Credit to Author: Contributed Content| Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 21:17:07 +0000
In its first 10 months serving Portland General Electric (PGE) customers, the Clearwater Wind Energy Center contributed to new records for PGE wind generation, including helping the company produce 1 GW of […]
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Credit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Sat, 09 Nov 2024 22:58:54 +0000
As I sit at my computer tapping out this article, the sun is shining in beautiful Brisbane, capital of Queensland, Australia. We are moving into summer and the sun is up long before I am. When I awake, the house battery is filling up and charging the car. Soon, the … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2024 16:13:47 +0000
The virtual power plant movement is scaling up, powered by smart thermostats that enable utilities and ratepayers to collaborate on grid resiliency and affordability.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2024 04:30:02 +0000
This is an interesting story, and I have to say I knew nothing about this region’s electricity grid before today. The US Department of Energy has the full, long story, but I’m going to summarize it and cut to the chase in parts. The focus is Alaska’s Railbelt electric grid, … [continued]
The post Fossil Gas Shortage Tells Us Alaska Should Turn to Renewable Energy appeared first on CleanTechnica.
Read moreCredit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2024 22:46:29 +0000
I recall when the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 was passed. Immediately, that day, we started getting announcements of EV battery factories and battery-related factories. In coming days, weeks, and months, we also got news of solar panel factories coming to town, battery mineral refineries, and numerous other production facilities. … [continued]
The post Thanks, Biden — For $1 Trillion In Private-Sector Investment In US EV & Tech Economy appeared first on CleanTechnica.
Read moreCredit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2024 19:26:38 +0000
For the past eight years, the United States has been missing in action in climate leadership globally. Biden’s climate policy experiments, aimed as much at attempting to deal with the root causes of working class and middle class grievance as at useful emissions reductions, will persist in some diminished form. … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2024 04:56:00 +0000
The 2024 US presidential election race is still too close to call, but it’s not looking great for Kamala Harris and the Democrats. I just wrote about the $988 billion in commitments from private companies that are associated with bills signed into law by Joe Biden — the American Rescue … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2024 04:55:20 +0000
A reader pointed me to this webpage and the map there showing where manufacturing and infrastructure investments associated with the American Rescue Plan, Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, CHIPS and Science Act, and the Inflation Reduction Act are taking place or have been committed. It’s a fascinating map, but the headline number … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2024 18:51:15 +0000
Thanks to the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law’s Advanced Energy Manufacturing & Recycling Grants Program, the California company Mainspring Energy has received $87 million from the US Department of Energy to support domestic manufacturing of “innovative, fuel-flexible, power generators.” The state-of-the-art manufacturing facility is expected to create more than 600 “skilled jobs” … [continued]
The post Pittsburgh Gets $96 Million for Cleantech Manufacturing Facility, Will Create 900+ Jobs appeared first on CleanTechnica.
Read moreCredit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2024 04:53:57 +0000
… And They’re USA’s Only Hope For Competing With China There’s no doubt about it — China is absolutely demolishing the US on the clean technology economy, and the world is a clean technology economy more and more every day and will be for decades to come. China has strong, … [continued]
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