energy & the Law

MARCH 7, 2023

claiming he had created a compact “nano panel” (which does not exist) using “technology” that could generate triple the amount of electricity as traditional solar panels. Lots of cash was flown by private jets to Cameroon and South Sudan from 2011 through 2016.

2022 130

2022 Solar Power 2011 2016 130

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 26, 2022

For example, they may need to choose between cooling down with their windows open at night or breathing polluted air, as residents often don’t have air conditioners or the economic capacity to pay for higher electricity bills. Annual average PM2.5 and ozone concentrations highlighting air quality issues in the Central Valley.

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Climate Change Ozone Air Pollution Particle Pollution 298

Renewable + Law

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

3 is a requirement that the PUCT implement winter weatherization requirements so that each of the entities providing electric generation service must implement measures to prepare its generation assets to provide adequate electric generation service during a weather emergency. Key to S.B.

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2011 Electricity 2021 2020 52

Renewable + Law

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

3 is a requirement that the PUCT implement winter weatherization requirements so that each of the entities providing electric generation service must implement measures to prepare its generation assets to provide adequate electric generation service during a weather emergency. Key to S.B.

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2011 Electricity 2021 2020 52

Physics World

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Professor Jennifer Rupp is the Thomas Lord Associate Professor of Electrochemical Materials in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, and Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

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A Greener Life

JULY 30, 2021

The country’s struggle to reduce its reliance on coal was significantly helped by the purely ideological and populist decision to phase out all its nuclear power stations by 2022 (initially following the Fukushima accident in 2011 in Japan) . They also get renewable energy from other European neighbours, mainly Denmark.

Climate Change 98

Climate Change Renewable Energy Fossil Fuels Nuclear Power 98

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 29, 2022

In 2011, a raccoon found its way into some electrical equipment at the Delaware City Refinery, taking a number of units offline. The risk of explosion ultimately shut down the Delaware Memorial Bridge to traffic, and residents were told to shelter in place as the flammable chemical leaked from the plant. This event was hardly unique.

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Carbon Monoxide Climate Change 2011 Regulations 229

Physics World

MAY 28, 2021

His research has been recognized by many awards, including a MacArthur Fellowship (2009), Lemelson-MIT Prize (2011), National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellowship (2012), Smithsonian Award for American Ingenuity in the Physical Sciences (2013), MRS Medal (2018), and the Benjamin Franklin Medal from the Franklin Institute (2019).

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

The evening of January 14, 2011, Jacob, then a 16-year-old sophomore at Aurora High School, entered a basketball game against Central City. At a January 31, 2011, appointment the doctor ordered blood tests and chest X-rays, to check for infection. Everything is going according to plan,” Gary wrote in his journal on February 25, 2011.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 30, 2024

SMRs are nuclear reactors that are “small” (defined as 300 megawatts of electrical power or less), can be largely assembled in a centralized facility, and would be installed in a modular fashion at power generation sites. What are SMRs? Some proposed SMRs are so tiny (20 megawatts or less) that they are called “micro” reactors.

Nuclear Power 363

Nuclear Power Electricity Waste Cooling 363

A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Germany has six remaining nuclear reactors which are due to be closed down next year which will remove a huge source of zero-carbon electricity from the German economy unable to be taken up by other clean energy sources such as solar and wind. Costly shutdown.

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Nuclear Power 2028 Fossil Fuels Natural Gas 98

Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 1, 2021

The Las Conchas fire in northern New Mexico in June 2011 pumped so much ash into the Rio Grande that the Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority had to close its drinking water intake on the river. When at full capacity, the plant has the ability to supply electricity to up to 800,000 homes.

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2021 2011 Conservation Climate Change 130

A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

European world leaders and Russia celebrate during the opening ceremony of the gas pipeline Nordstream 1 in 2011. They should, for example, be investing in heat pumps, making sure all buildings are built as zero-carbon as possible and, whenever possible, we do not use gas for electricity generation. Photo credit: Kremlin.ru, CC BY 4.0

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 24, 2021

The Las Conchas fire in northern New Mexico in June 2011 pumped so much ash into the Rio Grande that the Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority had to close its drinking water intake on the river. It dries out vegetation and kills trees, turning forests into matchsticks. Fires in river headwaters don’t just burn trees.

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2011 Cooling 2016 Atmosphere 328

A Greener Life

JANUARY 31, 2022

Brian Eyler, Southeast Asia director of the Stimson Center, a US thinktank, explains that as Vietnam exports more manufactured goods than its neighbours, sources of electricity generation needed to be developed more quickly, and coal and hydropower were “the easy solutions”. is unlikely to be met. .

2010 98

2010 2030 2020 Renewable Energy 98

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2024

The CI is determined through a lifecycle analysis of the global warming pollution associated with the production and use of gasoline, diesel, biofuels, electricity, or other alternative fuels. But California’s LCFS has been struggling and is approaching a treacherous precipice. Unfortunately, this is far from the truth.

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Biofuels Deforestation 2030 2025 260

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 4, 2024

A new North American Electricity Reliability Corporation (NERC) and Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) review of power outages and gas industry failures reveals the potential for prolonged and deadly power outages. But their simple, yet potentially life-saving recommendations are voluntary, and the responsible parties go unnamed.

Electricity 240

Electricity 2021 Renewable Energy Natural Gas 240

Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2022

SB 1020 signals the state’s continued prioritization of clean energy development, adding to the state’s existing goal for 100% clean electricity retail sale by 2045 by establishing interim clean energy targets of 90% of all retail electricity sales be renewable and zero-carbon by 2035 and 95% by 2040.

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2021 2022 Sea Level Clean Energy 130

Law Columbia

JUNE 26, 2023

Backgrounds After the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011, all nuclear power plants in Japan were temporarily shutdown due to safety concerns. This led to the increased use of other energy sources, especially coal, for electricity generation. and Kansai Electric Power Co., Kobe Steel Ltd., Kobelco Power Kobe No.

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Climate Change Air Pollution Carbon Dioxide Greenhouse 108

The Energy Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

By: Lesley Foxhall Pietras On August 8, 2011, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published a far-reaching Clean Air Act rule intended to address the interstate transport of sulfur dioxide (SO2) and nitrogen oxides (NOx) from upwind to downwind states. See 76 Fed. 48208 (Aug. Tribune, Sept.

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Air Pollution 2011 Clean Air Act Nitrogen Oxides 40

Edouard Stenger

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

It has been producing from nine to 14 percent of the country’s electricity for the past few years. The sector has 8,230 direct jobs (compared to a massive 32,000 in 2010-2011… or 12,000 in 2012). For solar PV , the installed capacity in September 2016 was of 7 GW, which produced 7.7 The governmental target for 2018 is 10.2

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Wind Power Renewable Energy 2015 2016 52

Law Columbia

DECEMBER 13, 2022

From 2011 to April 2020, when the Legislature created ORES, only six renewable energy projects had made it through the old siting process, with some projects taking up to four-and-a-half years to receive approvals pursuant to Article 10 of the Public Service Law.

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Renewable Energy Regulations 2020 Law 52

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 28, 2021

GW Of Coal-Fired Electric Generation Capacity Retired Since 2011; 14.5 National/International -- Reuters: Hurricane Ida Knocks Out More Gulf Coast Oil Than Katrina -- U.S. GW Of 317.6

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2011 2021 Natural Gas Recycling 64