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Electric, Energy Consumption

Pennsylvania Chooses Infrastructure Bill EV Charging Locations

August 15, 2023

Via: CleanTechnica

Pennsylvania’s Department of Transportation recently announced the first recipients of federal money for EV charging stations from the Infrastructure Bill (aka Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, or NEVI). In the announcement, they included rough locations, funding amounts, and who the recipient was. […]


Conventional Fuels, Nuclear

Nuclear Is the Bastion of Pennsylvania’s Newest Climate Action Plan

September 23, 2021

Via: Power Magazine

Pennsylvania, a major power producer that relied on fossil fuels for 66% of its net power generation in June, plans to maintain its nuclear generation at current levels until it can ramp up other carbon-free supplies to 100% by 2050, […]


News and Policies, State

Will Prior Decisions On Natural Gas Pipelines Come Back To Haunt The Governors Of New York And Pennsylvania?

November 25, 2019

Via: Forbes

Two Northeast Governors face reckonings over decisions made by their administrations on natural gas pipelines. These decisions could not have been more different, but the fallout from pipeline politics now threatens both of them. In Pennsylvania, word recently leaked out […]


News and Policies, State

Trump’s Trade War With China Is Hurting Those Energy-Producing States He Won

October 11, 2018

Via: Forbes

Donald Trump’s trade war with China is hurting the same states he won in 2016. And that includes Pennsylvania and West Virginia, which sit atop the natural gas-rich Marcellus Shale basin. Will the tariffs erode his political support not just […]


News and Policies, State

Pennsylvania’s Natural Gas To The Rescue

April 24, 2017

Via: Forbes

The great Pennsylvania natural gas rush is perhaps the most unpredicted significant energy development in the past 100 years. It’s built on the Marcellus shale play, our largest gas field and now producing over 19.3 Bcf/d, compared to just 1.6 Bcf/d […]


Electric, Energy Consumption, News and Policies, U.S.

2 Steps We Can Take Right Now to Modernize Pennsylvania’s Electric Grid

August 18, 2016

Via: Energy Collective

Each year, dozens of utilities across the U.S. embark on a complicated process called a “rate case.” Presented to a state public utility commission (PUC), a rate case is a utility’s pitch for higher electricity prices for customers. For most […]


Chemical, Conventional Fuels

Feds approve plan to build gas pipeline for power plant

May 3, 2016

Via: Penn Energy

Federal officials have signed off on a plan to build a 34-mile pipeline through five central Pennsylvania counties that will carry natural gas to a power plant being built along the Susquehanna River. Federal energy regulators approved the Sunbury Pipeline […]


Energy Economics

Energy Efficiency in Pennsylvania: Cutting Energy Costs, Combating Climate Change, and Creating Jobs

March 21, 2016

Via: Energy Collective

An unusual coalition of businesses and efficiency-minded groups, including NRDC, has written to Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf urging him to take steps to ramp up efficiency investments to cut pollution and continue to plan for implementation of the Clean Power […]