Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 24, 2023

There’s good news in the recently released official data on electricity generation in the United States in 2022: renewable energy has continued to grow, coal power has continued to drop, and renewables are now firmly ahead of coal for the first time ever. They offer a lot of good news about clean energy progress.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 29, 2024

Climate policy has been boosted by dramatic changes in the economics of clean energy. Rooftop solar costs in 2020 were a third of what they had been in 2010. In 2020, the cost of single-axis utility scale solar was only a fifth of what it was in 2010. Wind power costs fell by half from 2008 to 2021.

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Environmental News Bits

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Minnesota’s clean energy workforce is more diverse than the broader state economy. And more jobs are coming in fields like energy production, energy efficiency, electric vehicles, and green construction. Read the full story at Sahan Journal. Read more →

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

For instance, pilots can help utilities learn how to effectively integrate distributed energy storage, including batteries installed in ratepayers’ homes, which will be key to reducing emissions. In 2020, Hawaii’s Public Utility Commission implemented an expedited process for pilot approvals.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 16, 2024

I work in the electric utility sector, specifically on the grid issues that shape our energy supply choices. I heard some early warnings of data center growth running into grid limits first from tech companies and then from electric utility planners. This growth is a jolt to the usually slow-moving electricity sector.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 31, 2024

The Public Utility Commission published notice in the June 1 PA Bulletin making available the final policy statement establishing guidelines for the use of electricity storage by electric distribution companies (EDC). M-2020-3022877. Photo: Pittsburgh-based EOS energy storage facility paired with solar energy.)

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Law and Environment

AUGUST 17, 2022

But in July 2020, the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Municipal Law Unit struck down the first such ban that came across its desk as inconsistent with other state law. The post Coming soon to Massachusetts cities and towns: all electric buildings first appeared on Law and the Environment.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 28, 2022

6 is still driving up Ohioans’ electricity bills—and undermining the state’s prospects for a clean energy future. 6 went into effect, Ohio ratepayers have paid more than $182 million to subsidize two 67-year-old coal-fired power plants operated by the Ohio Valley Electric Corporation (OVEC). Since H.B. But thanks to H.B.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 31, 2022

On the last day of the 2022 Minnesota legislative session, state legislators had a real case of the Mondays: They failed to deliver on climate and energy policies that would have accelerated renewable energy enough to forge a clear path to carbon-free electricity and set the state on track to meet science-based emission reduction targets.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 19, 2022

Climate Alliance (USCA) can meet all of their electricity needs with renewable energy—while decarbonizing other sectors of the economy and ensuring equitable benefits to all communities. States have technically feasible and highly beneficial paths to achieving 100 percent renewable energy. by 2035 is needed.

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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. Policy direction.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 16, 2022

The Department of Energy’s Energy Information Administration (EIA) is one of the go-to sources for reliable information about the US power sector. They just released their 2022 “Annual Energy Outlook” (AEO), which is a big deal: it tells us where electricity is headed over the next 30 years. Carbon emissions remain high.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 31, 2022

At any point in the summer, extreme heat could trigger electricity supply shortages and rotating power outages. It issued five Flex Alerts in 2020, eight in 2021, but there’s only been one so far this year. For example, the two rotating blackouts in August 2020 occurred during energy supply shortages that happened at 6:38 to 7:40 p.m.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

These days, the world is quickly learning that energy choices are determined by pipelines and electric grid infrastructure. In the face of Russia’s weaponized manipulation of energy supplies, the public and policymakers need to plan for the future. Grid planning is central to energy reliability, affordability and fuel choice.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 10, 2024

These plants, which were originally slated to close in 2020, include the Ormond Beach Generating Station located in the predominantly Latinx, low-income community of Oxnard. Higher and more volatile energy bills An electric system that is over-reliant on gas can contribute to higher and more volatile electricity bills.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 31, 2022

American Electric Power. Xcel Energy. Net zero by 2050, 50% cut by 2030, and 100% clean energy by 2040. 1) NextEra Energy. Energy Mix (2020): [link]. 2) Duke Energy. Generated Energy Mix (2020): [link]. Energy Mix (2020): [link]. 4) Dominion Energy.

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Clean Energy Law

JULY 16, 2019

EPA’s electric power sector proposal follows nearly ten years of litigation filed by environmental non-governmental organizations (eNGOs) and resulting court-ordered EPA rulemaking. Pursuant to court order, EPA must finalize this regulation by December 2, 2020. O’Brien and Stacey L. VanBelleghem. EPA’s Interpretation of Its Authority.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 19, 2023

This would have enabled the CAISO to expand its operations into the rest of the west as a regional transmission organization (RTO), an independent entity that plans and operates the electricity grid. Now, 22 states plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico have 100% clean energy goals on the books.

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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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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. billion to $2.2

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The renewable energy transition involves harnessing epic forces of nature. Sleek solar panels forged from silver and silica from the depths of the Earth translate the sun’s blindingly fiery light energy into electricity. Batteries help store surplus energy. Source: UniEnergy Technologies / Wikimedia Commons. Source: UCS.

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Vermont Law

JUNE 29, 2020

Under Governor Northam’s direction, Virginia’s Energy Policy shifted quite dramatically from when he first took office in January 2018 to what we have at the end of the 2020 Legislative Session. The energy sector is one of the biggest polluters when it comes to. is to bring zero-carbon electricity supply to Virginia by 2050.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Although its track record has some complexities, this timeline of German actions shows just its early and sustained attention to clean energy policy: 1990. Fifteen percent of electricity is renewable. Renewables are a third of electricity consumption. Renewables are 42% of electricity. trillion tons.]

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

On November 22, the Public Utility Commission alerted consumers and small businesses that most utilities will be adjusting their price to compare for electric generation on December 1st – with potentially large winter energy cost increases in some areas for non-shopping (default service) customers. cents to 7.98 cents to 7.98

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 19, 2022

The amount of solar energy at K-12 schools in Pennsylvania doubled since 2020, according to a new statewide report on schools' adoption of solar published by Generation180 , a clean energy nonprofit. They anticipate energy cost savings of $11 million over the 40-year life expectancy of the solar panels.

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Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Clean energy is sweeping across America. In 2020, America generated almost four times as much renewable electricity from the sun and the wind as in 2011, with wind and solar now producing 11% of the nation’s electricity. Download the document.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

For the past few years, California regulators have been hard at work on a wholesale revamp of their resource adequacy program, which helps ensure the lights stay on when electricity demand is at its highest, during hot summer evenings, for example. But other experts have called them “a big step forward for clean energy.”.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Despite the clean energy transition that is well underway in the United States, methane gas, or natural gas, remains the largest source of U.S. electricity generation. This is a particularly dangerous risk given the coincident grid strain and high electricity demand that is typically triggered by these weather conditions.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

US ratepayers very likely will pay even more for electricity and heating this winter compared to the already-expensive winter of 2021-2022. The US Energy Information Administration is forecasting the wholesale price of gas to reach its highest level since the winter of 2009-2010 in inflation-adjusted terms.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 1, 2022

On May 31, Duquesne Light Company announced a new lineup of electric vehicle (EV) charging and fleet electrification programs to help local organizations save time and money on installing EV charging and transitioning to an electric fleet. In 2020, DLC installed the DCFC stations for Port Authority’s first two electric buses. “As

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 15, 2022

The ones that’ll soon be gracing areas over the horizon are powerful enough, each one, to generate the equivalent of an average home’s daily electricity use in just a few seconds. Even more important, though, wind is an impressive piece of our electricity supply. Wind is now the largest source of renewable energy in the country.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 16, 2023

There have been high-profile rotating power outages caused by a heatwave in California (August 2020), a winter storm in Texas (February 2021), and another winter storm in Tennessee and North Carolina (December 2022). The electric grid will need to be very reliable for this transition to go smoothly.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Methane emissions showed their biggest annual increase in 2020 and again in 2021. High energy prices have caused a record transfer of wealth from consumers to producers, leading to a $2 trillion windfall for fossil fuel producers above their 2021 net income even as many millions have been thrust into energy poverty.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

In response, Europe has scrambled to replace flows and decouple this dependence , in part by shifting away from gas to clean energy alternatives, in part by increasing local gas production, and in part by turning to imports of liquified natural gas, or LNG—including from the US. Credit: U.S. Let us at least stave off the worst.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Updated analysis from 2020 shows that emissions traced to the 88 largest carbon producers contributed approximately 60 percent?of This shift will require comprehensive energy policies to ensure the transition is equitable, but it can start to happen today. The same solutions will fix the energy crisis and the climate crisis.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 21, 2024

Department of Energy announced up to $475 million in funding for five projects in Arizona, Kentucky, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia to accelerate clean energy deployment on current and former mine land.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 30, 2022

Earlier this month the International Energy Agency (IEA) released data showing that global carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions hit an all-time high in 2021, rebounding sharply from the 2020 decline caused by COVID-19 related economic slump. A rapid clean energy transition is (still) the best path forward.

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