Enviromental Defense

MARCH 22, 2022

We all know that to successfully address climate change we need to phase out fossil fuels and switch to electric power. A s we transition our homes and vehicles to electric power, it’s imperative that the electricity sector be clean. Luckily it’s entirely possible (and cost effective!) This is completely doable.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 30, 2025

By Anna Bjerde What will it take to bring electricity to 300 million people in Africa who currently live without it? This is the goal we at the World Bank have set for Mission 300 to halve the number of people on the continent without reliable electricity by 2030. Photo credit: Reuters / Esa Alexander.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Ontario recently re-contracted four gas-fired power plants to generate electricity for the province and appears poised to contract more in the near future. . Yes, Ontario needs new electricity generation. This is a national-level policy being developed to decarbonize electricity systems across the country.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Lower Sesan 2 is not living up to its promise of dropping the price of electricity and providing for power to Cambodia’s power sector, because of a lack of water availability,” says Brian Eyler, who is the Southeast Asia director with the Stimson Center in Washington, DC.

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HumanNature

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

On the other end of the electric grid, advanced technologies can help reduce the amount of energy that is required for basic services like lighting, heating, and cooling. The average electricity consumption per household in the US in 2009 was 11,320 kWh per year [3]. Eia.gov 2009. [4] This would cost $17.10 3] U.S.

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Law and Environment

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Although no National Corridor designations are currently in effect, the Inflation Reduction Act provides $2 billion for loans to support electric transmission lines in National Corridors. But a 2009 decision of the Fourth Circuit struck down that interpretation. Background. FERC Order No.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 6, 2025

Bob Donnan Bob Donnan, a resident of Peters Township, Washington County, has been active on shale gas drilling issues since 2009 when the industry was dumping fracking waste into the Monongahela River, his drinking water source. At home he has rooftop solar, a back-up battery, and owns an electric vehicle.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 27, 2025

So far in 2025, DEP issued 39 violations to 10 shale gas drilling companies for abandoning and not plugging their well, most drilled in the early days of shale gas development in Pennsylvania-- 2009 to 2013. Read more here.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 28, 2023

The clean-energy transition that is one focus of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) and the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) will require big changes in our electric grid. On the demand side, switching our buildings, industries, and vehicles to electric power could double our electricity usage.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 3, 2024

Pennsylvania won the International Envirothon competition in 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1994, 1997, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2009 and 2017 and frequently places in the top 10 finishers. Now more than 15,000 high school students across the state compete in 67 county Envirothons.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Contributes To Rising Electricity Bills Fracking development may also be contributing to Pennsylvanians’ rising electricity bills. From 2009 through March 2024, the average retail price of electricity leapt by $3.21 per kilowatt hour in Pennsylvania as the state’s share of natural gas increased by 16%.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

Wells drilled in 2009 and 2008. 1 Electricity Price Changes; Rates Will Vary From 8.4% Original violations 9.26.24. Request to respond to violations by December 4. Delo F8, 10; -- Washington County , North Strabane Twp.: CW Patsch Coal; -- Westmoreland County , Murrysville Boro: C.R. Decrease To 31.2%

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 18, 2025

Well was drilled in 2009. 20-22; PJM Working With Gas Generators To Try To Get Them Online Before Extreme Cold Hits [PaEN] -- Bloomberg: Wintry Blast To Unleash Snow, Test Electric Grids From Midwest To NYC PA Oil & Gas Industry Public Notice Dashboards: -- PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Jan. DEP inspection report.

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Physics World

MAY 28, 2021

His research has been recognized by many awards, including a MacArthur Fellowship (2009), Lemelson-MIT Prize (2011), National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellowship (2012), Smithsonian Award for American Ingenuity in the Physical Sciences (2013), MRS Medal (2018), and the Benjamin Franklin Medal from the Franklin Institute (2019).

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A Greener Life

JUNE 22, 2022

The Himalayan country currently depends on hydropower for nearly all its electricity generation. Solar power is seen as a quick way to meet the growing demand for electricity. Today solar energy has reached grid parity with hydropower, meaning the per-unit cost of electricity is almost equal to that of hydro,” Namgyel said.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 28, 2024

Pennsylvania won the International Envirothon competition in 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1994, 1997, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2009 and 2017 and frequently places in the top 10 finishers. Now more than 15,000 high school students across the state compete in 67 county Envirothons.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Johan said the sewer line started to get blocked on a regular basis from 2009. The white vehicles in the background belong to a municipal crew who were restoring electric cables to the pump station, which had been stolen. He said when they do have electricity only one of four aerators work, a biofiltration unit also doesn’t work.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 12, 2023

Although households may end up paying less in energy costs in the long run, many measures to reduce emissions such as electric heat pumps and envelope upgrades can come with up front costs that run tens of thousands of dollars or more.

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Energy and Climate Law

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Those changes were implemented (more or less) simultaneously for gas and electricity and focused on similar issues of organizing markets and stimulating competition. This is a positive development, given that the applicability of the 2009 Gas Directive to hydrogen has been discussed controversially in the past.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 27, 2022

Sponsors and partners of the 2022 Envirothon include the Department of Environmental Protection, Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, Digital First Sponsor PSECU, Shell Oil Company, PPL Electric Utilities, EQT Foundation, Weis, UGI Utilities, PA Trappers Association, Chesapeake Energy, Seneca Resources, and Pennsylvania American Water.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 7, 2023

PA Bulletin, page 2009 ) -- Adelphia Gateway, LLC - New Pipeline Compressor Station: DEP issued Air Quality Plan Approval for a compressor station in Lower Chichester Twp., PA Bulletin, page 2009 ) -- Perennial Energy CMM PA, LLC - Coal Mine Methane Flaring Site: DEP issued Air Quality Plan Approval for the flaring site in Wayne Twp.,

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 5, 2024

Fayette County : Drilled in 2009, Well abandoned, not plugged [original violation April 5, 2023 ]; failure to have emergency response plan on site, gas leak, failed to get a well transfer permit for sale to Big Dog Energy, LLC in 2023, other violations. Well was drilled in 2009. Well was drilled in 2009.

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Edouard Stenger

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

F inancial firm Lazard’s annual benchmark shows the Levelized Cost of Energy Analysis (LCOE) for the main electricity sources. The numbers for this year’s edition are quite impressive: Nuclear is the most expensive per MWh: $148 (+20% since 2009). Then comes coal, with $102. Natural gas is at $60.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

percent of the state’s total electricity generation and has created a local solar market with hundreds of solar businesses across the state, installing primarily customer-sited solar. megawatt solar project in Middelburg that is saving the Midd-West School District over $350,000 annually and offsetting 100 percent of its electricity needs.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 9, 2022

These measures will cut electricity use by over 51,000 kilowatt hours annually. Background DEP and Reinvestment Fund launched the Green Energy Loan Fund in 2009 with $12 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The Leon H. Sullivan in 1978. million square feet of building space.

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Environment Blog

MARCH 25, 2020

It was created in 2009 by the anonymous programmer, Satoshi Nakamoto, and was designed to make it easier to transfer wealth from one party to another regardless of their geographical location. Verifying transactions uses electricity. Those that live in areas where electricity has a high cost will find it difficult to turn a profit.

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The Energy Law

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

According to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, CSAPR requires Texas power plants to lower SO2 emissions by 46 percent and NOx emissions by 7 percent compared with 2009 levels. See Kate Galbraith and Ari Auber, Controversial Pollution Rule Still on Track for Texas, The Tex. Tribune, Sept.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 25, 2016

This is not the first time that the legislature has diverted RGGI proceeds for other purposes—it also diverted $90 million in 2009 and $41 million in 2015 to the general fund. For those unfamiliar with the program – RGGI is an interstate cap and trade program aimed at reducing CO 2 emissions from the electric power sector.

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Physics World

MAY 12, 2022

He worked on designing low-frequency ultrasonic imaging of high voltage switchgear for a consortium of electricity companies. In 2009, when we were starting up, [open innovation] was still quite new and counter-intuitive, and not the way most big organizations were geared. Courtesy: Roland Harwood).

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

When the program’s allowance budgets were set for the years 2009 through 2012, administrators assumed that natural gas prices would remain high and that electricity demand would be robust and growing. States made this decision because RGGI suffers from an allowance oversupply.

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Physics World

JUNE 19, 2021

Randolf Pohl was not in a good mood, late one evening in July 2009. That much seemed true when the task group first published an official value of the proton radius – or, more specifically, the average radius of the proton’s electric charge – in 2002. when electrons transfer zero momentum to the protons).

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The natural gas industry is the third largest consumptive water user in the Susquehanna Basin following public water suppliers and electric power plants. Overall, average water use per well for fracturing rose 600 percent between 2009 and 2018. billion gallons. Read more here. Read more here. Read more here. Read more here.

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Greenbuilding Law

JANUARY 22, 2023

Of note, Maryland law was amended last year by SB 528 and now provides, ELECTRIC COMPANIES AND GAS COMPANIES SHALL PROVIDE ENERGY DATA, INCLUDING WHOLE BUILDING AND AGGREGATE DATA, TO THE OWNERS OF COVERED BUILDINGS FOR BENCHMARKING PURPOSES.” It is time to act.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

There was an attempt to repair the well with electrical tape and other measures, but they did not succeed because the inspection report said “an odor of gas was apparent upon approach to the well.” The original notices of violation for venting gas and well abandonment were issued on July 5, 2023.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 27, 2025

DEP is inspecting shale gas wells drilled in the early days of shale development-- 2009 to 2013-- to determine their status which is resulting in most of the violations. .] -- Record Number Of Abandoned Shale Gas Well Violations 2024: Record number of violations for abandoning shale gas wells in 2024-- 47.

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The Energy Law

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Currently, Chevron operates the Casper Wind Farm in Wyoming, a former refinery, which was commissioned in 2009 and can produce enough electricity to power approximately 13,000 U.S. Other oil majors such as Chevron and ExxonMobil also have begun to participate in the renewable energy sector. homes for a year.

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Law of the Lands

JANUARY 16, 2019

Biogas produced by the digester ran a large electrical generator, and the electricity produced was used to heat water to heat the greenhouses.

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