Climate

Late final yr in Austin, Texas, massive blue rigs rolled as much as a sunbaked parking zone and began boring holes deep into the bottom. Bedrock Energy, a geothermal startup, was deploying its novel drilling expertise for the primary time, close to a block of low-slung industrial buildings on South Congress Avenue. Over the next two months, Bedrock’s […] More

The foremost driver of that decline would be the energy sector, the place emissions are anticipated to plummet over the following decade as an increasing number of wind, photo voltaic, and storage initiatives plug into the grid. Transportation is the following largest contributor. Rhodium Group forecasts the sector — at present the largest supply of […] More

On Thursday, the Biden administration issued guidelines to dramatically scale back carbon emissions and air pollution from U.S. energy vegetation, whereas high officers weighed in with an essential message: Clean vitality is greater than able to supplant the fossil-fueled energy vegetation the brand new laws are supposed to curb. The long-awaited guidelines, the results of almost […] More

David Stile knew his air conditioner wasn’t lengthy for this world. It was already 24 years outdated — historic for an AC — and he needed to exchange it earlier than it broke. The undertaking would include trouble and expense, however in it Stile additionally noticed a chance. He might change over to a warmth pump. That […] More

First Solar and Qcells, the 2 largest solar-panel producers within the U.S., have joined a coalition of home suppliers calling for brand new tariffs on below-cost and state-subsidized panels imported from Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam.  The coalition, calling itself the American Alliance for Solar Manufacturing Trade Committee, is submitting petitions at present with the U.S. […] More

A brand new infusion of federal funding will assist a few of the most cutting-edge efforts to decarbonize the soiled metal business. On Thursday, the U.S. Department of Energy chosen 13 initiatives in 9 states to obtain a complete of $28 million via its Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E). The initiative… More

The Biden administration is making a historic $7 billion funding in photo voltaic initiatives for low-income households. The funding will assist practically half of U.S. states to create such packages for the primary time — and allow the opposite half to construct on current progress. To have fun Earth Day on Monday, the White House and […] More

The federal Bureau of Land Management has introduced a flurry of recent guidelines and plans in latest weeks because it explores how the 245 million acres of public land it oversees can contribute to the Biden administration’s renewable power and job objectives — and because it tries to guard ecosystems and culturally essential areas on the […] More

Tritium, an Australian high-speed EV-charging gear producer with a large-scale manufacturing unit in Tennessee, notified regulators on Thursday that it was bancrupt, casting uncertainty over whether or not it will possibly proceed to satisfy remaining orders for chargers or service people who its clients have already put in. In a Thursday submitting with the U.S. Securities and […] More

A month in the past, officers in New York celebrated the completion of South Fork Wind, the primary utility-scale offshore wind farm to function within the state — and nationwide. The milestone marked what they hoped could be a contemporary begin after a yr of setbacks and disappointments for the trade, not simply in New York however […] More

Mahan famous that Georgia Power, like many different Southeastern utilities, is especially involved about assembly winter peak hundreds pushed by the preponderance of electrical heating within the area. This chart from Georgia Power’s 2023 IRP replace signifies simply how rapidly it now expects these winter peaks to develop over the approaching decade, in contrast with […] More

In order to make good on its formidable offshore wind plans, Virginia electrical utility Dominion Energy first needed to get into the shipbuilding enterprise.  The regulated monopoly is constructing Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind, a $10 billion, 2.6 gigawatt wind mission 23.5 miles offshore of Virginia Beach. The mission is tied with New England Wind for the title […] More