Business Green

JANUARY 22, 2021

It also argued wind and solar power would be more cost-effective for bill payers compared to new gas power capacity. However, natural gas will still provide a reliable source of energy while we develop and deploy low carbon alternatives that can replicate its role in the electricity system.".

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Patrick Parenteau , Vermont Law School and Rachel Stevens , Vermont Law School. Puerto Rico adopted laws that called for generating 15% of its electricity from renewable sources by 2020, 40% by 2025, 60% by 2040 and 100% by 2050. Federal law requires weighing the options.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 20, 2021

Renewable energy’s rapid growth is accelerating a national shift to a carbon-free electric power system. and Puerto Rico have adopted laws or executive orders setting goals for reaching 100% clean electricity by 2050 or sooner. This drop happened thanks to policy, market and technology drivers. And 46 U.S. The other 50%.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 17, 2021

energy , including 12 percent of its natural gas, 24 percent of its oil and 43 percent of its coal. By contrast, sites primarily consisting of Bureau of Land Management projects — an Interior-managed department — produce only 1 percent of the country’s wind and virtually none of its solar power. Policy & Politics.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 22, 2020

The APS commitment is notable in that Arizona has not passed sweeping climate or carbon policy at the state level. Yet clean energy policy has gained traction in other forums, like a recent unsuccessful ballot initiative and in deliberations at the Arizona Corporation Commission, the elected utility regulatory body. Guldner asked.

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Clean Energy Trust

JUNE 9, 2020

May Cleantech Roundup: COVID & EVs | Enormous Storage Investments | Scooter Consolidation | Insanely Cheap Solar Clean Energy Trust’s cleantech roundup highlights interesting cleantech news and perspective, across industry, technology, policy, and investing. In this future, the natural gas infrastructure could be pretty useful.

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GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

As the North American program manager for the Climate Group’s EV100 program, Badalian works to get large companies to commit to 100 percent electric mobility by 2030, then helps them replace global fleets with electric vehicles, deploy charging stations and affect government policy. Solar is a new technology to be able to do so.".

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 26, 2021

New research asserts most have undermined those goals by keeping coal plants running and building new natural gas plants meant to operate for decades to come. utilities that still rely on coal and natural gas for most of their generation capacity. All but one call for new natural gas plants.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 17, 2021

energy , including 12 percent of its natural gas, 24 percent of its oil and 43 percent of its coal. By contrast, sites primarily consisting of Bureau of Land Management projects — an Interior-managed department — produce only 1 percent of the country’s wind and virtually none of its solar power. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.)

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 21, 2020

But the tax-credit extensions contained in the bill could provide a significant boost for the primary federal incentive structure for wind and solar power by extending the expiration dates set by Congress late last year. energy sector, said Ravi Manghani, head of solar research for Wood Mackenzie. Action by the U.S.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

But the debate over controversial energy legislation in North Carolina shows how companies like DuPont, Chemours, and Georgia Pacific are increasingly aligned with environmental groups on utility policy. For decades, the provision favored fossil fuel plants over more expensive wind and solar farms. New competition for natural gas.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 17, 2021

As the North American program manager for the Climate Group’s EV100 program, Badalian works to get large companies to commit to 100 percent electric mobility by 2030, then helps them replace global fleets with electric vehicles, deploy charging stations and affect government policy. “Solar is a new technology to be able to do so.”

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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. Dominion also gets more than one-third of its energy from nuclear power.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Plenty of industry observers and critics have pointed out the gaps between utilities’ 2050 net-zero carbon goals and their short- and long-term resource plans, many of which call for continued buildout of natural gas-fired power plants. Natural gas and oil pipelines also saw setbacks.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 22, 2020

As with most investor-owned utilities, NextEra has been much less supportive of policies that permit its customers to be paid for the solar they put on their roofs. However, with Democrats taking control of the state legislature in November, Dominion's hold on state energy policy has been challenged.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 16, 2024

For fossil fuel ideologues, sowing misinformation about wind and solar power is proving to be an effective stall tactic. In order for the Biden administration to hit its goal of a 100 percent clean power grid by 2035, the nation needs to rapidly increase the rate of new wind and solar power installations.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 18, 2020

So finds a new report from Wood Mackenzie analyzing the investments and policy changes needed for the U.S. power grid, particularly if targeting a 10-year timeframe,” said Aaron Barr, the report’s author and principal consultant with WoodMac’s Energy Transition Practice. New policies to get to 50 percent.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Tuesday’s letter takes up three ISO-NE policies for specific critique. The first is called Competitive Auctions With Sponsored Policy Resources, or CASPR ( PDF ), a complicated effort to balance zero-marginal-cost wind and solar power against fossil fuel and nuclear-powered generators in ISO-NE’s forward capacity auction.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 20, 2021

refineries, and halting oil and gas leasing in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Trump’s decision to back out of the Paris accord, and his administration’s support of policies supporting the growth of fossil fuel industries, has not stopped the U.S. shift away from coal and natural gas.

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