Scientific American

JULY 16, 2025

This June construction began on a wind-powered underwater data center about six miles off the coast of Shanghai, one of China’s AI hubs. An artist’s rendering of a wind-powered underwater data center being built off the coast of Shanghai. © 2025 SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, A DIVISION OF SPRINGER NATURE AMERICA, INC.

Wind Power

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 11, 2025

"PITT OHIO's investments in renewable energy, power storage, and electric vehicles have enabled growth and hiring," said Justine Russ, Director of Sustainability and Business Intelligence at PITT OHIO. Both customers and employees support our renewable energy projects, notably our patented solar and wind-powered microgrid in Harmar, PA.

Electricity

Law Columbia

JUNE 30, 2025

This 2025 edition further identifies 498 contested projects in 49 states, an increase of 32% over last year’s edition. The report finds that, by the end of 2024, at least 459 counties and municipalities across 44 states had adopted severe local restrictions on siting renewables.

Law

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 4, 2025

Data Centers -- Axios: Recently Upgraded Twin Ridges Wind Power Facility In Somerset County Could Help With A.I. Data Center Energy Needs -- Scranton Times: Proposed State Senate Bill To Fast Track Data Centers, Limit Local Zoning [ Senate Bill 939 ] [ PDF of Article ] -- Williamsport Sun Guest Essay: A.I.

Wind Power

Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 24, 2025

On January 13th, 2025 the Province of Nova Scotia and the Regional Municipality of Halifax announced that Nearly half of Halifax’s municipal electricity will soon come from a Queens County wind farm, a move the city says will cut its greenhouse gas emissions by a quarter. This announcement might improve its marks for 2025.

Government

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 20, 2024

18 Planet Philadelphia Radio Program Provides Updates On Wind Power, Local Green Energy Efforts -- PA Wilds Center: PA Wilds Makers Market On Oct. 18 Planet Philadelphia Radio Program Provides Updates On Wind Power, Local Green Energy Efforts -- PA Wilds Center: PA Wilds Makers Market On Oct. 17 -- Williamsport Sun: Oct.

Clean Energy

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 26, 2025

Of Health, Penn State Project ECHO Host Feb. 27; Hire A LandForce Crew [PaEN] -- Lock Haven Express: Penn State, DCNR Forest Health Briefing, Forest Landowners Conference March 6-8 In State College -- WeConservePA Hosts Feb.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 10, 2025

Data Centers And Cryptocurrency Mining Energy Use Needs A Clear Disadvantage - By Karen Elias, Climate Reality [ PDF of Article ] -- Axios: Recently Upgraded Twin Ridges Wind Power Facility In Somerset County Could Help With A.I. Data Center Hype -- Williamsport Sun Guest Essay: A.I. 27 -- Public Opinion - A.I.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

JULY 6, 2025

4 Webinar - Rewild Your Yard: How Meadows Support Pollinators And Clean Water [PaEN] -- Call For Posters: Alliance For The Chesapeake Bay 2025 Chesapeake Watershed Forum Nov. Posted: July 6, 2025] PA Environment Digest 23 Hard-To-Recycle Collection Events In Allegheny County [PaEN] -- Interfaith Partners For The Chesapeake Bay: Sept.

Natural Resources

PA Environment Daily

JULY 6, 2025

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Conservation

PA Environment Daily

JULY 2, 2025

Of Justice Agreement -- Interfaith Partners For The Chesapeake Bay: Sept.

Natural Gas

Legal Planet

MAY 7, 2025

But in 2025, everything must be re-litigated. electricity generation for a whole month March 2025 thanks to record-high solar and wind power, according to data released by energy think tank Ember. In a galaxy where logic prevails, this model program does its thing without us ever having to think about it again.

Fossil Fuels

A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

In 2024, Vestas received orders totalling 17 gigawatts (GW) of wind energy capacity for onshore and offshore wind projects. The wind turbine giant admits that some level of uncertainty has come back on the agenda since the election of Donald Trump.

2024

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 16, 2025

Overall, US renewable energy generation, principally from wind, solar, and hydro, was 10% higher in 2024 than in 2022, and accounted for more than 24% of our nation’s electricity , vs. 13.4% Changing winds So… about that momentum. So much momentum. In so many ways. Even so, there are bright spots to keep in mind.

Clean Energy

Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

When Donald Trump returns to the Oval Office in January 2025, his second presidency will have widespread implications for the energy industry, especially new investments, but not necessarily in the ways his supporters might expect. Negotiations on the 2025 tax bill will implicate many of the IRA’s provisions.

2025

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 20, 2024

18 Planet Philadelphia Radio Program Provides Updates On Wind Power, Local Green Energy Efforts -- Community Advocates For Clean Energy Host Nov. Billion Hydrogen, Natural Gas Tax Credit, Shapiro Wants To Rewrite The Law To Boost Electricity Production -- Ohio River Valley Institute: Is The Appalachian Hydrogen Hub Coming Apart?

Conservation

Legal Planet

JULY 10, 2025

In June, the International Panel on the Information Environment released a review of 300 climate science studies published between 2015 and 2025. Speaking of sun, organizers are planning a major day of nationwide action against billionaire polluters on September 21, 2025, the fall Equinox, and calling it “Sun Day.”

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

JULY 2, 2025

Related Articles This Week: -- Solar Business Owners: PA Will Lose $156 Million If PA Senate, House Fail To Unlock Solar For All Funding [PaEN] -- PA Interfaith Power & Light Launches New Faith & Fossil Fuels Initiative; Invites Congregations, Individuals To Share Your Lived Experiences With Pollution [PaEN] -- Spotlight PA: Costs Of Amazon’s (..)

Renewable Energy

PA Environment Daily

JULY 3, 2025

Related Articles This Week: -- Evangelical Environmental Network: US Senate Approves Federal Budget Bill With Critical Improvements, But It Risks Higher Energy Prices For Families [PaEN] -- AP: What’s In The Latest Version Of President Big Budget Bill That Passed US Senate -- WESA: Green Advocates: Federal Budget Bill Will Raise Electricity Costs, (..)

Wind Power

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 25, 2025

Yaw To Introduce Bill To Use Revenue From Taxing Gambling Skill Games To Support Agriculture Conservation Assistance Program [PaEN] -- PASA Sustainable Agriculture Recognizes Innovation, Collaboration In 2025 Pasabilities Awards [PaEN] -- Take Action Now! Ohio- $3.01 Ohio- $3.01 Ohio- $3.01

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 8, 2025

PJMs effort to continue our addiction to 19th century sources of energy that are dirty, dangerous, unreliable and expensive, instead of using safer, more reliable and more cost-effective 21st-century technologies such as solar and wind power and battery storage is appalling.

Clean Air Act

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 10, 2025

Data Centers And Cryptocurrency Mining Energy Use Needs A Clear Disadvantage - By Karen Elias, Climate Reality [ PDF of Article ] -- Axios: Recently Upgraded Twin Ridges Wind Power Facility In Somerset County Could Help With A.I. Report Finds Nearly 2 Million Are Unemployed In US, Highest Since Pandemic [Posted: August 10, 2025]

Politics

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 10, 2025

Data Centers And Cryptocurrency Mining Energy Use Needs A Clear Disadvantage - By Karen Elias, Climate Reality [ PDF of Article ] -- Axios: Recently Upgraded Twin Ridges Wind Power Facility In Somerset County Could Help With A.I. Posted: August 10, 2025] PA Environment Digest Data Center Energy Needs -- NorthcentralPA.com: A.I.

Nuclear Power

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 25, 2022

The 18 projects approved by MISO in Tranche 1 address reliability needs in the Upper Midwest while helping ensure utilities can transition from older, more expensive-to-run coal plants to cleaner, affordable wind and solar power. Source: MISO. What’s in it for Michigan?

Solar Power

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 1, 2022

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.

Clean Energy

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 22, 2022

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.

Renewable Energy

A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Constructed is slated to begin in 2025 and to be completed within a year and operational in 2026. Rosatom Renewable Energy JSC is the wind energy division of the state-owned Russian energy company, Rosatom which specialises in nuclear energy, but which in 2017 branched into wind power.

Wind Power

Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 6, 2022

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. . And between 2009 and 2016, Ontario built over 2000 MW of solar power and about 3000 MW of wind power. But there are loopholes.

Renewable Energy

Law and Environment

JULY 27, 2023

The following are the major components of the final bill as signed into law today: Offshore Wind Generation Goal The bill establishes a state goal of 3,000 megawatts of installed offshore wind by 2040, a goal that can be increased beginning in 2025 and every two years after.

2013

Edouard Stenger

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Not anymore as the IEA now states that global renewable power capacity growth is set to double over the next five years. In other words, between now and 2027, we will collectively install as much wind power and solar pv capacity than we did in the past twenty years, or 2,400 GW.

2027

A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

“Together, we will strive to increase clean and reliable power, reduce inefficiencies, enhance air quality, and advance climate mitigation efforts,” ACE Executive Director Nuki Agya Utama said in June, calling the partnership “pivotal in achieving our regional targets by 2025.” © Dita Alangkara/AP. Japan and other partners.

Clean Energy

Edouard Stenger

MAY 30, 2023

I previously noted that renewables are to become first global electricity source by 2025. From redox flow batteries to solid state models or flywheels, it’s impressive how many companies are competing to store the excess electricity production of both solar photoltaic and wind power.

Wind Power

A Greener Life

JUNE 6, 2021

Pending final investment decisions and planning approvals and the clearing of the site, production is anticipated during the course of 2025 which, based on other known projects, make it the largest electrolyser plant in Europe. There is no better location in Hamburg for a scalable electrolyser of this size.

Wind Power

Cresforum

JANUARY 16, 2024

Increased electrification in both the industrialized and the developing world is projected to help meet emissions reduction goals, and nuclear power could provide much of the future needs for electricity. Moving the Ball Forward on U.S.

Nuclear Power

Energy and Climate Law

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Regarding renewable energy, several parties have high ambitions for offshore wind: both GL and D66 aim for 60 GW in the coming government period, 2021-2025; also VVD, CDA, SP, PvdA mention offshore wind as an important option. Both PvdA and GL mention that they want to do this earlier, by 2025 at latest (i.e.

Renewable Energy

A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Its offshore wind strategy sets out to build installed capacity of at least two gigawatts (GW) from offshore wind by 2030, representing one-tenth of its onshore capacity. This is according to Hellenic Hydrocarbons and Energy Resources Management Company (HEREMA), which is in charge of the programme.

Fossil Fuels

A Greener Life

JULY 9, 2021

Energy authorities in Inner Mongolia are aiming to connect 50 gigawatts of renewable power to the grid by 2025. According to the latest statistics, in 2019 Inner Mongolia generated more wind power than any other province, and came third in solar power generation. The Kubuqi desert. Photo credit: Alamy.

Renewable Energy