2024 Conservation Electricity 
Union of Concerned Scientists
AUGUST 21, 2024
Earlier this month, the US Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service hosted a public hearing on their recent proposed rules governing implementation of the Section 45Y Clean Electricity Production Credit and the Section 48E Clean Electricity Investment Credit. My testimony is copied below. REG-119283-23.
Legal Planet
AUGUST 29, 2023
Under new legislation, California is moving to a novel system that includes income-based fixed charges for electricity. Public utility commissions are tasked with designing retail electricity rates that allow utilities to cover their costs and ensure that customers receive reliable and affordable electricity service.
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Legal Planet
OCTOBER 4, 2024
Often, it’s a chance for a franchise to promote the recycling or energy conservation that goes on at its stadium. A survey I conducted of 2024 sponsorships across the NBA, NFL, MLB, NHL, MLS, and WNBA reveals more than 60 sponsorship deals with high-polluting companies. Take my hometown ball club.
PA Environment Daily
MARCH 13, 2024
On March 7, the Independent Fiscal Office issued its latest Pennsylvania Electricity update that reports the electricity grid is dependent on one fuel for 59% of the state’s electricity generation-- natural gas-- followed by nuclear power-- 31.9%, coal-- 5.4% from other sources. Read more here. Read more here. Read more here.
Circle of Blue
JUNE 6, 2022
Besides the kilowatt-hours it generates, Glen Canyon provides key services to the electric grid. The country’s second largest reservoir and a lynchpin in the intermountain electric grid, Powell is more dirt than water these days. Hydropower generation will likely shut down when Lake Powell’s elevation drops below 3,490 feet.
Legal Planet
OCTOBER 13, 2023
Rate design has been a site of experimentation and contestation since the earliest days of electricity provisioning. In the earliest days of electricity provisioning, fixed charges were common in residential rates due to the limits of metering technology. Regulators and policymakers began to reevaluate their approach to rate design.
Union of Concerned Scientists
MARCH 26, 2024
For the rural communities living in or near national parks, electricity was a commodity. She spent extended time with her tierra madre and the people who live deeply interwoven with the natural world around them. Access to communications services and other basic needs was far from the norm. That’s when García noticed something striking.
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