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The Missing Piece of the Renewable Energy Revolution

HumanNature

Guest Post by Ben Platt , 2023-2024 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D. In 2022, the installed capacity of wind and solar power grew almost 10% in the United States [1]. In Colorado, renewable energy generating capacity has more than quadrupled since 2010 [2]. kWh per day. This would cost $17.10

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Generation180, FedEx Team Up To Launch Solar For All Schools In Pennsylvania

PA Environment Daily

schools to obtain solar power and benefit from cost savings, educational opportunities, and climate protection. FedEx has an ambitious goal to achieve carbon-neutral operations globally by 2040. One component of that goal is renewable energy procurement for its facilities. Solar on U.S.

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The GIANT Food Company Enters Into Power Agreement To Buy Renewable Solar Energy

PA Environment Daily

The GIANT Company recently announced a long-term renewable supply agreement with Constellation to power its Pennsylvania operations including select stores, fuel stations and perishable distribution centers with renewable energy. In June 2020, The GIANT Company completed a two-phase solar project at its Carlisle, Pa.

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Gov. Shapiro Announces Commitment To Get 50% Of Electricity For State Government From Solar Energy Facilities In Pennsylvania

PA Environment Daily

Josh Shapiro joined Department of General Services Secretary Reggie McNeil, Constellation President & CEO Joseph Dominguez, and Lightsource bp Senior Vice President Alyssa Edwards to unveil the Commonwealth’s renewable energy initiative, the Pennsylvania Project to Utilize Light and Solar Energy (PA PULSE).

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New York State Environmental Regulator Issues Draft Plan to Achieve GHG Emissions-Reduction Goals

E2 Law Blog

Enacted in 2019, the CLCPA transformed the state’s earlier clean energy standard efforts from administrative fiat to law and sets more aggressive goals to reduce statewide greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions economy-wide to 60% from a 1990 baseline by 2030, and 15% from a 1990 baseline by 2050.

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Five Factors are Driving Offshore Wind

Union of Concerned Scientists

It also makes offshore wind an important seasonal complement to the region’s abundant and growing solar power capacity. Power everywhere. And it will make it even more important when winter electricity demand increases because more households are using electric heat pumps. The US offshore wind map.

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Why Ontario needs to stop burning polluting gas for electricity

Enviromental Defense

The decision to ditch coal was the biggest single action of its time to cut carbon emissions in North America. That means carbon emissions from electricity in Ontario will be rising back up again after years of decline. Ontario Energy Output by Fuel Type: 2020 . Source: IESO [link].