Arnold Porter

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Investments in renewable energy and low-carbon technologies are growing at unparalleled levels globally. Despite the pandemic’s challenges, last year saw one of the world’s largest-ever annual increases in renewable power generation. Sales and distribution.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 29, 2024

Climate policy has been boosted by dramatic changes in the economics of clean energy. Perhaps the most important development of the past decade has been the dramatic decline in the cost of renewables. Wind power costs fell by half from 2008 to 2021. I don’t mean to imply that technological progress will automatically fix things.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 16, 2024

Much of our electricity system is 50 to 70 years old, yet current plans for domestic manufacturing, electric vehicle fleets, community solar gardens and more clean energy all depend on a modern grid. The obstacles to new technology and more effective investments need to be addressed. This isn’t the approach to any other infrastructure.

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A Greener Life

MAY 5, 2022

Encouraging data released in the report World Energy Transitions Outlook showed that despite global uncertainties renewables continued to grow and show momentum. At the end of 2021 global renewable energy generation capacity amounted to 3.064 gigawatts (GW) increasing global renewable energy capacity to 9.1%.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Two sturdy and growing sources of renewable energy, wind turbines and solar power, use negligible amounts of water. But other low-carbon technologies do not tread as lightly. These technologies require even more energy. degrees Celsius than it was two centuries ago. It is already 1.1 degrees higher.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 22, 2022

Minnesotans are facing concurrent crises of climate change, high energy prices and inflation, and the inequitable public health impacts of fossil fuel air pollution. Renewable energy will help with all of that—but we need a grid that is designed for wind and solar instead of having to rely on expensive coal and gas plants.

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 17, 2022

In just one year—from 2020 to 2021—utility-scale battery storage capacity in the United States tripled , jumping from 1.4 gigawatts (GW), according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). Energy storage has big obstacles in its way. So the third obstacle to storage is energy markets.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 11, 2021

Vincent’s larger cities–the more technologically developed southern communities of Georgetown, Kingston, and Biabou–are quite different from those on the opposite side of the dry meander. According to Reuters , that a draft of the legislation, prepared by the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, was under ministerial consultation.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 4, 2024

During the Texas energy market’s chaos in 2021, news organizations and industry players gave only brief attention to the worst-case scenario: an uncontrolled Texas electric grid blackout that could have lasted weeks or longer to get the lights back on. That technology has been available to homeowners for more than a half century.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 16, 2022

The biggest takeaway : without robust new policies, US energy sector heat trapping emissions will continue to remain high, far off-track from where we need to be to meet our climate goals. Source: US Energy Information Administration, Annual Energy Outlook 2022 (AEO2022).

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 3, 2021

utilities have been slower to adopt the energy- and emissions-saving technologies than those in other parts of the world. Wastewater-to-energy systems start with a process called anaerobic digestion, which treatment plants have been using for ages to reduce the volume of sewage waste. Photo © Richard Webb / Wikimedia Commons.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 1, 2024

Statement from Julia Levin, Associate Director, National Climate Ottawa | Traditional, unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg People – Today Capital Power announced that they would not be pursuing carbon capture at the Genesee Generating Station, east of Edmonton Alberta, given the high costs and complexity of implementing the technology.

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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. What secret weapon is a critical enabler of this dramatic energy transition? Batteries.

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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. We found that states have technically feasible and highly beneficial ways to achieve 100-percent renewable energy.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Recycling water technology could help U. What’s Up With Water—November 29, 2021 – This week’s episode covers water shortages in South Africa, unprecedented flooding in South Sudan that is superseding vaccine drives, and a battle over renewable energy in New England. YOUR GLOBAL RUNDOWN. In Case You Missed It: .

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Cresforum

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Mayor Quinton Lucas of Kansas City, Missouri, and Mayor Rick Osbon of Aiken, South Carolina, are prime examples of leaders working to find innovative ways to combat climate change and strengthen the American energy grid. Mayor Lucas is a strong advocate for implementing renewable energy sources, including solar, where possible.

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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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ESA

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

billion to the National Science Foundation to start a Directorate for Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP). The directorate is tasked with accelerating use-inspired and translational research in technologies and innovations of national importance. 2225 ) to create a new technology directorate. Applications are due Dec.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

By Leigh Hartman When Son Nguyen lived in the US, he saw rapidly advancing electric vehicle technology and heard stories from back in Vietnam about air pollution. The company sells electric motorbikes in Danang, Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City and is exploring the reuse of electric batteries and how to power its factory with green energy.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 18, 2023

The law provides $140 billion in tax incentives, direct loans, and grants to replace fossil fuels with cleaner renewable energy that lowers emissions of carbon dioxide. industrial policy for energy and transportation. The plant will capture and sequester carbon emissions and be powered with renewable energy.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

On September 21, members of the Senate and House called for early action on legislation -- House Bill 100 and Senate Bill 872-- to require Pennsylvania to reach 100 percent renewable energy generation by 2050. This is one of the biggest concerns of my constituents and I will continue to fight for investments in clean energy.”

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ESA

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

President Biden appoints 30 members to the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. This group advises the president on “policy that affects science, technology and innovation, as well as science and technology information that is needed to inform public policy.”. 2021 (Oct. 4, 2021 ( correction ).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The US solar industry was valued at $33 billion in 2021, employed more than 230,000 people, and continued to grow in power capacity at an average rate of 33 percent per year. Solar panels generated almost 4 percent of electricity in the US in 2021, up from less than 1 percent in 2015.

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Environmental Progress

APRIL 20, 2021

Testimony before the United States House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce For a hearing on “Power Struggle: Examining the 2021 Texas Grid Failure” Written statement submitted by: Michael D. Some have argued that weather-dependent energies would, paradoxically, make electricity even more reliable. percent, 47.4

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 12, 2024

Recent UCS modeling , conducted in partnership with Evolved Energy Research (EER), shows that, to reach these goals means completely phasing out US coal generation by 2030; in this scenario, gas generation would fall from about 40 percent of US electricity generation in 2021 to 25 percent in 2030, and 2 percent in 2050 (see figure 1).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The report charts continued progress in several important categories in 2021, including PV module efficiency, system costs, and the prevalence of batteries, which are a more and more important piece of the solar picture. percent in 2021—that’s a 48 percent increase, much of it in the last decade. Source: LBNL 2022.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 29, 2024

Later in the hour, Tillerson told Rose that the federal government should end subsidies for renewable energy. “I Likewise, they understate the potential consequences, contend that we can easily adapt to them, and fight government efforts to curb carbon emissions and promote renewable energy.

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The Energy Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

The Task Force released a first draft of the report in the spring of 2021. Some of the actions are related to development of renewable energy in Louisiana, whereas others aim to manage emissions. Other strategies focus on switching to low carbon fuels and developing the infrastructure to support renewable energy in Louisiana.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 17, 2022

This is an historic effort though it falls short of the broader ‘ Green New Deal ‘ goals that were proposed in 2019, and doesn’t include all of the elements that were in the proposed 2021 reconcilliation package (the American Jobs Plan in “ Build Back Better “) that ultimately floundered.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

By expanding renewable power, phasing out fossil fuels, electrifying as much of the economy as possible, and deploying other technologies, the U.S. But it requires ambitious policies, including nearly tripling renewable energy’s share of US electricity generation by 2030 (see graph below). And it’s not alone.

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 1, 2023

Heat pumps, a simple but effective technology, use electricity to remove heat from inside your home to cool it in the summer and pull heat in from outside to heat your home in the winter. Stats Canada ’s most recent statistics report that just six per cent of Canadian homes relied on heat pumps in 2021. With Ontario’s population of 14.53

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ESA

JUNE 14, 2021

The final bill includes just eight additional amendments, each of which added language to the bill but did not modify any of the initial provisions of the bill introduced by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) in mid-May 2021. by Annie Snider, Alex Gullien, Kelsey Tamborrino and Anthony Adragna, PoliticoPro, 6/11/2021.

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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

JULY 27, 2022

EVs are a newer technology, and their batteries require different end-of-life processing than gasoline vehicles. For stationary storage, companies such as RePurpose Energy and B2U Storage Solutions are repurposing these batteries to be used for renewable energy generation support. Slattery et al.

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HumanNature

MARCH 11, 2024

Enough research has shown that Collective Green Action requires the stakeholders to work together, to build technological synergies based on transparency and a public-private partnership that goes beyond borders and profit accumulation. Developing countries need renewable energy investments of about US$1.7

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 7, 2022

The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) had tallied up hundreds of projects cancelled or delayed, totaling more than 50 gigawatts—more than twice what the US solar industry installed during 2021. And it had warned of 100,000 jobs at risk, meaning almost half the US solar workforce. It proposes to do that through three pieces: 1.

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