Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2023

On January 26, the Minnesota House of Representatives passed House File 7 —the 100% Clean Energy Bill. Now, with climate and clean energy majorities in both chambers, Minnesota is poised to join other leading states in updating its clean energy policies equitably with benefits for all residents.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 23, 2023

With the clean energy transition already under way, the US electricity mix is set to continue changing this year. 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).

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The United States supports Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) partners in meeting their clean energy goals. Electric vehicles are “the most direct and efficient solution to improving the air quality in Vietnam , and in other countries in Southeast Asia,” Nguyen told Vietnam Investment Review in 2022. million people.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 31, 2022

Solar energy production starts to dwindle by September. Solar power peaks earlier in the summer when the days are longer. By September, the sun sets earlier in the evening, and solar power production tapers off when people are still using substantial amounts of electricity in the evening.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The 2022 UN NDC Synthesis report assesses the collective impact of emissions reduction pledges, known as nationally determined contributions (NDCs), that countries have submitted under the Paris Agreement. Source: UN Climate Change 2022 NDC Synthesis Report. Source: UN Climate Change 2022 NDC Synthesis Report.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Last year, solar accounted for almost 5 percent of US electricity. The industry is projecting the US sector to grow by 32,000 megawatts this year—50 percent more than in 2022, and enough to increase solar’s portion of the US electricity supply to well more than 6 percent. Where is California Going to Site Its New Solar Power?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 12, 2024

It’s worth delving into because it has some important implications for our clean energy future. US Electricity Generation Wind and solar lead the way in decarbonizing the power sector to meet near-term climate targets. Source: UCS Accelerating Clean Energy Ambition.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 29, 2022

schools to obtain solar power and benefit from cost savings, educational opportunities, and climate protection. This exciting collaboration will help spur on the growing movement of schools across the country making the switch to clean energy,” said Tish Tablan, Director of Generation180’s Solar for All Schools Program. “We

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 21, 2024

The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) included a major—forthcoming—refresh for one of the biggest policy drivers of the nation’s clean energy transition to date: tax credits subsidizing the deployment of clean electricity resources. These incentives aren’t just historically important.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 20, 2023

All across the country, coal- and gas-fired power plants are still running, still polluting, and still showing signs of staying relentlessly online. Through the Clean Air Act , and as affirmed—and reaffirmed—through multiple legal sagas, EPA is statutorily obligated to address carbon pollution from fossil fuel-fired power plants.

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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. According to a May 2022 report , utility companies cut power to US households more than 3.6

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 4, 2024

Similar extreme cold weather caused grid emergencies in 2011, 2014, 2018, and again in 2022. These recurring electric supply crises revealed the vulnerability of conventional power plants and the gas supply to cold weather.

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Law and Environment

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

On November 4, 2022, the White House announced a new initiative to support research and development projects on 37 “game-changing” technologies to advance the Biden Administration’s goal of net-zero emissions by 2050. We will be tracking future funding announcements under this initiative.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Small-scale solar in Pennsylvania produced 2.3 times more energy in 2022 than it did 5 years prior according to Rooftop Solar on the Rise , a new report released by PennEnvironment Research & Policy Center on February 13. Residential solar in the state grew 207% from 2017 through 2022.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 26, 2024

In August of 2023, Premier Smith imposed a seven-month industry-wide moratorium on new approvals for wind, solar, geothermal, and other forms of renewable energy. We’re falling behind Europe, China, much of Asia, and the United States in investment in renewable energy. We’re losing good-paying clean energy jobs.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 1, 2023

"Solar leverages state and federal dollars to support the creation of solar arrays at public schools across the Commonwealth. It will save school districts and taxpayers money, create new learning opportunities and invest in statewide clean energy,” she added.

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HumanNature

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Colorado State University There is a renewable energy revolution happening all over the world: costs for renewable energy have dropped significantly in the last 10 years and the world is starting to adopt the technology at a very fast pace.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 28, 2022

On June 27, Nextracker LLC , the global market leader in utility-scale solar trackers, and BCI Steel , a Pittsburgh-based steel fabricator, announced the reopening of the historic Bethlehem Steel manufacturing factory in nearby Leetsdale to produce solar tracker equipment for large-scale solar power plants. million homes.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 30, 2023

By Anders Lorenzen The renewable energy sector experienced record growth in 2022 of 1%. They still account for 82% of the global energy supply according to the industry’s Statistical Review of World Energy released this week. In 2022, emissions were up 0.8%, reaching a new high of 39.3 billion tonnes of CO2.

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Environmental News Bits

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

From 2022 to 2023, Germany saw installations of new wind and solar power nearly double, a shift driven in part by sweeping changes to simplify permitting for clean energy projects. Read the full story at e360 Digest.

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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.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

By Odette Mucha , Vote Solar and Liz Robinson , Philadelphia Solar Energy Association As we know, solar power provides a wide range of benefits to Pennsylvanians. It creates local jobs, with Pennsylvania currently home to over 400 solar companies with over 4,300 solar workers. What is energy storage?

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Today, over 6 million students now attend more than 8,400 schools nationwide that utilize solar power. Solar energy offsets electricity at nearly 1 in 10 (9%) K-12 schools in the United States. The report found that 87% of solar power installed at U.S. Posted: September 26, 2022] PA Environment Digest

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 4, 2022

What’s more basic, more natural, than sunshine?” -- Clean Energy Cooperative, Honesdale, Wayne County “On behalf of the Clean Energy Cooperative, I would like to thank the PA Solar Center for this recognition,” said Chris Weigand, President of Clean Energy Cooperative.

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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. Despite the pandemic, the solar capacity on K-12 schools rose from 14.5

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 17, 2024

Solar panels and wind turbines produce electricity much more cheaply than gas turbines, coal plants and oil burners. The price of solar has dropped 90 per cent in 10 years, while wind power has dropped 70 per cent. billion from the most polluting industry on earth, to clean, green renewable energy sounds like a good start.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 16, 2023

Opportunities to learn more about environmental and energy issues affecting Pennsylvania for students and adults-- -- Natural Gas Pipeline Pigging Facility Malfunction Dec. 27 Released 1.1

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

By Lily Jones, PEC Communications Director What does a local Audubon chapter have in common with a solar-powered business incubator? The Stourbridge Project generates 40-50 percent of its annual electricity through its rooftop solar panels. The panels were financed by a public-private partnership and by the Clean Energy Co-op.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 20, 2022

MW solar energy facility in Union County. The article first appeared in The Bucknellian on October 7, 2022 -- Bucknell University is known for many things—stellar academics, superb facilities and superior athletics, but one aspect of the college that is increasing in size and scope is the campus’ focus on green and renewable energy.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 11, 2024

This is the fourth edition of the Sabin Center’s report on Opposition to Renewable Energy Facilities in the United States , and it covers developments through December 31, 2023. Previous editions of the report were published in September 2021 , March 2022 , and May 2023.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

I know much greater benefit would be possible with community solar,” Kontaxes said. The energy produced would offer our area access to additional clean energy while providing our family with extra income. Pennsylvania can’t afford to wait any longer to deliver the benefits of community solar to their constituents.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 4, 2022

Construction is expected to be complete by fall 2022. The advisory committee is impressed by Pitt-Bradford's commitment to clean energy technology and pleased to be able to support a solar installation that will serve as a conversation-starter for some and a model for others.” Green Building Council.

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Legal Planet

JULY 25, 2024

By 2022, the positions were reversed: onshore wind cost half as much as the cheapest fossil fuel power. The cost of solar PV fell even more steeply. A dozen years later, the cost of solar power had dropped by nearly 90% on a price per kilowatt basis. GW to 18.8 That makes a world of difference.

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E2 Law Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Enacted in 2019, the CLCPA transformed the state’s earlier clean energy standard efforts from administrative fiat to law and sets more aggressive goals to reduce statewide greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions economy-wide to 60% from a 1990 baseline by 2030, and 15% from a 1990 baseline by 2050.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Most studies show that achieving these targets will require an unprecedented increase in wind and solar power to decarbonize the power sector and meet the increased demand for zero- carbon electricity to replace fossil fuels in building, industrial and transportation sectors. times current levels by 2035.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 17, 2022

The clean energy industry is continuing to deploy significant amounts of storage to deliver a low-carbon future. Having enough energy storage in the right places will support the massive amount of renewables needed to add to the grid in the coming decades. Currently only 4 percent of US electricity comes from solar.

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A Greener Life

MAY 28, 2023

The equipment was purchased from the German firm SMA, Amerisolar in the USA, and LV-Energy, based in the province of San Luis, with some of the panels produced in China. The cooperative estimates that by the end of 2022 its solar panels had saved around US$30,000 in power purchases in the years since the project started.

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