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

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 30, 2024

The latest data from the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) suggests that solar large and small may have generated 27% more in 2024 than in 2023, and that solar might have accounted for 7% of US electricitymore than double its contribution in 2020.

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Boosting Michigan’s Energy Future with Regional Transmission Upgrades

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 25, 2022

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 ). Source: MISO. What’s in it for Michigan?

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Building a Better Power Grid for Minnesota

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 22, 2022

These investments will help accommodate accelerating amounts of low-cost renewable energy like wind and solar power, laying the groundwork for a cleaner, cheaper grid. Southwest Minnesota and the Dakotas have a lot of wind power—and the potential for even more. That’s not a Minnesota utility…is it?

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UCS Expert Testifies on the New Clean Electricity Tax Credits

Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 21, 2024

The 45Y and 48E credits are foundational to that effort , enabling the widespread deployment of clean electricity resources to drive down carbon emissions in the power sector—and in so doing, unlocking the ability of the power sector to decarbonize vast swaths of the rest of the economy.

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

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.

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Five Factors are Driving Offshore Wind

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The results include two developers cancelling their offshore wind power contracts with states and utilities, another cancelling two projects altogether, and hesitation elsewhere. The good news-bad news balance, though, would seem to tip decidedly in favor of a whole lot more offshore wind. The US offshore wind map.

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Ontario could easily phase out polluting fossil gas – if it wanted to

Enviromental Defense

MARCH 22, 2022

Here are the measures that would lead Ontario to a fully clean electricity grid: Increase Wind and Solar Power. Ontario has a large potential supply of wind and solar energy that could be developed to help phase-out dirty gas plants. The costs of wind and solar power have been dropping like a stone.

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Carbon-neutral ports push

A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Weifang Port’s “zero-carbon” certification was primarily achieved by transitioning away from fossil fuel use, according to China Electric Power News (CEPN). It has built a wind power system to provide green energy for its operations and deployed hydrogen-powered vehicles to replace fossil-fuel-powered trucks.

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Pittsburgh Water & Sewer Authority To Buy More Wind Energy From Western PA Energy Consortium

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 9, 2023

On August 9, the Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority announced it would be committing to the purchase of wind power and the use of clean energy to support the production and operations of water services. PWSA holds the largest share at 30% of the total, underlining our strong commitment to sustainable energy practices. “It

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Analysis: Bolstering Southeast Asia’s clean energy transition

A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The US also works with electric vehicle manufacturers VinBus and VinFast, as well as Vietnam’s largest electric utility, to support the country’s goal of achieving net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. The US Agency for International Development works with Vietnamese electric vehicle manufacturers, such as VinFast, to reduce emissions.

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Analysis: Is hydrogen the new oil?

A Greener Life

JULY 23, 2021

The Tokyo Olympics will be powered by a fuel with ambition – hydrogen. The Olympic village will be powered by hydrogen made at a solar power plant in the exclusion zone created after the Fukushima nuclear accident a decade ago. The Olympic flame is already burning it. Photo credit: Ivan Radic / Flickr, CC BY 2.0.

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Gov. Shapiro Announces Commitment To Get 50% Of Electricity For State Government From Solar Energy Facilities In Pennsylvania

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 22, 2024

By next year, Pennsylvania will get 50 percent of its electricity from ten new solar arrays around the Commonwealth – making Pennsylvania the first state in the country to commit to getting half of its energy from solar power.

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Analysis: Can Inner Mongolia reach peak carbon this decade?

A Greener Life

JULY 9, 2021

Yang Fuqiang thinks it is unreasonable to make energy-producing provinces such as Inner Mongolia solely responsible for cutting carbon emissions. If it benefits, it has to help cut carbon. It could then explore local heating systems, using waste heat from factories and power plants rather than building new boilers.

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Analysis: Could electric vehicles feed China’s grid?

A Greener Life

MAY 23, 2024

A solar-powered charging station in Yibin, south-west China. Two-way charging could give vehicles like these the potential to stabilise power supplies by discharging stored electricity back to the grid. Photo credit: Wang Xi / Alamy. In January, China’s biggest trial of two-way charging took place in Wuxi, Jiangsu.

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Ask a Scientist: The US Has to Do More to Meet Its Carbon Emissions Reduction Goals

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. EN: We have already seen a great deal of progress.

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Another RGGI Raid? New York State Senate Proposes Pulling $138 million from the RGGI Fund

Law Columbia

MARCH 25, 2016

Clearly, the diversion of RGGI proceeds to the general budget and for workforce development is at odds with these requirements.

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How Much Land Would it Require to Get Most of Our Electricity from Wind and Solar?

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Acknowledging that the United States is a leading contributor to carbon emissions, the Biden administration has committed to cutting US emissions 50 to 52 percent below 2005 levels by 2030.

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Analysis: Coal returns to the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor

A Greener Life

MARCH 19, 2023

Once completed, it is intended to supply power, on a priority basis, to the industries being set up at the Gwadar Free Zone (GFZ), a special economic zone at Gwadar port that forms part of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), the USD 62 billion bilateral infrastructure and connectivity project between China and Pakistan.

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New York State Environmental Regulator Issues Draft Plan to Achieve GHG Emissions-Reduction Goals

E2 Law Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2021

The Council also established and consulted with sector-specific advisory panels and working groups to address carbon emissions in areas such as transportation, solid waste, and energy generation. The CLCPA established the Council, a 22-member committee tasked with determining how to meet these statutory goals.

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New Sabin Center Report Finds NYISO Could Price Carbon in Wholesale Electricity Markets

Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Prompted in part by these policies, New York’s electric transmission grid operator (the “New York Independent System Operator” or “NYISO”) recently commenced a review to assess possible means of incorporating the cost of carbon emissions into wholesale electricity market prices.

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Testimony before the United States House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce 2021 Texas Grid Failure

Environmental Progress

APRIL 20, 2021

ERCOT also expected, during peak demand events in winter, to have power from wind represent about 27% of installed wind capacity. In its most severe appraisal of the loss of wind capacity, ERCOT expected 8% of wind power compared to capacity. 49 (2015): 15060-15065; DOI:10.1073/pnas.1510028112

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Nuclear Plant Closures And Renewables Increase Electricity Prices & Unreliability, Testifies Michael Shellenberger to U.S. Senate

Environmental Progress

MARCH 11, 2021

19] France spends just over half as much per kilowatt-hour for electricity that produces one-tenth of the carbon emissions of German electricity. [20] As a result, 1,280 people died from cold from unaffordable electrical power, researchers calculate, between 2011 and 2014. [24] trillion. [25] 18] Michael Greenstone et al.,

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In the Race for Clean Energy, the United States is Both a Leader and a Laggard—Here’s How

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 27, 2024

The new global record in the generation of renewable energy was powered primarily by solar and wind. Solar power has been the fastest growing source of electricity in the world for 19 years in a row according to Ember’s Global Electricity Review 2024. More on that shortly. But first, the undeniably good news.

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

Boosting Michigan’s Energy Future with Regional Transmission Upgrades

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Building a Better Power Grid for Minnesota

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UCS Expert Testifies on the New Clean Electricity Tax Credits

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

Five Factors are Driving Offshore Wind

Ontario could easily phase out polluting fossil gas – if it wanted to

Carbon-neutral ports push

Pittsburgh Water & Sewer Authority To Buy More Wind Energy From Western PA Energy Consortium

Analysis: Bolstering Southeast Asia’s clean energy transition

Analysis: Is hydrogen the new oil?

Gov. Shapiro Announces Commitment To Get 50% Of Electricity For State Government From Solar Energy Facilities In Pennsylvania

Analysis: Can Inner Mongolia reach peak carbon this decade?

Analysis: Could electric vehicles feed China’s grid?

Ask a Scientist: The US Has to Do More to Meet Its Carbon Emissions Reduction Goals

Another RGGI Raid? New York State Senate Proposes Pulling $138 million from the RGGI Fund

How Much Land Would it Require to Get Most of Our Electricity from Wind and Solar?

Analysis: Coal returns to the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor

New York State Environmental Regulator Issues Draft Plan to Achieve GHG Emissions-Reduction Goals

New Sabin Center Report Finds NYISO Could Price Carbon in Wholesale Electricity Markets

Testimony before the United States House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce 2021 Texas Grid Failure

Nuclear Plant Closures And Renewables Increase Electricity Prices & Unreliability, Testifies Michael Shellenberger to U.S. Senate

In the Race for Clean Energy, the United States is Both a Leader and a Laggard—Here’s How

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