Climate

A no-till planter is used to plant soybeans right into a terminated cowl crop. (Jason Johnson, NRCS-Iowa) Meanwhile, environmental teams sharply criticized the tax-credit tips. World Resources Institute and Environmental Defense Fund, amongst others, questioned Treasury’s methodology for analyzing complete CO2 emissions, which they are saying undercounts the life-cycle impacts related to crop-based fuels. “Opening […] More

For the previous 4 years, researchers on the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have been monitoring a main risk to the U.S. clear power transition: the backups and bottlenecks in connecting proposed photo voltaic, wind, and battery tasks to the electrical energy grid. LBNL’s workforce laid out their newest findings in a latest webinar. The […] More

Europe, the next-biggest marketplace for EVs, is each far smaller in gross sales quantity than China and way more sluggish by way of development. The IEA forecasts that automakers will promote 3.4 million new EVs and PHEVs this yr in Europe, up simply 6 p.c from final yr’s whole. In the U.S., the third-biggest EV market, […] More

Canary Media’s Charging Up column chronicles gender range and notable profession strikes within the climatetech sector. Got a individual or occasion you’d wish to see us cowl or a scorching job tip? Let us know! Zoe Berkery: On staking a declare Zoe Berkery is chief working officer at CleanCapital. This interview has been edited and condensed for brevity. How […] More

One 12 months in the past, New York state handed one of many nation’s most bold clear power and local weather justice legal guidelines. The Build Public Renewables Act approved the New York Power Authority, a state-owned public energy utility, to construct and personal clear power tasks for the primary time. If the state falls wanting […] More

The grants introduced this week, of $500,000 to $5 million per challenge, are supposed to bolster vitality resilience and reliability whereas additionally boosting clear vitality data and capability in these underserved areas. The program additionally goals to scale back how a lot rural and deprived households spend on vitality, a fraction of their revenue referred to […] More

Still, with out the Tesla charging staff to shepherd the continued implementation of that expertise throughout the trade, ​“additional enhancements to requirements and engagements throughout the trade will undergo,” Jameson wrote. Tesla’s layoffs additionally forged uncertainty over the tasks the corporate has gained with state transportation departments as a part of the Biden administration’s National […] More

Squat metallic wellheads rise from a grassy area in central Kansas, surrounded by purple metal containers. Years in the past, oil and gasoline firms got here right here to deposit their liquid waste into the teardrop-shaped salt caverns lots of of ft under the floor. Now, a firm with a wholly completely different mission is filling those self […] More

One of the biggest photo voltaic tasks within the nation is shifting nearer to completion, and it’s not in a famously sunny state like California, Texas, and even Florida. It’s in Minnesota, on former potato farms close to the location of a retiring coal plant. The Sherco photo voltaic and energy-storage facility would be the largest photo voltaic […] More

(Voltpost) The Voltpost can also be designed to attenuate the specter of accidents involving charging cords and passersby. For one, the port for its retractable cable is mounted about 8 ft off the bottom, minimizing the danger that low-slung cables will change into tripping or snagging hazards for passing vehicles, vans, buses, bicyclists, pedestrians, or wheelchair […] More

“Ammonia is only a liquid in a tank,” he mentioned, requiring no wires or circumstances that batteries require. Market potential Tim Krebs, Aza Power’s chief monetary officer, serves on the boards of different ammonia startups and comes from an oil and gasoline background. After lithium ion and hydrogen, ammonia will turn into ​“the subsequent complement for decarbonizing […] More

“As of October 2023, our car belongings had been value almost 50% lower than once we bought them,” Krulewitz wrote on LinkedIn. ​“At the identical time, our value of funds went up almost 40%. Game over, lights out.” Venture capital comes with issues Krulewitz didn’t attribute his firm’s demise solely to the slings and arrows […] More