Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Under the 2015 Paris Agreement, the United States voluntarily pledged to reduce its global warming emissions at least 50 percent below their 2005 levels by the end of this decade and reach net-zero emissions no later than 2050.

Carbon Emissions 291

Carbon Emissions Fossil Fuels Clean Energy 2030 291

Edouard Stenger

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

GW of wind capacity in September 2016, which produced 21 TWh in 2015. Wind power currently employs a little less than 15,000 people. TWh in 2015. Then, we have at our disposal so many other efficient technologies such as LED light bulbs or other renewables such as wind power and so many others.

Wind Power 52

Wind Power Renewable Energy 2015 2016 52

A Greener Life

JUNE 6, 2021

For many years Moorburg was the site of a gas-fired power plant operated by Hamburgische Electricitäts-Werke, and Vattenfall had been operating a coal -fired power plant here since 2015. The operations were terminated after the power plant won a bid in the auction for the nationwide coal phase-out in December 2020.

Wind Power 98

Wind Power 2025 Renewable Energy 2015 98

Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Representatives from civil society, non-governmental organizations and the private sector gathered alongside governmental representatives to influence decisions and advance contributions toward the goals of the Paris Agreement of 2015. I was joined by Ocean Conservancy colleagues working to advance ocean-climate action. degrees Celsius.

Ocean 113

Ocean Fossil Fuels Paris Agreement Greenhouse 113

Vermont Law

DECEMBER 20, 2017

On the other hand, the dramatic rise in renewable electricity generation, particularly wind power, has created a need for construction of new transmission lines to bring electricity to market. In many parts of the country, they are making strange-bedfellow alliances with property owners opposed to construction on their lands.

Natural Gas 52

Natural Gas Fossil Fuels Wind Power Electricity 52

Edouard Stenger

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

According to a paper published by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in 2015, Puerto Rico has 840 megawatts of potential wind power and only 120 MW of installed capacity. The island could thus boost by a factor seven its wind capacity.

Electricity 52

Electricity Natural Gas Renewable Energy 2015 52

A Greener Life

JULY 9, 2021

It also missed energy consumption and intensity targets in the 13th Five Year Plan (2015-2020). Inner Mongolia generated more wind energy than any other province in 2019. During the 13th FYP period (2015-2020), its total coal mining capacity reached 1.34 Photo credit: Jiang Yifan. Can the coal producer go renewable?

Renewable Energy 85

Renewable Energy Government 2015 2019 85

Environmental Europe

JANUARY 26, 2017

From the abrupt halt to support to photovoltaics in Spain in 2009 to issues with the territorial planning of incentivised wind power in France and Germany (or near Donald Trump’s golf course …) renewable energy policy can prove hard to manage, even (or especially?) when it relies on apparently simple market-based instruments.

Politics 52

Politics Renewable Energy 2006 2009 52

Edouard Stenger

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

While solar PV and wind power are grabbing headlines, another clean energy revolution is silently taking place. Full disclosure: I worked on their Kickstarter campaign in 2015.).

Carbon Dioxide 52

Carbon Dioxide Natural Gas Waste Electricity 52

Law Columbia

MARCH 25, 2016

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. As detailed in the RGGI investment plan , these funds are typically used to support energy efficiency and renewable energy programs in New York State.

Nuclear Power 52

Nuclear Power Renewable Energy 2017 2009 52

Environmental Progress

MARCH 11, 2021

[link] [30] Vaclav Smil, Power Density: A Key to Understanding Energy Sources and Uses (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2015), 247. [31] 31] Vaclav Smil, Power Density: A Key to Understanding Energy Sources and Uses (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2015), 247. [32] 2015, 112 (49) 15060-15065; DOI:10.1073/pnas.1510028112.

Electricity 101

Electricity Renewable Energy Nuclear Power 2019 101

ESA

AUGUST 30, 2021

In 2015, the Obama administration announced that it would ban chlorpyrifos, but former EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt reversed that decision in 2017. BOEM – Commerical Leasing for Wind Power Development on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Offshore Morro Bay, California, East and West Extensions-Call for Information and Nominations.

2021 98

2021 Clean Water Act Endangered Species Act Conservation 98

Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

In December 2015, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) published an article by Jacobson and co-authors, “Low-cost solution to the grid reliability problem with 100% penetration of intermittent wind, water, and solar for all purposes.”

2017 40

2017 Clean Air Act Climate Change Clean Water Act 40

Environmental Progress

APRIL 20, 2021

ERCOT also expected, during peak demand events in winter, to have power from wind represent about 27% of installed wind capacity. In its most severe appraisal of the loss of wind capacity, ERCOT expected 8% of wind power compared to capacity. 49 (2015): 15060-15065; DOI:10.1073/pnas.1510028112

2021 113

2021 Renewable Energy Electricity Natural Gas 113

Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Exxon indicated that the New York attorney general’s “sweeping subpoena” issued in November 2015 seeking 40 years of climate change-related documents was issued in furtherance of the illegal objective of depriving Exxon of its constitutional rights.

2016 40

2016 Climate Change Fossil Fuels Greenhouse 40

ESA

AUGUST 16, 2021

World leaders agreed in the 2015 Paris climate agreement to try to limit to warming to 1.5 BOEM – Notice of Intent To Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement for the Proposed Kitty Hawk Offshore Wind Project Offshore North Carolina. The IPCC’s 2018 Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 Comments are due to BOEM no later than Aug.

2021 98

2021 Clean Energy Climate Change Fossil Fuels 98

Environmental Science

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Deserts are also useful sources of wind power. There are always desert winds, but at certain times of the year wind is much higher which can also generate energy (34). In 2015, researchers were surprised to find an extensive oasis in which was a new type of snail that has made a home there (44).

Conservation 64

Conservation Carbon Emissions Deforestation Radiation 64