• Climate Change

New Study Finds 5% of World’s Power Plants Cause 73% of Power Sector’s Emissions

• climate change
• emissions
• power plant

by Natasha Lasky, ODP Staff Writer A new study has found a mere 5% of the world’s power plants are responsible for 73% of emissions released from energy generation.  A group of researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder analyzed 2018 data from 29,000 fossil fuel power plants in 221 countries and found the […]

• Energy

Study Shows Majority of Fossil Fuel Power Plants Could be Obsolete by 2035

• coal
• fossil fuels
• natural gas
• net zero
• power plant
• renewable electricity

A vast majority of fossil fuel power plants will reach the end of their lives by 2035, a new report shows. Experts say that this revelation shows that President-elect Joe Biden’s climate goals aren’t as lofty as they may have once seemed, according to Inside Climate News.

Why This Matters: President-Elect Biden has planned to transition the United States to net zero emissions by 2050 and carbon-free electricity by 2035.

• Climate Change

States Carrying Clean Energy Forward, Feds Prioritize Carbon Capture

• carbon capture
• clean energy
• Idaho Power
• power plant
• Puerto Rico

The move to clean energy keeps going strong at the state and local level, with several announcing their intention to move to clean energy and do it by at least 2050.