PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 12, 2023

This is an important milestone to help cement Pennsylvania’s position as an energy leader and accelerate innovation across a diverse set of energy technologies. The additional solar now under construction across the Commonwealth will be enough to supply the combined residential populations of Altoona, Harrisburg, Scranton, and West Chester.

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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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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Solar energy stands as an abundant and affordable solution crucial to America's transition to renewable sources. In Pennsylvania, solar experts recommend renewing and expanding the state’s Alternative Energy Portfolio Standard (AEPS) as the keystone policy for jumpstarting clean solar energy production across the commonwealth.

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Solar Power Fossil Fuels Clean Energy Electricity 66

Energy & the Law

MARCH 7, 2023

million in a fraudulent solar power scheme. claiming he had created a compact “nano panel” (which does not exist) using “technology” that could generate triple the amount of electricity as traditional solar panels. He would cold-call investors to convince them to invest in Nanotech Engineering Inc., Punishment: Pending.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Standing in Dubai among ExxonMobil billboards that praise new technological solutions designed to keep oil and gas in play, it’s easy to see that major oil and gas companies are greenwashing , exaggerating their climate commitments and investments in clean energy.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue – September 23, 2021. Wind turbines and solar power, two sturdy and growing sources of renewable energy, require negligible amounts of water. But other low-carbon technologies do not tread as lightly. degrees Celsius than it was two centuries ago. It is already 1.1 degrees C higher.

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Biofuels Carbon Emissions Cooling Fossil Fuels 363

Physics World

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

IYoG2022 will celebrate this versatile material that underpins many technologies that have transformed the modern world. Durán, a physicist at the Spanish Research Council (CSIC) in Madrid, played a key role in building support for the project while serving as president of the International Commission on Glass (ICG) between 2018 and 2021.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

US ratepayers very likely will pay even more for electricity and heating this winter compared to the already-expensive winter of 2021-2022. However, make no mistake: Technological advancement did not create the production boom by itself. The bankruptcies were set in motion even before 2020.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 27, 2021

The milking shed for her 80 dairy cows that can yield 1,100 litres of milk per day, along with the barn that houses 21,000 chickens at a time, will soon sit alongside a photovoltaic solar plant with 85 panels. MW (between June 2016 and June 2021). Practically all of them are Chinese, with cutting-edge technology. MW to 791.32

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Solar Power Deforestation Electricity Clean Energy 97

A Greener Life

JUNE 22, 2022

In winter when water levels in reservoirs drop, supply cannot meet demand: last year the country required about 450 MW but generation dipped to about 400 MW, Chhewang Rinzin, managing director of the Druk Green Power Corporation Limited, told this correspondent in an earlier interview. Solar energy has become competitive.

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Renewable Energy Solar Power Fossil Fuels Electricity 96

PA Environment Daily

MAY 5, 2023

We have been in the solar industry since 2008 and recognize how critical renewable energy is to our future in so many ways. We want to help Western PA take its place as a technology leader in the Solar industry,” said Matt Carroll, CEO of BCI Steel and Full Tilt Energy Systems. “We billion annually. The current 0.5

Solar Power 64

Solar Power Renewable Energy Electricity 2030 64

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

By Kathy Cook, League of Women Voters of PA On May 25, 2021, a joint committee hearing on utility scale solar development was hosted by Pennsylvania’s Agriculture and Rural Affairs and Local Government Committees. Some counties in the PA Wilds have active proposals for solar fields going on old strip mine lands.

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Renewable Energy Solar Power Government 2021 98

A Greener Life

JULY 7, 2021

162 gigawatts (GW) or 62 per cent of total renewable power generation added last year had lower costs than the cheapest new fossil fuel option. Of the different renewable energy technologies concentrating solar power (CSP) fell by 16 per cent, onshore wind by 13 per cent, offshore wind by 9 per cent and solar PV by 7 per cent.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 24, 2023

Historic, but more of the same While Winter Storm Elliott was a historic weather event, this type of underperformance by the fossil-fuel power fleet during cold snaps is nothing new. The 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act provides nearly $15 billion in federal funding for grid improvements, which includes energy storage as an option.

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Fossil Fuels 2014 Climate Change Electricity 219

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 14, 2021

By Harry Campbell, Science Policy & Advocacy Director, Chesapeake Bay Foundation-PA With continuing advances in technology and declining costs, large-scale solar projects are popping up all over the Commonwealth. According to Penn State Extension, trees are also “…without a doubt the best carbon capture technology in the world.”

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Fossil Fuels Solar Power Climate Change 2020 80

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The growing credits for electricity reflect the growing number of EVs on the road in California, and support California’s goal of phasing out combustion technologies in favor of zero emissions vehicles. The CI of an electric vehicle charged with solar power is zero, and most of the biofuels fall somewhere in the middle [i].

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Fossil Fuels Regulations Renewable Energy Carbon Dioxide 274

Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 19, 2023

Renewables like wind and solar, along with current storage technologies, can provide reliable and cheap electricity to meet our growing electricity needs. Wind and solar are now the cheapest new form of electricity generation and provide cheaper rates for the end consumer.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

According to a September 2021 report by Yale University and George Mason University, an all-time record of 70 percent of Americans are concerned about global warming. 16 Webinar [PaEN] -- PA Interfaith Power & Light, Jewish Earth Alliance Webinar Nov. She described climate change as the biggest existential threat to humanity.

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Climate Change 2021 Solar Power Carbon Emissions 52

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 24, 2023

Here’s a taste: Wind power , the largest single source of renewable electricity in the country, grew the most of any renewable energy source in overall generation from 2021 to 2022. Solar power increased the most among renewable electricity sources in percentage terms, up 24 percent. Large solar provided 3.5

Clean Energy 283

Clean Energy Fossil Fuels Renewable Energy Solar Power 283

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 4, 2024

Their new report on grid reliability vulnerabilities due to electric power plants’ overreliance on uncertain and unregulated gas supplies comes two years after FERC and NERC’s extensive analysis of gas failures causing power plant shutdowns. That technology has been available to homeowners for more than a half century.

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Electricity 2021 Renewable Energy Natural Gas 252

Law Columbia

APRIL 1, 2024

Renewable energy projects face significant disadvantages in the siting process compared to fossil fuel projects due to a three-year-old state law that allows counties to block large solar and wind projects—but not large fossil fuel projects. Code 4906.10(A). What Is Significant About the Siting Board’s Opinion?

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Renewable Energy Fossil Fuels Government 2023 68

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 19, 2022

That’s 126 gigawatts (GW), coming from millions of solar systems across the country. 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.

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Carbon Monoxide Electricity Carbon Dioxide Renewable Energy 289

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 Currently only 4 percent of US electricity comes from solar. In 2021, 427 GW of storage was sitting idle in interconnections queues across the country. So the third obstacle to storage is energy markets.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 1, 2023

Completed in December 2021, the county installed a 2.5-acre The Township was awarded the grant in May of 2021 and performed water sampling over the summer months. Manure Expo combines 1) Educational Sessions, 2) Technology Demonstrations, and 3) an Industry Trade Show.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 1, 2022

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.

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Clean Energy 2028 2025 Electricity 272

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. percent of the grid’s power. is 32 years, as of January 2021. [14] percent, 47.4 percent, 51.5 percent, and 13.7

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2021 Renewable Energy Electricity Natural Gas 113

Washington Nature

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

To address this challenge—and this incredible opportunity—TNC and Opti , a technology company, began thinking of ways to use new, low-cost “smart” technologies to improve water quality by focusing on stormwater infrastructure. This thinking led to the creation of joint venture between TNC and Opti in 2018.

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Technology Technology Clean Water Act Solar Power 98

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. Then there are more difficult maneuvers like trapping carbon emissions from power plants or pulling carbon directly from the air. It is already 1.1

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2021 Biofuels Cooling Carbon Emissions 246

Enviromental Defense

MAY 18, 2021

The rest of our power comes from a mix of nuclear power, renewables like hydro, wind and solar power, and biofuel. Source: IESO Annual Planning Outlook (updated Feb 2021). Natural gas makes up about six per cent of electricity generation in Ontario today, but emits most of the carbon emissions from that sector.

Electricity 52

Electricity Natural Gas Carbon Emissions Renewable Energy 52

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.

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Solar Power Clean Energy Renewable Energy Electricity 321

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 29, 2024

During an October 2021 hearing the House Oversight and Reform Committee held on the oil industry’s decades-long climate disinformation campaign, Woods—one of four oil company executives testifying that day—was asked if he would “commit right here to stop funding organizations that reject the science of climate change.” billion respectively.

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Fossil Fuels Climate Change 2007 Carbon Emissions 347

Environmental Progress

MARCH 11, 2021

In 2012, 2017, and 2021 the National Academies of Science and Engineering published three separate reports on threats to the grid, resilience, and the future of electricity. [1] Electricity experts are not able to clearly answer the question, “who is in charge of planning, developing and ensuring the integrity of the future power system?” [3]

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Electricity Renewable Energy Nuclear Power 2019 101

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Solar power is jetting us towards that goal. gigawatts (GW) of solar power, enough power to provide electricity for one third of the households in Los Angeles. The growth in solar power has been exponential in the past decade and isn’t stopping. By 2010, the US had installed 2.6

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Solar Power Renewable Energy Recycling Electricity 217

PA Environment Daily

MAY 15, 2022

DEP Announces Local Climate Action Training Provided To 121 More Municipalities; Apply Now For Training [PaEN] -- Centre Daily Times: How Residents, Businesses, Local Government Embrace Solar Power In Centre County -- Williamsport Sun: Lycoming County Works Toward Harnessing Solar Energy En Masse -- WFMZ: Poconos Plan For PA’s Largest Solar Field To (..)

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Conservation Clean Energy Recycling Climate Change 64

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

23 Innovative CEOs Enabling And Expanding Decarbonization; Part Of Global Clean Energy Action Forum [PaEN] -- Inquirer - Andrew Maykuth: Suburban Philadelphia Firm Bets On New Technology to Store Solar Power 24/7 -- Erie 2030 District Achieves 22.4% Decline In Energy Use; $4.6 Million In Energy Savings; 14.6%

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Conservation Waste Climate Change Solar Power 64

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 11, 2023

Host 2023 Forest Products Equipment & Technology Exposition June 9-10 In Centre County [PaEN] -- Beaver County Times: Penn State Master Gardeners Of Beaver County Hosting Field Studies Of Trees In Regional Ecosystem -- Registration Open! RGGI] -- Pittsburgh 2030 District Announces Significant Progress In Reducing Carbon Emissions - 44.8%

Natural Gas 71

Natural Gas Climate Change 2023 Conservation 71

PA Environment Daily

JULY 16, 2021

House To Vote Next Week On Expanding PFAS Regulation Impacting PA, Other States -- Utility Dive: Clean Electricity Standard Lands Spot In $3.5

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Solar Power Radiation Regulations Waste 59