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Lithium Mining Boom Continues in Australia as Demand for Clean Energy Grows

Environment + Energy Leader

As the world shifts from fossil fuels to clean energy, Australia’s lithium sector is poised to match thermal coal’s importance within the next five years. Read more » The post Lithium Mining Boom Continues in Australia as Demand for Clean Energy Grows appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Statement in Response to Parliamentary Budget Office’s Costing of the Carbon Capture and Hydrogen Investment Tax Credits

Enviromental Defense

Statement by Julia Levin, Associate Director, National Climate Ottawa | Traditional, unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg People – New analysis released today from the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) demonstrates that the Government of Canada is still intent on providing massive subsidies to fossil fuel companies.

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A Hot Summer for Clean Energy in Michigan

Union of Concerned Scientists

Michigan’s clean energy future agenda Taken together, the resolution of the DTE and Consumers Energy resource plans represents a solid foundation for a clean economy powered by renewable energy. But it’s only the beginning for what’s needed for Michigan to chart a course toward a 100-percent clean and equitable future.

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Boosting Michigan’s Energy Future with Regional Transmission Upgrades

Union of Concerned Scientists

This much-needed set of 18 projects will improve electricity reliability, address overloaded wires , and help unlock more lower-cost wind and solar power to replace costly, polluting fossil fuel plants in Michigan and many other states in the Midwest (including Illinois and Minnesota ).

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NRDC: PJM Interconnection Delays In Queue To Approve Renewable Energy Projects Threatens State Transition To Clean Energy; PJM Has Approved 35,000 MW Of Renewables

PA Environment Daily

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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Guest Essay: Pennsylvania May Not Be Able To Keep All The Lights On In Four Years

PA Environment Daily

It issued a report last year warning that, under current trends, there may not be enough electric generating capacity to keep the lights on by 2028–2030. As a result, PJM’s interconnection queue now consists almost entirely of renewable energy and battery projects. Pennsylvania’s energy policies have not caused this problem.

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Germany’s early nuclear shutdown came with a heavy carbon price?

A Greener Life

If these reactors were kept in operation, a complete exit from coal would be possible by 2028, ten years earlier than Angela Merkel’s government has planned. It argues that after 20 years and hundreds of billions of euros spent, renewables like wind, solar and biomass still only account for only 20% of energy use.