Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 23, 2025

At present, California effectively has a ban on new nuclear power plants, but some California legislators are interested in rolling that back ostensibly to advance California towards its clean energy goals. Diablo Canyon is now Californias last operational nuclear power plant, but its currently slated to shut down by 2030.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Energy storage, or the storing of electricity for later use on the power grid, plays an important role in the clean energy transition. Illinois is currently considering policy proposals to establish a statewide energy storage target. For instance, around 3,000 megawatts (3 gigawatts) of storage capacity is needed in 2030.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Senate Bill (SB) 271 requires utilities to achieve, at a minimum, renewable energy-generated electricity sales of 50 percent in 2030 and 60 percent in 2035. Additionally, SB 271 requires utilities to achieve a “clean energy” portfolio of at least 80 percent in 2035 and 100 percent in 2040. What’s In the Bills?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 31, 2024

And yet these corporations’ actions reveal they are greenwashing: In its latest energy transition strategy, Shell abandoned a key climate target for 2035 and weakened its 2030 emissions reduction pledge. BP walked back its emissions reduction target and reversed its commitment to cut back oil and gas production by 40% by 2030.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The legislation committed nearly $400 billion to support, among other things, wind and solar power, battery storage, electric vehicles, and other clean energy technologies that will make a significant dent in US heat-trapping emissions. How is that going to happen? Below is an abridged version of our conversation.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 22, 2022

This could accelerate the reuse of used electric vehicle batteries in grid energy storage. More than 200 gigawatt-hours of used electric vehicle batteries will be available for energy storage reuse by 2030, which would satisfy projected grid storage battery demand. Increase access to information.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 12, 2021

We need to quickly transition to a clean energy future in Illinois to prevent additional negative public health impacts from fossil fuel plants. The Clean Energy Jobs Act (CEJA) HB 0804/ SB1718 is the only bill that puts Illinois on a path to 100% carbon-free electricity by 2030 and 100% renewable energy by 2050.

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Yale E360

MARCH 14, 2022

Their ambitious plans now call for fast-tracking deployment of solar and tripling clean energy capacity by 2030. As the conflict in Ukraine rages, European leaders are pushing for a faster switch to renewables as part of a strategy to end dependence on Russian gas. Read more on E360 ?.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 24, 2021

IEA says its report is designed to be used as a handbook for policy-makers at the COP26 summit and offers a critical opportunity to accelerate both climate action as well as the clean energy transition. The social and economic benefits of accelerating clean energy transitions are huge, and the costs of inaction are immense.”.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 24, 2023

The progress in the numbers The new numbers are from the federal Energy Information Administration (EIA), which collects data from power plant operators from across the country. They offer a lot of good news about clean energy progress. Renewables up, coal down More renewable energy is desirable for a lot of reasons.

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Law and Environment

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs (EEA) and Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP) announced that proposed amendments to the state’s Clean Energy Standard (CES) were finalized earlier this month without substantive changes from draft language initially proposed by the agencies in April 2022.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The state plans to reduce heat trapping emissions 28 percent by 2025 and 52 percent by 2030 below 2005 levels, and to become carbon neutral by 2050. The rationale behind the proposal is to help utilities decarbonize their operations more rapidly and support Michigan’s ambitious goal of achieving economy-wide carbon neutrality.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 31, 2022

Zero coal by 2035, 24 GW solar/wind by 2030, net zero emissions by 2050, including upstream and downstream emissions. Net zero by 2030, 50% cut from 2007 by 2030. Dominion Energy. Net zero emissions from operations, 50% cut from 2000 by 2030. 80% by 2050, 60% by 2030 (2000 baseline). Xcel Energy.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 10, 2021

On August 10, the Erie 2030 District , a group comprising 17 Erie County property partners spanning public and private organizations representing 120 buildings and over 4.9 In 2020, the Erie 2030 District reduced energy usage to 13 percent below the baseline, a slight increase from 14.8 percent in 2019. percent in 2019.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 25, 2022

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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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 13, 2022

We already have so many of the foundational technological building blocks of the clean energy transition at hand: renewables, energy efficiency, energy storage, and pathways to electrifying a vast array of energy end uses. Now we need to rapidly accelerate the clean energy momentum already underway.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2023

On January 26, the Minnesota House of Representatives passed House File 7 —the 100% Clean Energy Bill. Now, with climate and clean energy majorities in both chambers, Minnesota is poised to join other leading states in updating its clean energy policies equitably with benefits for all residents.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 27, 2023

From a national perspective, the land use needed to reach our clean energy goals is modest. But for states like California, with large populations, an ambitious and necessary clean energy timeline , and ongoing natural resource issues , where to actually build these projects will require thoughtful planning.

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Law and Environment

AUGUST 11, 2022

Based on numerous sources, Governor Baker has now signed an Act Driving Clean Energy and Offshore Wind. This bill includes a number of key advancements for increased adoption of zero emission vehicles and clean transportation throughout the Commonwealth. Stay tuned for Foley Hoag’s continuing zero emission transportation series.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 28, 2022

6 is still driving up Ohioans’ electricity bills—and undermining the state’s prospects for a clean energy future. The subsidies insulate the utilities from the costs of expensive, uneconomic coal and provide a disincentive for them to invest in cheaper clean energy resources. OVEC contributes to high energy burdens.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 12, 2024

It’s worth delving into because it has some important implications for our clean energy future. Source: UCS Accelerating Clean Energy Ambition. But after the IRA incentives expire in the early 2030s, we see gas and coal generation rebounding and US heat-trapping emissions flattening out.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 30, 2022

The combination of offshore wind turbines, floating solar panels and green hydrogen are some of the hybrid clean energy technologies currently under development off the Dutch coast. . The low-lying European country is using its expertise in water engineering to build up its next wave of clean energy infrastructure.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 29, 2022

Over the past year, precisely as our ability to identify the specific magnitude of action required to hit 2030 climate targets of 50-52 percent below 2005 levels has resolved into ever clearer view, the range of viable pathways for meeting those targets has consistently and considerably narrowed. It’s the only forward course.

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Environment + Energy Leader

MAY 8, 2023

As the G20 countries are collectively responsible for 80% of global emissions, the aim of reducing the emissions by 55% by 2030, is at the top of the corporate agenda.

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Law and Environment

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Can New York State satisfy nearly 30 percent of its electricity needs with solar projects less than five megawatts in size by the year 2030? Of this, 1,357 MWs would be targeted to an expanded Solar Energy Equity Framework. billion in NY-Sun Program funding to achieve the incremental four GW target by 2030. Ratepayer Costs.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 31, 2022

The best hope now for Minnesota legislators to act on the climate and energy agreement is a special session. With only eight years left to attain 80 percent of emission reductions in the electricity sector by 2030 and lay the foundation to meet economy-wide climate goals, they need to get back to work to finish the job before 2023.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Use batteries for more than just driving What if EVs weren’t just a clean transportation solution, but a clean energy solution too? By signing SB 59, Newsom could turn the clean transportation future he was instrumental in building into a clean energy reliability asset.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 1, 2024

While Citi touts its $1 trillion Sustainable Finance by 2030 Goal, that figure includes the bank’s full range of environmental, social, and governance investments. BloombergNEF calculated Citi’s 2022 Energy Supply Banking Ratio (that is, financing for low-carbon projects and companies compared to financing for fossil fuel activities) at 0.6:1.

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New Scientist

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Momentum is building for an agreement at the COP28 climate summit in Dubai to triple renewable energy capacity and double the rate of energy efficiency gains by 2030

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 4, 2023

These climate, health and justice imperatives are the reason the world needs to phase out fossil fuels and transition to clean energy rapidly. The reality is that technological CCS/CCUS cannot contribute meaningfully to emission reductions in the 2030 timeframe—a fossil fuel phaseout must be focused on deep, direct cuts in this decade.

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Scientific American

JANUARY 11, 2024

China is running away with clean energy expansion, with the E.U. following far behind

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 3, 2023

With respect to the electricity grid, CEJA directs the Illinois Commerce Commission (ICC) to prepare a Renewable Energy Access Plan (REAP) to help ensure that clean energy resources can connect to the grid and be ready to replace coal and gas plants.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 3, 2023

To no one’s surprise it contained zero funding to address climate change – not even for clean energy – which the document referred to multiple times. So while it likes to talk about Ontario’s “clean energy advantage”, the government is actively dismantling it. It will be something to watch.

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Legal Planet

JULY 29, 2021

On Wednesday, Oregon Governor Kate Brown signed a package of four clean energy bills. These laws ban new fossil fuel plants and set aggressive targets for the state’s two major utilities, requiring emission cuts of 80% by 2030, 90% by 2035 and 100% by 2040. These bills move Oregon to the forefront of climate action.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 22, 2022

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. These kinds of transmission investments will help get these surplus amounts of cheap, clean energy to other areas across the region.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 3, 2023

Last year’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) included a clean hydrogen production tax credit (known as “45V”) that is one of a slew of new incentives intended to help catalyze the next and necessary phase of advancing the nation’s clean energy transition as a whole. The costs will be too great otherwise.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 30, 2022

Quite the opposite: today’s high oil and gas prices are a fresh reinforcement, if we needed that, for why a rapid transition to clean energy is imperative. A rapid clean energy transition is (still) the best path forward. Multiple crises colliding with climate change.

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