Legal Planet

MARCH 30, 2023

I sometimes ask students to guess what state produces the most wind power. Republicans have an iron grip on Texas government. It’s not as if the state’s extensive use of wind power is just a historical fluke, either. The state will soon get more power from renewables than natural gas.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 22, 2024

By next year, Pennsylvania will get 50 percent of its electricity from ten new solar arrays around the Commonwealth – making Pennsylvania the first state in the country to commit to getting half of its energy from solar power.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 12, 2022

To ensure the wind industry upholds environmental justice and stewards its raw materials, many companies are replacing balsa with other materials. For example, LM Wind Power has minimized balsa in its blades, substituting in synthetic plastic PET and PVC foams. Responsible, circular solutions for wind turbine blades.

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Acoel

MARCH 8, 2023

The first job for the Biden Administration is to deliver the funding efficiently to energy system developers, state and local government agencies, businesses, and individual purchasers of equipment. That law has delivered better decision making by the federal government and greater participation of citizens in the process for over 50 years.

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The Energy Law Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Within the first six weeks of 2022, both state and federal governments have taken steps toward offshore wind energy development off the coast of Louisiana. many other strategies and actions are connected to offshore wind energy development as well. In addition to Action 1.3,

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Legal Planet

MARCH 14, 2024

Thune called the Green New Deal “a radical, comprehensive socialist revamping of our society, with the federal government inserting itself into nearly every aspect of American life.”

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

By Anders Lorenzen If you ask the world’s key players in the global wind power industry, 2023 was a year to forget. Siemens Energy, the largest offshore wind turbine producer, expects a loss in 2024 of € 2 billion from its parent company Siemens Gamesa.

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Edouard Stenger

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Renewables now account for 44% of the EU electricity mix and wind power is now producing more electricity than natural gas. Spain reached this milestone with solar PV accounting for 14 %, solar thermal, 1,8 % ; wind power 23,5% ; hydro 9,5 % and other renewables : 1,4 %.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 7, 2023

By Anders Lorenzen Tenders for 250 gigawatts (GW) of clean energy by 2028 are set to be unveiled by the Indian government, according to a government memo. Wind power is set to play a key part in the target of 50 GW of new green energy tenders each year at 10 GW. Photo credit: Reuters / Amit Dave. in 2019 to 72.8%

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The results include two developers cancelling their offshore wind power contracts with states and utilities, another cancelling two projects altogether, and hesitation elsewhere. The good news-bad news balance, though, would seem to tip decidedly in favor of a whole lot more offshore wind.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The US government is also committed to bolstering domestic recycling. Governments and industry can leverage these five tactics to move energy storage batteries towards a more circular end-of-life stewardship. How are Lithium-ion Batteries that Store Solar and Wind Power Made? Source: Courtesy of Li-Cycle.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 8, 2024

State governments began cutting emissions at a time when the federal government was essentially doing nothing about climate change. The Commission also issued new rules governing the state’s 18 most polluting facilities, including the world’s largest maker of mozzarella cheese. State climate policy is a big deal.

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

It is prompted in large part by low gas storage capacity, the COVID-19 pandemic, a power plant coming offline and low wind speeds responsible for a downturn in wind power output. Despite the government`s big talk on climate action , the country has hardly made a dent in easing its reliance on gas in recent years.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 22, 2022

Ontario has a large potential supply of wind and solar energy that could be developed to help phase-out dirty gas plants. It estimated that we would need an additional 843 MW of solar and an additional 4,545 MW of wind capacity (along with a basket of other sources) to ensure the province’s energy needs are met. . The Path Forward .

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Environmental Defence is committed to engaging with the IESO, and with municipalities and Ontarians more broadly, to work to find suitable sites for these renewable power projects and ensure that they find support from municipal governments and neighbours alike.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

For instance, Iowa can generate more wind power than it can get to markets in Chicago and further east. The effort to build new transmission has been stymied, however, by resistance from utilities and state governments.

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A Greener Life

MARCH 17, 2024

The lack of surprise came as Putin had forcefully removed any credible opposition to him with the largest threat to the president’s reign being the charismatic Alexei Navalny, who was first imprisoned by the Russian government, and was recently mystically found dead in prison.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 30, 2022

gigawatt (GW) wind farm, Hollandse Kust Zuid, which is scheduled for completion next year. The flagship wind farm made headlines as the operator, Swedens’s Vattenfall in 2018 won the concession to build it without government subsidy. The Netherlands plans to connect more than 20 GW of wind power before 2030.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 19, 2023

These successes have made the Conservancy a trusted partner with state and local governments, foundations, farmers, industry peers and individual property owners, which enables the organization to better collaborate on timely climate actions,” added DeCosta.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 25, 2024

This has been the biggest difference, with the cost of net zero a recurring theme – despite the fact that well-insulated homes will save households money, and onshore wind power is the cheapest form of electricity. As Carbon Brief notes, opinion pieces calling for the scrapping of green policies peaked in September last year.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Dat Bike is one of numerous partners the US government works with to meet this rapidly growing demand for clean energy. government partnerships that are mobilizing billions of dollars to meet the growing demand for clean energy in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) member states. © NamLong Nguyen / Shutterstock.com.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The 2021 law marked a rare Republican-backed move to expand government intervention into landowners’ private property rights, and it created unlikely coalitions, with the state’s Chamber of Commerce and some Republicans joining Democrats to oppose the measure last year. Looking Ahead.

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A Greener Life

JULY 26, 2021

Puranik further explained: “Traditionally, renewable power projects had a significant cost disadvantage over coal- and gas-fired power plants. However, in recent years, their economic competitiveness has improved significantly due to government policies and incentives, as well as technological advances. between 2020 and 2030.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 13, 2024

We think in China that the government snaps fingers and things happen, right, because it’s a centralized one-party state. And then the national government caught wind of it—no pun intended—and started to put in place in very strategic subsidies. How could we do more?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 5, 2023

To regionalize or not to regionalize remains unanswered Early in the legislative session, Assemblymember Chris Holden introduced Assembly Bill 538 which would have changed the governance of the California’s grid operator from a governor-appointed board to an independent structure that would allow for a more coordinated, region-wide grid.

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The Energy Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

This action proposes strategic collaboration across Louisiana state agencies and the federal government, transmission planning agencies, energy regulators, and the private sector, to take additional steps to advance development of offshore wind power generation. (Associated Submitted Action Proposals: n/a).

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 6, 2022

And between 2009 and 2016, Ontario built over 2000 MW of solar power and about 3000 MW of wind power. Had the current provincial government not canceled over 750 renewable energy projects in its first term, we would already be in a better position. Tell the Ontario government to stop expanding dirty gas!

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 23, 2023

GW of gas capacity set to retire, but also slightly outpacing the planned additions of wind power. With all that said, there are many ways policymakers at virtually every level of government can bring more certainty and speed to the retirement of fossil fuel power plants and the installation of clean energy capacity to replace them.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 10, 2023

Getting there requires an all-of-society approach; getting there requires leadership at all levels of government. We have made a start by expanding our wind power, extending our nuclear power, pushing hard to get access to Canadian hydro power, and making our homes more energy efficient—that’s less costs and carbon free.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

EN: In 2021, the executive director of the world’s foremost energy authority, the International Energy Agency (IEA), warned : “If governments are serious about the climate crisis, there can be no new investments in oil, gas and coal….” EN: What does your report recommend that the federal and state governments do going forward?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Energy from the sun and wind never runs out and is used again and again. Rechargeable large-scale batteries can be charged with solar or wind power and cycled thousands of times in their lifetime. Across all mining sectors, government and industry commitments to just mining policy and a transparent circular economy is critical.

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Edouard Stenger

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

GW of wind capacity in September 2016, which produced 21 TWh in 2015. Wind power currently employs a little less than 15,000 people. So four to six percent of wind, solar and so on looks pretty miserable… And instead of working seriously on fixing this, the French government seems to be working on diversion.

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Legal Planet

JULY 22, 2021

One of the most important success stories for climate policy has been its ability to dramatically reduce the cost of various renewable energy technologies such as wind power and solar photovoltaics – and the same cost reduction appears to be occurring for battery storage as well.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 3, 2024

To identify the most common false claims regarding wind, solar, and electric vehicles, the authors of the Sabin Center’s new report first reviewed social-media groups and websites created to oppose renewable energy projects or policies, as well as existing coverage about misinformation.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 4, 2022

What’s Your Community Doing? PA Politics - Everything Is Connected -- Citizens Voice: Special House Election Set For Tuesday In Luzerne County -- Reading Eagle: PA’s Mail-In Balloting Had Big Impact In 2020, But Will It Continue?

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 21, 2022

Photo credit: Karwai Tang / UK Government via Flickr. When planning for the future, governments, businesses, and even individuals know it is both planetary and economic suicide not to ease reliance on fossil fuels and other heavy carbon products. By Anders Lorenzen.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Australia has become the latest country to jump on the wave of offshore wind development. Analysts expect the country could soon see a big boom in offshore wind. Australia’s new pro-climate action government has meant an acceleration in clean energy interest and capacity.

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