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2024 Year in Review: Clean Energy Progress Steeped in Solar and Storage

Union of Concerned Scientists

The end of every year is a great time for taking stock of what the year has broughtincluding in terms of clean energy in the power sector. As it turns out, 2024 has provided a whole lot of clean energy progress as fodder for that stock-taking. Cumulative US utility-scale battery power capacity.

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Want Clean Energy? Then You Also Want Battery Recycling.

Union of Concerned Scientists

Since 2019, the Department of Energy’s ReCell Center has been researching effective and affordable battery recycling technology. How are Lithium-ion Batteries that Store Solar and Wind Power Made? Challenges and Opportunities in Mining Materials for Energy Storage Lithium-ion Batteries. Source: NREL/Flickr.

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PA Ranks 49th In US For Renewable Energy Growth; Delays In Adding Clean Energy To The Grid Will Cost Electric Ratepayers Billions

PA Environment Daily

On May 7, PennEnvironment released a new report saying Pennsylvania ranks 49th in the nation for percentage growth in total solar, wind and geothermal generation over the past decade. Proposed projects could deliver enough energy to power 58 million homes in the U.S. billion to power their homes and businessesin one year alone.

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Analysis: Bolstering Southeast Asia’s clean energy transition

A Greener Life

The United States supports Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) partners in meeting their clean energy goals. Above, wind turbines turn in Sidenreng Rappang, Indonesia. So after returning home, he launched Dat Bike in 2019. © Zul Kifli / AFP / Getty Images. © Dita Alangkara/AP. Japan and other partners.

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Observer-Reporter Guest Essay: Why Politicians Want You To Pay More For Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

And, unfortunately for them, the energy market is pointing in the opposite direction. Fracked gas companies are seeing less build-out of new natural gas power plants because solar and wind power are so cheap. Million Settlement Over 2019 South Philly Refinery Explosion, Fire -- AP: EPA Reaches $4.2

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Gov. Newsom Goes to China to Talk Climate

Legal Planet

Here’s more: “California’s climate ambitions will be met only by deploying clean energy and transportation on an unprecedented scale, and China has a lot to offer on that score. China is also a world leader on offshore wind energy production, an area Newsom has sought to emphasize in California.

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Tornadoes and More: What Spring Can Bring to the Power Grid 

Union of Concerned Scientists

The rail infrastructure to transport coal from the Powder River Basin in Montana and Wyoming–the country’s primary coal source –was proven to be vulnerable to extreme floods in the spring of 2011 , and even more extreme floods in the spring of 2019.