Enviromental Defense

JUNE 17, 2024

Alberta: Speak Up For a SAFE Climate: Take Action Here How Climate Action Makes Life More Affordable Renewable energy, including solar and wind power, is much cheaper and less polluting than burning fossil fuels such as natural gas, oil and coal. The research was published in Nature in April of this year.

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A Greener Life

JULY 9, 2021

It also missed energy consumption and intensity targets in the 13th Five Year Plan (2015-2020). The National Development and Reform Commission’s Department of Resource Conservation and Environmental Protection said in a statement that energy intensity increased 9.5% Can the coal producer go renewable?

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Environmental Progress

APRIL 20, 2021

Advocates of renewable energy have argued since the 1970s that the variable, weather-dependent nature of sunlight and wind is a modest obstacle at best to relying on 100 percent renewables. Some have argued that weather-dependent energies would, paradoxically, make electricity even more reliable.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 25, 2016

As detailed in the RGGI investment plan , these funds are typically used to support energy efficiency and renewable energy programs in New York State. This is not the first time that the legislature has diverted RGGI proceeds for other purposes—it also diverted $90 million in 2009 and $41 million in 2015 to the general fund.

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A Greener Life

MAY 28, 2023

A small town generating its own power, a city school equipping its rooftop with solar panels, and a company building solar water heaters that help to cut energy bills: small-scale initiatives across Argentina are showing the active role people can play in building a renewable energy-powered future.

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Columbia Climate Law

JULY 9, 2015

On April 21, 2015, CPUC administrative law judges (ALJs) McKinney and Halligan filed a proposal that suggests implementing a two-tiered system, with a 20% maximum difference in rates for customers. Understandably, there are concerns that tier flattening does not adequately incentivize efficient use of energy.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 19, 2024

million as chief strategy officer of Gulf Keystone Petroleum from 2015 to 2018 while serving as a Conservative MP. Lord Theodore Agnew, who sits on the board of right-wing broadcaster GB News , has shares worth at least £100,000 in Equinor, the Norwegian state-owned energy producer.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 21, 2025

On January 20, the PJM Interconnection announced it continues its preparations for the coldest weather in the region since 2015, PJM on Monday extended its Cold Weather Alert and Conservative Operations declarations through Thursday, Jan. 23, for its entire footprint of 13 states and Washington, D.C.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 22, 2025

This exceeds PJMs all-time winter instantaneous peak of approximately 143,700 MW, set in February 2015, pending the availability of verified metered load data. 23 Webinar On Data Centers - How To Ensure AI And Cryptocurrency Mining Don't Delay Transition To 100% Renewable Energy [PaEN] -- Washington & Jefferson College: Feb.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The legislation committed nearly $400 billion to support, among other things, wind and solar power, battery storage, electric vehicles, and other clean energy technologies that will make a significant dent in US heat-trapping emissions.

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Environmental Progress

MARCH 11, 2021

4] Meanwhile, many experts see in recent trends an inevitable transition away from coal and nuclear power plants, designed to function as baseload capacity, toward variable renewable energy sources with just-in-time natural gas back-up. 7] Nuclear plants are among the most reliable components of America’s power grids.

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Legal Planet

JULY 25, 2024

A dozen years later, the cost of solar power had dropped by nearly 90% on a price per kilowatt basis. Solar PV became almost a third less expensive than fossil fuel generation. Like solar, battery costs have dropped plunged since 2010. The cost of electricity storage has also fallen dramatically.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Between 2015 and 2021, 274 North American oil and gas producers filed for bankruptcy with a debt load of $177 billion. There are many promising signs that the country is making progress on a path that is aligned with climate science and energy market risk management. The bankruptcies were set in motion even before 2020.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Scavello Introduces Bill Authorizing Community Solar Projects; $2 Billion Worth Of Projects Waiting For It To Pass -- Business, Environment, Energy Groups Praise Introduction Of Bipartisan Bills Increasing Solar Energy Mandate From 0.5%

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 21, 2025

PJM said this is the coldest weather since 2015 in the PJM footprint of 13 states and the District of Columbia. 23 Webinar On Data Centers - How To Ensure AI And Cryptocurrency Mining Don't Delay Transition To 100% Renewable Energy [PaEN] -- Washington & Jefferson College: Feb. Low Voltage Alert On Sunday afternoon, Jan.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 27, 2024

The new global record in the generation of renewable energy was powered primarily by solar and wind. Solar power has been the fastest growing source of electricity in the world for 19 years in a row according to Ember’s Global Electricity Review 2024. percent in 2015 to nearly 8 percent in 2023.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

An Oregon Circuit Court set aside the Oregon Secretary of State’s decision to reject two clean energy ballot initiatives and allowed the measures to be processed and circulated for the November 2020 election. Lawsuit Filed Challenging Solar Power Facility in California. County of Kern , No. BCV-20-100080 (Cal.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 29, 2024

Later in the hour, Tillerson told Rose that the federal government should end subsidies for renewable energy. “I And since 2015, they have claimed that their company supports the goals of the Paris climate agreement, which was brokered that year. I mean, wind has received subsidies for more than 20 years now,” he said.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 31, 2022

Koch’s most recent public comments about climate change came during lengthy interviews with the Washington Post in 2015 and 2016. In late 2012, for example, the Koch brothers financed “bogus studies” falsely claiming that state standards requiring utilities to ramp up their use of renewable energy would dramatically drive up electric rates.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 5, 2025

By Anders Lorenzen A leading energy think tank says that last month, less than half of the US electricity capacity came from fossil fuels. As a result, clean energy sources generated the largest amount of electricity in the US last month, 50.8%a Will Trump change the energy trajectory? a new record. of US electricity generation.

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