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Union of Concerned Scientists
AUGUST 22, 2023
But extreme heat also hits our electricity system in ways that make it more expensive, more polluting, and less reliable. Extreme heat means more expensive electricity Extreme heat can sharply increase electricity consumption as people turn up their air conditioners for relief. One factor is the dirtiness of fossil fuels.
Legal Planet
JULY 29, 2021
On Wednesday, Oregon Governor Kate Brown signed a package of four clean energy bills. These laws ban new fossil fuel plants and set aggressive targets for the state’s two major utilities, requiring emission cuts of 80% by 2030, 90% by 2035 and 100% by 2040. House Bill 2165 addresses electrical charging for vehicles.
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A Greener Life
JANUARY 9, 2023
It is projected to cost between 2 and 3 billion euros and is expected to create enough electricity to power and heat (where electrical heating is installed) 2 million Finnish apartments or 250,000 individual Finnish homes. gigawatts (GW). Towards net-zero.
Environmental Progress
APRIL 20, 2021
Advocates of renewable energy have argued since the 1970s that the variable, weather-dependent nature of sunlight and wind is a modest obstacle at best to relying on 100 percent renewables. Some have argued that weather-dependent energies would, paradoxically, make electricity even more reliable.
Legal Planet
FEBRUARY 12, 2024
One gigawatt is sufficient to meet electricity demand for about one million average homes in the state, according to the CEC ). In 2023, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), held the state’s first offshore wind auction, auctioning off five leases in Central and Northern California. [1]
PA Environment Daily
MARCH 9, 2022
“Every time a company or organization installs an energy-efficient heating, cooling, or lighting system, it’s another step for Pennsylvania and the nation toward independence from fossil fuels. It creates good-paying jobs in energy efficiency system manufacturing and installation. The Leon H.
Smith Enviorment
JANUARY 22, 2023
Utilities Commission (NCUC) to “take all reasonable steps” to achieve a 70% reduction in carbon dioxide ( CO 2 ) emissions from electric generating units (EGUs) by 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality for the utility generation system by 2050. The reduction goals apply to electric utilities that are: 1.
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