Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 31, 2024

million homes’ electricity use for a year! Under his leadership, CNRL has been linked to staggering annual emissions of 26.34 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (MtCO₂e) , equivalent to 5.2

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Solar panels generated almost 4 percent of electricity in the US in 2021, up from less than 1 percent in 2015. In some places that number is much higher; for example, 17% of California’s electricity generation came from solar in 2021. There are two types of solar technology for electricity generation. Chemistry break!

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The Ohio Valley Electric Corporation (OVEC) owns and operates two such coal plants, and Ohio ratepayers are set to continue subsidizing these uneconomic plants absent any intervention from state policymakers. That would be outrageous, wouldn’t it? But that’s exactly what’s happening right now. This huge difference totaled a $117.9

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

electricity generation. Renewables are continuing to increase their share of the power sector, rising to almost 23 percent of the nation’s electricity supply last year, which was higher than the generation from both coal-fired and nuclear plants. In other words, when the air is hot, gas power plants cannot generate as much electricity.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

The EIA reports that: “Fossil fuel sources accounted for about 69% of South Korea’s electricity generation in 2019, and the share of nuclear power accounted for 25%. Coal-fired power, which is a baseload source, is the dominant fossil fuel used to generate electricity (40%), and natural gas-fired capacity is the second-largest source (26%).”.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

There are a lot of moving pieces, but it starts with decarbonizing the electricity sector and powering the economy with a diverse combination of clean energy resources—primarily wind, solar, and battery storage—connected with a modernized bulk transmission system that can reliably deliver electricity to consumers all 8,760 hours of the year.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 24, 2022

On December 24, the PJM Interconnection requested the public in its region to conserve electricity. The request is being made throughout PJM electricity grid region. PJM is asking consumers to reduce their use of electricity, if health permits, between the hours of 4:00 a.m. 20, 2015 during the polar vortex.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

More transportation options = less buildout of the electric grid UCS’s project examined several ways that the US can lower global warming emissions consistent with limiting overall warming to 1.5 But it requires ambitious policies, including nearly tripling renewable energy’s share of US electricity generation by 2030 (see graph below).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

of the observed rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide and 52 percent of the rise in global average temperatures between 1880 and 2015. It can, and must, start now to meet the 2015 Paris Agreement goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 Data on the major carbon producers’ emissions have been published since 2014.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Fifteen percent of electricity is renewable. Renewables are a third of electricity consumption. Renewables are 42% of electricity. New rates are large enough to spark expansion of renewable industry. Germany decides to phase out nuclear power, complicating efforts to decarbonize the power sector.

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Legal Planet

JULY 1, 2021

The amount of additional carbon we can allow if we want to keep the temperature to 2°C above the preindustrial level is approximately 1690 GtCO 2 for a 50/50 chance of reaching the target, or 1320 GtCO 2 for a two-thirds chance (2015 estimate ). I’ll use the average of those two for convenience, which is very close to 1500 gigatons, or 1.5

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 7, 2024

2023 was a milestone year for electric car sales in the US. Sales figure from VELOZ The top selling passenger car AND top selling light truck in CA in 2023, according to California New Car Dealers Association , were both electric vehicles with the Tesla Model 3 and the Tesla Model Y taking the top spots…as they also did in 2022.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

As I prepare to attend the UN’s 28 th annual Conference of the Parties (COP28 ), I’ve been thinking a lot about the connection between the UN climate talks and litigation, especially in light of the stark reality that parties to the 2015 Paris Agreement are falling short on key milestones leading up to the next month’s meeting.

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Energy and Climate Law

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

According to the Communication, buildings and power generation can make the largest and most cost-efficient emissions reductions, in the order of 60% and more compared to 2015, to reach the 55% greenhouse gas emissions reduction target (p.8). At least 30 % of the EU´s multiannual budget shall be dedicated to `climate relevant spending´ (p.4),

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Environmental News Bits

DECEMBER 20, 2021

The number of homes heated with clean, efficient electric heat pumps increased by 28% in a decade from 2005 to 2015. Wind turbines and solar panels made up a tiny fraction of our energy infrastructure 10 years ago. Today, they are everyday parts of America’s energy landscape. Just a few years ago,… Read more →

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Legal Planet

MARCH 21, 2022

quarter of EPA original estimate); an estimate by an industry group (the Edison Electric Institute) was only slightly higher. For example, natural gas production went up by around 50% from 2011-2015, displacing a lot of coal-fired generation. Several independent experts have attempted to do such a retroactive analysis.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 26, 2022

It’s also difficult to ensure that the right steps are being taken at the right time – for instance, when there’s a surge in electric vehicles, that there will be enough charging stations and enough renewable energy to keep them going.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The Mediterranean country aims for renewables to account for an 82% share of electricity production by 2030. The country, still not over its financial woes following its Euro-Zone crisis in 2015, has been hit with severe floods and wildfires this year. The previous plan released in 2019 had set out only a 66% share.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

While this reactor was initially intended to transition to mixed oxide (MOX) fuel by 2015, delays in development led China to continue relying on Russian fuel. One of the CFR-600s may have reached criticality in mid-2023, though whether it is connected to the electricity grid remains unclear.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

The reservoirs are a key source of drinking water for about 40 million people, plus they store water that irrigates millions of acres of farmland and generates electricity for the Southwest. From that baseline hydrologists feed their model, one by one, with historical weather observations from the years 1981 to 2015.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 22, 2022

We all know that to successfully address climate change we need to phase out fossil fuels and switch to electric power. A s we transition our homes and vehicles to electric power, it’s imperative that the electricity sector be clean. First electricity from renewable sources is turned into heated compressed air.

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Physics World

MARCH 16, 2022

Using renewable electricity to drive chemical synthesis may provide a route to overcoming these challenges, enabling synthetic routes that operate at benign conditions and utilize sustainable inputs. After a one-year postdoc at Caltech, he joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as assistant professor in 2017.

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Physics World

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

In 2015, Hersam colleagues discovered that the element can exist in flat, atomically-thin sheets dubbed borophene. Six years on and the material is now known to possess both electrical and mechanical properties that could rival those of carbon-based graphene.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 20, 2023

Because beyond the importance of cleaning up the power sector itself, we also need a clean electricity system to enable the decarbonization of so many other aspects of our economy, from vehicles to homes and businesses to industrial processes. In June 2022, the Supreme Court issued a 6-3 decision in West Virginia v.

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OCTOBER 19, 2021

Photo: Solar energy panels, electric motorcycle and car at Tom Ridge Environmental Education Center , Erie.) The secretary’s visit to Colonel Denning is part of the 2021 Sustainability Tour, which began with an announcement at Presque Isle in Erie last month that new solar arrays will take the park to net zero energy.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 22, 2024

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Physics World

JUNE 6, 2022

Superconductivity is the ability of a material to conduct electricity without any resistance. Then, in 2015, the role of pressure came to the fore as researchers discovered that hydrogen sulphide has a T c of 203 K when compressed to pressures of 150 GPa. and the search for room-temperature superconductors has been on ever since.

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Edouard Stenger

JUNE 20, 2023

During the month of May, solar and wind power generated more electricity (30.6%) than fossil fuels (27.3%) in the European Union for the first time in history. The original article goes further, explaining that coal provided just a tenth of total electricity during the entire month, a mere 20 TWh. This is equally impressive.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Or, more precisely, Mark Wu and I predicted the current conflict pitting the United States against the rest of the world in our 2015 Northwestern Law Review piece, “ Next Generation Trade and Environment Conflicts.” Following passage of the IRA, Korea immediately expressed its concerns over the electric vehicle tax credits.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 2, 2023

The IFO said this was the fourth consecutive quarter in which production did not increase year-over-year and represents the strongest year-over-year decline in quarterly production since monthly production data have been published (2015). The IFO reported Lycoming County saw a 12.4%

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 12, 2022

More than 450 financial firms worldwide representing $130 trillion in assets have pledged to meet the 2015 Paris climate agreement goal of net-zero emissions by 2050. Bloomberg Intelligence estimates global ESG assets are set to jump from $35 trillion today to $50 trillion in 2025. The finance industry is particularly bullish on the E in ESG.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 21, 2021

It’s the largest in Africa and is expected to be a key source of electricity. Between 2002 and 2015, the number of wells nearly doubled but they were able to pump out less and less water. The dam is in Ethiopia, on the Blue Nile. In research news, a new study is sounding the alarm on groundwater depletion in Iran.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

By Leigh Hartman When Son Nguyen lived in the US, he saw rapidly advancing electric vehicle technology and heard stories from back in Vietnam about air pollution. The company sells electric motorbikes in Danang, Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City and is exploring the reuse of electric batteries and how to power its factory with green energy.

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Physics World

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Superconductors are materials that conduct electricity without any resistance. It wasn’t until 2015, however, that the maximum critical temperature took a major leap forward with the discovery that hydrogen sulphide has a T c of 203 K when compressed to pressures of 150 GPa. Step closer to holy grail.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 29, 2021

But the United Nations has just said that the latest commitments of the 192 parties of the 2015 Paris agreement will equate to a 16% rise in global greenhouse-gas emissions in 2030 compared to 2010. It’s an achievable goal because electricity generation is centralized, we only have a countable number of electric power plants.

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Nearly half of Indonesia’s electricity is generated by coal power plants, and South Sumatra’s coal plays a crucial role. In 2015, Indonesia set itself the target of reducing emissions by up to 41% by 2030 with international assistance.

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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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