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

Union of Concerned Scientists

The latest data from the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) suggests that solar large and small may have generated 27% more in 2024 than in 2023, and that solar might have accounted for 7% of US electricitymore than double its contribution in 2020. Cumulative US utility-scale battery power capacity.

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September Is Here. That Means Another Nail-Biter for California’s Grid.

Union of Concerned Scientists

It issued five Flex Alerts in 2020, eight in 2021, but there’s only been one so far this year. Solar energy production starts to dwindle by September. Solar power peaks earlier in the summer when the days are longer. when power outages are most likely. It’s during the evening hours, around 6 to 8 p.m.,

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Renewables Have Pulled Ahead of Coal. What’s Next?

Union of Concerned Scientists

Here’s a taste: Wind power , the largest single source of renewable electricity in the country, grew the most of any renewable energy source in overall generation from 2021 to 2022. Solar power increased the most among renewable electricity sources in percentage terms, up 24 percent. Large solar provided 3.5

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In Climate Talks, Plans to Keep Planet from Overheating Should Not Ignore Water

Circle of Blue

Wind turbines and solar power, two sturdy and growing sources of renewable energy, require negligible amounts of water. A study published in 2020 found that direct air capture required a surprisingly large volume of water, primarily because of the energy to run the equipment. degrees Celsius than it was two centuries ago.

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Morocco targets 80% renewables by 2050?

A Greener Life

gigawatts (GW) in 2020 and was estimated to reach 4.3 during the decade 2020-2030. Wind power will become the largest renewable energy source in the country overtaking hydro. . For wind power alone the installed capacity will increase from 1.4 GW in 2020 to 4.3 GW in 2020 to 4.3 GW in 2020 to 3.3

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How Will DTE’s Long-Term Plan Impact Michigan’s Clean Energy Future?

Union of Concerned Scientists

Earlier this year, the MPSC approved a settlement agreement on Consumers Energy’s integrated resource plan that commits the company to retire all its remaining coal-fired power plants by 2025, construct no new fossil gas infrastructure, and build large amounts of new solar power between now and 2040.

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Solar Power Had a Big Day at FERC

Renewable + Law

Today was a big day for the solar power industry at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). First, FERC reversed its Broadview Solar decision issued in September 2020, which prior decision overturned decades of precedent related to the method for determining the net output of qualifying facilities under PURPA.