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The end of every year is a great time for taking stock of what the year has broughtincluding in terms of cleanenergy in the power sector. As it turns out, 2024 has provided a whole lot of cleanenergy progress as fodder for that stock-taking.
We at the Union of Concerned Scientists think a lot about windpower. In honor of Global Wind Day , here’s a roundup of what we’re seeing and what we’ve been thinking—five facts about windenergy to keep in mind as you celebrate, or at least make note, on June 15. Windpower is big, and getting bigger.
As the year kicks off with a very cold January weather forecast, US power grid operators and the regulators who oversee them are paying close attention to ensure that the grid failures of several past extreme winter storms dont happen again. Ratepayers in MISO South could use that more affordable power but cannot currently access it.
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 cleanenergy progress. Renewables up, coal down More renewable energy is desirable for a lot of reasons.
Last year, Congress passed the most ambitious climate bill ever enacted, the Inflation Reduction Act. The legislation committed nearly $400 billion to support, among other things, wind and solar power, battery storage, electric vehicles, and other cleanenergy technologies that will make a significant dent in US heat-trapping emissions.
The bad news is that we’re not yet on track to avoid dangerous climatechange. climate policy. Climate policy has been boosted by dramatic changes in the economics of cleanenergy. Windpower costs fell by half from 2008 to 2021. Neither should we wallow in despair.
Minnesotans are facing concurrent crises of climatechange, high energy prices and inflation, and the inequitable public health impacts of fossil fuel air pollution. 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 projections show that without additional policies or incentives, the US is very much in danger of not meeting our climate goals. We’re risking more impacts from climatechange due to continued reliance on natural gas and oil. Renewable energy generation increases faster than any other technology.
The combination of offshore wind turbines, floating solar panels and green hydrogen are some of the hybrid cleanenergy 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 cleanenergy infrastructure.
To help avoid the worst possible consequences of climatechange, however, the alliance states need to reach that 100-percent objective much more quickly. What job opportunities would this cleanenergy transition create? EN: Energy prices have gone up dramatically in the last year.
With the cleanenergy transition already under way, the US electricity mix is set to continue changing this year. Solar power is expected to make up about half of all additions of US electric generating capacity in 2023, according to data from the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). micrometers or less.
Gavin Newsom Can Learn from China’s Response to ClimateChange.” Yes, the governor was the talk of the town at NY Climate Week where he announced several big California climate initiatives. China is also a world leader on offshore windenergy production, an area Newsom has sought to emphasize in California.
Solar capacity grew by almost 17 percent, while wind capacity finished the year more than 6 percent higher than in 2021. How climatechange plays a role One of the reasons to be so excited about tangible renewables progress is its implications for addressing climatechange.
The public was thankfully not harmed by the Nebraska incident, but this was unfortunately not an isolated incident in terms of flood risks posed to the US nuclear power fleet. Spring in a warming world means a broadened focus The link between climatechange and tornado activity is an active area of research.
To avoid the worst impacts of the climate crisis, it’s crucial that we shift energy production away from the unsustainable fossil fuels that cause climatechange and towards those that release little to no greenhouse gases (GHG), such as solar and windpower. Cleanenergy is key to national security.
Whatever the weather in March and beyond—in-like-a-lion blustery or out-like-a-lamb sunny—spring tends to be a season of strong electricity production from solar and wind in particular. And, this spring, that cleanenergy production is looking more impressive than ever.
In the past 14 years much has happened in the space of climatechange as well as the advancement of cleanenergy , but it has also become clear how hard it is to say goodbye to fossil fuels. These are symbolic and cultural attachments as much as it is the challenge of putting a proper energy transition in place.
When the Paris Agreement was celebrated in 2015, no one was talking about hydrogen as a climate solution, the idea of net-zero targets had not been invented yet, and offshore windpower was mainly a European venture. These might not be perfect, but they’re at least starting to make plans for a non-fossil-fuel industry world.
Many of these false claims center on three categories of impacts commonly attributed to renewable energy development: impacts to the environment, impacts to human health, and impacts to the economy. jobs ( it does not ).
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.
Clean renewable electricity – such as wind and solar power – is the lowest cost source of new electricity supply. Clean electricity is absolutely integral to efforts to decarbonize the economy and fight climatechange. And it is a competitive advantage for the province.
Introduction One of the main messages coming out of the recent COP28 meetings in the UAE concerns the role that nuclear power can play in the future of cleanenergy development around the world. The hope is that this encourages international financial institutions to include nuclear energy in loans for energy projects.
As people around the world grapple with climatechange, scientists and engineers are exploring new and exciting ocean-based solutions to generate renewable energy. Tidal energy is emerging as another cleanenergy source alongside offshore wind farms and wave energy technology. Durability.
With my zoom on full extension, I took this photo of a wind turbine (some assembly required!) en route to the Vineyard Wind site. This has become a familiar sight, and on January 2 , the first of the planned 62 turbines began delivering cleanenergy to the grid. I wrote an upbeat blog about these developments last June.
20, 2021, the New York State Climate Action Council (Council) voted unanimously to approve the most recent draft of the scoping plan, a roadmap to achieve compliance with the state’s landmark climate law, the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA).
In those two briefs, CARI argued that the motions for preliminary relief should be denied because impeding construction of the renewable energy facilities necessary to stop climatechange, such as the Revolution Wind project, would not serve the public interest.
In the Unites States’ march to transition to cleanenergy and reduce greenhouse gasses, resilience may be the most important word to summarize 2021. Nine months after the pandemic first upended lives and the economy, the market fundamentals for cleanenergy looked unstoppable. percent and energy use rebounded by only 4.3
While solar PV and windpower are grabbing headlines, another cleanenergy revolution is silently taking place. Capturing and putting to good use these methane emissions from our many waste streams could limit climatechange drastically.
Offshore wind turbines also have a relatively small footprint and are able to use much larger turbines than land-based projects. Of course, to deliver all this cleanenergy from wind-rich regions in the Midwest and Plains states to major load centers in the East will also require a lot of additional transmission lines.
Win with Wind members are residents of the South Fork of Long Island who are currently working to advocate for the proposed South Fork Wind Farm, which they see as an opportunity to place their community at the forefront of cleanenergy leadership.
Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for ClimateChange Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. Climate Litigation Chart (Update #92): FEATURED CASE. Climate Litigation Chart (Update #92): FEATURED CASE.
Pointing to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees’ definition of climate refugees as “persons displaced in the context of disasters and climatechange,” he noted that the housing crisis was terrible before, but has worsened with the increase of local climate refugees.
A proposed offshore wind procurement bill in Maine would go a long way to enable the state to meet its climate and cleanenergy targets and become a national leader in floating offshore wind technology. NREL and DNV expect floating offshore wind costs to dip to $60 to $80/MWh by 2030 and $45 to $50/MWh by 2035.
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 windpower compared to capacity. We can see the same impact of variable energies in Germany.
We all know that to successfully address climatechange we need to phase out fossil fuels and switch to electric power. A s we transition our homes and vehicles to electric power, it’s imperative that the electricity sector be clean. The costs of wind and solar power have been dropping like a stone.
The reality, however, is that climate action and affordability go hand in hand. We really can have our cake and eat it too when it comes to addressing climatechange and affordability. As we move away from polluting fossil fuels, investing in renewable energy is key to a cleaner and more affordable future.
Attacks on nature, cleanenergy, and livable communities filled the headlines. Building a CleanEnergy future Nearly 85% of Canadas electricity comes from non-carbon polluting sources. The rapidly falling prices and greater efficiencies of solar and windpower should make the switching and growth even easier.
Yet Mainers are questioning whether to accept a new 145-mile electric transmission line that will bring hydropower from Quebec into the New England power grid, removing 3.0 Million tons of regional CO2 per year, and providing energy cost savings to Mainers ($40 million per year in savings) and others in New England. What gives?
According to the science, over the next 7 years we must focus on reducing emissions of heat-trapping gases significantly to halve emissions by 2030 and avoid the worst impacts of climatechange. Is climatechange a priority for our New England Governors? We’re bringing offshore wind to East Providence. Connecticut.
The energy transition demands a rapid build-out of utility scale renewable energy generation, which in turn demands the rapid build-out of transmission lines to carry the cleanenergy to consumers.
Exus chose to repower the facility thanks to the cleanenergy plan’s 30% production tax credits for American windpower. Click Here to learn about more investments in cleanenergy in Pennsylvania. billion in new cleanenergy investments in Pennsylvania supporting 2,881 new jobs. Read more here.
Forecasts of cool weather and expectations of lower windpower output had driven up demand for more fossil-fuel produced energy. The EU’s emissions trading system forces manufacturers, power companies and airlines, to pay for each tonne of CO2 they emit, in an effort to reduce emissions and to meet climate targets.
I sometimes ask students to guess what state produces the most windpower. And not just that, but Texas is by far the biggest producer of oil, with a governor who has pledged to protect the industry from climate regulation at all cost. Which seems a little hard to square with the state’s reliance on renewable energy.
When the sun isn’t shining or the wind isn’t blowing, batteries help store cleanenergy to continue supplying electricity to the grid and to customers consistently and reliably. By contrast, nearly every part of a renewable energy grid can be circular. How are Lithium-ion Batteries that Store Solar and WindPower Made?
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