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Offshore Wind Power

ACP Statement on Gulf of Maine Offshore Wind Leasing Process

The American Clean Power Association (ACP)?issued the following statement from Josh Kaplowitz, Vice President-Offshore Wind, after the Bureau of Ocean Energy Ma…

Carbon Emissions

Power Plant Carbon Rules Were Years in the Making and Come With Cash for a CCS Industry

The process to craft those rules has been underway for more than a decade and involves multiple challenges to the agency’s assumed authority to regulate g…

Biofuel

Debt Ceiling Plan Targets Saf, Clean Fuels, Biofuel Tax Credits

The looming battle over the U.S. debt ceiling could result in the repeal of the sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), clean fuels, clean hydrogen and renewable diese…

Solar Technology

DOE Announces $24M to Commercialize Innovative Solar Technologies

On April 20, 2023, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO) announced $24 million for research, development, and demonstratio…

Electric Vehicles

Boston Kicks off Rollout of 750 Electric School Buses With First of the Fleet Transporting Students

Boston Public Schools has kicked off an ambitious new program to eventually convert its entire fleet of 750 vehicles to electric. The first Blue Bird Vision ele…

Electric Vehicles

This Powerful New Electric ATV Is Coming to the US and EU This Summer

The nascent electric ATV market doesn’t offer that many options just yet, so it isn’t exactly difficult to become one of the self-described fastest …

Electric Vehicles

Colorado Is Getting Its First Electric Fire Truck

The City of Boulder announced today that it’s purchased a Rosenbauer RTX, the State of Colorado’s first electric fire truck.Austrian-based Rosenbaue…

Oil Exploration

Dril-Quip Subsea Trees in Place at Woodside’s Gulf of Mexico Field

U.S. manufacturer of drilling and production equipment Dril-Quip has completed the installation of subsea trees at a Woodside-operated oil and gas field in the …

Electric Vehicles

Light-Duty Zevs Accounted For 21.1% Of New Vehicles Sold in California in Q1

California posted new light-duty zero emission vehicle (ZEV) sales—battery-electric (BEV), plug-in hybrid (PHEV) and fuel cell vehicles (FCEV)—of 124,053 unit…

Carbon Emissions

Educator, Environmentalist, Union Leader, Senator, Paul Pinsky Now Gets to Turn His Climate Ideals Into Action

The long-time liberal state senator from Prince George’s County, an outspoken environmental critic of former Republican Gov. Larry Hogan, takes over the Maryla…

Oil Shale

US Shale Industry Wages Set to Grow as Companies Boost Output

Higher production in oil-rich Permian Basin is expected to add 7,000 jobs by the end of next year

Oil Price

Oil Dips on Concerns Further Interest Rate Increases May Dampen Crude Demand

Crude futures last week recorded their first weekly loss since March

Graphene

Researchers Design Battery Prototype With Fiber-Shaped Cathode

In a new study, North Carolina State University researchers made a cathode in the shape of a thread-like fiber. The researchers were then able to use the fiber …

Energy Storage Project

Tesla in Highest Quarterly Energy Storage Deployments Since Division Launched

Tesla has recorded its highest energy storage deployments to date in the first quarter of 2023, enabled by the ramp up of its Megapack factory in Lathrop, Calif…

Offshore Wind Power

Maryland Governor Enacts Offshore Wind Bill, Announces Foundation Component Centre With ØRsted

Maryland Governor Wes Moore signed the state’s Promoting Offshore Wind Energy Resources Act (the POWER Act) into law on 21 April, thus codifying Maryland&…