Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 16, 2024

Much of our electricity system is 50 to 70 years old, yet current plans for domestic manufacturing, electric vehicle fleets, community solar gardens and more clean energy all depend on a modern grid. New demands for electricity and the need to reduce climate-changing emissions are driving new grid planning efforts.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 21, 2024

The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) included a major—forthcoming—refresh for one of the biggest policy drivers of the nation’s clean energy transition to date: tax credits subsidizing the deployment of clean electricity resources. These incentives aren’t just historically important.

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Electricity Clean Energy Greenhouse Technology 291

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 19, 2025

The electric grid is the generic term for the complicated system of power plants and wires that provides electricity to 92% of the worlds inhabitants. Generation consists of large, centralized power plants that produce electric energy. Source: Lee Shaver/UCS. How is the grid changing? Source: Lee Shaver/UCS. Data source: U.S.

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Fossil Fuels Electricity Technology Technology 154

Legal Planet

MAY 7, 2024

Chris Hunkeler, Wikimedia Commons In the West, the benefits of electricity market regionalization appear more attractive than ever. Regionalization” refers to efforts to expand coordination between Western states to buy and sell wholesale electricity through centralized federal power markets.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 21, 2024

Earlier this month, the US Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service hosted a public hearing on their recent proposed rules governing implementation of the Section 45Y Clean Electricity Production Credit and the Section 48E Clean Electricity Investment Credit. My testimony is copied below.

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Electricity Wind Power Greenhouse Clean Energy 254

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

This experience, not far from Seattle and with ties to the information tech industry, highlights some of the issues surrounding the electric power needs of data centers. He was obviously oblivious to the fact that old-style electric heat (i.e. He assured me he hadnt: it doesnt require electricity! Modernize, or bypass, the grid?

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 12, 2024

As governments and the auto industry advance the switch to electric vehicles, this rapid technology transition may disrupt traditional mobility patternsand, without equitable planning and policy, it has the potential for negative impacts to mobility and affordability in underserved and lower-income communities.

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Legal Planet

MAY 9, 2022

California’s system uses revenues from auctioning allowances to fund its Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF) and to limit cost increases to electricity users. reducing or eliminating free allocations of allowances) would accelerate emissions reductions including through greater fuel switching to non-fossil technologies. Stay tuned.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 13, 2025

So why are renewable energy developers hesitant about participating in the upcoming opportunity to submit proposals for new electricity generation for the Long-Term 2 (LT2) procurement? Delays by government Ministries are jeopardizing renewable energy business case development and potential investments.

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Renewable Energy Natural Gas Government Technology 140

Legal Planet

JULY 15, 2024

The first efforts to use of wind to generate electricity was 134 years ago, and the photoelectric effect was discovered six decades earlier. So in a sense, these are old technologies — about the same age as the very first internal combustion engines. Persian experts were sent by Genghis Khan to establish the technology in China.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

You don’t have to look beyond the front pages of newspapers , or beyond rooftops in your neighborhood to know that we are in the midst of a clean energy revolution, with renewable energy technologies dramatically decreasing in price and increasing in availability.

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Law Renewable Energy Clean Energy Fossil Fuels 325

Enviromental Defense

JUNE 6, 2025

If the Prime Minister wants to build a new economy for Canada, his government should invest in the energy of the future. Projects that should be considered to be truly nation-building should include: A resilient electricity grid with new east-west interties and with access for solar, wind and storage.

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Renewable Energy Government Electricity Technology 126

A Greener Life

APRIL 10, 2025

A 100 year journey The journey began in 1925, and it is a hundred years to the day since the first electric train ran in India, a suburban service running into Mumbai. It was in 2014 that the government ramped up ambitions and committed the funds for a fully electric railway. The pace of change doubled and then doubled again.

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Electricity Renewable Energy Clean Energy Solar Power 56

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 27, 2022

As electric vehicle (EV) sales continue to increase, questions about how these cars and their batteries will be disposed of have been top of mind for current owners, future buyers, policymakers, and many experts in the automotive industry. In addition to the California work, the federal government is also paying attention.

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Recycling Electricity Renewable Energy Technology 362

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 16, 2023

But solar’s growth, especially in large arrays, has made it much more visible in communities and landscapes across the country, sparking a lot of conversations about land use, technology options, community engagement, and how best to site the many more megawatts of solar we need. Single projects can be hundreds of megawatts.

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Solar Power Fossil Fuels Electricity Technology 310

Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Yet in 2023, China accounted for about 60% of the world’s new renewables and electric vehicles. accounting for over 10% of China’s electricity. China has become the dominant manufacturer of clean energy technologies. This is not an accident: the government poured $22 billion into the EV industry starting in 2009.

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Clean Energy Fossil Fuels Renewable Energy 2009 277

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 9, 2025

The bill, introduced by State Representative Supreme Moore Omokunde and State Senator Chris Larson, creates an enforceable timeline with specific objectives, allowing flexibility for discussions of the various technology and policy approaches to come later. I came to Madison ten years ago to pursue a masters in electrical engineering.

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Fossil Fuels Climate Change Clean Energy Natural Gas 198

Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Replacing petroleum with renewable electricity as the primary source of transportation energy will leave us all much better off. Our transportation system is highly inequitable, reflecting decades of misguided and biased decisions at all levels of government. In other words, technological solutions are necessary but not sufficient.

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Electricity Biofuels Technology Technology 290

Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 3, 2024

By concentrating this much power in the hands of one office, the province’s energy planning will happen in backrooms, likely to the benefit of government insiders. The government’s choice to enshrine in law a prioritization of nuclear power is also troubling.

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Nuclear Power 2017 Climate Change Law 122

Enviromental Defense

JUNE 12, 2025

While it is positive to see the government take an integrated and long-term approach to energy planning, this ideological plan from the Minister must be replaced by a plan written by experts and based on modelling shared with the public. The government also provides no justification for its claims that this plan is focused on affordability.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 7, 2022

What the federal government will do. Authorize use of the Defense Production Act (DPA) to accelerate domestic production of clean energy technologies, including solar panel parts” —plus building insulation, heat pumps, equipment for making “clean electricity-generated fuels”, and “[c]ritical power grid infrastructure like transformers.”

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Solar Power Clean Energy Renewable Energy Electricity 334

Physics World

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Most private fusion companies expect fusion power to be supplying electricity to the grid in the 2030s. While not every company declared the amount of funding they had received, the 18 that did so had accrued almost $1.8bn to date plus an additional $85m in grants and other funding from governments.

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Electricity Technology Technology Climate Change 142

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

By expanding renewable power, phasing out fossil fuels, electrifying as much of the economy as possible, and deploying other technologies, the U.S. More transportation options = less buildout of the electric grid UCS’s project examined several ways that the US can lower global warming emissions consistent with limiting overall warming to 1.5

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Clean Energy Biofuels Renewable Energy Electricity 353

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Utilities were famously set in their ways, using nineteenth century technologies to produce and deliver their products. The resulting government policies are forcing radical change on the energy system of a kind not seen in a century or more. Technological changes. Only specialists really paid much attention. Economic changes.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The federal government is now supporting that role with federal funding for states. A key provision (IRA § 60114) appropriates $250 million to support emission reduction planning by state governments. Another development with multi-state implications involves electric vehicles. States have played a critical role in U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 21, 2023

How would that change if I hopped on the electric bus route at the end of my block? Even when accounting for pollution from electricity generation, electric trucks can significantly reduce air pollution and get us on a better track to addressing climate change.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Route 220 in Bedford Township is being built for a facility that provides liquid natural gas as fuel for electricity generation, transportation and heat. The renewable energy source has generated more than 959,000 kilowatt-hours of energy, or 76% of the facilitys total electricity. And Going Higher?

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Natural Gas Electricity Renewable Energy Solar Power 108

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 30, 2024

This is due in no small part to the “ nuclear bros ”: an active and seemingly tireless group of nuclear power advocates who dominate social media discussions on energy by promoting SMRs and other “advanced” nuclear technologies as the only real solution for the climate crisis. What are SMRs?

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Nuclear Power Electricity Waste Cooling 363

Real Climate

AUGUST 17, 2022

As you can see there are tax credits and subsidies for electric vehicles, renewable energy, nuclear energy, transmission, hydrogen, air pollution reduction, energy infrastructure, climate resilience, rural development, residential buildings, etc. How much global technological innovation will be spurred by these investments?

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Paris Agreement Air Pollution Renewable Energy 2030 363

Enviromental Defense

JULY 31, 2024

Nova Scotia still relies on dirty coal for half of its electricity. We have cost-effective, proven, and reliable solutions that are ready today—including solar, wind, and battery storage—which continue to be underfunded by all levels of government. Background information The Government of Canada is already subsidizing hydrogen.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 23, 2023

The Air & Waste Management Association will hold its 15th annual Symposium on Electric Power Transformation - Energy, Environment, Policy, Technology September 26-27 in Pittsburgh. Click Here to register and for more information.

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Technology Technology Electricity Waste 98

Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 23, 2024

It would seem that the Grinch has once again made off with a ramshackle sleigh full of wind turbines and solar panels and they aren’t likely to return from their shop, not unless the heart of the ole ‘Grinchy-Claus’ (aka the Alberta Government) has an unexpected growth spurt. Stay tuned.

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Renewable Energy 2027 Government Electricity 98

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Gas, which now generates 40 percent of US electricity, is considered by some to be critical to maintain grid reliability. For example, Dominion Energy, an electric and gas utility in Virginia, is planning to build a mammoth 1,000-megawatt gas plant in an area with a high percentage of residents who are people of color and low-income.

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Clean Energy Nitrogen Oxides Fossil Fuels Electricity 345

Physics World

JUNE 28, 2021

A device that can generate electricity while desalinating seawater has been developed by researchers in Saudi Arabia and China, who claim that their new system is highly efficient at performing both tasks. However, this has typically resulted in a trade-off between efficient electricity generation and efficient desalination.

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Electricity Waste Cooling Solar Power 145

Circle of Blue

MAY 4, 2022

Record heatwaves in India and Pakistan are causing water and electricity shortages. An Ohio -based nonprofit creates new technology that could break down “forever chemicals” like PFAS. Amid Record Heatwaves, India and Pakistan Face Water and Electricity Shortages. In Recent Water News. Environmentalists are unconvinced.

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Technology Technology 2022 Electricity 130

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 2, 2024

This funding, provided by the Inflation Reduction Act , is available to a wide variety of entities, including port authorities, local and tribal governments, and regional air quality agencies as well as businesses and non-profits that partner or collaborate with these public entities. Volvo Trucks.

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Air Pollution Nitrogen Oxides Electricity Climate Change 214

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Lithium-ion batteries are essential for decarbonizing transportation through electric vehicles and building a resilient, renewable energy grid through energy storage batteries. By 2050, battery recycling could supply 22 to 27% of lithium, 40 to 46% of nickel, and 45 to 52% of cobalt needed for electric vehicles in the US.

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