PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2025

On April 25, the Department of Environmental Protection announced the release of the 2024 Climate Change Action Plan Update and 2024 Climate Impacts Assessment Report. 70% of the program proceeds will go toward electric bill rebates for ratepayers. from 2019 to 2020 and 44.4% from 2005 to 2020. from 2019 to 2020 and 44.4%

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

This experience, not far from Seattle and with ties to the information tech industry, highlights some of the issues surrounding the electric power needs of data centers. He was obviously oblivious to the fact that old-style electric heat (i.e. He assured me he hadnt: it doesnt require electricity! Modernize, or bypass, the grid?

Nuclear Power

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 26, 2025

Electric power outages are more than an inconvenience. West Virginia experiences among the most challenging electric reliability in the country according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration’s Annual Electric Power Industry Report. Leasing this technology will avoid any up-front capital outlay for Hope customers.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

JULY 9, 2025

On July 9, the PJM Interconnection announced it has opened the next electricity capacity auction bidding window of July 9 to 15 to determine wholesale electric prices throughout its 13 state and District of Columbia footprint that includes Pennsylvania. So, electricity prices are going nowhere but up.” Read more here.

Electricity

PA Environment Daily

MAY 21, 2025

Governor Shapiros bipartisan 2024-2025 enacted budget allocated $25 million for Solar for Schools grants, which can save our schools hundreds of thousands of dollars per year. At the same time, these projects turn school buildings into living laboratories where students gain real-world experience in clean energy technology.

Electricity

Circle of Blue

JULY 24, 2025

Although the Khmer Empire is long gone, the use of the Mekong river system has only increased with population growth and the advancement of technology. This river system is the basis of millions of livelihoods, enabling transportation, agriculture, fishing and electricity generation. In the 2024/2025 fiscal year, Cambodia grew 8.47

Government

Enviromental Defense

MARCH 13, 2025

So why are renewable energy developers hesitant about participating in the upcoming opportunity to submit proposals for new electricity generation for the Long-Term 2 (LT2) procurement? million homes. Lets examine the evidence: Overly restricting ground-mounted solar in prime agricultural areas.

Renewable Energy

Law Columbia

OCTOBER 29, 2024

This is particularly true in states restricting the ability of electricity customers to purchase electricity from entities other than the local utility. For Google, this means matching the electricity consumption of its data centers with clean energy on a twenty-four hour-a-day basis (known as “24/7 matching” ).

Clean Energy

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 29, 2025

Louisiana residents already pay high electric bills for a very unreliable power grid that just recently left nearly 100,000 Louisianans in the dark due to electricity shortages. Entergy has signed a contract with Meta to supply electricity to the data center for 15 years. Source: IEEFA testimony on behalf of AAE and UCS.

Electricity

PA Environment Daily

MAY 12, 2025

On May 12, Senate and House Committees held hearings on how the rapid increase in demand for electricity to power data centers filled with computers is impacting the price and availability of electricity for ordinary people on the regional electric grid operated by the PJM Interconnection. Read more here. MW-day to $269.92/MW-day--

Electricity

Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Global spending on clean energy technologies and infrastructure is on track to hit $2 trillion in 2024. Much of this funding is slated to be put toward renewables, electric vehicles, low-emission fuels, storage solutions, nuclear power and other green technology. Read the full story at ESG Dive.

Clean Energy

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Route 220 in Bedford Township is being built for a facility that provides liquid natural gas as fuel for electricity generation, transportation and heat. The renewable energy source has generated more than 959,000 kilowatt-hours of energy, or 76% of the facilitys total electricity. And Going Higher?

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

In December, 2024, the U.S. Meanwhile, it remains profoundly cheaper to produce electricity from solar than from new fossil fuel sources. It can buy time for PJM to focus on high-value additions to the grid through its SSI, the cheaper clean energy waiting in the queue , and deployment of grid enhancing technologies.

Natural Gas

A Greener Life

JULY 10, 2025

The notice published by the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the National Energy Administration opens the first round of applications for industrial zones aiming to reduce their carbon footprint. Problems persist in construction of such parks, industry insiders told Yicai.

Carbon Dioxide

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 24, 2025

Rising electricity demand from U.S. People across the country are trying to square the benefits that technology can bring with the real and growing impacts on the environment and consumers, said Ellie Kerns , Climate and Clean Energy Advocate with the PennEnvironment Research & Policy Center. of the states energy use.

Nuclear Power

Legal Planet

JUNE 13, 2025

Last year, legislators passed, the governor signed, and California voters approved, a ten billion dollar climate bond (the Safe Drinking Water, Wildfire Prevention, Drought Preparedness, and Clean Air Bond Act of 2024, SB 867 (Allen), which appeared on the November ballot as Proposition 4). billion); Wildfire and forest resilience ($1.5

Clean Energy

PA Environment Daily

MAY 7, 2025

The State of Renewable Energy 2025 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.

Renewable Energy

Law Columbia

JULY 21, 2025

At a July 10, 2025 meeting , Commissioner Judy Chang of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) argued that the United States needs to rapidly build more transmission capacity to bring new sources of electricity online. Second, New York is anticipating rapid growth of demand for electricity over the next few decades.

Renewable Energy

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 14, 2025

On April 10, the North American Electric Reliability Corp. filed a proposed electric generator cold weather reliability standard with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission as a result of its investigations into generation failures during multiple cold weather events since 2021. Read more here. Read more here.]

Natural Gas

Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Landing such developments in Alberta could lead to more than $100 billion of investment, says Chris Varcoe in the Calgary Herald (Dec 4), while creating thousands of technology jobs and spurring new demand for natural gas that will be needed to generate electricity to power such facilities.

Renewable Energy

A Greener Life

JULY 3, 2025

In China, new energy solutions are being guided by digital technologies and ecological planning. In 2024, global renewable electricity capacity expanded by 15.1%, with China accounting for over 60% of new additions. In China, CO₂ emissions from power generation have plateaued despite increasing electricity demand.

Clean Energy

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 27, 2025

These unexpected closures add urgency to the process of planning for an orderly transition from gasoline to renewable electricity as California’s primary transportation fuel. In 2024, the CEC noted that just 5 companies controlled 98 percent of the gasoline refining capacity, which was already raising red flags.

Regulations

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

On November 11, Energy Justice Advocates announced PECO has agreed to contract for 25 MW of solar energy as part of its default power procurement for electric customers from June 1, 2025 through May 31, 2029 as a result of a settlement recently approved by the Public Utility Commission. PECO serves nearly 1.7

Fossil Fuels

New Scientist

JULY 29, 2025

During extreme weather and wildfires, firefighters and evacuees rely on the conference site, but it’s also vulnerable to electricity grid outages. Energy technologies and infrastructure have a long history of starting wildfires, and non-flammable batteries offer a way to avoid some of that risk.”

2027

A Greener Life

MAY 1, 2025

There was a time when anyone who produced solar electricity would receive a buyback, resulting in the construction of numerous solar farms, which reached a capacity of around 3 gigawatts (GW) at the time. Renewable energy investments reached a record high in 2024 This sounds good, but 17% is hydropower.

Renewable Energy

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 22, 2025

On June 22, the PJM Interconnection issued a Maximum Generation Alert and Load Management Alert for Monday, June 23 as hot weather continues throughout the region PJM serves to ensure the reliable delivery of electricity to its customers across 13 states and the District of Columbia. Click Here for a copy of the PJM announcement.

Electricity

Circle of Blue

JUNE 25, 2025

The fourteenth flood in as many years, 2024 was one of the most devastating. Several hours into last year’s flood, when her home lost electricity, her rechargeable oxygen tank fell to within eight minutes of emptying. Millions of dollars of property were sunk in mere hours. Hundreds of vulnerable vehicles sat water-logged.

2024

A Greener Life

JANUARY 2, 2025

By Anders Lorenzen In 2024, the UK, the birthplace of the industrial revolution and powering modern civilisation, became the first developed economy to have completely weaned itself off coal. Ironically, Germany also imports nuclear-produced electricity from France. billion tonnes in 2024. billion tonnes in 2024.

2027

PA Environment Daily

MAY 14, 2025

By Meagan Weisner, PhD , Senior Scientist, Healthy Communities and Paige Varner, PhD , Scientist, Healthy Communities A new study from Environmental Defense Fund finds that even oil and gas production that uses the most stringent emissions reductions technologies poses health risks to nearby residents.

Ozone

Enviromental Defense

JULY 2, 2025

2 Energy The electricity required to power and cool date centres represents another significant environmental concern. per cent of the world’s electricity consumption in 2024, while this is set to more than double by the end of the decade. Researchers estimate global AI demand may account for 4.2–6.6

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Fracking in Washington County began in the mid-2000s when advancements in hydraulic fracturing (fracking) technology and horizontal drilling unlocked vast reserves of natural gas in the Marcellus Shale formation. Butler County [Posted: October 17, 2024] PA Environment Digest

Toxic Substances Control Act

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

Technology Center, Room 243, 200 Innovation Blvd, State College. Contact: Todd Wallace at twallace@pa.gov or by telephone at 717-783-6395. Read more here about agenda. December 12-- DCED PA Grade Crude [Oil] Development Advisory Council meeting. Click Here for options to join the meeting remotely.

Natural Gas

A Greener Life

DECEMBER 19, 2024

By Jiang Mengnan Chinas oil demand is projected to peak at approximately 770 million tonnes in 2025, according to a forecast by the China National Petroleum Corporations Economic and Technological Research Institute (ETRI), reports Caixin.

2025

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 14, 2025

On November 21, 2024, FERC granted York Energy Storage a preliminary permit to study the construction of a pumped storage facility at Cuffs Run along the Susquehanna River. Virgin Islands. Project Impacts The $2.3 billion project proposed by York Energy Storage LLC would involve construction of a 1.8-mile

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

MAY 1, 2025

It works for progress on methane pollution, clean electricity, clean transportation, forests, fisheries and oceans, healthy communities, fuels and feedstocks, agriculture, water, food, carbon markets and other critical environmental challenges. McKean County [PaEN] [Posted: May 1, 2025] PA Environment Digest

Natural Gas

Physics World

APRIL 14, 2025

With increased water scarcity and global warming looming, electrochemical technology offers low-energy mitigation pathways via desalination and carbon capture. His group uses understanding of flow, transport, and thermodynamics in electrochemical devices and materials to innovate toward separations, energy storage, and conversion.

2014

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 22, 2024

28 Webinar On Climate-Smart Ag Project (CARAT) [PaEN] -- Chesapeake Bay Journal - Ad Crable: Pennsylvania To Get Nearly $1 Billion In Federal Funds For Climate-Smart Ag Practices -- Lancaster Clean Water Partners Newsletter: Looking Back On 2024 And Looking Forward -- Ag Conservation Professionals!

Conservation