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Credit to Author: Letters to the Editor| Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2024 00:44:16 +0000

Greetings, serious geothermal supporters. This letter to the editor addresses articles touting the baseload, climate impact, and large-scale PPA capabilities of hot dry rock geothermal (HDR) systems, in particular Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS). The letter also answers increasing recognition by government, investors, offtakers, and clean energy proponents for the needs … [continued]

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Politics Aside, Idaho Is A Renewable Energy Powerhouse

August 11, 2024 admin aypa power, batteries, blackrock, blackstone, clean power, Energy, Energy Storage, esg, geothermal energy, green economy, hydroelectric, idaho, investment, investor, investors, renewable energy, usa

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2024 15:41:33 +0000

Idaho is attracting more investor dollars for renewable energy and energy storage projects, despite public officials who rail against ESG investing.

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Breakthrough Energy Venture’s Wilted Garden Of Climate Investments

August 8, 2024 admin Agriculture, batteries, Bill Gates, biofuels, breakthrough energy ventures, buildings, carbon capture (ccs), carbon emissions, clean power, clean transport, climate change, Energy, Energy Storage, fusion, geothermal energy, green economy, heat storage, investment, Nuclear, nuclear energy, renewable energy, Shipping, sir richard branson, Solar energy, thermal storage, venture capital, vinod khosla, wind energy

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2024 16:34:43 +0000

Recently I sat down with Laurent Segalen and Gerard Reid, European cleantech investors, on their podcast Redefining Energy to talk about Breakthrough Energy Venture’s big misses. This followed our conversation about the cognitive biases of the billionaires such as Bill Gates which have persisted due to a bubble of confirmation … [continued]

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$52 Million for Small Business Research & Development Grants

July 23, 2024 admin AI, Artificial Intelligence, batteries, clean power, clean transport, Cybersecurity, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, ev charging, geothermal energy, green economy, green jobs, investment, jennifer granholm, Joe Biden, justice40 initiative, lithium-ion batteries, Manufacturing, Solar energy, us department of energy (doe)

Credit to Author: US Department of Energy| Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2024 22:44:19 +0000

229 Grants Will Primarily Focus on Clean Energy Research and Development in 39 States In support of President Biden’s Investing in America agenda, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) yesterday announced awards totaling $52 million for a broad range of small businesses in 39 states. The projects will work to … [continued]

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US Election 2024: Electrical Generation Decarbonization Report Card

July 19, 2024 admin clean power, cleantechnica, cleantechnica exclusive, climate change, Coal, Democratic Party, Democrats, Donald Trump, Fossil Fuels, geothermal energy, green economy, grid, hydroelectric, Joe Biden, natural gas, policy & politics, policy research, renewable energy standards, republican party (united states), Republicans, research, Solar energy, us election 2024, wind energy

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2024 13:45:07 +0000

The reality of the United States’ actual trajectory on electrical generation belies the rhetoric of both Biden and Trump. As noted four years ago, Trump’s administration was against renewables, especially wind energy. The Department of Energy under Perry crafted a report calling for more coal generation, a report which excluded … [continued]

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Breakthrough Energy Ventures Has Bad Investment Theses Therefore Bad Investments

July 8, 2024 admin Agriculture, air quality, Aviation, batteries, Bill Gates, biofuels, boats, breakthrough energy ventures, buildings, carbon emissions, clean power, clean transport, climate change, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, ev batteries, Fossil Fuels, geothermal energy, green economy, grid, investment, natural gas, policy & politics, Solar energy, wind energy

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Thu, 04 Jul 2024 23:07:44 +0000

Eight years ago, Bill Gates and group of his closest billionaire acquaintances launched an incredibly well funded venture capital group. Its noble mission was funding and supporting transformative technologies aimed at mitigating climate change. Many of its investments are sound and if commercialized, would assist, at least a bit. However, … [continued]

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Plug Into Newly Released 2024 US Electricity Sector Data

June 28, 2024 admin clean power, Energy Storage, geothermal energy, green economy, grid, hydroelectric, market research, national renewable energy laboratory (nrel), nrel, nuclear energy, offshore wind energy, offshore wind farms, research, Solar energy, wind energy, wind turbines

Credit to Author: US Department of Energy| Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2024 18:39:53 +0000

10th Annual Technology Baseline Features New Data on Offshore Wind Energy, Nuclear Power, Pumped Storage Hydropower, and More Today—nicknamed “ATB Day” by a superfan—marks the release of the 10th annual electricity sector data for the Electricity Annual Technology Baseline (ATB). “For a decade, the Electricity ATB has been supporting consistent, … [continued]

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Google Agrees To Buy 115 MW Of Geothermal Power From Fervo & NV Energy

June 20, 2024 admin clean power, clean transition tariff, deep geothermal energy, fervo energy, geothermal energy, google, nevada, nv energy

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2024 15:40:38 +0000

Google has signed an agreement with NV Energy, part of the Warren Buffett empire, to buy 115 MW of renewable energy from a geothermal facility operated by Fervo Energy to power its data centers in Nevada. A lot has been written lately, particularly here at CleanTechnica, about data centers and … [continued]

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U.S. DOE Announces $7 Million to Help Geothermal Energy Support a Decarbonized Electricity Grid by 2035

June 15, 2024 admin clean power, geothermal energy, geothermal technologies office, green economy, investment, research, us department of energy (doe)

Credit to Author: US Department of Energy| Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2024 23:52:00 +0000

Today, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Geothermal Technologies Office (GTO) announced a funding opportunity of up to $7 million to develop regional grid models to assess how clean, firm geothermal power can support an equitable energy transition through decarbonization and study its effects on the grid at various deployment … [continued]

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