Climate

Canary Media’s chart of the week interprets essential information in regards to the clear power transition right into a visible format. The U.S. power transition has more cash behind it than ever. Last 12 months, climatetech funding reached a complete of $239 billion, a record-breaking determine that’s 38 % increased than the 2022 complete. The information comes from a new […] More

New rooftop photo voltaic techniques are price a lot lower than they was once in California, following the state’s dramatic adjustments in net-metering coverage. Even batteries added to these photo voltaic techniques to retailer energy when the solar is shining and feed power again after the solar goes down — a major aim of the state’s new […] More

(RMI, Quanta Technology) What’s extra, bringing cheap clean-energy sources on-line might considerably scale back the prices handed on to utility clients in PJM territory by decreasing grid congestion that will increase wholesale vitality costs and making extra lower-cost clear vitality accessible on its wholesale vitality market. Although not sometimes ​“a part of grid-interconnection research,” RMI […] 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! Victoria Beasley: A nature-loving enterprise capitalist Victoria Beasley is a accomplice at Gigascale Capital. This interview has been edited and condensed for brevity. How […] More

The United States is producing and exporting extra liquefied pure gasoline, or LNG, than ever earlier than. Last 12 months, the nation grew to become the world’s largest exporter of the superchilled fossil gasoline — a growth that’s elevating pressing questions in Washington, D.C. and nationwide in regards to the function that U.S.-made LNG ought to […] More

The newest federal forecast for energy plant additions exhibits photo voltaic sweeping with 58% of all new utility-scale producing capability this yr. In an upset, battery storage will present the second-most new capability, with 23%. Wind delivers a modest 13%, whereas the long-delayed ultimate nuclear reactor at Vogtle in Georgia will add 2% of recent capability, […] More

During a summer season’s afternoon in 2022, a 450-foot fireball exploded at a liquefied pure gasoline terminal south of Houston, rocking sunbathers on Quintana Beach, adjoining to the Freeport LNG terminal, and rattling houses for miles round. Twenty-one months later, residents across the plant have but to obtain any data straight from Freeport LNG about what prompted the […] More

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Electrical panels — the grey bins of circuit breakers that sit in basements or on the outside of a home — is usually a main barrier to electrifying houses and residences. Millions of houses have undersized electrical panels that could be unable to deal with the additional energy demand that comes with switching from fossil gasoline to […] More

These coverage measures paid dividends when batteries helped Southern California’s grid survive gasoline shortages after the 2015 Aliso Canyon gasoline storage leak. Over the years, the know-how has helped photo voltaic growth proceed after the sunny hours grew to become saturated with renewable power; the batteries shift photo voltaic era into extra priceless nighttime hours. […] More

Canary Media’s Electrified Life column shares real-world tales, ideas and insights to demystify what people can do to shift their houses and lives to wash electrical energy.  ARVADA, Colorado — On a grey Saturday, I pull as much as the curb of the Geos neighborhood throughout a snowstorm. Through the fats falling flakes, I can simply make out the […] More

Alex Honnold is not any stranger to challenges. Most famously, in 2017, he turned the one particular person to have climbed Yosemite National Park’s 3,000-foot vertical rock formation, El Capitan, with out ropes or harnesses, a feat chronicled within the Oscar-winning documentary Free Solo. Last summer season, Honnold accomplished one other spectacular feat: the primary ascent […] More