PA Environment Daily

MARCH 15, 2025

Theres never been a better time for schools and small businesses to use the power of the sun to electrify their buildings and power their vehicles, said Hanna Felber, organizer for PennEnvironment. Plentiful sunshine and generous solar incentives are here.

Electricity 109

Electricity Renewable Energy Clean Energy Solar Power 109

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 4, 2024

The FERC-NERC review of the 2021 outages found 81 percent of freeze-related plant outages occurred at temperatures warmer than the plants were designed to meet and 87 percent of outages due to fuel issues were tied to natural gas. Similar extreme cold weather caused grid emergencies in 2011, 2014, 2018, and again in 2022.

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Electricity 2021 Renewable Energy Natural Gas 299

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 20, 2023

This year’s distribution is over $44 million higher than last year, driven primarily by the average price of natural gas in 2022 ($6.64 Details regarding the impact fee distribution are available online, including specifics on funds collected and distributed for each year since 2011.

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Natural Gas Solar Power 2011 2022 97

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 20, 2022

We forecast that the share of generation from natural gas will fall from 37% in 2021 to 34% by 2023 and the coal share will decline from 23% to 22%. electricity generation over the past 10 years has been the rapid expansion of renewable energy resources, especially solar and wind. electric generators averaged $4.88

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Natural Gas Electricity Fossil Fuels Renewable Energy 52

Environmental Progress

MARCH 11, 2021

4] Meanwhile, many experts see in recent trends an inevitable transition away from coal and nuclear power plants, designed to function as baseload capacity, toward variable renewable energy sources with just-in-time natural gas back-up. 7] Nuclear plants are among the most reliable components of America’s power grids.

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Electricity Renewable Energy 2019 Nuclear Power 100

PA Environment Daily

MAY 9, 2023

Data reported in a recent paper by Dr. Indur Goklany, and published by the CO2 Coalition, indicates that up to 50 percent of Earth’s vegetated areas became greener between 1982-2011. First, there is a strong case that these are solar-powered fuels. Another nine percent is attributed to fertilizers derived from fossil fuels.)

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Carbon Dioxide Fossil Fuels Atmosphere Solar Power 75

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 11, 2023

RGGI] -- Pittsburgh 2030 District Announces Significant Progress In Reducing Carbon Emissions - 44.8% From Baseline; Savings Of $59.7

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Natural Gas 2023 Climate Change Conservation 81