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In a move that could add to regulatory requirements for coal-fired power plants, the Environmental Protection Agency on Friday proposed tightening the primary annual air quality standard for fine particulate matter, called PM 2.5, to a range of 9 micrograms per cubic meter to 10 µg/m3 from 12 µg/m3. The EPA is also seeking comments on lowering the decade-old standard to 8 µg/m3 or 11 µg/m3. A final decision on where to set the limit will be based on the comments the agency receives, EPA Administrator Michael Regan said in a press briefing. The agency aims to make a decision in August. Coal plants owners in nonattaintment areas for a revised standard will have to meet requirements outlined in any approved state plans for meeting the federal PM 2.5 limit, according to Julia Criscuolo, ESAI Power manager of renewables and emissions. They may also have to meet “good neighbor” requirements if emissions from their state prevent other states from meeting the standard, she said Thursday in an email. Source: https://www.utilitydive.com/news/epa-fine-particulate-matter-standard-soot-PM-2-proposal/639800/
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The U.S. Department of Energy on Dec. 28 proposed new energy-efficiency standards for distribution transformers to come into effect in 2027, aiming to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and potentially saving consumers approximately $15 billion over 30 years. Because most electricity generated at power plants goes through one or more transformers, experts say even small efficiency improvements can significantly reduce emissions and electricity generation. DOE said the proposed rules would impact three categories of distribution transformers, requiring them to include amorphous steel cores that are more efficient than those typically made of grain-oriented electrical steel. Source: https://www.utilitydive.com/news/doe-proposes-new-efficiency-rules-for-distribution-transformers-potentiall/639619/
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Quite an impressive approach!
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The progress is quite substantial.
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The U.S. Department of Energy will spend $72 million to expand a workforce training program that also helps small manufacturers reduce their energy use, according to a Dec. 6 release. Approximately $54 million in funding will go toward creating new industrial assessment centers, or IACs, at community colleges, trade schools and union training programs. Another $18.75 million will help turn five of the highest performing existing IACs into regional hubs that will collaborate with the government and advise other centers. Under the IAC program, engineering school students around the country are sent to small- and medium-sized manufacturers and provide no-cost assessments of their facilities under the direction of a professor. IACs then follow up with recommendations on ways to improve productivity and generate energy savings. Source: https://www.utilitydive.com/news/energy-department-72m-to-DOE-programs/639412/
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Definitely, information is key. With access to correct data, steps to combat the negative effects on the climate will have greater impact.
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Investing on educating the different parties on optimum energy use is such an ideal step
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This is an amazing step towards curbing climate change
Five companies are the provisional winners of the offshore wind leases available for up to 4.6 GW from floating turbines off of California’s central and northern coasts, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, or BOEM, announced Dec. 7. While the auction is a significant first step, many more are needed to bring California’s floating wind turbine industry to fruition, including a U.S.-based supply chain, new transmission and offtake agreements. The leaseholders are required to fund workforce training or support the development of a domestic supply chain for the floating wind energy industry, or do both, which will give them a 20% bidding credit. There is also a 5% bidding credit for signing agreements that benefit the communities impacted by the lease developments, which along with lease provisions, show “ BOEM’s commitment to responsibly grow the offshore wind industry to achieve our offshore wind goals,” said BOEM Director Amanda Lefton. Source: https://www.utilitydive.com/news/first-west-coast-offshore-wind-lease-auction-generates-757-million-laggin/638323/
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California utilities must have state permits to build natural gas projects costing more than $75 million or expected to worsen air pollution in communities with serious air quality problems. Each big proposed pipeline or compressor station also must include an assessment of its potential environmental impacts in accordance with the California Environmental Quality Act, or CEQA. The order unanimously approved Dec. 1 seeks to reduce greenhouse gasses and toxic emissions, provide details about projects and reduce the stranding of gas assets as the state strives to decarbonize. Source: https://www.utilitydive.com/news/california-requires-permits-for-large-natural-gas-projects-to-enable-enviro/637958/
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Natural gas and its safe transportation is a step in the right direction to combat adverse climate change.
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U.S. businesses have installed a total of nearly 19 GW of on-site and off-site solar through the first nine months of 2022, about double the amount installed through 2019, according to a report released Tuesday by the Solar Energy Industries Association. Meta tops the 2022 list of U.S. corporate solar users — growing from 177 MW in early 2019 to 3.6 GW today — followed by Amazon, Apple and Walmart. Microsoft, which ranks fifth, has “leapt into the top 10” by adding 479 MW of capacity since 2019, SEIA states in a release provided with the report. Target ranks sixth, but SEIA reports that it “remains the top onsite corporate solar user.” Half of all U.S. corporate solar capacity has been built in “the last two and half years,” SEIA estimates, and U.S. companies are now responsible for 14% of installed solar capacity in the country. Full story: https://www.utilitydive.com/news/meta-facebook-amazon-apple-walmart-expand-solar-power-capacity/637555/
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As billions in government subsidies were at stake, the electric utility industry shed its opposition to clean-air regulation and put its lobbying muscle behind passing President Biden’s climate bill. Full story: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/29/us/politics/electric-utilities-biden-climate-bill.html?
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Bold necessary move there, with such milestones conquered, the climate change we envision is around the corner.
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More than 100 new Chevy Bolt EVs are arriving at several Domino’s franchises this month to help make pizza delivery emissions free. They will be joined by another 700 at Domino’s stores across America in the months to come. All will be wrapped in Domino’s livery and made available to the drivers who bring all those pizzas to customers every day — especially on Super Bowl Sunday. Every person who orders from Domino’s online between now and February 12, 2023 will be eligible to win a free 2023 Chevy Bolt. To see where these electric cars are located, click on Domino’s interactive state map. “Domino’s launched pizza delivery in 1960 with a Volkswagen Beetle, rolled out the DXP® — a custom built pizza delivery vehicle — in 2015, tested autonomous pizza delivery with cars and robots, and is now leading the charge into the future of pizza delivery,” says Russell Weiner, Domino’s chief executive officer, in a press release. “Domino’s has always been on the cutting edge of pizza delivery and electric delivery cars make sense as vehicle technology continues to evolve. We’ve made a commitment to net zero carbon emissions by 2050 and this is one way we can begin reducing our environmental impact, one delivery at a time.” The Chevy Bolt electric cars provide several advantages for Domino’s stores, including ample battery life with the potential to have days of deliveries in between charging events, zero tailpipe emissions, advanced safety features, and lower average maintenance costs than nonelectric vehicles — all without the financial impact of high gas prices. Electric fleet vehicles also provide more opportunity to attract delivery drivers who don’t have a car of their own. Today, Domino’s already delivers with electric bikes and scooters in 24 international markets, including the US. Full article: https://cleantechnica.com/2022/11/23/dominos-adding-800-chevy-bolt-evs-to-its-delivery-fleet/
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That's always a good step to decarbonize its delivery fleet!
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This is really admirable. Others should follow.
DTE Electric plans to spend about $9 billion to add 4,400 MW of solar, 1,000 MW of wind and 760 MW of battery storage in the next decade, according to the utility’s integrated resource plan filed Thursday at the Michigan Public Service Commission. The plan includes converting the two units at DTE Electric’s 1,270-MW coal-fired Belle River power plant to a natural gas-fired plant in 2025 and 2026. DTE Electric’s “proposed course of action,” or PCA, calls for retiring two coal-fired Monroe power plant units totaling 1,535 MW in 2028, 12 years ahead of previous plans. It would shutter the plant’s remaining units in 2035, completing the utility’s exit from coal-fired power. Source: https://www.utilitydive.com/news/dte-energy-resource-plan-irp-solar-coal-michigan-psc/635781/
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While burning natural gas aka methane produces 30% less carbon it remains a dirty fossil fuel and is up to 80% more damaging to the ozone layer than burning coal
New Oil & Gas investment / underwriting guidelines (2022/10/06) As an environmentally conscientious business, Munich Re aims to play its part in meeting the targets of the Paris Climate Agreement. The Group has therefore set itself ambitious decarbonisation targets for its investments, its (re)insurance transactions and its own business operations. Against this backdrop, as of 1 April 2023 Munich Re will no longer invest in or insure contracts/projects exclusively covering the planning, financing, construction or operation of new oil and gas fields, where as at 31 December 2022 no prior production has taken place or new midstream infrastructure related to oil, which have not yet been under construction or operation as at 31 December 2022 and new oil fired power plants, which have not yet been under construction or operation as at 31 December 2022 This applies to direct illiquid investments, our primary, facultative and direct (re)insurance business. The same applies where such risks are contained or bundled in one cover together with other risks (e.g., existing oil or gas fields), when the cover is mainly designed to protect one or more of such new risks. Furthermore, in its own listed equities & corporates portfolio, as of 1 April 2023, Munich Re will cease to conduct new direct investments in pure-play Oil & Gas companies. As of 1 January 2025, Munich Re will require a credible commitment to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 including corresponding short- and mid-term milestones from listed integrated O&G companies with the highest relative and absolute emissions. Source: https://www.munichre.com/en/company/media-relations/statements/2022/new-oil-and-gas-investment-underwriting-guidelines.html
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In March, Oahu, the most populous island in Hawaii, launched a grand experiment to pay households for sharing clean power from home batteries during the island grid’s high-demand hours. Six months in, nearly 1,800 families have heeded the call, while concerns about the long-term certainty of the compensation scheme have kept others away. The Battery Bonus program offers thousands of dollars of incentives to households that store their rooftop solar production in batteries and share it with the grid for two hours every night. The program took effect this spring as Oahu was preparing for its last coal plant to shut down in September of this year. With large-scale solar and battery projects running behind schedule, Oahu needed whatever additional clean energy it could harness to keep the grid running smoothly after the scheduled coal-plant closure. Driven by necessity, regulators, solar installers and utility Hawaiian Electric banded together to quickly design and approve a workable plan to engage individual consumers in the business of supplying the power grid. Full story: https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/batteries/hawaii-is-paying-home-battery-owners-to-help-the-grid-hows-that-going
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Form Energy’s effort to commercialize multiday clean energy storage got a major boost from a $450 million fundraise Tuesday. The Series E round, which brought in a staggering sum for an unconventional grid-storage hardware startup, will carry Form out of its current precommercial state. The company, which produces iron-air batteries, will double its staff headcount from its current level of 326 as it plows through the validation and testing required to sell a warrantied product. Simultaneously, Form is finalizing the location for its first commercial factory, which will begin manufacturing batteries in the U.S. within two years, CEO and co-founder Mateo Jaramillo told Canary Media. “We expect to be generating meaningful revenue in 2025,” said Jaramillo, who led Tesla’s energy-storage business before leaving in 2016 to tackle the challenge of multiday energy storage. Full story: https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/long-duration-energy-storage/form-energy-wins-450m-to-rust-iron-for-multiday-energy-storage
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Renewable energy advocates believe the Inflation Reduction Act will pave the way for more hybrid storage projects like Wheatridge Renewable Energy Facilities, which opened in Morrow County, Oregon, last week. The joint effort from NextEra Energy Resources and Portland General Electric is the nation’s first utility-scale project combining wind and solar generation with energy storage, according to the companies. The installation includes 300 MW of wind, 50 MW of solar and 30 MW of battery storage. The Wheatridge system uses electricity from the solar assets to charge the batteries; the storage can provide continuous power for four hours. A NextEra subsidiary built and will operate the combined facility. PGE owns 100 MW of the output, and the subsidiary owns the rest, which it will sell to PGE under 30- and 20-year power purchase agreements. Source: https://www.utilitydive.com/news/nextera-pge-first-wind-solar-battery-project-inflation-reduction-act-spurs-storage-options/633097/
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The Inflation Reduction Act dedicates a historic $369 billion to support energy and climate initiatives, such as expanding domestic manufacturing capacity. This includes an estimated $30 billion in production tax credits aimed at accelerating U.S. manufacturing of batteries, solar panels, wind turbines and other clean energy technologies — along with tens of billions more in the form of investment tax credits and loans. Since the legislation passed in August, a number of companies have announced major initiatives to expand renewable energy manufacturing in the U.S. Source: https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/clean-energy/6-clean-energy-companies-that-are-ramping-up-us-manufacturing
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The Biden administration intends to release a plan in-mid December for slashing greenhouse gas emissions from the transportation sector related to funding streams created through the bipartisan infrastructure law and the Inflation Reduction Act, the Department of Energy said Friday. The plan will help guide policy decisions as well as research, development, demonstration and deployment in the public and private sectors, according to a memorandum of understanding among four agencies. The departments of Energy, Transportation and Housing and Urban Development as well as the Environmental Protection Agency will work on the plan. “The parties resolve to work closely with states, local communities, tribal communities, labor unions, nonprofits, the private sector and other stakeholders to make substantial progress implementing low- and zero-carbon transportation solutions and associated infrastructure,” the agencies said in the MOU. Source: https://www.utilitydive.com/news/doe-federal-agencies-transportation-plan-carbon-emissions/632215/
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Bloom Energy will install a 240-kW electrolyzer at Xcel Energy’s Prairie Island nuclear plant in Welch, Minnesota, to produce emissions-free hydrogen, the companies said Monday. The demonstration project is designed to create “immediate and scalable pathways” for producing cost-efficient and clean hydrogen while adding value for nuclear power plants, Bloom and Xcel said. Bloom, a fuel cell company, expects to start building the electrolyzer in late 2023 and start running it in early 2024. Source: https://www.utilitydive.com/news/bloom-energy-hydrogen-xcel-nuclear-prairie-island/632148/
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The Biden administration on Thursday launched floating wind turbine initiative that includes leasing enough deep-water acreage to support 15 GW of floating offshore wind capacity by 2035. The administration also set a goal of cutting floating wind farm costs by more than 70% to $45/MWh by the middle of the next decade through the Floating Offshore Wind Shot effort. Clean energy advocates said the initiative would boost offshore wind development. “Paired with the recently enacted Inflation Reduction Act, these targets will dramatically reduce costs for offshore wind development, allowing deployment of clean energy at the scale needed to take action to address climate change,” American Clean Power Association CEO Heather Zichal said in a statement. Source: https://www.utilitydive.com/news/biden-doe-floating-wind-initiative/632043/
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Great way to move towards renewable energy.
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Fantastic news for the wind power industry
Honda has struck a deal with Korean battery giant LG Energy Solution to build a $4.4 billion US factory to supply its electric vehicles. The partners haven't announced where in the United States they'll build the factory. They said in a joint news release Monday that they plan to begin construction in early 2023 to prepare for mass production by the end of 2025. Honda has produced cars such as the Accord sedan and the midsize CR-V at its factory in Marysville, Ohio, since 1982. Honda and LG Energy Solution said they picked the US because local production and a "timely supply of batteries" would best position them to succeed in the growing North American electric vehicle market. Source: https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/29/business/honda-lg-electric-vehicles/index.html
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Electric vehicles are such a huge stepping stone away from fossil fuels hence combating the carbon emission problem.
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Great, this is a necessary step towards producing electric vehicles in the speed we need. Hopefully the factories will run on renewable energy so that it doesn't become such a big emitter.
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Great news... We need more of such dedication
Bipartisan infrastructure and Inflation Reduction Act, or IRA, investments in carbon dioxide reduction can and must be used along with clean energy to address the climate crisis, the Department of Energy said in announcing its Carbon Negative Shot, or CNS. Source: https://www.utilitydive.com/news/carbon-capture-doe-funding-45q-ccs-direct-air/629624/
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The 2022 Inflation Reduction Act allows corporations to capitalize on a world in crisis by expanding massive new oil and gas leases, subsidizing gas, nukes, fossil fuel-sourced hydrogen, and carbon capture, The 2022 Inflation Reduction Act doesn't actually address phasing out fossil fuels but requires the Interior Department to offer at least 2 million acres of public lands and 60 million acres of offshore waters in the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska for oil and gas leasing each year. https://www.gp.org/2022_inflation_reduction_act_capitalizes_on_a_world_in_crisis
The city of Chicago on Aug. 8 announced a five-year agreement with Constellation Energy to purchase 100% renewable energy for all city-owned facilities and operations by 2025. In 2025, Chicago will begin partially sourcing energy from a new, 593 MW solar installation that Constellation partner Swift Current Energy will develop in central Illinois. Initially, it will partially power high energy consumption facilities, such as airports, the central library and a water purification plant. The city also will purchase renewable energy credits from other sources for some power consumption, such as at small and medium-sized buildings and for streetlights. Source: https://www.utilitydive.com/news/chicago-commits-to-100-renewable-energy-at-city-facilities-by-2025/629614/
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Virginia regulators approved the largest offshore wind project in the country Friday, while imposing unique performance requirements to protect the utility's customers if the costs of the project unexpectedly spike in coming years. Dominion Energy Inc.’s proposed 176-turbine wind farm, which would be located roughly 27 miles from Virginia Beach, still needs approval from the Biden administration to begin construction. But the nod from the Virginia State Corporation Committee, which previously criticized the utility’s proposed offshore wind pilot project costs as inflated, was necessary for Dominion to pass on the expense of the wind farm, with a profit, to its customers. Full Story: https://subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eenews/2022/08/08/virginia-greenlights-largest-offshore-wind-farm-in-u-s-00050146
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This is quite a remarkable step in improving sources of renewable energy.
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Approval for good climate! 💚 🌿 🌴
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This is great... Kudos to virginia
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The Iowa Utilities Board on Tuesday approved plans by NextEra Energy to build 200 MW of solar and a 75-MW/300-MWh battery storage facility through two subsidiaries at the site of its shuttered Duane Arnold nuclear plant. NextEra, which expects to bring the facilities online in Palo, Iowa, by December 2024, must also get county approval for the projects. The company has a deal to sell the facilities to Alliant Energy’s Interstate Power and Light when the projects are completed. Separately, IPL in November asked the state regulators to pre-approve key ratemaking criteria for the facilities as well as for an additional 200 MW of solar the utility aims to develop or acquire. IPL proposed a $1,575/kW, or $748 million, cost cap for its renewable energy plan, but in April asked to increase it 23% to $1,934/kW, or $918.7 million, to reflect supply chain problems and changes in the solar market. Source: https://www.utilitydive.com/news/nextera-alliant-solar-battery-iub-iowa/628209/
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The U.S. Department of Energy announced Monday it plans to loan $2.5 billion to Ultium Cells, a joint venture of General Motors and South Korea-based battery manufacturer LG Energy Solution, in order to develop new lithium-ion cell manufacturing facilities in Ohio, Tennessee, and Michigan. Ultium will provide battery cell capacity to support GM’s North American electric vehicle business, which plans to manufacture 1 million EVs annually by 2025. Automakers are increasingly looking to manufacture their own battery cells in order to support growing EV production. Toyota and Ford are also building battery plants, Volkswagen is eyeing U.S. production and Tesla has Gigafactories in Nevada and New York. Full Article: https://www.utilitydive.com/news/us-battery-manufacturing-doe-announces-gm-lg-enenergy-ev-growth-loan/628087/
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The boost is quite a huge one.Financing is key to achieving certain goals and I hail DOE for this amazing pact.
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Nice ... Once you empower the people the goals to achieve a desirable planet will be achieved sooner than expected
Volvo Trucks will build a charging corridor in California for medium and heavy-duty electric trucks, with publicly accessible stations across the state, the company announced earlier this month. Construction for the project will begin this year, with five new stations online by the end of 2023, the company said in a news release. With the establishment of the corridor, Volvo hopes to urge longer electric trucking routes. The capability to charge mid-route will open the door to a “truly electrified freight future,” said Peter Voorhoeve, president of Volvo Trucks North America. Full Article: https://www.transportdive.com/news/Volvo-builds-EV-truck-charging-corridor-California/627959/
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This proposal should be supported by everyone for the sake of our planet
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Looking into the future I am hopeful we won't have to deal with coal-driven plants.