Union of Concerned Scientists
NOVEMBER 18, 2024
Gas plants failed at a scale that jeopardized grid reliability for large regions of the United States during severe winter storms in 2011 , 2014 , 2018 , 2021 , and 2022. We used the exact same assumptions as in our Net Zero Pathway, which represents a least-cost mix of technologies and resources for meeting US climate targets.
Legal Planet
MARCH 21, 2022
In 2011, EPA had estimated that the compliance cost would work out to $9.6 First, the agency needs to figure out which changes in the power sector were due to new technologies, other regulations, or market shifts. For example, natural gas production went up by around 50% from 2011-2015, displacing a lot of coal-fired generation.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
JUNE 15, 2022
In 2021, 9 percent of US electricity came from those graceful kinetic sculptures, up from less than 3 percent in 2011. And US wind jobs, currently totaling more than 100,000, should grow right along with the technology and the market. Even more important, though, wind is an impressive piece of our electricity supply.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JULY 29, 2022
Meanwhile, annual reports show corporations are pushing ahead with plans to expand production, betting on new technologies to somehow make it all okay in the future. Further, these efforts are focused on carbon capture and storage, hydrogen, and biofuels—technologies that aim to stash carbon emissions away, not reduce their production.
Physics World
MARCH 11, 2022
As its clever title suggests, Tsu discusses not only written characters but also many characterful people from the Chinese worlds of computing, librarianship, politics, science and technology behind the transformation – most of whom are relatively unknown outside specialist circles.
Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 30, 2024
This is due in no small part to the “ nuclear bros ”: an active and seemingly tireless group of nuclear power advocates who dominate social media discussions on energy by promoting SMRs and other “advanced” nuclear technologies as the only real solution for the climate crisis.
Union of Concerned Scientists
MARCH 7, 2024
The market at the time (all of 6,743 California sales in 2011) was dominated by the 73-mile range Nissan Leaf, the plug-in hybrid Chevy Volt (with a 35-mile electric range ). Today, sales in California not only far exceed these targets, but ahead of schedule, because regulators in part underestimated how fast technology would improve. ).
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