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Union of Concerned Scientists
JULY 22, 2022
These investments will help accommodate accelerating amounts of low-cost renewable energy like wind and solar power, laying the groundwork for a cleaner, cheaper grid. Southwest Minnesota and the Dakotas have a lot of wind power—and the potential for even more. That’s not a Minnesota utility…is it?
Legal Planet
MARCH 30, 2023
I sometimes ask students to guess what state produces the most wind power. 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. And like utilities everywhere, they hate the idea of rooftop solar.
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Enviromental Defense
JUNE 17, 2024
Recently, the CBC , working with pollster Janet Brown, released the results of its annual spring report card on Alberta’s political and economic well-being. Solar panels and wind turbines produce electricity much more cheaply than gas turbines, coal plants and oil burners. Shifting that $4.8
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. Now in place for three months, the new coalition has overhauled a decades-long political stance toward Russia which was centred on Wandel durch Handel (change through trade).
A Greener Life
JULY 9, 2024
This will be with policies including a doubling of onshore wind, a tripling of solar power provision, and a quadrupling of offshore wind by 2030. They will then set out a strategy to deliver on the manifesto pledge for the UK to become a clean energy superpower.
A Greener Life
MARCH 19, 2023
In 2021, China’s president Xi Jinping announced that China would not build any new coal-fired power projects abroad. Bao Zhong, political counsellor at the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in Islamabad, told me that the Chinese government stands by the pledge. First published in The Third Pole.
Law Columbia
AUGUST 9, 2022
While those applying for a permit to construct a major renewable energy facility in New York must “consult[] with the municipality or political subdivision where the project is proposed to be located . . . Developers of renewable energy facilities of at least 20 MW but less than 25 MW may also submit applications to ORES. 94-c(4)(g).
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