A Leading US Utility Stealthily Fights the Electrification of Heating Systems
Yale E360
MAY 4, 2021
Eversource Energy, New England’s largest utility, markets itself as a company that strives for carbon neutrality and invests in offshore wind power.
The EIA Just Released a 30 Year Energy Outlook. It’s… Not Great
Union of Concerned Scientists
MARCH 16, 2022
According to the forecast, while economy-wide CO 2 emissions decrease from 2022 to 2037 due primarily to the growth in renewable energy replacing retiring coal plants, emissions do increase after 2037 from increased usage of natural gas. EIA is projecting that natural gas prices will remain low.
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The European Energy Transition is well underway and accelerating
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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Unraveling LA’s Hydrogen Combustion Experiment
Legal Planet
MARCH 6, 2023
Therefore, the next few entries in this series discuss the various potential uses for hydrogen and their utility in advancing climate goals, starting with the combustion of hydrogen in natural gas plants. Lewis, Emissions of NOx from blending of hydrogen and natural gas in space heating boilers. Wright, Alastair C.
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The Netherlands is busy building hybrid clean energy technologies at sea
A Greener Life
AUGUST 30, 2022
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. 20 GW before 2030. The Dutch are also trialling a cluster of floating solar panels named ‘Oceans of Energy’.
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Clean Hydrogen: How It’s Produced and What We Can Do with It
Law and Environment
MAY 4, 2023
SMR requires steam, heat, and pressure to convert methane (in natural gas) to hydrogen and carbon monoxide. We’re going to need a lot of steel to build structures, including those supporting clean energy, such as wind turbines, solar facilities, and associated transmission and other infrastructure.
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Circle of Blue - Untitled Article
Circle of Blue
AUGUST 9, 2021
Hydropower generation across California and the American West has declined in this extremely dry year, meaning that electricity providers will lean more heavily on natural gas, solar, and wind power. In recent years, systems began capturing energy from that biogas and using it to produce electricity or natural gas.
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Ontario could easily phase out polluting fossil gas – if it wanted to
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. .
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Guest Essay: Forestal Or Foresee - The Energy Transition And The Pennsylvania Legislature
PA Environment Daily
FEBRUARY 24, 2023
In discussing the late December winter storm that nearly led to rolling blackouts in the MidAtlantic region of 65 million people, Yaw suggested that increasing amounts of renewable energy were to blame for the near-miss and condemned neighboring states for adopting policies that “emphasize solar and wind power over natural gas.”
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Oil majors are eying up renewable energy projects
A Greener Life
JULY 26, 2021
This has incentivized oil and gas majors such as BP, Equinor and Shell to invest in wind power generation. BP and Total are also leading the way in terms of upcoming solar power capacity.”. Wind and solar growth. The growing role of renewable energy poses a major threat to fossil fuel-based power generation.
Fossil Fuels vs. Renewables: A Price on Reliability?
Union of Concerned Scientists
JUNE 12, 2023
The same scenario has played out with the power plants that use fossil fuels, predominantly methane (“natural”) gas, delivered by pipelines. The electric power system is trapped by gas-dependent power plants that cannot obtain gas when it needs it to keep the lights on.
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Ontario: Now is the time to increase renewable energy, not fossil gas
Enviromental Defense
OCTOBER 6, 2022
Between 2005 and 2017 Ontario phased-out coal plants, reducing greenhouse gas pollution from our electricity system by 93 per cent. And between 2009 and 2016, Ontario built over 2000 MW of solar power and about 3000 MW of wind power. But it’s not too late to make the investments now. .
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Bad News: Ontario offers contracts for six new polluting gas projects
Enviromental Defense
MAY 31, 2023
In the middle of a climate crisis, Ontario is following through on what it said it would do by announcing a flurry of “natural” gas plant projects across Southern Ontario. Natural” gas… sounds good, right? The name is a misleading and cunning rebrand of fossil gas by the oil and gas industry.
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Energy Infrastructure Siting Authority
Vermont Law
DECEMBER 20, 2017
On the other hand, the dramatic rise in renewable electricity generation, particularly wind power, has created a need for construction of new transmission lines to bring electricity to market. Under the Natural Gas Act, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), within the U.S.
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Op-ed: We can grow the economy, strengthen security — and reduce emissions
Cresforum
MARCH 10, 2022
In 2021, solar and wind power were built at a record pace due to surging demand by companies, households and sound economics. While the cost of building solar, wind and natural gas was higher in 2021 than 2020 — due to rising material, freight and fuel prices — new projects skyrocketed. produced natural gas grew 9.4
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Good News—and Bad—about Fossil Fuel Power Plants in 2023
Union of Concerned Scientists
MARCH 23, 2023
More gas plants, uncertain coal retirements As you may have noticed in the first table toward the top of the page, about 7.4 GW of new gas capacity is planned to come online in 2023, outpacing not only the 4.8 GW of gas capacity set to retire, but also slightly outpacing the planned additions of wind power.
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Survey of Proposed Legislation Across the States Affecting the Energy Industry in 2021
The Energy Law Blog
JANUARY 28, 2021
With topics ranging from offshore oil and gas moratoriums to restrictions on natural gas flaring and venting, the following is an overview of notable energy legislation to be heard in state legislatures this year. Ron Reynolds, make up a two-fold strategy to limit natural gas flaring and venting in the state. [1]
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What Happens If Glen Canyon Dam’s Power Shuts Off?
Circle of Blue
JUNE 6, 2022
More coal and natural gas will certainly increase greenhouse gas emissions from the power sector. Because its generators can deliver electricity quickly — “ramping” in the lingo — hydro bridges the period when solar and wind power wane and before gas-fired turbines can power up.
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Ask a Scientist: Two Dozen States Can Meet 100 Percent of Electricity Demand with Renewables by 2035
Union of Concerned Scientists
MAY 12, 2022
The use of natural gas, which generated 38 percent of US electricity in 2021, certainly would drop, but some utilities would continue to use it to export electricity to non-alliance states. Our 100-percent RES scenario triggers a significant decline in fossil fuel use.
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Survey of Proposed Legislation Across the States Affecting the Energy Industry in 2021
The Energy Law Blog
JANUARY 28, 2021
With topics ranging from offshore oil and gas moratoriums to restrictions on natural gas flaring and venting, the following is an overview of notable energy legislation to be heard in state legislatures this year. Ron Reynolds, make up a two-fold strategy to limit natural gas flaring and venting in the state. [1]
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Renewables: how Puerto Rico could turn a crisis into an opportunity
Edouard Stenger
SEPTEMBER 27, 2017
Despite the fact that Puerto Rico does not have any coal, natural gas, or oil reserves, the quasi totality of its electricity is produced by such means. ( As per official EIA statistics , almost half of the electricity is still coming from oil. Natural gas covers a third and coal one sixth.) — Solar and wind.
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Gas Generators Get Caught with their Plants Down
Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 6, 2023
The failure of gas-burning power plants to provide energy in cold weather is back in the news. In the latest development, gas power plant owners are now facing performance penalties levied by the grid operator PJM and they are attacking PJM for enforcing the rules designed to ensure reliability.
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China displays low-carbon tech at the Winter Olympics?
A Greener Life
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
In order for hydrogen to be classified as green, it has to be produced using renewable energy sources rather than the traditional way of producing hydrogen with natural gas. But there is no mention of whether the hydrogen used at the Games will be green hydrogen.
West-facing panels help solve solar energy’s main problem
Edouard Stenger
SEPTEMBER 30, 2018
For utilities, this enables them to reduce the need for costly interconnection with neighbouring grids and expensive peaker natural gas plants. Installing panels facing West is thus a potentially great idea, and this for everyone. But that is another story altogether.
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Pipeline Decisions Do Not Spell Doom for Transmission
Law Columbia
SEPTEMBER 15, 2020
Natural gas, oil, and electricity transmission are each subject to distinct regulatory schemes. Construction and operation of an interstate natural gas pipeline requires a certificate of public convenience and necessity from the Federal Energy Regulation Commission (“FERC”) under Section 7 of the Natural Gas Act.
Ways of Price Making, Inflation, and Energy Price Shocks
Legal Planet
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
Higher prices for oil, natural gas, coal, and electricity are all pushing up inflation across the economy, dampening consumer demand, canceling out wage gains, and compounding the burdens facing working families and the poor as they seek to recover from the pandemic. In the U.S.,
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How Much Land Would it Require to Get Most of Our Electricity from Wind and Solar?
Union of Concerned Scientists
FEBRUARY 22, 2023
And, unlike fossil fuels, electricity generated by wind and solar does not use water or produce any emissions or wastes that can contaminate the air, land or waterways. Minimizing land use impacts will require responsible siting of wind and solar projects that avoids use of sensitive, or otherwise inappropriate, land and waters.
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Realizing Maine’s Tremendous Offshore Wind Potential
Union of Concerned Scientists
MAY 18, 2023
The Biden administration, which set a goal of 15,000 MW of floating offshore wind by 2035 , also has set a price target for floating offshore wind power at $45/MWh by 2035, which is less than the cost of electricity from new natural gas plants.
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Analysis: Is hydrogen the new oil?
A Greener Life
JULY 23, 2021
Grey is made from natural gas or coal, and has a large carbon footprint. But manufacturing it takes a lot of electricity. So it is only as climate friendly as the energy used to produce it. Engineers thus distinguish between grey, blue and green hydrogen. Green is from renewable electricity and need have no carbon footprint at all. “A
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New York State Environmental Regulator Issues Draft Plan to Achieve GHG Emissions-Reduction Goals
E2 Law Blog
DECEMBER 29, 2021
Wind, water, and solar will be the primary source of power generation across all sectors of New York’s economy by 2050, necessitating investments in firm, zero-carbon resources and energy storage resources to ensure grid reliability.
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Analysis: Can Inner Mongolia reach peak carbon this decade?
A Greener Life
JULY 9, 2021
It has huge potential for renewables, with vast areas of sparsely populated land and plenty of wind and sun. According to the latest statistics, in 2019 Inner Mongolia generated more wind power than any other province, and came third in solar power generation.
Climate Litigation Chart Updates – November 2016
Law Columbia
NOVEMBER 1, 2016
Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) authorization of the export of natural gas from Dominion Cove Point LNG, LP’s (Dominion’s ) facility in Maryland. Circuit to Expedite Consideration of Challenge to Natural Gas Pipeline. Three environmental groups challenging a natural gas pipeline from Alabama to Florida asked the D.C.
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Happy New Year, New England?
Union of Concerned Scientists
JANUARY 10, 2023
While he does not mention climate change, there is a brief nod to climate solutions through emissions reductions: Come on electric utilities, don’t tell me you are just passing along those high natural gas prices to the ratepayer and at the same time ask the taxpayers to subsidize it more.
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Offshore Wind Will Add Power When New England Needs It Most
Union of Concerned Scientists
DECEMBER 11, 2023
Given the age and infrequent operation of these facilities, they tend to have higher outage rates when called upon to start than most resources in the fleet.”
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A Global Biogas Revolution Is Taking Place
Edouard Stenger
FEBRUARY 12, 2019
While solar PV and wind power are grabbing headlines, another clean energy revolution is silently taking place. Anaerobic digestion is a biological process happening naturally that breaks down organic matter in an airless environment, resulting in the generation of methane and carbon dioxide (among other things, see below).
Four cheap solutions to climate change
Edouard Stenger
SEPTEMBER 19, 2017
— Ditching coal and natural gas for solar and wind. Renewable energy sources have been booming in the US (+262 % and over 4,600% from 2008 to 2016 for wind and solar, respectively. Source: Bloomberg ) as their prices dropped in the past decade, making them already more than competitive with coal and natural gas.
The Texas Paradox
Legal Planet
MARCH 30, 2023
I sometimes ask students to guess what state produces the most wind power. 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. They’re always shocked to find out the right answer: Texas.
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Testimony before the United States House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce 2021 Texas Grid Failure
Environmental Progress
APRIL 20, 2021
During the four days of emergency operations during the cold snap, from early February 15th to midnight February 18th, output levels of nuclear, natural gas, coal, and wind to the grid were 79.3 ERCOT also expected, during peak demand events in winter, to have power from wind represent about 27% of installed wind capacity.
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Analysis: Russia’s slow progress on climate action set to pick up speed
A Greener Life
JUNE 18, 2021
It also argues that the share of renewable energy in its total energy mix is over 25% because of hydro and nuclear power. Moscow is also arguing that Russian natural gas, which Putin emphasised at the St Petersburg Economic Forum, is much cleaner and cheaper than US LNG (liquid natural gas) which is mostly produced by fracking.
U.S. EIA: U.S. Electricity Generation From Natural Gas Now Falling Like Coal In Face Of New, Cheaper Renewable Power Plants
PA Environment Daily
JANUARY 20, 2022
non-hydropower renewable sources, including solar and wind, grows from 13% in 2021 to 17% in 2023. We forecast that the share of generation from natural gas will fall from 37% in 2021 to 34% by 2023 and the coal share will decline from 23% to 22%. The amount of solar power generating capacity operated by the U.S.
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Dutch Elections: Energy and Climate Considerations
Energy and Climate Law
FEBRUARY 28, 2021
The Dutch gas and electricity TSOs have been playing with this idea for a while (via the North Sea Wind Power Hub project ) but it has not been a topic of political discussion yet. PVV, FvD and JA21 want to stop the transition from natural gas to other sources of heat. PvdA wants to create energy islands at sea.
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Analysis: Can Germany wean itself off Russian oil and gas??
A Greener Life
APRIL 7, 2022
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (left) visits a hybrid power plant where “green” hydrogen is made using wind power and fed into the gas grid. If Germany is to stop buying gas from Russia in the long term, it will need alternatives. A wind farm owned by General Electric around 50km south of Berlin, Germany.
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Environment & Energy Educational Opportunities For Students & Adults
PA Environment Daily
MARCH 17, 2024
Allegheny County; Private Gas Well, Propane Found And Secured -- Post-Gazette: 2 Killed In An ‘Absolutely Extreme’ Home Explosion In Crescent Twp.,
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Nuclear Plant Closures And Renewables Increase Electricity Prices & Unreliability, Testifies Michael Shellenberger to U.S. Senate
Environmental Progress
MARCH 11, 2021
4] Meanwhile, many experts see in recent trends an inevitable transition away from coal and nuclear power plants, designed to function as baseload capacity, toward variable renewable energy sources with just-in-time natural gas back-up. 7] Nuclear plants are among the most reliable components of America’s power grids.
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