Environment + Energy Leader

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

The post Energy Transitions, Regulations Driving Energy as a Service Market Growth appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader. The market is expected to grow at more than 10% a year through 2027, according to a new report.

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Environmental News Bits

APRIL 15, 2022

As the United States enters a “critical decade” in the fight against climate change, the need for rapid renewable energy deployment requires reassessing existing laws governing electricity generation and transmission projects, argues Uma Outka in a recent article.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 2, 2023

“This is the first time Argentina has put into numbers the transformation needed in its energy sector to deliver on the country’s climate pledges,” Juan Carlos Villalonga, a renewable energy consultant and former deputy in the national congress, told Diálogo Chino. The plan targets US$2.7 GW of additional capacity.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 6, 2022

But rather than ramping up the use of polluting fossil gas, this is the perfect moment for the province to transition to clean and safe renewable energy. Electricity nerds might be writing off the prospect of new gas plant contracts because of the forthcoming Federal Clean Electricity Regulations (CER). But there are loopholes.

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Environment + Energy Leader

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

The post Energy Transitions, Regulations Driving Energy as a Service Market Growth appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader. The market is expected to grow at more than 10% a year through 2027, according to a new report.

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Environment + Energy Leader

MARCH 23, 2023

The post Global Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Outlook and Regulations: What to Expect in 2023 and Beyond appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Environmental Leader

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

According to a new survey by Jefferies, investors are very focused on renewable energy, ESG climate aspects and sustainability regulations. The post Investors Focus on Renewable Energy, See Opps in Gas and Steel appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 8, 2024

Some years ago, I began to feel the most important thing I could do was learn how to replace fossil fuel with renewable energy. For 30 years I have been an advocate for offshore wind development off New England’s coast and for the creation of institutions to support a transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy.

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Law and Environment

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Use of Renewable Energy Certificates as a compliance mechanism. upon finding that: a significant obstacle interferes with implementation or that implementation has a significant negative effect on Energy cost burdens, equitable access to housing or other factors set for in the Regulations. requirements will be submitted?

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Environmental Leader

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

According to a new survey by Jefferies, investors are very focused on renewable energy, ESG climate aspects and sustainability regulations. The post Investors Focus on Renewable Energy, See Opps in Gas and Steel appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 11, 2024

The proposed Clean Electricity Regulations (CER) by the federal government are intended to make sure we reduce our greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) from fossil fuel generated electricity starting in 2035. The regulations as they are now will not deliver on the targets. Any attempt to water them down must be resisted.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 27, 2023

Furthermore, the IRA’s tax credits – and direct pay – are in the aggregate uncapped, so the dollars opened up by the IRA are limited only by the ambition of renewable energy developers and investors, including cities. Project Complexity : Renewable energy project structures vary in their complexity.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The Golden State has adopted a slew of climate change laws over the past twenty years, and an even greater number of regulations. California established first renewable portfolio standard (20% from renewables by 2010). Renewable energy target raised to 50% by 2030. 2002 SB1078. AB 1493 (Pavley Act). 2015 SB350.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The decline probably wasn’t due to environmental regulation. Regulation may have made a difference, since coal requires more extensive pollution controls than competing fuels. Growth in renewable energy, which was likely driven by state energy policies, took an extra bit out of the market for coal. In 2010, U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 17, 2023

States should be heard on transmission When regulators make policy, utilities listen. State regulators can call meetings for utilities to work on the modernization and decarbonization of the grid. Regulators can convene working groups of stakeholders to develop shared interests and goals, answer questions and work on solutions.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 22, 2022

Minnesotans are facing concurrent crises of climate change, high energy prices and inflation, and the inequitable public health impacts of fossil fuel air pollution. Renewable energy will help with all of that—but we need a grid that is designed for wind and solar instead of having to rely on expensive coal and gas plants.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 12, 2023

Three decades of deregulation allowed private companies, as opposed to public regulators, to make critical decisions about reliability. In many places state and federal utility regulators delegated decisions about energy supplies to the market. Market forces are moving private investment to renewables. Can we fix this?

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Vermont Law

APRIL 5, 2023

The potential contribution of the BBNJ agreement to strengthen environmental protection in the development of marine renewable energy technologies in areas beyond national jurisdiction. Nearly two-thirds of the global ocean and almost half of the planet are marine areas beyond national jurisdiction (ABNJ).

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Law and Environment

JULY 22, 2021

These efforts mark an emerging trend of legislative bodies directing utility regulators to help advance climate policies. This enhanced vision of utility regulation gives me hope in the fight against climate change. Public Utility Regulatory Authority decisions are statutorily guided by the state’s energy strategy.

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Environment + Energy Leader

APRIL 28, 2023

The post CEO William Theisen Shares Insights on Proposed SEC Regulations, EcoAct’s Partnership with Etsy, and Data Collection appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader. Our UK team worked with Lloyds and NatWest Group to publish an emissions paper in the fall of 2020. We came out with a better way to assess data.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 6, 2023

However, it’s a disappointment to the initiative’s proponents and to a larger group of environmental advocates who seek to promote California’s quick transition from reliance on heavily-polluting and climate-damaging fossil fuels to renewable energy resources.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 3, 2023

EPA regulation of greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act (CAA) A. Energy efficiency standards for new appliances and lighting sources. Nuclear power regulation D. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission rules bearing on electricity transmission E. FERC rules for wholesale markets that impact renewable energy.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Reliance on fossil natural gas and the slow adoption of renewable energy contributed to electricity bills in New England in the first nine months of 2022 that are $5 billion higher than the prior year. Renewable energy policies are how we manage risks. That reduction comes from the fixed-cost nature of renewables.

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Environmental Europe

JULY 1, 2020

Deploying renewable energy technologies is a key way to reduce emissions, but the EU’s own Environment Agency warned in late 2019 that current policy efforts are insufficient to reach the 2030 and the 2050 (net zero) emissions targets. insufficient renewable energy targets) or “delivery gaps” (i.e.,

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Arnold Porter

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Investments in renewable energy and low-carbon technologies are growing at unparalleled levels globally. Despite the pandemic’s challenges, last year saw one of the world’s largest-ever annual increases in renewable power generation.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 5, 2021

In much of the country, those wholesale transactions are under the control of regional transmission organizations established by federal power regulators, but that’s not true everywhere. In those states where rates are regulated, regulators can do some things to shift these incentives. There are other possible sticks.

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SPR Law

MARCH 5, 2021

On March 3, 2021, New York State’s newly formed Office of Renewable Energy Siting (“ORES”) issued final regulations for streamlining the siting, permitting, and development of large-scale renewable energy projects in the State.

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SPR Law

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

On October 7, 2021, the Supreme Court, Albany County, dismissed a challenge that sought to vacate the final regulations promulgated in March 2021 by the Office of Renewable Energy Siting (ORES) pursuant to Executive Law § 94-c.

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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. Nearly every part of a renewable energy grid can be circular, with all outputs circulating back as inputs in a regenerative cycle.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) is considering amendments to its Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) regulation, but indicated they have no plans to address the problems caused by counter-productive subsidies for manure biomethane. California’s transportation fuel policy is knee deep in cow poop, and it’s not a good look.

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E2 Law Blog

JANUARY 5, 2024

Department of the Treasury (Treasury) issued proposed regulations , published in the Federal Register Dec. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and U.S. 26, 2023, applicable to clean hydrogen production facilities.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 2, 2023

At the global level, however, Germany has its own claim to a leadership role, particularly in its early support for renewable energy. Although its track record has some complexities, this timeline of German actions shows just its early and sustained attention to clean energy policy: 1990. Renewables are 6% of power.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 14, 2022

But regulations for sustainable finance still lag behind international best practices. Canada needs regulation that raises the bar to ensure finance becomes truly sustainable – not just in name. . We need ambitious regulation for four reasons: . Regulations would ensure all capital shifts in the green direction.

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Law and Environment

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The regulations were amended in 2020 to include a program for existing generation units, CES-E, which has several distinct requirements. The CES relates to the state’s Renewable Energy Portfolio Standard (RPS) in several ways, including that compliance with RPS programs counts toward certain CES compliance obligations.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 12, 2023

It clarifies an important procedural issue applying to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). And it upholds an important policy shift regarding renewable energy by the country’s largest grid operator. That should open the door to more renewable energy in a key part of the country.

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Environmental Leader

JULY 16, 2021

Hawaiian Electric, the state’s largest utility, has adopted a new Performance Based Regulation (PBR) Framework based on a recent order from the Hawaii Public Utilities Commission (PUC) approving a portfolio of new Performance Incentive Mechanisms (PIMs), Scorecards, and Reported Metrics. The Framework became effective in June this year.

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Law and Environment

APRIL 21, 2022

For example: There is no mention of the Transportation Climate Initiative or any effort to implement regulations limiting emissions from vehicles, beyond the commitment to cease sales of certain types of vehicles with internal combustion engines by 2035. This issue is too big and important to leave to local municipal regulation.

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