PA Environment Daily
MARCH 28, 2023
By Dave Jenkins, Conservatives For Responsible Stewardshi p The following goest essay first appeared in the Erie Times on March 27, 2023 -- We are at an inflection point on energy: 2022 was the first year when global investment in carbon-free sources of energy matched investment in fossil fuels. High overseas demand for U.S.
PA Environment Daily
MARCH 4, 2023
Not mentioned at all was the fact that natural gas costs went up by as much as 128% for Pennsylvania consumers and electricity costs by as much as 34%, driven by the natural gas price spikes caused by the whims of a Russian dictator that resulted in oil and gas industry profits of $200 billion in 2022.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 11, 2023
Fuel transport – Spring floods can hinder the transportation of fuels like coal. While it is a heavily polluting fossil fuel that is set to continue declining as a fuel source for US electricity generation over the next decade, coal still accounted for roughly 20 percent of the country’s generation in 2022.
Union of Concerned Scientists
MARCH 12, 2024
But gas power plants have also played an important role in helping to maintain the overall reliability of the electricity grid by meeting peak power demands, such as on hot summer days when people turn on their air conditioners. Source: UCS Accelerating Clean Energy Ambition.
Union of Concerned Scientists
MAY 30, 2023
That lower-than-expected electricity demand also makes spring (and the other “shoulder” season, fall) the go-to seasons for fossil fuel and nuclear power plants to go offline for scheduled maintenance—or refueling, in the case of the nuclear plants. Indeed, they are good reasons to focus even more.
Environmental Progress
JANUARY 20, 2022
Notably, in the same proposal, the Commission has also included screening criteria for gaseous fossil fuels. Their inclusion appears to be the result of a political compromise with Member States rather than of scientific appraisal as in the case of nuclear energy.
Union of Concerned Scientists
AUGUST 31, 2022
Gavin Newsom made a habit of waiving all state environmental rules to allow fossil fuel power plants and backup generators to run without restrictions when the grid was under stress. All that being said, it’s still 2022 and September is upon us.
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