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How Can We Protect the Environment and Thrive in 2025? We’ve Got a Plan!

Enviromental Defense

Attacks on nature, clean energy, and livable communities filled the headlines. The way we get around, where and what kind of places we live in, and how we heat and cool our homes are going to be key to our quality of life and the health of our environment this year. 2024 had some bumps in the road for environmental protection.

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Three Reasons Why Spring is a Great Time for Renewable Energy

Union of Concerned Scientists

More sun, wind and water means more power from the three largest sources of renewable electricity in the country. Between heating and cooling seasons Headlines about renewable energy records also highlight how much of electricity demand renewables are meeting at a given time.

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

Enviromental Defense

Ontario has a large potential supply of wind and solar energy that could be developed to help phase-out dirty gas plants. It estimated that we would need an additional 843 MW of solar and an additional 4,545 MW of wind capacity (along with a basket of other sources) to ensure the province’s energy needs are met. .

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Tornadoes and More: What Spring Can Bring to the Power Grid 

Union of Concerned Scientists

However, much of the attention paid to the flood risk of power plant sites has centered on nuclear plants, which also require a water source for the creation of steam, as well as for keeping the plant cool in an emergency.

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A Handy New Chart Shows Clean Energy’s Remarkable Progress

Union of Concerned Scientists

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 clean energy production is looking more impressive than ever.

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EU’s carbon price surging towards an all-time high

A Greener Life

Forecasts of cool weather and expectations of lower wind power 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.

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Still Running Against the Wind … or With It

Acoel

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 clean energy to the grid. I wrote an upbeat blog about these developments last June.