Global Green

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Throughout the US, coal has been the leading source of energy for electric power generation. Almost 90 percent of the increase in renewables came from wind- and solar-power generation. As of 2016, wind provided 8 percent of US electric generation. Recently that has changed.

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A Greener Life

JULY 23, 2021

The Tokyo Olympics will be powered by a fuel with ambition – hydrogen. The Olympic village will be powered by hydrogen made at a solar power plant in the exclusion zone created after the Fukushima nuclear accident a decade ago. The Olympic flame is already burning it. Iceland also has geothermal energy.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The CI of an electric vehicle charged with solar power is zero, and most of the biofuels fall somewhere in the middle [i]. i] For more on the carbon intensity of transportation fuels, see my 2016 report, Fueling a Clean Transportation Future.

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Physics World

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Could you explain why these materials are so important for solar power? Then, in 2016, you went into scientific publishing, first at Springer Nature , before becoming the editor of Science Robotics. Congratulations on winning the 2022 Rank Prize for Optoelectronics for your work on perovskite semiconductors.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 1, 2023

It complements Phoenix Contact’s Combined Cooling, Heating, and Power (CCHP) system, which generates about half of the facility’s electric requirements. Phoenix Contact estimates the solar power installation will reduce the company’s electricity costs by approximately $150,000 per year.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 24, 2024

Winning over voters Biden made the announcement as he addressed a crowd at Prince William Forest Park in Triangle, Virginia, to the presence of several key Democratic climate advocates including Bernie Sanders who unsuccessfully ran against Hillary Clinton for the 2016 Democratic Presidential nomination.

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A Greener Life

MARCH 19, 2023

Set to be built and funded by Chinese state-owned entities, recent developments have also raised fresh questions about China’s pledge – made at the UN General Assembly in 2021 – not to build any new coal power plants overseas. The Gwadar coal power plant was first conceived in 2016, with an estimated cost of USD 542.32

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Law Columbia

MARCH 25, 2016

The amount that the Senate has proposed diverting from the RGGI fund for FY 2017 is more than 80% of the total value of RGGI auction proceeds earned by New York in FY 2016 (which totaled approximately $166 million ).

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Columbia Climate Law

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Due to the lower costs of solar PV, other states have seen large increases in the development of these facilities over the past decade thanks to PURPA. For example, as of August 2016, North Carolina had 1,173 MW of installed solar photovoltaic (“PV”) capacity as a direct result of PURPA. Follow Jeffrey on twitter at @jt_hammons.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 20, 2023

[PaEN] -- Senate Hearing: Body Of Evidence Is 'Large, Growing,’ ‘Consistent’ And 'Compelling' That Shale Gas Development Is Having A Negative Impact On Public Health; PA Must Act [PaEN] -- DEP Ongoing Explosion/Fire Investigation: Energy Transfer Reported An Uncontrolled Release Of Ethane For 9.5 Washington County [PaEN] -- Robinson Twp.,

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E2 Law Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2021

The draft scoping plan is likely to spur a significant amount of interest and comments from various stakeholders.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Solar power is jetting us towards that goal. gigawatts (GW) of solar power, enough power to provide electricity for one third of the households in Los Angeles. The growth in solar power has been exponential in the past decade and isn’t stopping. By 2010, the US had installed 2.6

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 9, 2022

25 PA Lake Erie Forum Webinar On Climate Hazard Mitigation & Climate Migration [PaEN] -- Annual Conference Of Interfaith Power & Light To Focus On Environmental Justice & Human Resilience On Nov. Limiting Methane Emissions From Conventional Oil & Gas Facilities To Oct.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 19, 2024

Agnew has donated £18,000 to the Conservative Party and its politicians since 2016. Its campaign arm Net Zero Watch has urged the government to “recommit to fossil fuels”, including “a new fleet of coal-fired power stations”, and has called for renewable energy from wind and solar power to be “wound down completely”.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Environmental Progress

MARCH 11, 2021

Market impacts of a nuclear power plant closure,” American Economic Journal, Applied Economics , 2016, p. Evaluation of a proposal for reliable low-cost grid power with 100 percent wind, water, and solar,” PNAS 114, no. See also, Michael Shellenberger, “Democrats Say California is a Model,” Forbes , August 17, 2020. [13]

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The International Energy Agency said the world last year saw record growth in solar power, adoption of electric vehicles, and global clean energy investments that outstripped fossil investments last year by $1.74 trillion into fossil fuel projects since the Paris agreement went into effect in 2016. trillion to $1 trillion.

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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.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2021

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

In 2016, the American Clean Power trade association said 86 percent of onshore wind farms were in Republican congressional districts representing 88,000 jobs and $126 billion in investment over the preceding decade. Four of the top five congressional districts for solar power output are also in Republican districts.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Lawsuit Filed Challenging Solar Power Facility in California. A California community services district and a neighborhood group filed a lawsuit challenging San Bernardino County authorizations for a solar power generating facility across 3,500 acres. County of Kern , No. BCV-20-100080 (Cal.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 14, 2023

Meanwhile, between 2012 and 2022, installed wind and solar power more than tripled , according to American Clean Power. percent of US electricity and utility-scale solar generated 3.4 The report also found that 173 coal plants are scheduled to close by 2030—54 percent of the fleet—and another 55 by 2040.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 29, 2024

Rex Tillerson, ExxonMobil CEO from 2006 to 2016. Over the last 12 years, I wrote eight columns on the Koch network’s escapades, including: Its attempt in 2012 to scare consumers about the cost of state renewable energy standards, which require utilities to reduce their reliance on fossil fuels by increasing their use of wind and solar power.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 31, 2022

Koch’s most recent public comments about climate change came during lengthy interviews with the Washington Post in 2015 and 2016. Koch Engineered Solutions is also bullish on solar, but not on distributed rooftop solar, which the Koch network has been trying to stop.

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