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Union of Concerned Scientists
NOVEMBER 13, 2024
Renewable generation is variable—wind and solar power produce electricity when the wind is blowing and the sun is shining. The Illinois energy landscape Illinois passed the landmark Climate and Energy Jobs Act (CEJA) in September 2021.
Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 24, 2023
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. It supplied 10.5 percentage points).*
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Union of Concerned Scientists
JULY 22, 2022
Minnesotans are facing concurrent crises of climate change, high energy prices and inflation, and the inequitable public health impacts of fossil fuel air pollution. Renewable energy will help with all of that—but we need a grid that is designed for wind and solar instead of having to rely on expensive coal and gas plants.
Union of Concerned Scientists
AUGUST 31, 2022
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.,
A Greener Life
JULY 7, 2021
New research from the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) confirms renewables are continuing to outpace fossil fuels on cost. They found that the share of renewable energy that achieved lower costs than the most competitive fossil fuel option doubled in 2020. C climate pathway. C climate pathway.
PA Environment Daily
MARCH 15, 2025
A decade later In 2021, Steelton-Highspire School District worked with McClure Company to install a solar array large enough to offset 100 percent of its annual electricity usage. The project is unique, repurposing an old landfill into a solar field, directly reducing the districts largest energy expenditure.
Union of Concerned Scientists
OCTOBER 27, 2022
There is still much we can do to bend that emissions curve sharply within this decade—but only if world leaders, especially leaders of richer countries and major emitting nations, take responsibility to act together quickly and fossil fuel companies are held accountable for their decades of obstruction and deception.
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