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2024 Year in Review: Clean Energy Progress Steeped in Solar and Storage

Union of Concerned Scientists

Wind While the amount of new wind turbine capacity installed looked to be the lowest in at least six years, wind power continued to set records for generation in different regions of the country. Cumulative US utility-scale battery power capacity.

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Want Clean Energy? Then You Also Want Battery Recycling.

Union of Concerned Scientists

Since 2019, the Department of Energy’s ReCell Center has been researching effective and affordable battery recycling technology. How are Lithium-ion Batteries that Store Solar and Wind Power Made? And what about the solar panels and wind turbines, which generate the electricity that batteries store? Source: NREL/Flickr.

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Cornhuskers Go Green

Legal Planet

During the 2010s, wind power went from 1% of generation to 20%. In 2019, the Utah State Legislature passed the Community Renewable Energy Act (HB 411). This bill allows Utah municipalities that are serviced by Rocky Mountain Power to achieve a net-100% renewable energy portfolio by 2030. That has changed quite quickly.

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Observer-Reporter Guest Essay: Why Politicians Want You To Pay More For Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

Fracked gas companies are seeing less build-out of new natural gas power plants because solar and wind power are so cheap. Million Settlement, Largest Of Its Kind, Over 2019 Philadelphia Refinery Explosion [Includes Copy Of Proposed Settlement] -- WHYY - Sophia Schmidt: EPA Reaches Historic $4.2

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Gov. Newsom Goes to China to Talk Climate

Legal Planet

That’s why Newsom’s expected to visit a Tesla factory that has pumped out 2 million cars since opening in 2019. He also just signed legislation to boost the Golden State’s offshore wind power and that’s another area where China leads the world. As of last year, Chinese drivers had purchased a cumulative total of 13.8

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Tornadoes and More: What Spring Can Bring to the Power Grid 

Union of Concerned Scientists

The rail infrastructure to transport coal from the Powder River Basin in Montana and Wyoming–the country’s primary coal source –was proven to be vulnerable to extreme floods in the spring of 2011 , and even more extreme floods in the spring of 2019.

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Analysis: Colombia’s offshore wind power plans spark hope and caution

A Greener Life

An offshore wind farm in Europe. Colombia’s Caribbean coast has great potential for offshore wind power projects but is also home to protected areas of ecological importance. In 2021 alone, the global installed capacity of offshore wind plants tripled, reaching record figures, as 21.1 Photo credit: Tho Ge / Pixabay.