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How Will DTE’s Long-Term Plan Impact Michigan’s Clean Energy Future?

Union of Concerned Scientists

Key questions include how long the utilities will continue to run polluting coal and fossil gas plants and how quickly they will add clean energy resources such as solar and wind to the system. DTE currently has 3,000 MW of existing and approved solar and wind resources.) Photo: FracTracker Alliance/Flicker.

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Analysis: Bolstering Southeast Asia’s clean energy transition

A Greener Life

The United States supports Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) partners in meeting their clean energy goals. Above, wind turbines turn in Sidenreng Rappang, Indonesia. Dat Bike is one of numerous partners the US government works with to meet this rapidly growing demand for clean energy. million people.

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Boosting Michigan’s Energy Future with Regional Transmission Upgrades

Union of Concerned Scientists

Today, the regional entity overseeing much of the electric power grid in the Midwest—the Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO)—approved a set of major new transmission system upgrades that will bring billions of dollars in benefits to the region while better enabling states and utilities to pursue transitions to clean energy.

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Good News—and Bad—about Fossil Fuel Power Plants in 2023 

Union of Concerned Scientists

With the clean energy transition already under way, the US electricity mix is set to continue changing this year. Solar power is expected to make up about half of all additions of US electric generating capacity in 2023, according to data from the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). I’ll start off with the good.

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Building a Better Power Grid for Minnesota

Union of Concerned Scientists

Renewable energy will help with all of that—but we need a grid that is designed for wind and solar instead of having to rely on expensive coal and gas plants. Southwest Minnesota and the Dakotas have a lot of wind power—and the potential for even more. Source: MISO LRTP Report.

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Maine Gov. Mills Signs Bill to Procure 3 GW of Offshore Wind by 2040

Law and Environment

state to pursue a competitive solicitation of offshore wind energy. The scale of this generation goal is similar in scale to initial offshore wind goals established by other New England states as they enter the offshore wind market. Now that the bill is signed into law, Maine is the seventh U.S.

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The Atomic Energy Advancement Act: Preparing the Way for Advanced Nuclear Power Plants  

Cresforum

Introduction One of the main messages coming out of the recent COP28 meetings in the UAE concerns the role that nuclear power can play in the future of clean energy development around the world. The hope is that this encourages international financial institutions to include nuclear energy in loans for energy projects.