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

Union of Concerned Scientists

The latest data from the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) suggests that solar large and small may have generated 27% more in 2024 than in 2023, and that solar might have accounted for 7% of US electricitymore than double its contribution in 2020. Cumulative US utility-scale battery power capacity.

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Renewables Have Pulled Ahead of Coal. What’s Next?

Union of Concerned Scientists

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. It supplied 10.5 percent of the country’s electricity supply (up 1.1

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September Is Here. That Means Another Nail-Biter for California’s Grid.

Union of Concerned Scientists

It issued five Flex Alerts in 2020, eight in 2021, but there’s only been one so far this year. Solar energy production starts to dwindle by September. Solar power peaks earlier in the summer when the days are longer. when power outages are most likely. It’s during the evening hours, around 6 to 8 p.m.,

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The Missing Piece of the Renewable Energy Revolution

HumanNature

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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Oil majors are eying up renewable energy projects

A Greener Life

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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In Climate Talks, Plans to Keep Planet from Overheating Should Not Ignore Water

Circle of Blue

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. It is already 1.1

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How Will DTE’s Long-Term Plan Impact Michigan’s Clean Energy Future?

Union of Concerned Scientists

Earlier this year, the MPSC approved a settlement agreement on Consumers Energy’s integrated resource plan that commits the company to retire all its remaining coal-fired power plants by 2025, construct no new fossil gas infrastructure, and build large amounts of new solar power between now and 2040.