By [email protected] Cities are playing a noticeable role in cutting U.S. carbon emissions, but their overall performance is mixed. Since the Trump administration pulled back from national climate leadership, more local actors have taken the initiative. Eight states and several territories have passed laws to eliminate carbon from their power systems, and some have targeted…
By [email protected] Most U.S. voters now favor action on climate change. But even if November brings a win for Joe Biden, who has vowed to transition the country’s electricity system to carbon-free sources by 2035, significant policy changes are far from a given. Enacting climate and clean energy legislation is expected to be a bitter…
By [email protected] (Stephen Edelstein) New Jersey might be the next state to ban sales of new gasoline and diesel cars. Last month, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed an executive order banning sales of new internal-combustion cars by 2035; and now a report from the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) recommends that lawmakers in…
By [email protected] Over the past half-decade, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has consistently won court battles upholding its authority over states to set the rules for how distributed energy resources can play in wholesale energy markets. Now FERC is being asked to put that authority to a new use: ending a decade-old provision allowing individual…
By FORESIGHT Contributor Solar players in South Korea have filed an unprecedented legal challenge against the government for its support of biomass generation. As the European Commission prepares to reopen its own Renewable Energy Directive, Joojin Kim, from Seoul-based NGO Solutions for Our Climate explains the background to the South Korean case Burning wood as…
By Joe Deely With the closure of Boardman coal plant, Oregon will no longer have any in-state coal plants. Great news. Note: Oregon will still import coal from other Western states – primarily the remaining two units at the Colstrip plant in Montana. By Oregon law this will need to stop by 2035.With the continued…
By [email protected] In a year when clean energy and clean vehicle jobs were supposed to increase by some 175,000, we are down by half a million jobs. On this episode of The Energy Gang, we will tell you why, and explain the numbers. What will reverse the decline? Then: Did New Jersey just pass the…
By Michael Mazengarb NSW Land and Environment court overturns NSW planning commission’s refusal of Crookwell 3 wind farm, located in heart of Angus Taylor’s electorate. The post Crookwell 3 wind farm gets green light, after court overturns planning refusal appeared first on RenewEconomy. Read Full Article Here For more great articles: Renew Economy
By [email protected] The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has issued an order that could allow mid-Atlantic grid operator PJM to restart the country’s biggest capacity auction by mid-2021 after a two-year delay. But FERC’s order will still force state-subsidized resources to use administratively set minimum prices that could bar them from clearing PJM’s market, a fact…
By Kelsey Misbrener The Center for Biological Diversity sued the U.S. Department of Energy for failing to release records about the agency’s collaboration with utility companies and the fossil fuel industry on an important, publicly funded study about the reliability and resiliency of North America’s power grid. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in…
By National Wind Watch CLINTON – A lawsuit opposing development of an industrial wind complex in northwest DeWitt County has been filed on behalf of 69 constituents against the DeWitt County Board and Enel Energy, owner of Alta Farms II. “This was something we wanted to avoid, but at this point, we have no choice,”…
By Simon Goess Draft law on the fast trackOn 14 September 2020, the German Ministry for Economic Affairs (BMWi) started the official hearing and public feedback process on the draft law . The 164-page draft law can be found here.However, the associations and the federal states only had time until Thursday, September 17 to submit…
By Simon Goess EEG Amendment 2021 in developmentOn the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the German Renewable Energy Act (EEG) there will be an amendment. And that amendment is indeed necessary because of changed market conditions and necessary higher climate efforts. The draft law entered the public consultation phase in mid-September 2020. The new…
By Rafael Herzberg Heads up: Energy AdvisorA powerful “tool” for companies, whether suppliers or demanders of energy, is contracting an Energy Advisor.The focus is on strategies that deserve to be considered to reach and maintain a leading position in the market, covering technical, legal, market, financial, commercial and management issues.It is a simple and innovative…
By Joel Stronberg Why are we concerned about the balance of the political leanings of the justices of the Supreme Court of the United States? And do the justices always stick to a conservative or liberal stance when deciding cases? How should we look at the path of climate change in our society with a…