Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 1, 2022

DTE’s proposal, known as an integrated resource plan, describes how the utility intends to fulfill its customers’ electricity needs over the next 20 years. These types of long-term energy plans include forecasting the amount of electricity customers will need and examining different options for supporting that need.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 13, 2021

But Nebraska has a unique approach to supplying electricity that provided a different pathway to climate action. Unlike any other state, Nebraska decided not to have private electric utilities. Instead, all of the state’s power comes from publicly owned utilities. During the 2010s, wind power went from 1% of generation to 20%.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 22, 2022

When the sun isn’t shining or the wind isn’t blowing, batteries help store clean energy to continue supplying electricity to the grid and to customers consistently and reliably. Energy from the sun and wind never runs out and is used again and again. Batteries are key to enabling the renewable energy transition.

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Environmental News Bits

JUNE 8, 2021

The protein supplier has announced it will reduce GHG emissions across its entire domestic supply chain 30 percent by 2030 as well as obtain 50 percent of its electricity from renewable sources, such as solar and wind power, over the same time period. Read more →

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

It will produce enough electricity equivalent to 600,000 Danish households. . To understand the scale of the wind farm, it covers an area of 132 km2 2 and about 170 kilometres of underwater cables have been laid. A significant increase in wind power capacity.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 4, 2022

A series of wind power projects in Romania is set to increase the country’s wind power capacity significantly. The three confirmed projects will increase Romania’s wind power capacity by 609 megawatts (MW). Several other wind power projects are in the planning stage, but none have yet been confirmed.

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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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A Greener Life

APRIL 21, 2025

2020 Earth Day went digital due to Covid-19, reaching over 100 million online viewers. 2025 The theme “Our Power, Our Planet” calls for tripling renewable energy by 2030. 1990 Earth Day expanded globally to 141 countries. 2016 The Paris Climate Agreement was signed on Earth Day.

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A Greener Life

JULY 19, 2023

An offshore wind farm in Europe. Colombia’s Caribbean coast has great potential for offshore wind power projects but is also home to protected areas of ecological importance. In 2021 alone, the global installed capacity of offshore wind plants tripled, reaching record figures, as 21.1 GW of additions in 2020.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Higher prices for oil, natural gas, coal, and electricity are all pushing up inflation across the economy, dampening consumer demand, canceling out wage gains, and compounding the burdens facing working families and the poor as they seek to recover from the pandemic. But these prices are still way below their highs in 1979-80 and 2007-08.

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Environmental Progress

APRIL 20, 2021

Some have argued that weather-dependent energies would, paradoxically, make electricity even more reliable. 1] But recent power outages in Texas and California have poured cold water on these arguments. 1] But recent power outages in Texas and California have poured cold water on these arguments. But all else is not equal.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 20, 2022

Energy Information Administration reported-- in our January Short-Term Energy Outlook , we forecast that rising electricity generation from renewable energy resources such as solar and wind will reduce generation from fossil fuel-fired power plants over the next two years. electric generators averaged $4.88

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A Greener Life

JULY 23, 2021

Japan, a long-time supporter of nuclear power, now has serious hydrogen ambitions. The 2020 Tokyo Olympics will be powered by hydrogen. Hydrogen may have lost the race to fuel electric cars but it looks a likely contender to replace fossil fuels in trucks, ships, planes and heavy industry. By Fred Pearce.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 12, 2022

“ One component of wind turbines that I haven’t explored yet are the small but mighty rare earth elements. Rare earth elements, or REEs, are important parts of a wind turbine’s permanent magnets , located in the center of the blades in the electrical box (called the nacelle).

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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.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 7, 2022

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (left) visits a hybrid power plant where “green” hydrogen is made using wind power and fed into the gas grid. In 2020, around 70% of its energy consumption was covered by imports of fossil fuels , including uranium. A wind farm owned by General Electric around 50km south of Berlin, Germany.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 18, 2024

18 Planet Philadelphia Radio Program Provides Updates On Wind Power, Local Green Energy Efforts -- Observer-Reporter: Fayette County Zoning Board Nixes Request For Georges Township Solar Energy Facility -- Citizens Voice: Fairview Twp. PaEN] -- Penn State Extension Hosts 2 Educator Workshops Nov.

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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). There were no improvements in 2020. It could then explore local heating systems, using waste heat from factories and power plants rather than building new boilers. Power importers are likely to prefer green power.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Most studies show that achieving these targets will require an unprecedented increase in wind and solar power to decarbonize the power sector and meet the increased demand for zero- carbon electricity to replace fossil fuels in building, industrial and transportation sectors. Map courtesy NREL: Denholm et al.

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A Greener Life

MARCH 19, 2023

“We are pushing the Chinese company to complete its financial closure by 31 December 2023, and start construction at the earliest so that it can be completed by 2025,” Shah Jahan Mirza, managing director of the Pakistan government-owned Private Power and Infrastructure Board told me. No new Chinese-backed coal power overseas?

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 9, 2022

California’s new law, AB 205 , gives the California Energy Commission (the “commission”) exclusive authority to issue a certificate for any: (a) photovoltaic solar facility, on-shore wind facility, or thermal energy facility not powered by fossil fuels or nuclear fuels, with a generating capacity of at least 50 megawatts (MW); (b) energy storage system (..)

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The Energy Law

JANUARY 28, 2021

Additionally, Texas lawmakers will hear legislation that seeks stricter rules regarding the structural integrity of above-ground storage tanks at chemical plants, refineries, electric power plants, and other similar storage facilities. HB 711 and SB 126 , from state Rep. Mary Ann Perez and Sen. Senate Bill 119 ( S.

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Law Columbia

JULY 27, 2020

The Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (“CLCPA”) came into effect in January 2020. The CLCPA mandates that a minimum of 70% of statewide electric generation be supplied by renewable energy by 2030, and that 100% be derived from zero-emission sources by 2040.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 12, 2022

Nearly all of the alliance members have a renewable electricity standard (RES), which requires utilities in their jurisdiction to increase their use of renewable energy to a particular percentage by a specific year. From 2020 to 2040, solar generation in these states jumps nearly ninefold and wind generation more than sevenfold.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 18, 2023

It would require the Maine Public Utilities Commission (PUC) to conduct a competitive bidding process to procure 1,000 megawatts (MW) of offshore wind capacity by 2030 and 2,800 MW by 2035, enough to generate more than half of Maine’s electricity demand.

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The Energy Law

JANUARY 28, 2021

Additionally, Texas lawmakers will hear legislation that seeks stricter rules regarding the structural integrity of above-ground storage tanks at chemical plants, refineries, electric power plants, and other similar storage facilities. HB 711 and SB 126 , from state Rep. Mary Ann Perez and Sen.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 6, 2022

Besides the kilowatt-hours it generates, Glen Canyon provides key services to the electric grid. The country’s second largest reservoir and a lynchpin in the intermountain electric grid, Powell is more dirt than water these days. Hydropower generation will likely shut down when Lake Powell’s elevation drops below 3,490 feet.

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Environmental Progress

MARCH 11, 2021

Congress took questions relating to the security of America’s electricity supply seriously before more than a dozen states experienced energy shortages last month, but those events make this hearing all the more urgent. electrical grids were increasingly “complex and vulnerable.” [2] Shellenberger. 5] The U.S.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 31, 2022

The PDP8 would have doubled coal power capacity by 2030, with more to come in the five years after that. By 2020, Vietnam’s coal power fleet was generating as much energy as all other power sources combined. Coal was the cheapest and fastest way to meet Vietnam’s electricity needs.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

The cost of clean energy technologies such as wind, solar, and battery technologies BNEF expects to decline further in 2025, in a boost to the viability of the sector. It was found that China, on average, can produce a MWh of electricity from significant power-generating technologies at 11-64% cheaper than other markets.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 24, 2025

In August of 2024, Fords Minister of Energy Stephen Lece announced that the province needed to procure 5000 megawatts of power (enough electricity for 4.5M Unlike Ontarios thumb-on-the-scale approach, Nova Scotia is purchasing its future power directly from a new wind farm. MT in 2020, or 13.5 It gets better.

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Law Columbia

JULY 2, 2021

On June 16, 2021, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals granted a joint motion to dismiss appeals of a November 2020 order vacating U.S. Hawai‘i Supreme Court Upheld Denial of Request to Re-Open Order Approving Wind Power Purchase Agreement. In re Hawaiian Electric Co. , Living Rivers v. Hoffman , No. 4:19-cv-00057 (D.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

fossil fuel production rose over the last four years, from 76 quads in 2020 to a record high of 86 quads in 2023, over ten times the amount of total renewable energy production, according to the U.S. Trump vociferously favors fossil fuels and has criticized renewables, especially wind power and electric vehicles.

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ESA

JUNE 28, 2021

This bill will include funding for roads, public transportation and electric vechicles charging stations as well $47 for climate resilency projects but does not include many of the climate provisions orginally proposed by the adminstration. Congressional leader expect to take up this legislation in July.

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