PA Environment Daily

MAY 2, 2025

The uprates apply to existing natural gas (1.978 GW), nuclear (496 MWe), coal and onshore wind resources. Of the new projects, half are gas (6.143 GW), five are batteries (2.275 GW) and one is nuclear (887MWe). In addition to the RRI projects, PJM will complete processing on approximately 62,000 MW projects in 2025 and 2026.

Electricity

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 7, 2025

By Aftab Khan, PJM Executive Vice President Of Operations, Planning and Security This guest essay first appeared in Utility Dive on August 6, 2025 -- For most of its nearly 100-year history, the PJM Interconnection has operated behind the scenes. Gigawatts Of Power Due To Reduced Reliability Rating Of Natural Gas Power Plants; Could Gain 12.2

Politics

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2025

This is mainly a result of coal generation being replaced by natural gas generation (and to a smaller extent renewable energy sources like wind and solar) and energy efficiency improvements, due in part to Act 129 [utility energy efficiency program]. Rate Increase For Philadelphia Gas Works [PaEN] -- PUC To Investigate Proposed 11.4%

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

JULY 9, 2025

Unconstrained LNG exports will raise domestic natural gas prices by at least 30% by 2050, further increasing electricity costs. Plus, there's a backlog on new gas turbines that stretches well into the 2030's, and tariffs will make all construction more expensive. “So, GW natural gas-fired power plant in Indiana County.

Electricity

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 12, 2025

Shapiro [PaEN] -- Lead Counsel On Court Cases Striking Down Provisions In Act 13 To Preempt Local Regulation Of Oil & Gas Operations Raises Concerns About Proposed Legislation Establishing A RESET Board To Site Large Energy Projects [PaEN] -- Gov. Shapiro Announces Amazon Plans To Invest $20 Billion In Pennsylvania For A.I.

Carbon Emissions

PA Environment Daily

MAY 31, 2025

PA Oil & Gas Industry Public Notice Dashboards: -- PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - May 24 to 31 -- Failed To Restore 5 Shale Gas Water Impoundments In One County; 5 New Cases Of Defective Shale Well Cement; More Abandoned Shale, Conventional Wells [PaEN] -- DEP: XTO Energy Failed To Restore 5 Multi-Million Gallon Shale Gas Water (..)

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 13, 2025

On June 11, 2025, Plum Borough’s Zoning Hearing Board voted to deny Penneco Environmental Solutions LLC’s application to construct an oil and gas wastewater injection well that would have dumped nearly 70,000 gallons of fracking wastewater into the ground every day, less than five hundred feet from local residents in Plum.

Carbon Emissions

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 12, 2025

Doing More Requires More Klapkowski said, “It cannot be emphasized strongly enough, however, that increased oversight of the conventional oil and gas industry and enforcement will require additional resources, especially in the DEP Office of Chief Counsel and the Bureau of District Oil and Gas Operations.

Waste

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2025

The following notices were published in the April 26 PA Bulletin related to oil and gas industry facilities. Miles Of 20-Inch Natural Gas Pipeline: DEP invites comments on a Chapter 105 permit for a pipeline project impacting Robinson Run and wetlands at several locations. 6, 2024, Issued April 8, 2025. ( Greene County.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

MAY 21, 2025

data centers and higher natural gas prices for driving up the cost of electricity for consumers, especially in the coming summer months. Pennsylvania is also overreliant on natural gas-fired power plants to generate electricity-- 59% of the power generated here comes from natural gas plants. Read more here.

Electricity

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2025

Files Proposed Cold Weather Standard To Improve Reliability For Natural Gas-fired, Other Electric Generators [PaEN] -- PUC Commissioners Urge Congressional Action To Preserve $19 Million In Remaining LIHEAP Funds For PA This Year [PaEN] -- PUC Announces May 6, 7 Hearings On Proposed 15.7%

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 9, 2025

By Shaliee Kishore and Arindam Banerjee, Lehigh University This guest essay first appeared in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on August 8, 2025 -- With July and August come the dog days of summer, when electricity demand surges. Gigawatts Of Power Due To Reduced Reliability Rating Of Natural Gas Power Plants; Could Gain 12.2

Electricity

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 11, 2025

.: Record Load Growth From Data Centers, High Temperatures Expected To Strain Electric Grid This Summer [PaEN] -- Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Summer Electricity Assessment Sees Adequate Generating Resources To Meet Normal Operating Conditions; Higher Natural Gas Prices Driving Electricity Prices Higher [PaEN] -- Gov.

Electricity

PA Environment Daily

MAY 12, 2025

PJMs last capacity auction in July 2024 for delivery in 2025-26 resulted in a dramatic increase in electricity cost from $28.91/MW-day It takes] approximately five years to build a new natural gas [power plant]. gigawatts of natural gas-fired electric generation in Indiana County. Read more here. MW-day to $269.92/MW-day--

Electricity

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 29, 2025

Million To Settle Lawsuit By Investors Who Claimed EQT Overstated The Benefits Of Its Rice Energy Merger In 2017 -- Marcellus Drilling News: Integrated Lithium Production Plant Coming To PA In 2026 Using Oil & Gas Production Wastewater [PaEN] -- Marcellus Drilling News: Avonlea Lithium Corp.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2025

Files Proposed Cold Weather Standard To Improve Reliability For Natural Gas-fired, Other Electric Generators [PaEN] -- PUC Commissioners Urge Congressional Action To Preserve $19 Million In Remaining LIHEAP Funds For PA This Year [PaEN] -- PUC Announces May 6, 7 Hearings On Proposed 15.7%

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

MAY 31, 2025

Editors Note: PJMs last capacity auction in July 2024 for delivery in 2025-26 resulted in a dramatic increase in electricity cost from $28.91/MW-day If left unaddressed, PJMs next capacity auction scheduled for July 2025 could have tripled energy costs for 65 million people across the region, including 13 million Pennsylvanians.

Electricity

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 13, 2025

Shapiro [PaEN] -- Lead Counsel On Court Cases Striking Down Provisions In Act 13 To Preempt Local Regulation Of Oil & Gas Operations Raises Concerns About Proposed Legislation Establishing A RESET Board To Site Large Energy Projects [PaEN] -- Gov. Shapiro Announces Amazon Plans To Invest $20 Billion In Pennsylvania For A.I.

Carbon Emissions

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 22, 2025

MW-Day For 2025/26 Delivery Compared To $28.92/MW-Day MW-Day For 2025/26 Delivery Compared To $28.92/MW-Day MW-Day For 2025/26 Delivery Compared To $28.92/MW-Day

Electricity

PA Environment Daily

JULY 30, 2025

As of June 2025, 122,167 experienced shut offs-- an increase of 38.1% You can see the kind of mix that cleared in this past auction, a vast majority of which of course is natural gas. The cleared resource mix includes: 45% natural gas, 21% nuclear, 22% coal, 4% hydro, 3% wind and 1% solar. so far this year.

Electricity

PA Environment Daily

MAY 9, 2025

May 13-- Senate Local Government Committee meets to consider Senate Bill 311 (Yaw-R-Lycoming) prohibiting local governments from banning any source of energy [like natural gas]. Read more here on agenda. Room 8E-A East Wing. Click Here to watch live. May 13-- Agenda Posted. DEP Citizens Advisory Council meeting. And Saved $44.2

Air Pollution

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2025

. - - Article I, Section 27 Pennsylvania Constitution [Its Not A Suggestion] House Voting Schedule May 5, 6, 7, 12, 13, 24 June 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 11, 16, 17, 18, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 30 -- Committee Schedule Senate Voting Schedule May 5, 6, 7, 12, 13 June 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 11, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30 -- Committee Schedule TODAYs Calendar Of Events (..)

Earth Day

PA Environment Daily

MAY 28, 2025

MW-Day For 2025/26 Delivery Compared To $28.92/MW-Day MW-Day For 2025/26 Delivery Compared To $28.92/MW-Day MW-Day For 2025/26 Delivery Compared To $28.92/MW-Day Files Proposed Cold Weather Standard To Improve Reliability For Natural Gas-fired, Other Electric Generators [PaEN] -- North American Electric Reliability Corp.:

Clean Energy

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 27, 2025

-- Reading Eagle: Reading Church Powered By Solar Panels In Berks County -- TribLive: As Plastics Waste Grows Globally, Latrobe Worshippers Put Faith In Recycling Efforts -- WNEP: Schuylkill Countys Kaye Shwenk Wins Keep PA Beautiful Affiliate Volunteer Of The Year Award -- Saint Vincent College: Angela Belli Receives 2025 PA Association of Environmental (..)

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

MAY 31, 2025

Eddystone Generating Station in Delaware County to remain open past its expected closure date of May 31, 2025. The order requires Units 3 and 4 of the plant to remain open through August 28, 2025 when the order expires. MW-Day For 2025/26 Delivery Compared To $28.92/MW-Day MW-Day For 2025/26 Delivery Compared To $28.92/MW-Day

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 9, 2025

Photo: 1,000 MW Hickory Run Natural Gas Power Plant in Lawrence County.) Data Center Infrastructure; Amazon Told PUC It Has Net-Zero Carbon Emissions Goal By 2040 [PaEN] -- 25 Environmental Groups; Local Government Associations Oppose House Bill To Fast Track Large-Scale Energy Generation, Storage Projects Proposed By Gov.

Government

Enviromental Defense

JULY 21, 2025

The list of climate-related disasters is depressingly long, with numerous events already reported in 2025. We’d be spending public money on projects like developing a national electrical transmission network so provinces could support each other in reaching their low-carbon emissions goals.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

The policy details within each action roughly correspond with recommendations in Project 2025, the infamous policy agenda penned by figures from the first Trump administration and supported by several anti-climate organizations. Pump up gas.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 27, 2025

Shapiro Yet Another Troubling Escalation Of Political Violence -- TribLive Editorial: Political Violence Must Be Decried Every Day -- Budget 2025 -- Gov. Rate Increase For Philadelphia Gas Works [PaEN] -- PUC To Investigate Proposed 11.4% Billion Olympus Energy Shale Gas Deal -- Pittsburgh Business Times: EQT Corp. Ohio- $2.99

Politics

PA Environment Daily

MAY 8, 2025

reduction in carbon emissions in 2024, or 406,000 metric tons of CO2e emissions avoided. This marks the first year that 2030 District Partners have hit the target goal of achieving a 50-65% reduction in carbon emissions by the year 2030 since the Pittsburgh District was founded in 2012. energy reduction 33.3%

Carbon Emissions

PA Environment Daily

MAY 9, 2025

GW To Move Forward To Address Near-Term Electricity Demand Growth-- 39 Upgrades, 12 New Construction [PaEN] -- PUC Hearing On Data Center Growth Impacts Finds 30-40% Of Utility Demand Could Be From Data Centers; Concerns About Stranded Costs; Major Commitments To Net-Zero Carbon Emissions Energy Use -- North American Electric Reliability Corp.

Electricity

PA Environment Daily

MAY 4, 2025

Westmoreland County [PaEN] -- 6-Inch Conventional Natural Gas Gathering Pipeline Rupture Causes Spill In Rostraver Twp., Gigawatt Homer City Generation Natural Gas Power Plant For Data Center In Indiana County [PaEN] -- Gov. Megawatts -- PennLive: 22 Bay Electric Vehicle Charging Station Opens In Lower Swatara Twp.,

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 26, 2025

18 Abandoned Conventional Wells S R Star O&G LLC - Violations: 11 Abandoned Conventional Wells, Failure To Report April 23, 2025 a follow-up inspection of 11 conventional wells in Slippery Rock Township, Butler County found the wells abandoned, unplugged and failed to submit production, waste generation and well integrity reports.

2025

PA Environment Daily

JULY 7, 2025

“This report affirms what we already know: The United States cannot afford to continue down the unstable and dangerous path of energy subtraction previous leaders pursued, forcing the closure of baseload power sources like coal and natural gas,” said DOE Secretary Wright. “In MW-Day For 2025/26 Delivery Compared To $28.92/MW-Day

Electricity

PA Environment Daily

MAY 19, 2025

Natural] gas is not baseload power. And I get there's plenty of gas out there, but that's all on demand. I think we absolutely need to continue to use natural gas. Because at the end of the day, there comes a point where we're going to clean up our emissions, but we need to also say renewables have a place.

Electricity

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 27, 2025

Rate Increase For Philadelphia Gas Works [PaEN] -- Delaware River Basin Commission Hearing May 7; Business Meeting June 11 [PaEN] -- PUC To Investigate Proposed 11.4% Delaware River Sojourn June 14-20 - Celebrating 30 Years Of Paddling The Delaware -- PA Abandoned Mine Reclamation Conference Oct.

Earth Day

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 24, 2025

This en banc hearing, approved by a unanimous vote of the Commission on March 27, 2025, examined how to ensure a fair, transparent, and forward-looking approach to connecting high-energy users to the grid while protecting existing utility customers. The importance of data centers can be measured financially, however. million U.S.

Carbon Emissions