GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 4, 2020

Exelon may be forced to close its Illinois nuclear plants if state legislation is not passed to bolster their eroding financial prospects. But subsidiary utility Commonwealth Edison’s involvement in a bribery scandal has complicated this and other key policy efforts in its home state.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 12, 2020

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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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Accelerating the build-out of clean energy will reduce costs and make the UK more secure, write Josh Freed and Isabelle Chan of US think tank Third Way, which released a new policy paper on the topic on 29 September. With the right national policies, this shift could also spur a reindustrial revolution.

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The Verge: Energy

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Moreover, it can run on electricity generated by renewables or carbon-free nuclear energy. The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law also set aside $8 billion to create hydrogen production ‘hubs’ across the US. And by 2028, the electricity would need to be generated within the same hour it’s used to power the electrolyzer. “No

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 21, 2020

They could also set the industries in a more advantageous position to seek further federal policy support as President-elect Joe Biden takes office and seeks to implement ambitious decarbonization goals for the U.S. Absent any future changes in law, the PTC will be reduced to zero starting in 2022. Action by the U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

In October 2015, Cameron and China’s President Xi Jinping signed another deal for China General Nuclear Power Group (CGN) to take a one-third stake in the new Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant. nuclear plant built with Chinese investment as lawmakers question the security implications. and Europe?

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 23, 2020

Saturday marked the one-year anniversary of the passage of perhaps the most ambitious law ever adopted by a U.S. Local Law 97, one of 10 bills in the sweeping Climate Mobilization Act , requires New York City’s 50,000 largest buildings to reduce their carbon emissions by 40 percent by 2030 and by 80 percent by 2050.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 24, 2019

An effort to overturn Ohio’s controversial nuclear bailout law via voter referendum suffered a setback this week, after a federal judge denied the group's request for more time to collect signatures to put it before state voters next year. A high-stakes energy policy battle turns nasty. District Judge Edmund A.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 29, 2020

Tucson Electric Power on Friday released a long-term energy plan that calls for closing its remaining coal plants by 2032, on the way to 70 percent renewables by 2035. Colorado wants to get half of its power from renewable by 2030 and 90 percent by 2050. Arizona’s transition from coal to renewables and batteries.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Companies need to be informed as new policies are enacted across the globe and ensure their practices abide by these changes. Many businesses have faced instability and uncertainty over the last few years from the combined impact of shifts in power, the U.K.’s Competition Law and Sustainability Agreements. In the U.S.,

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

A transition toward 100 percent clean electricity is underway in the United States, led by cities and states across the country. These distinctions will carry a lot of weight as the policy discussion shifts from setting goals to actually meeting targets. 100% targets come in different forms. Washington D.C.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 26, 2021

The analysis underscores the gap between the policy imperatives of the environmental community and the Biden-Harris administration, which has set a goal of zero carbon emissions from the U.S. electricity sector by 2035, and the cost imperatives of U.S. Wind and solar power accounted for just above 10 percent of U.S.

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Climate Tech VC

MARCH 4, 2024

  In other news the EU parliament passed a law to restore 20% of the EU’s land and sea by 2030, England requires all new buildings to improve biodiversity, and the US Congress finds something they can agree on with nuclear policy, while the SEC may be set to announce watered down rules on reporting. 

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 17, 2020

While the details are complex and still in development, their result would be to force administratively set minimum prices on future wind and solar resources, energy efficiency, demand response, and nuclear power plants in PJM's capacity market. The particular threat for Illinois.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 1, 2020

For the past nine years, Chicago-based utility ComEd has earned excessive profits from a regulatory structure set in place by a 2011 state law whose passage has been linked to a bribery scandal that’s embroiled key state lawmakers and ComEd’s former CEO. ComEd’s current $9.53

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38 North Solutions

MAY 3, 2024

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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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Under that plan, offshore wind farms will almost certainly be priced out of the market, but state-subsidized onshore wind, solar power, nuclear power and demand-side resources may be able to win approval for bids low enough to clear. Solar and wind power trade groups also support a quick resumption of the auction.

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38 North Solutions

JULY 30, 2022

Some credits—such as the electric vehicle (“EV”) credit–remain unchanged throughout the ten-year bill. Clean Electricity Grants and Loans. -$40 Should this bill become law, from 2022-2024, these credits are extended and restored to their full value. ZERO EMISSION NUCLEAR POWER PRODUCTION CREDIT. Cost/Savings.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 14, 2020

Southeastern utilities including Duke Energy, Dominion and Southern Company unveiled plans to create the region’s first market for trading electricity across interstate transmission lines, a move that could lead to lower wholesale energy costs as similar markets have accomplished in other parts of the country.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Much of the rest of its strategy pertains to grid investments and efficiency improvements for its transmission subsidiaries and its 10 electric distribution companies serving about 6 million customers in Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, West Virginia, Maryland and New York. and jointly owned by the state’s investor-owned utilities.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Like the production of electricity, Thanksgiving must become decentralized and distributed. Are we here to talk about constitutional law, or do I need to put some pants on? I don’t know about you, but I’m ready to demolish this meal like I’m FERC and the turkey is a state-level clean energy policy.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Pacific Gas & Electric won court approval this week for an amended bankruptcy reorganization plan that makes some concessions to California Gov. If we are not able to secure that deal, the state is prepared to take it over,” Newsom said at an energy and environmental policy event last week in Sacramento.

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Grist

MAY 20, 2020

But they have derided him for signing a sweeping rollback of Ohio’s clean energy policies, a measure critics called the “worst” anti-renewables law to pass in any state. The measure repealed Ohio’s renewable and energy efficiency standards and enabled more than $1 billion subsidies for the owners of aging coal and nuclear power plants.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 4, 2019

energy policy on behalf of the fossil fuel industry was a failure, however. Soon after, reports surfaced that DOE was seeking to use a federal law regarding emergency wartime industrial production to force through a similar policy. Perry’s most controversial effort to intervene in U.S.

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Clean Energy Trust

OCTOBER 8, 2021

| Changing Climate Change Beliefs This month, we’re highlighting big climate policy news in Illinois, how the battery materials supply chain is evolving, why sustainable aviation fuels may be a Goldilocks solution, and changing beliefs on climate change. There’s actually an opportunity for industry and policy alignment.

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Business Green

JUNE 4, 2021

Emissions from passenger cars in Europe have been rising for the past five years even despite growing demand for electric vehicles, in many cases due to increasing sales of carbon-intensive sports utility vehicles (SUVs) and other larger and heavier cars, the EEA said. Russian parliament approves law to limit greenhouse gas emissions.

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Business Green

JANUARY 19, 2021

But the Business Secretary emphasised that the Cumbria mine would produce coking coal for use in industrial manufacturing, and not for generating electricity from coal power plants, arguing steelmaking required coal in the short term and that it would be better for the climate to source such coal from the UK rather than abroad.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

MARCH 18, 2019

Another important element is to: work together on a mechanism or mechanisms to value the important attributes of [clean energy] resources, while ensuring consumers in any one state do not fund the public policy requirements mandated by another state’s laws. I support maintaining nuclear generation. Good luck with all that.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

The body also welcomed the passing of the UK's 2050 net zero target into law last year, as well as the government's plans to build 40GW of offshore wind capacity by 2030 and bring forward its proposed fossil fuel car phase out to 2035 at the latest. to switch off in January after the failure of a Western Link HVDC.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

API’s Climate Action Framework outlines the group’s preferred points of climate policy, including carbon capture projects akin to Exxon’s at Shute Creek , and Stein’s email clarifies that the industry’s climate priorities aim to keep positioning fossil gas as essential to the energy transition and climate action.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

A slow transition away from fossil fuels would be “more expensive” than a rapid shift to renewable energy, according to a new study, a conclusion that stands in sharp contrast to fossil fuel industry talking points aimed at heading off aggressive climate policy currently being shaped in Congress. trillion budget package. CC BY-NC 2.0).

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Climate Tech VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

It’s a superior electricity conductor, which makes it fundamental to power cables and wires, transformers and inverters, electrical motors, and photovoltaic cells.  🚗 Snap-E Cabs , a Kolkata, India-based electric cab service provider, raised $2m in Seed funding from Inflection Point Ventures.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 16, 2021

They have a mission that includes some aspects of sustainability and often have sustainability programs, policies and initiatives that require professionals to help implement and manage them. Some engineers work in manufacturing, for example, designing low-energy light bulbs, lighting systems or electric vehicles.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Amazon deforestation, coal legal challenges, and Nigeria's new climate law all feature in this week's BusinessGreen Global Briefing. Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari this week signed the country's first Climate Change Act into law , just days after the government announced a new target to deliver net zero emissions by 2060.

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Climate Tech VC

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Award winners took a broad swath of color approaches, from green hydrogen powering heavy-duty trucks and port operations, to pink nuclear-powered hydrogen, and blue hydrogen (natural gas with carbon capture) in the Appalachian Hub.  of global electricity.  to $86.83 / barrel.

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Business Green

AUGUST 17, 2022

Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss seek to burnish green policy credentials as Tory leadership contest edges towards final fortnight – but beyond the rhetoric, how much more have we learned?

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2023

It is a far from unsurprising message from Skidmore, who having signed the 2050 target into law, has long been a staunch advocate for an ambitious net zero agenda. All that is needed is more political urgency, policy clarity, and real world action to mobilise investment, drive clean tech deployment, accelerate the transition.

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