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.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 12, 2023

What happens when promise of electricity reliability fails in bad weather? How can gas power plant owners claim to be reliable but fail to make adequate efforts to purchase fuel? We know that consumers pay for electricity reliability and bear the cost when supplies are tight.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 7, 2025

This week so far, DEP issued 9 violations for shale gas well abandonment bringing the total issued in 2025 to 31. All of the shale gas wells found in violation were drilled in the earlier days of shale gas development-- 2010 to 2014 In all of 2024, DEP issued 47 violations for abandoned shale gas wells and 20 in 2024.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 4, 2023

Energy Information Administration (EIA)-- -- Natural Gas: Pennsylvania’s marketed natural gas production, primarily from the Marcellus Shale, reached a record 7.6 We were about a third, a third, a third [in sources of fuel to generate electricity]. Yaw's Energy Beliefs You can get a better understanding of Sen.

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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.

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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.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 22, 2025

Of Health Invites Citizens To File Environmental Health Complaints Related To Natural Gas Development; Health Will Also Review Environmental Test Results [September 2023] -- State Dept. Read more here.

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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. The issues were actually at the wellhead. “It

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 6, 2023

The self-governing PJM stakeholders put this in place after so many supposedly “firm” generators failed to perform in 2014. PJM stakeholders voted on this policy to penalize energy suppliers who merely claim to be reliable and to use that money to reward the suppliers that actually exceed their expected performance.

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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 On January 18, the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 8, 2025

DEP inspection report - 6H; DEP inspection report - 8H; DEP inspection report - 10H;] Rice Drilling B LLC [EQT] - Violations: Abandoned Shale Gas Well March 4, 2025 inspection of the Roger Parry 7H shale gas well in Aleppo Township, Greene County found the well abandoned and not plugged. Well drilled in 2014.

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Clean Energy Law

MAY 24, 2022

Covered Entities : The Program regulates manufacturers, electricity importers, suppliers of natural gas, gasoline and other fuels, and CO2 suppliers that emit more than 25,000 metric tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (MTCO2e) annually. The Program has been linked with the Cap-and-Trade System of Québec since 2014.

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A Greener Life

MAY 20, 2022

However, specialists are calling for a broader restructuring of entrenched economic and energy models, which depend largely on the exploitation of fossil fuels – primarily natural gas – as well as the distribution of the resources derived from their sale, and the subsidised supply of hydrocarbons to the domestic market.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 24, 2024

The 2024 State of the Methane Mitigation Industry Report highlights the following key findings-- -- 33 companies now operate in Pennsylvania, up from 27 in 2021 and 20 in 2014, marking a 65% increase over the past decade. -- The number of employee locations in the methane mitigation industry across the state has grown to 50 in 2024, a 38.9%

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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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Edouard Stenger

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

Analysts are predicting in could become the first source of electricity globally by mid-century. The duck curve , as it is called, refers to the difference between peak electricity production from solar and peak electricity demand. South-facing panels maximise electricity production, hence are more profitable).

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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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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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PA Environment Daily

MAY 24, 2022

We feel that natural gas and derivative products provide a path for the transportation industry both to reduce carbon emissions in the short-term while working toward a goal of net-zero in the long-term as hydrogen and other potential solutions mature," said Christina Cassotis, CEO, Pittsburgh International Airport. Read more here.

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Environmental Progress

JULY 3, 2023

If this estimate is accurate, solar would not compare favorably with natural gas, which is around 50 gCO2/kWh with carbon capture, and 400 to 500 without. We all used Chinese electricity mixes for c-Si PV. China’s dirty fuel advantage Paul Basore and David Feldman, Solar Photovoltaics: Supply Chain Deep Dive Assessment, U.S.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 30, 2023

Electricity generation was up at 2.3% with wind and solar power accounting for a record share of 12% of power generation, surpassing nuclear generation which had a reduction of 4.4%, and providing 84% of net electricity demand growth. to its highest level since 2014. Overall gas production remained stable.

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CEQA Developments

JULY 6, 2021

East Bay Regional Park District (Pacific Gas and Electric Company, Real Party in Interest) (1st Dist., County of Ventura (2014) 232 Cal.App.4th Save Lafayette Trees, et. 3, 2021) Cal.App.5th. See, Concerned Citizens of Costa Mesa, Inc. Agricultural Assn. 1986) 42 Cal.3d 3d 329; Ventura Foothill Neighbors v. 2016) 1 Cal.App.5th

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A Greener Life

JULY 9, 2021

As oil and gas prices fell, the company was dragged down by its “money pit” investment. 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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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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Law of the Lands

JULY 8, 2021

Oil and gas companies have easements for pipelines. Electricity distributors have easements for electricity transmission and distribution lines. For instance, the easement for a large diameter high-pressure natural gas pipeline or for an overhead electricity transmission line can effectively sterilize a property.

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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”). For the proxy plant method, the avoided energy cost proxy is a natural gas combined cycle unit (“NGCC”), and the avoided capacity cost proxy is a natural gas combustion turbine unit (“NGCT”).

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Vermont Law

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

Subsequently, Japanese greenhouse gas emissions and electricity costs for industrial and residential consumers have skyrocketed. On August 11, 2015, the Kyushu Electric Power Company began the restart process on the No. With the loss of nuclear power, the electricity generation shifted towards a fossil-fuel dependent portfolio.

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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.

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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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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 10, 2023

On December 27, 2022-- Christmas week-- a malfunction at the CNX Oak Springs Natural Gas Pipeline Pigging Station in South Franklin Township, Washington County resulted in the release of an estimated 1.1 million cubic feet of natural gas and hazardous air pollutants. From approximately 10:14 a.m. to at least 11:55 a.m.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The Committee heard testimony from three citizens group representatives, including residents of Washington and Westmoreland counties, two physicians that studied health impacts of industry operations and a shale gas industry group and the PA Building and Construction Trades Council representing the industry. Read more here. Read more here.

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Environmental Progress

MARCH 11, 2021

Congress took questions relating to the security of America’s electricity supply seriously before more than a dozen states experienced energy shortages last month, but those events make this hearing all the more urgent. electrical grids were increasingly “complex and vulnerable.” [2] Shellenberger. 5] The U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 9, 2025

Of Health Invites Citizens To File Environmental Health Complaints Related To Natural Gas Development; Health Will Also Review Environmental Test Results [September 2023] -- State Dept. Read more here.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 27, 2023

After the EPA proposed the Clean Power Plan in 2014, for example, fossil fuel interests and their backers tried to argue that the proposal’s 2030 emission-reduction targets were completely unrealistic, and that the country would see astronomically high costs and blackouts due to the rule.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 24, 2025

Rice Drillling B LLC [EQT] - Violations 2 Abandoned Shale Gas Wells May 20, 2025 inspections of the Roger Parry 5H and Roger Parry 7H shale gas wells in Aleppo Township, Greene County found them abandoned and not plugged. Both wells were drilled in December 2014. No gas was detected from slam bar holes or the well.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 4, 2024

A new North American Electricity Reliability Corporation (NERC) and Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) review of power outages and gas industry failures reveals the potential for prolonged and deadly power outages. What Happened in Texas?

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 16, 2023

On June 15, S&P Global reported on the results of a joint inquiry by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and North American Electric Reliability Corp into the impact of Winter Storm Elliot that caused a wave of unplanned power plant outages in December 2022, particularly in the PJM Interconnection electric grid region.

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