Biden Wants To Drag The Creaky, Cranky US Electrical Grid Into The 21st Century
The Biden administration this week announced a major new funding program to modernize and harden the electrical grid.
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How the US Can Electrify Its Public Fleets, from City Buses to Garbage Trucks
Public vehicle fleets, which include everything from city buses and school buses to garbage trucks and law enforcement vehicles, make up a significant share of traffic on U.S. roads. There are 645,000 vehicles in the federal fleet, 500,000 in state fleets across the country, more than 3 million municipal and … [continued]
The 50 States of Solar: States Pursue Funding to Support Residential Solar in Low-Income &…
More states incentivizing low-income community solar
The State of Electric School Bus Adoption in the US
Editor’s Note: This article was updated in September 2023 with new findings from WRI’s dataset tracking electric school bus adoption in the United States, covering January to June 2023. Our new data dashboard, updated monthly, has the most recent data on electric school bus adoption. Previous versions of this article … [continued]
Don’t Look Back, Wave Energy Might Be Gaining On You
Wave energy is the next frontier on the US renewable energy landscape, with California racing to grab the pole position and New Jersey playing catch-up.
Peak Hourly US Electricity Demand In July Was The Second Highest Since 2016
On July 27, 2023, peak hourly electricity demand in the continental United States reached 741,815 megawatt-hours (MWh). This peak was the second highest since we began collecting this data in 2016, just under the all-time high of 742,704 MWh recorded on July 20, 2022. Weather is a large driver … [continued]
The Woods Hole, Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket Steamship Authority received its first three
battery-electric buses from BYD. (Photo from BYD Motors)
BYD Cars Aren’t In The US Yet, But Its Electric Trucks & Buses Have Been…
Over the course of the last three months, BYD Motors has added nearly 20 buses and several trucks to various fleets across the US. The delivery of these new battery-electric heavy-duty vehicles, and partnerships between BYD | RIDE with public transportation providers, continually help cities to decarbonize. To make the … [continued]
Projects Could Power 18 Million American Homes With Offshore Wind Energy
Annual Study Finds Offshore Wind Energy Is Poised To Become a Major US Electricity Source
Interesting to note that when I was admiring a Lucid Air, a Tesla casually drives by. Image by Remeredzai
Spot The EV: These Are The EVs I bumped Into In The USA, Part 2
In the first six months of 2023, over 670,000 EVs were sold in the USA, with over 80% of those fully electric vehicles as reported in a recent article here on CleanTechnica, The report adds that it took 8 years for the first million EV sales, but now more than … [continued]
US Auto Industry Down 8% Since 2019
It’s time for another one of our quarterly US auto sales reports. No other media outlet compares US auto industry trends with as much history and depth as we do in these. First, before getting into the automaker comparisons for the second quarter of 2023 versus the second quarters of … [continued]
