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Cresforum
JANUARY 16, 2024
Introduction One of the main messages coming out of the recent COP28 meetings in the UAE concerns the role that nuclear power can play in the future of clean energy development around the world. The hope is that this encourages international financial institutions to include nuclear energy in loans for energy projects.
Union of Concerned Scientists
MAY 12, 2022
Nearly all of the alliance members have a renewable electricity standard (RES), which requires utilities in their jurisdiction to increase their use of renewable energy to a particular percentage by a specific year. Just as important, cleaning up the power grid also lowers carbon dioxide emissions.
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Law and Environment
MAY 4, 2023
The gold standard—so-called “ green ” hydrogen—is hydrogen produced via electrolysis using renewable electricity from wind or solar. When water and electricity are introduced to the electrolyzer, water splits at the anode into oxygen and positively charged hydrogen ions. What’s with the colors? Energy Storage.
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. By Fred Pearce.
Law Columbia
NOVEMBER 1, 2016
Petitioners challenging EPA’s new source performance standards for carbon emissions from power plants filed their opening briefs in the D.C. The plaintiffs alleged that the ZEC program was field preempted because the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has exclusive jurisdiction over wholesale electricity sales. Zibelman , No.
Law Columbia
FEBRUARY 16, 2017
The most direct of these is imposed on certain fossil fuel power plants by requiring them to purchase carbon dioxide emissions allowances as part of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. To inform that review, the Sabin Center is today publishing a white paper , exploring two approaches to carbon pricing.
Science Blogs
SEPTEMBER 11, 2017
San Diego commits to 100% clean electricity. . DOE head says carbon dioxide not primary cause of climate change. . Trump attacks wind power in state that gets nearly third of energy from wind. Myths and facts to know ahead of Rick Perry's study on the electrical grid and renewable energy.
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