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Renewables are now an unstoppable juggernaut

Edouard Stenger

I previously noted that renewables are to become first global electricity source by 2025. Additionally, energy storage now comes in many forms as battery technologies are each year more numerous, cheaper and better. Lithium ion technology is just one among many others. How fast is just up to us.

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Maine Gov. Mills Signs Bill to Procure 3 GW of Offshore Wind by 2040

Law and Environment

In 2013, the University of Maine launched the first grid-connected offshore wind turbine in the Americas and has since continued to pursue a full-scale deployment of its floating offshore wind technology.

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Analysis: Bolstering Southeast Asia’s clean energy transition

A Greener Life

Above, wind turbines turn in Sidenreng Rappang, Indonesia. 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. © Zul Kifli / AFP / Getty Images. So after returning home, he launched Dat Bike in 2019. © Dita Alangkara/AP.

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Building a Better Power Grid for Minnesota

Union of Concerned Scientists

Southwest Minnesota and the Dakotas have a lot of wind power—and the potential for even more. Minnesota’s current goal is to reduce statewide carbon emissions 30 percent by 2025 compared to 2005 levels and 80 percent by 2050. Source: MISO LRTP Report. Unlocking the gridlock for Minnesota’s renewable energy future.

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Good News—and Bad—about Fossil Fuel Power Plants in 2023 

Union of Concerned Scientists

The EPA’s Social Cost of Carbon was adjusted to 2025 to align with the emissions year of the NO x and SO 2 estimates.) GW of gas capacity set to retire, but also slightly outpacing the planned additions of wind power. GW of new gas capacity is planned to come online in 2023, outpacing not only the 4.8 What can be done?

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The Atomic Energy Advancement Act: Preparing the Way for Advanced Nuclear Power Plants  

Cresforum

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.

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Ontario: Now is the time to increase renewable energy, not fossil gas

Enviromental Defense

One is that gas plant contracts signed (or renewed) before 2025 will be able to evade meeting the national CERs beyond 2035 which is when the regulations are supposed to kick in. . The oft-repeated argument is that wind and solar can’t be counted on during periods of high demand. But there are loopholes.