Legal Planet

JUNE 2, 2022

Scotland set a 2020 goal of 100% renewable energy electricity generation. renewable energy generation (62% coming from onshore wind) A climate plan adopted in 2018 sets a binding target of net-zero emissions by 2045. In 2020, they just missed this goal, at 97.4%

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

We need a major buildout of renewable energy. But if we lower demand for energy, including by creating more efficient transportation alternatives, this becomes a less challenging mountain to climb. The average Seattle resident drove just 6,150 miles a year in 2018, 17% fewer than in 2005.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

It’s the same water-use target that Cape Town established during its Day Zero water crisis in 2018. In the United States, a battle over renewable energy in New England has taken another turn. That amounts to 13 gallons daily for drinking, bathing, cooking, and doing laundry.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 16, 2021

Cox, a businessman, ran against Newsom in 2018. He seems to favor renewable energy. His website spotlights energy shortages and says: “We will solve this problem for all Californians. It’s hard to know who, out of the scores of candidates, might ultimately emerge from the pack of challengers. ” Larry Elder.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Battery storage is essential to integrating more renewable energy into the grid. It provides energy resiliency in the case of natural disasters. But large-scale battery storage has actually gotten much safer in recent years, with the failure rate dropping 97% between 2018 and 2023. First responders have been injured.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 19, 2023

Going back in the compliance history of Nancy 13, a DEP inspection report dated December 20, 2018 noted the well was leaking brine, gas was venting from the well casing and the value used for fracking the well was still on the wellhead, but no violations were listed. [ Photos: top- Nancy 13 circa 2018, Nancy 13 2023; bottom- James R.

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Acoel

MAY 18, 2021

Remember that forests that are not primeval are, in fact, a renewable resource, and Maine is a logging state. The post Mainers Opposing Clean Renewable Energy? The limited, non-unique environmental impacts seem materially outweighed by environmental benefits. Will Mainers be short-sighted and reject it at the ballot box?

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Law and Environment

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The CES relates to the state’s Renewable Energy Portfolio Standard (RPS) in several ways, including that compliance with RPS programs counts toward certain CES compliance obligations. Increasing the CES-E stringency from 20% to 25% of 2018 retail sales starting in 2023. Why were these amendments made to the CES?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Field and Israel were energized by the swift progress in Maine since 2018, noting, “it is possible to work towards climate resilience quickly and effectively.” The best way policy makers can do so is to seize these climate and clean energy opportunities.

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Environmental Europe

JULY 1, 2020

Deploying renewable energy technologies is a key way to reduce emissions, but the EU’s own Environment Agency warned in late 2019 that current policy efforts are insufficient to reach the 2030 and the 2050 (net zero) emissions targets. insufficient renewable energy targets) or “delivery gaps” (i.e.,

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A Greener Life

APRIL 3, 2025

By developing domestic industries particularly within the green technology and battery manufacturing value chains African companies can position themselves as linchpins of the global clean energy economy. Yet renewable energy offers a transformative solution. Smaller, decentralised renewable energy systems also hold promise.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 18, 2023

Without changes to its queue processing pace, PJM will likely force states to fall short of state renewable targets, even after the reforms it approved last year.” As of September 2022, there were over 202 gigawatts (GW) of renewable energy resources waiting in the PJM queue, over 95% of the total queue. Read more here.]

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

This is a little different than other similar sounding policies like Renewable Energy Standards, which can create some confusion. But while a Renewable Energy Standard treats all sources of qualifying renewable energy equally, the LCFS has a more complicated approach, based on lifecycle analysis.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Economies of scale also come into play: for residential systems, LBNL found that an 8-to-9 kilowatt system in 2018 was on average 13 percent cheaper per watt than a 4-to-5 kilowatt one. But the price drops also mean that a given solar budget can likely get you more solar.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The wind is in our sails on the voyage towards a clean energy future. Wind energy is currently the largest renewable energy source in the US, and the industry is growing fast. The World Bank predicts that the demand for neodymium for energy technologies in 2050 will be 37% of total 2018 neodymium production.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The Lower Sesan 2 Dam, which came online in 2018, is Cambodia’s largest hydroelectric dam. However, since it came online in late 2018, the dam has underperformed economically, in large part because of a drought that has gripped the region during consecutive years and stymied water flow. © Wonders of the Mekong. © Wonders of the Mekong.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 5, 2022

After having phased out coal and successfully decreased pollution between 2005 and 2017, emissions started to rise again in 2018 – when the current government came into power. That renewable energy could have helped reduce the province’s greenhouse gas emissions. Investing in renewable energy projects .

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E2 Law Blog

JULY 1, 2021

On June 29, 2021, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released Notice 2021-41 (the “Notice”) granting additional relief for certain renewable energy projects planning to claim the U.S. In general terms, the amount of PTC or ITC available for a renewable energy project depends on when the construction of the project begins.

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Physics World

MARCH 15, 2022

Air pollution in India is reducing the energy output of some solar panels as much as 52%. That is the conclusion of researchers who have modelled the effects of particulate pollution on solar irradiance in 2001–2018. Solar energy is playing a crucial role in India’s transition to renewable energy. Satellite data.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 29, 2024

Since Premier Ford came to power in 2018, gas plant use has tripled in Ontario. The world is going through an energy transition yet the Ontario government is stuck in the past. When the Ontario government came to power in 2018, they cancelled 750 renewable energy projects at a cost of over $230 million.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

.” The partnership between the family-owned Bluenergy and Udinese is not new as the utility has been a partner of the Serie A outfit since 2018, supplying the club with energy exclusively from renewable sources for the last few years, and recently they acquired naming rights to the stadium.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 25, 2022

Here are a couple examples of recent UCS studies that have used capacity expansion models: Federal Clean Energy Tax Credits utilized the ReEDS model to evaluate several federal tax credit policies, assessing their impact on the buildout of renewable energy resources and power sector global warming emissions.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 22, 2022

A report commissioned by the Ontario Power Authority (now the Independent Electricity System Operator) identified 64 potential offshore wind power sites in the Great Lakes that could produce nearly 35,000 MW of electricity which is 50 per cent more than our current energy demand. As the U.S. And without the pollution that gas plants cause.

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Environmental Leader

JUNE 24, 2022

The post Nestlé Has Cut Greenhouse Gases by 4 Million Tons Since 2018. appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader. Additionally, it is switching its global fleet of vehicles from those that run on fossil fuels to those that are sustainable.

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Law and Environment

JULY 10, 2023

Covered buildings will be required to gradually reduce emissions, relative to a 2018–2019 baseline, over compliance periods starting in 2026 and 2030. The BEUDO amendment applies the 2035 target to non-residential buildings of 100,000 or more square feet and applies the 2050 target to non-residential buildings of 25,000 to 99,999 square feet.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Launched in December 2021, the USAID Southeast Asia Smart Power Program (SPP) aims to mobilize $2 billion for clean energy projects across the region. In June, SPP issued a $3 million grant to the ASEAN Centre for Energy (ACE) to increase renewable energy in the region’s power systems. Japan and other partners.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

In 2021, South Korea set a target under the Paris Agreement of a 40% cut from 2018 levels by 2030. Almost all the fossil fuels are imported, so this dependence on fossil fuels translates into a vulnerability to shifts in global markets such as the price surges stemming from the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 4, 2024

You can read their insights from their experiences—including being denied the opportunity to take the floor—and their efforts to engage with Dr. Avery in 2017 , 2018 , and 2019. Scientists from a range of disciplines and institutions joined me to ask questions of corporate decision-makers and speak in support of climate action.

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Law and Environment

JULY 22, 2021

In addition to sweeping changes made to emissions targets, building codes, renewable energy access, and other policy arenas, the bill expands the scope of the DPU to include security, equity, and the reduction of greenhouse gases. Public Utility Regulatory Authority decisions are statutorily guided by the state’s energy strategy.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 14, 2023

Shapiro -- Observer-Reporter: Former Washington County Couple Sentenced To Federal Prison For Crimes Related To Assault On U.S.

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Vermont Law

APRIL 5, 2023

The potential contribution of the BBNJ agreement to strengthen environmental protection in the development of marine renewable energy technologies in areas beyond national jurisdiction. The BBNJ negotiations started in April 2018 and the new instrument was agreed on 4 March 2023. 11, Issue 2 p. 202-219; 2) Soria-Rodríguez, C.,

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Edouard Stenger

OCTOBER 11, 2021

I haven’t published regularly since 2018… Since my last blog post here I have trained for a technical degree in green buildings and renewable energy, interned as an Energy advisor for the healthcare sector and started a job as an energy manager for local communities. November 2018. January 2019.

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Law and Environment

JUNE 8, 2022

Ocean health is closely tied to human health, and ocean-based climate solutions, including carbon sequestration and marine renewable energy, will play a critical role in combating such deleterious impacts of climate change. Spotlight on SeaAhead.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

In some jurisdictions , other credit mechanisms such as credits issued for producing renewable energy for transportation , or nutrient management credits issued for preventing water contamination , can further incentivize the adoption of anaerobic digesters which potentially address both issues. Cap-and-Trade Programs.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

billion a year 2018-2020, the amount that flowed internationally and therefore is fully covered by this commitment is somewhere between CAD 2 billion to 9 billion a year for 2018-2020. . times more than G20 support for renewable energy, which averaged $26 billion per year. This was 2.5

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Ross involves Prop 12, adopted by California voters in 2018. Cases involving issues like this one are hard to predict because they tend to scramble the usual ideological alliances. National Pork Producers v. It contains a number of restrictions on factory farming.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Illinois keeps about $8,000 per acre in bonding, according to 2018 data published by Climate Home News, and Indiana and Kentucky had only about $4,000 per acre. . Lamb’s measure quickly became a flashpoint for the partisan divide over the transition towards renewable energy and the future of the fossil fuel industry.

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