Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 21, 2024

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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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. Fourteen states now have net-zero emissions targets for the economy as a whole, and sixteen have zero-carbon targets for the grid. Utility-scale solar was an even more dramatic story.

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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).*

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 24, 2024

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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Environmental News Bits

OCTOBER 5, 2023

And no, the technology is not canvas sails. A cargo ship vessel has been outfitted with wind power technology, bringing wind propulsion to commercial shipping for the first time.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 20, 2024

As the electricity grid continues to evolve with more solar and wind power displacing coal and natural gas, an EV school bus purchased today will get even cleaner over its lifetime. Over its lifetime, a gasoline, diesel, propane or natural gas school bus will be responsible for more than 800 metric tons of global warming pollution.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 22, 2022

Southwest Minnesota and the Dakotas have a lot of wind power—and the potential for even more. Minnesota Power’s vision is to provide 100 percent carbon-free energy by 2050, achieve 70 percent renewable electricity by 2030, and eliminate coal burning by 2035. Source: MISO LRTP Report.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Investing in renewable and battery storage: Under DTE’s proposed plan, the company would add 15,400 megawatts (MW) of new solar and wind power by 2042, which it says is enough to power approximately 4 million homes. DTE currently has 3,000 MW of existing and approved solar and wind resources.)

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Weifang Port’s “zero-carbon” certification was primarily achieved by transitioning away from fossil fuel use, according to China Electric Power News (CEPN). It has built a wind power system to provide green energy for its operations and deployed hydrogen-powered vehicles to replace fossil-fuel-powered trucks.

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Environmental News Bits

MARCH 25, 2022

by Bryant Jones, Boise State University and Michael McKibben, University of California, Riverside Geothermal energy has long been the forgotten member of the clean energy family, overshadowed by relatively cheap solar and wind power, despite its proven potential. But that may soon change – for an unexpected reason.

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Environmental News Bits

MAY 16, 2022

by Bryant Jones, Boise State University and Michael McKibben, University of California, Riverside Geothermal energy has long been the forgotten member of the clean energy family, overshadowed by relatively cheap solar and wind power, despite its proven potential. But that may soon change – for an unexpected reason.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Since 2019, the Department of Energy’s ReCell Center has been researching effective and affordable battery recycling technology. How are Lithium-ion Batteries that Store Solar and Wind Power Made? And what about the solar panels and wind turbines, which generate the electricity that batteries store? Click to learn more!

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A Greener Life

MARCH 3, 2022

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.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 23, 2023

GW of gas capacity set to retire, but also slightly outpacing the planned additions of wind power. With all that said, there are many ways policymakers at virtually every level of government can bring more certainty and speed to the retirement of fossil fuel power plants and the installation of clean energy capacity to replace them.

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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.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 12, 2022

PG: Accelerating the deployment of renewable energy creates new opportunities in solar-array and wind-facility installation, which, for example, increases the demand for electricians, pipefitters and welders. Similarly, workers and communities tied to fossil fuel-generated electricity will need support to move beyond that dependence.

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A Greener Life

JULY 19, 2023

An offshore wind farm in Europe. Colombia’s Caribbean coast has great potential for offshore wind power projects but is also home to protected areas of ecological importance. In 2021 alone, the global installed capacity of offshore wind plants tripled, reaching record figures, as 21.1 Photo credit: Tho Ge / Pixabay.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 6, 2022

Because its generators can deliver electricity quickly — “ramping” in the lingo — hydro bridges the period when solar and wind power wane and before gas-fired turbines can power up. This quick-start capability is especially important when electricity demand is high, such as summer heat waves.

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

It is prompted in large part by low gas storage capacity, the COVID-19 pandemic, a power plant coming offline and low wind speeds responsible for a downturn in wind power output. Now such a crisis has arisen again. UK’s unhealthy reliance on gas. What happened to energy efficiency?

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A Greener Life

JULY 1, 2022

Copenhagen is full of sustainability initiatives, such as a promising and exciting green hydrogen project close to Copenhagen Airport called H2RES developed by some of Denmark’s largest companies and their ‘energy island project’ North Sea Wind Power Hub located offshore close to the Danish island of Bornholm.

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Law and Environment

JULY 27, 2023

In 2013, the University of Maine launched the first grid-connected offshore wind turbine in the Americas and has since continued to pursue a full-scale deployment of its floating offshore wind technology.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 6, 2023

But with the recent influx of government incentives for hydrogen production, new and improving production and storage technologies, and greater political will than ever before, H 2 ’s reputation is gaining favor. Hydrogen can be used for medium-to-long-term energy storage, heat and power generation, and transportation.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The World Bank predicts that the demand for neodymium for energy technologies in 2050 will be 37% of total 2018 neodymium production. Global demand for neodymium for wind turbines is estimated to increase 48% by 2050. Our modern technological world wouldn’t function without rare earth elements. It is used to make luminous paint.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 21, 2022

When the Paris Agreement was celebrated in 2015, no one was talking about hydrogen as a climate solution, the idea of net-zero targets had not been invented yet, and offshore wind power was mainly a European venture. But in this space particularly, innovation and advancements are moving faster than most sectors.

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A Greener Life

JULY 26, 2021

However, in recent years, their economic competitiveness has improved significantly due to government policies and incentives, as well as technological advances. This has incentivized oil and gas majors such as BP, Equinor and Shell to invest in wind power generation. Wind and solar growth.

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A Greener Life

DECEMBER 31, 2021

It’s also different from eco-modernist approaches that distance humanity from nature through technology. People and community will be just as important in addressing climate change as technologies such as wind power or electric cars but are rarely discussed in that way.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 12, 2023

Meanwhile, lower costs and technological improvements in energy storage are making it an attractive investment as well. New renewable energy plants outpaced new fossil fuel facilities across the country in eight of the last nine years, according to the US Energy Information Administration.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

China is intent on using the Winter Olympics to showcase how they’re at the forefront of implementing low-carbon technologies and thereby tackling climate change. Natural CO2 refrigeration at the ice rinks to 100% renewables-powered venues are just some of the technologies implemented. Fully powered by renewable energy.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Above, wind turbines turn in Sidenreng Rappang, Indonesia. By Leigh Hartman When Son Nguyen lived in the US, he saw rapidly advancing electric vehicle technology and heard stories from back in Vietnam about air pollution. © Zul Kifli / AFP / Getty Images. So after returning home, he launched Dat Bike in 2019. © Dita Alangkara/AP.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The oft-repeated argument is that wind and solar can’t be counted on during periods of high demand. But this position fails to take into account the many storage technologies for wind and solar that allow energy to be stored and used during peak demand. . But it’s not too late to make the investments now. .

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A Greener Life

MAY 5, 2022

Though hydropower, which by some is not considered a renewable energy technology, accounted for the largest share of renewable energy generation at 1.230 GW of capacity, the research by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) showed that solar and wind continued to dominate new generating capacity. . Terawatt (TW).

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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.

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Edouard Stenger

MAY 30, 2023

Additionally, energy storage now comes in many forms as battery technologies are each year more numerous, cheaper and better. Lithium ion technology is just one among many others. The Youtube channel Just Have a Think is great to keep up with all these exciting new developments and more. How fast is just up to us.

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