Finland Nearly Doubled Its Wind Power Capacity Last Year
Yale E360
JANUARY 13, 2023
Finland saw its wind power capacity grow by 75 percent in 2022, according to the Finnish Wind Power Association, a wind energy trade group. Read more on E360 →.
2024 Year in Review: Clean Energy Progress Steeped in Solar and Storage
Union of Concerned Scientists
DECEMBER 30, 2024
Wind While the amount of new wind turbine capacity installed looked to be the lowest in at least six years, wind power continued to set records for generation in different regions of the country. It also means, per the Solar Energy Industries Association, that at full capacity, U.S.
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How Are Lithium-ion Batteries that Store Solar and Wind Power Made?
Union of Concerned Scientists
DECEMBER 22, 2022
In an energizing recent example from August 2022, Tesla Powerwall batteries across thousands of California homes pooled electricity and supported the grid when demand was very high. Despite being used infrequently, these plants are inefficient and highly polluting, and contribute to US carbon emissions. The industry is growing. gigawatts.
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Despite global uncertainty, 2023 was a record year for wind power in Europe
A Greener Life
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
By Anders Lorenzen Analysis by WindEurope , Europe’s wind power industry group, reveals a record-breaking year for European wind power when it comes to investments in the industry as well as installing new capacity. billion invested in 2022. gigawatts (GW) of new wind power capacity with 80% being onshore.
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Wind-powered Cargo Vessel Holds Hope for a Greener Future
Ocean Conservancy
MAY 27, 2022
While a wind-powered cargo vessel may seem like a 19 th Century idea, the Grain de Sail may be a herald of a greener future rather than a nostalgic nod to the past. Building more vessels that travel at this slower speed regardless of using wind power or conventional engines will also lead to quieter oceans and less air pollution.
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Renewables Have Pulled Ahead of Coal. What’s Next?
Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 24, 2023
There’s good news in the recently released official data on electricity generation in the United States in 2022: renewable energy has continued to grow, coal power has continued to drop, and renewables are now firmly ahead of coal for the first time ever. percent of the 2022 generation, and small solar 1.4 It supplied 10.5
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The UK had a record wind power year in 2022
A Greener Life
JANUARY 30, 2023
By Anders Lorenzen Data from its national grid operator, the National Grid , have concluded that 2022 was a record year for wind power in the UK. The data shows that the output of UK wind farms onshore and offshore continues to increase; in 2022 they produced a record 26.8% Photo credit: Reuters / Matthew Childs.
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Solar Power to Lead in 2022 United States Electricity Generation
Environmental Leader
JANUARY 11, 2022
Solar and wind power and battery storage continue to see significant growth and will drive renewable energy sources in electricity generation in the United States in 2022. The post Solar Power to Lead in 2022 United States Electricity Generation appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.
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What Happens to Wind Turbine Blades at the End of Their Life Cycle?
Union of Concerned Scientists
DECEMBER 12, 2022
To ensure the wind industry upholds environmental justice and stewards its raw materials, many companies are replacing balsa with other materials. For example, LM Wind Power has minimized balsa in its blades, substituting in synthetic plastic PET and PVC foams. Click the links below for answers: How Are Wind Turbines Made.
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The EIA Just Released a 30 Year Energy Outlook. It’s… Not Great
Union of Concerned Scientists
MARCH 16, 2022
The Department of Energy’s Energy Information Administration (EIA) is one of the go-to sources for reliable information about the US power sector. They just released their 2022 “Annual Energy Outlook” (AEO), which is a big deal: it tells us where electricity is headed over the next 30 years. Carbon emissions remain high.
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Solar Power to Lead in 2022 United States Electricity Generation
Environmental Leader
JANUARY 11, 2022
Solar and wind power and battery storage continue to see significant growth and will drive renewable energy sources in electricity generation in the United States in 2022. The post Solar Power to Lead in 2022 United States Electricity Generation appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.
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Climate Policy and the Audacity of Hope
Legal Planet
APRIL 29, 2024
Wind power costs fell by half from 2008 to 2021. The Department of Energy estimates the cost of an electric vehicle lithium-ion battery pack declined 89% between 2008 and 2022. Climate policy has been boosted by dramatic changes in the economics of clean energy. Utility-scale solar was an even more dramatic story.
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Stunning images of an Antarctic neutrino detector, a pollinating flower and an aurora-bathed turbine feature in science photography contests
Physics World
JULY 8, 2022
Energized sky: “Solar wind power”. Not to be outdone, this week the UK’s Royal Observatory Greenwich announced its shortlist for its Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2022. My favourite entry is the image above taken in Finland by Esa Pekka Isomursu and called “Solar wind power”. Courtesy: Esa Pekka Isomursu).
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How Will DTE’s Long-Term Plan Impact Michigan’s Clean Energy Future?
Union of Concerned Scientists
DECEMBER 1, 2022
Investing in renewable and battery storage: Under DTE’s proposed plan, the company would add 15,400 megawatts (MW) of new solar and wind power by 2042, which it says is enough to power approximately 4 million homes. DTE currently has 3,000 MW of existing and approved solar and wind resources.)
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Biden announces new climate change actions but holds an emergency declaration in reserve
Environmental News Bits
JULY 22, 2022
by Daniel Farber, University of California, Berkeley On July 20, 2022, President Joe Biden traveled to a former coal-burning power plant in Massachusetts that is being converted into a manufacturing site for offshore wind power equipment.
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Gov. Newsom Goes to China to Talk Climate
Legal Planet
OCTOBER 19, 2023
million electric vehicles , with sales in 2022 accounting for 29% of all auto sales in China. He also just signed legislation to boost the Golden State’s offshore wind power and that’s another area where China leads the world. China has moved remarkably fast at electrifying their transportation fleet.
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Gas Generators Get Caught with their Plants Down
Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 6, 2023
Putting power plants to the test The policy was put to the test with very cold weather in a winter storm named Elliott that started on December 23, 2022. Figure 2: Wind megawatts produced December 22-26, 2022 The results could hardly be clearer. Demand for energy to heat buildings went up as temperatures fell.
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Renewable Energy: A Timeline
Legal Planet
JULY 15, 2024
Wind reaches 10% of U.S. Levelized cost of electricity for onshore wind is $0.034/kWh. First commercial thin-film PV. Sandia National lab develops a new inverter for solar systems. DOE’s advanced turbine program results in costs of $0.05/kw, kw, an 88% reduction since 1979. generation. PV is 4.7%
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Analysis: Colombia’s offshore wind power plans spark hope and caution
A Greener Life
JULY 19, 2023
An offshore wind farm in Europe. Colombia’s Caribbean coast has great potential for offshore wind power projects but is also home to protected areas of ecological importance. In 2021 alone, the global installed capacity of offshore wind plants tripled, reaching record figures, as 21.1 Photo credit: Tho Ge / Pixabay.
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Tour de France’s start in Denmark puts focus on sustainability
A Greener Life
JULY 1, 2022
In 2022 the Danish Minister of Transport announced a 10 million Euro investment in further maintaining and improving cycling infrastructure in Copenhagen. Windy conditions and wind power. We have covered both projects and can be found here and here.
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The Netherlands is busy building hybrid clean energy technologies at sea
A Greener Life
AUGUST 30, 2022
The first wind turbine erected at the Hollandse Kust Zuid wind farm in April 2022. The combination of offshore wind turbines, floating solar panels and green hydrogen are some of the hybrid clean energy technologies currently under development off the Dutch coast. . Photo credit: Vattenfall / Ties van der Horst.
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New England’s Offshore Wind Resource Is a Winter Powerhouse
Union of Concerned Scientists
AUGUST 5, 2024
To better understand the contribution that offshore wind could make to the winter reliability of the power grid, a new UCS study examined two sets of historical data from ISO-NE’s Variable Energy Resource time series over 22 past winter seasons (2000-2022).
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Tornadoes and More: What Spring Can Bring to the Power Grid
Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 11, 2023
While it is a heavily polluting fossil fuel that is set to continue declining as a fuel source for US electricity generation over the next decade, coal still accounted for roughly 20 percent of the country’s generation in 2022. About 70 percent of US coal is transported at least part of the way by trains.
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Analysis: Bolstering Southeast Asia’s clean energy transition
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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Three Reasons Why Spring is a Great Time for Renewable Energy
Union of Concerned Scientists
MAY 30, 2023
New records are a direct result of the new renewables—solar and wind, in particular—built over the previous year. Solar and wind generation grew by an average of 16 percent a year over the past decade and was 18 percent higher in 2022 than in 2021.
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One Path to Better Affordability is Climate Change Action – Really
Enviromental Defense
JUNE 17, 2024
Alberta: Speak Up For a SAFE Climate: Take Action Here How Climate Action Makes Life More Affordable Renewable energy, including solar and wind power, is much cheaper and less polluting than burning fossil fuels such as natural gas, oil and coal.
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Report Finds 228 Local Restrictions Against Siting Wind, Solar, and Other Renewables, as Well as 293 Contested Projects
Law Columbia
MAY 31, 2023
This report updates and considerably expands two previous Sabin Center reports, published in September 2021 and March 2022. The 228 local restrictions described in this report include 59 new restrictions (adopted post-March 2022) and 58 previously overlooked restrictions (adopted pre-March 2022).
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State, Federal Governments Move Toward Wind Energy Leasing in the Gulf of Mexico
The Energy Law
FEBRUARY 10, 2022
Within the first six weeks of 2022, both state and federal governments have taken steps toward offshore wind energy development off the coast of Louisiana. The development of offshore wind energy would aid in meeting the State’s goal to achieve net zero emissions by 2050.
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Challenges and Opportunities in Mining Materials for Energy Storage Lithium-ion Batteries
Union of Concerned Scientists
DECEMBER 22, 2022
Energy from the sun and wind never runs out and is used again and again. Rechargeable large-scale batteries can be charged with solar or wind power and cycled thousands of times in their lifetime. For example, half of all Tesla vehicles produced in the first three months of 2022 had LFP batteries. Click to learn more!
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India prepares to ramp up clean energy capacity
A Greener Life
APRIL 7, 2023
India missed its target to install 175 GW of renewable energy by 2022, and is now trying to make up for that by boosting solar, wind, nuclear, hydropower and bio-power to 500 GW by 2030. Wind power is set to play a key part in the target of 50 GW of new green energy tenders each year at 10 GW. in 2019 to 72.8%
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Earth Day 2025: Embracing renewable energy for our planet
A Greener Life
APRIL 21, 2025
It promotes: Climate education and public awareness Policy engagement and grassroots mobilisation Corporate accountability and innovation in sustainability However, the initiative also faces increasing criticism.
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Renewables are now an unstoppable juggernaut
Edouard Stenger
MAY 30, 2023
” A recent study by Ember Climate shows that King Coal is already on its way out as it is being replaced by solar and wind. percentage point while wind and solar’s share increased 8.2 ” according to Wikipedia ), the share of coal in the total electricity mix decreased by 3.7 percentage point.
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Offshore Wind: America’s Neglected Renewable Energy Source
Earth 911
OCTOBER 3, 2022
The world’s largest wind farm just became fully operational. On August 31, 2022, the second. The post Offshore Wind: America’s Neglected Renewable Energy Source appeared first on Earth911.
China displays low-carbon tech at the Winter Olympics?
A Greener Life
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
Photo credit: Beijing 2022. Total greenhouse gas emissions could reach 1.028 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent throughout the preparation and post-Beijing Games in 2016-2022, and about a third less than the 1.6 One of the ice rinks being used at the Beijing Winter Olympics. By Anders Lorenzen.
IEA finally acknowledges the exponential growth of renewables
Edouard Stenger
DECEMBER 13, 2022
Not anymore as the IEA now states that global renewable power capacity growth is set to double over the next five years. In other words, between now and 2027, we will collectively install as much wind power and solar pv capacity than we did in the past twenty years, or 2,400 GW.
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Michigan Court of Appeals Considers Challenge to New Process for Siting Renewables
Law Columbia
APRIL 11, 2025
Over the last five years, several states, including New York (2020), California (2022), Illinois (2023), and Michigan (2023) have adopted comprehensive permitting reforms that curtail the power of local governments to block development of large-scale renewable energy projects.
Solar and wind to account for a third of global electricity by 2030
Edouard Stenger
JULY 25, 2023
Not so long ago solar photovoltaic and wind power were just accounting for less than ten percent of the global electricity production. Based on the forecasts, this would see solar and wind generate 12,000-14,000TWh by 2030, 3-4 times higher compared with 2022 levels.
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U.S. EIA: U.S. Electricity Generation From Natural Gas Now Falling Like Coal In Face Of New, Cheaper Renewable Power Plants
PA Environment Daily
JANUARY 20, 2022
electricity generation over the past 10 years has been the rapid expansion of renewable energy resources, especially solar and wind. The amount of solar power generating capacity operated by the U.S. electric power sector at the end of 2021 is 20 times more than it was at the end of 2011, and U.S. Read more here.] EIA website.)
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Analysis: Kenya’s energy transition risks being derailed by human rights failures
A Greener Life
DECEMBER 30, 2022
The country already generates more than 70% of its power from renewable energy sources and has recently received a commitment from the UK to support further expansion of renewables. . One such instance was seen at the Lake Turkana wind project in northwest Kenya. The risks of ignoring human rights. The court ruled in their favour.
Renewable Energy Efforts Highlighted in Draft Plan to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Louisiana
The Energy Law
SEPTEMBER 21, 2021
After additional rounds of feedback from the Task Force and the public, some actions may be added, deleted, or revised prior to the release of the draft Climate Action Plan later this year and the Final Report in February 2022. The Draft Portfolio contains 29 strategies, with various amounts of specific actions to carry out each strategy.
Monday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips 4.4.22
PA Environment Daily
APRIL 4, 2022
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Developments in Opposition to Renewable Energy Facilities Through December 2023
Law Columbia
JUNE 11, 2024
Previous editions of the report were published in September 2021 , March 2022 , and May 2023. 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.
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Five Ways Offshore Wind Benefits Us All
Union of Concerned Scientists
JANUARY 17, 2025
Dozens more ships are being built or retrofitted to be part of the offshore wind revolution. Offshore wind makes electricity more reliable, particularly in winter While offshore wind power cant be turned on with the flip of a switch, it does provide a relatively steady supply of electricity.
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Saturday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips 6.11.22
PA Environment Daily
JUNE 11, 2022
Conservatives Say They Support Solar, Wind Power Too [PA Farmer Who Wants Solar Included] -- The Allegheny Front - Reid Frazier: Mix Of Hope, Fear Over Startup Of Shell’s Ethane Cracker Plant In Beaver County -- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: How Much Does A Hydrogen Hub Really Cost? Awards Student Scholarships To New Hope-Solebury H.S.
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