Union of Concerned Scientists
JUNE 24, 2024
Higher demand means power grid operators, who start with the cleaner and cheaper plants like solar power, need to pull other, often dirtier, gas or coal-fired power plants online. Under high heat conditions, power plants can also be less efficient at producing electricity as they normally would under cooler conditions.
Circle of Blue
APRIL 14, 2022
At least 3,641 lives were lost to the crisis between 2016 and 2018, according to Amnesty International , with over half of the fatalities recorded in 2018 alone. And, in 2016, the government awarded contracts through the Presidential Initiative for the North East (PINE) to two companies, paying them ?544 Photo by Murtala Abdullahi.
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
Enviromental Defense
MARCH 22, 2022
for Ontario to phase out polluting gas-powered electricity and produce all of its power using carbon-free sources. Take Action: Tell Ontario to phase out polluting gas power. Here are the measures that would lead Ontario to a fully clean electricity grid: Increase Wind and Solar Power. This is completely doable.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JANUARY 24, 2023
In that report, NERC said that the lessons learned during the 2014 Polar Vortex validated concerns it had raised less than a year earlier about the electric power sector’s rapidly growing dependence on gas. In PJM, wind resources delivered more than three-and-a-half times what they had committed to provide.
Union of Concerned Scientists
DECEMBER 20, 2022
From 2019 through 2021 , additions of large-scale generating capacity have been led by wind—not gas—and the US Energy Information Administration says solar power is on track to lead this year. Solar was actually the leading capacity addition from 2019 through 2021 if you include smaller-scale systems such as rooftop solar.
A Greener Life
AUGUST 27, 2021
The milking shed for her 80 dairy cows that can yield 1,100 litres of milk per day, along with the barn that houses 21,000 chickens at a time, will soon sit alongside a photovoltaic solar plant with 85 panels. MW (between June 2016 and June 2021). The solar power plant is one more. MW to 791.32
Energy & the Law
MARCH 7, 2023
million in a fraudulent solar power scheme. 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.
Expert insights. Personalized for you.
312 
Let's personalize your content