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2024 Year in Review: Clean Energy Progress Steeped in Solar and Storage

Union of Concerned Scientists

The end of every year is a great time for taking stock of what the year has broughtincluding in terms of clean energy in the power sector. Heres a taste, from US projects, technologies, electrons, and investment, to happenings in the world as a whole.

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Earth Day 2025: Embracing renewable energy for our planet

A Greener Life

By Shadia Haq Earth Day 2025 focuses on the theme Our Power, Our Planet and urges a global shift to renewable energy. 2025 The theme “Our Power, Our Planet” calls for tripling renewable energy by 2030. 2025 The theme “Our Power, Our Planet” calls for tripling renewable energy by 2030.

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

Union of Concerned Scientists

Earlier this year, the MPSC approved a settlement agreement on Consumers Energy’s integrated resource plan that commits the company to retire all its remaining coal-fired power plants by 2025, construct no new fossil gas infrastructure, and build large amounts of new solar power between now and 2040.

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Building a Better Power Grid for Minnesota

Union of Concerned Scientists

Southwest Minnesota and the Dakotas have a lot of wind power—and the potential for even more. Minnesota’s current goal is to reduce statewide carbon emissions 30 percent by 2025 compared to 2005 levels and 80 percent by 2050. Source: MISO LRTP Report. Unlocking the gridlock for Minnesota’s renewable energy future.

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

Law and Environment

In 2013, the University of Maine launched the first grid-connected offshore wind turbine in the Americas and has since continued to pursue a full-scale deployment of its floating offshore wind technology.

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Ontario: Now is the time to increase renewable energy, not fossil gas

Enviromental Defense

One is that gas plant contracts signed (or renewed) before 2025 will be able to evade meeting the national CERs beyond 2035 which is when the regulations are supposed to kick in. . The oft-repeated argument is that wind and solar can’t be counted on during periods of high demand. But there are loopholes.

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Analysis: Bolstering Southeast Asia’s clean energy transition

A Greener Life

Above, wind turbines turn in Sidenreng Rappang, Indonesia. By Leigh Hartman When Son Nguyen lived in the US, he saw rapidly advancing electric vehicle technology and heard stories from back in Vietnam about air pollution. © Zul Kifli / AFP / Getty Images. So after returning home, he launched Dat Bike in 2019. © Dita Alangkara/AP.