$2.2B for 13 GW of New Transmission Capacity: DOE Unveils Latest Boost for U.S. Grid Modernization

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2024 15:14:36 +0000

The Biden administration will invest $2.2 billion in eight projects under its Grid Resilience and Innovation Partnership (GRIP) program to bolster the nation’s power grid with nearly 13 GW of […]

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2024 Shaping Up to Be Dramatic for Transmission and Distribution

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 30 May 2024 17:32:46 +0000

In a significant push toward modernizing America’s aging grid infrastructure, the Biden administration, in partnership with 21 states, has launched the Federal-State Modern Grid Deployment Initiative. The measure marks the […]

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White House Launches Initiatives to Bolster New Nuclear Deployments

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 30 May 2024 12:05:33 +0000

The White House has unveiled a suite of new measures aimed at slashing risks associated with new nuclear reactor development and construction, underscoring its policy push to champion nuclear. At […]

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The Vogtle Electric Generating Plant is one of Georgia Power's two nuclear facilities and is one of three nuclear facilities in the Southern Company system. Plant Vogtle is co-owned between Georgia Power, Oglethorpe Power Corporation, Municipal Electric Authority of Georgia and Dalton Utilities. Unit 1 began commercial operation in 1987 and Unit 2 in 1989. The company recently achieved commercial operation on Vogtle Units 3&4, historically making Plant Vogtle the largest generator of clean energy in the U.S. Unit 3 entered commercial operation on July 31, 2023, and Unit 4 entered commercial operation on April 29, 2024. Courtesy: Southern Nuclear

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The Significance Of The US-Kenya Climate & Clean Energy Industrial Partnership

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Mon, 27 May 2024 15:41:57 +0000

The US and Kenya level up their strategic relationship with a slate of new clean energy programs for sustainability and national security.

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DOE Announces Support for Plug Power Hydrogen Production Sites

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Mon, 20 May 2024 01:24:40 +0000

The U.S. Dept. of Energy (DOE) announced it was preparing to make as much as a $1.66 billion loan guarantee to Latham, New York-based Plug Power, with the money earmarked […]

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White House Advisor Says Progress Toward Biden’s GHG Emissions Reduction Targets Is ‘Going Really Well’

Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2022 17:55:29 +0000

On April 22, 2021, President Biden announced greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution reduction targets for the country. His vision was revealed during a summit on climate that he was holding, which was said to be “part of the President’s focus on building back better in a way that will create millions of good-paying, union jobs, ensure […]

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White House Releases Guidance on Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Sequestration

Credit to Author: Jared Wigginton| Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2022 19:59:03 +0000

In conjunction with the Biden-Harris administration’s recent announcement of new agency actions to promote clean manufacturing, the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) on Feb. 16 published its Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Sequestration Guidance (“Guidance”) in the Federal Register. Unlike traditional legal guidance documents, the Guidance addresses multiple federal agencies and provides numerous recommendations for efficiently […]

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A Georgia Town Gets Half Of Its Electricity From President Jimmy Carter’s Solar Farm

Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2020 06:19:50 +0000

Plains, Georgia, is a small town that is just south of Columbus, Macon, and Atlanta and north of Albany. It is the hometown of former United States President Jimmy Carter. On his farmland, there were once nut and soybean crops that would stretch their fingers to the ends of the horizons as if reaching for the unknown. Those have been replaced by 3,852 solar panels that provide clean energy for over half of Plains,

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