A few weeks ago, CleanTechnica published my Clean Energy Evangelist Report Card. However, 1) I left some things out which I will add here and in a future article. 2) Please see some suggestions on how YOU can be a Clean Energy Evangelist. If you are going to be a … [continued]
New focus aims to strengthen real-world impact of pensions’ climate-solutions investment strategy NEW YORK, NY — New York City Comptroller Mark Levine announced Wednesday that the Bureau of Asset Management expects to present a total of $5 billion in new private-market climate investment opportunities to the boards of the New York … [continued]
Washington, DC — A new report released today by Senate Democrats on the Environment and Public Works Committee puts a dollar figure on the greed and corruption of the fossil fuel industry and the Trump administration. According to the report, fossil fuel interests and affiliated groups spent an estimated $201 … [continued]
Providence, RI — A Trump-appointed judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island ruled against the Trump administration’s attempt to slash $7 billion of funding for solar energy projects. The Solar For All program provides grant funding to regions across the country in order to expand affordable … [continued]
A federal judge in Rhode Island has ruled that the US EPA acted illegally when it decided to cancel the $7 billion Solar For All program. The ruling is no surprise. Everything the toadies to the Ogre of the Offal Office do is illegal. What is surprising is that the … [continued]
Despite last year's sharp U-turn in federal energy policy, the US solar industry is still attracting investors on the manufacturing side as demand for electricity soars (cropped, courtesy of ES Foundry).
Despite last year’s sharp U-turn in federal energy policy, the US solar industry is still attracting investors on the manufacturing side as demand for electricity soars.
“Swift,” the supercomputer purchased by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Manufacturing Office, is located in the National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s (NREL) HPC Data Center in the Energy Systems Integration Facility (ESIF). (Photo by Werner Slocum / NREL)
Sierra Club Applauds Governor Abigail Spanberger’s Data Center Executive Order and Policy Framework Release Richmond, VA — Today, Governor Abigail Spanberger announced protections regarding data center development in Virginia via executive order and a broad policy framework. The executive order curbs some consequential impacts of data center growth related to … [continued]
Last week, I wrote about the new Jackery EnergyGuard Max 100 kWh battery at IFA Berlin. This large capacity offers customers home energy storage to easily cover their needs as electrification evolves. Those with large, fully electrified homes, solar arrays and multiple EVs would still have capacity left to participate … [continued]
Most people don’t think about energy until the lights go out. Or transportation until the road is closed. Or the complex systems that keep people moving until they stop working. Taylor Searcy has spent much of his career thinking about those systems. Driven to Serve highlights the veterans and military-connected … [continued]
Farm electrification is several different operating problems sharing one electrical platform. Stationary loads, redesignable services and narrow-window seasonal work require different investment sequences.
Ask whether agriculture can electrify and the conversation usually arrives at the same machine within minutes: the tractor. More specifically, the large diesel tractor working hard through planting, harvest or another narrow seasonal window. It is a legitimate engineering challenge, but it is a poor organizing principle for farm electrification. … [continued]
