The Guardian: Energy

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Chris Skidmore is a former energy minister Last week’s announcement that the government would delay key net-zero targets came as a surprise to anyone who has followed the policy. Up until recently, Britain was the global leader in offshore wind power. So why is the government rowing back on its green pledges? It is now China.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 28, 2021

However, because of the complexity of how schools are financed, the impact on student achievement is limited , according to a new study that we conducted as researchers in public finance , education economics and energy policy. Windfall of wind taxes. When priorities and policies collide. About the Authors.

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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2021

The government is failing to back up its climate commitments with credible action, with almost all its green policy efforts marred by uncertainty, delay, and a insufficient engagement with the public about the scale of changes ahead, and time rapidly running out for Ministers to get the UK's net zero agenda on track.

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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. ” Wind tax credit impacts. Wind power will also benefit from the tax extensions provided for in the bill.

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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

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Barring significant changes in policies or trends, U.S. laws and regulations as of May 2021, and incorporates existing international laws. laws and regulations as of May 2021, and incorporates existing international laws. Follow @EngelsAngle.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 3, 2019

For the first time, Pacific Northwest and Rocky Mountain utility PacifiCorp is planning to rely on massive amounts of solar PV and batteries, as well as wind power, for a large share of its long-term energy needs. The Wyoming Public Service Commission is in the midst of making rules to implement the law.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 16, 2021

However, in recent years, their economic competitiveness has improved significantly due to government policies and incentives, as well as technological advances. This has incentivized oil and gas majors such as BP, Equinor and Shell to invest in wind power generation. over the same period.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

That view is backed by Brattle Group studies, finding that a “network” approach to coordinating shared transmission infrastructure for offshore wind development in New York and New England could deliver hundreds of millions of dollars in savings. Merchant models vs. multi-party regulatory engagement. Getting FERC involved.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 19, 2024

There is still lots of uncertainty holding back investment in Alberta – the government’s policy announcement left out many details that may prevent regulatory approval decisions for months still,” said Jason Wang, senior analyst for the Pembina Institute’s electricity program. The UCP cherry picked the worst options as their preferred policy.”

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Telegraph columnists routinely questioned climate science and criticised green reforms as a major backlash against net zero policies raged in the UK, DeSmog can reveal. Wind power is not cheap or secure. percent) of the 1,930 opinion pieces reviewed by DeSmog featured an attack on climate science, policy or environmental groups.

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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

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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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

If Duke Energy avoids natural gas capacity additions and adds renewable energy and energy storage under a proposed North Carolina law, the utility could reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 74% over the next decade, according to a study. Follow @EngelsAngle. MMT in 2030, a 74% reduction from 2005 levels.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Others have attacked climate policies and blamed high energy bills on renewable power. These climate-wrecking policies won’t help our efforts to tackle the cost of living scandal and the energy crisis, they’ll totally undermine them. She has blamed previous energy bill rises on renewables. Let Them Eat Carbon’.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Danly issued a partial dissent to FERC’s carbon pricing policy statement, calling it “unnecessary and unwise.” Danly graduated from law school in 2013 and worked as a corporate energy lawyer before he was named general counsel at FERC in 2017. FERC decisions under fire from states with clean energy policies.

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 15, 2021

Lew Milford founded CEG in 1998, after working over several years on clean energy and utility restructuring dockets in New England while with the Conservation Law Foundation. With CEG, Milford focused on how state and communities could develop sound renewable energy policies, programs, and finance tools.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

DOE is powered by brilliant scientists, engineers, and energy policy experts who are the very best for the job we’ve been tasked with: to develop and deploy new clean energy technologies that will achieve the Administration’s goal of net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 and secure our nation’s future.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 14, 2020

government’s long-awaited energy white paper is out with confirmation of fresh negotiations with EDF over a new nuclear power station and a drive to push up the price of carbon. Those ideas now begin their journey into law, offering the energy sector some welcome certainty at the same time. the Saudi Arabia of wind power.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 23, 2021

It’s clear that a dedicated infrastructure is currently lacking, production costs outweigh less-clean competitors, and that government policy shows technology agnosticism is a myth. Policy-driven benefits. Strong, clear policy frameworks are key in meeting our ambitious renewable energy targets and are currently lacking.

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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

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

“The incentive structure for [heat pump water heaters] under SGIP still needs to be worked out because current storage incentives are designed for batteries and don’t work well if applied to HPWHs,” said Matt Vespa, a staff attorney with the non-profit environmental law organization Earthjustice.

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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. About the Authors.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 15, 2020

“This is a huge business risk,” Yoshinori Ueda, general manager of the Japan Wind Power Association (JWPA), said in an email. megawatts in size — will automatically qualify for the feed-in tariff, a briefing note from law firm Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe said.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Federal wildlife laws present significant obstacles to developing and operating wind energy and transmission projects. First , the Service rescinded the Trump administration’s lame-duck regulation concluding that the MBTA does not prohibit the incidental take of migratory birds caused by otherwise lawful actions.

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Grist

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Washington Governor Jay Inslee acknowledged a shortfall during a press conference last month: “Even with our best-in-the-nation laws, and even with federal action, we don’t have enough on the books today to actually reduce carbon at the pace we need to.”. Legislators in Washington state and Oregon approved long-stymied climate bills.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 20, 2020

Mid-Atlantic grid operator PJM has submitted a plan that wind and solar industry groups say might shield them from the most harmful effects of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission order that has upended the country’s biggest capacity market. Big roadblock for offshore wind.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 13, 2021

policy since the 1970s. Laws such as the National Environmental Policy Act and state equivalents provide for public involvement in decisions about many major projects. For example, utilities that want to build or expand a power plant often have to invite and consider public comments in order to obtain their permits.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

The financial sector is increasingly concerned about ownership of fossil fuel assets, particularly coal facilities, said B illy Pizer, vice president for research and policy engagement at the non-profit think thank Resources for the Future. Climate mandate. North Carolina Gov. Courtesy: North Carolina Governor's Office).

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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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Business Green

JUNE 4, 2021

Meanwhile, the EU is also continuing to develop proposals to implement a levy on imports of carbon intensive products, with an expectation that a carbon border tax plan could emerge in July that would mark a world first for such a policy. Russian parliament approves law to limit greenhouse gas emissions. Everyone wins.".

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

I am very supportive of renewables, I want us to do more on hydrogen, on wind power, on solar, as long as it is in the right place," she said. "[But] Truss has long been a vocal critic of 'red tape', particularly that of the EU, from where the UK has previously derived much of its environmental laws, regulations and legal principles.

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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. For wind power, the term "safe harbor" applies not to when projects are started but when they’re completed.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Along with other prominent Atlas Network affiliates, such as the Macdonald-Laurier Institute and the Montreal Economic Institute, the Fraser Institute is a leader in climate change denialism and it attacks any policies that would seek to mitigate climate change causes and effects. The Toronto Star article did not disclose these connections.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

“It is probably safe to assume that institutional investment has also experienced comparable growth in the past few years,” said Rabia Ferroukhi, Director of Knowledge at IRENA’s Policy and Finance Center. What’s more, between 2010 and 2020, the global weighted-average LCOE from onshore wind fell by 56%.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 20, 2020

We’ve also seen real support for various types of Green New Deal policies. Wind power, geothermal, hydro and biomass will provide substantial power in the coming decades. This is Swanson’s law in a nutshell. power at a substantial cost savings by 2035, down 15 years from the previous timeline of 2050.

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The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2022

In many countries, sustainable agriculture is being supported through policies and programs that provide financial incentives to farmers. And in some cases, sustainable agriculture is even being mandated by law. Renewable energy – Renewable energy sources like solar and wind power can be used to power agricultural operations.

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