PA Environment Daily

JULY 2, 2025

This version of the bill removes a proposed tax on solar and wind and includes incentives for clean firm technologies like geothermal and advanced nuclear. Senate approved a reconciliation budget bill, sending it back to the US House of Representatives for final approval.

Renewable Energy

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 8, 2025

PJMs effort to continue our addiction to 19th century sources of energy that are dirty, dangerous, unreliable and expensive, instead of using safer, more reliable and more cost-effective 21st-century technologies such as solar and wind power and battery storage is appalling. Photos: Keystone and Conemaugh power plants.)

Clean Air Act

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 15, 2022

We at the Union of Concerned Scientists think a lot about wind power. In honor of Global Wind Day , here’s a roundup of what we’re seeing and what we’ve been thinking—five facts about wind energy to keep in mind as you celebrate, or at least make note, on June 15. Wind power is big, and getting bigger.

Wind Power

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 12, 2023

The same scenario has played out with the power plants that use fossil fuels, predominantly methane (“natural”) gas, delivered by pipelines. The electric power system is trapped by gas-dependent power plants that cannot obtain gas when it needs it to keep the lights on. It’s a vicious feedback loop.

Fossil Fuels

Yale E360

MAY 18, 2021

In a new report , the International Energy Agency is calling for an immediate end to new investments in fossil fuel supply projects such as pipelines, the rapid adoption of renewable energy such as solar and wind power, and a large-scale research and development program to develop future technologies, including advanced batteries, producing energy (..)

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 22, 2022

A 1 megawatt vanadium flow battery (a different technology from lithium-ion, but also used for energy storage) is in Pullman, Washington, built by UniEnergy Technologies and owned by Avista Utilities. Source: UniEnergy Technologies / Wikimedia Commons. Engineers develop energy storage battery technologies. Batteries.

Wind Power

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. Solar power increased the most among renewable electricity sources in percentage terms, up 24 percent. It supplied 10.5 percentage points).*

Clean Energy

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 22, 2022

Minnesotans are facing concurrent crises of climate change, high energy prices and inflation, and the inequitable public health impacts of fossil fuel air pollution. Renewable energy 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.

Renewable Energy

Legal Planet

APRIL 29, 2024

Wind power costs fell by half from 2008 to 2021. 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. Climate policy has been boosted by dramatic changes in the economics of clean energy.

Fossil Fuels

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. 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.

Renewable Energy

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 16, 2022

Renewable energy generation increases faster than any other technology. The good news : EIA is projecting that the share of renewables more than doubles to 44 percent of the US electricity generation mix by 2050, surpassing natural gas as the leading source of power.

Natural Gas

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 flagship wind farm made headlines as the operator, Swedens’s Vattenfall in 2018 won the concession to build it without government subsidy.

Clean Energy

A Greener Life

JANUARY 21, 2022

For the first time ever in the 27-year history of UN climate talks, at COP26 fossil fuels were mentioned in the final agreement. This shows that we are getting nearer to consigning the fossil fuel industry to history, even though there’s still a long way to go. Of those fossil fuels, coal will be the first to go.

Fossil Fuels

Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

In order to reduce emissions, we must phase out fossil fuels—oil, coal and gas—and move towards renewable energy and less plastic and petrochemical production since these products, so dangerous as ocean pollutants, are made from oil. Individual nations, like Vietnam, made new commitments as well.

Ocean

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. Now such a crisis has arisen again. What happened to energy efficiency? So far they have done little in pushing this forward.

Wind Power

A Greener Life

JULY 26, 2021

In order to make their portfolio more sustainable and respond to lower fossil fuel demand, oil majors are increasingly snapping up renewable energy projects as the pressure grows to take action on climate change. This has incentivized oil and gas majors such as BP, Equinor and Shell to invest in wind power generation.

Renewable Energy

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Generating and storing clean energy is a lifeline for the planet’s future; burning coal, oil, and gas fossil fuels causes 75% of greenhouse gas emissions. A fossil fuel energy grid extracts and expends finite resources. Energy from the sun and wind never runs out and is used again and again. Click to learn more!

Renewable Energy

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 22, 2024

And EIA projects the capacity of wind power, already the largest source of renewable electricity in the country, to grow 4.7 Solar and wind together will leap past coal With all that new generating capacity, wind turbines and solar panels will be producing appreciably more electricity than in years past.

Clean Energy

A Greener Life

JULY 23, 2021

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. The Tokyo Olympics will be powered by a fuel with ambition – hydrogen. By Fred Pearce.

Fossil Fuels

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. The costs of wind and solar power have been dropping like a stone.

Solar Power

Circle of Blue

AUGUST 9, 2021

Hydropower generation across California and the American West has declined in this extremely dry year, meaning that electricity providers will lean more heavily on natural gas, solar, and wind power. The process is a win-win for systems that can afford the upfront costs of these waste-to-energy technologies. About half of U.S.

Renewable Energy

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. Title II of H.R.

Nuclear Power

Edouard Stenger

MAY 2, 2023

I wrote about it before, both solar photovoltaic and wind power are on exponential curves. This is a welcome trend and I just wish solar thermal – which is much simpler from a technological standpoint – would see a tenth of its cousin’s growth. Even the IEA has stopped denying it.

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Edouard Stenger

MAY 30, 2023

PV Magazine published at the beginning of the year an article stating that fossil fuels already had peaked. ” A recent study by Ember Climate shows that King Coal is already on its way out as it is being replaced by solar and wind. Lithium ion technology is just one among many others. How fast is just up to us.

Wind Power

Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

To avoid the worst impacts of the climate crisis, it’s crucial that we shift energy production away from the unsustainable fossil fuels that cause climate change and towards those that release little to no greenhouse gases (GHG), such as solar and wind power. Clean energy is key to national security. degrees Celsius.

Clean Energy

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. When paired with existing long-term storage technologies, these renewable sources can provide electricity during peak times. It’s not natural, safe, or clean.

Electricity

A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

This week, the country moved forward with plans to construct its first offshore wind farms. In a draft plan, the government of Greece Identified areas for private development, with the long-term intention of lessening dependence on fossil fuels. Last year it generated more than 50% of power from onshore wind, solar and hydro.

Fossil Fuels

Frontiers

APRIL 24, 2023

In the case of climate change, there is unequal access to the knowledge, technology, and finances that would help to combat it. All of these require huge investments and new technologies and that’s where the inequalities mentioned earlier become very significant. It’s easy to regulate, it doesn’t have to be a tax.

Carbon Emissions

A Greener Life

JANUARY 15, 2022

A Green Spur wind turbine. Renewable energy technologies such as wind and solar continue to grow. These technologies are very reliant on rare earth minerals, many of which are mined in conflict areas and countries such as China , where workers rights are often overlooked. Photo credit: Green Spur. By Anders Lorenzen.

Fossil Fuels

A Greener Life

JULY 4, 2024

In the past 14 years much has happened in the space of climate change as well as the advancement of clean energy , but it has also become clear how hard it is to say goodbye to fossil fuels. Cut the green crap But support for other energy sources and technologies as well as broader decarbonisation strategies have been less impressive.

Clean Energy

Environment Blog

MARCH 25, 2020

Bill Gates hailed Bitcoin as a “technological tour de force” while Peter Thiel, the co-founder of PayPal, said that it “has the potential to do something like change the world.”. This is down to the governments and local authorities that choose coal-powered plants and other fossil fuel powered electricity production.

Fossil Fuels

Vermont Law

JUNE 22, 2020

This blog post will explore the electric alternatives to fossil fuel-powered industrial farm equipment, and the barriers to their adoption. To facilitate the general electrification of the equipment in our lives, which currently run on fossil fuels, major investments are needed to our electrical system. [13].

Fossil Fuels

A Greener Life

JULY 9, 2021

The other is to improve the energy structure, replacing fossil fuel sources with alternatives. Wind and solar power can provide green electricity for those facilities, while the low local temperatures can help with cooling requirements. Neither of these will be easy for Inner Mongolia.

Renewable Energy

A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

This August, Brazil’s senate plans to vote on a regulatory framework for offshore wind that will be essential for the sector to advance, while Colombia is expecting bids by September from companies wanting to explore its maritime area. Offshore wind power is being resisted by sectors linked to fossil fuels.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

A recent National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) study shows that it would take less than 1 percent of the land in the Lower 48—that’s an area comparable to or even smaller than the fossil fuel industry’s current footprint. EIA also projects US battery storage capacity to more than double in 2023.

Electricity

Environmental Progress

APRIL 20, 2021

ERCOT also expected, during peak demand events in winter, to have power from wind represent about 27% of installed wind capacity. In its most severe appraisal of the loss of wind capacity, ERCOT expected 8% of wind power compared to capacity. percent of the grid’s power.

2021

A Greener Life

JULY 9, 2024

We also acknowledged that their ambition could be higher when it comes to tackling climate change and unleashing the potential of clean energy and technology. 31% of the population are not worried, with 16% of those not accepting that the climate is changing because of human activity such as the burning of fossil fuels.

Clean Energy