Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

biomass, geothermal, hydropower) dominated new U.S. There were also small additions in 2021 by hydropower (28 MW), geothermal (25 MW), and biomass (14 MW). . “And this growth can only accelerate if recent COP26 commitments are kept and the proposed federal Build Back Better legislation is enacted into law.”

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Eco-Business

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

A new regulation - which allows hydropower and tourism resorts in national parks - highlights Nepal’s challenges as it seeks to consolidate its wildlife laws.

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 16, 2021

It is exciting to see the Department of Energy begin implementing this new law through this initiative to substantially reduce the cost of energy storage technologies, improve the efficiency of our nation’s electricity grid, and bring us closer to a clean energy future.”. providing shorter duration storage capabilities.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Katie Smith of law firm Reddie & Grose LLP examines where the approach fits into the energy storage landscape. Another energy storage option is pumped storage hydropower, which in 2019 accounted for 90% of the world’s energy storage for stationary applications [1]. Finally, the third stage is discharging.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 4, 2020

Utility Dominion Energy is planning a major shift toward renewable energy and batteries as it looks to comply with Virginia's ambitious new clean energy law. Under the law, Dominion Virginia and the smaller Appalachian Power Co.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 5, 2020

In the first global report on dam construction areas, it has been revealed that most governments are bypassing or rolling back laws in order to construct dams in these protected areas. For example, two hydropower projects in Romania pose a danger to Natura 2000 sites. Conservation Letters + WWF Image via Hans Linde.

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Business Green

JANUARY 19, 2023

Hydropower dam proposals have ballooned across the Balkans over the last two decades, as the leaders of some of Europe's poorest regions have looked to tap their abundant natural resources to secure access clean energy. But the picture is much more complicated. Clearly, England's rivers need all the help they can get.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 12, 2019

The proposals include a new climate law to be drafted within 100 days and stronger carbon taxes including the creation of so-called carbon borders. On Wednesday the European Commission presented a sweeping 50-point plan centered around achieving net zero status in Europe by 2050.

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The Verge: Energy

APRIL 24, 2024

In the winter, like a six-month period from June to December, many of the hydropower plants get surplus flows. That’s when we have low wind, but we have more hydropower. Why does Costa Rica rely so heavily on hydropower, which makes up 73 percent of electricity generation? Costa Rica lies in a tropical zone with heavy rainfall.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Given its de facto status as a sustainable industry, shareholders are more likely to demand transparency and accountability beyond that mandated by laws such as the U.K. Major community resistance against wind farms, and indeed other solar and hydropower projects, has resulted in significant financial costs to renewable sector investors.

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 4, 2021

Steve Carman is a Kansas City-based partner with the law firm Husch Blackwell LLP and leads the firm’s Energy & Natural Resources industry team. About the Author.

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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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Clean Energy Trust

DECEMBER 6, 2021

The bipartisan infrastructure bill was signed into law. Bukaty/AP A bad omen for the future: fossil fuel plant owners bankrolled a referendum in Maine to try and pass a ballot measure to kill a transmission line that would bring in zero-carbon hydropower from Canada. Infrastructure Month! Here’s a summary from Canary Media.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Next year, a recovery in nuclear and hydropower output from decade-low levels in 2022 should also help to narrow the expected gap in supply. The permitting process for new solar and wind farms also needs accelerating, while proposed changes to tax laws should be pushed through to help drive electrification of the economy, the IEA argued.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 4, 2021

Geothermal and hydropower plants can also support ecological regeneration. After a public backlash over the environmental impact of a hydropower project, Landsvirkjun redesigned its approach to renewable energy infrastructure projects.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

MARCH 4, 2019

Equipment subject to the SF6 Regulation are found at many renewable energy facilities that do not otherwise emit GHGs, such as wind, solar, hydropower, and geothermal facilities. Electrical transmission and distribution equipment, which use SF6 as an insulator, are the primary source of SF6 emissions in California.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

MARCH 4, 2019

Equipment subject to the SF6 Regulation are found at many renewable energy facilities that do not otherwise emit GHGs, such as wind, solar, hydropower, and geothermal facilities. Electrical transmission and distribution equipment, which use SF6 as an insulator, are the primary source of SF6 emissions in California.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

They were the first to get the go-ahead after Maine increased its renewable portfolio standard to 80 percent by 2030 in a suite of climate and clean energy laws signed last year. But hydropower and biomass dominate that total. Maine also set a goal of 100 percent renewable energy by 2050. Energy Information Administration.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2021

However, 13 percent of Shell’s posts focussed specifically on renewable energies such as wind, solar, and hydropower. Reacting to DeSmog’s findings, Karen Sokol, a professor at Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, said “the industry’s ‘climate and society friendly’ messaging is nothing new.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 13, 2021

Laws such as the National Environmental Policy Act and state equivalents provide for public involvement in decisions about many major projects. Environmental laws such as the Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act and Endangered Species Act also can affect energy-related projects. policy since the 1970s. Why do people oppose energy projects?

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 13, 2021

billion in Empire Wind last year, ahead of rivals in the race to supply New York with the carbon-free energy that under state law must constitute 70 percent of its generation by 2030 and 100 percent by 2040. Wednesday’s news puts Equinor and strategic partner BP , which invested $1.1

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Grist

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Seattle this year passed a law to phase out natural gas in new commercial establishments and large apartment buildings. Thanks to “fracking” technology that made natural gas cheap and abundant, its consumption went wild, along with methane leaks from gas pipes that further plague the climate. That’s begun in Cascadia.

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Global Renewable News

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Department of Energy (DOE) today (Oct.

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Business Green

MARCH 31, 2023

Businesses leaders urge EU committees to champion Nature Restoration Law An alliance of 12 major business networks is this week urging key European Parliament committees to support and strengthen a proposed Nature Restoration Law, which if passed would set out legally binding goals for restoring ecosystems and biodiversity.

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Global Renewable News

MARCH 2, 2023

Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Investment to.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 13, 2021

At least three proposed Canadian LNG projects are claiming they will be the cleanest LNG in the world , relying on renewable hydropower to power their liquefaction operations and otherwise using carbon offsets and carbon capture to partially mitigate their emissions. Premier John Horgan (left) announce plans to use hydropower at B.C.’s

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 20, 2021

and Puerto Rico have adopted laws or executive orders setting goals for reaching 100% clean electricity by 2050 or sooner. Renewable energy’s rapid growth is accelerating a national shift to a carbon-free electric power system. So far 17 states plus Washington, D.C., And 46 U.S. utilities have pledged to go carbon-free.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MARCH 10, 2021

The largest and one of the fastest emissions growing sectors in the study, power sector emissions were skewed by low availability of zero-carbon resources, including below average hydropower availability and the unexpected shutdown in 2012 of the San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MARCH 10, 2021

The largest and one of the fastest emissions growing sectors in the study, power sector emissions were skewed by low availability of zero-carbon resources, including below average hydropower availability and the unexpected shutdown in 2012 of the San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant.

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Climate Tech VC

JULY 14, 2023

Then I got interested in the legal aspects, so I went to law school and spent about 10 years as an energy attorney—first at Latham & Watkins and then at a hydropower startup, Cube Hydro, which sold to Ontario Power Generation for $1.2B. So I got a position at the Department of Energy in the Renewable Energy Office.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Around $15 billion would be spent on nuclear, renewables, storage, and hydropower over the same period, plus $33 billion on transmission and distribution infrastructure. Roy Cooper on Wednesday signed into law a bipartisan mandate that will require the state to reduce carbon emissions by 70% by 2030 and reach carbon neutrality by 2050.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

More traditional energy players such as the American Public Power Association, which represents nonprofit, community-owned utilities, and the National Hydropower Association also threw their weight behind the draft. Despite that support, renewable energy tax credits face an uphill battle to be passed.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 21, 2021

Related: Hydropower demand is damaging Indigenous lands The Sámi community lives in Norway, Finland, Sweden and Russia. They traditionally made their living through herding reindeer, and this practice is now protected by law. That’s not climate justice , that’s climate injustice.”

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Business Green

OCTOBER 1, 2021

"Greens and liberals have different preferences as to the mix of market-based instruments, subsidies and regulatory law to achieve carbon neutrality over the next few decades," Ottmar Edenhofer, director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research said. per cent last week, just four days after setting a new peak of 60.1

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Schumer’s office, the two-year extension of the federal Investment Tax Credit for solar projects will retain the current 26 percent credit for projects that begin construction through the end of 2022, rather than expiring at the end of 2020 as they would have under existing law. Action by the U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 26, 2021

The same challenges hold true for other utilities that don’t already get a significant share of their energy from hydropower or nuclear power, the two primary carbon-free resources in the country. Wind and solar power accounted for just above 10 percent of U.S. generation capacity in 2020, according to federal data.

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Business Green

JULY 3, 2020

Ireland's new coalition government has vowed to drastically strengthen the country's climate plans, promising to pass a new net zero emissions law within 100 days and deliver an ambitious green recovery plan. New Irish government to step up climate ambitions. complete renewables mega-deal.

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