Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2024 14:47:00 +0000
As you read this, climate change is wreaking havoc on island nations in the Caribbean in the form of Hurricane Beryl.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2024 00:03:00 +0000
Along the Gulf and South Atlantic coasts, sea levels have risen at least 6 inches since 2010. You wouldn’t think that’s a big problem in the scheme of things, but it is forcing groundwater to rise, which leads to elevated risks of overflowing septic tanks. The impacts of climate hazards … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: US Energy Information Administration| Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2024 01:19:28 +0000
Electricity demand in New England surged this week as high temperatures persisted through much of the United States. Demand in the electric grid territory of New England’s Independent System Operator (ISO-NE) peaked at 23,324 megawatts (MW) during the evening of June 20, approaching last year’s peak hourly demand in this … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: US Energy Information Administration| Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2024 18:28:40 +0000
Parts of the United States could be at risk for electricity supply shortages if electricity demand peaks are higher than anticipated or if less electricity is generated than expected, according to the North American Electric Reliability Corporation’s (NERC) 2024 Summer Reliability Assessment. Under normal summer demand conditions, NERC expects the continental … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: US Department of Energy| Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2024 15:28:22 +0000
How Shifting Our Perception of Extreme Weather Can Aid Planning for a Reliable Wind- and Solar-Rich Power System From severe storms to recent unprecedented cold and heat waves, extreme weather events are impacting electric utilities, grid operators, and ultimately customers like never before. At the same time, the energy sources … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2024 20:17:13 +0000
Reliability measures implemented after Winter Storm Uri and Elliott were largely effective at averting distress on the power and natural gas systems during two severe arctic storms that swept across […]
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Credit to Author: Press Release| Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2024 03:43:33 +0000
Albuquerque, New Mexico — During remarks at the National Conference on Ecosystem Restoration in Albuquerque today, Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland announced the availability of up to $95 million through President Biden’s Investing in America agenda for projects to bolster water resources, advance ecosystem health and support resilience in … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: US Energy Information Administration| Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2024 03:35:52 +0000
Over the last four winters, winter storms Uri (February 2021), Elliott (December 2022), and most recently, Heather (January 2024) interrupted weekly U.S. natural gas production by more than 15 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d), according to daily estimates from S&P Global Commodity Insights. These declines were the largest interruptions … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2024 21:03:24 +0000
Scientists who maintain the world’s temperature records, which date back to 1880, calculate a global temperature anomaly each year to determine how much temperatures have changed compared to temperatures from […]
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Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2024 04:57:54 +0000
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) has issued a conservation appeal as it braces for continued freezing temperatures, “very high” demand, and “unseasonably low wind” early in the morning […]
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