Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Additionally, long-term energy plans consider how utilities will operate their existing power generating facilities and what type of new facilities they might build and when. DTE was already far along in preparing its long-term energy plan when the law passed. DTE also would install nearly 2,000 MW of battery resources by 2042.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Achieving climate goals requires significant investments in clean energy, transportation, and other climate technologies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and remove carbon from the atmosphere. The report develops thematic policy recommendations for local project planners to employ these tools to realize equitable outcomes.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 13, 2022

I was invited to speak at a panel discussion last Wednesday as part of The Economist ’s annual Sustainability Week, titled “What technologies are needed to avert a climate disaster?” True to the theme, I was asked about which technological innovations would be necessary to save our planet. And yet, we aren’t.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Codifying a floor for renewables in state law is helpful, but clean energy advocates must keep pushing utilities to move more quickly to incorporate higher levels of renewables not only to cut emissions faster, but also because renewables are the most cost-effective resources for ratepayers. What Still Needs to be Done?

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 10, 2025

And how can we provide job opportunities for the tremendously skilled workers in traditional energy domains while also training the workers we need to accelerate emerging technologies? In fact, pursuing more climate-forward energy policies can be an opportunity to do right by our neighbors working in Pennsylvanias oil and gas fields.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 22, 2024

When it comes to the transition to clean energy, 2023 was quite a year for progress: record-breaking amounts of solar installed in the United States, a solid drop in carbon emissions from the US power sector, more than one million electric vehicles sold in the country for the first time, “breakneck” growth in renewable energy globally, and more.

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Environment + Energy Leader

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Two prominent factors driving growth are increasing affordability of renewable energy as technologies continue to mature and the opportunity to demonstrate sustainability commitments as public and investor pressure mounts for climate action.

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Yale E360

JANUARY 27, 2023

Solar, wind, electric vehicles, and other clean energy technologies saw a record-high $1.1 trillion in investment globally last year, matching investment in fossil fuels for the first time ever, according to a new report from Bloomberg New Energy Finance. Read more on E360 →

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Since 2019, the Department of Energy’s ReCell Center has been researching effective and affordable battery recycling technology. The US government is also committed to bolstering domestic recycling.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

This demonstration of the connections between people and systems, and the need for collective solutions to complicated problems, came to mind when I read about an idea for a different real estate host technology: nuclear power plant owners seeking to bring large data centers to co-locate on their land. Modernize, or bypass, the grid?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Rethinking the role of innovative pilots is an exciting development, because most utilities have not yet fully supported, let alone adopted, the technologies needed to reduce emissions. Consumers Energy proposed $10 million. Utilities, meanwhile, are calling for a higher budget cap.

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Cresforum

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

A panel discussion at the 2023 National Clean Energy Week Policymakers Symposium explored how the United States can create a beneficial environment for scaling essential clean energy infrastructure. It’s hard to just innovate in and of itself, and it’s harder to innovate in the power or energy industry.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 19, 2025

The researchers proposed a new geothermal-assisted compressed-air energy storage system that makes use of depleted oil and gas wells the Environmental Protection Agency estimates there are around 3.9 over the existing technology. million in the United States and found it can improve efficiency by 9.5%

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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? Their report, however, comes with a warning.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

You don’t have to look beyond the front pages of newspapers , or beyond rooftops in your neighborhood to know that we are in the midst of a clean energy revolution, with renewable energy technologies dramatically decreasing in price and increasing in availability.

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New Scientist

MAY 28, 2024

Mining for minerals needed for wind turbines and other clean energy technologies has a high environmental cost, but some kinds of seaweed could offer an alternative source

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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

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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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 13, 2024

As electric vehicle charging stations sprout like mushrooms along our roads and clusters of new wind turbines come online, these two clean energy solutions to the climate crisis are becoming more commonplace. The United States needs to speed its transition to clean energy in order to stave off even worse impacts of climate change.

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Law and Environment

AUGUST 11, 2022

5060 ), titled An Act Driving Clean Energy and Offshore Wind, into law on Thursday August 11, 2022. Each electric distribution company will be directed to develop an electric-sector modernization plan to enable increased adoption of renewable energy and create a more reliable and resilient grid.

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Environmental Leader

JULY 30, 2021

Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded $127 million to small businesses working on clean energy technology, representing a total of 110 projects in 26 states. Funding is provided by DOE’s science and energy program offices, the Office of Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation, and the Office of Environmental Management.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

VY: Clean energy sources will be absolutely pivotal for an equitable and reliable grid. There’s a wide range of solutions, including integrating solar, wind and other renewable technologies; investing in new transmission; and reducing demand with efficiency measures.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Global spending on clean energy technologies and infrastructure is on track to hit $2 trillion in 2024. Much of this funding is slated to be put toward renewables, electric vehicles, low-emission fuels, storage solutions, nuclear power and other green technology. Read the full story at ESG Dive.

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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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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 23, 2024

SB 1420 , authored by Senator Anna Caballero, will streamline hydrogen production within California, as the state looks to this technology in our clean energy transition. This passage is another move toward protecting the health of disadvantaged frontline communities in California.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 30, 2023

Long-term storage can include seasonal energy storage, which can shift delivery of power to a different time of year. And, long-duration storage is particularly important for the power grid’s transformation to clean energy and what I’m focusing on here. Source: Department of Energy, Pathways to Commercial Liftoff.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 31, 2024

A Call for Cleanup, Climate Justice, Corporate Accountability, and a Fossil-Free Niger Delta During the conference, participants took to the streets from the Rivers State College of Health Science and Technology to launch the Fossil-Free Niger Delta Campaign.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The United States supports Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) partners in meeting their clean energy goals. By Leigh Hartman When Son Nguyen lived in the US, he saw rapidly advancing electric vehicle technology and heard stories from back in Vietnam about air pollution. © Zul Kifli / AFP / Getty Images.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 23, 2023

With the clean energy 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). I’ll start off with the good.

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New Scientist

JULY 23, 2024

Efficient solar panels have helped make solar power the cheapest form of energy on the planet, and new designs based on space-age technology are going further

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 8, 2024

By Anders Lorenzen The large US power utility, Southern California Edison (SCE), one of the largest utilities in the country is to buy geothermal energy from one of the most exciting new technologies to emerge, optimising the use of energy from below the surface of the Earth.

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Physics World

JANUARY 11, 2022

It is no longer whether hydrogen will be part of a sustainable energy system solution, but rather how large a role hydrogen will play in a clean, sustainable energy system for the planet. The post European hydrogen programs: from Hydrogen Manifesto to Clean Energy Act appeared first on Physics World.

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Cresforum

MARCH 22, 2024

The final panel of the 2023 National Clean Energy Week Policymakers Symposium discussed the role of both the private sector and government in advancing the innovation of clean energy technologies. Jim Cabot of Breakthrough Energy moderated a discussion with Dr. Evelyn N. Wang of the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Using an interactive online dashboard-- Renewables on the Rise 2024 -- documents the growth of six key clean energy technologies across the United States over the past decade and ranks states accordingly for solar power, wind power, battery storage, energy efficiency, electric vehicles and electric vehicle charging stations.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 19, 2022

A transition to 100 percent renewable energy is about more than just technology. I also find it fascinating to learn about bigger, more powerful wind turbines that better harness wind energy on land and in the ocean. by 2035 is needed. Similarly, communities now tied to fossil fuels need support in moving beyond that dependence.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 29, 2024

Climate policy has been boosted by dramatic changes in the economics of clean energy. I don’t mean to imply that technological progress will automatically fix things. Cheaper renewable energy attracts private investment and makes limits on fossil fuels more feasible. Wind power costs fell by half from 2008 to 2021.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 20, 2024

On July 18 and 19, RE+ Mid-Atlantic took place at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia, bringing together hundreds of clean energy industry leaders to enhance innovation and business opportunities in the region. MW of solar energy, enough solar panels to power 287,874 homes.

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