Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 22, 2022

These investments will help accommodate accelerating amounts of low-cost renewable energy like wind and solar power, laying the groundwork for a cleaner, cheaper grid. That’s not a Minnesota utility…is it? Most Minnesotans are familiar with their local electricity utility, since that’s who bills them for electricity they provide.

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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.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 1, 2025

Climate educators from SEWA explaining solar power for salt gathering (L) and skylights that cool the interior of a house (R). Photos by Jim Salzman I spent last week in New Delhi, participating in the conference, India 2047: Building a Climate-Resilient Future.

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A Greener Life

MAY 20, 2022

The new 100 MW Oruro solar plant is a boost to Bolivia’s energy transition, but there are obstacles to harnessing the radiation potential of its western highlands. Perched at 3,730 metres above sea level in the community of Ancotanga, the Oruro solar power plant is one of the flagship projects in Bolivia’s energy transition.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 19, 2022

That’s 126 gigawatts (GW), coming from millions of solar systems across the country. The US solar industry was valued at $33 billion in 2021, employed more than 230,000 people, and continued to grow in power capacity at an average rate of 33 percent per year.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 4, 2024

Their new report on grid reliability vulnerabilities due to electric power plants’ overreliance on uncertain and unregulated gas supplies comes two years after FERC and NERC’s extensive analysis of gas failures causing power plant shutdowns. What Happened in Texas? It cited ERCOT 700 times.

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Environmental News Bits

MARCH 18, 2022

Solar power generation in the US rose by 25.23% in 2021, making it the country’s fastest-growing source of electricity, while renewables accounted for 21.02% of all electricity and look set to surpass coal in terms of total production in 2022. Read the full story from PVTech.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue – September 23, 2021. Wind turbines and solar power, two sturdy and growing sources of renewable energy, require negligible amounts of water. Restoring wetlands and peatlands for their water-purifying and flood-buffering traits also preserves their capacity to act as vital carbon sponges.

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Environmental Leader

JULY 23, 2021

Bloom Energy and Heliogen have announced plans to produce green hydrogen using only concentrated solar power and water, further accelerating progress toward a zero-carbon future. The companies’ first integrated solution is expected to be operational by the end of 2021. Green hydrogen is one of the top ten technologies shaping.

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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 GW record from 2021.

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Environmental Leader

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Solar powered electricity, including distributed rooftop systems, increased by. The post Electricity from Renewables Exceeded Expectations in 2021, EIA Data Show appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Inhabitant

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

A new smaller, thinner profile for a slimmer wrist sets the Black Mini Solar watch from Solios apart from previous offerings. Solios previously caught Inhabitat's attention at Vegan Fashion Week 2021, where the company exhibited its original Solios Solar Watches in many styles with multiple faces and bands.

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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. Between 2015 and 2021, 274 North American oil and gas producers filed for bankruptcy with a debt load of $177 billion. The bankruptcies were set in motion even before 2020.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The WMO’s GHG bulletin’s headline takeaways are stark: Atmospheric concentrations of three major heat-trapping gases, carbon dioxide (CO 2 ), methane (CH 4 ) and nitrous oxide (N 2 O) hit all-time highs in 2021 (see table below). Methane emissions showed their biggest annual increase in 2020 and again in 2021. A truly scary prospect.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The legislation committed nearly $400 billion to support, among other things, wind and solar power, battery storage, electric vehicles, and other clean energy technologies that will make a significant dent in US heat-trapping emissions. Energy efficiency also plays a critical role.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 12, 2024

Recent UCS modeling , conducted in partnership with Evolved Energy Research (EER), shows that, to reach these goals means completely phasing out US coal generation by 2030; in this scenario, gas generation would fall from about 40 percent of US electricity generation in 2021 to 25 percent in 2030, and 2 percent in 2050 (see figure 1).

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Environmental Progress

APRIL 20, 2021

Testimony before the United States House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce For a hearing on “Power Struggle: Examining the 2021 Texas Grid Failure” Written statement submitted by: Michael D. is 32 years, as of January 2021. [14] 14] The average age of a unit of wind or solar is 6.3 percent, 47.4

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 1, 2022

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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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 10, 2023

The cost of wind and solar power have been falling for over a decade, making them the world’s cheapest source of new electricity. The industry has shown its true colors, it loves to talk about green energy, but it doesn’t put its money where its mouth is.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2023

Notably, in September 2021 Illinois enacted the Climate and Equitable Jobs Act , which increased the state’s renewable portfolio standard to 50 percent by 2040 and puts Illinois on a path to 100-percent carbon-free electricity by 2045.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 14, 2022

15, 2021, incident that harmed Mikaila and another farmer is just one in a larger pattern of growing hostilities between herders and farmers in this region. between 1984 and 2021, while the area experienced a 71.9% Land cover change in Yusufari from 1984 to 2021. Farmers recall their most recent poor rice harvests in 2021.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 3, 2022

Currently, Pennsylvania has a renewable energy goal of only 8 percent, with half a percent coming from solar. In 2021, a bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced legislation that would increase Pennsylvania’s Alternative Energy Portfolio Standard (AEPS) goal to 18 percent by 2026.

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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. Note the sharp jump just after Hurricane Maria and the upward trend since 2021.

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Earthava

MAY 28, 2021

Top 5 Environmentally Friendly Outdoor Camping Hacks – 2021 Edition. Given that it’s fairly common for campers to settle in a wood thicket where barely any sunlight can manage to push through the foliage and leaves, you may need to hike a bit until you find the right ‘charging station’ for your solar lamps. Photo by Kamaji Ogino.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 27, 2021

The milking shed for her 80 dairy cows that can yield 1,100 litres of milk per day, along with the barn that houses 21,000 chickens at a time, will soon sit alongside a photovoltaic solar plant with 85 panels. MW (between June 2016 and June 2021). The solar power plant is one more. MW to 791.32

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 24, 2023

Historic, but more of the same While Winter Storm Elliott was a historic weather event, this type of underperformance by the fossil-fuel power fleet during cold snaps is nothing new. The 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act provides nearly $15 billion in federal funding for grid improvements, which includes energy storage as an option.

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A Greener Life

MAY 5, 2022

At the end of 2021 global renewable energy generation capacity amounted to 3.064 gigawatts (GW) increasing global renewable energy capacity to 9.1%. Combined, those two fast-growing renewable energy technologies contributed 88% to the share of all new renewable capacity in 2021. Asia is still the renewable energy powerhouse.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The Pennsylvania Chapter of the American Planning Association is proud to announce the 2021 Great Places in PA. For 2021, eight Great Places were designated among three categories: Great Greenways/Trail (5), Great Public Spaces (2), and Great Streets (1). Posted: September 14, 2021] PA Environment Digest

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 20, 2023

per MMBtu) versus the average price in 2021 ($3.84 This year’s distribution is over $44 million higher than last year, driven primarily by the average price of natural gas in 2022 ($6.64 per MMBtu) which generated a higher impact fee payment for each well in 2022 – along with the addition of 574 new wells during 2022.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Above, a VinFast vehicle charges in Quang Ninh, Vietnam, in 2021. Launched in December 2021, the USAID Southeast Asia Smart Power Program (SPP) aims to mobilize $2 billion for clean energy projects across the region. The grants are part of USAID’s Energy Secure Philippines project, launched in 2021. © Dita Alangkara/AP.

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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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Physics World

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Durán, a physicist at the Spanish Research Council (CSIC) in Madrid, played a key role in building support for the project while serving as president of the International Commission on Glass (ICG) between 2018 and 2021. In renewable energy, glass is used for concentrated solar power, photovoltaics and the fibreglass of wind turbines.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 22, 2022

In winter when water levels in reservoirs drop, supply cannot meet demand: last year the country required about 450 MW but generation dipped to about 400 MW, Chhewang Rinzin, managing director of the Druk Green Power Corporation Limited, told this correspondent in an earlier interview. Solar energy has become competitive.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

By Kathy Cook, League of Women Voters of PA On May 25, 2021, a joint committee hearing on utility scale solar development was hosted by Pennsylvania’s Agriculture and Rural Affairs and Local Government Committees. Some counties in the PA Wilds have active proposals for solar fields going on old strip mine lands.

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A Greener Life

JULY 31, 2024

In 2021, the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources (MEMR) identified a solar potential of 3294 GW. The government set ambitious targets: 3.61GW of rooftop solar by 2025, 26.65 GW of floating solar and a 4.68 GW large-scale solar power plant by 2030. GW of solar power. The country has 2.3

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Solar energy stands as an abundant and affordable solution crucial to America's transition to renewable sources. In Pennsylvania, solar experts recommend renewing and expanding the state’s Alternative Energy Portfolio Standard (AEPS) as the keystone policy for jumpstarting clean solar energy production across the commonwealth.

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