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

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. and 6:28 to 6:48 p.m.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Using an interactive online dashboard-- Renewables on the Rise 2024 -- documents the growth of six key clean energy technologies across the United States over the past decade and ranks states accordingly for solar power, wind power, battery storage, energy efficiency, electric vehicles and electric vehicle charging stations.

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Inhabitant

OCTOBER 14, 2021

California state law (SB 1383) takes effect January 1, 2022, requiring the majority of homes and businesses in the area to recycle all food and yard waste in their yard debris carts.

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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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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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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

JANUARY 30, 2023

From a countrywide perspective, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) released a study in August 2022 identifying multiple pathways to a net-zero power grid by 2035. It’s time for the state Legislature to ensure the two utilities meet those goals and urge them and others to accelerate their progress.

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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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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 7, 2025

Flagged as a permit violation DEP site inspection in 2022 , the coal ash pile had surpassed the approved size, enveloping parts of the surrounding area. DEP originally gave Scrubgrass four years to remove the coal ash.

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Physics World

JULY 9, 2021

Glester’s first guest is Jim Bell from Arizona State University who is involved in the mission to the asteroid Psyche , which launches in 2022 and arrives in 2026. Located in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter with an average diameter of 226 km, Psyche consists largely of metal.

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HumanNature

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Guest Post by Taylor Bacon, 2022-2024 InTERFEWS Fellow, Ph.D. As our hostess set a plate of steaming biscuits and homemade peach preserves down on the table, she said something along the lines of were sad to see so much of our beautiful farmland being turned into solar panel fields. million acres. But maybe this tradeoff is avoidable.

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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 Solar” only includes large-scale solar.

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Environment + Energy Leader

MAY 24, 2023

Since 2020, the company has diverted 22 million pounds of food waste from landfills, achieving 88% of their goal, which is to divert 25 million pounds of food waste.

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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 switch to solar at schools significantly reduces carbon emissions and creates community anchors for climate education, awareness, and action. Solar on U.S. Posted: March 29, 2022] PA Environment Digest

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 12, 2024

By 2050, gas plants operate at less than 6 percent of their rated capacity during the year compared to more than 38 percent for all gas plants in 2022, according to the Energy Information Administration (EIA). It also ignores the reality that gas power plant failures correlate with outages that occur in extreme 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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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 22, 2024

For example, the average duration of blackouts in Puerto Rico between April 2023 and March 2024 was 1,414 minutes, or almost 24 hours (the average in the United States in 2022 was almost 6 hours). LUMA fails by far in its performance metrics. The NEPR established that for LUMA to be in compliance, it must not exceed 1,243 minutes (20.7

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 25, 2022

On September 21, 2022, the New York Times published an essay by Gabriel Popkin titled “Are There Better Places to Put Large Solar Farms Than These Forests?” For comparison, nearly 3% of solar power is currently sited in urban areas. [1]. By Matthew Eisenson.

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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. Congress can step in and require reliability standards for the gas industry for the first time ever.

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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. Fifty percent came from coal and 20 percent came from fossil gas.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 24, 2023

The 2022 Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), which will invest $369 billion in climate and energy solutions, adds more flexibility to energy storage tax credits, as well as new tax credits for clean hydrogen , which can potentially be used as a long-duration storage technology.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 3, 2022

If our political leaders are serious about creating good paying, sustainable jobs in the trades, then we need them to invest more in Pennsylvania’s solar economy,” says Jason Grottini, Vice President of Envinity. For more information, visit the Vote Solar - Pennsylvania webpage.

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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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Environmental News Bits

MARCH 23, 2022

Solar energy is taking off in the United States. Energy Information Agency projects that solar power will account for nearly half of all new electricity-generating capacity in 2022. Read the full story from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. But this growth is not shared equally across the United States.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 4, 2022

By Sharon Pillar, Executive Director PA Solar Center The recently passed [federal] Inflation Reduction Act offers a number of incentives that make transitioning to solar power very attractive to homeowners, businesses, and other organizations. Click Here to sign up for regular updates.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 20, 2023

County and municipal governments directly affected by drilling will receive a total of $157,349,593 for the 2022 reporting year. 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) versus the average price in 2021 ($3.84

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A Greener Life

JUNE 30, 2023

By Anders Lorenzen The renewable energy sector experienced record growth in 2022 of 1%. 2022 was dominated by turmoil in energy markets , as Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine helped to boost gas and coal prices to record levels in Europe and Asia. In 2022, emissions were up 0.8%, reaching a new high of 39.3 billion tonnes of CO2.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 4, 2024

A $400,000 Endowments grant to Landforce in 2022 supported staff expansion, helping the organization prepare for submission of the grant. “We The IRA also provides funding for electric vehicles and charging equipment, energy-saving appliances, battery-storage systems, and heat pumps, and has awarded a national total of nearly $8.4

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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

MAY 7, 2024

The tar sands currently (2022) emit 87 MT of carbon each year, so a $16 billion investment of taxpayer money would net a reduction of 3.4 It’s called wind and solar power. The reality is that CCS has never come close to meeting targets for emissions reduction.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Backed by The GIANT Company’s commitment, Constellation has entered into separate long-term power purchase agreements to procure a total of 80 megawatts of renewable energy. The solar projects, which will be developed by Pine Gate Renewables, are expected to achieve commercial operation between June 2022 and January 2024.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2022

The PA Chapter of the American Planning Association is proud to announce the 2022 Great Places in PA Award winners in two categories-- Great Public Spaces and Great Greenway/Trails. Below are the 2022 Great Public Spaces-- -- Etna Riverfront Trail and Park (Etna Borough/Allegheny County): The Borough transformed a 1.8

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

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. Indonesia This pier on Indonesia’s Karampuang Island, seen in December 2022, is lighted with electricity from solar power.

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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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HumanNature

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

In 2022, the installed capacity of wind and solar power grew almost 10% in the United States [1]. In Colorado, renewable energy generating capacity has more than quadrupled since 2010 [2]. These statistics are extremely encouraging and are critical steps in the transition to a clean energy system.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 21, 2024

At the same time, to avoid repeats of prior destructive stop-start policy lapses while simultaneously signaling a long-term incentive off-ramp, policymakers scheduled the tax credit to begin phasing out for resources coming online in 2033 or after power sector emissions are below 25% of 2022 levels, whichever is later.

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