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Legacy Automakers Keep Throwing Money At Their Enemies

February 1, 2025 admin 0 Comments California, carbon credits, clean transport, electric cars, Electric vehicles, Europe, tesla, zev credits

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2025 04:57:45 +0000

Theoretically, legacy automakers don’t want the transition to electric vehicles to go too fast. They want to make the most money possible from existing fossil-fueled models and production lines for those models. The investments have been made — into R&D, production lines, supply chains, etc. Now automakers want to get … [continued]

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More Bright Green, Clean Energy For Deep Red State

January 27, 2025 admin 0 Comments caiso, California, california independent system operator (caiso), clean power, electricity transmission, Energy, federal energy regulatory commission (ferc), green economy, grid, idaho, ls power, nevada, renewable energy, Solar energy, usa, wind energy

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2025 21:26:19 +0000

Trump or no Trump, a new bidirectional clean energy transmission line is on track for construction to commence this year, connecting wind and solar resources in Idaho, Nevada, and California.

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California Smashes Myth That Renewables Aren’t Reliable

January 26, 2025 admin 0 Comments California, clean power, renewable energy, Solar energy, Uncategorized, utilities

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2025 21:59:09 +0000

The latest research from California explodes the myth that renewables are not reliable. It turns out, the opposite is true.

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Battery Fires & Plane Crashes: Shocking Events Make Us Forget Routine Mass Death

January 22, 2025 admin 0 Comments batteries, battery fires, California, Energy Storage, ev battery fires, lithium-ion batteries

Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2025 12:34:51 +0000

Recently, there was a large fire at a utility-scale battery storage installation in California. Rather than rehash that story, I’ll just point you to Steve’s article on that if you haven’t heard about it. As you can probably predict, a large battery fire was seized upon by anti-renewable propagandists, who … [continued]

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Fire At Moss Landing Could Turn Back The Clock On Battery Storage In California

January 21, 2025 admin 0 Comments batteries, California, clean power, Energy Storage, lithium-ion batteries, moss landing, pacific gas and electric company (pg&e), PG&E, Santa Cruz, vistra energy corporation

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2025 01:55:46 +0000

Battery storage got a black eye this week when a 300 MW unit at Moss Landing in California caught fire in spectacular fashion.

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California’s Battery Storage Fire: Precursor Or Outlier?

January 21, 2025 admin air quality, batteries, battery storage, bess, California, carbon emissions, clean power, climate change, demand response, Energy, Energy Storage, Fossil Fuels, green economy, grid, grid batteries, grid storage, HEALTH, lithium-ion batteries, natural gas, Oil, renewable energy, Solar energy, wind energy

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2025 21:27:08 +0000

A fire broke out at the Moss Landing Power Plant, not too far from San Francisco, on January 16, 2025, prompting the evacuation of approximately 1,500 residents and the temporary closure of Highway 1. No one was harmed in the incident. Given the massive growth in grid storage battery systems, … [continued]

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Electric Truck News — Feds Say No To Tesla, California Rolls Back Electric Truck Rules

January 20, 2025 admin bipartisan infrastructure law, California, california air resources board (carb), clean transport, electric trucks, Electric vehicles, policy & politics, tesla, tesla semi

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2025 18:56:06 +0000

High power electric truck rules in California have been taken off the table prior to the arrival of the next administration.

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U.S. DOE Announces $15 Billion Loan Guarantee to Pacific Gas & Electric Company to Expand Hydropower Generation, Battery Energy Storage, & Transmission

January 20, 2025 admin batteries, California, clean power, Energy Storage, grid, hydroelectric, investing in america, Joe Biden, lithium-ion batteries, loan programs office, pacific gas & electric, PG&E, us department of energy (doe), virtual power plants

Credit to Author: US Department of Energy| Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2025 04:51:32 +0000

Section 1706 Loan Guarantee Will Maintain Affordability for Customers and Improve System Resilience and Reliability As part of the Biden-Harris Administration’s Investing in America agenda, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office (LPO) announced today the closing of a $15 billion loan guarantee to Pacific Gas & Electric Company … [continued]

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Biden’s DOE Finalizes $15 Billion Loan Guarantee to California’s PG&E

January 17, 2025 admin bankruptcy, Business, California, DOE, finance, Legislative, loan programs office, lpo, news, PG&E, power, utility, Wildfires

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2025 21:17:59 +0000

The Biden administration has finalized a $15 billion loan guarantee to California utility Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E), in the biggest outlay to a single group in the history of […]

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Los Angeles’ $150 Billion Fires Have Lessons For All Urban Planners

January 13, 2025 admin air quality, buildings, California, California wildfires, carbon emissions, climate change, managed retreat, policy & politics, Wildfires

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2025 17:04:28 +0000

The United States, and indeed much of the rest of the world, has been transfixed by the devastation in Los Angeles over the past week. As of January 12, 2025, multiple wildfires are still burning across the Los Angeles area, consuming around 40,000 acres or 62.5 square miles. At least … [continued]

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