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Analysis: Mapping the future of solar capacity in Southeast Asia

A Greener Life

In 2021, the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources (MEMR) identified a solar potential of 3294 GW. The government set ambitious targets: 3.61GW of rooftop solar by 2025, 26.65 GW of floating solar and a 4.68 GW large-scale solar power plant by 2030. GW of solar power. The country has 2.3

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

Union of Concerned Scientists

Under the LCFS each fuel pathway gets a unique carbon intensity (CI) based on a lifecycle analysis of the greenhouse gas emissions associated with the production and use of the fuel. The CI of an electric vehicle charged with solar power is zero, and most of the biofuels fall somewhere in the middle [i].

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Why Ontario needs to stop burning polluting gas for electricity

Enviromental Defense

The rest of our power comes from a mix of nuclear power, renewables like hydro, wind and solar power, and biofuel. Ontario Electricity Sector Greenhouse Gas Emissions Historical and Forecast. A polluting gas-fired electricity plant was moved to this area by the Ontario government in 2012.

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Coalition Of Business, Citizen, Environmental Groups Support Increasing PA's Solar Energy Goals

PA Environment Daily

It has been projected that increasing the goals to at least 5 percent solar would create more than 50,000 jobs, preserve thousands of family farms (PA lost more than 7,000 between 2012 and 2017), and help countless cash-strapped municipalities and nonprofits make ends meet – particularly institutions of faith and education.

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Power through the Adirondack Park

Circle of Blue

Still, energy economists and many environmentalists see the existing Canadian reservoirs as a key tool to balance wind and solar power sources in New York. Solar as of 2020 represented less than 1 percent of electricity produced in New York. Detractors argue Hydro-Quebec’s battery is not so green.

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Nuclear Plant Closures And Renewables Increase Electricity Prices & Unreliability, Testifies Michael Shellenberger to U.S. Senate

Environmental Progress

In 2012, 2017, and 2021 the National Academies of Science and Engineering published three separate reports on threats to the grid, resilience, and the future of electricity. [1] 48] The premature closure of nuclear plants threatens reliability, resiliency, affordability, as well as America’s reductions in greenhouse gases. 49] U.S.

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FTC Regulates What You can Say about Your Solar Panels

Greenbuilding Law

Today there is a significant increased emphasis on renewable energy in company ESG disclosures about reducing the environmental and economic harms associated with fossil fuel energy and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by increasing the supply of renewable energy projects and foster a just transition to a green economy.