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Solar Net Metering Under Threat as Shadowy Group Demands Intervention in State Policies

GreenTechMedia

Ari Peskoe, director of the Electricity Law Initiative at Harvard University, wrote in a tweet that NERA’s petition “seeks to end net metering as we know it.” FERC has addressed net energy metering before in decisions in 2001 and in 2009, Peskoe said.

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How Should California Wind Down Its Fossil Fuel Industry?

GreenTechMedia

By law, California must have 100 percent carbon-free electricity by 2045, and an executive order signed by former Governor Jerry Brown calls for economywide carbon-neutrality by the same year. After all, if oil demand in California remains strong, crude from outside the state will simply fill the void.

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EDC celebrates 40th anniversary of Tongonan geothermal field, Philippines

ThinkGeoEnergy

(KEITECH), a pioneering corporate social responsibility (CSR) program in Leyte that is focused on capacitating underserved high school graduates toward becoming highly skilled and employable in high-demand industries such as construction, metals and engineering, and tourism and hospitality.

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Texas Crisis Drives First Public Power Bankruptcy, With More Fallout Expected

GreenTechMedia

But that "scarcity pricing," designed to encourage power plant owners to invest in ways that will ensure they’re able to capitalize on such high power prices to secure adequate supply during times of peak grid demand, had no effect on increasing electricity output from power plants that were physically unable to operate.

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Reports: Energy Secretary Rick Perry to Resign Next Month

GreenTechMedia

The subpoena that House Democrats sent on Monday to Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s lawyer and key figure in the Ukraine scandal, included demands for records of Perry’s trip, and any communications DOE may have regarding the phone calls between Trump and Zelensky at the heart of the impeachment investigation. In a Tuesday letter , Sen.

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Continuing to fight the fashion revolution

Business Green

As the idea of 'fast fashion' proliferated, clothing supply chains lengthened under relentless pressure on costs with emerging economies offering lower wages, weaker labour laws and tax breaks to win contracts from major brands.

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Recent Changes to California’s Self-Generation Incentive Program, Explained

GreenTechMedia

SGIP was initially conceived of to provide customers with incentives to reduce their energy use during peak demand times and to promote energy self-sufficiency in response to California’s electricity crisis of 2001. The history.