Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 31, 2022

A majority of city residents said they wanted reliable transit, better air quality, more renewable energy, higher household savings, and improved public health. Reducing energy use via energy efficiency would reduce carbon emissions, save residents and businesses money, and strengthen the city’s climate resiliency.

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Renewable Energy Carbon Emissions Electricity 2008 192

Law and Environment

AUGUST 11, 2022

DPU is instructed to study how to make it easier for communities to adopt geothermal heating and cooling systems. Each electric distribution company will be directed to develop an electric-sector modernization plan to enable increased adoption of renewable energy and create a more reliable and resilient grid. Renewable Energy.

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Clean Energy Fossil Fuels Renewable Energy 2027 147

Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Wind turbines and solar power, two sturdy and growing sources of renewable energy, require negligible amounts of water. Nuclear plants hoover up enormous volumes of water for cooling, killing aquatic life and warming rivers in the process. Rivers provide a cooling effect on nearby lands, functioning as a natural air conditioner.

Biofuels 363

Biofuels Carbon Emissions Cooling Fossil Fuels 363

Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

New building codes and rebates for clean cooling measures in homes are scrapped, so low-income households can’t afford to cool their homes. Fossil fuel price volatilities continue year-round, and energy prices are unaffordable. In the winter, homes are drafty, windows leak in cold air, and heating bills are skyrocketing.

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Fossil Fuels Cooling Climate Change Electricity 110

Environmental News Bits

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Read the full story from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. Their homes are cool, protected from the … Continue reading NREL partners to identify strategies for a more equitable clean energy transition in Los Angeles As Angelenos wake up for the day, they turn on lights powered by 100% clean electricity.

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Clean Energy Renewable Energy Cooling Ocean 40

Energy and Climate Law

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Until June 2021 the new target shall be implemented into EU legislation via the following : revising and expanding the EU Emissions Trading System; adapting the Effort Sharing Regulation and the framework for land use emissions; reinforcing energy efficiency and renewable energy policies; and strengthening CO2 standards for road vehicles.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 27, 2022

For stationary storage, companies such as RePurpose Energy and B2U Storage Solutions are repurposing these batteries to be used for renewable energy generation support. As the grid becomes cleaner, added grid storage becomes more necessary to support the generation variability of renewable sources.

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Recycling Electricity Renewable Energy Technology 360

Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

But do not doubt this: there is currently enough power generation and transmission currently to serve the increase in charging load from EV purchases in the next few years, particularly if they are charged at times when other demands for power are less (such as overnight) or at times of high renewable energy generation.

Electricity 347

Electricity Renewable Energy Fossil Fuels Cooling 347

Enviromental Defense

APRIL 16, 2024

Compared to funding for fossil fuels, clean energy stimulus creates nearly three times as many jobs for equivalent investments. Distort the energy market : Subsidies distort markets, favouring oil and gas over renewable energy. Lastly, fossil fuels come with a giant opportunity cost. 18 billion could have equipped 1.2

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Fossil Fuels Electricity Renewable Energy Government 101

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Rather than using treated wastewater to cool the steam the Allen plant uses to make electricity, as other plants have done, the TVA continues to tap into the source of Memphis’s drinking water. TVA CEO Jeff Lyash has often referred to gas as a bridge fuel , needed in the transition to renewable energy.

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Fossil Fuels Natural Gas Renewable Energy Climate Change 179

A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Natural CO2 refrigeration at the ice rinks to 100% renewables-powered venues are just some of the technologies implemented. Cooling ice rinks. For the first time at any Olympics, China is using CO2, collected from industrial waste gases, to cool ice rinks in its four ice sports venues. Fully powered by renewable energy.

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Renewable Energy Technology Technology Cooling 98

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Consistently cool to seasonable temperatures with some rather cold nights this weekend should accelerate leaf change throughout the Commonwealth. Signs of fall abound in Penn’s Woods, but a few northern tier counties will enter peak color this week, stealing the show. Click Here to read the October 6 to 12 report.

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Renewable Energy Cooling Natural Resources Conservation 103

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 2, 2024

Spring is a glorious time for renewable energy. Total generation in spring and fall is consistently lower because of lower electricity demand for heating and cooling in the shoulder seasons. Spring is also a glorious time for taking stock, since the official data on the previous year’s US electricity generation become available.

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Electricity 2013 2023 Clean Energy 140

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

This means that for an indefinite amount of time—depending on the cause of the outage —a home can go without electricity for lighting, heating, cooling and other needs that people depend on every day. With solar to generate energy, a battery to discharge when needed, and efficiency measures to conserve energy, this household will be safe.

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Carbon Monoxide Cooling Clean Energy Electricity 241

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 19, 2023

Change #1: 100% clean energy goals have spread At the beginning of 2018, the only state in the country with a 100% clean or renewable energy goal was Hawaii. Now, 22 states plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico have 100% clean energy goals on the books.

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2018 Clean Energy Renewable Energy Electricity 228

Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 19, 2024

Support clean energy Solar Power Plant in modern city: Sustainable Renewable Energy. Transitioning how we produce and consume energy is crucial for reducing fossil fuel emissions. Look for ways to embrace clean, renewable energy.

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Climate Change Renewable Energy Fossil Fuels Politics 68

Environmental News Bits

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Read the full story in Fast Company. SWG3, a dance club and arts venue, is getting a radical retrofit over the next two months, which will allow it to suck up the heat generated by thousands of visitors, store it in the depths of the Earth, and pump it back into the venue whenever it’s… Read more →

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Cooling Renewable Energy 80

Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 31, 2022

As California decarbonizes its economy, the state will build enormous amounts of renewable energy and energy storage to clean up the electricity sector. Every Californian can help ease the strain on the grid because, when the grid is under stress, people’s energy saving actions can make a big difference. heat pumps !).

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Solar Power Fossil Fuels Electricity 2020 260

Enviromental Defense

MAY 14, 2024

For example: Water consumption: The equipment used to capture carbon generates heat and must be cooled with water. The capture, transportation, and storage of CO 2 have significant environmental impacts and raise a host of health and safety concerns. Water is life!”

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Carbon Dioxide Government 2010 Conservation 118

A Greener Life

MARCH 2, 2023

By Anders Lorenzen The world invested a record-high amount in renewables in 2022, a report from the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) has found. It revealed that the global investments in renewable energy as well as energy efficiency reached $ 1.3 Photo credit: IRENA.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Energy equity also means thinking about the unequal distribution of energy system costs in our country and how that directly reflects historical harms enacted through policy and siting of polluting facilities that have sacrificed communities of Black, Latinx, Native, low-income, and immigrant groups for decades.

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Electricity Fossil Fuels Air Pollution Renewable Energy 247

Enviromental Defense

MARCH 22, 2022

A report commissioned by the Ontario Power Authority (now the Independent Electricity System Operator) identified 64 potential offshore wind power sites in the Great Lakes that could produce nearly 35,000 MW of electricity which is 50 per cent more than our current energy demand. As the U.S. And without the pollution that gas plants cause.

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Solar Power Wind Power Renewable Energy Electricity 107

Brag

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The European Parliament (EP) voted on September 14, 2022, to increase the share of renewables in the European Union’s (EU) final energy consumption to 45 percent by 2030 , under the revision of the Renewable Energy Directive (RED), a target also backed by the European Commission (EC) under its “RepowerEU” package.

Biofuels 40

Biofuels Renewable Energy Cooling 2030 40

Physics World

JUNE 28, 2021

The device uses waste heat from the solar cell for desalination, thereby cooling the solar cell. Climate change is also driving demand for renewable energy, like solar power. A theoretical model suggests that the hydrophobic membranes are key to achieving simultaneous PV cooling and a high rate of water production.

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Electricity Waste Cooling Solar Power 145

Energy and Climate Law

OCTOBER 22, 2020

By Ceciel Nieuwenhout, Post-Doctoral Researcher, Groningen Centre of Energy Law and Sustainability; Lead Author of WP 1 T1.2 Report to the H2020 POCITYF-project A substantial part of energy in the EU is consumed by households , for powering electric appliances and for heating and cooling.

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Electricity Renewable Energy Law Regulations 246

Cleannovate

JUNE 28, 2021

The cool thing with capacitive desalination (also known as capacitive deionization or CDI) is that it utilizes minimal power (less than 2 volts). However, it is also ripe for more R & D in order to make it robust, affordable and reliant on renewable energy to make it more sustainable.

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Pollution Control Renewable Energy Cooling Ocean 113

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 11, 2023

However, much of the attention paid to the flood risk of power plant sites has centered on nuclear plants, which also require a water source for the creation of steam, as well as for keeping the plant cool in an emergency.

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Fossil Fuels 2011 Climate Change Nuclear Power 212

A Greener Life

JANUARY 6, 2023

It was briefly the world’s largest floating solar farm, though like most renewable energy records that crown has now gone China’s way. Panels over water are naturally cooled from beneath, and so their location adds to their efficiency. As an example, here’s the array on the Queen Elizabeth II reservoir near London.

Solar Power 98

Solar Power Clean Energy Renewable Energy Cooling 98

A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Forecasts of cool weather and expectations of lower wind power output had driven up demand for more fossil-fuel produced energy. The latest surge in prices is evidence that the mechanism is working, and that it is intensifying companies to invest in renewable energy.

Fossil Fuels 52

Fossil Fuels Clean Energy Wind Power Carbon Emissions 52

Physics World

MAY 13, 2021

According to study leader Kripa Varanasi , the effect might even allow untreated salty water to be used in certain industrial cooling systems. He adds that exploiting the effect could even make it possible to use salty water for cooling systems that would otherwise require valuable and often limited freshwater supplies.

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Cooling Renewable Energy Technology Technology 98

Environmental Leader

MAY 17, 2022

Google's Bay View Campus, with innovative heating and cooling and solar energy systems, opens. The post Unique Sustainability Features Open Google’s Bay View Campus appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

Cooling 82

Cooling Renewable Energy 82

Physics World

APRIL 27, 2022

The combined device can generate 50 mW or more of power per square metre at night while providing additional power during the day, and its developers say that it could provide a continuous source of renewable energy for people without access to the electrical grid. Thermoelectric effect.

Radiation 119

Radiation Electricity Renewable Energy Cooling 119

Physics World

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Extreme heat is not just an abstract notion: if we can’t cool our bodies enough, we’re in danger of neurological failure, organ failure and even death, with the risks highest for children and the elderly. On balance, clouds nearer the stratosphere warm us, whereas low-lying clouds tend to cool us because their greenhouse effect is smaller.

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Cooling Atmosphere Climate Change Greenhouse 133

Energy and Climate Law

JUNE 26, 2020

It agreed that measures of climate protection and the energy sector shall be at the forefront of the economic reconstruction after the crisis, taking into account in particular the goal of climate-neutrality of the EU by 2050 ( p.3

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Paris Agreement 2030 2020 Renewable Energy 130

Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 1, 2023

Heat pumps, a simple but effective technology, use electricity to remove heat from inside your home to cool it in the summer and pull heat in from outside to heat your home in the winter. Just 34 per cent of Ontarians have heard about electric heat pumps and know what they do.

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Technology Technology Fossil Fuels Electricity 52

A Greener Life

MAY 12, 2023

A woman pours water over her head to cool off during soaring temperatures in Dhaka, Bangladesh on 11 April 2023. Transition quickly to renewable energy As much as 95% of West Bengal’s 10.7 Temperature records have been broken across Asia in recent weeks. Photo credit: Habibur Rahman /Alamy Live News.

Climate Change 52

Climate Change Fossil Fuels Electricity Renewable Energy 52

A Greener Life

AUGUST 5, 2022

Basalt is a porous rock formed from cooling lava. Powered by renewable energy, Solid Carbon will bring together existing technologies including carbon capture, offshore drilling, pipelines and injection wells. Photo credit: Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions.

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Carbon Dioxide Ocean Atmosphere Fossil Fuels 98