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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

In 2022 , 23 percent of US electricity came from renewables including hydro, surpassing both coal and nuclear. In 2007 , when US carbon emissions peaked, renewables—including hydropower—generated only 8 percent of US electricity. Fifty percent came from coal and 20 percent came from fossil gas.

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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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Circle of Blue

JUNE 6, 2022

Water in Powell is released through turbines in the dam, generating power that electrifies homes, businesses, rural coops, and irrigation pumps across six states and more than 50 Native American tribes. By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue – June 6, 2022. Carl Ganter/Circle of Blue. Currently the lake is at 3,534 feet.

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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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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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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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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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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 23, 2023

Note: this is adjusted for inflation to 2022 dollars and is based on the amount those plants emitted in 2021, the EIA’s most recent year of finalized data. GW of gas capacity set to retire, but also slightly outpacing the planned additions of wind power.

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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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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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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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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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Edouard Stenger

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Renewables now account for 44% of the EU electricity mix and wind power is now producing more electricity than natural gas. Spain reached this milestone with solar PV accounting for 14 %, solar thermal, 1,8 % ; wind power 23,5% ; hydro 9,5 % and other renewables : 1,4 %. and 9 GW of onshore wind.

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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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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.

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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.

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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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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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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.

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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.

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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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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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