Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Rhodium reported that “the most rapid investment growth has been in clean technology manufacturing—with annual investment growing 125% year-on-year to $39 billion—and particularly within electric vehicle and solar manufacturing. Investment in clean energy production and industrial decarbonization rose 15% year-on-year to $61 billion.”

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Legal Planet

JULY 29, 2021

The law also contains provisions addressing wages and benefits for workers on renewable energy projects. House Bill 2165 addresses electrical charging for vehicles. HB 2165 also sets up a special rebate program for low- and medium-income purchasers of electric vehicles. As far as I can figure out, that’s about $7.5

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Environmental Progress

MARCH 11, 2021

Congress took questions relating to the security of America’s electricity supply seriously before more than a dozen states experienced energy shortages last month, but those events make this hearing all the more urgent. electrical grids were increasingly “complex and vulnerable.” [2] Shellenberger. 5] The U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 4, 2022

On March 31, Philadelphia-based Comcast announced an agreement to purchase 250 megawatts (MW) of solar electricity from Constellation that will power approximately 12 percent of its U.S. operations and the vast majority of its Mid-Atlantic operations with clean, renewable energy. power grid. power grid.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

On February 16, Sheetz , a family owned and operated restaurant and convenience store chain, announced a long-term renewable supply agreement with Constellation Energy to power nearly 70 percent of its Pennsylvania facilities with renewable energy.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

And even when he mentions the new funding to build “charging stations” he refrains from uttering the words “electric vehicles.” The IRA provides $369 billion for climate and clean energy programs, the largest investment of its kind ever passed by Congress. Biden in a (non-electric) Corvette Stingray.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 11, 2023

On December 11, DEP told the House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee the Shapiro Administration supports expansion of the Alternative Energy Portfolio Standards to increase renewable energy generation, authorization of a community solar program and expanding energy storage in the Commonwealth.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Rate design has been a site of experimentation and contestation since the earliest days of electricity provisioning. In the earliest days of electricity provisioning, fixed charges were common in residential rates due to the limits of metering technology. Regulators and policymakers began to reevaluate their approach to rate design.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The opportunities to diversify our generation fleet will continue to grow as nationwide investment has pushed down the cost of emerging technologies substantially over the last two decades, making solar and other advanced generation solutions affordable, and in many cases, the cheapest energy resource to build.

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CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The Legislature also increased efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions with the passage of Assembly Bill 1279 and Senate Bill 1020, setting net zero emissions targets and renewable energy and zero-carbon targets for California retail electricity sales. Below is a short summary of the key features of these amendments.

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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.

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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.

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Environmental News Bits

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The company attributed the decline to an increase in renewable electricity at both retail and production units, improving energy efficiency in its … Continue reading Ikea makes strides in reducing carbon footprint, attributes progress to clean energy initiatives

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

By Eric Lowitt, Charge-Zero Do you drive an electric vehicle or know someone who does? A question that has long bugged most EV drivers is: “Why am I still using dirty energy to charge my clean vehicle?” The grid is our primary source of energy. focuses on renewable energy as the primary energy source for EV chargers.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

price of natural gas increased 525 percent since June 2020 and hit a 14-year high this month causing the price of natural gas directly used by customers to increase dramatically in Pennsylvania, but also caused a surge in the cost of electricity because a significant portion of electric generation is now natural gas-fired.

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Cresforum

AUGUST 2, 2021

Considering recent summer and winter weather-induced blackouts, accomplishing this critical goal while reducing carbon emissions and maintaining affordable electricity prices is challenging states, regulators, investor-owned utilities, and retail power providers alike.

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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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Columbia Climate Law

JULY 9, 2015

Recently, two competing plans to reform California’s four-tier electricity rate structure of the three investor-owned utilities (IOUs) [1] have emerged from the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC). Under the current tariff system, customers who use more electricity are charged significantly higher rates per kilowatt-hour (kWh). [4]

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Vermont Law

APRIL 24, 2017

In America, energy policy provides one avenue towards this goal: electricity generation produces. Zero-emission energy (the renewables and nuclear) produces no emissions. As demand for electricity is projected to be. zero-emission energy must displace fossil fuel fired generation. The retail rate is.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 9, 2022

These measures will cut electricity use by over 51,000 kilowatt hours annually. Fifteen projects are in the Philadelphia region, including projects at Drexel University; Esperanza College; 990 Spring Garden, a retail/maker/office space; the Tower Place and Coventry House residential buildings, and others. The Leon H.

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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]

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Edouard Stenger

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Food waste from producers, retailers and consumers. If a single cow produces enough methane to power a 100W incandescent light bulb (or eight efficient LED ones), the manure of the billion cows around the world could produce enough electricity to power an LED light bulb 24/7 for every human. This accounts for 4.4

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 23, 2022

Oil/Natural Gas ] -- Bloomberg: Biden To Unveil New Russia Sanctions, Energy Aid In Brussels Thursday -- Reuters: Biden Admin Confident Of U.S. Batteries -- Bloomberg: VW Sees $7.7 Billion Investment In Spanish Battery Supply Chain -- WSJ: U.S.

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Renewable + Law

MAY 10, 2022

NEM customers receive a bill credit for any excess generation produced by their system and exported to the electric grid, which credits may be used to offset customer energy costs. C) Community Distributed Energy Resources. Under NEM 2.0, Tariff structure.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 6, 2022

The European Union is set to unveil an energy plan this week to accelerate a transition to clean, renewable energy and to “reduce permanently our dependence on imports of natural gas.” Why not determine our own future through True Energy Independence? Does Europe Want Our Gas? And they meant all natural gas imports.

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Columbia Climate Law

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Net metering, which requires utilities to purchase, at retail rates, the solar energy its customers send back to the grid, has been hailed as instrumental in encouraging the growth of rooftop solar across the country. Photo courtesy of ell brown.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 15, 2023

Million In Grants To Underserved/Distressed Communities, Partnerships To Improve Recreation, Community Revitalization Efforts Across PA; New Grant Rounds Opening Jan. 17 [PaEN] -- DCNR Announces $3.2 Million Investment For Trail Gaps, ATV/Snowmobile Projects; New Grant Rounds Opening Jan. 17 [PaEN] -- DCNR Announces $3.2

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 6, 2021

million kilowatt hours of electricity from solar energy. The academy installed 1,080 solar panels that generate a half megawatt of electricity, providing a third of the power for the facility and 100 percent of the power to run AgWorks. The lab is open to the public. Project partners also hosted workshops on water quality.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 29, 2022

Republicans said the final regulations will increase the cost of electricity for individuals and businesses, have a negative impact on jobs and will not significantly reduce carbon pollution. While electricity rates are already rising across the country, during the first 10 years that RGGI was in place, rates dropped nearly 6% in RGGI states.

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Arnold Porter

AUGUST 6, 2021

trillion in federal funds to strengthen roads, bridges, and water systems while laying the foundation for deployment of a national electric vehicle (EV) charging network and broadband infrastructure in rural and underserved American communities. Electric Vehicle Infrastructure. National Electric Vehicle Program.

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

In recent years, states in New England and the mid-Atlantic region have made significant progress in reducing climate change-inducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the electricity generation sector. [1]. emissions from the electricity generation sector. [21]. One study estimates that CO. RGGI is composed of individual CO.

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Law Columbia

JULY 2, 2021

In re Hawaiian Electric Co. , The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court affirmed the Energy Facilities Siting Board’s approval of a proposal for a new underground electrical transmission line running between substations in the Towns of Sudbury and Hudson. SCOT-20-0000309 (Haw. June 29, 2021).

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