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. One thing you’ll notice is the importance of government-funded research and deployment incentives in helping to launch the solar and wind sectors. Wind reaches 10% of U.S.

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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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Legal Planet

MARCH 30, 2023

I sometimes ask students to guess what state produces the most wind power. Republicans have an iron grip on Texas government. It’s not as if the state’s extensive use of wind power is just a historical fluke, either. The state will soon get more power from renewables than natural gas.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 12, 2023

What happens when promise of electricity reliability fails in bad weather? How can gas power plant owners claim to be reliable but fail to make adequate efforts to purchase fuel? We know that consumers pay for electricity reliability and bear the cost when supplies are tight.

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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. Click Here to learn more about Gov. Shapiro’s Energy/Climate Plan.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 9, 2025

Solar and wind energy has become much cheaper and solar is now the cheapest source of electricity on the planet. We will continue to push for government policy that reigns in sprawl and focuses growth inside of towns and cities. should be easier for us than other countries.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 30, 2023

By Anders Lorenzen Data from its national grid operator, the National Grid , have concluded that 2022 was a record year for wind power in the UK. The data shows that the output of UK wind farms onshore and offshore continues to increase; in 2022 they produced a record 26.8% million homes. the previous year.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 22, 2022

We all know that to successfully address climate change 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. Take Action: Tell Ontario to phase out polluting gas power.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

On 15 October, the port in Shandong was certified as carbon-neutral by the China Classification Society Quality Certification Company, according to a government statement. Weifang Port’s “zero-carbon” certification was primarily achieved by transitioning away from fossil fuel use, according to China Electric Power News (CEPN).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 22, 2022

When the sun isn’t shining or the wind isn’t blowing, batteries help store clean energy to continue supplying electricity to the grid and to customers consistently and reliably. Energy from the sun and wind never runs out and is used again and again. Batteries are key to enabling the renewable energy transition. Manufacturing.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 6, 2023

The self-governing PJM stakeholders put this in place after so many supposedly “firm” generators failed to perform in 2014. Along with the cold it brought, Winter Storm Elliott included prodigious winds and the windfarms in the PJM region did what they were built to do: make energy.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Statement by Keith Brooks, Programs Director Toronto | Traditional territories of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishinaabeg, the Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat – We are very happy to see the Independent Electricity System Operator’s (IESO) proposal to procure 5,000 megawatts (MW) of non-emitting renewable electricity in the coming years.

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

It is prompted in large part by low gas storage capacity, the COVID-19 pandemic, a power plant coming offline and low wind speeds responsible for a downturn in wind power output. Despite the government`s big talk on climate action , the country has hardly made a dent in easing its reliance on gas in recent years.

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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.

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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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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Ontario recently re-contracted four gas-fired power plants to generate electricity for the province and appears poised to contract more in the near future. . Take Action: Tell Ontario To Stop Using Fossil Gas Power. Yes, Ontario needs new electricity generation. But there are loopholes.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

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. The company sells electric motorbikes in Danang, Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City and is exploring the reuse of electric batteries and how to power its factory with green energy.

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A Greener Life

JULY 19, 2023

An offshore wind farm in Europe. Colombia’s Caribbean coast has great potential for offshore wind power projects but is also home to protected areas of ecological importance. In 2021 alone, the global installed capacity of offshore wind plants tripled, reaching record figures, as 21.1 Photo credit: Tho Ge / Pixabay.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 9, 2021

In Canada, the federal government is pledging more money to provide clean water to Indigenous peoples. The Canadian government had pledged to resolve all boil-water advisories on First Nations reserves by March, but it did not meet that deadline. Some reserves have endured decades of having to boil their water before using it.

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 17, 2024

What we can’t have, if you’ll allow me to stretch the metaphor, is a chef in the provincial government kitchen, who refuses to bake the cake in the first place. Solar panels and wind turbines produce electricity much more cheaply than gas turbines, coal plants and oil burners. Shifting that $4.8 What can we do?

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The revised 2030 energy and climate plan, unveiled by the government, targets the expansion of wind and solar power. The Mediterranean country aims for renewables to account for an 82% share of electricity production by 2030. The previous plan released in 2019 had set out only a 66% share.

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Energy and Climate Law

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

By Ceciel Nieuwenhout, Postdoctoral researcher at GCELS and City Council member for GroenLinks On 17 March 2021 the people of the Netherlands will elect a new House of Representatives ( Tweede Kamer) , which also kickstarts the formation process for a new government ( regering). This blog consists of three parts.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 31, 2023

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. These new gas plant projects are part of the province’s plan to expand the use of fossil gas to generate electricity for the province, but it comes at a high cost.

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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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A Greener Life

JUNE 18, 2024

Some argue that their system of direct democracy with frequent referendums is one of the most democratic models of government. The government had grown concerned that as the demand for electricity in Switzerland was increasing, supply was not. The government wanted more emphasis on producing more home-grown clean energy.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Australia has become the latest country to jump on the wave of offshore wind development. Analysts expect the country could soon see a big boom in offshore wind. Australia’s new pro-climate action government has meant an acceleration in clean energy interest and capacity.

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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

JANUARY 25, 2024

This has been the biggest difference, with the cost of net zero a recurring theme – despite the fact that well-insulated homes will save households money, and onshore wind power is the cheapest form of electricity. As Carbon Brief notes, opinion pieces calling for the scrapping of green policies peaked in September last year.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 12, 2022

“ One component of wind turbines that I haven’t explored yet are the small but mighty rare earth elements. Rare earth elements, or REEs, are important parts of a wind turbine’s permanent magnets , located in the center of the blades in the electrical box (called the nacelle). Workers in a mine shaft in Bawsaing, Myanmar.

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Edouard Stenger

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

GW of wind capacity in September 2016, which produced 21 TWh in 2015. Wind power currently employs a little less than 15,000 people. It has been producing from nine to 14 percent of the country’s electricity for the past few years. The target capacity for 2018 is of 15 GW. click to enlarge. TWh in 2015.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 11, 2024

These ordinances were adopted despite a state law that prohibits local governments from placing restrictions on wind or solar facilities unless those restrictions: (a) protect health or safety; (b) do not significantly increase the cost or decrease efficiency; or (c) allow for an alternative system of comparable cost and efficiency.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 7, 2022

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (left) visits a hybrid power plant where “green” hydrogen is made using wind power and fed into the gas grid. It plays a smaller role in electricity generation yet has been called the bridge fuel to the age of renewables – a flexible power source needed to complement variable wind and solar power.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 7, 2023

By Anders Lorenzen Tenders for 250 gigawatts (GW) of clean energy by 2028 are set to be unveiled by the Indian government, according to a government memo. Wind power is set to play a key part in the target of 50 GW of new green energy tenders each year at 10 GW. Photo credit: Reuters / Amit Dave. in 2019 to 72.8%

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A Greener Life

JUNE 6, 2021

In addition, the German government has pledged nine billion euros for the development of a green hydrogen economy prompted by forecasts suggesting that hydrogen in Europe could create 5.4 The operations were terminated after the power plant won a bid in the auction for the nationwide coal phase-out in December 2020.

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Environmental Progress

APRIL 20, 2021

Some have argued that weather-dependent energies would, paradoxically, make electricity even more reliable. 1] But recent power outages in Texas and California have poured cold water on these arguments. 1] But recent power outages in Texas and California have poured cold water on these arguments. But all else is not equal.

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A Greener Life

JULY 23, 2021

Japan, a long-time supporter of nuclear power, now has serious hydrogen ambitions. The 2020 Tokyo Olympics will be powered by hydrogen. Hydrogen may have lost the race to fuel electric cars but it looks a likely contender to replace fossil fuels in trucks, ships, planes and heavy industry. photo credit: Kim Kyung-Hoon / Alamy.

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Ocean Conservancy

AUGUST 23, 2023

Tidal energy is emerging as another clean energy source alongside offshore wind farms and wave energy technology. Ocean tides are governed by the regular rises and falls of the Earth’s ocean waters caused by the gravitational forces between Earth, the moon and the sun. What is tidal energy? Predictability. Consistency.

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