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What’s another $4 billion amongst friends?

Enviromental Defense

billion over 14 years from 2026 to 2040, which is the term of the contracts. All told, it will be $4 billion spent on a make-work project for power plant developers and the fossil fuel industry. Why spend $4 billion on fossil fuel infrastructure that may or may not be used? Catherines. How do we know?

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Pittsburgh Water & Sewer Authority To Buy More Wind Energy From Western PA Energy Consortium

PA Environment Daily

Committed to fostering sustainable practices, PWSA has been an active participant in WPEC's clean energy initiatives since 2008. To advance its renewable energy goals, WPEC, in collaboration with PWSA, initiated this amendment to the original Direct Energy Agreement.

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How Much Land Would it Require to Get Most of Our Electricity from Wind and Solar?

Union of Concerned Scientists

Critics of wind and solar routinely raise concerns about how much land would be required to decarbonize the US power sector. And when wind and solar projects are responsibly sited, the environmental and public health impacts would be far less harmful than those from extracting, producing, and burning fossil fuels.

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Analysis: Can Inner Mongolia reach peak carbon this decade?

A Greener Life

One is by cutting energy intensity, adjusting the industrial structure to reduce the amount of energy consumed per unit of GDP. The other is to improve the energy structure, replacing fossil fuel sources with alternatives. Neither of these will be easy for Inner Mongolia. An urgent need for change.

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Removing Barriers to Energy Storage is Key to a Clean Energy Future

Union of Concerned Scientists

A 2021 report by the US Department of Energy’s Solar Futures Study estimates that as much as 1,600 GW of storage could be available by 2050 in a decarbonized grid scenario if solar power ramps up to meet 45 percent of electricity demand as predicted. Currently only 4 percent of US electricity comes from solar.

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Power through the Adirondack Park

Circle of Blue

Financed by one of the world’s richest private equity firms, The Blackstone Group, the CHPE is championed by its supporters as essential to unwind New York’s reliance on carbon-spewing fossil fuel and meet a 2040 target of emissions-free electricity. Transmission constraints limit the flow of upstate renewable sources to the city.

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1,198 New Stories In 2021 - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA - Is Your Story Being Told?

PA Environment Daily

Scavello Introduces Bill Authorizing Community Solar Projects; $2 Billion Worth Of Projects Waiting For It To Pass -- Business, Environment, Energy Groups Praise Introduction Of Bipartisan Bills Increasing Solar Energy Mandate From 0.5% Labor Secretary Talk About Future Of $600 Billion Clean Energy ‘Marshall Plan’ -- Sen.