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.

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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

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Inhabitant

JANUARY 2, 2023

Moonbike is the world's first all-electric snowbike, similar to a snowmobile, and it's hitting the Alps this year. This French creation with skis in front and tractor treads in back retails for €10,680 (around $11,402) and can hit speeds of 26 mph, with a battery that lasts three hours.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

On November 22, the Public Utility Commission alerted consumers and small businesses that most utilities will be adjusting their price to compare for electric generation on December 1st – with potentially large winter energy cost increases in some areas for non-shopping (default service) customers. cents to 7.98 cents to 7.98

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 6, 2022

Besides the kilowatt-hours it generates, Glen Canyon provides key services to the electric grid. The country’s second largest reservoir and a lynchpin in the intermountain electric grid, Powell is more dirt than water these days. Hydropower generation will likely shut down when Lake Powell’s elevation drops below 3,490 feet.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 28, 2024

Stronghold Digital owns two “bitcoin mining operations” in Pennsylvania and these facilities use enough electricity to power approximately 1.15 The Nesquehoning site burns waste coal and tires to produce electricity for its bitcoin mining operation. The credits were intended to support electricity generation for retail customers.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 29, 2024

“Today marks an important step in the process of allowing flexible, distributed resources to participate in the reliability of the electric system through markets at PJM,” noted PUC Vice Chair Kimberly Barrow in a joint statement with PUC Chairman Stephen M.

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Legal Planet

JULY 29, 2021

House Bill 2165 addresses electrical charging for vehicles. It calls for an add-on charge to all retail customers in order to collect 0.25% of the utilities annual revenue, with the proceeds to be devoted to charging infrastructure. The law also contains provisions addressing wages and benefits for workers on renewable energy projects.

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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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Legal Planet

MARCH 30, 2023

But when it comes to the recent surge in natural gas prices that jolted electricity and gas bills this winter, the next step is murkier. So, their retail prices, which are regulated by the CPUC, might be inflated if they are based on inflated wholesale prices of natural gas. Mike Mozart via Flickr (CC BY- 2.0) How would that work?

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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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Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 16, 2022

In 2021, it had … Continue reading Home Depot has cut electricity consumption by 44% since 2010. It sells everything — from power tools to home appliances to construction equipment. Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, it operates in Mexico and Canada and has nearly 500,000 employees.

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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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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

“Today marks an important step in the process of allowing flexible, distributed resources to participate in the reliability of the electric system through markets at PJM,” noted PUC Vice Chair Kimberly Barrow this morning, in a joint statement with PUC Chairman Stephen M.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 14, 2022

For decades, hydroelectric dams in the Colorado River Storage Project supplied cheap power and a relatively steady revenue stream from electricity sales. Lake Powell is the country’s second largest reservoir and a lynchpin in the intermountain electric grid. Today, the cash registers are ringing at much lower decibels.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Our team cooperatively handled an impressive number of filings, complaint calls, electric and safety inspections, telephonic and in-person hearings and many other important duties on a daily basis for the Commonwealth and its utility customers.” Thirty electric and pipeline incident investigations were handled by the divisions.

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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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Law and Environment

MAY 4, 2023

The gold standard—so-called “ green ” hydrogen—is hydrogen produced via electrolysis using renewable electricity from wind or solar. When water and electricity are introduced to the electrolyzer, water splits at the anode into oxygen and positively charged hydrogen ions. What’s with the colors? I’ve mentioned green and grey hydrogen.

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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. With purchased electricity accounting for the majority of these emissions, sourcing renewable energy is critical to meeting this goal. power grid.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2022

This is illustrated in the chart below from EIA which shows hurricanes that interrupted oil refining in the Gulf of Mexico having a short-term impact on retail gasoline prices comparable to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. People might think about trading in that gas-guzzling SUV for a fuel-efficient hybrid or an electric vehicle.

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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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Legal Planet

JANUARY 3, 2022

We’re transitioning into a world dominated by electric vehicles. However, stations often sit on corner lots at major intersections, making them prime retail spots. Gas stations have been fixtures in our world for a century or more. There are even books of photos of picturesque gas stations, some futuristic, others quaint.

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Environmental and Urban Economics

JANUARY 29, 2021

General Motors has announced that it will only produce electric vehicles starting in the year 2035. Individual gas stations will charge more for gas (as predicted by the Hotelling retail model) and this will further nudge some drivers to substitute to EV vehicles. Suppose that there no more new fossil fuel vehicles purchased by U.S

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 13, 2022

On July 13, Pittsburgh-based PNC Bank announced a long-term renewable supply agreement with Constellation to power nearly 50 percent of its legacy operations in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Maryland, New Jersey, Delaware, District of Columbia, and parts of Illinois with renewable electricity.

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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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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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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 15, 2021

After deadly tornadoes, some Kentucky residents could be without water and electricity for weeks. The class-action lawsuit represented more than 9,000 restaurants, law firms, and retail stores that were forced to shut down because of the outages. ON THE RADAR.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Each REC represents the positive environmental attributes of one megawatt hour (MWh) of electricity generated by a renewable power plant. The RECs from the in-development solar projects are not included in this agreement.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2022

SB 1020 signals the state’s continued prioritization of clean energy development, adding to the state’s existing goal for 100% clean electricity retail sale by 2045 by establishing interim clean energy targets of 90% of all retail electricity sales be renewable and zero-carbon by 2035 and 95% by 2040.

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A Greener Life

JULY 6, 2023

Because when the corporation calculated its overall impact on the environment , it established that its products “use around 1% of the electricity on earth.” That’s not electricity that Panasonic is using – it’s the energy that their customers are using. Panasonic wants to take on 1% of global emissions.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

16 PA Bulletin [PaEN] -- The Allegheny Front: Groups Say ‘Clean’ Hydrogen Projects Lack Transparency And Fear Climate, Safety Impacts -- Better Path Coalition, Partners Host PA Climate Convergence Sept. 1-2 In Harrisburg With In-Person, Online Events [PaEN] -- PA Solar Center Sept.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The AEPS program, which began in 2005, requires that 18 percent of electric power provided through retail sale in Pennsylvania comes from qualified alternative and renewable energy sources. AEPS is administered by the PUC, in collaboration with DEP.

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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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Environmental News Bits

JULY 21, 2023

Say you order an electric toothbrush and two shirts for yourself during a sale on Amazon. You unpack your order and discover that the electric toothbrush won’t charge and only one shirt … Continue reading Inside the black box of Amazon returns

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

At the Union of Concerned Scientists, we’ve been looking into the benefits rural drivers could enjoy from switching from a gasoline vehicle to an electric vehicle. The lack of an accessible outlet to charge an EV at home is one such challenge faced by drivers when considering switching to an electric vehicle.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The NGDCs that have electric generation customers pointed out that most of those customers have their own energy supply contracts, so the demands for winter electric generation are not expected to impact the utilities’ ability to serve their core residential and business customers.

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Vermont Law

APRIL 24, 2017

In America, energy policy provides one avenue towards this goal: electricity generation produces. As demand for electricity is projected to be. Normally, large scale, central station power is connected to the transmission grid, which transports high-voltage electricity over long distances. costs electricity transmission incurs.

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