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2024 Year in Review: Clean Energy Progress Steeped in Solar and Storage

Union of Concerned Scientists

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. Heres a taste, from US projects, technologies, electrons, and investment, to happenings in the world as a whole.

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Renewables Have Pulled Ahead of Coal. What’s Next?

Union of Concerned Scientists

Here’s a taste: Wind power , the largest single source of renewable electricity in the country, grew the most of any renewable energy source in overall generation from 2021 to 2022. Solar power increased the most among renewable electricity sources in percentage terms, up 24 percent. Large solar provided 3.5

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PennEnvironment: Pennsylvania Ranks 48th In US For Renewable Energy Growth

PA Environment Daily

On October 24, the PennEnvironment Research and Policy Center released new data showing Pennsylvania ranks 48th in the nation for rate of growth in total solar, wind and geothermal generation over the past decade. with only Idaho, Washington and Alaska ranking lower.

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Building a Better Power Grid for Minnesota

Union of Concerned Scientists

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?

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UCS Expert Testifies on the New Clean Electricity Tax Credits

Union of Concerned Scientists

The 45Y and 48E credits are foundational to that effort , enabling the widespread deployment of clean electricity resources to drive down carbon emissions in the power sector—and in so doing, unlocking the ability of the power sector to decarbonize vast swaths of the rest of the economy.

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Ask a Scientist: The US Has to Do More to Meet Its Carbon Emissions Reduction Goals

Union of Concerned Scientists

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. It also will save US consumers money because they will spend less on fossil fuels.

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Morocco targets 80% renewables by 2050?

A Greener Life

Wind power will become the largest renewable energy source in the country overtaking hydro. . For wind power alone the installed capacity will increase from 1.4 While the installed capacity for both PV and CSP solar power will increase from 734 megawatts (MW) in 2020 to 2.1 Technological evolution.