Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 1, 2022

DTE’s proposal, known as an integrated resource plan, describes how the utility intends to fulfill its customers’ electricity needs over the next 20 years. These types of long-term energy plans include forecasting the amount of electricity customers will need and examining different options for supporting that need.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

The OCP Group has agreed on an essential renewable energy and infrastructure deal with the French energy giant Engie. The agreement could yield investments of up to €17 billion in desalination, renewable energy, and green hydrogen. By 2040, it aims to be fully carbon neutral.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 24, 2025

Installed at Gifford Pinchot State Park in York County, the project reinforces DCNRs commitment to clean energy and cost-saving innovation, as well as the Commonwealths progress as a national leader in renewable energy. Click Here for video/photos from the event.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 22, 2024

On August 22, CPV Renewable Power (CPV Renewables) announced the start of construction for CPV Rogue’s Wind energy project in Pennsylvania. The 114 MW wind project, stretching across Cambria and Clearfield Counties, will be CPV’s third project that repurposes former coal mine land into a new source of renewable energy.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Lithium-ion batteries are efficient, compact, and have a long lifespan – all factors that enable electric vehicles (EVs), which are powered by these batteries, to be a great substitute for their gasoline counterpart. Stationary storage is a vital part of the renewable energy transition.

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Environment + Energy Leader

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Automotive manufacturer Stellantis entered into the second-largest power purchase agreement (PPA) ever recorded to acquire 400 MW of new solar development in Michigan through the MIGreenPower program of diversified energy company DTE Energy. Read more ».

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 18, 2023

Without changes to its queue processing pace, PJM will likely force states to fall short of state renewable targets, even after the reforms it approved last year.” As of September 2022, there were over 202 gigawatts (GW) of renewable energy resources waiting in the PJM queue, over 95% of the total queue. Read more here.]

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Recovering these materials from retired electric vehicle (EV) batteries is an alternative source to mining. In 2022, a report was released by the California Electric Vehicle Battery Recycling Advisory Group which outlines policies the group believes the California legislature should implement.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 22, 2024

On April 22, Dickinson College, Haverford College, Lafayette College, Lehigh University, Muhlenberg College and Swarthmore College announced they have joined with three colleges in North Carolina as a part of an innovative, large-scale solar energy facility in western Kentucky.

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Law and Environment

JULY 10, 2023

Covered buildings will be required to gradually reduce emissions, relative to a 2018–2019 baseline, over compliance periods starting in 2026 and 2030. The same issues—particularly grid capacity—also present challenges to other decarbonization efforts, such as the rollout of electric vehicles.

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Green Bang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

In 2023, both Google and Microsoft took significant steps to address the rising energy demands of their AI-driven data centers through major renewable energy deals. Google's Renewable Energy Push Google recently signed a deal with Energix Renewables to secure 1.5 This ambitious $11.5

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Some of these bonus credits are uncertain or difficult to achieve, not only limiting the ITC’s value but making project planning and economic modeling even more difficult for local governments and others wading into renewable energy production for the first time.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 11, 2022

Under that general aim, the law explicitly includes five specific hub selection criteria: Feedstock diversity, including at least one hub demonstrating clean hydrogen production from fossil fuels, one from renewable energy, and one from nuclear energy. Background on the hydrogen hubs program.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 6, 2023

On July 6, the PJM Interconnection announced its new process for evaluating electrical generation or storage projects for connection to the regional electrical grid will begin July 10. PJM said 95% of the 260,000 MW projects now in its queue are renewable energy generation, battery storage or a hybrid of both. “In

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

million between 2022 and 2026. Now, the Ontario government is crafting an official Clean Energy Credit system that will presumably require transparency. The agreement provides Microsoft ongoing Clean Energy Credits so it can claim to be using low carbon electricity. We lose our claim to clean electricity .

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 18, 2023

An overreliance on CCUS only serves to preserve the status quo and risks diverting resources from the proven, cost effective solutions , like renewable energy, that are needed in the near-term to dramatically reduce emissions. A guide to differentiate between credible climate change strategies and greenwashing attempts: .

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Vermont Law

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

The Benefits AI Provides to the Environment Offsets its Energy Exertion It is undisputed that AI technology has the potential to significantly sap electricity consumption and exert unprecedented levels of energy. Indeed, data centers in 2022 made up 2% of electricity demand across the globe.

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 23, 2023

The province’s electricity operator, the IESO, has already started the process by offering contracts to two new gas plants – one in Windsor and one in Thorold, near St. Those two plants alone are going to cost us – ratepayers i.e. people who use electricity – just over $1.1 Catherines. Take action here.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 16, 2023

On August 16, the University of Pittsburgh and Vesper Energy officially cut the ribbon on the 20-megawatt Gaucho Solar Energy project built on 68 acres on the border of Findlay Township, Allegheny County and Independence Township, Beaver County. Geoffrey Pyatt, assistant secretary for energy resources at the U.S.

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A Greener Life

DECEMBER 28, 2023

billion metric tons (BMT), the state-run energy group said in an outlook released today (28th December). Emissions peak China’s total carbon emissions from energy activities are expected to peak during 2025 at 10.1 Analysis by Sinopec, expects coal consumption to peak around 2025 at 4.37 million bpd of oil this year.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 3, 2024

By John Quigley, Senior Fellow, Kleinman Center Next year, the electricity bills for twenty percent of Americans will start reflecting the high cost of failing to transition to clean energy. The cost of lining up those resources has skyrocketed—by a factor of almost seven—to a record high level. Partners Host Aug.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 30, 2025

Free PA Industrial Energy Audits Available To First 20 Facilities To Apply [PaEN] -- Pennsylvania Technical Assistance Program To Help Small To Mid-Size Manufacturers Reduce Energy Costs Across The State [PaEN] -- April 18 Webinar: RISE PA - Decreasing Industrial Pollution For Pennsylvania Families [PaEN] -- Gov.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 9, 2023

This amendment underscores PWSA's mission to protect the environment and aligns with the goals outlined in the City of Pittsburgh Climate Action Plan, including achieving full carbon-neutrality by 2050 and procuring 100% renewable electricity for all purchased energy by 2030.

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The Energy Law

JUNE 22, 2023

The 1,500-ton substation will be installed on a monopile foundation within the South Fork Wind Farm (one of only two active federal commercial offshore wind leases that have been approved for construction) to collect power produced by turbines and interconnect that electric energy to the grid. 1331 et seq. back in 2021.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 23, 2023

Eoliennes en Mer Manche Normandie (EMMN), a company partly owned by EDF Renewables (the renewable energy arm of EDF) and Maples Power, was selected to build the “Centre Manche 1” offshore wind project. Construction is planned to begin in either 2026 or 2027.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 28, 2025

Dick Thornburgh [PaEN] -- PUC Launches Review Of Electric Grid Impacts From Data Center Growth, Sets April 24 Hearing [PaEN] -- Pittsburgh Business Times: CMUs Energy Week Tackles Balancing Sustainability Goals With A.I. -- Utility Dive: PJM Fast-Track Interconnection Process Draws 26.6

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Edouard Stenger

MAY 2, 2023

If you listen to mainstream media pundits, you may be missing it : a real energy revolution is taking place as renewables are ramping up and up and are on an exponential curve. There will be 2 TW (2,000 GW) of solar PV by 2026 according to analysts. These are good news for our climate and our common future. Can this be topped

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A Greener Life

JULY 9, 2021

The Energy Foundation China predicts that Inner Mongolia will be one of the last provinces to reach peak carbon, sometime between 2026 and 2030. Coal-chemical plants, for example, could switch to using hydrogen from renewable energy for producing chemicals such as methanol and alkenes. An urgent need for change.

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Greenbuilding Law

AUGUST 20, 2023

This week’s regulation will drive Colorado’s statutory GHG emission reduction targets of 7% by 2026 and 20% by 2030 for the buildings covered in the program, as compared to 2021 levels. Owners of buildings that do not meet the new state standards will need to use less energy or reduce GHG emissions.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 21, 2024

1 Hearing On Water Withdrawal Requests, Including 8 Related To Shale Gas Development; And On Cooperative Fish Nursery General Permit [PaEN] -- Senate Environmental Committee To Hold 2nd Joint Hearing With Ohio Legislature On Electric Grid Reliability Feb. 1; Will It Address Natural Gas Infrastructure Vulnerabilities ? PaEN] -- PA Cong.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Despite a significant uptake of renewable energy, India still relies on coal plants for more than half of its installed electricity supply. By Rejimon Kuttappan Along with a major expansion of renewable energy, India is also pushing for big increases in its coal production, casting doubt on its climate commitments.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 9, 2023

It would allow offshore wind farms to produce gas instead of electricity, a fairly radical proposal. Those are already on their way, and Lhyfe just announced a system ten times bigger for deployment in 2026. That’s proving to be a handy way for the oil and gas companies to muscle in on the energy transition and prolong their gas sales.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 13, 2022

First commercialized in 1991, their cost has declined by a remarkable 97 percent over the last three decades, enabling the rapid growth of mobile phones, laptops and more recently, electric cars. The Biden administration, which wants half of all new vehicles sold in the United States to be electric by 2030, has taken notice.

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Renewable + Law

OCTOBER 27, 2023

The program allocates a total of $8 billion in funding to DOE from 2022 to 2026 to create these regional hydrogen networks. The H2Hubs program is designed to support the production of clean hydrogen from a variety of feedstocks including fossil fuels, renewable energy, and nuclear energy.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

A recent National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) study shows that it would take less than 1 percent of the land in the Lower 48—that’s an area comparable to or even smaller than the fossil fuel industry’s current footprint. Examining Supply-Side Options to Achieve 100% Clean Electricity by 2035.)

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 21, 2024

26 Webinar On Federal And State Financial Resources For Going Solar [PaEN] -- Senate Environmental Committee To Hold 2nd Joint Hearing With Ohio Legislature On Electric Grid Reliability Feb. Shapiro Promised 30% Renewable Electricity By 2030, Will That Happen? -- PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Jan.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 13, 2024

Reusing venues and replacing fossil fuel with renewable energy use is essential to cutting emissions at a large sporting event. Paris 2024 has also committed to using 100% renewable energy, primarily wind and solar but also biogas. The Beijing Winter Olympics in 2022 also had a 100% renewable energy policy.

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