Parts of the United States are at elevated or high risk for potential electricity emergencies this summer, according to the North American Electric Reliability Corporation’s (NERC) 2021 Summer Reliability Assessment. Summer peak electricity demand in the United States is strongly influenced by temperature. NERC’s report notes that above-normal temperatures are … [continued]
Originally published on the NRDC Expert Blog. By Simon Mui The proposal to adopt a Clean Cars Minnesota program was given a greenlight today. An Administrative Law Judge ruled — as part of her report issued today — that the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) could move forward based on the extensive, … [continued]
Part of NRDC’s Series Reviewing 2020 Climate & Clean Energy Developments
Organic Valley, the largest American organic farmer cooperative in the US, recently announced it is now operating on 100% renewable electricity. Organic Valley’s Energy Services & Technology Manager, Stanley Minnick, answered some questions for CleanTechnica.
A new electric vehicle promotion effort was recently launched in the US Midwest by the American Lung Association of the Upper Midwest in partnership with 8 Clean Cities coalitions.
The US wind industry added 520 MW in the first quarter of 2016, its most productive first quarter since 2012, with another 2 GW in construction. This brings the country’s total capacity in construction to 10,100 MW, according to the American Wind Energy Association’s (AWEA) US Wind Industry First Quarter 2016 … [continued]
The 2016 Clean Jobs Midwest survey of 12 Midwestern states found that more than half a million people are working in clean energy fields, such as clean fuels, advanced transportation, renewable energy generation, clean transmission, and energy efficiency. BW Research conducted the research on behalf of the Clean Energy Trust and … [continued]
The United States wind industry has again broken monthly wind generation and penetration records, according to the country’s wind trade body. The American Wind Energy Association reported this week that the US set new electricity generation and penetration records across the country last week, “From the ERCOT grid in Texas … [continued]
The 6th annual Clean Energy Trust Challenge is accepting applications for its Midwestern cleantech startup competition. One million dollars will be awarded to the winners on April 12, 2016, in Chicago. The competition categories are: Renewable Energy, Advanced Transportation, Efficiency, Energy Storage, Building Technologies, Microgrids/Smartgrids, Bioenergy, Water-Energy Nexus, and Internet of Things/Smart Cities. Students, … [continued]
A new study has concluded that regional changes stemming from climate change could boost wind energy by 2% in the Midwest. In a study published in the journal Renewable Energy, Robert Erhardt, assistant professor of mathematics and statistics at Wake Forest University in North Carolina, US, and 2015 Wake Forest graduate … [continued]
