Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 17, 2025

In Northern California, the Tubbs Fires effects on Santa Rosa in 2017 and the Camp Fire, which burned the entire town of Paradise only a year later, were among the first wildfires known to cause widespread drinking water contamination in cities. Drinking water may not be safe for months, depending on the severity of the damage.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Not only does this contradict the Minister’s stated commitment to a “technology-agnostic” energy planning process, where the best and cheapest technology would win, but it also disregards the clear evidence that wind and solar are the most cost-effective sources of new electricity generation.

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Gas, which now generates 40 percent of US electricity, is considered by some to be critical to maintain grid reliability. Meanwhile, on the West Coast, a 2017 PSE Healthy Energy study found that nearly half of California’s gas power plants are in communities that are among the state’s 25 percent most disadvantaged neighborhoods.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

To reach the state’s goals of 100% clean electricity and economy-wide carbon neutrality by 2045, the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) has been tasked with planning the clean electricity transition via its Integrated Resource Planning (IRP) process. But the turn is not yet over.

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Law and Environment

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The amendments are intended to accelerate progress towards decarbonization of the electricity sector and further ensure the state meets its goal of net zero emissions by 2050. The CES, first enacted in 2017, requires retail sellers of electricity in Massachusetts to provide increasing quantities of clean electricity over time.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 5, 2024

Demand for electricity was high, but there was not enough gas available to keep all the gas-fired power plants running. Offshore wind is an important resource all year round, for zero-carbon electricity, pollution reduction, job creation, and much more. 1 megawatt-hour is 1,000 kilowatt-hours.)

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Energy and Climate Law

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

The current EEG stems from 2017 and by that time some fundamental changes were made to the system, as discussed on this blog. By 2030 65 % of electricity in Germany shall come from renewable sources and by 2050 the share will be 100%. The new EEG amendments (so called EEG Novelle 2021 ) shall come into force on 1 January 2021.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 27, 2022

In March, start-up BasiGo became the first company to launch an electric passenger bus in Kenya. We selected BYD because they are the largest manufacturer of electric buses globally and they are known for battery technology that is state-of-the-art,” BasiGo co-founder and CEO Jit Bhattacharya told China Dialogue. million in funding.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 31, 2024

million homes’ electricity use for a year! In 2017 he shared his yacht with the interim leader of the Conservative Party, Rona Ambrose, for her vacation around the Caribbean. 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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PA Environment Daily

MAY 2, 2024

On May 2, PJM Interconnection , the regional electricity grid operator that includes Pennsylvania, announced it expects to meet summer electricity demand in 2024, though continuing generator retirements and increasing demand continue to erode reserve levels for the operator of the nation’s largest electrical grid.

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

While the operation of the CEFR and supply of highly enriched uranium to the reactor attracted less attention from foreign media, the construction of the two China Fast Reactor (CFR)-600 reactors in Xiapu, China, in 2017 sparked widespread discussion. energy and weapons) capabilities.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 5, 2023

The inspection reports note these violations at this location for these two wells have continued since they were first discovered on May 23, 2017. The DEP inspection found defective well casing and cementing the operator failed to report to the agency and failed to correct within 30 days.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Whether you call it updating, modernizing, or reforming, changes to the water rights system have long been considered a political third rail —the electric kind you don’t touch. Earlier this summer, I wrote about three bills that were poised to make long overdue changes to California’s outdated and inequitable water rights system.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

A quick glance at the latest data from CARB shows there are three large and growing sources of credits: bio-based diesel, biomethane and electricity. Bio-based diesel, biomethane and electricity are the largest and fastest growing sources of LCFS credits in recent years.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Electric Vehicles. The federal government offers a $5,000 incentive towards electric vehicle purchases (both battery electric and plug-in hybrid). One other important statistic: Ontario used to have incentives for electric vehicles at a time when there were no federal incentives. MT in 2017 to 12.4 Here’s why.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 2, 2024

Whatever the weather in March and beyond—in-like-a-lion blustery or out-like-a-lamb sunny—spring tends to be a season of strong electricity production from solar and wind in particular. Spring is also a glorious time for taking stock, since the official data on the previous year’s US electricity generation become available.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 12, 2022

Energy Information Administration released its latest Short-Term Energy Outlook which projects solar and wind renewable energy’s share of electricity generation will keep rising and lead to a decline in natural gas generation. ‘We wind and solar capacity in 2022 and 2023 increase electricity generation from those sources in our forecast. “We

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 27, 2022

At the same time, 2021 was also a year when renewable electricity generation reached a record high globally. Under this scenario (which the IEA calls the Net Zero Emissions by 2050 or NZE scenario), renewables reach 60% of global electricity generation in 2030 and no new conventional coal plants are needed.

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Environmental Leader

JULY 28, 2021

Form Energy, a new technology company founded in 2017 and funded by ArcelorMittal to develop long-duration battery systems, has introduced its first commercial product, a rechargeable iron-air battery capable of delivering electricity for 100 hours at system costs competitive with conventional power plants and at less than 1/10th the cost.

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Edouard Stenger

JANUARY 16, 2018

2017 will remain for me the year energy storage broke ground. This will boost electric vehicles significantly as they are cheaper and cleaner to operate than regular gasoline / diesel cars. Large energy users and well off sustainability-oriented peole could store the electricity from their own solar PV arrays in a cheap way.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The government’s recent Economic Outlook document claims “[f]unds generated through the purchases of CECs could be returned to ratepayers, help lower electricity costs, or support future clean energy generation…” ( emphasis added ). We lose our claim to clean electricity . Allowing others to pollute . Doesn’t decrease emissions .

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Physics World

OCTOBER 8, 2021

In 2017, he was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Northeastern University (USA) and in 2020, co-founded the spin-off Nanostine. This webinar will start with showing that nanocolumnar films can be manufactured by magnetron sputtering using the glancing angle deposition configuration.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 2, 2025

Ironically, Germany also imports nuclear-produced electricity from France. In 2024, the demand for coal reached new heights due to the worlds increasing appetite for more electricity capacity. China diversified its electricity sector in 2024 in line with the countrys long-term trajectory of adding more renewables and nuclear.

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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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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 3, 2023

The only reason Ontario’s energy grid is relatively clean (though getting dirtier now) is because previous governments (from other parties) responded to public pressure for cleaner air and lower emissions and phased out the use of coal to generate electricity in the province.

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Legal Planet

MAY 9, 2022

California’s system uses revenues from auctioning allowances to fund its Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF) and to limit cost increases to electricity users. – Do no harm. Potential reforms include: Moving from a tradeable performance standard to a mass-based, cap-and-trade system. Focusing on data accuracy and MRV.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 19, 2023

Ontario recently announced it would contract new polluting gas plants to generate electricity for the province. This is outrageous, especially given that Ontario successfully phased out coal-fired power plants between 2005 and 2017 and brought down greenhouse gas emissions from the electricity sector by 93 per cent.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 23, 2023

Outspoken climate denier Joe Oliver is retiring from his position as Chair of the Board of Directors of Ontario’s Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) which operates Ontario’s electricity system and manages power generation. Of course, we can’t blame Oliver alone, but leadership does matter.

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Physics World

JUNE 6, 2022

Superconductivity is the ability of a material to conduct electricity without any resistance. It is observed in many materials when they are cooled to below their superconducting transition temperature ( T c ). Superconductivity was first observed in 1911 in solid mercury below a T c of 4.2K

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A Greener Life

MAY 23, 2024

Two-way charging could give vehicles like these the potential to stabilise power supplies by discharging stored electricity back to the grid. Across 30 minutes, 50 electric vehicles (EVs) discharged almost one megawatt-hour into the grid – enough electricity to meet the needs of 133 households for a day.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Ontario recently re-contracted four gas-fired power plants to generate electricity for the province and appears poised to contract more in the near future. . Yes, Ontario needs new electricity generation. This is a national-level policy being developed to decarbonize electricity systems across the country.

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

Six environmental groups launched the proceeding challenging the stay after EPA published notice of the stay in the June 5, 2017 issue of the Federal Register. filed June 5, 2017; emergency motion for stay granted July 3, 2017). June 29, 2017). June 28, 2017). June 28, 2017). Clean Air Council v.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 29, 2024

The Portlands gas plant was built in 2008 and was designed as a peaker gas plant, meaning that it would only operate a few hours per month when electricity demand was high. The IESO should switch to renewable sources of electricity and plan to phase out the Portlands gas plant as soon as possible.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

A natural gas company in Canada says they won’t generate enough electricity due to drought this summer. centimeters) of rain on areas of Texas hit hard by Hurricane Harvey in 2017. Hurricane Nicholas quickly downgrades to a tropical storm in Texas, but still threatens to flood many areas of the S. Deep South. ON THE RADAR.

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Physics World

MARCH 15, 2022

Sagnik Dey , Dilip Ganguly and colleagues at the Centre for Atmospheric Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology–Delhi calculate that the successful implementation of India’s National Clean Air Programme would allow the country to generate an extra 6-16 TWh of solar electricity every year. Dual-axis losses.

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