Citizens’ Climate Lobby – Nevada – Page 14 – Political Will For Climate Solutions

Carbon Pricing

Shapiro Proposes Cap-and-trade, More Renewables for Pa.
ByAdmin March 20, 2024March 20, 2024

The governor is proposing the Pennsylvania Climate Emissions Reduction Act (PACER) to set up a cap-and-invest program.

Seventy percent of PACER’s benefits would be returned to end-use customers as rebates on their electric bill — a higher percentage than any cap-and-trade program in the country. PACER also would support projects that cut air pollution, further reduce customer energy bills and invest in new job-creating clean energy projects, including carbon capture and storage, geothermal, and clean hydrogen.

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Energy

LPO Announces $2.26B Loan to Nevada Lithium Plant
ByAdmin March 20, 2024March 20, 2024

A lithium processing plant that could help put 800,000 electric vehicles on the road per year has received a conditional commitment for a $2.26 billion loan guarantee from the U.S. Department of Energy. The plant would be in Humboldt County, on the Nevada-Oregon border, at Thacker Pass, where Lithium Americas Corp. and its Lithium Nevada Corp. subsidiary are developing a mine containing the largest proven lithium reserves in North America.

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Energy

Storing Renewable Energy, One Balloon at a Time
ByAdmin March 19, 2024March 19, 2024

To decarbonize the electrical grid, companies are finding creative ways to store energy during periods of low demand. By Amos Zeeberg March 18, 2024 Central Sardinia is not generally considered a hotbed of innovation: Arid…

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Electricity

Grid Enhancing Technology (GET) Addresses Transmission Logjam
ByAdmin March 17, 2024March 17, 2024

Now, a new report from RMI shows how grid enhancing technologies — called “GETs” for short — could clear the way for gigawatts’ worth of clean energy projects to connect to the 84,000-mile interstate transmission network. That’s important for grid operators, utilities, regulators and policymakers trying to add new clean energy to U.S. power grids.

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Electricity

A New Surge in Power Use Is Threatening U.S. Climate Goals
ByAdmin March 15, 2024

A boom in data centers and factories is straining electric grids and propping up fossil fuels. By Brad Plumer and Nadja Popovich March 14, 2024 Something unusual is happening in America. Demand for electricity, which…

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Economics | Permitting

Niskanen: Transmission is key to lower costs
ByAdmin March 10, 2024March 10, 2024

Note: Niskanen Center just released a study showing HOW improved inter-regional transmission capacity (like that required by BIG WIRES) will lead to lower costs for utilities and their customers.

[Niskanen] just published a commentary showing how high-voltage transmission infrastructure enhances electric power market efficiency and thereby drives down customer costs. The piece delves into how the power grid operates, provides a brief …

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Climate Change

Global Hot Streak Continues, February Breaking Records
ByAdmin March 8, 2024March 8, 2024

For the ninth straight month, Earth has obliterated global heat records — with February, the winter as a whole and the world’s oceans setting new high-temperature marks, according to the European Union climate agency Copernicus. Sea surface temperatures eclipsed any month on record. And February, as well the previous two winter months, soared well past the internationally set threshold for long-term warming,

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Permitting

Pasadena contracts for power from Clark Co. Solar Project
ByAdmin March 5, 2024March 5, 2024

The Pasadena City Council approved a $512 million, 20-year contract to purchase solar photovoltaic energy and battery storage from the Bonanza Solar project, a 300mw solar project proposed on BLM lands near Indian Springs. The BLM is processing the applications amid some objections from Basin and Range Watch and others.

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Politics

Trump’s Green-Bashing and Europe’s Right Put Climate Goals at Risk
ByAdmin March 4, 2024March 4, 2024

Politicians are vowing to roll back green policies and downplaying climate change ahead of key elections on both sides of the Atlantic. In the US, former President Donald Trump, who has a long record of climate denial, is the frontrunner to challenge …

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In Process

Mobilizing Environmental Voters Is A Priority
ByAdmin March 4, 2024March 4, 2024

“There are tens of millions of dyed-in-the-wool environmentalists out there who just aren’t voting,” says Nathaniel Stinnett, founder and executive director of the Environmental Voter Project. “The climate movement doesn’t have a persuasion problem as much as we have a turnout problem.”

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Energy

Chevron’s JV with Baseload Capital for Geothermal Ventures in Nevada
ByAdmin March 3, 2024March 3, 2024

Enhanced geothermal technologies have been radically improving of late. In addition to the well-publicized project with Fervo Energy, perhaps the proof of concept project in central Nevada from the Chevron – Baseload Capital joint venture will prove current economic viability.

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Carbon Pricing

Exxon CEO: ‘People generating emissions must pay the price’
ByAdmin March 3, 2024March 3, 2024

The U.S. government is trying to “get things moving” through those subsidies, he added. “But I would tell you building a business on government subsidy is not a long-term sustainable strategy—we don’t support that …. We’re advocating to move to market forces, either through regulation and prices on carbon.”

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