Grist
JULY 26, 2023
One reader, Katrina Amaral, shared a response that struck at this balance: As part of the resources for dealing with extreme heat, I would love to see examples of heat-adaptation and climate-change mitigation ordinances or laws that have passed at municipal / state / federal levels. And thanks as always for being a Looking Forward subscriber.
GreenTechMedia
FEBRUARY 20, 2020
The Clean Peak standard jumped from policy proposal to law of the land in Massachusetts in just a couple years. Charlie Baker originally proposed it to tackle the disproportionate costs to utility customers from just a few peak hours: as of 2018, the top 10 percent of hours drove 40 percent of the energy costs for customers in Massachusetts.
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Renewable Energy World
SEPTEMBER 18, 2021
Greenhouse gas emissions from heating and cooling buildings continue to rise in Connecticut despite the state’s efforts to improve energy efficiency. Continuing to subsidize polluting fossil fuels defies logic,” said Shannon Laun, a staff attorney for the Conservation Law Foundation, in a statement. “If metric tons.
GreenTechMedia
SEPTEMBER 26, 2019
In fact, it’s one of the largest commercial solar developers in the territory of Pacific Gas & Electric, the Northern California utility now in bankruptcy reorganization under the weight of tens of billions of dollars in liabilities from deadly wildfires started by its power lines in 2017 and 2018.
Grist
MARCH 26, 2021
It’s possible that the dangers will reach a critical juncture where the world may want to consider another tool with the potential to save millions of lives: solar geoengineering, also described by scientists with the more careful and lengthy phrase “ climate intervention strategies that reflect sunlight to cool the earth.”.
GreenTechMedia
JUNE 11, 2020
Scott Wiener, author of the 2018 law that increased SGIP’s budget through 2024, wrote the CPUC a scathing letter in January, accusing it of undermining the program by setting up the special equity-resiliency category “so restrictive” that it will “almost certainly be under-utilized. California Sen.
GreenTechMedia
SEPTEMBER 16, 2020
In practice, this could look like homes pre-heating or -cooling when their solar system is producing, to save money in evening hours when the prices go up. "It Utilities starting hitting the program cap in 2018, prompting a scramble to lift the cap to allow the market to grow. That right-sizing keeps the program costs in check.
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