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Comment: UK leaders need to embrace the cost of Britain’s green future

Envirotec Magazine

Vince Zabielski is a Partner with law firm Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman. What fate awaits the power sector under what will likely be a Labour government, and why is the question so important? What fate awaits the power sector under what will likely be a Labour government, and why is the question so important?

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ComEd Agrees to $200M Fine on Federal Bribery Charge

GreenTechMedia

ComEd was able to convince some pro-clean energy groups to include this so-called “fixed resource requirement” proposal in a state bill called the Clean Energy Jobs Act (CEJA), which combines a mandate for 100 percent renewables by 2050 with other carbon reduction, electric transportation and job creation policies.

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New Jersey’s PSEG Seeks to Sell Merchant Fossil, Solar Fleet

GreenTechMedia

New Jersey utility Public Service Enterprise Group (PSEG), facing state clean energy mandates and an economic imperative to shift its business to regulated assets, is seeking to exit its merchant fossil and solar generation business, while retaining its nuclear power plants and exploring a major expansion into offshore wind.

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ComEd Bribery Scandal Clouds Picture for Exelon’s Illinois Nuclear Plants

GreenTechMedia

” At the same time, Crane noted the company is “in the middle of trying to work through legislative strategy in Illinois” that would offer its nuclear power plants in the state an alternative path to earning capacity market revenue that is seen as a critical component of their future financial viability.

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

Envirotec Magazine

However, the plant has faced a string of delays and has yet to produce any electricity. Since the MGT Teesside plant was awarded its CfD, the Government has agreed that this type of power plant does not meet the official definition of low-carbon electricity. MWh at current rates.

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Renewables are 87% of new U.S. generating capacity so far this year

Renewable Energy World

electrical generating capacity additions during the first three-quarters of 2021. [1]. available installed generating capacity – a share significantly greater than that of coal (18.88%) and more than three times that of nuclear power (8.32%). biomass, geothermal, hydropower) dominated new U.S. respectively. ” .

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Treasury Department Announces Second Round of Section 48C Tax Credit for Clean Energy Manufacturing Facilities

38 North Solutions

Expired since 2013, the law provides $10 billion in credits for qualifying advanced energy projects, $4 billion of which must be allocated projects located in energy communities. Refurbishes an industrial or manufacturing facility with equipment designed to reduce GHG emissions by at least 20 percent through the installation of: a.

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