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Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 2, 2024
Whatever the weather in March and beyond—in-like-a-lion blustery or out-like-a-lamb sunny—spring tends to be a season of strong electricity production from solar and wind in particular. Spring is also a glorious time for taking stock, since the official data on the previous year’s US electricity generation become available.
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. But these prices are still way below their highs in 1979-80 and 2007-08.
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PA Environment Daily
JANUARY 20, 2022
Energy Information Administration reported-- in our January Short-Term Energy Outlook , we forecast that rising electricity generation from renewable energy resources such as solar and wind will reduce generation from fossil fuel-fired power plants over the next two years. electric generators averaged $4.88
Environmental Progress
APRIL 20, 2021
Some have argued that weather-dependent energies would, paradoxically, make electricity even more reliable. 1] But recent power outages in Texas and California have poured cold water on these arguments. 1] But recent power outages in Texas and California have poured cold water on these arguments. But all else is not equal.
Union of Concerned Scientists
NOVEMBER 16, 2023
The legislation committed nearly $400 billion to support, among other things, wind and solar power, battery storage, electric vehicles, and other clean energy technologies that will make a significant dent in US heat-trapping emissions. What are the main solutions? EN: We have already seen a great deal of progress.
Environmental Progress
MARCH 11, 2021
Congress took questions relating to the security of America’s electricity supply seriously before more than a dozen states experienced energy shortages last month, but those events make this hearing all the more urgent. electrical grids were increasingly “complex and vulnerable.” [2] Shellenberger. 5] The U.S.
Union of Concerned Scientists
MAY 27, 2024
Announcing recently that the world broke a record by generating 30 percent of all electricity from renewable sources in 2023, the British think tank Ember said the data proves we are in a “new era” of energy in which a permanent decline in fossil fuels is “inevitable.” percent of the globe’s electricity in 2015, solar now produces 5.5
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