Green Building Law Update

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

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Green Building Law Update

OCTOBER 11, 2020

The plaintiff is the municipal government of Baltimore, Maryland. Like a number of other state and local governments, Baltimore City filed this action against energy companies in Maryland state court, seeking to recover damages under state law for harms that it claims it has sustained and will sustain due to global climate change.

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Business Facilities

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

California ranks highest overall in efforts to modernize its electric grid, while Illinois, Texas, Maryland and Oregon round out the top five, according to the fourth Grid Modernization Index (GMI-4). Maryland and Oregon rank fourth and fifth respectively. PRNewsfoto/The GridWise Alliance).

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Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

AUGUST 29, 2013

Old Dominion Electric Cooperative (ODEC) is seeking approval to construct a state-of-the-art natural gas fueled electric generation facility in Cecil County, MD. MARYLAND FAST FACTS. It would be powered by natural gas, a clean and domestically plentiful form of energy used to create electricity. Reasor, Jr.,

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Business Facilities

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

T he Maryland state legislature has allocated $7.5 million to the University of Maryland to create a green energy research center. The goal of the Green Energy Institute—a collaboration between the University of Maryland Energy Research Center (UMERC) at the A. From the September/October 2017 Issue. Larry Hogan, with Lt.

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Green Building Law Update

DECEMBER 9, 2018

At a time when solar panels are de riguere a recent decision by a Maryland appellate court limiting the authority of local governments to regulate the location and specifics of construction of a solar farm has broad implications far beyond this case. The Washington County Board of Zoning Appeals granted the relief requested.

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Regulation Maryland Zoning Washington 174

Green Building Law Update

MAY 1, 2022

With the federal government and state of Maryland each having announced within days of each other, the mandated disclosure of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, we have received, maybe not surprising, many calls in the last two weeks inquiring “what are GHGs?” and “what are Scope 3 GHG emissions (. and “what are Scope 3 GHG emissions (.

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Construction Dive

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Following a child's electrical shock from faulty wiring installation, officials have been looking for errors in the design, permitting, construction and inspection processes and for indications of public corruption.

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Maryland Permits Inspections Electrical 74

FDR Safety

AUGUST 6, 2018

Working around energized equipment can be very hazardous, it is good to know these helpful tips to prevent yourself from becoming the path to ground electricity is always searching for. Sydney Delprato, GSP, is the Safety Coordinator at Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative in Hughesville, Maryland.

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Green Building Law Update

APRIL 25, 2021

The 442nd session of the Maryland legislature adjourned on April 12, 2021. Maryland has been described as having more pages of environmental statutes and regulations on a per capita basis than any other state. The new laws compiled below add to that already very green environmental regulatory scheme. Prohibition on Balloon Releases.

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FDR Safety

JULY 23, 2018

Working around energized equipment can be very hazardous, it is good to know these helpful tips to prevent yourself from becoming the path to ground electricity is always searching for. Electricity always tries to find the easiest path to ground. All local utilities will mark their underground service lines.

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Green Building Law Update

MAY 29, 2016

This coming Wednesday the City of Santa Monica will begin mandating the installation of a solar electric photovoltaic system on all new building. All new low-rise residential dwellings are required to install a solar electric photovoltaic system with the minimum total wattage 2.0 times the square footage of the building footprint.

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Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

California, Illinois, Texas Lead The Charge Toward A Modernized Electric Grid originally appeared on Business Facilities (BF) Magazine. For the third year in a row, California is the highest-ranked state when it comes to moving toward a modernized electric grid, according to the 3rd Annual Grid Modernization Index (GMI). GridWiseChart.

Illinois 40

Illinois Electrical California Texas 40

Green Building Law Update

JUNE 5, 2022

With proposed federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions by the Securities and Exchange Commission requiring GHG disclosure and new state statutes, including a new Maryland law that requires not only disclosure, but also a mandated reduction in GHG emissions, a greater appreciation of the subject of GHG appears in order.

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Green Building Law Update

OCTOBER 25, 2015

That is, most consumers of electricity are not, today, permitted to aggregate their purchase of photovoltaic generated electricity with others, except through their electric power utility. Today there are only a handful of community projects actually producing power in Arizona, Colorado, California and Maryland.

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Maryland Regulation Electrical Modeling 120

Green Building Law Update

MAY 29, 2016

This coming Wednesday the City of Santa Monica will begin mandating the installation of a solar electric photovoltaic system on all new building. All new low-rise residential dwellings are required to install a solar electric photovoltaic system with the minimum total wattage 2.0 times the square footage of the building footprint.

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Baltimore Los Angeles Electrical San Francisco 120

Green Building Law Update

SEPTEMBER 19, 2015

Last week Louisville Gas and Electric Company and Kentucky Utilities Company announced rebates from $2,000 to $10,000 tied to achieving certain LEED credits. Electric utility based incentives that support energy efficiency, including LEED certification, are increasing in number across the U.S.

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Kentucky South Carolina Electrical Commissioning 120

Green Building Law Update

SEPTEMBER 19, 2015

Last week Louisville Gas and Electric Company and Kentucky Utilities Company announced rebates from $2,000 to $10,000 tied to achieving certain LEED credits. Electric utility based incentives that support energy efficiency, including LEED certification, are increasing in number across the U.S.

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Kentucky South Carolina Electrical Commissioning 120

Business Facilities

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

New electric generating capacity in 2020 will come primarily from wind and solar, with renewables making up 76 percent of the 42 gigawatts that will be added. Read: Top Utilities: Power To The People at BusinessFacilities.com.

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Electrical South Carolina New Jersey North Carolina 127

Business Facilities

JULY 25, 2019

Texas has topped the leaderboard in Cybersecurity Growth Potential and Kansas is the top-ranked state for the percentage of electricity generated from Wind Power in Business Facilities ‘ 15th Annual Rankings Report , released this week.

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Green Building Law Update

JUNE 13, 2021

households had electricity, so Congress never contemplated nor intended this law would apply to electricity generation and transmission; such is a pragmatic, very much non-originalist expansion of the law as enacted. “That has been the letter of the law for the past century.”.

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Business Facilities

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Read: Clean Energy: New York Joins Top 5, Maryland Is Most Improved at BusinessFacilities.com. Across the U.S, states are promoting clean energy with energy-saving rules for buildings, appliances, and more, according to the 2019 State Energy Efficiency Scorecard.

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Business Facilities

MARCH 4, 2015

Aerospace And Defense Archives Articles By Industry Articles By Topic Back Office, IT, And Call Centers Biotech And Pharma Business Clusters/Corridors Feature Story Featured Post Magazine Magazine Highlights Manufacturing Maryland Minnesota New York Ohio Tennessee U.S. Great Lakes U.S. - Mid Atlantic U.S. Plains U.S.

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Memphis Minnesota New York Maryland 40

Green Building Law Update

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Far down on the list are industrial “incidental takings” resulting in, on average 57 investigations for migratory bird deaths each year (the largest number of which were by contact with an electric power line) resulting in $178.8 Million in criminal fines and civil penalties over the past decade.

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Regulation Legal United States New York 288

Green Building Law Update

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

Curiously, the largest quantity of rare earth metals in a Toyota Prius hybrid is in the magnets in its electric motor, second are the car’s dashboard electronics and only third, its catalytic converter, which is among the most stolen in the U.S.

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Wichita Insurance DC New York 177

Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

JUNE 24, 2013

has the world’s largest supply of coal at a time when the rest of the world—from Germany to China—is using more coal to ensure affordable and reliable electricity and as an essential input in steelmaking,” Quinn said. The benefits have been especially rich for the top exporting states, including Virginia, Louisiana and Maryland.

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Maryland Louisiana Virginia Commissioning 52

Business Facilities

JUNE 14, 2017

ACEEE’s first-ever Utility Energy Efficiency Scorecard looks at the performance of the 51 largest electric utilities in the U.S. and highlights cutting-edge efforts. Read: Scorecard Identifies Most Energy-Efficient Utilities.

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Electrical Massachusetts Connecticut Baltimore 44

Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

JULY 24, 2013

In this year’s State Rankings Report, Business Facilities expanded its established energy categories to include rankings for natural gas production, nuclear energy, industrial electricity rates and lowest CO 2 emissions. According to the U.S. Energy Information Agency, about 13,000 MW of wind-power capacity was installed in the U.S.

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Rhode Island South Dakota South Carolina North Carolina 57

Business Facilities

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

The balance of the top 10 consisted of Vermont (3), Rhode Island (4), Connecticut and New York (tied for 5), Oregon (7), Washington state (8), Maryland (9), and Minnesota (10). These include Alabama, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New York, New Jersey, Texas, Utah, Vermont, and Washington.

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Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

The percentage of electricity generated by renewables continues to surge in the United States. Department of Energy’s Energy Information Administration (EIA), utility-scale renewables are on track to supply 14 percent of the nation’s electricity this year. Grid Stars originally appeared on Business Facilities (BF) Magazine.

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North Carolina Electrical Los Angeles Oregon 40

Business Facilities

OCTOBER 11, 2017

DMDII currently works with over 300 academic, government and industry partners such as Dow, General Electric (GE), Lockheed Martin, Boeing and Microsoft, to name a few. “A The inverter will convert vehicle engine power into electrical power needed for hybrid motors in heavy-duty construction vehicles. Photo: Havas PR).

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Pro Builder

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

In addition, cooking, whether on gas or electric burners, produces fine particles and volatile organic compounds (VOCs), some of which can penetrate and damage human lungs over time. Gas burners produce small amounts of carbon monoxide and nitrogen dioxide, which can aggravate asthma and other respiratory conditions.

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Business Facilities

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Rhode Island’s third place ranking in this report, up from fourth last year, demonstrates that our investments in electric and natural gas energy efficiency programs are paying off.”. In the top 10 again this year were Connecticut, New York, Washington, Minnesota, and Maryland.

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Green Building Law Update

MARCH 4, 2014

Given that this most recent failed solar installer was based in Maryland, one of thirty states that created a RECs market, Maryland law is a good place to start. Under Maryland law, an SREC represents the generation attributes of 1 megawatt-hour (MWh) of electricity generation from a solar installation. But that is it.

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Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

APRIL 29, 2014

The solar facility is scheduled to begin delivering electricity to customers by the end of 2014. In 2012, the company opened the Maryland Heights Renewable Energy Center, one of the largest plants in the nation turning landfill gas into energy, or “methane to megawatts.”

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Green Building Law Update

DECEMBER 6, 2020

of $40 per ton would add about 36 cents to the price of a gallon of gasoline and about 2 cents to the average price of a kilowatt-hour of electricity. Economist suggest a broader carbon tax (coal, oil, natural gas, etc.) More common in the U.S.

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Portland Rhode Island Maryland Income 280

Business Facilities

JULY 24, 2019

A state may have the largest installed capacity of a certain type of renewable energy, but that state won’t meet its renewable energy portfolio standard’s goal if only 10 percent of its electricity is generated from renewables. Bill Lee has cited TN’s business-friendly environment in several recent project announcements.

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