Union of Concerned Scientists
NOVEMBER 18, 2024
Gas plants failed at a scale that jeopardized grid reliability for large regions of the United States during severe winter storms in 2011 , 2014 , 2018 , 2021 , and 2022. Although the country’s federal energy regulator has had a disconcertingly nonchalant attitude towards these events.) Unfortunately, this isn’t a rare problem.
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.
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PA Environment Daily
MAY 7, 2025
The State of Renewable Energy 2025 documents the growth of six key clean energy technologies across the United States over the past decade and ranks states accordingly for solar power, wind power, battery storage, energy efficiency, electric vehicles and electric vehicle charging stations.
Union of Concerned Scientists
SEPTEMBER 20, 2022
Consumers Energy proposed $10 million. In 2014, the Vermont Public Utility Commission approved a process for Green Mountain Power to launch pilots lasting as long as 18 months and costing as much as $5 million each without commission approval. Utilities, meanwhile, are calling for a higher budget cap.
Circle of Blue
OCTOBER 28, 2021
The second-most expensive campaign in Maine history is a debate over energy infrastructure. New England Clean Energy Connect, a 145-mile-long transmission line will cut through the commercial timberlands of western Maine. Lobbying campaigns are being funded largely by rival energy groups.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JANUARY 4, 2023
The state’s grid reliability is also inextricably linked to issues of improving energy affordability and achieving California’s ambitious clean energy goals. These energy markets signal to an RTO how much energy will be needed and allow RTOs to schedule and dispatch the least expensive, and often cleanest, generators first.
Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 19, 2023
Change #1: 100% clean energy goals have spread At the beginning of 2018, the only state in the country with a 100% clean or renewable energy goal was Hawaii. Now, 22 states plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico have 100% clean energy goals on the books. billion dollars since the market began.
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