Union of Concerned Scientists
NOVEMBER 20, 2024
At this point, I’d wager that pretty much everyone in the US either has been affected or knows someone who has been affected recently by a natural disaster-related electric power outage. Indeed, for people who use electric-powered medical devices, a power outage is life-threatening. That doesn’t reduce the hardship of a power outage.
Union of Concerned Scientists
NOVEMBER 13, 2024
Energy storage, or the storing of electricity for later use on the power grid, plays an important role in the clean energy transition. Renewable generation is variable—wind and solar power produce electricity when the wind is blowing and the sun is shining. Curtailment means we are wasting otherwise clean, perfectly usable electricity.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
JANUARY 23, 2025
To be more specific, the law forbids the California Energy Commission from issuing a permit to any new nuclear fission power plants until theres a way to dispose of toxic and long-lived nuclear waste. The California Energy Commissions SB 100 report examined various scenarios that reach 100% clean electricity in California.
Legal Planet
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
More than two-thirds of our diesel comes from renewable, non-petroleum resources, and many California refineries are shifting from refining fossil fuels to refining waste oils and other renewable feedstocks. Over its short lifetime, the program has already transformed many segments of the fuels market.
Legal Planet
OCTOBER 14, 2024
If the forest was unlikely to be cut down, this is a waste of money and bogus credits. The IRA provides a subsidy for purchases of electric vehicles for people making less than $300,000 per year. Would many of these people have bought EV’s, anyway?
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.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JUNE 12, 2025
In short, MISO is responsible for planning and coordinating generation and transmission of electricity to ensure the lights stay on across its region, spanning from South Louisiana to Canada. Sunday’s outage was a demonstration of what can go wrong when there is not enough transmission to handle that “traffic.”
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