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I am grateful to have met and learned from people who experience on a daily basis the devastation wrought by fossilfuel production and fossilfuel-driven climate change—and who are now campaigning for a fossil-free Niger Delta.
In response, Multnomah County, which includes Portland, filed a lawsuit for over $51 billion against major fossilfuel entities–one of the largest claims for a climate case to date. and nearly 100 globally that seek compensation from fossilfuel companies for disinformation and/or climate impacts.
After the hottest summer on record, the world continues to witness extreme weather fueled by the burning of fossilfuels. We need to stop burning fossilfuels immediately. Thankfully, we are in the midst of a much-needed transition away from fossilfuels and towards a future powered by more renewables.
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. One of 2024s new crop.
It’s not just the poor air quality, long lines, and excessive fossilfuel company representation ; nations are still too far apart in their positions on a fossilfuel phaseout, the top priority for this COP. Yet global fossilfuel production and use continue to expand. Particulate matter (PM2.5)
This year has brought new evidence of what major fossilfuel companies knew and when about the role their products play in climate change, as well as what they did in spite of what they knew. The House Oversight Committee investigation came to the same conclusion as the 2022 study: Accusations of greenwashing appear well-founded.
A transition to renewableenergy 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.
Yet, driven by vested interests in the fossilfuel industry , misleading narratives aim to distort and hinder meaningful climate commitments. Fossilfuels are the problem It’s pretty simple: the burning of fossilfuels is the main driver of climate change. billion tons of the 40.5
So in a sense, these are old technologies — about the same age as the very first internal combustion engines. But the scientific and technological advances that made these technologies competitive with fossilfuels are much more recent. Persian experts were sent by Genghis Khan to establish the technology in China.
The same scenario has played out with the power plants that use fossilfuels, predominantly methane (“natural”) gas, delivered by pipelines. At the same time, extreme weather events are becoming more common as more fossilfuel is burned and carbon is released into the air. It’s a vicious feedback loop. Can we fix this?
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.
Renewable projects can experience delays due to the country’s antiquated (and slow) system of connecting to the grid, as well as other reasons like permitting and transmission constraints. And fossilfuel power plants may not stick to their retirement schedules for a variety of reasons. A bit more on those reasons later.
Minnesotans are facing concurrent crises of climate change, high energy prices and inflation, and the inequitable public health impacts of fossilfuel air pollution. Renewableenergy will help with all of that—but we need a grid that is designed for wind and solar instead of having to rely on expensive coal and gas plants.
Nearly all of the alliance members have a renewable electricity standard (RES), which requires utilities in their jurisdiction to increase their use of renewableenergy to a particular percentage by a specific year. We found that states have technically feasible and highly beneficial ways to achieve 100-percent renewableenergy.
Union of Concerned Scientists’ (UCS) research shows that top fossilfuel producers’ emissions are responsible for as much as half of global surface temperature increase. The best solution: Replace fossilfuels with renewableenergy. The transition to 100-percent renewables is possible.
Collaborative Optimism The upcoming political landscape in the United States may seem like a setback for global climate action, but the momentum for climate action and energy transition remains unstoppable. This progress will continue to outpace any efforts to sustain outdated and inefficient fossilfuel systems.
Earlier this month at COP28 countries committed to transitioning off of fossilfuels and massively scaling up renewableenergy instead. So you’re excused if, like me, you’re baffled by Minister Freeland’s first move in the wake of COP28: a giant new fossilfuel subsidy, via the new Canada Growth Fund.
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 renewableenergytechnologies dramatically decreasing in price and increasing in availability.
There’s good news in the recently released official data on electricity generation in the United States in 2022: renewableenergy has continued to grow, coal power has continued to drop, and renewables are now firmly ahead of coal for the first time ever. They offer a lot of good news about clean energy progress.
By Matthew Carroll, Penn State News Moving from fossilfuels to renewableenergy sources like wind and solar will require better ways to store energy for use when the sun is not shining or the wind is not blowing. over the existing technology.
In a new report , the International Energy Agency is calling for an immediate end to new investments in fossilfuel supply projects such as pipelines, the rapid adoption of renewableenergy such as solar and wind power, and a large-scale research and development program to develop future technologies, including advanced batteries, producing energy (..)
The legislation committed nearly $400 billion to support, among other things, wind and solar power, battery storage, electric vehicles, and other clean energytechnologies that will make a significant dent in US heat-trapping emissions. It also will save US consumers money because they will spend less on fossilfuels.
Or in more technical terms: “Multiple junctions — or boundaries between layers of semiconducting materials — allow solar cells to break through the Shockley–Queisser limit, a theoretical limit which prevents single-junction cells from absorbing more than 30% of the solar energy that shines on them.” But it does make other things easier.
Wind is now the largest source of renewableenergy in the country. And US wind jobs, currently totaling more than 100,000, should grow right along with the technology and the market. From 2010 through 2020, the cost of electricity from wind fell more than 60 percent, according to the Department of Energy. J Rogers/UCS.
New analysis from Environmental Defence reveals that despite federal government promises, funding to the fossilfuel and petrochemical industries remains high Ottawa | Traditional, unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg People – New analysis released today by Environmental Defence reveals Canada’s federal government provided at least $18.6
New research from the International RenewableEnergy Agency (IRENA) confirms renewables are continuing to outpace fossilfuels on cost. They found that the share of renewableenergy that achieved lower costs than the most competitive fossilfuel option doubled in 2020. C climate pathway.
In fact, studies show that clean energy is a more affordable option than continuing to rely on fossilfuels. Ontario can meet its growing electricity needs with renewableenergy when combined with storage technologies that enable the energy to be used when needed.
A big shift to renewables could leave stranded assets — existing fossilfuel plants that the utility will no longer get paid for using. It looks likely that the Clean Energy Standard will have a stick in the form of a tax on utilities that feel to achieve annual increases in their use of renewableenergy.
On November 11, Energy Justice Advocates announced PECO has agreed to contract for 25 MW of solar energy as part of its default power procurement for electric customers from June 1, 2025 through May 31, 2029 as a result of a settlement recently approved by the Public Utility Commission. PECO serves nearly 1.7
The biggest takeaway : without robust new policies, US energy sector heat trapping emissions will continue to remain high, far off-track from where we need to be to meet our climate goals. Source: US Energy Information Administration, Annual Energy Outlook 2022 (AEO2022).
Investment and incentives for clean technologies under the Inflation Reduction Act. Energy efficiency standards for new appliances and lighting sources. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission rules bearing on electricity transmission E. FERC rules for wholesale markets that impact renewableenergy.
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This is different from long-term storage, which refers to the amount of time a system can store energy before discharging it. As large amounts of wind and solar resources are connected to the grid, long-duration energy storage could prevent curtailment of renewableenergy sources resources during periods of excess generation.
Paul Arbaje is an energy analyst in the Climate & Energy program at the Union of Concerned Scientists and an expert on electricity policies and reforms that reduce fossilfuel use and reliance. There are benefits to installing these clean appliances that go far beyond just contributing less to climate change.
A word about CCS : this technology has existed for decades but is only used at a handful of fossilenergy facilities. C to 2°C,” and, “Implementation of CCS currently faces technological, economic, institutional, ecological-environmental, and socio-cultural barriers.” Who needs units anyway?
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That means it includes the extreme wildfires exacerbated by the fossilfuel industry that burned more than 4% of California in 2021 and 2022. come from burning fossilfuels and pesticide use, and ultrafine particles (PM0.1) These particles are categorized by size. These particles are categorized by size.
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The majority 6–3 decision sharply curtails the EPA’s authority to set standards based on a broad range of flexible options to cut carbon emissions from the power sector—options such as replacing polluting fossilfuels with cheap and widely available wind and solar power coupled with battery storage.
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