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How Many Hydrogen Transit Trial Failures Are Enough?

October 28, 2024 admin clean transport, climate change, Electric vehicles, Fossil Fuels, green economy, green jobs, hydrogen, investment, Manufacturing, mass transit / public transit, natural gas, policy & politics

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2024 03:13:50 +0000

In the past few days I’ve been going deep on some very odd results out of a Canadian transit think tank’s research and reports for client municipalities, finding that bad assumptions and worse scenarios resulted in $1.5 billion being taken off of hydrogen bus costs. Discussion around this led to … [continued]

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$28 Million More For US Clean Energy Workforce Development

October 27, 2024 admin clean power, green economy, green jobs, policy & politics, Solar energy, subsidies, wind energy

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2024 21:57:31 +0000

The Biden–Harris administration’s work getting major clean energy legislation passed continues to deliver. Aspects of that legislation continue to roll out. The announcement today is that $27.98 million in Investing in America agenda funding for clean energy workforce development is being distributed. This is happening under the Energy Auditor Training … [continued]

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West Virginia Lobs An Energy Storage Brickbat At Fossil Fuel Stakeholders

October 25, 2024 admin batteries, critical materials, Energy, Energy Storage, esg, form energy, green economy, green jobs, investment, iron air battery, long-duration energy storage, Manufacturing, policy & politics, renewable energy, usa, west virgina

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2024 15:47:21 +0000

These “power blocks” house new long duration iron-air energy storage systems, designed to shepherd more renewable energy into the grid.

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$430 Million for US Clean Energy Manufacturing in Coal Communities

October 25, 2024 admin clean power, Coal, Fossil Fuels, green economy, green jobs, investing in america, Joe Biden, kamala harris, Manufacturing, policy & politics, Solar energy, us coal, wind energy

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2024 04:55:48 +0000

Once upon a time, presidential candidate Hillary Clinton made the horrible mistake of telling people that coal power wasn’t coming back in the US, was going to continue to shrink, and people living in coal communities would need to be retrained in clean energy careers. Sacrilege! As bad as a … [continued]

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Soaring Cleantech Manufacturing, EV Sales Records, Hurricanes — Top Cleantech Stories

October 24, 2024 admin batteries, clean power, clean transport, cleantechnica, cleantechnica exclusive, cleantechnica top 10, climate change, electric cars, electric motorcycles, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, ev charging, ev charging stations, ev sales, green economy, green jobs, hurricanes, lithium-ion batteries, Manufacturing, market research, policy & politics, research, rooftop solar, Solar energy, tesla

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2024 15:39:08 +0000

Our operations here at CleanTechnica got quite disrupted by a couple of recent hurricanes — Hurricane Milton and Hurricane Helene. As a result, we’ve got a lot of news to catch up on for our regular roundups on top cleantech stories. In this edition, I’m going to break the highlights … [continued]

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Mississauga Could Get A Dozen Electric Buses For The Cost Of Five Hydrogen Ones

October 20, 2024 admin California, Canada, carbon emissions, clean transport, climate change, electric trucks, Electric vehicles, Energy, Fossil Fuels, green economy, green jobs, grid, hydrogen, hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles, investment, mass transit, policy & politics

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2024 22:05:35 +0000

Recently I published a perspective on the Canadian city of Mississauga’s plan to pilot hydrogen buses for their transit system. It included global data on the high cost and low reliability of hydrogen electrolysis and refueling systems and the high cost and low reliability of hydrogen fuel cell buses. Someone … [continued]

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US Manufacturing Has Soared Under Biden & Harris, Was Stagnant Under Trump

October 20, 2024 admin barack obama, clean power, clean transport, Electric vehicles, green economy, green jobs, JD Vance, kamala harris, Manufacturing, policy & politics, Solar energy, tim walz, wind energy

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2024 03:15:23 +0000

Hurricane Helene hit, the US vice presidential debate happened, I found out my mom’s area of North Carolina was suffering dramatically from the effects of Helene (they still don’t have water) and I helped her get out of there, then Hurricane Milton terrorized us down here in Florida. I watched … [continued]

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Tesla To Get Into LFP Battery Production — As Max Holland Predicted 4 Years Ago

October 19, 2024 admin batteries, cathodes, clean transport, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, ev batteries, green economy, green jobs, lfp batteries, lithium-ion batteries, lithium-ion battery cathodes, Manufacturing, tesla, tesla batteries, tesla battery cells, tesla battery day, tesla battery production, tesla jobs

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2024 20:31:03 +0000

I recall in the early days of the modern electric vehicle era when the Tesla Model S and the BYD e6 were top selling electric cars. The BYD e6? Well, if you know, you know. If you weren’t around back then, or even if you were and need a refresher, … [continued]

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The US Needs A Marshall Plan For Itself, Not For The Developing World

October 17, 2024 admin batteries, carbon emissions, China, clean power, clean transport, climate change, Coal, Electric vehicles, Energy, Fossil Fuels, FRACKING, green economy, green jobs, investment, natural gas, nuclear energy, offshore wind energy, Oil, policy & politics, renewable energy, shale oil, Solar energy, usa, wind energy

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2024 22:41:16 +0000

In the past couple of months, an idea has been percolating through Washington and entities dependent on the United States’ good will that the US should reach back into history and create a Clean Energy Marshall Plan for developing countries. This idea is US economic wunderkind Brian Deese’s brainchild, or … [continued]

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Clean Energy Jobs Are Changing Lives. These Programs Are Providing Liftoff.

October 16, 2024 admin clean power, climate change, green economy, green jobs, Habitat for Humanity, inflation reduction act of 2022., investment, Manufacturing, us climate alliance

Credit to Author: RMI| Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2024 22:36:55 +0000

Jobs supporting the energy transition are in demand, and programs supported by cities, states — and now a bipartisan coalition of governors — are helping train the future workforce. Before Marcus started as a carpentry fellow with Habitat for Humanity, he didn’t know what he was going to do with … [continued]

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