Environment + Energy Leader

MAY 13, 2022

In 2010, GM committed to a 20% reduction in carbon intensity by 2020. And in January 2021, it said it would source 100% renewable energy to power GM facilities in the U.S. The post GM Has Become an ‘Energy Star’ with Efficiency and Circular Programs appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Law and Environment

JULY 2, 2021

On June 29, 2021, a cohort of New York local governments (including many where large-scale solar projects are currently proposed), community organizations, and avian interest groups filed a lawsuit in the New York State Supreme Court (the State’s trial-level court) against the Office of Renewable Energy Siting (“ORES”).

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HumanNature

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Colorado State University There is a renewable energy revolution happening all over the world: costs for renewable energy have dropped significantly in the last 10 years and the world is starting to adopt the technology at a very fast pace. Eia.gov 2020. [5]

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Law and Environment

JUNE 11, 2021

Project developers and acquirers should take note as they set their course for working with local jurisdictions and ORES to develop the State’s large-scale renewable energy fleet.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

After 30 years of international negotiations failing to mention the root cause of the climate crisis, the acknowledgement that we must phase out all fossil fuels and massively scale up renewable energy in order to effectively tackle the climate crisis, was both long overdue and extremely significant.

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A Greener Life

JULY 26, 2021

In order to make their portfolio more sustainable and respond to lower fossil fuel demand, oil majors are increasingly snapping up renewable energy projects as the pressure grows to take action on climate change. from 2020 to 2030. A significant portion of this will be fulfilled by renewable power generation.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 24, 2023

There’s good news in the recently released official data on electricity generation in the United States in 2022: renewable energy has continued to grow, coal power has continued to drop, and renewables are now firmly ahead of coal for the first time ever. They offer a lot of good news about clean energy progress.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 13, 2021

In 2019, the Utah State Legislature passed the Community Renewable Energy Act (HB 411). This bill allows Utah municipalities that are serviced by Rocky Mountain Power to achieve a net-100% renewable energy portfolio by 2030. Implementation of the plan is now underway.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 24, 2023

His lifetime average was pulled up by scores of 7% in 2019, 10% in 2020, and 22% in 2021. As I’ve noted in posts about some other candidates for the Speaker post, however, the 2021 scores in particular included votes that were not directly environmental, like voting to accept the results of the 2020 election (which applied in Emmer’s case).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 16, 2022

Source: US Energy Information Administration, Annual Energy Outlook 2022 (AEO2022). According to the forecast, while economy-wide CO 2 emissions decrease from 2022 to 2037 due primarily to the growth in renewable energy replacing retiring coal plants, emissions do increase after 2037 from increased usage of natural gas.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 31, 2022

Chicago just released its Draft 2022 Climate Action Plan (CAP), an update of the city’s 2008 CAP to reduce citywide emissions 25 percent by 2020 from 1990 levels. A majority of city residents said they wanted reliable transit, better air quality, more renewable energy, higher household savings, and improved public health.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 2, 2022

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

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Legal Planet

APRIL 29, 2024

Perhaps the most important development of the past decade has been the dramatic decline in the cost of renewables. Rooftop solar costs in 2020 were a third of what they had been in 2010. In 2020, the cost of single-axis utility scale solar was only a fifth of what it was in 2010. Wind power costs fell by half from 2008 to 2021.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The renewable energy transition involves harnessing epic forces of nature. Sleek solar panels forged from silver and silica from the depths of the Earth translate the sun’s blindingly fiery light energy into electricity. Once the battery looks up to code, it is off to the grid to power our renewable energy future!

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Batteries are key to enabling the renewable energy transition. 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. A fossil fuel energy grid extracts and expends finite resources.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Updated analysis from 2020 shows that emissions traced to the 88 largest carbon producers contributed approximately 60 percent?of The best solution: Replace fossil fuels with renewable energy. The transition to 100-percent renewables is possible. Renewables are a readily available solution.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 31, 2022

It issued five Flex Alerts in 2020, eight in 2021, but there’s only been one so far this year. For example, the two rotating blackouts in August 2020 occurred during energy supply shortages that happened at 6:38 to 7:40 p.m. When grid conditions are tight, California’s grid operator issues Flex Alerts. and 6:28 to 6:48 p.m.

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Environmental News Bits

MARCH 15, 2022

Clean energy installations in the U.S. dipped 3% in 2021 compared to 2020 as policy issues held back the potential for new wind and solar installations, according to a market report released by the American Clean Power Association (ACP).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 27, 2022

For stationary storage, companies such as RePurpose Energy and B2U Storage Solutions are repurposing these batteries to be used for renewable energy generation support. As the grid becomes cleaner, added grid storage becomes more necessary to support the generation variability of renewable sources.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 2, 2023

At the global level, however, Germany has its own claim to a leadership role, particularly in its early support for renewable energy. Although its track record has some complexities, this timeline of German actions shows just its early and sustained attention to clean energy policy: 1990. Renewables are 6% of power.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 31, 2022

There’s a lot of discussion of how the private sector is supporting renewable energy, but it’s almost all about power consumers like Apple and Walmart. 1) NextEra Energy. Energy Mix (2020): [link]. 2) Duke Energy. Generated Energy Mix (2020): [link]. Energy Mix (2020): [link].

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 15, 2022

Wind is now the largest source of renewable energy in the country. From 2010 through 2020, the cost of electricity from wind fell more than 60 percent, according to the Department of Energy. In 2021, 9 percent of US electricity came from those graceful kinetic sculptures, up from less than 3 percent in 2011.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 2, 2021

On June 2, The Hershey Company released its 2020 Sustainability Report, highlighting its progress on key environmental and social initiatives during a year of unprecedented challenges. Hershey concluded 2020 with a 23.7 percent improvement in Scope 1 and 2 emissions and a 12.6

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Inhabitant

AUGUST 9, 2021

Marjan van Aubel, a Dutch designer with several solar-based innovations under her belt, was selected to design the solar roof for the Netherlands Pavilion at the Expo 2020 Dubai.

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Environmental Leader

JUNE 2, 2021

Signaling that a low-carbon energy future continues to build momentum, global investment in energy decarbonization hit a record $501.3 billion in 2020, according to BloombergNEF. The analysis includes renewables, storage, electric vehicles and heating, hydrogen, and carbon capture and storage. The 2020 high of $501.3

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Environment + Energy Leader

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Between 1995 and 2020, BMW reduced its CO2 emissions by 53%. Also, in 2020, all the electricity it purchased to run its plants worldwide came from renewables. The post BMW Is Driven to Cut CO2 Emissions and Rely on Recycled Parts appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Energy and Climate Law

APRIL 29, 2020

It stipulates that customers who are not able to pay their electricity and gas instalments due to the corona-crisis shall be protected against termination of their electricity and/or gas contracts for three months (1 April 2020 until 30 June 2020).

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Wind turbines and solar power, two sturdy and growing sources of renewable energy, require negligible amounts of water. A study published in 2020 found that direct air capture required a surprisingly large volume of water, primarily because of the energy to run the equipment. degrees Celsius than it was two centuries ago.

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Law Columbia

MAY 24, 2023

New York State Office of Renewable Energy Siting , a lawsuit challenging the state’s March 2021 regulations for siting and permitting major renewable energy facilities. Source: Hecate Energy. Last Thursday, May 18, a state appellate court affirmed the trial court’s dismissal of Town of Copake v.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 30, 2022

Replacing fossil fuels with renewable energy from wind and solar will depend on upgrading the electric power grid, which is currently plagued by planning delays and gridlock. Midwest (Sort of) Continues a Proud Tradition. SPP & MISO Show “You Won’t Know Until You Try”.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

This new framework aims to replace the existing 2009 commitment from developed countries to provide $100 billion annually between 2020 and 2025 — a target missed by years. At least $1 trillion per year is required to meet the immediate climate needs of developing countries. The next round is due in February 2025.

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A Greener Life

MARCH 3, 2022

The North African country Morocco is positioning itself to become the leading country on the African continent for the deployment of renewable energy. Against a backdrop of new solar and wind projects, the country has increased its renewable energy target to 52% by 2030, 70% by 2040 and 80% by 2050. GW in 2020 to 4.3

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Environment + Energy Leader

OCTOBER 21, 2022

And the market is buying in: electrically-powered trucks made up 87% of the KION Group's sales in 2020. The post Kion Group Says Sustainability Is at the Heart Of Its Manufacturing Processes appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader. Kion has been pursuing e-trucks. Kion expects this rise to 90% in 2027. .

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2025

The [federal Bipartisan Infrastructure and Inflation Reduction Acts] provide billions of dollars in investment aimed at expanding low-and no-carbon technologies, accelerating a just energy transition, and building equity into climate adaptation efforts. from 2019 to 2020 and 44.4% from 2005 to 2020.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 16, 2024

This needs some thought, as both the laws of physics and the principles of supply and demand will apply, even if legislatures and regulators have not yet spoken about allocating costs and resources related to data center energy demands. Data centers’ total energy demand is challenging to meet.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 1, 2022

In its previous energy plan , which the MPSC approved in 2020, DTE planned to operate Monroe until 2040. Accordingly, the MPSC must ensure that the company properly analyzed speeding up its deployment of clean energy resources to ensure new benefits for ratepayers and the environment.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 19, 2023

Change #1: 100% clean energy goals have spread At the beginning of 2018, the only state in the country with a 100% clean or renewable energy goal was Hawaii. Now, 22 states plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico have 100% clean energy goals on the books.

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