Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 5, 2024

It was a bitter cold day on January 5, 2018, and Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker had no choice. Demand for electricity was high, but there was not enough gas available to keep all the gas-fired power plants running. A grid problem on land, a grid solution at sea The situation in January 2018 was extreme, but it was not unique.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 19, 2023

Back in 2018, California legislators were considering a bill that would have created an independent governance structure for California’s grid operator , the California Independent System Operator (CAISO). The 2018 bill did not pass, but the idea never faded. The list goes on, but you get the point.

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Energy and Climate Law

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

The German Federal Constitutional Court decided yesterday that the way in which compensation under the Atomic Energy Amendment Act of 10 July 2018 has been organized infringes the German constitution. The residual electricity volumes are a key-instrument of the Atomic Energy Act and the German nuclear phase out.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 27, 2022

As electric vehicle (EV) sales continue to increase, questions about how these cars and their batteries will be disposed of have been top of mind for current owners, future buyers, policymakers, and many experts in the automotive industry. Assembly Bill 2832 passed in 2018 creating the California Battery Recycling Advisory Group.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

To reach the state’s goals of 100% clean electricity and economy-wide carbon neutrality by 2045, the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) has been tasked with planning the clean electricity transition via its Integrated Resource Planning (IRP) process. But the turn is not yet over.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 4, 2023

It gained traction in California in 2018, although that particular effort fell short. At the highest level, the contiguous United States is composed of three electrical grids: the Western Interconnection, the Eastern Interconnection, and the Texas Interconnection. This is the step that tripped up the 2018 grid regionalization push.

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Law and Environment

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The amendments are intended to accelerate progress towards decarbonization of the electricity sector and further ensure the state meets its goal of net zero emissions by 2050. The CES, first enacted in 2017, requires retail sellers of electricity in Massachusetts to provide increasing quantities of clean electricity over time.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 3, 2023

As we bid farewell to 2022 and look forward to 2023, I’ve been reflecting on progress made in the past year, particularly in the implementation of the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) Formula Program. Just think how far we have come in the last five years: five years ago was January 2018.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Until 2018, McHenry was averaging something below 1%. But in 2018 he scored 9% and by 2021 the score was 17%, which seems quite high for a House Republican these days. electricity markets by updating grid scale technologies, which will make grid storage more widely available.” The lifetime score also needs interpretation.

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Global Green

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Chris Johnston is co-author of The Arrival of the Electric Car – An Overview of the EV Revolution Happening Now. The fastest way to shift the transportation sector to environmental sustainability is to accelerate the transition to electric vehicles (EVs). Electric energy generation by renewable sources has doubled since 2008.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

The EIA reports that: “Fossil fuel sources accounted for about 69% of South Korea’s electricity generation in 2019, and the share of nuclear power accounted for 25%. Coal-fired power, which is a baseload source, is the dominant fossil fuel used to generate electricity (40%), and natural gas-fired capacity is the second-largest source (26%).”.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

More transportation options = less buildout of the electric grid UCS’s project examined several ways that the US can lower global warming emissions consistent with limiting overall warming to 1.5 But it requires ambitious policies, including nearly tripling renewable energy’s share of US electricity generation by 2030 (see graph below).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 15, 2024

FERC and NERC’s limited review FERC staff, along with staff of the North American Electric Reliability Corp., For context, only a less severe EEA-2 was declared during a 2018 winter storm in the Midwest and south central U.S., Was that true during this latest storm?

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Legal Planet

JUNE 2, 2022

Scotland set a 2020 goal of 100% renewable energy electricity generation. renewable energy generation (62% coming from onshore wind) A climate plan adopted in 2018 sets a binding target of net-zero emissions by 2045. This covers electricity, heating, transportation, etc., In 2020, they just missed this goal, at 97.4%

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 11, 2022

The Public Utility Commission is inviting comments on a petition from ChargEVC-PA requesting the Commission to issue a Policy Statement on electric utility rate design for electric vehicle charging in PA. The burning of transportation fuels, such as gasoline and diesel, is a substantial source of air pollution.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Energy Transfer had its brand new Revolution Natural Gas Pipeline explode in Beaver County in 2018 and paid a penalty of $30.8 Terrible Compliance Record Energy Transfer’s environmental compliance record in Pennsylvania is absolutely terrible. million to DEP.

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Energy and Climate Law

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

By 2030 65 % of electricity in Germany shall come from renewable sources and by 2050 the share will be 100%. At a meeting on Wednesday 23 September 2020 the German government decided to propose to the parliament (Bundestag) a so called EEG Novelle 2021 , featuring the new 2030 and 2050 goals for renewable electricity. OGEL , 2018 (2).)

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 13, 2021

But Nebraska has a unique approach to supplying electricity that provided a different pathway to climate action. Unlike any other state, Nebraska decided not to have private electric utilities. In 2018, as I described in a previous post , Utah funded a University of Utah project to devise a climate plan for the state.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 18, 2021

A 2018 government report found that between 1999 and 2011, the number of South African rivers in poor ecological health increased by 500 percent. Sixty coal mines in the region suspended operations, even as China suffers from electricity shortfalls and rising energy prices. A number of rivers were considered past the point of revival.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 19, 2023

Going back in the compliance history of Nancy 13, a DEP inspection report dated December 20, 2018 noted the well was leaking brine, gas was venting from the well casing and the value used for fracking the well was still on the wellhead, but no violations were listed. [ Photos: top- Nancy 13 circa 2018, Nancy 13 2023; bottom- James R.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 27, 2022

In March, start-up BasiGo became the first company to launch an electric passenger bus in Kenya. We selected BYD because they are the largest manufacturer of electric buses globally and they are known for battery technology that is state-of-the-art,” BasiGo co-founder and CEO Jit Bhattacharya told China Dialogue. million in funding.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

It’s the same water-use target that Cape Town established during its Day Zero water crisis in 2018. The Associated Press reports that the environment commissioner in Maine suspended a permit for a high-voltage electricity transmission line intended to cross the state.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Fifteen percent of electricity is renewable. Renewables are a third of electricity consumption. Renewables are 42% of electricity. Germany decides to phase out nuclear power, complicating efforts to decarbonize the power sector. Government adopts a sector-by-sector plan to reach 2050 climate goals.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

In 2018, Russia agreed to supply fuel for the CFR-600 for seven years. One of the CFR-600s may have reached criticality in mid-2023, though whether it is connected to the electricity grid remains unclear. These provisions against military use are also present in a 2018 contract for Russia to provide fuel for the CFR-600 reactors.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

An ambitious law that promises to accelerate the state’s clean energy transition, CEJA provides a detailed framework for greater utility transparency and accountability to update electricity distribution infrastructure to ensure a clean energy future. Illinois utilities contributed to that trend.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 10, 2022

In India and Pakistan, recent heat waves, worsened by a changing climate, are causing dangerous water and electricity shortages. Despite the heat, Pakistan residents continue to endure daily electricity cuts, losing about nine hours of electricity each day. I’m Eileen Wray-McCann.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

On November 18, the Public Utility Commission approved a settlement related to a massive pipeline failure and fire in Beaver County in 2018 involving the “Revolution Pipeline” – resulting in nearly $2 million in civil penalties and additional preventative measures required by the pipeline operator. Early on the morning of Sept.

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Circle of Blue

JULY 14, 2022

With less water in reservoirs, generators crank out fewer megawatt-hours, raising the cost of electricity and increasing the risk of summer blackouts. This year, Glen Canyon Dam is operating at just 60 percent of its maximum electrical generating capacity due to the drying of Lake Powell. Clunky, perhaps. But more accurate.

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Physics World

JUNE 6, 2022

Superconductivity is the ability of a material to conduct electricity without any resistance. The team then reported additional measurements showing T c up to 280 K in some samples in Aug 2018 at the Boston ACS meeting. Superconductivity was first observed in 1911 in solid mercury below a T c of 4.2K

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

This condition was originally discovered by DEP on October 4, 2018 and the operator has been trying to correct the problem since then. SPLP estimates around five days for the cleanup.” “DEP DEP inspectors will check the site daily during the cleanup and someone from DEP was out there this morning to check the cleanup,” said Shader.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 2, 2024

Whatever the weather in March and beyond—in-like-a-lion blustery or out-like-a-lamb sunny—spring tends to be a season of strong electricity production from solar and wind in particular. Spring is also a glorious time for taking stock, since the official data on the previous year’s US electricity generation become available.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 3, 2025

Copper, lithium, cobalt, manganese, rare earth metals and graphite essential ingredients for electric vehicle (EV) batteries, renewable technologies and decarbonisation of industrial processes are plentiful across the continent. Without reliable electricity, industrialisation sputters.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Electric Vehicles. The federal government offers a $5,000 incentive towards electric vehicle purchases (both battery electric and plug-in hybrid). One other important statistic: Ontario used to have incentives for electric vehicles at a time when there were no federal incentives. Let’s take a look. Not by a long shot.

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Physics World

MARCH 15, 2022

That is the conclusion of researchers who have modelled the effects of particulate pollution on solar irradiance in 2001–2018. In their latest research, Dey, Ganguly and colleagues modelled how atmospheric attenuation and soiling affected India’s solar-energy output in 2001–2018. Satellite data. Dual-axis losses.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The Lower Sesan 2 Dam, which came online in 2018, is Cambodia’s largest hydroelectric dam. However, since it came online in late 2018, the dam has underperformed economically, in large part because of a drought that has gripped the region during consecutive years and stymied water flow. © Wonders of the Mekong. © Wonders of the Mekong.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 18, 2023

On May 18, the Public Utility Commission formally began the process of drafting a policy statement on electric utility rate design for electric vehicle (EV) charging, following the review of comments submitted by concerned parties and the recommendations of the Commission’s EV Charging Rate Design Working Group. P-2022-3030743.

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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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