Solar Power World

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Maine’s former Governor Paul LePage (R) was about as hostile to solar as… The post Northeast states see solar policy turn around with new governors <br><span style='color:#404040;font-weight:600;font-size:15px;'>2019 regional solar policy report</span> appeared first on Solar Power World.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 26, 2019

In August, we published the top 10 utility regulation trends of 2019 — so far. With 2019 wrapping up, we look at the 10 trends and actions that stand out above the rest. Aligning utility performance with policy goals. DER integration and investments in a modern grid.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

DECEMBER 17, 2019

2nd Annual Future of Carbon Policy Forum. December 12, 2019. The 2nd Annual Future of Carbon Policy Forum brought together over 100 participants to build momentum and collaboration in achieving carbon reduction goals in the state. 1-Eileen-Quigley-2019-12-12-CETI-LCPI-Meeting. 4-Tim-Zenk-LCPI-2019-v2-email-version.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 15, 2021

An influential think tank with close ties to MPs has hired a head of policy who called the government’s climate policies “socialist” and likened proposed green legislation to a “Soviet Five Year Plan”. In 2019 the IEA claimed 14 members of Boris Johnson’s then-cabinet were involved in the group’s activities.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 18, 2019

2019 has seen a steady evolution of policy, regulation and business model innovation at the grid edge. From July through September 2019, WoodMac tracked over 1.2 In July 2019, Tendril (after a series of acquisitions in customer analytics) announced a merger with Simple Energy to become Uplight. Digitalization. and Europe.

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Solar Power World

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

The West Coast is in a transitional period for solar policy. Washington, Oregon and California statehouses are either fresh from altering or voting down solar policies or are approaching a pivotal date for mandates to take effect.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 31, 2023

The Omnisis poll, conducted on 27 and 28 July, also showed that the Conservative Party is more likely to lose support if it delays its policies to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions. According to the Omnisis polling, 31 percent of Reform supporters are in favour of charging high pollution vehicles, while 59 percent oppose the policy.

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Solar Power World

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

A succession of complementary state policies dating back to the early 2000s led to the coastal state’s prominence in solar. North Carolina has established itself as the outright solar leader in the Southeast and ranks second in the nation for installed solar capacity. But neighboring South Carolina hasn’t seen the same success in PV solar.…

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Solar Power World

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

.” Tribes can capture that potential in solar PV with the right combination of federal, state and tribal… The post Multi-level solar policies can transform Native American energy mix in the Southwest and beyond <br><span style='color:#404040;font-weight:600;font-size:15px;'>2019 Regional Solar Policy Report</span> (..)

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Young people around the world are increasingly turning to the courts to challenge their government’s climate policies or responses. Climate experts confirm these measures are inadequate given the large gap between countries’ climate pledges and policies, and the action needed to achieve the objectives of the Paris Agreement.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Over the course of 2019, we’ve seen California, the country’s leader in most DERs, wracked by a climate change-induced emergency that’s bankrupted its largest utility, Pacific Gas & Electric, and forced millions to go without power during fire-prevention blackouts. The European and U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Initially filed in 2019 by 15 young Canadians, La Rose v. Before the case can move to trial, the court requested that plaintiffs’ attorneys revise the complaint to focus on challenging a particular government action or policy. That’s why courts need to step in and draw the line on what is constitutionally permissible.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 26, 2020

The key question we will have to answer is, will we see spending plans, policies and packages that support a low-carbon future or not? Governments can drive more focus on this area through direct policy levers, whether that is incentivizing more active carbon management or penalizing a lack of action.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Spain has connected more solar to its grid in the first nine months of 2019 than the last 10 years put together. Retroactive policy changes and laws to prevent self-consumption decimated the sector in 2013. Some investors have spoken privately of an unwillingness to participate, however, given the nature of the policy changes in 2013.

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Business Green

JULY 16, 2021

per cent during the 2019 calendar year. per cent in 2019 - the most recent year for which data is available - followed by Northern Ireland on 50.6 per cent in 2019 , the exact same level it achieved in 2017. More positively, the amount of biodegradable household waste sent to landfill fell in 2019 fell to 6.6

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Solar Power World

MARCH 23, 2020

The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (NJBPU) announced that 2019 was a record-breaking year for New Jersey’s solar energy program, with the most solar capacity installed in a single year.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Read time: 8 mins As 2019 comes to a close, DeSmog is reflecting on another year that featured high-impact investigations and accountability reporting by our team of journalists about the reckless fossil fuel industry. The following recaps some of the highlights of our public interest reporting over the past year.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 17, 2020

Less than two weeks after emerging from an 18-month bankruptcy caused by its multibillion-dollar wildfire liabilities, Pacific Gas & Electric faces yet another lawsuit for a 2019 fire that California investigators say was caused by its power lines. 2019 Kincade fire was caused by a failure of a PG&E transmission line in Sonoma County.

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Energy Innovation

AUGUST 14, 2023

This piece was authored by Muhammad Abdullah, an 2023 summer Transportation Policy intern with Energy Innovation and Energy Innovation’s Chris Busch, Director Transportation and Senior Economist. But further policy action is needed to speed their adoption. 8] Globally, ZEV truck sales doubled in 2022, reaching 1.2

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Solar Power World

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Knowing more resilient and renewable power could help avoid future blackouts, the island’s legislators passed a bill titled Act 17 in 2019 establishing parameters for a resilient,… The post Lacking leadership, billions in solar and grid infrastructure funding goes unspent in Puerto Rico <br><span style='color:#404040;font-weight:600;font-size:15px;'>2021 (..)

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

October’s SoftBank-led investment in iron flow battery startup ESS represented an unusual event in 2019: a piece of good news for the flow battery sector. ” Even those companies still touting contract wins in 2019 have hardly set the world on fire. ” This is emerging as a significant issue in 2019.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 12, 2023

Between 2017 and 2019 – while Consumer Choice Center was part of the group – Students for Liberty also received donations of over $100,000 from the Atlas Network , an alliance of libertarian think tanks that has received funding from Koch foundations and fossil fuel firms.

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Solar Power World

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Renewable energy policy starts on the coasts before slowly filtering to the middle of the country. And with a booming market comes the reemergence of restrictive solar policies that more progressive states haven’t seen in years.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 17, 2019

A few states that wanted to incubate storage industries of their own proved that sharp policy really can create new markets in relatively short periods of time. Here are the tastiest stories that emerged in 2019, in no particular order. Aggressive state policy works. Massive utility procurements. Big money keeps buying in.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 8, 2020

The Midwest floods revealed another benefit of sustainable agriculture: fields that had been farmed with conservation practices recovered faster.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

View original here: Here are the winners and losers on climate policy in 2019. State lawmakers this year made it easier to get renewables in some parts of the country, but others gutted clean energy expansion.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 27, 2021

Many of those metrics have worsened since the group originally declared a climate emergency in 2019. The level of fossil fuel subsidies has declined since 2019, although part of that was due to the collapse of energy use and market prices during the pandemic. trillion between 2015 and 2019. Australia, the U.K.,

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 3, 2019

GW in the same period of 2018, due to the new policy on the construction of PV facilities for 2019 having been issued later in the year than similar policies issued in earlier years. In the first quarter of this year, China added 5.2 The figure is a drop from the 9.65

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Carbon emissions from energy stayed the same in 2019 despite expectations of further growth, latest International Energy Agency data indicates. per cent in GDP terms, data released today by the IEA indicates - defying expectations the growth trend would continue in 2019.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 20, 2020

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

A group of Conservative backbenchers have teamed up to champion a series of net zero policy interventions spanning the full breadth of the green economy, in bid to encourage the government to deliver a fresh wave of ambitious climate policy measures in the run up to the critical COP26 climate summit in November.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Lord Deben, Chairman of the Climate Change Committee said: “In 2019, the Scottish Parliament committed the country to some of the most stretching climate goals in the world, but they are increasingly at risk without real progress towards the milestones that Scottish Ministers have previously laid out. That plea remains unanswered.”.

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The Guardian: Energy

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

With PM’s electoral options narrowing, strategists came to conclusion policy could help create dividing line with Labour Isaac Levido, the strategy guru behind Boris Johnson’s 2019 victory, has spent much of the summer working on the overhaul of Rishi Sunak’s green policies.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 7, 2022

The United States is in a golden era for climate policy. The policy has been a long time coming, yet came to fruition quickly, responding to the urgency of the climate crisis and the opportunity to legislate before midterms. How the policy will unfold is impossible for me to imagine.

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Business Green

APRIL 6, 2020

Renewable electricity capacity growth slowed just a touch in 2019, yet still made up almost three quarters of all new power capacty that came into operation worldwide last year, according to the latest data released today by the International Renewable Energy Association (IRENA). according to IRENA. Overall, renewables capacity expanded by 7.6

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altenergymag

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

In 2019, tariffs continued to be a drag on jobs, preventing us from seeing the kind of growth we expected. This report represents modest growth in the solar job market, which contracted in 2017 due to the looming threat of the tariffs and again in 2018 during the first year of the tariffs.

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Business Green

JULY 30, 2020

Yet more clean power records were sent tumbling last year, with the latest official statistics released today showing sources of renewable electricity for the first time ever provided more than a third of the UK's electricity in 2019. per cent of UK electricity during the 2019 calendar year, up from 33.1

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