PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Pennsylvania Solar Center’s carefully considered process for simplifying access to solar is a primary reason the nonprofit created Pennsylvania’s Galvanizing Energy Transition (GET) Solar program in 2019. billion in clean energy tax credits as of May 2024.

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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. He would cold-call investors to convince them to invest in Nanotech Engineering Inc.,

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Earthava

APRIL 20, 2021

Petawatt hour and in the year 2019, it was 173.3 In other words, you get more savings by installing a solar power plant if you are charged with high electricity rates. The payback period of solar power plants to connections with high electricity rates is shorter as compared to those with low electricity rates.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

PA Bulletin, page 7202 ) Read more here. -- The Department of Environmental Protection invites comments on and has scheduled a December 18 hearing on an Air Quality Plan Approval for waste tire fuel at the Panther Creek Power Plant in Nesquehoning Borough, Carbon County. ( facility in Barkeyville Boro, Venango County. (

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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]. dairy herds fell by more than half between 2002 and 2019, with an accelerating rate of decline in 2018 and 2019, even as milk production continued to grow.”

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 20, 2023

Multiple lines of analysis make clear that regardless of how cheap wind and solar power get, without directly addressing pollution from coal and gas plants, the country’s clean energy transition will not happen fast enough. But to bring those solutions fully to bear, we also need to force a reckoning with the problem itself.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

So after returning home, he launched Dat Bike in 2019. The company sells electric motorbikes in Danang, Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City and is exploring the reuse of electric batteries and how to power its factory with green energy. © Dita Alangkara/AP. Japan and other partners.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 4, 2023

“Pursue Your Happiness In Pennsylvania” Senate next voting day September 18, 19, 20; Oct. Pursue Your Happiness In Pennsylvania” Senate next voting day September 18, 19, 20; Oct.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Some counties in the PA Wilds have active proposals for solar fields going on old strip mine lands. In January of this year, the Clinton County Zoning Hearing Board held a special exception hearing for a 1,500-2,000-acre utility grade solar power installation in West Keating Township proposed by Apex Clean Energy of Virginia.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 30, 2023

Last year a total of 266 gigawatts (GW) of renewables was installed, with solar power leading the field. The President of the Energy Institute, a UK-based body, Juliet Davenport said : “Despite further strong growth in wind and solar in the power sector, overall global energy-related greenhouse gas emissions increased again.

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A Greener Life

JULY 9, 2021

between 2016 and 2019, and total energy consumption also rose far more than permitted by the 13th FYP targets. It could then explore local heating systems, using waste heat from factories and power plants rather than building new boilers. Inner Mongolia generated more wind energy than any other province in 2019.

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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. Neighbouring South Korea has similar plans.

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A Greener Life

MAY 23, 2024

A solar-powered charging station in Yibin, south-west China. Two-way charging could give vehicles like these the potential to stabilise power supplies by discharging stored electricity back to the grid. The French energy company EDF exhibited this bidirectional charging terminal for electric vehicles in 2019.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 19, 2024

million has been given to pro-fossil fuel think tanks by Tory donors since the 2019 general election. million from fossil fuel interests, highly polluting industries, and climate science deniers since the 2019 election. Lord Moynihan donated £53,000 to Liz Truss in 2022, and £100,000 to Boris Johnson in 2019.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 6, 2023

Natural Gas Storage Area Spills [PaEN] -- PUC: Columbia Gas To Pay $990,000 Penalty In Revised Settlement Involving Home Explosion In Washington County -- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: PUC Approves $990,000 Penalty Settlement With Columbia Gas Over 2019 House Explosion In Washington County -- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: Negotiating Community Benefits, (..)

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Environmental Progress

APRIL 20, 2021

Part of the problem in Texas was that wind and solar farms set the price for the rest of the system. The total number of negative price hours, whereby power plants had to pay people to take unneeded electricity, grew dramatically between 2019 and 2020, just as they did in California during the same period, and have grown since.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 2, 2023

Managing the role of the energy sector will be a key challenge in meeting this target, being responsible for 53% of the country’s emissions, according to the latest update of its greenhouse gas inventory in 2019. The transition away from fossil fuels has, however, been an elusive goal for Argentina to date.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 20, 2023

Click Here for video/sound of a typical release from 2012 to 2019. The blowdowns-- which sound like a jet engine turning on and off-- were documented in hundreds of videos and photos by the Borello Family. Washington County [PaEN] -- Robinson Twp., 27 Released 1.1 Posted: June 20, 2023] PA Environment Digest

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E2 Law Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Enacted in 2019, the CLCPA transformed the state’s earlier clean energy standard efforts from administrative fiat to law and sets more aggressive goals to reduce statewide greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions economy-wide to 60% from a 1990 baseline by 2030, and 15% from a 1990 baseline by 2050.

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Columbia Climate Law

JULY 9, 2015

The ALJs also proposed a fixed charge of $10 per month for every consumer, regardless of their electricity usage, and a shift to opt-out [3] time-of-use (ToU) pricing starting in 2019. In the evening, energy demand suddenly increases when solar power does not function.

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A Greener Life

MARCH 19, 2023

Although the tariff (the rate at which the Chinese company will sell electricity) had been determined in 2019, the land acquisition for the plant did not happen until 2020 and the power purchase agreement between the Chinese company and GFZ was signed in early 2021.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 28, 2024

The Court’s jurisdiction was invoked pursuant to Article 32 of the Constitution through a Writ Petition urging the Court to seek from the Government (the Respondents herein) “an emergency response plan for the protection and recovery” of the GIB in 2019.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Global net anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions 1990–2019. By 2019, the largest growth in absolute emissions occurred in carbon dioxide from fossil fuels and industry. As one example, according to an analysis by Client Earth , in 2019 Chevron’s disclosed emissions amounted to 697 million tons of carbon dioxide equivalent.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 22, 2024

In a report this year to its shareholders, New Fortress Energy leadership stated its plan to replace the aging generating fleet in Puerto Rico with methane gas units, saying that solar power and storage would be complementary to the generation mix.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 17, 2022

From 2018 to 2019, US capacity increased from 234 to 402 megawatts (MW), mostly in California. Currently only 4 percent of US electricity comes from solar. In just one year—from 2020 to 2021—utility-scale battery storage capacity in the United States tripled , jumping from 1.4

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 11, 2023

Lack of power can have devastating consequences for disadvantaged communities. In 2019 when Pacific Gas & Electric Company issued power shutoffs in California in an attempt to mitigate wildfire risks and promote public safety, Robert Mardis Sr. ,

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 23, 2023

Solar power is expected to make up about half of all additions of US electric generating capacity in 2023, according to data from the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). gigawatts (GW) of planned solar projects expected to come online this year is almost double the previous 13.4 Solar” only includes large-scale solar.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 19, 2022

In the 2019 Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act, New York committed to a set of ambitious electricity targets: 70 percent from renewable sources by 2030 and 100 percent by 2040. Emissions-Free Electricity by 2040.

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Environmental Progress

MARCH 11, 2021

21] In 2019, German electricity prices were 45 percent higher than the European average. [22] 22] A study published in late 2019 found that Germany’s nuclear phase-out is costing its citizens $12 billion per year. [23] gigawatts of highly-reliable, low-cost, and low-carbon power. [49] as a whole. [52] 5] Ran Fu et al., “US

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 31, 2024

House Game & Fisheries Committee holds informational meeting on Game Commission 2019 Performance Audit and recommendations by State Auditor General. Room 523 Irvis Building. Click Here to watch online. June 3-- NEW. Room 523 Irvis Building. Click Here to watch online. June 4-- NEW. Room 205 Ryan Building.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

By Odette Mucha , Vote Solar and Liz Robinson , Philadelphia Solar Energy Association As we know, solar power provides a wide range of benefits to Pennsylvanians. It creates local jobs, with Pennsylvania currently home to over 400 solar companies with over 4,300 solar workers. billion in the Keystone State.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 14, 2022

By 2019, the National Agency For Great Green Wall (NAGGW) had reportedly restored 12 million acres of degraded land. The Great Green Wall project seedlings and a solar-powered borehole are under construction at a 10-hectare orchard in the Kirikasama area of Jigawa.

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Environmental Progress

MAY 28, 2020

In 2019 for example, WMO reported that more than 6.7 In 2019 for example, WMO reported that more than 6.7 This number is forecast to reach close to 22 million in 2019, up from 17.2 In Morocco, the Ouarzazate Solar Power Station is the world's largest concentrated solar power plant. C this century.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 9, 2023

Pennsylvania’s solar-powered fossil fuels CO2 being liberated today from Pennsylvania coal was removed from the atmosphere by the photosynthesis of trees that fed on sunlight and carbon dioxide and then died to have their remains accumulate in the vast coal swamps of the Carboniferous Period.

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Legal Planet

JULY 25, 2024

A dozen years later, the cost of solar power had dropped by nearly 90% on a price per kilowatt basis. Solar PV became almost a third less expensive than fossil fuel generation. Like solar, battery costs have dropped plunged since 2010. In just four years (2015 through 2019), the cost of storage dropped by almost 70%.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

Fuel costs don’t change for wind- and solar-powered electricity over time because the wind and sun are free, and clean energy produced in the U.S. Fuels needed to power fossil fuel plants, however, are traded globally and subject to supply chain and other constraints that impact their availability and price. stays in the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 3, 2022

By Ad Crable, Chesapeake Bay Journal A solar power boom generated by new renewable energy mandates is unfurling in the Chesapeake Bay region. Virginia, for example, was ninth in the nation for new solar capacity in 2021. At the upper end of the estimated need for solar acres, there would not be enough sheep to cover that ground.

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