Tag: transmission lines
Plans For A New US Wind Energy “Superhighway” Persist Despite New Hurdles
A new attempt to quash the on-again, off-again Grain Belt Express wind energy transmission project has failed to hit the mark.
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Maine Focuses On Renewables Even As Trump Revokes Climate Policies
You might think that the Trump administration’s rejection of all things climate-related might cause states to pause their original clean energy goals. Not so in Maine, where Governor Janet Mills recently signed legislation to codify and fast-track the state’s transition to 100% clean energy. The law, which advances Maine’s previous … [continued]
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Ohio PUC Sets New Rules For Data Centers
The demand for new electricity to serve data centers is exploding and no one seems to care about how much pollution that will cause.
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Climate Communication Reimagined: Appealing Across Moral Foundations
Recently, while deeply engaged in energy transition scenario planning with TenneT for the Netherlands’ decarbonization by 2050, I found myself considering again the lessons of Jonathan Haidt’s 2012 book, The Righteous Mind, a book I recently read for the first time. Haidt’s insights into the moral foundations that underpin human … [continued]
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Clean Energy Experts Say It’s Time To Move Beyond LCOE
A growing number of energy experts are urging policymakers and industry leaders to retire the Levelized Cost of Electricity (LCOE) as the go-to metric for comparing clean energy technologies. A new report from the Clean Air Task Force (CATF), Beyond LCOE: A Systems-Oriented Perspective for Evaluating Electricity Decarbonization Pathways, argues … [continued]
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