PA Environment Daily
JUNE 20, 2023
This year’s distribution is over $44 million higher than last year, driven primarily by the average price of natural gas in 2022 ($6.64 Details regarding the impact fee distribution are available online, including specifics on funds collected and distributed for each year since 2011.
PA Environment Daily
MAY 9, 2023
Data reported in a recent paper by Dr. Indur Goklany, and published by the CO2 Coalition, indicates that up to 50 percent of Earth’s vegetated areas became greener between 1982-2011. First, there is a strong case that these are solar-powered fuels. Another nine percent is attributed to fertilizers derived from fossil fuels.)
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Union of Concerned Scientists
JANUARY 4, 2024
The FERC-NERC review of the 2021 outages found 81 percent of freeze-related plant outages occurred at temperatures warmer than the plants were designed to meet and 87 percent of outages due to fuel issues were tied to natural gas. Similar extreme cold weather caused grid emergencies in 2011, 2014, 2018, and again in 2022.
Enviromental Defense
MAY 18, 2021
But what you probably haven’t heard is that our grid is getting dirtier again, with fossil fuels increasing in our electricity supply from burning natural gas. TAKE ACTION : Tell Ontario’s Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) that you support the phase-out of polluting gas powered electricity by 2030.
Environmental Progress
APRIL 20, 2021
During the four days of emergency operations during the cold snap, from early February 15th to midnight February 18th, output levels of nuclear, natural gas, coal, and wind to the grid were 79.3 For natural gas it was 40%, or 46% based on winter adequacy expectations. percent, 47.4 percent, 51.5 percent, and 13.7
PA Environment Daily
JANUARY 20, 2022
We forecast that the share of generation from natural gas will fall from 37% in 2021 to 34% by 2023 and the coal share will decline from 23% to 22%. electricity generation over the past 10 years has been the rapid expansion of renewable energy resources, especially solar and wind. electric generators averaged $4.88
Environmental Progress
MARCH 11, 2021
4] Meanwhile, many experts see in recent trends an inevitable transition away from coal and nuclear power plants, designed to function as baseload capacity, toward variable renewable energy sources with just-in-time natural gas back-up. 7] Nuclear plants are among the most reliable components of America’s power grids.
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