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Union of Concerned Scientists
JANUARY 6, 2025
This new generating capacity, coupled with more transmission capacity, will enable us to share far more electricity between regions during extreme weather events. Note: Grid operators implement rolling blackouts, or firm load shedding, when electricity demand exceeds available supply. Although much shorter than the 4.5
Union of Concerned Scientists
JUNE 15, 2022
We at the Union of Concerned Scientists think a lot about wind power. In honor of Global Wind Day , here’s a roundup of what we’re seeing and what we’ve been thinking—five facts about wind energy to keep in mind as you celebrate, or at least make note, on June 15. Wind power is big, and getting bigger.
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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.
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.
Edouard Stenger
FEBRUARY 1, 2017
GW of wind capacity in September 2016, which produced 21 TWh in 2015. Wind power currently employs a little less than 15,000 people. It has been producing from nine to 14 percent of the country’s electricity for the past few years. The target capacity for 2018 is of 15 GW. click to enlarge.
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.
A Greener Life
JANUARY 31, 2022
Brian Eyler, Southeast Asia director of the Stimson Center, a US thinktank, explains that as Vietnam exports more manufactured goods than its neighbours, sources of electricity generation needed to be developed more quickly, and coal and hydropower were “the easy solutions”. Vietnam’s renewable energy sector’s potential is booming.
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