Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 16, 2023

At that time, even the largest solar arrays in the world measured only in the hundreds of kilowatts, enough to generate the equivalent of the electricity needs of just a few tens of thousands of US households. Last year, solar accounted for almost 5 percent of US electricity. Single projects can be hundreds of megawatts.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 31, 2024

million homes’ electricity use for a year! Edwards was also a key player in the Mount Polley tailings dam disaster of 2014 , where Imperial Metals, of which he is a controlling shareholder, experienced a catastrophic breach to one of its tailings ponds that released billions of liters of toxic waste into nearby waterways.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 22, 2024

When it comes to the transition to clean energy, 2023 was quite a year for progress: record-breaking amounts of solar installed in the United States, a solid drop in carbon emissions from the US power sector, more than one million electric vehicles sold in the country for the first time, “breakneck” growth in renewable energy globally, and more.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Rate design has been a site of experimentation and contestation since the earliest days of electricity provisioning. In the earliest days of electricity provisioning, fixed charges were common in residential rates due to the limits of metering technology. Regulators and policymakers began to reevaluate their approach to rate design.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 4, 2023

At the highest level, the contiguous United States is composed of three electrical grids: the Western Interconnection, the Eastern Interconnection, and the Texas Interconnection. Interconnections and regional entities (Source: North American Electric Reliability Corporation). Transmission planning could be vastly more efficient.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 12, 2023

What happens when promise of electricity reliability fails in bad weather? We know that consumers pay for electricity reliability and bear the cost when supplies are tight. The electric power system is trapped by gas-dependent power plants that cannot obtain gas when it needs it to keep the lights on.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Their collective trauma dates back to August 2, 2014, when she and half a million other Toledoans woke to alarming news: the water coming out of their taps was toxic. “There were families who did not know about it, because they were living without electricity, so they didn’t hear the story,” Smith recalls.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Data on the major carbon producers’ emissions have been published since 2014. Earlier this year, UCS experts worked with community groups to produce a report, On the Road to 100 Percent Renewables , which shows that two dozen states can reliably meet 100 percent of their electricity needs with renewable energy.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 6, 2023

The self-governing PJM stakeholders put this in place after so many supposedly “firm” generators failed to perform in 2014. PJM stakeholders voted on this policy to penalize energy suppliers who merely claim to be reliable and to use that money to reward the suppliers that actually exceed their expected performance.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 19, 2023

This would have enabled the CAISO to expand its operations into the rest of the west as a regional transmission organization (RTO), an independent entity that plans and operates the electricity grid. The list goes on, but you get the point. The 2018 bill did not pass, but the idea never faded. billion dollars since the market began.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 7, 2025

All of the shale gas wells found in violation were drilled in the earlier days of shale gas development-- 2010 to 2014 In all of 2024, DEP issued 47 violations for abandoned shale gas wells and 20 in 2024. Well drilled in 2014. Response requested by March 25. [ DEP Inspection report.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 18, 2023

PJM is now reporting forced outages of natural gas-fired electric generation accounted for 70% of the total outages, coal 16% and the remainder were oil, nuclear, hydro, wind and solar. A report in April by PJM said natural gas accounted for about 63% of forced outages, coal 28%, oil 4%, nuclear 2%, hydro 1% and “other” 1%. Read more here.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The Mediterranean country aims for renewables to account for an 82% share of electricity production by 2030. Since 2014, Greece has doubled its renewable energy output with a series of new solar and wind projects, and they have shut down most of their coal-fired plants. The previous plan released in 2019 had set out only a 66% share.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 21, 2021

This project is the latest in our ongoing efforts to enhance service reliability for customers while protecting raptors and birds of prey that often live near our electrical equipment.” One of the new structures stands adjacent to a white pine tree, home to a pair of bald eagles that have returned to their massive nest each year since 2014.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 8, 2021

In 2014, he led the project “Nanoimplant” that won the IDEA²Madrid Award (a partnership of Comunidad de Madrid in Spain and MIT in USA). This webinar will start with showing that nanocolumnar films can be manufactured by magnetron sputtering using the glancing angle deposition configuration.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 27, 2023

The Senate Environmental Resources and Energy Committee will hold its second hearing May 1 on electric grid reliability and the failure of natural gas and other generation to provide power when called on by PJM during Winter Storm Elliot in December. Read more here. Read more here ] Click Here to read more from February hearing.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Pilot projects also can help spur widespread implementation of community solar, electric vehicle charging infrastructure, and smart meters and thermostats. Utilities, meanwhile, are calling for a higher budget cap. Indiana Michigan Power, for example, recommended a $5-million cap. Consumers Energy proposed $10 million.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Transfers of highly enriched uranium happened in July 2004 , March 2014 , and July 2019. One of the CFR-600s may have reached criticality in mid-2023, though whether it is connected to the electricity grid remains unclear. U-235) for China’s CEFR. The CEFR reached criticality in July 2010 and connected to the grid in July 2011.

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Planet Save

JULY 31, 2019

The post How A Small School In Rural Zambia Will Finally Get Electricity appeared first on PlanetSave. Had the solar lights I brought with me in 2014 made a difference? Read full article] The post How A Small School In Rural Zambia Will Finally Get Electricity appeared first on PlanetSave. I went back to see for myself.

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Planet Save

JULY 31, 2019

The post How A Small School In Rural Zambia Will Finally Get Electricity appeared first on PlanetSave. Had the solar lights I brought with me in 2014 made a difference? The post How A Small School In Rural Zambia Will Finally Get Electricity appeared first on PlanetSave. I went back to see for myself. Read full article].

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 1, 2023

On May 1, the Senate Environmental Resources and Energy Committee was told the wholesale prices of electricity in the PJM regional electric grid are too low to support coal and natural gas power plants. Electric vehicle proliferation, just look at all the mandates related to electric cars.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 28, 2023

On August 23, the PJM Interconnection Critical Issue Fast Path Resource Adequacy stakeholder group heard testimony and suggestions on the issue of making electricity market changes to address nonperformance of natural gas and other generators during emergencies and events like Winter Storm Elliot in December. Read more here. Read more here.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Higher prices for oil, natural gas, coal, and electricity are all pushing up inflation across the economy, dampening consumer demand, canceling out wage gains, and compounding the burdens facing working families and the poor as they seek to recover from the pandemic. But these prices are still way below their highs in 1979-80 and 2007-08.

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Physics World

AUGUST 30, 2021

The material, polycrystalline tin selenide, boasts a heat-to-electricity conversion efficiency of nearly 20%, and could be used in devices that capture waste heat from industrial power plants as well as heat generated by combustion engines in cars, ships and tankers. Poor mechanical properties. at a temperature of 783 K.

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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. Construction began in 2014.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Those same states, however, have made it difficult or impossible for consumers to purchase electricity from renewable energy sources. In 2014, SB 1456 became law in Oklahoma, allowing utilities to charge higher rates to consumers generating electricity through small-scale solar panels or wind turbines.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 21, 2021

It’s the largest in Africa and is expected to be a key source of electricity. In 2014, in the town of East Porterville, so many wells went bust that Tulare County set up portable public showers. The dam is in Ethiopia, on the Blue Nile. In this blistering year in California, drinking water wells are going dry in increasing numbers.

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Physics World

JUNE 19, 2021

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. In 2014 it called on “two pairs of knowledgeable researchers” to extract a value from the scattering data. This would require superhuman powers.”.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 14, 2023

On June 13, Public Utility Commission Chairman Gladys Brown Dutrieuille told the House Consumer Protection, Technology and Utilities Committee Winter Storm Elliot has again demonstrated extreme weather can have a significant impact on electric grid operations in terms of reliability and resilience.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 20, 2022

Energy Information Administration reported-- in our January Short-Term Energy Outlook , we forecast that rising electricity generation from renewable energy resources such as solar and wind will reduce generation from fossil fuel-fired power plants over the next two years. electric generators averaged $4.88 On January 18, the U.S.

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Physics World

JANUARY 28, 2022

This is the first time that the benefits of the unique electrical properties of this novel two-dimensional nanomaterial have been experimentally demonstrated. Like other two-dimensional materials, such as graphene, it has promising electrical characteristics that make it of interest in various applications.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 18, 2021

It noted the impact of future blackouts would be more severe with the increase in electric cars and home heating systems. So many wells went dry in 2014 in the town of East Porterville that Tulare County supplied portable public showers. California is not yet to that level of emergency.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 5, 2022

Work to convert the long abandoned Northern Electric Trolley corridor in northeast Pennsylvania into a recreational trail is receiving a boost. The property will be used to expand the existing Trolley Trail , a potential 14-mile path for non-motorized recreation along the Northern Electric Trolley corridor.

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Physics World

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

One possible explanation is electrostatic attraction, but mobile ions in the cell cytoplasm would screen out static electric fields over ranges longer than 100 nm. Using a nanowire, they detected terahertz-frequency fluctuations of the electric field around the droplet that matched theoretical predictions from Pettini and colleagues.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

No charges have been laid for contraventions since 2014. The report confirms that the current government failed to develop long-term energy plans since coming into office, which has resulted in the current rush to build new electricity generation and is providing an excuse to build new polluting gas plants.

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Clean Energy Law

MAY 24, 2022

Covered Entities : The Program regulates manufacturers, electricity importers, suppliers of natural gas, gasoline and other fuels, and CO2 suppliers that emit more than 25,000 metric tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (MTCO2e) annually. The Program has been linked with the Cap-and-Trade System of Québec since 2014. billion.

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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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