Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 4, 2023

At the highest level, the contiguous United States is composed of three electrical grids: the Western Interconnection, the Eastern Interconnection, and the Texas Interconnection. Interconnections and regional entities (Source: North American Electric Reliability Corporation). It would change Western energy markets.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 30, 2023

But despite this, it did not shift the dominance of fossil fuels. ” The surge in renewables does not mean a reduction in emissions While this shows that investments in renewables are increasing, it is still evident that reducing reliance on fossil fuels is a huge challenge. Electricity generation was up at 2.3%

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

These prohibitions are part of cities’ broader effort to participate in the transition away from fossil fuels. Those same states, however, have made it difficult or impossible for consumers to purchase electricity from renewable energy sources. Alabama has one of the highest solar fees in the country, which was approved in 2020.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Higher prices for oil, natural gas, coal, and electricity are all pushing up inflation across the economy, dampening consumer demand, canceling out wage gains, and compounding the burdens facing working families and the poor as they seek to recover from the pandemic. The Capacity Story.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 7, 2024

CCS is a multi-billion dollar boondoggle that doesn’t come close to the hype, has significant safety risks, and is a substantial distraction from real climate solutions, such as building more renewable energy, increasing electricity transmission infrastructure, and developing and using storage technology. Want proof?

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A Greener Life

MAY 20, 2022

With more than 300,000 panels deployed over an area of 214 hectares, it is the largest of its kind in the country, with a production capacity of 100 megawatts (MW) – a sizeable output, but not enough on its own to turn Bolivia’s energy mix away from fossil fuels and towards renewables. Advantageous and encouraging.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 27, 2023

The Senate Environmental Resources and Energy Committee will hold its second hearing May 1 on electric grid reliability and the failure of natural gas and other generation to provide power when called on by PJM during Winter Storm Elliot in December. Read more here. Read more here ] Click Here to read more from February hearing.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 28, 2023

On August 23, the PJM Interconnection Critical Issue Fast Path Resource Adequacy stakeholder group heard testimony and suggestions on the issue of making electricity market changes to address nonperformance of natural gas and other generators during emergencies and events like Winter Storm Elliot in December. Read more here. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 2024

Throughout his career, Minott and the Clean Air Council earned a reputation for holding government agencies and fossil fuel companies accountable. Church was an elementary school counselor in Philadelphia until 2014. Kraybill's involvement in climate activism began after watching the documentary, "Who Killed the Electric Car?"

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 1, 2023

On May 1, the Senate Environmental Resources and Energy Committee was told the wholesale prices of electricity in the PJM regional electric grid are too low to support coal and natural gas power plants. Electric vehicle proliferation, just look at all the mandates related to electric cars.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 20, 2022

Energy Information Administration reported-- in our January Short-Term Energy Outlook , we forecast that rising electricity generation from renewable energy resources such as solar and wind will reduce generation from fossil fuel-fired power plants over the next two years. electric generators averaged $4.88

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 14, 2023

On June 13, Public Utility Commission Chairman Gladys Brown Dutrieuille told the House Consumer Protection, Technology and Utilities Committee Winter Storm Elliot has again demonstrated extreme weather can have a significant impact on electric grid operations in terms of reliability and resilience.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 24, 2021

Coal accounts for about 60% of China’s current electricity consumption, and with over 1,000 gigawatts (GW), China operates half of the world’s coal-fired power plants. That fund started its coal divestment in 2014, also due to Urgewald’s campaigns, and tightened its guidelines in 2019. In 2020, the country commissioned another 38.4

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Despite a significant uptake of renewable energy, India still relies on coal plants for more than half of its installed electricity supply. But this announcement was seemingly at odds with another made just three days earlier, when coal minister Pralhad Joshi confirmed that India intends to increase production for the fossil fuel.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 4, 2023

Yaw's energy beliefs by reading a transcript of the comments he made at the February 27 joint hearing on electric grid reliability by the Senate Environmental and Consumer Protection Committees. We were about a third, a third, a third [in sources of fuel to generate electricity]. We didn't have any reliability issues at all.” "And

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Edouard Stenger

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Renewable energy sources and electric vehicles are progressing so fast around the world that according to a new study coal and oil use could peak worldwide in as little as three years. To put these figures in context, the recent 2014-15 oil price collapse was the result of a two mbd (2%) shift in the supply-demand balance.

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Vermont Law

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

While Japan once had one of the world’s most diverse energy portfolios, the loss of its nuclear program has caused a sudden shift towards a fossil-fuel heavy generation industry. Subsequently, Japanese greenhouse gas emissions and electricity costs for industrial and residential consumers have skyrocketed. By Jared E.

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A Greener Life

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Less than a month after the UK handed over the presidency of COP26 to the Egyptian hosts of COP27 , the country had not only proudly claimed how quickly they had reduced their reliance on coal but also actively pushed other countries to move away from the most polluting fossil fuel, announced they granted permission to build a new coal mine. .

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Environmental Progress

JULY 3, 2023

Like Greta Thunberg, Mariutti comes to the tale as an environmental obsessive passionate about facilitating the world’s transition from fossil fuels to cleaner forms of energy. We all used Chinese electricity mixes for c-Si PV. It was Mariutti who first took substantial efforts to flag the data discrepancies.

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Edouard Stenger

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

million people, it currently has very little electricity or water access. . Given the scope of this blog, I did some research on local electricity generation and found some interesting facts. Given the scope of this blog, I did some research on local electricity generation and found some interesting facts. percent share.).

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A Greener Life

MAY 28, 2023

Many such projects allow users to generate their own electricity and sell the surplus back to the grid. Currently, 84% of the energy consumed in Argentina is generated using natural gas and oil, fossil fuels whose production and use drive global warming, and which can bring other harmful impacts on ecosystems, societies and their health.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 24, 2023

Utilities and grid operators prepared for the storm as it was coming down the pike, but they still underestimated the energy demand it would trigger, as well as the number of outages at fossil fuel power plants—mainly natural gas-fired, plus some coal-fired plants.

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A Greener Life

JULY 9, 2021

The other is to improve the energy structure, replacing fossil fuel sources with alternatives. billion) over the three years 2014–16. Wind and solar power can provide green electricity for those facilities, while the low local temperatures can help with cooling requirements. billion yuan (US$1.7

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 27, 2023

Fossil fuel power plant owners are facing increased accountability for their air and water pollution, including from a new round of environmental and public health protections that are being rolled out by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). We’ve heard these lazily disingenuous narratives before.

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Columbia Climate Law

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

PURPA requires electric utilities to purchase energy and capacity from qualifying renewable energy facilities (“QFs”). The use of natural gas proxy plants to value avoided costs promotes the twin aims of PURPA to encourage development of QFs and reduce reliance on fossil fuels. 24, 2014). [8] Background on PURPA.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 4, 2024

That 2013 headline resulted from the first effort to quantify emissions from the ‘carbon majors’ —fossil fuel companies and cement manufacturers whose businesses have contributed an outsized amount of heat-trapping gases to the atmosphere. Nearly two-thirds of industrial heat-trapping emissions can be traced to just 90 entities.

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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.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 19, 2022

Barges up to 300 feet long and 90 feet across will carry 12 miles of spooled electrical cable, navigation equipment, a tall crane and a specialized crew. The project’s winding path underscores the grinding pace and tough choices of building new energy infrastructure as the state transitions from fossil fuels. Kathy Hochul.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Key Takeaways Here are some key takeaways from the hearing-- -- Natural Gas Continues To Have A Reliability Problem: 70% of the PJM electric generation that failed to perform during the December freeze were natural gas-fired power plants. Natural gas had the same problems during a cold weather event in 2014 and the polar vortex in 2018.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 27, 2023

The other was Kendall Dilling, CEO of the Pathways Alliance, a new group made up of oil sands producers like Cenovus, with the intention to push carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) to perpetuate fossil fuel production. The fossil fuel sector directly accounts for less than 1 per cent of all jobs in Canada.

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

The Second Circuit rejected the claim that the renewable energy solicitations exceeded the limited authority granted to states with respect to wholesale sales of electricity under the Federal Power Act and the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

The fossil fuel industry has systematically contaminated our environment with a wide range of toxic chemicals for over a century. Nitrogen and sulfur oxides harm lungs and produce acid rain NOx forms when fossil fuels are burned at high temperatures, as a result of a reaction with the nitrogen in air.

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Edouard Stenger

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

First off, some facts and figures from Ember, which recently stated that both fossil fuels generation and CO2 emissions from the European electricity sector fell 19 percent last year alone. Renewables now account for 44% of the EU electricity mix and wind power is now producing more electricity than natural gas.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 26, 2024

waiving papers with her written remarks] I typically just roll off the cuff because this topic has been a passion of mine since long before I was elected in 2014. You are using the fossil fuel industry right now. Bartolotta said-- “I got a lot of words here, but you know what?

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Last Thursday, December 15, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued a notice of proposed rulemaking (NOPR) seeking comments on proposed changes to its regulations governing the siting of interstate electric transmission lines. It will also need to electrify various end-use sectors that currently rely on fossil fuels (e.g.,

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Vermont Law

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

rojects to reduce fossil fuel consumption. The credits will then be replaced by the Clean Electricity Investment Credit, and the Clean Electricity Production Credit, which will phase out in 2032 or once the electric power sector emits 75% less carbon than 2022 levels, whichever comes later.[AW5] Indeed, at a Sept.

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Environmental Progress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

US electricity sector emissions decreased 34 percent from 2005 to 2019, including an astonishing 10 percent in 2019, which is the largest year-on-year decline in history. Subsidies and mandates for renewables result in higher electricity prices and the net transfer of wealth from lower to upper income citizens.

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