Energy & the Law
JANUARY 3, 2024
Takeaway: Texas does not recognize a legal duty owed by wholesale power generators to retail customers to provide continuous electricity to the electric grid and ultimately to the customers. All they do is generate electricity and sell it at wholesale. Under Texas law, they have no legal duty to retail customers.
Legal Planet
AUGUST 29, 2023
Under new legislation, California is moving to a novel system that includes income-based fixed charges for electricity. The series will dive into the material, financial, and equity concerns prompting the law, the practical design challenges for its implementation, and the ideological divisions between its supporters and critics.
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Legal Planet
JUNE 6, 2022
Our electricity system will be crucial to decarbonization efforts, both because much of our current energy comes from electricity, and because decarbonizing sectors like transportation will require significant electrification. Restructuring generally addresses one of two parts of the electricity industry: generation and retail.
Union of Concerned Scientists
AUGUST 2, 2022
With the significant strides in electric truck technology, vastly reduced operating and maintenance costs compared to combustion vehicles, and the fact that, according to USPS, 95 percent of its routes can be serviced by electric vehicles, one would assume that the USPS would be pursuing electric delivery vehicles in full force.
Law and Environment
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
The amendments are intended to accelerate progress towards decarbonization of the electricity sector and further ensure the state meets its goal of net zero emissions by 2050. The CES, first enacted in 2017, requires retail sellers of electricity in Massachusetts to provide increasing quantities of clean electricity over time.
Union of Concerned Scientists
DECEMBER 21, 2023
According to the National Retail Federation , around 20 percent of shopping occurs during November and December. How would that change if I hopped on the electric bus route at the end of my block? The holidays are the peak shopping time for US consumers. Holiday shopping has grown consistently over the past decade at around 3.5
Legal Planet
SEPTEMBER 21, 2023
Confirming initial projections when the law was passed, models now predict that IRA will significantly cut emissions by 2030. Moreover, “household and business retail investment in purchasing and installing clean technologies like heat pumps and zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs) rose 32% year-on-year to $113 billion.” climate pledge.
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