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UK Engine Manufacturers Report Hydrogen Engines Essential For Solving Climate Change

January 2, 2025 admin 0 Comments Agriculture, air quality, buildings, carbon emissions, clean power, clean transport, climate change, electric trucks, Electric vehicles, Energy, ev batteries, Fossil Fuels, green economy, green hydrogen, green jobs, hydrogen, hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles, investment, Manufacturing, policy research, united kingdom (uk)

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 01 Jan 2025 02:33:55 +0000

The hydrogen for transportation community is all abuzz about a late-year report from a working group of the UK’s Hydrogen Delivery Council and the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero. The working group, made up almost entirely of professionals whose entire career, livelihood, and indeed the future of the … [continued]

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UK Engines Manufacturers Report Hydrogen Engines Essential For Solving Climate Change

December 31, 2024 admin 0 Comments Agriculture, air quality, buildings, carbon emissions, clean power, clean transport, climate change, electric trucks, Electric vehicles, Energy, ev batteries, Fossil Fuels, green economy, green hydrogen, green jobs, hydrogen, hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles, investment, Manufacturing, policy research, united kingdom (uk)

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 01 Jan 2025 02:33:55 +0000

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2024 Was A Productive Year For My Decarbonization Efforts

December 28, 2024 admin 0 Comments buildings, carbon emissions, China, clean power, clean transport, cleantechnica, climate change, electric trucks, Energy, Energy Storage, Europe, Fossil Fuels, green economy, green jobs, grid, India, investment, Manufacturing, policy & politics, policy research, renewable energy, research, usa

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2024 23:12:50 +0000

It’s the time of year when people publish retrospectives on the year and start thinking about the year ahead. As so much of my work ends up in CleanTechnica, I thought it would be useful to provide my retrospective here. On a purely personal note, I’ve been told over and … [continued]

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EV Model Year 2024 Efficiency Ranges From 53 To 140 MPGe

December 19, 2024 admin clean transport, electric cars, Electric vehicles, ev benefits, ev charging, ev charging stations, ev efficiency, fuel economy, market research, policy research, research, us department of energy (doe), us environmental protection agency (epa)

Credit to Author: Cynthia Shahan| Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2024 01:11:46 +0000

Due to cost reductions, efficiency, and new technology, many people are being brought into the electric vehicle stream. One can improve ecological issues while cutting their energy bills in multiple ways nowadays. Some begin with a few solar panels, then add more, and then add one or two battery storage … [continued]

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New Report Establishes Baseline for Clean Energy Deployment in Energy Communities

December 17, 2024 admin clean power, energy efficiency, Energy Storage, Fossil Fuels, green economy, green jobs, inflation reduction act of 2022., investment tax credit (itc), lawrence berkeley national laboratory, Manufacturing, market research, policy & politics, policy research, production tax credit, research, Solar energy, solar investment tax credit, wind energy, wind production tax credit

Credit to Author: Cynthia Shahan| Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2024 23:17:57 +0000

For the first time, the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 included place-based federal tax incentives for projects located in “Energy Communities,” which might alter the economic equation of where projects should be located. Storage projects may be eligible for a 10-point increase in the Investment Tax Credit (e.g., from 30% … [continued]

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Residential Energy Storage Installations Hit All-Time High in USA

December 16, 2024 admin american clean power association, batteries, clean power, consumer technology, Energy Storage, grid, lithium-ion batteries, market research, policy research, research, Solar energy, wood mackenzie

Credit to Author: Cynthia Shahan| Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2024 03:58:10 +0000

It seems like yesterday that Ron Corio told me at a lunch with engineers that energy storage will be the next big thing since solar power. It was years ago. Well, development happened quickly, time went by, and now it’s here to stay. Residential energy storage installations just hit an … [continued]

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Finnish GTK Risks Credibility By Publishing Bad Minerals Study In Peer-Reviewed House Journal

December 6, 2024 admin batteries, battery minerals, carbon emissions, clean power, clean transport, climate change, Coal, Electric vehicles, Energy, Energy Storage, Fossil Fuels, grid, hydroelectric, lithium-ion batteries, natural gas, Oil, policy research, pumped hydro storage, renewable energy, research, SCIENCE, Shipping, Solar energy, trains / rail, wind energy

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2024 03:02:17 +0000

A year ago I published an assessment of a quite remarkably bad, non-peer-reviewed paper by one of the Geological Survey of Finland’s (GTK) associate professors, Simon Michaux. The paper’s quite risible conclusions were that there wasn’t nearly enough metal in the ground to be able to electrify everything with renewables. … [continued]

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Plugin Vehicles Cut CO2 Emissions 11% in US in 2023

November 29, 2024 admin clean transport, Democrats, Donald Trump, electric cars, Electric vehicles, environmental protection agency (epa), EPA, fuel economy regulations, fuel economy standards, hybrid electric cars, phev, policy & politics, policy research, Republicans, research, us environmental protection agency (epa), us fuel economy standards

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2024 04:59:32 +0000

The US Environmental Protection Agency released a big report yesterday, the 50th annual Automotive Trends Report. This report analyzed fuel economy improvements in the US (focusing on 2023 model year vehicles), and it found that, thanks to policies pushing for better and better fuel economy, the country saw its best … [continued]

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What Happens Now with Clean Energy, EVs, & the US Economy? (VIDEO)

November 24, 2024 admin clean power, clean transport, cleantechnica, cleantechnica exclusive, cleantechnica videos, climate action, climate change, Donald Trump, Electric vehicles, elon musk, Environmentalism, ev adoption, Fossil Fuels, geoengineering, Geopolitics, green economy, green jobs, inflation reduction act of 2022., Joe Biden, Manufacturing, Media, Oil, policy & politics, policy research, renewable energy, research, Solar energy

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2024 02:43:55 +0000

In this video episode of CleanTech Talk, Scott Cooney and I discuss the current state of climate action, reflecting on US policies of the past 16 years, the achievements of the Biden administration, the challenges ahead, leadership from other major economies, and more. We explore the importance of local politics … [continued]

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Canadian Transit Think Tank CUTRIC Chooses Inaccuracy, Irrelevancy, & Attack

November 13, 2024 admin ballard power systems, California, Canada, carbon emissions, clean transport, climate change, Electric vehicles, enbridge, Energy, ev batteries, fuel cell, fuel cell buses, green economy, green jobs, hydrogen, hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles, investment, Manufacturing, mass transit, mass transit / public transit, Media, policy research, research, us department of energy (doe)

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2024 13:06:13 +0000

Over the past three weeks, I’ve been assessing various aspects of the Canadian Urban Transit Research and Innovation Consortium’s (CUTRIC) positions, research, and publications on transit bus decarbonization. I’ve published ten articles directly about CUTRIC’s material and reports, or closely related and with serious implications for their claims that both … [continued]

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