Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 30, 2023

One notable example is in Michigan, where utilities are phasing out coal plants and momentum is building for legislation that would support an equitable clean energy transition. Consumers Energy will close its remaining coal-fired power plants by 2025 and add 8,000 megawatts of solar by 2040.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 21, 2025

Another in-person event took place in Western Pennsylvania, where supporters rallied in support of community-centered clean energy at the Homestead Steel Mill Stacks. As one of the priorities in Gov. The legislation is to be introduced in the coming days by Rep. Peter Schweyer.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 7, 2025

The State of Renewable Energy 2025 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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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 9, 2025

Attacks on nature, clean energy, and livable communities filled the headlines. But what about for 2025? Lets take a look at some key issues and explore how we can work together to create a better 2025. Lets take a look at some key issues and explore how we can work together to create a better 2025.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Energy storage, or the storing of electricity for later use on the power grid, plays an important role in the clean energy transition. Illinois is currently considering policy proposals to establish a statewide energy storage target. 2025 is also a pivotal year for CEJA implementation in Illinois.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 22, 2022

Minnesotans are facing concurrent crises of climate change, high energy prices and inflation, and the inequitable public health impacts of fossil fuel air pollution. Renewable energy will help with all of that—but we need a grid that is designed for wind and solar instead of having to rely on expensive coal and gas plants.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

By Anders Lorenzen A BloombergNEF (BNEF) report has revealed that 2024 was a bumper year for clean energy investments across the globe. In Energy Transition Investment Trends 2025, the energy analysts found that in 2024, clean energy investments reached a record high of $2.1tn and were responsible for the sector’s growth by 11%.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 15, 2025

In 2011, Tregs Independent Brewing worked with Solar Renewable Energy to install a rooftop solar array large enough to produce 15-20 percent of its annual electricity usage. The 1,628 panels, partnered with a new white roof membrane and added insulation, make the brewery more energy efficient while saving on their electricity bills.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 21, 2025

The Solar for Schools program builds on Governor Josh Shapiros energy plan by generating more clean, affordable, and reliable energy while creating more jobs and lowering costs for Pennsylvanians. The Governor is calling for another $25 million allocation in his 2025-2026 budget proposal to ensure the program continues.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 9, 2025

PennTAP and DEP will begin accepting RISE PA grant applications during the first quarter of 2025. Million; Apply Now To Join Program [PaEN] -- Philadelphia Solar Energy Assn.: For more information, visit PennTAPs RISE PA webpage. Click Here to contact PennTAP to learn more.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 28, 2025

On May 28, consumer and clean energy advocates from Pennsylvania and New Jersey gathered outside the headquarters of electric grid manager PJM Interconnection in Montgomery County to urge PJM leadership to do more to protect family budgets and bring more clean, affordable energy to the electric grid as quickly as possible.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is chock-full of tax incentives for climate and clean energy projects. But these kinds of new players in the clean energy space face significant barriers as they pursue credit amounts beyond the base ITC credits, and some of these barriers are written right into the IRA itself.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

New clean energy, including combined solar and battery projects, have waited (and waited, and waited…) in interconnection queues. Delayed construction of clean energy means grid planners like PJM are struggling with rising demand and the loss of power plants, at significant cost to consumers.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The United States supports Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) partners in meeting their clean energy goals. Over the last two decades, energy demand in Southeast Asia increased by an average of 3% annually, according to the International Energy Agency’s Southeast Asia Energy Outlook 2022.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 25, 2025

Solar Carports, like the one at Burkholders Country Market, are a great solution for businesses looking to maximize their available space while investing in clean energy. Not only do they provide shelter for vehicles from the elements, they also generate renewable energy that directly powers the business.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

On November 11, Energy Justice Advocates announced PECO has agreed to contract for 25 MW of solar energy as part of its default power procurement for electric customers from June 1, 2025 through May 31, 2029 as a result of a settlement recently approved by the Public Utility Commission. PECO serves nearly 1.7

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 13, 2024

As electric vehicle charging stations sprout like mushrooms along our roads and clusters of new wind turbines come online, these two clean energy solutions to the climate crisis are becoming more commonplace. The United States needs to speed its transition to clean energy in order to stave off even worse impacts of climate change.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 25, 2022

Today, the regional entity overseeing much of the electric power grid in the Midwest—the Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO)—approved a set of major new transmission system upgrades that will bring billions of dollars in benefits to the region while better enabling states and utilities to pursue transitions to clean energy.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 31, 2022

To improve the lives of all Chicagoans, the plan prioritizes environmental justice, household savings, public health, and clean energy. A majority of city residents said they wanted reliable transit, better air quality, more renewable energy, higher household savings, and improved public health.

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Environment + Energy Leader

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Dow says it will reduce CO2 releases by 2 million metric tons a year while growing its earnings by an estimated $2 billion by 2025. To reach its goal, access to renewables grew by 900 megawatts. Now, more than 25% of its purchased electricity comes from clean energy.

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Law and Environment

AUGUST 11, 2022

Based on numerous sources, Governor Baker has now signed an Act Driving Clean Energy and Offshore Wind. This bill includes a number of key advancements for increased adoption of zero emission vehicles and clean transportation throughout the Commonwealth. According to the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 18, 2025

Discover how Renewell Energy is pioneering gravity energy storage to transform inactive wells into critical components of a sustainable energy future. The Renewell mechanical energy storage system can capture energy by lowering a weight down a well, producing clean energy by turning a regenerative winch.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 25, 2022

These models are essentially designed to determine what resources need to be added to the grid to meet certain goals, such as clean energy or emissions reduction goals. Capacity expansion modeling helps determine how many clean resources, such as solar and wind, need to be added to the grid to meet clean energy goals.

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Electricity Clean Energy Fossil Fuels Renewable Energy 278

Enviromental Defense

APRIL 3, 2023

To no one’s surprise it contained zero funding to address climate change – not even for clean energy – which the document referred to multiple times. Early in its first term, it canceled over 750 renewable energy projects , some of which had already been built. It will be something to watch.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 3, 2024

By John Quigley, Senior Fellow, Kleinman Center Next year, the electricity bills for twenty percent of Americans will start reflecting the high cost of failing to transition to clean energy. Massive amounts of clean energy generation and storage projects are backlogged in PJM. foothold.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 8, 2025

Penn Energy Savers Rebates Are Coming Soon To Help Eligible Households Upgrade To Energy Efficient Appliances, Do Building Retrofits [PaEN] -- City Of Reading Begins Energy Efficiency, Solar Energy Project To Save $13.3

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 19, 2025

By Matthew Carroll, Penn State News Moving from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources like wind and solar will require better ways to store energy for use when the sun is not shining or the wind is not blowing. The problem is that sometimes when we need energy, there is no sunshine or there is no wind, Taleghani said.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 18, 2023

In order for states in PJM to take full advantage of incentives under the federal Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), PJM must remove barriers to meeting the market and policy demand for cheap and clean energy. The proposed reforms are very unlikely to meet total regional demand for new renewable generation through 2030.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 24, 2021

IEA says its report is designed to be used as a handbook for policy-makers at the COP26 summit and offers a critical opportunity to accelerate both climate action as well as the clean energy transition. In this scenario, demand for fossil fuels peaks by 2025, and global CO2 emissions fall by 40% by 2050. degree C world.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 27, 2022

For stationary storage, companies such as RePurpose Energy and B2U Storage Solutions are repurposing these batteries to be used for renewable energy generation support. As the grid becomes cleaner, added grid storage becomes more necessary to support the generation variability of renewable sources.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 24, 2025

Installed at Gifford Pinchot State Park in York County, the project reinforces DCNRs commitment to clean energy and cost-saving innovation, as well as the Commonwealths progress as a national leader in renewable energy. Click Here for video/photos from the event.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 5, 2025

The Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, Cindy Dunn, provided the event’s keynote address, saying , “The Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources is using solar energy as a part of our broader commitment to sustainably managing the Commonwealth’s natural spaces.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 18, 2025

Although PJM attributes these price hikes to rising energy demand, the underlying issue remains clear: gas resources have been much less reliable than promised and PJM has struggled to integrate the clean, renewable energy sources we need in a timely manner. 1 Electricity Price Changes; Rates Will Vary From 8.4%

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Legal Planet

MARCH 31, 2022

There’s a lot of discussion of how the private sector is supporting renewable energy, but it’s almost all about power consumers like Apple and Walmart. NextEra Energy. 67% cut from 2005 by 2025. Net zero by 2050, 50% cut by 2030, and 100% clean energy by 2040. 50% renewables by 2030, 100% by 2040.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 15, 2025

For more information on state parks and forests and recreation in Pennsylvania, visit DCNRs website. Resource Links: -- Gov.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 22, 2024

At UCS, we’re working to ensure effective and equitable implementation of key clean energy and clean transportation provisions. Applicants submitted initial priority climate action plans, or PCAPs, in March, and they must submit comprehensive climate action plans by mid-2025. It is made up of $4.75

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 23, 2024

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