Electric school buses are experiencing rapid growth in the United States, with a nearly 10-fold increase in commitments by school districts and fleet operators in the past year. Thirty-eight states have now committed to procure more than 12,000 electric school buses. In the first half of 2022, several states took important action … [continued]
In our latest Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO), we forecast that electricity generation from U.S. hydropower plants will be 14% lower in 2021 than it was in 2020. Extreme and exceptional drought conditions have been affecting much of the western United States, especially California and states in the Pacific Northwest, which are home … [continued]
Courtesy of Union Of Concerned Scientists, The Equation. By Pablo Ortiz, Bilingual Western States Climate Scientist The drought facing the Western United States is bad. Really bad. It’s become worse faster than the last one. As more of the United States suffers from drought conditions and water supplies are diminishing, water demands are rising. … [continued]
I recently wrote about how Idaho’s state senators have lost their minds and proposed a sickening bill that would kill 90% of the state’s wolves. Well, it seems that Governor Brad Little (R) has been drinking the same water the senators have — they have all lost their minds. The … [continued]
Idaho state senators on Wednesday completely lost their minds — or at least their humanity. The senators decided to approve legislation to allow the state to hire private contractors to kill up to 90% of the wolves roaming the state. That’s a cruel death sentence for more than 1,000 wolves. … [continued]
This report ranks US states according to the percentage of their electricity that comes from solar.
After digging into an old spreadsheet to create a new report on top solar power states per capita, it crossed my mind to compare the results from the first half of 2020 with the results from 2012, which is the last time I had published such a report before today.
If you’ve been reading CleanTechnica long enough, you know that 8 to 10 years ago, I used to publish reports on solar power capacity per capita — for both US states and countries around the world. I’m returning to these, starting with this one on the top solar states.
In its latest Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO), the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) forecasts that electricity generation from hydroelectric power plants in the United States will grow by 4% in 2020 from 2019 levels
Idaho Power has announced a plan to transition to 100% renewable energy by 2045. To support that plan, It has signed a PPA for solar power at the lowest reported price ever in the US — just 2.175 cents per kWn.
