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UK waters are of international importance for the harbor porpoise, holding one of the highest percentages of animals of any European country. As with other cetaceans, these relatively shy animals use sound both to communicate and to find food, and are therefore particularly sensitive to man-made sounds introduced into the marine environment. These include the pulses of noise that spread out from installing pile-driven foundations during offshore wind farm construction. At the same time, an expansion of renewable energy working within environmental limits is essential to mitigate the long-term impacts of climate change, including to marine ecosystems. This new report, …
View Full ResourceA number of environmental groups in Canada and other countries have recently endorsed the “100% Clean and Renewable Wind, Water and Sunlight (WWS)” vision articulated in reports written by Mark Jacobson, Mark Delucci and others. This vision seeks to eliminate the use of all fossil fuels (coal, oil and natural gas) in the world by 2050. Jacobson, Delucci et. al. have published “all-sector energy roadmaps” in which they purport to show how each of 139 countries could attain the WWS goal. The purpose of this paper is to examine whether the 100% goal is feasible.
While a range of renewable …
View Full ResourceThis report responds to a letter dated August 16, 2010, from Janice Mays, Staff Director of the U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on Ways and Means, requesting that the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) analyze several provisions included in the July 26, 2010, discussion draft of the Domestic Manufacturing and Energy Jobs Act of 2010. In this request (including supplemental information from Committee staff), EIA was asked to analyze five specific provisions of the discussion draft: an extension of the tax credit for manufacturers of energy efficient appliances (section 102); the establishment of Home Energy Conservation Bonds (HECBs) (section 301); …
View Full ResourceThe U.S. energy sector is undergoing a fundamental transition to a cleaner and more distributed future. Increasingly favorable economics, corporate commitments, and state and federal actions, like the enactment of the Inflation Reduction Act, are all spurring the deployment of renewable energy resources.
Included in this trendline:
– Renewable energy M&A is entering a new paradigm, LevelTen Energy says
– Solar PPA prices are creeping up again, but it’s mostly because of conditions in a single state
– Louisiana colleges aim to build state’s offshore economy into a nerve center for wind energy…
Plummeting prices for wind, solar and storage have made them the cheapest choice for almost all new power projects. And yet, renewables still aren’t growing fast enough to meet our climate goals because financing risk continues holding them back. New Energy Innovation research highlights the biggest financing risks renewable projects face and how public policy can overcome them. Mitigating financing risk can lower renewable energy costs by up to 50 percent while speeding up deployment.
Because of significant reductions in the cost of clean energy, economics are no longer the prime barrier to expanding clean energy: Solar, onshore and offshore …
View Full ResourceIn 2021, the US Department of Energy (DOE) launched its Energy Earthshots Initiative, a novel and innovative approach to catalyze decarbonization across some of the hardest to abate sectors of our economy. These ‘Earthshots’ are meant to tackle the toughest remaining scientific and technical barriers to deploying the technologies we need to rapidly reduce emissions. Modeled after the wildly successful 2011 SunShot Initiative, the current Earthshots set aggressive cost targets for seven critical areas: hydrogen, carbon removal, long duration energy storage, enhanced geothermal, floating offshore wind, low-carbon industrial heat, and clean fuels and products. These goals are ambitious, well-thought-out, and …
View Full ResourceThe IRA is expected to spur development of clean energy technologies across the country by providing lucrative tax credits and helping developers lower their levelized cost of electricity (LCOE). However, in New York, lower LCOE will be accompanied by falling Index REC payments from the state. Consequently, while some projects will see appreciable gains in net profitability, a majority will see only marginal impacts. We find that developers of onshore wind upstate, and well-sited solar downstate and Long Island, stand to benefit the most from the IRA. After ITC and PTC, some projects—under certain scenarios—may find merchant revenues more than …
View Full ResourceThe transition to a clean energy economy is not just critical for addressing climate change, but it is also an opportunity to spur American economic growth, create millions of jobs, and cement America’s position as a global leader in the clean energy marketplace.
In the second installment of a report commissioned by Third Way and Breakthrough Energy, Boston Consulting Group (BCG) examines four additional emerging clean technologies, for a total of ten, that are set to play a major role in the energy transition: geothermal, carbon capture utilization and storage (CCUS), offshore wind, and solar. Analysts studied the value chain …
View Full ResourceThe purpose of Energinet’s system perspective analyses is to analyse possible long-term development processes for the energy system as a unified system, and to provide input based on this to the long-term planning of electricity and gas infrastructure and the broad system development necessary to handle the significant transformation that the energy system is facing.
The base case assumptions of this analysis is the expectation of how the Danish energy system will look in 2030, following implementation of the initiatives from the Danish Climate Agreement on green power and heating 2022 (June 2022), and Analysis assumptions 2022. The analysis is …
View Full ResourceNational Grid is announcing our vision to fully eliminate fossil fuels from both our gas and electric systems by 2050 – sooner if possible – setting clear and measurable milestones along the way.
We are making this fossil-free announcement because we share our communities’ concerns about climate change. National Grid is proud of our role in helping Massachusetts and New York consistently rank at or near the top nationally in energy efficiency programs, electric vehicles on roads, solar installations, planned offshore wind, and environmental stewardship. In addition to this track record of success, the states in which we operate have …
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