Union of Concerned Scientists
SEPTEMBER 20, 2022
Consumers Energy proposed $10 million. Other state regulators are setting an example. 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.
Union of Concerned Scientists
OCTOBER 28, 2022
6 is still driving up Ohioans’ electricity bills—and undermining the state’s prospects for a clean energy future. The subsidies insulate the utilities from the costs of expensive, uneconomic coal and provide a disincentive for them to invest in cheaper clean energy resources. Ohio regulators need to act.
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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.
PA Environment Daily
AUGUST 28, 2023
In addition, the US Energy Information Administration reported increasing electricity generation from renewable sources contributed to lower power prices so far in 2023. Mechanical failures at thermal generators—especially gas plants—were the chief driver of outages during Winter Storm Elliott and the 2014 Polar Vortex. Read more here.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JUNE 12, 2023
Three decades of deregulation allowed private companies, as opposed to public regulators, to make critical decisions about reliability. In many places state and federal utility regulators delegated decisions about energy supplies to the market. Market forces are moving private investment to renewables.
Union of Concerned Scientists
DECEMBER 14, 2023
Winter is once again here, bringing great festivities and respite via holidays, but also great worries to energy regulators, grid operators, and communities about dangerous winter storms that can spread across large parts of the United States and negatively affect electric grid reliability.
PA Environment Daily
MAY 17, 2024
He was appointed as a mediator by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection to work with the environmental community and industry to establish better regulations for water quality monitoring in areas impacted by coal ash. He has publicly called for investments in clean energy, green technologies, and environmental research.
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