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Ask a Scientist: How Close Are We to a Clean Energy Transition?

Union of Concerned Scientists

What’s the latest on the transition to clean electricity? MS: There is a lot happening on that front, but I’d like to focus on energy storage. To decarbonize the power grid, we’re going to need tons of renewable energy from sources such as solar and wind. CWdL: Why is energy storage so exciting?

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2024 Year in Review: Clean Energy Progress Steeped in Solar and Storage

Union of Concerned Scientists

The end of every year is a great time for taking stock of what the year has broughtincluding in terms of clean energy in the power sector. As it turns out, 2024 has provided a whole lot of clean energy progress as fodder for that stock-taking. It added up to 24% of total electricity generation in 2024, compared with 23% in 2023.

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Five Reasons Renewable Energy Developers are Losing Confidence in Ontario

Enviromental Defense

Worldwide, renewable energy costs keep dropping – utility scale solar and wind significantly outcompetes both gas and nuclear energy on a cost basis. Giving Ontarios lowest tier municipalities inordinate responsibilities in approving renewable energy projects. million homes. million homes.

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A 100% Renewable Energy Future is Possible, and We Need It

Union of Concerned Scientists

A transition to renewable energy is not just one of the most consequential tools at our fingertips to act on climate, but also represents a great opportunity to increase control over our energy choices, improve the health of our communities and the planet, create jobs and wealth, and much more. by 2035 is needed.

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Renewable Energy: A Timeline

Legal Planet

The first efforts to use of wind to generate electricity was 134 years ago, and the photoelectric effect was discovered six decades earlier. So in a sense, these are old technologies — about the same age as the very first internal combustion engines. Persian experts were sent by Genghis Khan to establish the technology in China.

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PennEnvironment: Pennsylvania Ranks 48th In US For Renewable Energy Growth

PA Environment Daily

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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What’s Stalling the Transition to a Modern Electricity Grid?

Union of Concerned Scientists

Much of our electricity system is 50 to 70 years old, yet current plans for domestic manufacturing, electric vehicle fleets, community solar gardens and more clean energy all depend on a modern grid. New demands for electricity and the need to reduce climate-changing emissions are driving new grid planning efforts.