U.S. solar industry added 9.4 GW of new installation capacity in Q2 2024, but challenges persist that hinder the market’s full potential. ANAHEIM, California and WASHINGTON, D.C. — Solar module manufacturing capacity in the United States now exceeds 31 gigawatts (GW) — a nearly four-fold increase since the Inflation Reduction … [continued]
Projects represent historic investments of $29 billion in clean energy that will benefit 1 in 5 rural Americans The first wave of 16 rural electric cooperatives (co-ops) selected to receive the USDA’s Empowering Rural America (New ERA) funding plan to leverage their awards to deploy carbon-free energy to help power … [continued]
Why do so many people want heavy, large EVs? They risk the progress that can be achieved by the transition to personal transportation electrification. So argues Christian Brand, professor of transport, energy, and climate change at the University of Oxford’s Transport Studies Unit. Brand calls the larger-is-better trend in EVs … [continued]
Any of our readers who have been following my reports know that Latin America’s EV sales are rising. In some countries, they may not be growing as fast as we would wish; in others, they’re faster than we ever expected; but the trend remains clear regardless. Latin America’s* market amounts … [continued]
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW: California awarded over $32 million in federal funds for electric vehicle (EV) charging projects along the state’s busiest transportation corridors, expanding the largest EV charging network in the country and continuing the state’s commitment to building a bigger, better charging network. SACRAMENTO — Today, the California Energy Commission (CEC) … [continued]
Thanks to the Inflation Reduction Act, a new financing model can make solar easier to access for low-income households and nonprofits. Here’s how a church in Compton put it to work. Running in two straight lines across the roof and already providing power to the building below, the twenty-nine brand-new … [continued]
At the beginning of the year, I highlighted a few epicenters of hydrogen folly, cities or states that decided at some point in the past that hydrogen was the molecule they were going to double down on. Today, news arose of the inevitable failure of one of the signature hydrogen … [continued]
Energy Transitions Initiative Partnership Project (ETIPP) will engage communities in energy planning, natural disaster preparedness, and analysis of renewable technologies, including solar, wind, battery storage, and heat pumps. Leer en español Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) welcomed 25 new coastal, remote, and island communities to the Energy Transitions … [continued]
The economic impact of the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) topped $1.9 billion nationwide in Fiscal Year (FY) 2023, according to a study by the University of Colorado Boulder’s (CU Boulder’s) Leeds School of Business. Every state in the nation felt an impact from direct or … [continued]
While the purported slowdown in demand for EVs seems to find automakers halting or slowing their original electrification plans, EVs have actually reached 20% of global auto sales. That number is expected to increase exponentially, and so will EV jobs numbers. In fact, by 2035, EVs could potentially account for … [continued]
