Renewable Energy World

MAY 7, 2021

coal plants are either scheduled to close by 2025 or now cost more to operate than new nearby solar or wind power would, new research shows. The May 5 analysis comes from Energy Innovation: Policy & Technology, based in San Francisco. Roughly four-fifths of U.S. What’s more competitive in Ohio?

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Business Green

JANUARY 19, 2021

Criticism has also been levelled at Ministers for the on-going policy gap that needs to be bridged to get the UK on track to meet its short, medium, and long-term statutory emissions targets, with businesses awaiting a raft of key net zero strategies covering home heating, transport, heavy industry, and a raft of other areas.

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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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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. And in 2020, the U.S.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 4, 2021

Solar power plants can be built-in or near urban communities to ensure the power generated is accessible and affordable to renters and low-income households and also reduces environmental impacts. Block Island Wind Farm Run by 5 GE Haliade 150-6MW turbines (Courtesy: Ørsted). Across the U.S., Across the U.S.,

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The cornerstone of President Obama’s environmental legacy, the Clean Power Plan, was rooted in the Clean Air Act and created by the EPA. Biden’s pledge to advance his environmental agenda, through executive action if required, will also likely draw on that wide-reaching law. governments on energy issues.

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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.

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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. A decade of tumbling prices.

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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. ” Wind and solar energy to expand, with more third-party options.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 1, 2020

As with the last stimulus bill, the industry's plans center on securing changes to two federal policies: the Investment Tax Credit (ITC) for solar power and the Production Tax Credit (PTC) for wind power. Instead, they’re focusing on two key concepts.

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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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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 16, 2024

.” More recently, Morano has been talking about whales—specifically, the idea that the higher-than-usual number of dead ones washing ashore along the East Coast is the result of President Joe Biden’s push to develop 30 gigawatts of offshore wind power by the end of the decade.

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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. With just short of 800,000 customers, MidAmerican had more than 6,500 megawatts of wind power at the end of 2018 — or about 60 percent of its generation capacity.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 20, 2020

We’ve also seen real support for various types of Green New Deal policies. This annual update will focus on solar power, battery storage, EVs and self-driving technology. 2020 is the year that solar will surpass the global wind market on a cumulative installed basis. Solar power generated about 2.8

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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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Climate Tech VC

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

☀️ Aigen , a Kirkland, WA-based solar-powered autonomous robots developer, raised $12M in Series A funding from ReGen Ventures, New Enterprise Associates, Cleveland Ave, Incite, and Susquehanna Private Equity Investments. Big Oil spins whale deaths to stall wind power installations. Walewashing.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

If Republicans do keep control of the upper chamber of Congress, the options for Democrats to push through their wide-ranging energy and climate change policies will narrow significantly — even if Biden wins the election. Murkowski insisted the GOP is not opposed to what she termed "commonsense climate policies."

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

There are longstanding challenges to building transmission under these complicated regulatory regimes, which threaten to constrain onshore wind and solar power growth. Offshore wind adds even more complexity, since it involves both new offshore networks and hardening of onshore grids to absorb their power.

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Business Green

AUGUST 13, 2020

However, the election outcome will be significant for climate change, both in terms of policy and the potential effect on related investments. In the case of climate change the policy positions of the two parties are so different that the election outcome will be exceptionally important to the investment outlook for the companies affected.

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