Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 30, 2024

SMRs are nuclear reactors that are “small” (defined as 300 megawatts of electrical power or less), can be largely assembled in a centralized facility, and would be installed in a modular fashion at power generation sites. What are SMRs? Some proposed SMRs are so tiny (20 megawatts or less) that they are called “micro” reactors.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 6, 2022

Besides the kilowatt-hours it generates, Glen Canyon provides key services to the electric grid. The country’s second largest reservoir and a lynchpin in the intermountain electric grid, Powell is more dirt than water these days. Hydropower generation will likely shut down when Lake Powell’s elevation drops below 3,490 feet.

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Environmental and Urban Economics

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Such a shortage can arise on a very cold day if most heating is fueled using electricity and if any of the up and running power generators such as wind turbines reduce their aggregate supply of power. I am fan of the following opt in critical peak pricing incentive approach to reducing the aggregate demand for electricity during peak times.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 18, 2021

A 2018 government report found that between 1999 and 2011, the number of South African rivers in poor ecological health increased by 500 percent. Sixty coal mines in the region suspended operations, even as China suffers from electricity shortfalls and rising energy prices. A number of rivers were considered past the point of revival.

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Law and Environment

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The amendments are intended to accelerate progress towards decarbonization of the electricity sector and further ensure the state meets its goal of net zero emissions by 2050. The CES, first enacted in 2017, requires retail sellers of electricity in Massachusetts to provide increasing quantities of clean electricity over time.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 11, 2023

While it is a heavily polluting fossil fuel that is set to continue declining as a fuel source for US electricity generation over the next decade, coal still accounted for roughly 20 percent of the country’s generation in 2022. Fuel transport – Spring floods can hinder the transportation of fuels like coal.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 21, 2022

In 2011, EPA had estimated that the compliance cost would work out to $9.6 quarter of EPA original estimate); an estimate by an industry group (the Edison Electric Institute) was only slightly higher. For example, natural gas production went up by around 50% from 2011-2015, displacing a lot of coal-fired generation.

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New Scientist

JANUARY 11, 2024

Natural gas plant failures were the main factor behind electricity shortfalls and outages during major winter storms in the US since 2011 – that risk remains as the US faces more extreme cold weather

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 26, 2022

It has been reported that on August 25, the plant temporarily lost all of its off-site electrical power from the grid, which is essential for its safe operation, forcing it to rely on on-site backup power. Despite continued shelling, it does not appear that its safety systems have suffered significant damage.

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Energy and Climate Law

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

The background of the case goes back to the year 2011. In essence the court agreed with Vattenfall that it had been expropriated because it was not allowed to make use of the so called residual electricity volume (Reststrommenge) that had been allocated for this particular plant.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Fifteen percent of electricity is renewable. Renewables are a third of electricity consumption. Renewables are 42% of electricity. New rates are large enough to spark expansion of renewable industry. Germany decides to phase out nuclear power, complicating efforts to decarbonize the power sector.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 7, 2024

2023 was a milestone year for electric car sales in the US. Sales figure from VELOZ The top selling passenger car AND top selling light truck in CA in 2023, according to California New Car Dealers Association , were both electric vehicles with the Tesla Model 3 and the Tesla Model Y taking the top spots…as they also did in 2022.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 23, 2024

Grid failures start fires From 2001 to 2023, roughly 92 million acres in the United States have been burned by lightning-caused fires , and about 68 million acres have been burned by fires caused by human activity , electrical operations being just one example. Downed power lines can remain “energized” as they fall to the grass below.

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Fossil Fuels Climate Change Electricity 2019 289

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 26, 2022

For example, they may need to choose between cooling down with their windows open at night or breathing polluted air, as residents often don’t have air conditioners or the economic capacity to pay for higher electricity bills. Annual average PM2.5 and ozone concentrations highlighting air quality issues in the Central Valley.

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Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

In 2020, America generated almost four times as much renewable electricity from the sun and the wind as in 2011, with wind and solar now producing 11% of the nation’s electricity. Advances in energy efficiency, electric vehicles, battery storage, electric home heating and other technologies mean… Read more →

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 29, 2022

Yet the future is clearly one dominated by renewables, not these fossil fuels, as evidenced by the pending Senate bill that will direct hundreds of billions of dollars to boosting clean energy with initiatives like tax breaks for electric vehicles and solar panels. That’s the gravy train the supermajors should ride.

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Environmental News Bits

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

From 2011 to 2023, U.S. electricity consumption was close to flat, despite substantial economic growth. Read the full story at Inside Climate News.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

The evening of January 14, 2011, Jacob, then a 16-year-old sophomore at Aurora High School, entered a basketball game against Central City. At a January 31, 2011, appointment the doctor ordered blood tests and chest X-rays, to check for infection. Everything is going according to plan,” Gary wrote in his journal on February 25, 2011.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 7, 2025

Wells drilled in 2011. Three generators used to power cryptocurrency mining operations have been removed as well as production equipment. DEP noted the well abandonments violate an August 3, 2023 consent order and agreement between Diversified Production LLC and DEP. Violations were issued for abandonment and failure to comply with the order.

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Energy and Climate Law

APRIL 29, 2020

Germany The legislator in Germany reacted in early March and established three so called ´moratoria´ for the duraction of three months: one safeguarding tenants who cannot pay their rent anymore, one affecting private borrowers and a third one that applies to electricity and gas customers.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 29, 2022

In 2011, a raccoon found its way into some electrical equipment at the Delaware City Refinery, taking a number of units offline. The risk of explosion ultimately shut down the Delaware Memorial Bridge to traffic, and residents were told to shelter in place as the flammable chemical leaked from the plant. This event was hardly unique.

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Carbon Monoxide Climate Change 2011 Regulations 243

Circle of Blue

JUNE 24, 2021

The Las Conchas fire in northern New Mexico in June 2011 pumped so much ash into the Rio Grande that the Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority had to close its drinking water intake on the river. It dries out vegetation and kills trees, turning forests into matchsticks. Fires in river headwaters don’t just burn trees.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 29, 2025

Well completed in 2011. Data Centers Impacts On Electricity Grid -- Utility Dive: PJM Fast-Track Interconnection Process Draws 26.6 An explosion of the production storage tank occurred at 10:25 a.m while the well tender was blowing out the well. DEP arrived on site at 11:30 a.m. Violations issued. Response requested by April 16.

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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. Whether that process will be successful—thus allowing FERC to exercise its expanded permitting authority—remains to be seen. Background. FERC Order No.

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CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

We saw a continued focus on incentivizing affordable and infill developments on the condition that the project pay prevailing wages (AB 2011), reducing barriers for specified sustainable transit projects (SB 922), and amendments akin to “pet project exemptions” that are targeted to solving a narrower set of concerns (SB 118 and SB 886).

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 18, 2021

But what you probably haven’t heard is that our grid is getting dirtier again, with fossil fuels increasing in our electricity supply from burning natural gas. That means carbon emissions from electricity in Ontario will be rising back up again after years of decline. Ontario Energy Output by Fuel Type: 2020 . Source: IESO [link].

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Physics World

APRIL 29, 2022

This an effect that Salahuddin first predicted in 2008 and demonstrated experimentally in 2011. Negative capacitance arises in ferroelectric materials, whose spontaneous electric polarization can be reoriented with the application of an external electric field.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

A new report found that despite lockdown orders, hotels in Oahu, Hawaii continued to use massive amounts of water and electricity, according to Honolulu Civil Beat. TODAY’S TOP WATER STORIES, TOLD IN NUMBERS. MILLION GALLONS. The neighborhood of Waikiki reportedly consumed 2.5 369 LAKES .

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 7, 2025

PA Bulletin, page 2011 ) -- Blackhill Energy LLC - 16-Inch Steel Gas Pipeline: DEP issued a Chapter 105 permit for a pipeline project Mill Creek, Pisgah Creek, Sugar Creek located in Springfield, Troy, West Burlington and Branville Townships, Bradford County. Received Feb. 10, Issued Feb. PA Bulletin, page.2008 Bradford County. (

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

The nuclear energy industry has struggled following the fallout of the 2011 tsunami in Japan as nuclear reactors were shut down not only in Europe but across the world and Germany accelerated its nuclear phaseout. WNA expects nuclear energy capacity to increase by 14% by 2030 and surge by 76% to 686 GW by 2040.

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A Greener Life

JULY 30, 2021

The country’s struggle to reduce its reliance on coal was significantly helped by the purely ideological and populist decision to phase out all its nuclear power stations by 2022 (initially following the Fukushima accident in 2011 in Japan) . They also get renewable energy from other European neighbours, mainly Denmark.

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Environmental Progress

APRIL 20, 2021

Some have argued that weather-dependent energies would, paradoxically, make electricity even more reliable. Adding more variable energy sources to electricity grids, all else being equal, might not in itself make electricity less reliable. But all else is not equal. GW of wind produced at a rate of 0.65

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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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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 13, 2025

Cynthia also oversees WPCs sustainability efforts, which have included energy efficiency, alternative energy generation, carbon emissions assessments, and transitions to electric vehicles. As a member of the senior leadership team, she has consistently provided strategic direction for the Conservancy.

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Energy & the Law

MARCH 7, 2023

claiming he had created a compact “nano panel” (which does not exist) using “technology” that could generate triple the amount of electricity as traditional solar panels. Lots of cash was flown by private jets to Cameroon and South Sudan from 2011 through 2016.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Professor Jennifer Rupp is the Thomas Lord Associate Professor of Electrochemical Materials in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, and Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 8, 2025

Wells drilled in 2011. Read more here. Three generators used to power cryptocurrency mining operations have been removed as well as production equipment. DEP noted the well abandonments violate an August 3, 2023 consent order and agreement between Diversified Production LLC and DEP. EQM Gathering OPCO LLC Sue Union Twp.,

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