Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 23, 2023

With the clean energy transition already under way, the US electricity mix is set to continue changing this year. Solar power is expected to make up about half of all additions of US electric generating capacity in 2023, according to data from the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). I’ll start off with the good.

Fossil Fuels 180

Fossil Fuels 2023 Clean Energy Nitrogen Oxides 180

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 12, 2022

To ensure the wind industry upholds environmental justice and stewards its raw materials, many companies are replacing balsa with other materials. For example, LM Wind Power has minimized balsa in its blades, substituting in synthetic plastic PET and PVC foams. Responsible, circular solutions for wind turbine blades.

Recycling 207

Recycling Wind Power Technology Technology 207

Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 11, 2023

It’s good to see Ontario working to bolster, rather than undermine, the province’s “Clean Energy Advantage.” Clean power projects can find local support, but the process of community engagement and details on how the benefits are shared need to be carefully considered.

Electricity 56

Electricity Wind Power Solar Power Climate Change 56

Enviromental Defense

MARCH 22, 2022

Ontario has a large potential supply of wind and solar energy that could be developed to help phase-out dirty gas plants. It estimated that we would need an additional 843 MW of solar and an additional 4,545 MW of wind capacity (along with a basket of other sources) to ensure the province’s energy needs are met. .

Solar Power 105

Solar Power Wind Power Renewable Energy Electricity 105

A Greener Life

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Australia has become the latest country to jump on the wave of offshore wind development. Analysts expect the country could soon see a big boom in offshore wind. Australia’s new pro-climate action government has meant an acceleration in clean energy interest and capacity.

Clean Energy 96

Clean Energy Government Renewable Energy Electricity 96

A Greener Life

JANUARY 21, 2022

Photo credit: Karwai Tang / UK Government via Flickr. When planning for the future, governments, businesses, and even individuals know it is both planetary and economic suicide not to ease reliance on fossil fuels and other heavy carbon products. By Anders Lorenzen.

Fossil Fuels 98

Fossil Fuels Paris Agreement Clean Energy 2015 98

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The wind is in our sails on the voyage towards a clean energy future. Wind energy is currently the largest renewable energy source in the US, and the industry is growing fast. Many governments, the mining industry, and renewable energy companies are committed to tackling it.

Recycling 136

Recycling Renewable Energy Clean Energy Technology 136

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.

Nuclear Power 97

Nuclear Power Electricity Clean Energy Technology 97

Legal Planet

MARCH 6, 2023

But with the recent influx of government incentives for hydrogen production, new and improving production and storage technologies, and greater political will than ever before, H 2 ’s reputation is gaining favor. All this is not to say there is no place for hydrogen in a clean energy future.

Natural Gas 147

Natural Gas Fossil Fuels Carbon Emissions Carbon Dioxide 147

A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Parts of it have in recent years experienced the nightmare and havoc of climate-fuelled wildfires is increasing its effort to accelerate a clean energy transition. This week, the country moved forward with plans to construct its first offshore wind farms.

Fossil Fuels 75

Fossil Fuels 2025 2030 Clean Energy 75

Law Columbia

APRIL 3, 2024

To identify the most common false claims regarding wind, solar, and electric vehicles, the authors of the Sabin Center’s new report first reviewed social-media groups and websites created to oppose renewable energy projects or policies, as well as existing coverage about misinformation.

Electricity 131

Electricity Renewable Energy Fossil Fuels Radiation 131

Cresforum

MARCH 10, 2022

In the Unites States’ march to transition to clean energy and reduce greenhouse gasses, resilience may be the most important word to summarize 2021. Nine months after the pandemic first upended lives and the economy, the market fundamentals for clean energy looked unstoppable. percent and energy use rebounded by only 4.3

Clean Energy 40

Clean Energy Natural Gas Greenhouse 2020 40

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 6, 2023

PJM stakeholders voted on this policy to penalize energy suppliers who merely claim to be reliable and to use that money to reward the suppliers that actually exceed their expected performance. The self-governing PJM stakeholders put this in place after so many supposedly “firm” generators failed to perform in 2014.

2014 207

2014 2016 2022 Electricity 207

A Greener Life

JANUARY 31, 2022

Just two months before COP26, the government released Vietnam’s eighth power development plan (PDP8) which covered 2021–2030 and relied heavily on foreign investment in non-renewable energy. The PDP8 would have doubled coal power capacity by 2030, with more to come in the five years after that. Human costs and backlash.

2010 98

2010 2030 2020 Renewable Energy 98

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 12, 2023

We now know that gas power plant owners will vociferously deny responsibility for their failings. Utility companies, as well as state and federal government regulatory agencies, made a series of questionable decisions that together created the situation we find ourselves in today.

Fossil Fuels 176

Fossil Fuels Renewable Energy Electricity Regulations 176

A Greener Life

JANUARY 15, 2022

About its product and first US sale Andrew Hine, the company’s Commercial Director said: “ We have been working with UK Government and wider supply chain support to develop a generator technology that can remove rare-earth risk. Wind Harvest has recognised a strategic advantage of eliminating this risk.

Fossil Fuels 52

Fossil Fuels Renewable Energy Technology Technology 52

Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

To avoid the worst impacts of the climate crisis, it’s crucial that we shift energy production away from the unsustainable fossil fuels that cause climate change and towards those that release little to no greenhouse gases (GHG), such as solar and wind power. Clean energy is key to national security.

Clean Energy 45

Clean Energy Ocean Fossil Fuels Renewable Energy 45

Legal Planet

MARCH 13, 2024

So, China plays an outsized and even paradoxical role in deploying clean energy technologies to address the climate crisis. Joanna Lewis’ recent book, “Cooperating for the Climate” does that by examining the motivations, science, and politics behind international clean energy technology collaboration with China.

Clean Energy 247

Clean Energy Technology Technology Government 247

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 10, 2023

Getting there requires an all-of-society approach; getting there requires leadership at all levels of government. Let’s together get control over our energy supply chain so Putin and the Saudis can no longer control our destiny and our wallets. Inauguration Week. Maura Healy is New England’s new governor (all the others are reelected).

Climate Change 189

Climate Change Clean Energy Renewable Energy 2030 189

Law Columbia

JULY 27, 2020

Win with Wind members are residents of the South Fork of Long Island who are currently working to advocate for the proposed South Fork Wind Farm, which they see as an opportunity to place their community at the forefront of clean energy leadership.

Renewable Energy 40

Renewable Energy Greenhouse 2030 Electricity 40

Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

How then do we explain what is currently happening with energy prices? In the early days of the current price shocks, fossil fuel boosters blamed clean energy and climate policy. In fact, there are important aspects of these recent price shocks that stem directly from the choices governments have made about how to price energy.

Natural Gas 130

Natural Gas Electricity Fossil Fuels Clean Energy 130

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The results include two developers cancelling their offshore wind power contracts with states and utilities, another cancelling two projects altogether, and hesitation elsewhere. The good news-bad news balance, though, would seem to tip decidedly in favor of a whole lot more offshore wind.

Electricity 221

Electricity Fossil Fuels Wind Power Renewable Energy 221

Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Following a slew of recent cases scuttling or hamstringing new oil and gas pipelines, some have commented that it may now be even harder to develop transmission capacity for renewable energy. The recent pipeline decisions turned mostly on water quality concerns that are specific to oil and gas projects.

Renewable Energy 55

Renewable Energy Natural Gas Electricity Fossil Fuels 55

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 16, 2022

So what about FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) and the government assistance promised by President Biden? Knight says, “ Tell the Public Service Commission to lower rates and invest in clean energy, and tell your legislators and demand a just transition to build a safer future for all.”. When help isn’t helpful.

Climate Change 240

Climate Change Fossil Fuels Wind Power Renewable Energy 240

Ocean Conservancy

AUGUST 23, 2023

As people around the world grapple with climate change, scientists and engineers are exploring new and exciting ocean-based solutions to generate renewable energy. Tidal energy is emerging as another clean energy source alongside offshore wind farms and wave energy technology. What is tidal energy?

Ocean 66

Ocean Renewable Energy Clean Energy Electricity 66

Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

In a separate but similar Ninth Circuit appeal, the federal government filed a brief on October 18 urging the court to overturn a district court decision vacating the listing of a ringed seal subspecies as threatened based on climate change threats through the end of the century.

2016 40

2016 Climate Change Fossil Fuels Greenhouse 40

A Greener Life

APRIL 10, 2024

The New England project continues a surge of momentum that the administration is delivering to grow the American offshore wind industry, power millions of American homes with clean energy, and create good-paying, climate jobs.”

2024 69

2024 2030 Electricity Clean Energy 69

A Greener Life

JUNE 6, 2021

In addition, the German government has pledged nine billion euros for the development of a green hydrogen economy prompted by forecasts suggesting that hydrogen in Europe could create 5.4 The operations were terminated after the power plant won a bid in the auction for the nationwide coal phase-out in December 2020.

Wind Power 98

Wind Power 2025 Renewable Energy 2015 98

Legal Planet

MARCH 30, 2023

I sometimes ask students to guess what state produces the most wind power. Republicans have an iron grip on Texas government. Which seems a little hard to square with the state’s reliance on renewable energy. Which seems a little hard to square with the state’s reliance on renewable energy.

Wind Power 130

Wind Power Renewable Energy Fossil Fuels Natural Gas 130

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Batteries are key to enabling the renewable energy transition. When the sun isn’t shining or the wind isn’t blowing, batteries help store clean energy to continue supplying electricity to the grid and to customers consistently and reliably. By contrast, nearly every part of a renewable energy grid can be circular.

Renewable Energy 151

Renewable Energy Fossil Fuels Clean Energy Recycling 151

Environmental Progress

APRIL 20, 2021

ERCOT also expected, during peak demand events in winter, to have power from wind represent about 27% of installed wind capacity. In its most severe appraisal of the loss of wind capacity, ERCOT expected 8% of wind power compared to capacity. 14] The average age of a unit of wind or solar is 6.3

2021 113

2021 Renewable Energy Electricity Natural Gas 113

A Greener Life

APRIL 7, 2022

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (left) visits a hybrid power plant where “green” hydrogen is made using wind power and fed into the gas grid. Germany is not doing all it can to cut back energy use and increase economic pressure on Russia, argues Arne Jungjohann. Photo credit: Fabian Sommer / Alamy. By Arne Jungjohann.

Fossil Fuels 98

Fossil Fuels Renewable Energy Nuclear Power Natural Gas 98

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 17, 2024

Shapiro’s Offer To Work On Legislation To Make The Electric Grid More Reliable, Diversify Our Energy Sources, Lower Energy Costs For Ratepayers, Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions [PaEN] -- Pennsylvania’s Electric Grid Is Dependent On One Fuel To Generate 59% Of Our Electricity; Market Moving To Renewables + Storage [PaEN] -- US EIA Report Shows How Winter (..)

Natural Gas 81

Natural Gas Electricity Recycling 2024 81

Environmental Progress

MARCH 11, 2021

23] In response to Fukushima, the Japanese government shut down its nuclear plants and the cost of electricity went up. As a result, 1,280 people died from cold from unaffordable electrical power, researchers calculate, between 2011 and 2014. [24] The Future of Electric Power in the United States. as a whole. [52] 27] Thomas V.

Electricity 101

Electricity Renewable Energy Nuclear Power 2019 101

Acoel

MARCH 8, 2023

The first job for the Biden Administration is to deliver the funding efficiently to energy system developers, state and local government agencies, businesses, and individual purchasers of equipment. And then there is the big challenge of permitting new clean energy projects. See [link]. The post The U.S.

Climate Change 52

Climate Change Government Renewable Energy Fossil Fuels 52

Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Even the proposal’s main architect, former Secretary of State James Baker, acknowledged that he faces an “uphill slog” in convincing the federal government to act. The others, established through New York’s Clean Energy Standard, compensate renewable generators and nuclear plants for their low-carbon attributes.

Electricity 40

Electricity Carbon Dioxide Fossil Fuels Greenhouse 40

Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

I was one of the lucky ones allowed into the packed room, where he gave a rousing addressing, calling for urgent action by governments, businesses, and individuals to combat climate change. In his address on Wednesday, Secretary Kerry noted that “the world is now beginning to move forward together, towards a clean energy future.”

Paris Agreement 52

Paris Agreement Climate Change Sea Level 2008 52