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Is Carbon Management the Key to Reaching Net Zero?

May 28, 2022 admin Carbon Capture, Commentary, Legal & Regulatory, legal and regulatory, Morgan Lewis

Credit to Author: Kirstin Gibbs| Date: Mon, 23 May 2022 20:48:51 +0000

Iowa-based Summit Carbon Solutions last year announced plans to develop a new carbon capture and storage project across the Midwest. The project seeks to capture carbon dioxide emissions that otherwise would be emitted into the atmosphere from biorefineries, such as ethanol plants, compress the captured carbon dioxide, and transport it through a pipeline to North […]

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Is Carbon Management the Key to Reaching Net Zero?

May 28, 2022 admin Carbon Capture, Commentary, Legal & Regulatory, legal and regulatory, Morgan Lewis

Credit to Author: Kirstin Gibbs| Date: Mon, 23 May 2022 20:48:51 +0000

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Three Ways Utilities Can Accelerate EV Adoption

May 11, 2022 admin Business, Commentary, distributed energy, Electric vehicles, evs, Infrastructure, sap, utilities

Credit to Author: Michael O’Donnell| Date: Wed, 11 May 2022 17:52:47 +0000

Electric vehicles are coming. Do you hear them? (Probably not.) The exact speed of our collective embrace of electric vehicles (EVs) will vary around the country—due to factors such as EV familiarity, vehicle availability, purchase prices and incentives—but the cars are coming down the road at a steady clip. In the immediate future, U.S. President […]

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The POWER Interview: Importance of Pricing Data for Renewable Energy

May 4, 2022 admin Commentary, Interview, pricing, renewable energy, Renewables, resurety, Solar, Wind

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Wed, 04 May 2022 13:13:42 +0000

The highs and lows of markets for renewable energy are driving more interest in granular pricing data. Any company embarking on a new project must do its research to ensure that it calculates the proceeds based on the right financial information. With so much data now readily available, it’s more important than ever to use […]

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Natural Gas Bans Expensive, and Would Impact Electric Grid Reliability

May 1, 2022 admin Commentary, electrification, Environmental, Gas, hybrid power, institute for energy research, natural gas, point-counterpoint

Credit to Author: Mary Hutzler| Date: Mon, 02 May 2022 04:11:00 +0000

Major cities including San Francisco, Seattle, Denver, and New York have either enacted or proposed measures to ban or discourage the use of natural gas in new homes and buildings, just a few years after

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White House Calls on Defense Production Act to Bolster EV Battery Supply

April 21, 2022 admin batteries, biden, Commentary, Electric vehicles, evs, Legal & Regulatory, minerals

Credit to Author: POWER| Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2022 13:23:31 +0000

When the White House signed an executive order to get to 50% electric vehicle (EV) sales share by 2030 while relying on American manufacturing, there were some serious concerns about whether the U.S. could make that many EVs, and then create the infrastructure in time to support that many new EVs on the road. COMMENTARY […]

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California and Oregon Sail Forward on Offshore Wind

April 1, 2022 admin California, Commentary, Legal, Legal & Regulatory, offshore wind, Oregon, regulatory, stoel rives

Credit to Author: POWER| Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2022 04:09:00 +0000

The Biden administration in 2021 announced its goal of developing 30 GW of offshore wind energy by 2030. Deep water off the West Coast means that any wind energy generation on this side of the U.S. must float

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Leading an Energy Company in the Aftermath of Russia’s Attack on Ukraine

March 7, 2022 admin bp, Canada, ceos, Commentary, Energy, rosneft, Russia, Ukraine, war

Credit to Author: Donna Kennedy-Glans| Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2022 16:57:23 +0000

CEOs of energy companies with projects in Russia are facing career-defining leadership moments. What do you do when your corporate investments nearly overnight become politically, economically and socially untenable to your key stakeholders? Within days of Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, BP’s Chief Executive Bernard Looney was quick out of the gate to tell the world […]

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Minerals Crucial to Clean Energy Transition Among Ripple Effects of War in Ukraine

March 4, 2022 admin clean energy, climate commodities, Commentary, minerals, renewable energy, Renewables, Russia, Ukraine, war

Credit to Author: POWER| Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2022 17:52:09 +0000

The venerable business of commodity trading, already in the news for the supply chain impacts of COVID, has moved to center stage with the war in Ukraine. Impacts of Russia’s invasion could ripple to manufacturing of all kinds, especially the clean energy transition we need to meet climate goals. COMMENTARY Within the first week of […]

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Wind Power Developers Encouraged by Findings on Bald Eagle Population

February 11, 2022 admin bald and golden eagle protection act, bald eagle, Commentary, Development, endangered species, golden eagle, good steward legal, Legal & Regulatory, renewable energy, u.s. fish and wildlife service, Wind, wind power

Credit to Author: Jared Wigginton| Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2022 15:06:32 +0000

In the race to generate and distribute renewable energy, developers must clear numerous regulatory hurdles. For many projects, this may include obtaining a voluntary “incidental take” permit under the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act (BGEPA). The BGEPA incidental take permitting program has frustrated both developers and operators due to, among other things, uncertainty of […]

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