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.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 6, 2022

But rather than ramping up the use of polluting fossil gas, this is the perfect moment for the province to transition to clean and safe renewable energy. But the agency was caught skewing information , suppressing modeling that supported renewable energy options and showed that their use would actually reduce consumers’ costs. .

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

The Hornsea 2 offshore wind farm. By Anders Lorenzen The UK government has said that the UK’s sixth renewable energy auction has delivered a record 131 clean energy projects. Under current projections and with no change to the scale, the 2024 record auction would power 11 million British homes.

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A Greener Life

MARCH 3, 2022

The North African country Morocco is positioning itself to become the leading country on the African continent for the deployment of renewable energy. Against a backdrop of new solar and wind projects, the country has increased its renewable energy target to 52% by 2030, 70% by 2040 and 80% by 2050.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 25, 2021

And now in their latest green move, they’re branching out into energy as they’re to sell renewable energy to households, starting at home in Sweden. Affordable renewable electricity. Building the biggest renewable energy movement.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 26, 2021

In order to achieve the greenhouse gas reductions needed to sustain a livable climate, we must scale up renewable energy capacity at a rapid pace. The resource bank is part of the work of the Renewable Energy Legal Defense Initiative (RELDI). Read more about RELDI here and visit the resource bank here.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 25, 2022

This much-needed set of 18 projects will improve electricity reliability, address overloaded wires , and help unlock more lower-cost wind and solar power to replace costly, polluting fossil fuel plants in Michigan and many other states in the Midwest (including Illinois and Minnesota ). Source: MISO. What’s in it for Michigan?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The results include two developers cancelling their offshore wind power contracts with states and utilities, another cancelling two projects altogether, and hesitation elsewhere. The good news-bad news balance, though, would seem to tip decidedly in favor of a whole lot more offshore wind. The US offshore wind map.

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Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

A renewable energy plant in Oregon that combines solar power, wind power and massive batteries to store the energy generated there officially opened Wednesday as the first utility-scale plant of its kind in North America. Read the full story from the Associated Press.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 3, 2024

Achieving the United States’ ambitious emissions reduction goals depends in large part on the rapid adoption of wind and solar energy and the electrification of consumer vehicles. jobs ( it does not ).

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Launched in December 2021, the USAID Southeast Asia Smart Power Program (SPP) aims to mobilize $2 billion for clean energy projects across the region. In June, SPP issued a $3 million grant to the ASEAN Centre for Energy (ACE) to increase renewable energy in the region’s power systems. © Dita Alangkara/AP.

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A Greener Life

MAY 5, 2022

At the end of 2021 global renewable energy generation capacity amounted to 3.064 gigawatts (GW) increasing global renewable energy capacity to 9.1%. Combined, those two fast-growing renewable energy technologies contributed 88% to the share of all new renewable capacity in 2021. Terawatt (TW).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Earlier this year, the MPSC approved a settlement agreement on Consumers Energy’s integrated resource plan that commits the company to retire all its remaining coal-fired power plants by 2025, construct no new fossil gas infrastructure, and build large amounts of new solar power between now and 2040.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 9, 2023

On August 9, the Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority announced it would be committing to the purchase of wind power and the use of clean energy to support the production and operations of water services. PWSA holds the largest share at 30% of the total, underlining our strong commitment to sustainable energy practices. “It

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Law Columbia

MAY 31, 2023

Renewable energy projects have encountered significant opposition in at least 45 states. Since October 2022, however, the Board has rejected at least three such applications ( Birch Solar, Cepheus Solar, and Kingwood Solar ). More information about RELDI can be found here.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 7, 2024

Over the last 10 years, dozens of townships in Michigan have effectively halted renewable energy development by adopting severe zoning restrictions, such as moratoriums. In the event that the PSC assumes control over an application, it will be allowed to preempt any local restrictions that would otherwise apply.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 22, 2024

Josh Shapiro joined Department of General Services Secretary Reggie McNeil, Constellation President & CEO Joseph Dominguez, and Lightsource bp Senior Vice President Alyssa Edwards to unveil the Commonwealth’s renewable energy initiative, the Pennsylvania Project to Utilize Light and Solar Energy (PA PULSE).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 23, 2023

With the clean energy transition already under way, the US electricity mix is set to continue changing this year. Solar power is expected to make up about half of all additions of US electric generating capacity in 2023, according to data from the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). I’ll start off with the good.

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A Greener Life

MAY 23, 2024

A solar-powered charging station in Yibin, south-west China. Two-way charging could give vehicles like these the potential to stabilise power supplies by discharging stored electricity back to the grid. Most EV owners live far from where renewable energy is generated, in the West. Photo credit: Wang Xi / Alamy.

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The Energy Law Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2020

In response, the industry is seeing a varying degree of investments in renewable energy and commitments to climate-related goals. As companies make this transition into renewable energy, one sector picking up speed is wind energy. The wind energy sector is gaining global traction, as exemplified by U.K.

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E2 Law Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Watch the “Renewables Year-End Review: M&A, Tax Equity and Finance Markets” webinar presented by GT’s Global Co-Heads of Energy Project Finance Jeffrey Chester and John Eliason , co-hosted with CohnReznick Capital.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 9, 2022

On June 30, 2022, the State of California joined the State of New York in adopting legislation that allows state authorities to bypass local laws in permitting large-scale renewable energy projects. Credit: New York Office of Renewable Energy Siting. Law § 94-c(2)(h). 94-c(4)(g). 94-c(5)(e) (emphasis added).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The legislation committed nearly $400 billion to support, among other things, wind and solar power, battery storage, electric vehicles, and other clean energy technologies that will make a significant dent in US heat-trapping emissions.

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The Energy Law Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2020

In response, the industry is seeing a varying degree of investments in renewable energy and commitments to climate-related goals. As companies make this transition into renewable energy, one sector picking up speed is wind energy. The wind energy sector is gaining global traction, as exemplified by U.K.

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A Greener Life

JULY 9, 2021

Coal-chemical plants, for example, could switch to using hydrogen from renewable energy for producing chemicals such as methanol and alkenes. There is huge potential for developing renewable energy in Inner Mongolia, which could be used to power other industries. Inner Mongolia isn’t just a major coal producer.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Critics of wind and solar routinely raise concerns about how much land would be required to decarbonize the US power sector. 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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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 22, 2023

On November 16, 2023, the Department of Energy (DOE) published a proposed rule to expedite the environmental review process for certain renewable energy infrastructure projects through the use of categorical exclusions.

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Environmental Progress

APRIL 20, 2021

Advocates of renewable energy have argued since the 1970s that the variable, weather-dependent nature of sunlight and wind is a modest obstacle at best to relying on 100 percent renewables. Some have argued that weather-dependent energies would, paradoxically, make electricity even more reliable.

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Environment Blog

MARCH 25, 2020

Recent estimates suggest that China’s energy system is still primarily powered by coal – in fact, nearly 50% of the country’s electricity is generated using coal. It is worth noting that Bitcoin is just one of more than a thousand different cryptocurrencies, and each one has its own mining and energy requirements.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Riding on one of the city’s “100% electric zero emission” buses, I noticed that much of the public lighting is solar powered. On checking into my hotel, I was told that all lights are on a timer, “so we save electricity.”

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A Greener Life

MARCH 19, 2023

Just 3% of generated electricity in the 2022 fiscal year came from non-hydropower renewables. Pakistan’s Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) ­– its climate pledge under the Paris Agreement – targets 60% renewable energy generation by 2030, including hydropower. No new Chinese-backed coal power overseas?

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The Premier had made it very clear in past statements that she is biased against renewable energy, and instead favours projects that cause pollution, limit Alberta’s future economic growth, and contribute to global climate change. Wind and solar energy are the least expensive sources of energy in Canada.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 22, 2022

Here are the measures that would lead Ontario to a fully clean electricity grid: Increase Wind and Solar Power. Ontario has a large potential supply of wind and solar energy that could be developed to help phase-out dirty gas plants. The costs of wind and solar power have been dropping like a stone.

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E2 Law Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Enacted in 2019, the CLCPA transformed the state’s earlier clean energy standard efforts from administrative fiat to law and sets more aggressive goals to reduce statewide greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions economy-wide to 60% from a 1990 baseline by 2030, and 15% from a 1990 baseline by 2050.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 25, 2016

As detailed in the RGGI investment plan , these funds are typically used to support energy efficiency and renewable energy programs in New York State. Most of the carbon allowances are auctioned and the proceeds of those auctions are typically used to promote energy conservation and renewable energy programs.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 15, 2022

Columbia Law School’s Sabin Center for Climate Change Law has published an update to its Report on Opposition to Renewable Energy Facilities in the United States , which documents local restrictions on and opposition to the siting of renewable energy projects. increases over the report’s September 2021 update.

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Acoel

MAY 18, 2021

Perhaps predictably, the large energy companies NextERA and Calpine oppose it, and are funding the opposition: the companies own fossil fuel and other power plants that will become less economical, and stand to lose many millions when the less expensive hydropower enters the grid. The post Mainers Opposing Clean Renewable Energy?

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