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. It also will save US consumers money because they will spend less on fossil fuels.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 3, 2023

Illinois’ Climate and Equitable Jobs Act (CEJA) sets a bold goal for the state—no carbon pollution from electricity generation by 2045, which means zero global warming emissions from coal- and gas-fired power plants. PowerGEM , an independent consulting firm, conducted the analysis for us, using the same data and process PJM uses.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 12, 2024

In 2022, the Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO)the entity that runs the electric grid for much of the Midwestrolled out a portfolio of transmission upgrades known as Tranche 1 of its Long Range Transmission Planning initiative (see here for a summary of Tranche 1 and state-specific run-downs for Illinois and Michigan ).

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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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Legal Planet

APRIL 29, 2024

Wind power costs fell by half from 2008 to 2021. The Department of Energy estimates the cost of an electric vehicle lithium-ion battery pack declined 89% between 2008 and 2022. Different batteries may be ideal in settings where charging speed is not a factor, such as utility-scale electricity storage.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The country recently announced that its Egyptian New and Renewable Energy Authority and the Egyptian Electricity Transmission Company have approved a major wind power project, developed by a company based in a country hostile to phasing out fossil fuels; Saudi Arabia. GW of wind power installed, the 1.1

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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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Edouard Stenger

JUNE 20, 2023

During the month of May, solar and wind power generated more electricity (30.6%) than fossil fuels (27.3%) in the European Union for the first time in history. In the meantime, fossil fuels went from 40-50 percent to less than 30 percent. Now here is the latest piece of evidence, from Ember.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 6, 2022

Besides the kilowatt-hours it generates, Glen Canyon provides key services to the electric grid. The country’s second largest reservoir and a lynchpin in the intermountain electric grid, Powell is more dirt than water these days. Hydropower generation will likely shut down when Lake Powell’s elevation drops below 3,490 feet.

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Legal Planet

JULY 15, 2024

The first efforts to use of wind to generate electricity was 134 years ago, and the photoelectric effect was discovered six decades earlier. But the scientific and technological advances that made these technologies competitive with fossil fuels are much more recent. Wind reaches 10% of U.S. generation. PV is 4.7%

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 16, 2022

The Department of Energy’s Energy Information Administration (EIA) is one of the go-to sources for reliable information about the US power sector. They just released their 2022 “Annual Energy Outlook” (AEO), which is a big deal: it tells us where electricity is headed over the next 30 years. Carbon emissions remain high.

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 11, 2023

Fuel transport – Spring floods can hinder the transportation of fuels like coal. While it is a heavily polluting fossil fuel that is set to continue declining as a fuel source for US electricity generation over the next decade, coal still accounted for roughly 20 percent of the country’s generation in 2022.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 5, 2024

Demand for electricity was high, but there was not enough gas available to keep all the gas-fired power plants running. Meanwhile, the power plants that burned oil had only a few days’ worth of fuel left in their tanks. To put it more simply: in New England, low temperatures and strong winds tend to travel together.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 30, 2023

And I love hearing about new renewable electricity records as spring unfolds. That same month, New England recorded its lowest demand ever for electricity from the regional grid, which the grid operator attributed to record rooftop solar production. Spring tends to be a time when there is lower electricity demand.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 3, 2024

In a new report , the Sabin Center identifies and examines 33 of the most pervasive false claims about solar energy, wind energy, and electric vehicles, with the aim of promoting a more informed discussion. jobs ( it does not ).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Now that I have reached the extent of my white-water rafting knowledge, here is a recap of our very productive session: Electric vehicle directionality stalled but will return UCS co-sponsored Senator Nancy Skinner’s Senate Bill 233 (SB 233) which would have required all electric vehicles to be bidirectional by 2030.

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

It will produce enough electricity equivalent to 600,000 Danish households. . To understand the scale of the wind farm, it covers an area of 132 km2 2 and about 170 kilometres of underwater cables have been laid. A significant increase in wind power capacity.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 4, 2022

A series of wind power projects in Romania is set to increase the country’s wind power capacity significantly. The three confirmed projects will increase Romania’s wind power capacity by 609 megawatts (MW). Several other wind power projects are in the planning stage, but none have yet been confirmed.

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

This is a signal not only of the country’s unhealthy reliance on fossil fuels but also a failure to move away from gas in a way that other countries have done successfully. In addition, they should rapidly phase out gas for electricity, but of course only if the electricity is produced by nuclear or renewable energy.

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Law and Environment

MAY 4, 2023

SMR is a high-carbon process that uses fossil fuels for process heat. They typically refer to fossil SMR hydrogen as “ grey ” hydrogen. The gold standard—so-called “ green ” hydrogen—is hydrogen produced via electrolysis using renewable electricity from wind or solar. How is clean hydrogen produced?

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 30, 2022

Ten out of its 140 wind turbines have already started to generate electricity for the grid. . gigawatt (GW) wind farm, Hollandse Kust Zuid, which is scheduled for completion next year. The flagship wind farm made headlines as the operator, Swedens’s Vattenfall in 2018 won the concession to build it without government subsidy.

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Environmental News Bits

JUNE 4, 2024

Electricity from renewable sources dropped even as Illinois and surrounding Midwest states pushed to replace fossil fuels, such as coal and natural gas, with wind and solar power. Illinois’ march toward all-green energy hit a bump last year.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Higher prices for oil, natural gas, coal, and electricity are all pushing up inflation across the economy, dampening consumer demand, canceling out wage gains, and compounding the burdens facing working families and the poor as they seek to recover from the pandemic. The Capacity Story.

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Edouard Stenger

JULY 25, 2023

Not so long ago solar photovoltaic and wind power were just accounting for less than ten percent of the global electricity production. Indeed, according to new research by the Rocky Mountain Institute, these two energy sources will account for a third of global electricity generation by the end of the decade.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 6, 2023

Hydrogen’s supply-side has been buttressed by incentives from state and federal governments, refineries and utilities looking to extend the life of fossil fuel infrastructure, and renewable energy companies seeking to take advantage of the huge amounts of clean energy needed to produce green hydrogen.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Today, the fossil fuel industry is aggressively promoting a liquefied natural gas facility near Philadelphia, explicitly targeting the most overburdened and underrepresented communities in the area so that they can export more gas overseas. Million Settlement Over 2019 South Philly Refinery Explosion, Fire -- AP: EPA Reaches $4.2

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Edouard Stenger

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

First off, some facts and figures from Ember, which recently stated that both fossil fuels generation and CO2 emissions from the European electricity sector fell 19 percent last year alone. Renewables now account for 44% of the EU electricity mix and wind power is now producing more electricity than natural gas.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 31, 2023

The name is a misleading and cunning rebrand of fossil gas by the oil and gas industry. Fossil gas, which is used for heating, electricity, and industrial processes, is responsible for one third of Ontario’s greenhouse gas emissions and is harmful to human health. It’s not natural, safe, or clean. It’s a win-win.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

In discussing the late December winter storm that nearly led to rolling blackouts in the MidAtlantic region of 65 million people, Yaw suggested that increasing amounts of renewable energy were to blame for the near-miss and condemned neighboring states for adopting policies that “emphasize solar and wind power over natural gas.”

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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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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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Cresforum

JANUARY 16, 2024

Increased electrification in both the industrialized and the developing world is projected to help meet emissions reduction goals, and nuclear power could provide much of the future needs for electricity. electricity generation, nuclear power produces more than half of the nation’s emissions-free electricity.

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A Greener Life

MAY 23, 2024

Two-way charging could give vehicles like these the potential to stabilise power supplies by discharging stored electricity back to the grid. Across 30 minutes, 50 electric vehicles (EVs) discharged almost one megawatt-hour into the grid – enough electricity to meet the needs of 133 households for a day.

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Edouard Stenger

MAY 2, 2023

King Coal is still the first source of electricity , but this will be very temporary as wealthy nations are ditching it as fast as they can to the benefit or wind and solar. I wrote about it before, both solar photovoltaic and wind power are on exponential curves. These are good news for our climate and our common future.

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Environmental News Bits

JUNE 7, 2024

Wind power is a source of energy that is both affordable and renewable. However, decision-makers have been reluctant to invest in wind energy due to a perception that wind farms require a lot of land compared to electric power plants driven by fossil fuels.

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Edouard Stenger

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Not anymore as the IEA now states that global renewable power capacity growth is set to double over the next five years. In other words, between now and 2027, we will collectively install as much wind power and solar pv capacity than we did in the past twenty years, or 2,400 GW.

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