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Ontario: Now is the time to increase renewable energy, not fossil gas

Enviromental Defense

But rather than ramping up the use of polluting fossil gas, this is the perfect moment for the province to transition to clean and safe renewable energy. Electricity nerds might be writing off the prospect of new gas plant contracts because of the forthcoming Federal Clean Electricity Regulations (CER).

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Something Stinks: California Must End Manure Biomethane Accounting Gimmicks in its Low Carbon Fuel Standard

Union of Concerned Scientists

This is a little different than other similar sounding policies like Renewable Energy Standards, which can create some confusion. But while a Renewable Energy Standard treats all sources of qualifying renewable energy equally, the LCFS has a more complicated approach, based on lifecycle analysis.

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PA Solar Center Honors 25 Organizations For Leadership In Clean, Renewable Solar Energy From Allegheny County

PA Environment Daily

Comments By Award Winners “At Eaton, we’re simplifying the energy transition and accelerating sustainable energy systems to power our operations, customers and communities.” At BCI Steel and Full Tilt Energy Systems , we are very proud to have our manufacturing and engineering base right here in Western PA.

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Pipeline Decisions Do Not Spell Doom for Transmission

Law Columbia

Last week the Sabin Center and the American Bar Association held an event on addressing landowner concerns in renewable energy siting. Wind and solar farms often spark siting battles between local residents who welcome renewable energy projects and their neighbors who are concerned about visual or other impacts.

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Michigan’s Updated PURPA Implementation Could Create a New Market for Privately-owned Solar Energy Facilities

Columbia Climate Law

PURPA requires electric utilities to purchase energy and capacity from qualifying renewable energy facilities (“QFs”). For the proxy plant method, the avoided energy cost proxy is a natural gas combined cycle unit (“NGCC”), and the avoided capacity cost proxy is a natural gas combustion turbine unit (“NGCT”).

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Testimony before the United States House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce 2021 Texas Grid Failure

Environmental Progress

Advocates of renewable energy have argued since the 1970s that the variable, weather-dependent nature of sunlight and wind is a modest obstacle at best to relying on 100 percent renewables. Some have argued that weather-dependent energies would, paradoxically, make electricity even more reliable. percent, 47.4

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Nuclear Plant Closures And Renewables Increase Electricity Prices & Unreliability, Testifies Michael Shellenberger to U.S. Senate

Environmental Progress

Congress took questions relating to the security of America’s electricity supply seriously before more than a dozen states experienced energy shortages last month, but those events make this hearing all the more urgent. 1] In its 2017 report, the Academies warned that U.S. electrical grids were increasingly “complex and vulnerable.” [2]