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. The global benchmarks for wind and solar generation are also set to fall this year at 4% and 2%, respectively. Graph credit: BloombergNEF.

Clean Energy

A Greener Life

APRIL 5, 2025

By Anders Lorenzen A leading energy think tank says that last month, less than half of the US electricity capacity came from fossil fuels. Date showing US fossil fuel generation in March 2025. Declining fossil fuels in the US The Ember data shows that in March 2025, just shy of 50%, fossil fuels accounted for 49.2% a new record.

Clean Energy

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 4, 2025

Data Centers -- Axios: Recently Upgraded Twin Ridges Wind Power Facility In Somerset County Could Help With A.I. Data Centers And Cryptocurrency Mining Energy Use Needs A Clear Disadvantage - By Karen Elias, Climate Reality [ PDF of Article ] -- MCall: As Electric Bills Rise Due To A.I. How Is A.I.

Wind Power

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 10, 2025

Data Centers - By John Quigley, Senior Fellow, Kleinman Center for Energy Policy [PaEN] -- Post-Gazette Guest Essay: Pennsylvania May Not Have Enough Electricity For A.I. Data Centers Share The Blame, States Feel Pressure To Act [PA Included] -- MCall: As Electric Bills Rise Due To A.I. How Is A.I. How Is A.I. 11 Hearing On A.I.

Conservation

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 In January Nova Scotia announced an ambitious effort to reach NetZero by 2035 and have 80 per cent of its power sourced from renewables by 2030. It gets better.

Government

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

Clean Energy

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.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

JULY 6, 2025

4 Webinar - Rewild Your Yard: How Meadows Support Pollinators And Clean Water [PaEN] -- Call For Posters: Alliance For The Chesapeake Bay 2025 Chesapeake Watershed Forum Nov. Posted: July 6, 2025] PA Environment Digest 23 Hard-To-Recycle Collection Events In Allegheny County [PaEN] -- Interfaith Partners For The Chesapeake Bay: Sept.

Natural Resources

PA Environment Daily

JULY 6, 2025

Greg Rothman (R-Cumberland) -- TribLive Guest Essay: Summer’s Triple Threat - Energy Bills Rising, Grids Straining, Help Shrinking - By Destenie Nock, Peoples Energy Analytics -- Tribune-Democrat: 114 MW Wind Farm Under Construction At Rock Run ATV Park In Cambria County [ PDF of Article ] -- Pittsburgh Business Times: Eos Energy Receives $22.7

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

JULY 2, 2025

Of Justice Agreement -- Interfaith Partners For The Chesapeake Bay: Sept.

Natural Gas

Legal Planet

MAY 7, 2025

But in 2025, everything must be re-litigated. Electricity! electricity generation for a whole month March 2025 thanks to record-high solar and wind power, according to data released by energy think tank Ember. The bill has real teeth and could meaningfully lower electricity bills.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 16, 2025

Based on data from the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) and UCS calculations, the graph shows the portion of total US electricity generation that came from solar and wind each month for the last two and half decades. Wind and solar have supplied at least 10% of US electricity in every single month since September 2021.

Clean Energy

Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

When Donald Trump returns to the Oval Office in January 2025, his second presidency will have widespread implications for the energy industry, especially new investments, but not necessarily in the ways his supporters might expect. Negotiations on the 2025 tax bill will implicate many of the IRA’s provisions.

2025

PA Environment Daily

JULY 3, 2025

On July 3, the PJM Interconnection issued a Hot Weather Alert for July 6 in its Western Region and for July 7 in its Mid-Atlantic and Southern Regions in its electric grid operations area covering 13 states-- including Pennsylvania-- and the District of Columbia. The last Hot Weather Alert just ended 7 days ago on June 26. Read more here.

Wind Power

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.

Conservation

Legal Planet

JULY 10, 2025

In June, the International Panel on the Information Environment released a review of 300 climate science studies published between 2015 and 2025. A new net-zero, boutique hotel called the Sugar House Hotel will be the first LEED platinum-certified, all-electric hotel in the Marriott chain. ” Check it out. Download as PDF

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

JULY 2, 2025

“We especially thank Senators Ernst, Grassley, Murkowski, Curtis, and others for their courageous leadership preventing an onerous tax on wind and solar power from becoming reality and tempering the abrupt phase-out of critical tax provisions for homegrown American renewable energy.

Renewable Energy

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.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 8, 2025

On April 4, the PJM Interconnection sent a letter to the President supporting Presidential exemptions from the federal Clean Air Act requested by 13,900 MW of electric generation in the PJM region. PJM understands that at least 13,900 MW of capacity resources in PJM have requested a Presidential exemption from certain requirements."

Clean Air Act

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 10, 2025

Data Centers Share The Blame, States Feel Pressure To Act [PA Included] -- MCall: As Electric Bills Rise Due To A.I. Impacting Energy Production And Prices? -- Inside Climate News: Why Electricity Prices Are Soaring In The PJM Grid Region Explained In 5 Charts -- PA Senate Republican Policy Committee To Hold Aug. How Is A.I.

Politics

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 10, 2025

Data Centers - By John Quigley, Senior Fellow, Kleinman Center for Energy Policy [PaEN] -- Post-Gazette Guest Essay: Pennsylvania May Not Have Enough Electricity For A.I. Data Centers Share The Blame, States Feel Pressure To Act [PA Included] -- MCall: As Electric Bills Rise Due To A.I. Posted: August 10, 2025] PA Environment Digest

Nuclear Power

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 22, 2022

However the Midcontinent Independent System Operator, or MISO, the Midwest’s regional grid manager, has stepped up to approve long-awaited upgrades that will improve the reliability of the electricity system across the region, including Minnesota as well as Illinois and Michigan. That’s not a Minnesota utility…is it? Source: MISO LRTP Report.

Renewable Energy

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.

Solar Power

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 1, 2022

DTE’s proposal, known as an integrated resource plan, describes how the utility intends to fulfill its customers’ electricity needs over the next 20 years. These types of long-term energy plans include forecasting the amount of electricity customers will need and examining different options for supporting that need.

Clean Energy

Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Ontario recently re-contracted four gas-fired power plants to generate electricity for the province and appears poised to contract more in the near future. . Take Action: Tell Ontario To Stop Using Fossil Gas Power. Yes, Ontario needs new electricity generation. But there are loopholes.

Renewable Energy

A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

By Leigh Hartman When Son Nguyen lived in the US, he saw rapidly advancing electric vehicle technology and heard stories from back in Vietnam about air pollution. The company sells electric motorbikes in Danang, Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City and is exploring the reuse of electric batteries and how to power its factory with green energy.

Clean Energy

Cresforum

JANUARY 16, 2024

Increased electrification in both the industrialized and the developing world is projected to help meet emissions reduction goals, and nuclear power could provide much of the future needs for electricity. electricity generation, nuclear power produces more than half of the nation’s emissions-free electricity.

Nuclear Power

Edouard Stenger

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Not anymore as the IEA now states that global renewable power capacity growth is set to double over the next five years. In other words, between now and 2027, we will collectively install as much wind power and solar pv capacity than we did in the past twenty years, or 2,400 GW.

2027

Edouard Stenger

MAY 30, 2023

I previously noted that renewables are to become first global electricity source by 2025. ” according to Wikipedia ), the share of coal in the total electricity mix decreased by 3.7 percentage point while wind and solar’s share increased 8.2 percentage point. How fast is just up to us.

Wind Power

Energy and Climate Law

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

For the part below, the useful overview by Energie-Nederland, industry association for the producers, suppliers and traders of electricity, gas and heat, has been used as a source. Both PvdA and GL mention that they want to do this earlier, by 2025 at latest (i.e. in the upcoming government period).

Renewable Energy

A Greener Life

JUNE 6, 2021

Pending final investment decisions and planning approvals and the clearing of the site, production is anticipated during the course of 2025 which, based on other known projects, make it the largest electrolyser plant in Europe. There is no better location in Hamburg for a scalable electrolyser of this size.

Wind Power

A Greener Life

JULY 23, 2021

Japan, a long-time supporter of nuclear power, now has serious hydrogen ambitions. The 2020 Tokyo Olympics will be powered by hydrogen. Hydrogen may have lost the race to fuel electric cars but it looks a likely contender to replace fossil fuels in trucks, ships, planes and heavy industry. photo credit: Kim Kyung-Hoon / Alamy.

Fossil Fuels

A Greener Life

JULY 9, 2021

Energy authorities in Inner Mongolia are aiming to connect 50 gigawatts of renewable power to the grid by 2025. It could then explore local heating systems, using waste heat from factories and power plants rather than building new boilers. Power importers are likely to prefer green power. The Kubuqi desert.

Renewable Energy

A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Brazil’s offshore potential At sea, winds are more constant and intense than on land, and the area is wider for wind farms, providing greater potential for energy generation. This is enormously valuable for an electricity system,” said Fiestas. Developing a 1 GW project would represent around 20% of its electricity system. “In

Fossil Fuels

A Greener Life

MARCH 19, 2023

“We are pushing the Chinese company to complete its financial closure by 31 December 2023, and start construction at the earliest so that it can be completed by 2025,” Shah Jahan Mirza, managing director of the Pakistan government-owned Private Power and Infrastructure Board told me.

Fossil Fuels

E2 Law Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2021

The CLCPA also established renewable procurement mandates: 70% renewable energy by 2030, 9,000 MW of offshore wind by 2035, 3,000 MW of energy storage by 2030, and 6,000 MW of solar by 2025. The CLCPA established the Council, a 22-member committee tasked with determining how to meet these statutory goals.

Regulations

Environmental Progress

MARCH 11, 2021

Congress took questions relating to the security of America’s electricity supply seriously before more than a dozen states experienced energy shortages last month, but those events make this hearing all the more urgent. electrical grids were increasingly “complex and vulnerable.” [2] Shellenberger. 5] The U.S.

Electricity