Legal Planet

DECEMBER 13, 2021

But Nebraska has a unique approach to supplying electricity that provided a different pathway to climate action. Unlike any other state, Nebraska decided not to have private electric utilities. Instead, all of the state’s power comes from publicly owned utilities. During the 2010s, wind power went from 1% of generation to 20%.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 9, 2025

2024 had some bumps in the road for environmental protection. Solar and wind energy has become much cheaper and solar is now the cheapest source of electricity on the planet. Building a Clean Energy future Nearly 85% of Canadas electricity comes from non-carbon polluting sources. But what about for 2025?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 16, 2022

The Department of Energy’s Energy Information Administration (EIA) is one of the go-to sources for reliable information about the US power sector. They just released their 2022 “Annual Energy Outlook” (AEO), which is a big deal: it tells us where electricity is headed over the next 30 years. Carbon emissions remain high.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Now that I have reached the extent of my white-water rafting knowledge, here is a recap of our very productive session: Electric vehicle directionality stalled but will return UCS co-sponsored Senator Nancy Skinner’s Senate Bill 233 (SB 233) which would have required all electric vehicles to be bidirectional by 2030.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 18, 2024

By Patrick McDonnell, CEO of PennFuture , Former Secretary of DEP This guest essay first appeared in the Observer-Reporter on October 17, 2024 Politicians often speak out against higher taxes, grocery bills, or utility rates, promising to work hard in office to prevent you from paying more.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 17, 2024

Exus chose to repower the facility thanks to the clean energy plan’s 30% production tax credits for American wind power. Pennsylvania highlights-- -- Vitro Architectural Glass announced a $93.6 21 Webinar On Applying For The New Solar For Schools Grant Program [PaEN] -- PennDOT Announces $7.1

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 22, 2024

By next year, Pennsylvania will get 50 percent of its electricity from ten new solar arrays around the Commonwealth – making Pennsylvania the first state in the country to commit to getting half of its energy from solar power. Click Here to learn more about Gov. Shapiro’s Energy/Climate Plan.

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A Greener Life

JULY 19, 2023

An offshore wind farm in Europe. Colombia’s Caribbean coast has great potential for offshore wind power projects but is also home to protected areas of ecological importance. Among these is the Windpeshi wind project , owned by Enel Colombia and located in the department of La Guajira in the country’s far north.

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 17, 2024

Past polls have indicated high levels of concern about the economy – the broader issues such as taxes, unemployment and investment – but in 2024, those concerns have narrowed to become hyper-local. Solar panels and wind turbines produce electricity much more cheaply than gas turbines, coal plants and oil burners.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 25, 2024

This has been the biggest difference, with the cost of net zero a recurring theme – despite the fact that well-insulated homes will save households money, and onshore wind power is the cheapest form of electricity. Will this change in 2024? What will it take to rebuild a sense of common purpose around the climate?

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Edouard Stenger

MAY 30, 2023

I previously noted that renewables are to become first global electricity source by 2025. Renewables are indeed on an exponential, as “By 2024, renewable energy capacity is expected to be twice that of the total cumulative installed capacity in 2019. percentage point while wind and solar’s share increased 8.2

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A Greener Life

APRIL 7, 2023

Hungry for energy Due to rapid growth, the country is hungry for new energy capacity and will issue tenders to install 15 GW of renewable energy in both of the first two quarters of this fiscal year which ends in March 2024. Wind power is set to play a key part in the target of 50 GW of new green energy tenders each year at 10 GW.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 7, 2022

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (left) visits a hybrid power plant where “green” hydrogen is made using wind power and fed into the gas grid. It plays a smaller role in electricity generation yet has been called the bridge fuel to the age of renewables – a flexible power source needed to complement variable wind and solar power.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 18, 2024

18 Planet Philadelphia Radio Program Provides Updates On Wind Power, Local Green Energy Efforts -- Observer-Reporter: Fayette County Zoning Board Nixes Request For Georges Township Solar Energy Facility -- Citizens Voice: Fairview Twp. PaEN] -- Penn State Extension Hosts 2 Educator Workshops Nov.

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E2 Law Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2021

The Council’s release of the draft scoping plan represents a significant milestone in the state’s efforts to implement policies to reduce GHG emissions and achieve the 2040 zero GHG emission target that the CLCPA sets for the electricity-generating sector.

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A Greener Life

JULY 4, 2024

It is significant that the UK have almost completely eradicated coal from electricity generation in a country that is seen as the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution, and the fact that the country has established itself as the world leader in offshore wind installation gives an indication what is possible.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Using an interactive online dashboard-- Renewables on the Rise 2024 -- documents the growth of six key clean energy technologies across the United States over the past decade and ranks states accordingly for solar power, wind power, battery storage, energy efficiency, electric vehicles and electric vehicle charging stations.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 6, 2022

Besides the kilowatt-hours it generates, Glen Canyon provides key services to the electric grid. The country’s second largest reservoir and a lynchpin in the intermountain electric grid, Powell is more dirt than water these days. Hydropower generation will likely shut down when Lake Powell’s elevation drops below 3,490 feet.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 20, 2024

13 Webinar On EPA Clean School Bus Grant Program [PaEN] -- TribLive: Plum School District Working To Cover Costs Of Adding Electric Buses To Fleet -- WHYY: Philly Property Owners Could Soon Face Fines If Their Electric Vehicle Chargers Don’t Work Help Wanted -- Sustainable Pittsburgh Executive Director Joylette Portlock, Ph.D

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 14, 2024

Shapiro Unveils Cap-And-Invest PA Climate Emissions Reduction Initiative To Reduce Carbon Pollution From Power Plants; Update Alternative Energy Portfolio Standards To Diversify Electric Generation, Improve Reliability [PaEN] -- Senate Republicans Reject Gov.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 2, 2024

txlege #energytwitter pic.twitter.com/WNjNJtAXqO — Doug Lewin (@douglewinenergy) August 1, 2024 On the back of extreme heat which has gripped huge parts of the US over the past couple of weeks, Texas set a new solar power generation record and beat the high of 13.2 Likely to have another 50% increase before next July.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 25, 2025

January 28-- Senate Consumer Protection & Professional Licensure Committee hearing on understanding your electric bill, what are you paying for power? January 27-- NASEO Hosts Webinar On RISE PA Decarbonization Grant Program, PA Energy Programs For Industry. 3:00 to 4:00 p.m. Hearing Room 1, North Office Building. 8:30 to 9:30.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 3, 2021

Fossil fuel, they argue, will still be needed in the near term as a backstop for the intermittency of solar and wind power and to keep consumer power bills affordable. Some scientists and energy experts say the U.S. can’t wholly abandon fossil fuel as it ramps up renewable energy sources.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 17, 2024

Shapiro Unveils Cap-And-Invest PA Climate Emissions Reduction Initiative To Reduce Carbon Pollution From Power Plants; Update Alternative Energy Portfolio Standards To Diversify Electric Generation, Improve Reliability [PaEN] -- Gov.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 17, 2024

Shapiro Unveils Cap-And-Invest PA Climate Emissions Reduction Initiative To Reduce Carbon Pollution From Power Plants; Update Alternative Energy Portfolio Standards To Diversify Electric Generation, Improve Reliability [PaEN] -- Gov.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 18, 2024

million in Allegheny Electric Cooperative. The funding is expected to support the cooperative’s investment in 25 megawatts of clean energy, which will help serve the electricity needs of approximately 235,000 households served by Allegheny’s 14-member electric distribution cooperatives. USDA is also investing $20.5

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 26, 2025

Shapiros FERC Complaint To Lower PJM Electricity Capacity Price Cap -- Broad+Liberty: US Senator McCormick Announces First PA Energy & Innovation Summit -- New Castle News: US Senator McCormick Plans PA Energy Summit, Touts Presidents Plan For Energy Dominance -- PennVEST Approves $288.2 Of Health, Penn State Project ECHO Host Feb.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

The cost of clean energy technologies such as wind, solar, and battery technologies BNEF expects to decline further in 2025, in a boost to the viability of the sector. It was found that China, on average, can produce a MWh of electricity from significant power-generating technologies at 11-64% cheaper than other markets.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 24, 2025

In August of 2024, Fords Minister of Energy Stephen Lece announced that the province needed to procure 5000 megawatts of power (enough electricity for 4.5M Unlike Ontarios thumb-on-the-scale approach, Nova Scotia is purchasing its future power directly from a new wind farm. It gets better. MT in 2020, or 13.5

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A Greener Life

APRIL 10, 2024

gigawatts (GW) of electricity. It will be built by Park City Wind, in a two-phased project plan comprising up to 129 wind turbine generators, with up to five offshore export cables transmitting electricity to onshore transmission systems.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 14, 2024

In 2021, however, when asked about Biden’s plan to eliminate electricity-related emissions by 2035, Cornyn said, ““It’s pure fantasy. But, he says, “we’re not yet at the point innovation-wise where we can rely mostly on intermittent, renewable sources to power electric grids.” John Thune (SD).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 27, 2024

Announcing recently that the world broke a record by generating 30 percent of all electricity from renewable sources in 2023, the British think tank Ember said the data proves we are in a “new era” of energy in which a permanent decline in fossil fuels is “inevitable.” percent of the globe’s electricity in 2015, solar now produces 5.5

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 20, 2024

Million To Allegheny Electric Cooperative Under Rural Energy Programs [PaEN] -- TribLive Guest Essay: We Must Build On, Not Kill, Clean Energy Momentum - by Adam Forgie, Mayor, Turtle Creek Borough -- DCED Begins Accepting Applications For PA Solar For Schools Grants Nov.

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A Greener Life

MAY 16, 2024

The exact share of coal in the electricity mix for those first four months of 2024 was 15.6% Depending on the weather, electricity consumption and coal-fired generation tend to go up from now until September. Through to April coal output stood at 8.3 million megawatt hours (MWh), this represents a drop of 1.8%

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 16, 2024

But Sunrise Wind at 924 MW is on track to complete in 2026 and will be the largest US offshore wind farm upon completion and is estimated to meet the electricity needs of 600,000 US households. However, that may not stand for long, as the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project at 2.6

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ESA

AUGUST 16, 2021

billion for electric grid resilience and infrastructure improvements, $7.5 billion for electric vehicle charging infrastructure and $27 billion for clean energy research, development, demonstration and commercialization. It’s seen as a way to quickly increase clean energy use without hiking electric bills for consumers.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 15, 2024

The way to beat China on cheap solar panels and wind turbines is not through isolation and anti-competition policies such as, for example, the increased tariffs on solar panels and electric cars recently placed on China. And China is, these days, seemingly in control of the supply and distribution of many of these materials.

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