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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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 19, 2023

This would have enabled the CAISO to expand its operations into the rest of the west as a regional transmission organization (RTO), an independent entity that plans and operates the electricity grid. Now, 22 states plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico have 100% clean energy goals on the books.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Rate design has been a site of experimentation and contestation since the earliest days of electricity provisioning. In the earliest days of electricity provisioning, fixed charges were common in residential rates due to the limits of metering technology. Regulators and policymakers began to reevaluate their approach to rate design.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

To see this, one need only look at other energy policies in the very states that have prohibited local restrictions on natural gas. Many of those states have also taken steps to block development of renewable energy—giving lie to the notion that pro-natural gas legislators are concerned about “energy choice.”.

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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.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 13, 2022

On July 13, Pittsburgh-based PNC Bank announced a long-term renewable supply agreement with Constellation to power nearly 50 percent of its legacy operations in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Maryland, New Jersey, Delaware, District of Columbia, and parts of Illinois with renewable electricity. Environmental Protection Agency.

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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

JULY 19, 2023

announced it has begun work to connect a pair of solar energy projects in Fulton and Franklin counties to the electric grid. The University of Pennsylvania signed an agreement in April 2020 with Community Energy, later acquired by AES Corporation, to construct the two solar facilities in Franklin and Fulton counties.

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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. There were no representatives of renewable energy generators on the panel of witnesses.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Lower Sesan 2 is not living up to its promise of dropping the price of electricity and providing for power to Cambodia’s power sector, because of a lack of water availability,” says Brian Eyler, who is the Southeast Asia director with the Stimson Center in Washington, DC. Construction began in 2014.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 30, 2023

By Anders Lorenzen The renewable energy sector experienced record growth in 2022 of 1%. They still account for 82% of the global energy supply according to the industry’s Statistical Review of World Energy released this week. The energy data Excluding hydropower, renewables accounted for 7.5%

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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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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Energy prices have been much in the news over the past several months, occupying a prominent place in mainstream discussions of inflation. In the early days of the current price shocks, fossil fuel boosters blamed clean energy and climate policy. Two policy choices in particular have contributed to the current energy crisis.

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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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A Greener Life

MAY 20, 2022

Currently, both plants are operating satisfactorily, contributing a great deal of renewable energy, ” said Rodrigo Corrales, general manager of ENDE Guaracachi, the state-owned electricity company that operates the complex. We are making progress in changing the energy matrix towards clean and renewable energy.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 4, 2023

Note: Sen. . -- Electricity Exporter: Pennsylvania is the second-largest net supplier of total energy to other states, after Texas. Yaw did not mention renewable energy in this announcement.] Yaw's Energy Beliefs You can get a better understanding of Sen. We didn't have any reliability issues at all.” "And

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 2024

He has publicly called for investments in clean energy, green technologies, and environmental research. Nelson has been supportive of municipal efforts to transition local government facilities to 100% clean and renewable energy. Church was an elementary school counselor in Philadelphia until 2014.

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A Greener Life

JULY 9, 2021

billion) over the three years 2014–16. Coal-chemical plants, for example, could switch to using hydrogen from renewable energy for producing chemicals such as methanol and alkenes. There is huge potential for developing renewable energy in Inner Mongolia, which could be used to power other industries.

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Edouard Stenger

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

These days if you read renewable energy news, everything is shining for solar photovoltaic: it is fast becoming the cheapest energy source, technology is getting better every year and it is wildly successful from the US to Asia, from Europe to Africa. cents per kilowatt hour, while west-facing panels generate 21.8

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Columbia Climate Law

JULY 9, 2015

Recently, two competing plans to reform California’s four-tier electricity rate structure of the three investor-owned utilities (IOUs) [1] have emerged from the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC). Under the current tariff system, customers who use more electricity are charged significantly higher rates per kilowatt-hour (kWh). [4]

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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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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

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. By Rejimon Kuttappan Along with a major expansion of renewable energy, India is also pushing for big increases in its coal production, casting doubt on its climate commitments.

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Environmental Progress

JULY 3, 2023

In 2014, they calculated the carbon intensity of PV energy as if the panels were made in Europe, with low-carbon energy,” Mariutti told Environmental Progress, referring to data compilers. We all used Chinese electricity mixes for c-Si PV. But what she told Mariutti was not reassuring.

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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. By Javier Lewkowicz Distributed generation and local actors are boosting renewables, democratising energy and reducing bills. Solar panels on the rooftop and car park of a secondary school in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 1, 2023

It complements Phoenix Contact’s Combined Cooling, Heating, and Power (CCHP) system, which generates about half of the facility’s electric requirements. Phoenix Contact estimates the solar power installation will reduce the company’s electricity costs by approximately $150,000 per year.

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A Greener Life

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The deep coal mine will be used to mine coking coal, specifically used for steelmaking rather than electricity generation, and it is to be developed by West Cumbria Mining. The counterargument to that is that steel is a critical component of many renewable energy technologies such as wind turbines. Strong pushback.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Using an interactive online dashboard-- Renewables on the Rise 2024 -- 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.

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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”). 4] PURPA removes barriers for non-utility generation where such generation is cost-effective, thereby increasing competition and creating a downward pressure on future energy costs. [5].

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Although the nuclear bailout was repealed and refunded in 2021, some of the law’s other egregious provisions requiring ratepayers across the state to subsidize money-losing coal plants and gutting renewable energy and energy efficiency standards are still in place today. The Union of Concerned Scientists opposed H.B. Since H.B.

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

Second Circuit Rejected Challenges to Connecticut Renewable Energy Programs. Allco is an owner, operator, and developer of solar energy projects throughout the country, including in Georgia and New York. State Air Resources Board , No. S241948 (Cal. June 28, 2017). PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP , No. 451962/2016 (N.Y.

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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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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 commission in April approved a 25-year state contract offering billions of dollars to Hydro-Quebec, a corporation tied to the Quebec government, for delivering renewable energy.

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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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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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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 27, 2023

The path to net zero means not developing new oil and gas projects , scaling down current production, and transitioning to renewable energy sources. Renewable energy and energy efficiency are the most affordable and readily available green technologies we have. Truth: CCUS is an expensive wild-card.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 4, 2024

While these data have been available since 2014 from the Climate Accountability Institute, the most recent update of this dataset is now easily accessible and explorable on a new platform hosted by InfluenceMap.

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