DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

A 2018 investigation by Greenpeace Unearthed revealed that the IEA had received funding from oil giant BP every year since 1967. In 2016, he blamed high energy prices on solar and wind power, saying on Twitter: “This is how UK climate policy works. Huge investment in renewables etc -> higher profits -> higher prices.”.

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 7, 2021

coal plants are either scheduled to close by 2025 or now cost more to operate than new nearby solar or wind power would, new research shows. coal fleet, 182 plants, or 80 percent, are uneconomic or already retiring,” according to the report, which counted plants in service in 2018. by Kathiann M. Kowalski, Energy News Network.

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 7, 2021

coal plants are either scheduled to close by 2025 or now cost more to operate than new nearby solar or wind power would, new research shows. coal fleet, 182 plants, or 80 percent, are uneconomic or already retiring,” according to the report, which counted plants in service in 2018. by Kathiann M. Kowalski, Energy News Network.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

The move - which would form part of the EU's proposed new climate law to deliver net zero emissions by 2050 across the continent - marks a significant jump from the existing 2030 goal to reduce greenhouse gases by 40 per cent, and would need approval by a majority of the 27 EU Member States as well as the European Parliament to come into force.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Institutional capital accounted for just 2% of total direct investment in renewables in 2018. I expect wind and solar to continue to be the cheapest sources moving forward and continue to be attractive investments, at least relative to the alternatives in the electric generation sector,” said Spence.

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 21, 2021

Susan Dempsey watches birds and sunsets from her balcony, and Robert Maloney enjoys birding and regularly takes his boat out to fish on Lake Erie, their lawyers wrote in 2018. The Ohio Supreme Court won’t overturn the Ohio Power Siting Board’s ruling unless it was unlawful or unreasonable. census data.

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Grist

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Renewable solar and wind power now typically costs less than fossil-fuel alternatives. Seattle this year passed a law to phase out natural gas in new commercial establishments and large apartment buildings. If not sooner. The economics of carbon-free living have fallen into place. That’s begun in Cascadia.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

The gradual return of Puna Geothermal Venture, which came back online in November, will play a larger role in 2021; PGV shut down in May 2018 due to the K?lauea Higher wind production Lower electricity use due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The next RPS milestone required by state law is to reach 40 percent by 2030. i Island hit 43.4

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 4, 2021

Over the past decade, $3 trillion has been invested in clean power worldwide. In 2018, about two-thirds of new energy capacity installed was renewable. Op-ed submitted by Jared Green 33% of all electricity generation worldwide is from renewable sources. If we are going to keep warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7

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Energy Innovation

JULY 1, 2022

For example, New York law requires a 60 percent reduction in emissions in just eight years. Jansujwicz, and Gayle Zydlewski, “Tidal Power Development in Maine: Stakeholder Identification and Perceptions of Engagement,” Estuaries and Coasts 38, no. 1 (2013): 266–278, [link]. 2 (2013): 247–255, [link]. 1 (2000): 49–64.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 20, 2020

In fact, many are still requesting that FERC reconsider the order and planning lawsuits to challenge it, or simply awaiting November’s election, which could shift political power in Washington D.C. Big roadblock for offshore wind. in ways that could lead to FERC's order being overturned.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The cornerstone of President Obama’s environmental legacy, the Clean Power Plan, was rooted in the Clean Air Act and created by the EPA. Biden’s pledge to advance his environmental agenda, through executive action if required, will also likely draw on that wide-reaching law. governments on energy issues.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 6, 2021

In an effort to combat the transition away from natural gas, several Republican-controlled states, such as Arizona, Tennessee, and Oklahoma, have passed “pre-emption laws,” which prohibit municipalities from banning gas hookups. All of this has now put NW Natural and other gas utilities on the defensive.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Stark, who took over as CEO of the government's climate advisory body in 2018, also acknowledged that while his role is politically neutral, the nature of the job had increasingly pushed the CCC into a more political arena as the debate over how to decarbonise the economy heats up.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The report notes that the cost of solar energy has fallen 90 percent in the last decade, and the cost of wind power has dropped 70 percent. A Connecticut law empowers cities to create their own stormwater management plans. Between 2005 and 2019, greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. decreased by 12 percent. Some go even further.

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Grist

DECEMBER 8, 2021

When InvestigateWest launched the Getting to Zero: Decarbonizing Cascadia series in January 2021, the latest official data showed that emissions of carbon dioxide, methane, and other greenhouse gases had risen steadily from 2012 to 2018, and the region wasn’t on track to make big cuts this decade. “We Ensuring a cleaner and reliable grid.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 6, 2020

Virginia has become the latest state to pass a law that sets it on a path to 100 percent carbon-free electricity by 2050, as well as setting targets for massive investments in energy efficiency, energy storage and in-state solar and wind power. The new law sets an offshore wind target of 5.2 gigawatts by 2035.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 23, 2020

DeWine’s call to overturn House Bill 6 at a Thursday press conference came just a day after he expressed support for the law, saying it is needed to retain zero-carbon energy output — and several thousand jobs — from the Davis-Besse and Perry nuclear power plants.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 15, 2020

” FERC’s Republican majority has passed succeeding MOPR orders in 2018 and 2019 on the grounds that state subsidies distort capacity prices and undermine non-subsidized, fossil fuel-fired generators that make up most of the market today. Solar and wind power trade groups also support a quick resumption of the auction.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 22, 2020

Third-party solar installers only won the right to serve Florida customers in 2018, and rooftop PV penetration remains low. BHE’s giant wind fleet is shared between its unregulated and regulated utility businesses, with Iowa-based MidAmerican Energy Company taking an early lead in capturing its plentiful regional wind power.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 16, 2024

.” More recently, Morano has been talking about whales—specifically, the idea that the higher-than-usual number of dead ones washing ashore along the East Coast is the result of President Joe Biden’s push to develop 30 gigawatts of offshore wind power by the end of the decade. In 2019, Ohioans weathered a $9.5

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 20, 2020

Wind power, geothermal, hydro and biomass will provide substantial power in the coming decades. It may not be much longer before we reach 80, 90 percent or even higher as wind, solar and battery storage prices continue to plummet. The really good news is that fully 40 percent of all power generation installed in the U.S.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

If you listen to Joe Biden on climate change, you might feel the urge to junk your car and invest in wind power. While initially the Trump administration embraced new federal leases for offshore wind farms, it cut federal incentives for harvesting offshore wind. A 2018 tariff on solar panels manufactured outside the U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

FERC’s 3-to-2 July 2018 decision that found PJM’s capacity market to be “unjust and unreasonable” due to its treatment of state-subsidized resources has been roundly criticized by environmental and clean energy groups, as well as state attorneys general and utility regulators. gigawatts from energy efficiency, 1.4

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

The first is a denial of rehearing for a New England capacity market structure approved by FERC on a party-line vote in March 2018 , which has since been attacked by governors and U.S. senators representing New England states as a threat to accomplishing their clean energy policy goals. “That is regulatory negligence.”

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

The former senior aide to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) was appointed to FERC in 2017 and served as interim chair before beind named chairman in 2018 , and will remain on the commission through June 2021. Danly’s rise to a Republican-dominated FERC.

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