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The 30 Million Solar Homes Implementation Guide is a companion piece to the 30 Million Solar Homes policy platform — developed by the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, Solar United Neighbors, and the Initiative for Energy Justice — and our recent report, The National Impact of 30 Million Solar Homes. The policy platform identifies new and existing federal policies and programs that could catalyze widespread and equitable adoption of rooftop and community solar, to power the equivalent of one in four households across the United States.
The success of this proposal relies not only on the initial passing of …
View Full ResourceCalifornia has set forth an ambitious goal of generating all of its electricity from clean and carbon-free technologies by the year 2045. The state is planning for this target, outlined in California Senate Bill 100, to be met primarily by several renewable sources like solar, land-based wind, geothermal, along with energy storage and other zero-carbon technologies. Wind energy has long been proven to be a technologically feasible and economically viable option. Moreover, momentum is increasing to include California’s offshore wind (OSW) energy as a complement to the state’s current renewable energy and storage resources.
In this report, we provide a …
View Full ResourceOn May 25, 2021, the Biden Administration and the State of California jointly announced their intent to advance floating offshore wind in two locations along California’s coast—a 399 square mile area located offshore of Morro Bay and an area offshore of Humboldt—with lease auctions expected in 2022. This followed on the heels of a federal announcement in late March establishing a nationwide offshore wind energy target of 30 GW by 2030. Offshore wind could become an essential piece of California’s renewable energy puzzle while delivering on multiple statewide goals, from tackling climate change and addressing environmental justice to building a …
View Full ResourceGrowth in U.S. shale gas production has driven the development of natural gas pipelines from producing regions to consuming markets, typically in different states. If long-term growth trends in U.S. shale gas continue, the need for new pipelines could be substantial. One recent analysis by the pipeline industry projected over 30 billion cubic feet per day of new pipeline capacity would be needed through 2025. This new infrastructure could amount to several thousand miles of additional interstate pipeline and on the order of $40 billion in capital investment.
Under the Natural Gas Act, companies seeking to build interstate natural gas …
View Full ResourceOn March 26, 2021, Massachusetts Governor Baker signed legislation, “An Act Creating a Next-Generation Roadmap for Massachusetts Climate Policy” (“the Act”). The Act amends the state’s Global Warming Solutions Act (GWSA) and directs state agencies to set interim economy-wide greenhouse gas emissions limits, as well as sector-based emissions sublimits for certain sectors, every five years. It codifies the state’s long-term emissions limit of net-zero emissions by 2050 and directs the adoption of a 2030 emissions limit of “at least 50 percent below 1990 levels” and a 2040 emissions limit of “at least 75 percent below 1990 levels.” The Act also …
View Full ResourceBuilding our nation’s resilience is an urgent priority. Our vulnerability to the stresses and shocks of climate change threatens US food, energy, water, transportation, and health security, imperiling our economy and our very well-being as a nation.
Our economy has never been more vulnerable to climate disasters such as droughts, flooding, storms, wildfires, and extreme weather like hurricanes and arctic storms. The consequences of this fragility disproportionally affect those already vulnerable or marginalized by structural economic, social, racial, and environmental inequities.
The Biden-Harris Administration’s ambitious commitment to tackle the climate crisis offers a timely and unprecedented opportunity to address this …
View Full ResourceThe energy market in the United States is changing with growing community and economic pressures, and coal-fired power plants across the country are shutting down (Delta Institute 2018). Cleanup, demolition, and reclamation of coal-fired power plants will accelerate over the next decade as renewable energy development grows, and carbon dioxide emissions are reduced to counter the impacts of climate change. This supplemental report is part of the economic impact analysis of “Clean Closure” at the Michigan City NIPSCO facility described in KirK Engineering.
NIPSCO’s Michigan City Generating Station is located within the Michigan City municipal boundary and governed under local …
View Full ResourceThis report is a guide and reference for policymakers leading this transition and serves as a companion to the 2035 2.0 Report. The policy recommendations in this report are designed primarily to achieve the 100 percent EV sales by 2030/2035 targets from the 2035 2.0 Report DRIVE Clean Scenario, while also addressing social equity. We highlight the near-, mid-, and long-term actions that the federal government, states, local governments, and utilities should take to: 1) accelerate the transportation sector’s transition away from fossil fuels within the decade; and, 2) overcome the most common barriers to transportation electrification.
The policy and …
View Full ResourceFossil fuels — coal, oil, and gas — lie at the heart of the crises we face, including public health, racial injustice, and climate change. This report synthesizes existing research and provides new analysis that finds that the fossil fuel industry contributes to public health harms that kill hundreds of thousands of people in the U.S. each year and disproportionately endanger Black, Brown, Indigenous, and poor communities. President Joe Biden and the 117th Congress have a historic opportunity to improve public health, tackle the climate crisis, and confront systemic racism at the same time by phasing out fossil fuel production …
View Full ResourcePresident Biden’s climate plan calls for ambitious carbon emissions reductions with an emphasis on environmental justice and well-paying jobs. The solar industry strongly and unequivocally supports all of these endeavors.
The U.S. solar industry offers well-compensated jobs with room for growth. Since 2010, the number of solar jobs has grown from 93,000 to 250,000 – spanning sales and distribution, construction and development, manufacturing, and operations/maintenance. Over the next several years, as solar deployment continues to ramp up in response to consumer demand and climate goals, the industry anticipates creating hundreds of thousands of new careers that reflect the diversity of …
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