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Union of Concerned Scientists
JANUARY 22, 2024
When it comes to the transition to clean energy, 2023 was quite a year for progress: record-breaking amounts of solar installed in the United States, a solid drop in carbon emissions from the US power sector, more than one million electric vehicles sold in the country for the first time, “breakneck” growth in renewable energy globally, and more.
Legal Planet
MAY 11, 2023
still does not limit carbon emissions from existing power plants, which generate 25 percent of our greenhouse gases. On June 2, 2014 , this blog led with an almost-identical sentence about EPA releasing its rule to regulate climate change-related carbon emissions from existing power plants, known as the Clean Power Plan.
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Legal Planet
MAY 7, 2024
In 2014, CAISO expanded the territory of its real-time market , through which utilities can buy small amounts of electricity to correct real-time fluctuations in customer demand and electricity dispatched by generators. Cost saving from improving market coordination could add up to $1.2 renewables).
Enviromental Defense
SEPTEMBER 28, 2023
We are disappointed that Canada’s Carbon Management Strategy , released by Minister Wilkinson, doubles down on the federal government’s risky approach of over-reliance on speculative and dangerous technologies being promoted primarily by oil and gas companies. per cent of global carbon emissions (under 40 million tonnes).
A Greener Life
FEBRUARY 14, 2024
In its Nationally Determined Contributions ( NDCs ), updated in 2022, India has made three major promises: a 45% reduction in its carbon emissions intensity (CO2 emissions per unit of electricity) based on 2005 levels, by 2030; 50% of installed electricity coming from non-fossil-fuel sources by 2030; and national carbon neutrality by 2070.
Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 27, 2023
These new protections will include updates to power plant standards on carbon emissions , mercury pollution , and toxic coal ash pollution , just to name a few. The 2014-focused study referenced above found that Black Americans were most affected by the toxic power plant emissions.
PA Environment Daily
FEBRUARY 27, 2023
Natural gas had the same problems during a cold weather event in 2014 and the polar vortex in 2018. Renewables could, if long duration battery storage or other technology is deployed at scale. -- Independent Energy Office Proposal: Sen. Renewables could if long duration battery storage or other technology is deployed at scale.
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