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Subsidies to biomass plant in Teesside must be stopped says environmental coalition

Envirotec Magazine

By comparison, the CfD awarded to Hinkley Point C nuclear power station is £106.12/MWh. The letter argued that the contract was entered into under the Energy Act 2013 for the project to be treated as generating a form of low carbon energy. MGT Teesside’s CfD is also one of the costliest ever awarded at a strike price of £147.56/MWh

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Looming Grid Shortfall Prompts 2.5GW California Procurement Proposal

GreenTechMedia

Even so, “given the imminence of the 2021 system reliability needs, there is not time to complete that analysis, allow additional input and vetting from parties, and still have procurement take place in time to meet a potential shortfall in the timeframe of Summer 2021,” administrative law judge Julie A.

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What is in the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022? We summarize.

38 North Solutions

Current law taxes the performance-based compensation paid to managers of certain investment partnerships at long-term capital-gains rates rather than as ordinary income provided that a three-year holding period is met. Should this bill become law, from 2022-2024, these credits are extended and restored to their full value. 13101/ SEC.

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Part 2: Revisiting the Key Findings of an influential Carbon Trading and Environmental Equity Study – Additional Details

Low Carbon Prosperity

While very limited conclusions about net population exposure to air pollution can be drawn from the data presented in the original study, the findings are suggestive that all population characteristics were more likely to experience decreases in GHG pollution exposure from facilities in years 2013-2015 (see Part 1, Figure 3 ).

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Part 2: Revisiting the Key Findings of an influential Carbon Trading and Environmental Equity Study – Additional Details

Low Carbon Prosperity

While very limited conclusions about net population exposure to air pollution can be drawn from the data presented in the original study, the findings are suggestive that all population characteristics were more likely to experience decreases in GHG pollution exposure from facilities in years 2013-2015 (see Part 1, Figure 3 ).

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Senate Confirms Third Republican to FERC, Breaking With Precedent

GreenTechMedia

Danly, who will fill the seat left vacant by the death of Chairman Kevin McIntyre, graduated from law school in 2013 and worked as a corporate energy lawyer before he was named general counsel at FERC in 2017.

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Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren Demand Changes at New England’s Grid Operator

GreenTechMedia

The first is called Competitive Auctions With Sponsored Policy Resources, or CASPR ( PDF ), a complicated effort to balance zero-marginal-cost wind and solar power against fossil fuel and nuclear-powered generators in ISO-NE’s forward capacity auction.

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