Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 5, 2024

Complicating matters further, shipments of liquified natural gas (LNG) into the region must be purchased in global markets, where fuel prices can be impacted by events in other parts of the world. The expensive way to maintain grid reliability: deliveries of liquefied natural gas into Boston Harbor.

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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. In the U.S.,

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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.

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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.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 20, 2022

non-hydropower renewable sources, including solar and wind, grows from 13% in 2021 to 17% in 2023. We forecast that the share of generation from natural gas will fall from 37% in 2021 to 34% by 2023 and the coal share will decline from 23% to 22%. The amount of solar power generating capacity operated by the U.S.

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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. In recent years, systems began capturing energy from that biogas and using it to produce electricity or natural gas.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 22, 2022

Ontario has a large potential supply of wind and solar energy that could be developed to help phase-out dirty gas plants. It estimated that we would need an additional 843 MW of solar and an additional 4,545 MW of wind capacity (along with a basket of other sources) to ensure the province’s energy needs are met. .

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 30, 2022

The flagship wind farm made headlines as the operator, Swedens’s Vattenfall in 2018 won the concession to build it without government subsidy. The Netherlands plans to connect more than 20 GW of wind power before 2030. 20 GW before 2030. The Dutch are also trialling a cluster of floating solar panels named ‘Oceans of Energy’.

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Law and Environment

MAY 4, 2023

SMR requires steam, heat, and pressure to convert methane (in natural gas) to hydrogen and carbon monoxide. We’re going to need a lot of steel to build structures, including those supporting clean energy, such as wind turbines, solar facilities, and associated transmission and other infrastructure.

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A Greener Life

JULY 26, 2021

This has incentivized oil and gas majors such as BP, Equinor and Shell to invest in wind power generation. BP and Total are also leading the way in terms of upcoming solar power capacity.”. Wind and solar growth. The growing role of renewable energy poses a major threat to fossil fuel-based power generation.

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 6, 2023

The failure of gas-burning power plants to provide energy in cold weather is back in the news. In the latest development, gas power plant owners are now facing performance penalties levied by the grid operator PJM and they are attacking PJM for enforcing the rules designed to ensure reliability.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Between 2005 and 2017 Ontario phased-out coal plants, reducing greenhouse gas pollution from our electricity system by 93 per cent. And between 2009 and 2016, Ontario built over 2000 MW of solar power and about 3000 MW of wind power. But it’s not too late to make the investments now. .

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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. If Germany is to stop buying gas from Russia in the long term, it will need alternatives. A wind farm owned by General Electric around 50km south of Berlin, Germany.

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 17, 2024

Alberta: Speak Up For a SAFE Climate: Take Action Here How Climate Action Makes Life More Affordable Renewable energy, including solar and wind power, is much cheaper and less polluting than burning fossil fuels such as natural gas, oil and coal.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 4, 2022

. -- April 4 PA Environment Digest Now Available [PaEN] -- This Week’s Examples Of Going The WRONG WAY On Environmental, Energy Issues [PaEN] -- 6th Oil/Natural Gas Shock: ‘Drillers Continue To Return Cash To Shareholders… Rather Than Boost Production’ [PaEN] -- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: Ask Me About How University Of Pittsburgh Will Get To Net Zero (..)

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 31, 2023

In the middle of a climate crisis, Ontario is following through on what it said it would do by announcing a flurry of “natural” gas plant projects across Southern Ontario. Natural” gas… sounds good, right? The name is a misleading and cunning rebrand of fossil gas by the oil and gas industry.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 20, 2017

On the other hand, the dramatic rise in renewable electricity generation, particularly wind power, has created a need for construction of new transmission lines to bring electricity to market. Under the Natural Gas Act, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), within the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 18, 2024

23 In-Person Tour Of Shale Gas Fracking Sites & Infrastructure In Washington County And Discover Its Costs [PaEN] -- Evangelical Environmental Network Delivers Over 36,000 Comments From Pro-Life Christians To Gov. Visit the Committee webpage for options on joining the meeting remotely. Contact: Lucas Hershey, luchershey@pa.gov.

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Energy and Climate Law

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

The Dutch gas and electricity TSOs have been playing with this idea for a while (via the North Sea Wind Power Hub project ) but it has not been a topic of political discussion yet. PVV, FvD and JA21 want to stop the transition from natural gas to other sources of heat. PvdA wants to create energy islands at sea.

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Edouard Stenger

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

— Ditching coal and natural gas for solar and wind. Renewable energy sources have been booming in the US (+262 % and over 4,600% from 2008 to 2016 for wind and solar, respectively. Source: Bloomberg ) as their prices dropped in the past decade, making them already more than competitive with coal and natural gas.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 11, 2022

Conservatives Say They Support Solar, Wind Power Too [PA Farmer Who Wants Solar Included] -- The Allegheny Front - Reid Frazier: Mix Of Hope, Fear Over Startup Of Shell’s Ethane Cracker Plant In Beaver County -- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: How Much Does A Hydrogen Hub Really Cost? Awards Student Scholarships To New Hope-Solebury H.S.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

In order for hydrogen to be classified as green, it has to be produced using renewable energy sources rather than the traditional way of producing hydrogen with natural gas. But there is no mention of whether the hydrogen used at the Games will be green hydrogen.

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Environmental Progress

APRIL 20, 2021

During the four days of emergency operations during the cold snap, from early February 15th to midnight February 18th, output levels of nuclear, natural gas, coal, and wind to the grid were 79.3 ERCOT also expected, during peak demand events in winter, to have power from wind represent about 27% of installed wind capacity.

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Edouard Stenger

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Despite the fact that Puerto Rico does not have any coal, natural gas, or oil reserves, the quasi totality of its electricity is produced by such means. ( As per official EIA statistics , almost half of the electricity is still coming from oil. Natural gas covers a third and coal one sixth.) — Solar and wind.

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The Energy Law

JANUARY 28, 2021

With topics ranging from offshore oil and gas moratoriums to restrictions on natural gas flaring and venting, the following is an overview of notable energy legislation to be heard in state legislatures this year. Ron Reynolds, make up a two-fold strategy to limit natural gas flaring and venting in the state. [1]

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Edouard Stenger

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

For utilities, this enables them to reduce the need for costly interconnection with neighbouring grids and expensive peaker natural gas plants. Installing panels facing West is thus a potentially great idea, and this for everyone. But that is another story altogether.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Natural gas, oil, and electricity transmission are each subject to distinct regulatory schemes. Construction and operation of an interstate natural gas pipeline requires a certificate of public convenience and necessity from the Federal Energy Regulation Commission (“FERC”) under Section 7 of the Natural Gas Act.

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Cresforum

MARCH 10, 2022

In 2021, solar and wind power were built at a record pace due to surging demand by companies, households and sound economics. While the cost of building solar, wind and natural gas was higher in 2021 than 2020 — due to rising material, freight and fuel prices — new projects skyrocketed. produced natural gas grew 9.4

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The Energy Law

JANUARY 28, 2021

With topics ranging from offshore oil and gas moratoriums to restrictions on natural gas flaring and venting, the following is an overview of notable energy legislation to be heard in state legislatures this year. Ron Reynolds, make up a two-fold strategy to limit natural gas flaring and venting in the state. [1]

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A Greener Life

JULY 23, 2021

Grey is made from natural gas or coal, and has a large carbon footprint. But manufacturing it takes a lot of electricity. So it is only as climate friendly as the energy used to produce it. Engineers thus distinguish between grey, blue and green hydrogen. Green is from renewable electricity and need have no carbon footprint at all. “A

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A Greener Life

JULY 9, 2021

It has huge potential for renewables, with vast areas of sparsely populated land and plenty of wind and sun. According to the latest statistics, in 2019 Inner Mongolia generated more wind power than any other province, and came third in solar power generation.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) authorization of the export of natural gas from Dominion Cove Point LNG, LP’s (Dominion’s ) facility in Maryland. Circuit to Expedite Consideration of Challenge to Natural Gas Pipeline. Three environmental groups challenging a natural gas pipeline from Alabama to Florida asked the D.C.

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E2 Law Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Wind, water, and solar will be the primary source of power generation across all sectors of New York’s economy by 2050, necessitating investments in firm, zero-carbon resources and energy storage resources to ensure grid reliability.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

And, unlike fossil fuels, electricity generated by wind and solar does not use water or produce any emissions or wastes that can contaminate the air, land or waterways. Minimizing land use impacts will require responsible siting of wind and solar projects that avoids use of sensitive, or otherwise inappropriate, land and waters.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 18, 2023

The Biden administration, which set a goal of 15,000 MW of floating offshore wind by 2035 , also has set a price target for floating offshore wind power at $45/MWh by 2035, which is less than the cost of electricity from new natural gas plants.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 10, 2023

While he does not mention climate change, there is a brief nod to climate solutions through emissions reductions: Come on electric utilities, don’t tell me you are just passing along those high natural gas prices to the ratepayer and at the same time ask the taxpayers to subsidize it more.

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