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From Arizona to Maine and beyond, a new generation of Indigenous entrepreneurs, activists and government leaders are making strides — and money — with clean energy. This article is part of a series — Power by the People: Clean Energy from the Grassroots. Read an excerpt below and more here: https://bit.ly/3rJs0v7 -- Solar development means economic opportunity. The Red Lake Indian Reservation, with a population of about 5,500, has an unemployment rate of 24 percent. Most of the available jobs are linked to tribal government, and most revenue is generated by Red Lake’s casinos. “We wanted to create jobs, entrepreneurship opportunities,” says Robert Blake, a tribal citizen of the Red Lake Nation of Ojibwe people. The ecological benefits of solar power are significant too for a tribe that has lived on the same 1,260 square miles of land since the 18th century. High levels of mercury from more than a century of coal power plant emissions have polluted the nearby Great Lakes and have been detected in the fish in the community’s namesake body of water, Red Lake, home to the country’s largest and oldest commercial walleye fishery. The tribe has fought the construction of fossil fuel pipelines across its land, which bring the risk of catastrophic explosions and oil spills as well as worsening climate change. Blake views the fossil-fuel energy system as part and parcel of an “extractive and predatory” economic system, one that threatens not just the communities and ecosystems directly harmed by it but the entire planet. Native people can now “take back these profits, take back these resources and start taking care of the planet and taking care of our communities,” he said.
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Last month’s launch of Rheem’s ProTerra 120-volt heat pump water heater might not seem like a big step forward in the fight against climate change. In terms of home electrification accessories, it’s not as sexy as a rooftop solar array, Tesla Powerwall battery or Ford F-150 Lightning electric pickup truck. But to home electrification policy wonks, an efficient electric water heater that can plug into a standard wall socket is a major advance in getting U.S. households off fossil fuels. It’s also an example of what climate activists, policymakers and big businesses can accomplish when they work together. Read the full story on canarymedia.com: https://bit.ly/3RuEwcJ
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That sounds like a well-needed solution!
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Hawaii’s only coal plant is on track to burn its last shipment of fuel and shut down by September 1. The AES plant in a West Oahu industrial park delivered cheap, reliable electricity to Honolulu and the rest of Oahu for 30 years. But Hawaii is switching from burning coal and oil for electricity to producing renewable power and storing it in batteries, per a landmark 2015 law. The state has added wind and solar generation, but this is the first time it will couple building new clean energy with shutting down a major fossil-fueled plant. That environmentally beneficial change spells the end of some 40 full-time jobs at the Barbers Point plant. AES is working to reassign its close-knit staff to other roles in the state or elsewhere in the energy company’s far-flung portfolio of facilities. The timing of the closure was dictated by another piece of legislation passed in 2020 specifically “to eliminate the use of coal in Hawaii for electricity production.” But the glide path to a cleaner island grid hit unexpected turbulence. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine triggered a global energy crisis and forced Hawaii to find new sources for a third of its oil. The result is sky-high prices at the gas station and for electricity, which in Hawaii mostly comes from burning oil. The AES closure makes the state’s grid more oil-dependent in the near term; that means electricity rates will go up before the new renewables shift the balance with much cheaper power. “It’s about having a North Star and being clear about what the long-term objectives are so that we can make generational decisions that will provide long-term stability and support for our communities,” Governor David Ige told Canary Media last Thursday at a ceremony marking the plant’s service to Oahu. Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/3QR6mjG
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This was great news for sure!
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Yes!!!!! This is the kind of news I want to hear/read!
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Awesome
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A $70 million initiative will deploy 30,000 electric heat pumps to bring climate-friendly comfort to residents of NYC’s aging public housing units. The startup Gradient showcased its new heating and cooling unit — a type of device called a heat pump — this week as part of the Clean Heat for All Challenge. Late last year, city and state officials in New York invited manufacturers to develop new electrified technology that would both improve living conditions and begin to decarbonize public housing buildings, many of which still rely on outdated heating-oil systems and gas-fired boilers. Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/3OX7fVN
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This is great! You should send a climate love to @gradientcomfort.com for their technology!
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There are hundreds of millions, soon to be billions, of solar PV panels that must be responsibly dealt with if the solar industry can ever hope to be considered “green.” So far, few entrepreneurs and investors have stepped up to confront the looming wave of renewable energy waste. But Solarcycle, a startup that launched earlier this year, says it has found a way to tackle the problem. The solar panel recycling company claims that its technology allows it to extract 95 percent of the high-value metals contained in solar photovoltaic panels such as silver, silicon, copper and aluminum and to either repurpose them or return them to the supply chain. Read more: https://bit.ly/39oLuzA
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Dear Canary Media Thank you for getting your climate love to level 2! We have reached out to Solarycle and requested a response. I will keep you updated on any progress! /Marine We Don't Have Time
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That's great, as said in the text I guess this is an afterthought issue so it's freat to see a company working with it!
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Electric school buses are a hot commodity. Billions of dollars of federal and state grants and incentives are flowing to U.S. school districts to help them electrify their fleets. By replacing diesel buses with clean and quiet battery-powered models, they can slash fuel and maintenance costs and cut air and noise pollution. For school districts that still struggle with the higher upfront costs of electric buses and the charging equipment needed to keep them running, companies including Highland Electric Fleets and Thomas Built Buses have deals to help them get over the hump. On Thursday, the Massachusetts-based startup and the North Carolina–based school bus manufacturer announced a plan to offer “electric school bus subscriptions through 2025 at prices that put them at cost parity with diesel.” This is essentially a nationwide extension of Highland Electric’s “turnkey solutions provider” business model, backed by a big bus maker as its partner. Highland provides the buses and charging infrastructure, pays for the electricity to charge them, covers maintenance costs and manages the other complexities of going electric. The school district or transit authority pays an all-inclusive subscription fee, one that’s structured to be lower than its current budget for owning, fueling and maintaining its existing diesel fleets. Learn more: https://bit.ly/3imBeZp
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This is so great! Making electric buses/cars be as cheap as diesel ones is so important for a faster transition towards renewable energy
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Wow, that's a fantastic incentive!
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Woow wish all the Schools will subscribe to these electric busses as it is economical and also saves the planet
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A parade of delivery vehicles rumbles through the streets every day, carrying bags and boxes of clothes, groceries and diapers directly to our doorsteps. Vans and trucks burning fossil fuels are fulfilling the nation’s rising demand for online shopping — and they’re bringing noise, noxious fumes and planet-warming gases into neighborhoods across the country. In response, automakers and logistics giants are accelerating efforts to electrify commercial vehicles, which have lagged behind passenger cars when it comes to replacing polluting engines with emissions-free batteries. Among the latest contenders vying to clean up fleets is Arrival. The British startup is partnering with UPS, which has placed an order for 10,000 of the company’s electric delivery vans. Arrival plans to start producing the vehicles later this year in the United Kingdom and the United States. The two companies are collaborating to design vans for drivers making dozens of daily stops, who are hauling ever-growing volumes of goods, said Avinash Rugoobur, Arrival’s president. Learn more: https://bit.ly/3CR7ehK
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Wonderful!
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Wow its amazing
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That's very cool!
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Twitter’s IrishEnergyBot (https://twitter.com/irishenergybot) is product of the pandemic. If you confine an energy analyst and a software engineer to their home for months at a time (they’re married), would you expect anything other than an energy-data-scraping Twitter bot to be the result? Learn more about the bot here: https://bit.ly/3Ib591t
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A good tool!
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Amazing
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That's very cool!
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Russia invaded Ukraine, global oil prices spiked, and one U.S. state in particular will feel the crunch. Hawaii imports all of its oil, much of it from Russia itself. As the U.S. Energy Information Administration succinctly notes, “Isolated by the Pacific Ocean, Hawaii is the most petroleum-dependent U.S. state.” And while gasoline prices are rising everywhere, Hawaii is unique among the states in how much it depends on oil for electricity. The geopolitical strife in Eastern Europe catches Hawaii at an awkward moment of transition from fossil-fueled electricity to clean energy. Hawaii never developed the facilities necessary to import fossil gas for power, so oil plays an unusually large role in the state’s grid. Petroleum generated 60 percent of Hawaii’s electricity in 2020, and even that hefty amount was the lowest level in two decades, according to the EIA. Hawaiian Electric “is working to add more renewable resources and battery storage to our island grids to stabilize rates for our customers and reduce our dependence on oil for power generation." Learn more here: https://bit.ly/3svsNAR
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small islands. should quickly transition to all electronic vehicles. They already. have high gas prices
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It is now the best time for Hawaii to move away from fossil fuels and to start its transition towards green energy!
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The need/time for Hawaii and the world in general to transition to green energy has never been more. If it isn't clean energy, it won't be sustainable. Green is the new vogue
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Something unusual is happening in Hawaii: An electric utility and rooftop solar installers have agreed on a proposal to reward households for sharing clean energy with the grid at useful times. In many places around the U.S., utilities treat rooftop solar as an obstacle. They say it shifts grid-maintenance costs from customers who have solar to those who don’t, or causes headaches for their system planning and operations. Utilities in California are currently urging regulators to levy a monthly fee on anyone who adds rooftop solar, regardless of how it operates. But things are playing out differently on Oahu. Hawaii’s most populous island, with a million residents, is struggling to ramp up enough clean energy ahead of shutting down its largest fossil-fueled power plant in September. To that end, the monopoly utility, Hawaiian Electric, teamed up with advocates of customer-owned energy to say households should earn money for using solar and batteries to keep power flowing to the grid. Learn more here: https://bit.ly/3gPa7p7
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This is so important!
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Great initiative!
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An iconoclastic Canadian startup just raised a landmark investment from Goldman Sachs to build massive storage for clean energy. Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/3Fl5Dka Hydrostor stores surplus electricity by compressing air into underground caverns. It updates a long-standing technology that never took off for electrical storage. Hydrostor thinks the tweaks it has made will allow underground storage to work in more places — just as grids increasingly need help turning wind and solar production into reliable 24/7 electricity. Goldman Sachs agreed and invested $250 million from its private equity division. That’s unusual for the long-duration energy storage sector, which typically draws riskier venture-capital investment.
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Way to go!
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Starting this month, Airseas will deploy its automated Seawing system on a cargo ship for the first time. The blue-and-white Ville de Bordeaux vessel will hoist the 5,400-square-foot parafoil during a six-month period of sea trials. Airbus ordered the kite for the vessel, which carries the company’s aircraft parts between France and the United States. “It’s a major milestone and the beginning of an adventure for us,” Stéphanie Lesage, general counsel for Airseas, told Canary Media. Read more about Airseas and other projects in the works as shipping companies look to limit emissions from carrying cargo by sea: https://bit.ly/3eOrllN
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Dear Canary Media Thank you for getting your climate love to level 2! We have reached out to AIRSEAS and requested a response. I will keep you updated on any progress! /Adam We Don't Have Time
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Wow, that’s a really interesting technique
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I've read about this, it's a very cool idea. We should find other ways of harnessing the wind for cargo shipping
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Any tax-deductible donations you make go straight to funding their award-winning journalism and helping them grow our reporting operation, so we can tell more stories and investigate more leads on the energy transition. They’ve already grown to 13 full-time staff, but that’s still not enough to cover all the angles on this crucial topic. We’re on the lookout for more editors and reporters to dig deeper on environmental justice, breakthrough energy technologies and climate action around the world. Donations from supporters are especially crucial to them because the general state of the media business is precarious, to say the least. Even media companies that seem established and successful are vulnerable to mass layoffs at the whims of their profit-seeking ownership. Those media outlets that have found a profitable model for energy journalism often end up taking money from the same oil giants they are ostensibly holding accountable. Source: https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/climate-crisis/how-to-support-fact-based-journalism-on-climate-solutions
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Canary Media is doing a great work!
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There’s a lot of open land waiting to be covered with solar panels — as long as you don’t mind building on top of trash. Take the recently opened 5.2-megawatt Solar Star Urbana Landfill project from solar developer Nexamp. Built on a 40-acre closed landfill outside Urbana, Illinois, the project has turned a trash dump unsuitable for almost any other productive use into a clean-energy resource for low- and moderate-income residents able to tap its output at low rates under a state program. The Boston-based developer has built similar landfill solar farms in California, Massachusetts and New York. “We want to do more of these projects,” Ethan Gyles, the company’s director of channel development, said in an interview this month. “Landfill and brownfield projects are a win-win for everyone. It’s land that typically can’t be developed for other productive use.” Read more here: https://bit.ly/3d7jr5R
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A brilliant idea
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This has already been done in Germany but never the less a good idea!
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Dear Canary Media Thank you for getting your climate love to level 2! We have reached out to Nexamp and requested a response. I will keep you updated on any progress! /Adam We Don't Have Time
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When a company or city claims to be “100 percent powered by clean energy,” what it typically means is that it has tallied up its electricity consumption, purchased an equal amount of carbon-free energy (CFE) and called it even. That’s fine, as far as it goes. But now, a brave few companies and cities aspire not just to offset their consumption with CFE on a yearly basis, but to match their consumption with CFE production every hour of every day, all year long. Google is on a very short list of entities in the U.S. that have committed to 24/7 carbon-free energy. But the idea is catching on. Learn more about 24/7 carbon-free commitments here: https://bit.ly/3oVIIpt
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Dear Canary Media Thank you for getting your climate love to level 2! We have reached out to Google and requested a response. I will keep you updated on any progress! /Adam We Don't Have Time
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Great ambition by Google, I think many will follow suit!
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This is really impressive to see such a blue chip company joining other companies in commiting to climate change. Congratulations goggle
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Dear Canary Media Thank you for getting your climate love to level 2! We have reached out to Solar Bear and requested a response. I will keep you updated on any progress! /Adam We Don't Have Time
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With green economy comes sustainable jobs which is really impressive!
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Solar development is part of economic development