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? Then there are the rising energy prices.

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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.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 16, 2022

Wind capacity steadily increases, mostly due to policy (the federal tax credit, which expires in 2024, and state RPS policies). EIA is also projecting continued cost reductions and low prices for solar and wind power, such that natural gas and renewable energy are price competitive.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

According to the plan, in the short term period up to 2032, ten eligible areas for installing offshore wind farms have been identified off the islands of Crete and Rhodes, in the central Aegean Sea and the Ionian Sea, with a total capacity of about 4.9

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 6, 2022

Because its generators can deliver electricity quickly — “ramping” in the lingo — hydro bridges the period when solar and wind power wane and before gas-fired turbines can power up. The latest model scenarios show a 10 percent chance that Lake Powell drops below 3,490 feet by April 2024.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 22, 2024

When it comes to the transition to clean energy, 2023 was quite a year for progress: record-breaking amounts of solar installed in the United States, a solid drop in carbon emissions from the US power sector, more than one million electric vehicles sold in the country for the first time, “breakneck” growth in renewable energy globally, and more.

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E2 Law Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2021

The draft plan will likely change after the public process is complete, culminating in regulatory action to enact the final plan by 2024. The draft scoping plan is likely to spur a significant amount of interest and comments from various stakeholders.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 24, 2023

The progress in the numbers The new numbers are from the federal Energy Information Administration (EIA), which collects data from power plant operators from across the country. Solar power increased the most among renewable electricity sources in percentage terms, up 24 percent. It supplied 10.5 percentage points).*

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The results include two developers cancelling their offshore wind power contracts with states and utilities, another cancelling two projects altogether, and hesitation elsewhere. The good news-bad news balance, though, would seem to tip decidedly in favor of a whole lot more offshore wind.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Regionalizing the grid could allow California to take advantage of renewable energy in other states such as wind power from Wyoming and hydropower in the Pacific Northwest. The legislature is taking some much-needed time off, but it will be back in January 2024.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Placing restrictions on solar, wind, and geothermal power that don’t apply to climate change causing oil and gas development will put Alberta’s burgeoning renewable energy industry at risk, and cost Albertans more for their energy.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 10, 2024

Block Island Wind Farm, the first commercially installed offshore wind farm in the US. By Anders Lorenzen At the turn of the year there was significant concern and worry that the US offshore wind industry could collapse before it had started. Photo credit: Ionna22 – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0 – via Wikimedia.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 13, 2024

It’s 2024 and you can’t peak emissions unless you peak coal. How could we do more? And it was interesting to kind of see the gears starting to turn. I think a lot of the clean energy development that was successful in China wasn’t actually a top down kind of process. Some people think that could be in the next year.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 18, 2021

Public support for President Putin is strong and on the current trajectory he would comfortably be re-elected in March 2024, should he wish to stand again. The World Bank has pointed out that Russia could become a world leader in wind power, with its vast tracts of land and suitable “wind corridors” in areas of northern Russia.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 17, 2024

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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. A wind farm owned by General Electric around 50km south of Berlin, Germany. From 2024, newly installed heating systems must be powered by at least 65% renewable energy.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 22, 2024

Donald Trump has been talking a lot about donuts lately. Donuts, it seems, are threatened by renewable energy and depend on fossil fuels. Maybe because he’s heard that they’re cooked in oil? Trump’s knowledge of cooking is likely pretty minimal, given that it’s unlikely he’s ever been inside a kitchen. And windmills are terrible, just terrible.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 8, 2024

The 2024 initial phase will apply only to new commercial buildings over 100,000 square feet. In addition, the Energy Commission adopted a new “virtual power plant” rule, allowing consumer-owned batteries to be aggregated and treated as power plants when they deliver power to the wholesale electricity market.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 17, 2024

. -- PA Solar Center Hosts March 22 Webinar Unpacking Solar Energy Interconnection With Electric Grid In PA [PaEN] -- Penn State Extension Energy Essentials: Federal, State Energy Efficiency Programs For Farms And Businesses; Balancing Carbon, Forest Health Other Goals [PaEN] -- The Energy Age Blog: The Latest On Heat Pumps -- The Energy Age Blog: (..)

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 13, 2021

During the 2010s, wind power went from 1% of generation to 20%. gigawatts of wind and 3 gigawatts of solar by 2024. This is a holdover from the 1930s, when Nebraska was a highly progressive state. The elected board members who run these utilities did little or nothing about renewables until the past decade.

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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 14, 2024

Fiedler Promotes Solar Energy Projects At Schools During Visit -- Penn State Earth Talks: March 18 In-Person/Webinar On City Heat Adaptation Tool For Cities To Improve Public Health , 4:00 p.m. -- The Energy Age Blog: The Latest On Wind Power -- Erie News Now: Erie Port Authority Votes To Condemn Former Erie Coke [Coal] Property For Redevelopment -- (..)

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Legal Planet

MARCH 14, 2024

Still, he calls himself “a strong supporter of clean energy innovation, from wind power to biofuels” and reports that “83 percent of the electricity generated in my state of South Dakota came from renewable sources.” in the mix, though he dropped out a couple of days ago.

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ESA

AUGUST 16, 2021

A provision in the 2017 tax reform bill opened up the refuge to drilling and required the Bureau of Land Management to offer at least two oil and gas lease sales by December 2024. BOEM – Notice of Intent To Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement for the Proposed Kitty Hawk Offshore Wind Project Offshore North Carolina. 13, 2021.

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