Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 29, 2023

We are about to enter the era of the electric truck. Sure, there are already a few thousand electric trucks and buses on US roads already. There has been, understandably, some anxiety about where all of these trucks will charge and how the electric grid will serve that new electrical load.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 13, 2024

Electric car buyers have new options in 2024 to make it easier to purchase a new electric vehicle (EV) by using the federal EV tax credit. One important change in the administration of the tax credit is the requirement for 2024 is that dealers need to be registered with the IRS and report qualifying sales within 3 days.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

At the Union of Concerned Scientists, we’ve been looking into the benefits rural drivers could enjoy from switching from a gasoline vehicle to an electric vehicle. The lack of an accessible outlet to charge an EV at home is one such challenge faced by drivers when considering switching to an electric vehicle.

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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.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 25, 2022

I’m going to let you in on a little secret: Without power grid modeling tools, the transition to clean electricity would be an absolute mess. Luckily, we don’t have to resort to guesswork because we have sophisticated grid modeling tools that help guide the transition to clean electricity. Surely that would not end well. Ewert/Flickr).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Moving the requirement for 100 percent zero-emissions HDV sales up to 2036 from 2040 would result in more than 130,000 additional electric trucks on the road in 2050, according to research recently contracted by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) and the Natural Resources Defense Council.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

The natural gas stored in Aliso Canyon can be withdrawn during times of high demand, for use by electricity generators and by direct gas consumers. percent between 2024 and 2040, despite a significant expansion in building decarbonization policies between 2022 and 2024. Compare 2022 report at 115 with 2024 report at 104).

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Yale E360

JANUARY 10, 2024

Analysts project another record year for sales of electric vehicles, driven largely by surging demand in China, the biggest market for battery-powered cars. Read more on E360 →

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

electric vehicles (EVs) are sold in California. CARB adopts Advanced Clean Trucks rule starting transition away from diesel in 2024. If the increase from 2023 happens smoothly, that would mean 2024 EV sales of about 61,000 cars more than last year. Even today, a third of all new U.S. 7% of new cars are ZEVs. 2030 Gov.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 15, 2024

What’s the latest on the transition to clean electricity? On a grid powered primarily by clean energy, energy storage will play a critical role in keeping the lights on when people are using a lot of electricity and renewable energy generation is low. And almost 98% of electricity demand in one week was powered by solar.

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Law and Environment

JANUARY 24, 2023

This past year represents a real turning point in the transition to electric vehicles, demonstrated by new major incentives and regulatory activities at both federal and state government levels and several notable accomplishments in the private sector. National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Plan $9,397,238 actual FY 2022.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 30, 2024

California is the only state in which those standards are in effect in model year 2024, and manufacturers are overcomplying with both standards at this time, thanks in large part to electric truck sales that well exceed what is required by ACT and flexibilities in the Omnibus rule that were agreed to with the manufacturers.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 22, 2024

The next day, Wednesday, August 14, Puerto Rico woke up with 728,000 clients (almost half) without electricity, thousands without drinking water (because many communities rely on electricity to pump water), and flood warnings throughout the island. What awaits Puerto Rico with Genera in charge of electricity generation?

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 30, 2024

On July 30, the PJM Interconnection reported its latest electricity auction produced a wholesale price of $269.92/MW-day MW-day cost for delivery in the 2024/2025 auction. Meanwhile, the peak load forecast for the 2025/2026 Delivery Year has increased from 150,640 MW for the 2024/2025 BRA to 153,883 MW for the 2025/2026 Delivery Year.

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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 country’s electricity supply (up 1.1 It supplied 10.5

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Now that California has taken the lead and set a goal for all passenger vehicles sold in the state to be electric by 2035, the next logical step is electrifying medium- and heavy-duty vehicles. A Volvo VNR electric tractor carrying a shipping container. Drayage Fleets. Volvo Trucks USA. 100 Percent ZEV Sales Requirement.

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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.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 4, 2024

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. This includes sponsorship deals with oil and gas companies—big names you would recognize from highway off-ramps. Take my hometown ball club.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 28, 2022

6 is still driving up Ohioans’ electricity bills—and undermining the state’s prospects for a clean energy future. 6 went into effect, Ohio ratepayers have paid more than $182 million to subsidize two 67-year-old coal-fired power plants operated by the Ohio Valley Electric Corporation (OVEC). Despite the partial repeal, H.B. Since H.B.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

” It’s a review of 2024 sponsorships across six major league sports leagues in the U.S. That includes 25 sponsorship deals with Big Oil companies as well as 36 deals with lesser-known utility companies that generate electricity predominantly from fossil fuel-burning power plants and sell fossil gas directly to consumers.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 22, 2024

When it comes to the transition to clean energy, 2023 was quite a year for progress: record-breaking amounts of solar installed in the United States, a solid drop in carbon emissions from the US power sector, more than one million electric vehicles sold in the country for the first time, “breakneck” growth in renewable energy globally, and more.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 19, 2023

Together, these standards will accelerate California’s necessary transition to a cleaner and more efficient freight system, increasing the estimated number of electric trucks on our roads and highways by 70 percent in 2050. A full transition to electric drayage truck operations in 2035. There are more than 1.8 pollution from vehicles.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 16, 2022

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. Here are five key takeaways from this year’s AEO, focused primarily on the electricity sector: 1. Relying on market trends is nowhere near enough to do the job. Carbon emissions remain high.

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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.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

More efficient (and cleaner) gasoline cars are part of the reason why gasoline use is down, but the increasing number of electric vehicles being sold in the state will likely drive gasoline use down even further. But a growing share of the reductions is likely due to the increasing sales of electric vehicles (EVs).

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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.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 31, 2024

The Public Utility Commission published notice in the June 1 PA Bulletin making available the final policy statement establishing guidelines for the use of electricity storage by electric distribution companies (EDC). Documents related to this policy can be found at PUC Docket No.: M-2020-3022877.

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Earthava

JULY 10, 2024

The post Best Solar Batteries for Efficient Energy Storage in 2024 appeared first on Earthava. With a good solar battery, you can reduce your reliance on the traditional electric grid and ensure that you have power during outages. Solar batteries are an essential part of any solar power system.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 18, 2024

By John Quigley, Kleinman Center For Energy Policy , University of Pennsylvania The challenge of decarbonizing the electricity grid while ensuring its reliability is acute in Pennsylvania. The Commonwealth is the nation’s third-largest electricity producer , and exports more of it than any other state. per year over the next ten years.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 22, 2024

Community Advocates for Clean Energy and Highland Electric Fleets will host an April 30 Southeast PA Electric Bus Lunch & Learn webinar starting from 11:00 a.m. Posted: April 22, 2024] PA Environment Digest to 12:30 p.m. Click Here to register and for more information.

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

An enhanced understanding of climate change has been a force behind the growth in solar panels, wind power, and electric cars. In a recent paper (Benestad et al, 2024) we provide an even clearer picture than before of extreme temperature and precipitation having become more frequent and widespread since 1950. Lussana, and A.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 15, 2024

This blog post first appeared in Utility Dive on May 3, 2024. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission staff recently revealed that winter storms Gerri and Heather brought a grid operator to the brink of rolling blackouts sometime between January 10 and January 17, 2024. Was that true during this latest storm?

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Legal Planet

MAY 30, 2024

The transition to 100 percent zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) sales by 2035 will require massive investment in electric vehicle charging infrastructure throughout California and in other states that have adopted the same phaseout targets. As of May 2024, California’s publicly accessible EV charger stock hovers around 105,000.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 19, 2023

And it will make it even more important when winter electricity demand increases because more households are using electric heat pumps. NREL) Place Offshore wind has the distinct advantage, for many of us as consumers, of being close to where a lot of electricity demand is. The US offshore wind map. The US offshore wind map.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 1, 2022

And Option 2 allows such dirty diesels in perpetuity—in fact, their share could even grow over time with the sale of electric trucks, an absolutely counter-productive outcome. In contrast to what we and others have been advocating for , EPA did not propose to set sales targets for electric trucks.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

On September 3, the Public Utility Commission reported Pennsylvania experienced 49 “reportable outage events” in 2023 that disrupted electric service for residents and businesses across the state, according to the latest Electric Service Reliability Report. Click Here to read the latest PUC Electric Service Reliability Report.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 28, 2024

On May 28, the Public Utility Commission reminded consumers that most electric distribution companies (EDCs) across the state will be adjusting electric generation prices on June 1 for non-shopping, or default service, customers. All the other electric utilities are decreasing their rates this quarter from 0.9% Read more here.]

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