"[Governor] Moore tasked the #Maryland Energy Administration with establishing a framework to achieve 100 percent #CleanEnergy by 2035 and directed the Maryland Department of Transportation to undertake several measures to promote #CleanTransportation.
“Today’s order calls on every single state agency to submit a Climate Implementation Plan (CIP),” Moore said"
"#NegativePrices aren’t new, first occurring in Germany in 2008 as the nation ramped up wind and solar production.
But they were rare, until now.
Operators may be reluctant to make future investments because they’re not getting paid enough for the #CleanEnergy they’re churning out now.
So what’s the solution for producers and investors? The obvious one is to build more #batteries."
I finally got around to getting off of Substack and I just published my weekly list of #CleanEnergy, #Climate, and #Sustainability Jobs on Ghost for the first time. Happy to move to a platform that doesn’t directly support nazis.
As he sat w/some of the country’s top #oil execs at his Mar-a-Lago Club last month, one exec complained how they continued to face burdensome #environmental#regulations despite spending $400M to lobby the #Biden admin…
#Trump’s remarkably blunt & transactional pitch reveals how he is targeting the #oil industry to finance his reelection bid. At the same time, he has turned to the industry to help shape his #environmental agenda for a second term, including rollbacks of some of #Biden’s signature achievements on #CleanEnergy & #EVs.
"The Department of Energy on Wednesday announced its initial selection of 10 federal corridors for the development of multistate, ultra-high-capacity electric transmission lines.
And acting under its own authority, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission could approve the right-of-way for a power line located within a national interest corridor, overriding the objections of state officials if necessary."
"The U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Monday approved the first major electric transmission policy update in over a decade that aims to speed up new interregional lines to move more #CleanEnergy to meet growing demand amid the explosion of electric vehicles, data centers and artificial intelligence."
The Biden-Harris Administration is investing $124M in renewable energy and fertilizer for U.S. farms and businesses, aiming to lower costs and create jobs across 44 states. Funded by the Inflation Reduction Act, this initiative supports clean energy expansion and strengthens the agricultural supply chain.
Ohhh, going to show this to some local friends interested in climate matters and in need of work.
From the site:
> Join the next generation of creators, thinkers, leaders, and doers, working together to tackle the #ClimateCrisis. Help build a #CleanEnergy and climate-resilient future in your own community and across the nation.
"Comprising the newly developed anode and cathode, the assembled full cell forms a high-performance hybrid sodium-ion energy storage device, which crosses the energy density of commercial lithium-ion batteries available in the market. According to researchers, the device exhibits the characteristics of supercapacitors’ power density." #EV#CleanEnergy#Battery https://interestingengineering.com/science/sodium-battery-charged-in-seconds
"On Thursday, Trump held a private dinner at his Mar-a-Lago Club and resort with about 20 oil executives from some of the country’s biggest firms."
Meanwhile, the Biden administration has approved 19GW of clean energy to be built on federal lands, raised drilling fees and royalties, and is plugging abandoned oil wells that leak methane.
"Most of the funding, $621 million, will go toward 36 projects aimed at bolstering the resilience of existing infrastructure through things like improving draining, moving roadways, and lifting up bridges.
An additional $119 million will go toward protecting, strengthening, or removing at-risk coastal infrastructure like highways."
"At least 305 major #CleanEnergy projects have been announced in 40 states and Puerto Rico since the IRA passed, Timberlake said, totalling more than $123 billion in capital investments. The Midwest, he added, has received about a quarter of those funds."
"The boom in clean energy projects is astounding. Since the passage of the IRA in 2022, incentives provided by the law helped drive $332 billion in new investments in #CleanEnergy and transportation technologies. Almost all of that was private investments, as opposed to government spending, spurred on by an estimated $48 billion in federal tax credits.
While much of the #IRA is working as intended, the American public is largely unaware of the story."
White House announces actions to modernize America’s #ElectricalGrid, paving the way for clean energy and fewer outages
"The new initiative between the feds and 21 states aims to make faster fixes and improvements to the grid, committing to build a bigger and more modern grid as part of a larger effort to reduce power outages and increase electrical transmission capacity – a massive hurdle to getting more #CleanEnergy on the grid."
Clean energy spending set to reach twice that on fossil fuels, IEA reports
"#Investment in #CleanEnergy technologies will climb to $2 trillion this year, almost double the amount spent on fossil fuels, according to the International Energy Agency."