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The Clean Power Plan was no longer in place, but if it had been, the ruling would have struck it down. [12] In 2024, the Biden Administration issued a suite of rules called the Greenhouse Gas Standards and Guidelines for Fossil Fuel-Fired Power Plants, sometimes called the "Clean Power Plan 2.0", to replace the Clean Power Plan and ACE. [13]
Booming wind and solar meant a record-breaking 30% of the world’s electricity was produced by renewables last year, new data shows.
Solar made up the biggest share of new clean energy last year. More than twice as much solar power was added as coal power. It was the 19th year in a row that solar was the fastest-growing source of electricity generation. A surge in solar installations happened at the end of the year and the report predicts 2024 will see an even larger jump.
Renewable electricity generation by source and country in 2023 [1]. This is a list of countries and dependencies by electricity generation from renewable sources. [1]Renewables accounted for 30% of electric generation in 2023.
The year 2024 was one for the history books, and 538's visual journalists and reporters were hard at work explaining the data behind the news with visualizations and interactives. From 538’s ...
The Clean Power Plan, first proposed in 2014, was an Obama administration policy aimed at combating global warming. The plan's goal was to move away from coal and instead use renewable energy or gas to generate electricity, which would reduce particulate matter in the environment.
The rules will replace former President Donald Trump's American Clean Energy rule and former President Barack Obama's Clean Power Plan, both of which were invalidated by courts.
the Presidency has set a goal of reducing carbon emissions by 50% to 52% compared to 2005 levels by 2030, a carbon free power sector by 2035, and for the entire economy to be net zero by 2050. [1] by April 2023, 22 states, plus Washington DC and Puerto Rico had set legislative or executive targets for clean power production. [2]