Electric vehicles are getting their time in the sun. And under the stars. And, really, all sorts of places off the beaten path. Today, Jeep and Electrify America announced that they would work together to install what they’re calling the Jeep 4xe Charging Network, a series of Level 2 electric vehicle chargers “at or near” […]
PODCAST: Batteries vs fossil fuels, US Secretary of Energy’s big challenges, SPACs and storage
Inside Alamitos, a battery project recently inaugurated in California that uses 100MW / 400MWh of energy storage to reduce the local area’s reliance on burning natural gas for electricity. The new episode of the Solar Media Podcast, sponsored by Honeywell, is now available stream, as we take a look at US Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm’s […]
Sunrun Deploys Record Solar Capacity in Q4 as Battery Interest Increases
More than a third of Sunrun’s California sales included batteries, and more than half of all Bay Area solar installations were storage-paired. The nation’s top rooftop solar installer finished the year with a burst of home solar-plus-storage deals. Sunrun installed a record 117 megawatts of solar in Q4, within its most recent guidance for the […]
Fluence goes ‘digital’ with deal to optimise and bid 182.5MW battery system into CAISO markets
Fluence has struck a deal that could showcase new digital capabilities since it took over energy storage artificial intelligence and software provider Advanced Microgrid Solutions (AMS) last year. Fluence, the energy storage technology and system integration company jointly owned by AES Corporation and Siemens — with Qatar Investment Authority poised to take a minority stake […]
Frozen Wind Farms Are Just a Small Piece of Texas’s Power Woes
Don’t point too many fingers at Texas wind turbines, because they’re not the main reason broad swaths of the state have been plunged into darkness. While ice has forced some turbines to shut down just as a brutal cold wave drives record electricity demand, wind only comprises 25% of the state’s energy mix this time […]
California Adds New Electric Vehicle Charging Stations Along Highway 99, Creates Climate Corps
The Central Valley is playing a role in two new programs designed to push forward California’s climate goals. Caltrans has installed 22 new electric vehicle charging stations along Highway 99 and Interstate 5 from Madera to the Grapevine. Chargers have been placed at nine locations approximately 40 miles apart on 99 and one at Kettleman […]
California leads US sprint towards electric vehicles
The United States is the world’s second-biggest greenhouse gas emitter behind China, with the power and transport sectors making up more than half of the emissions. NEW YORK: California is “far and away” leading the U.S. shift to electric vehicles, researchers said on Wednesday, as President Joe Biden’s new administration steps up its clean energy […]
A State-by-State Model of the US Net-Zero-Carbon Future
A new study forecasts clean energy’s economic benefits for middle America as well as the East and West Coasts. Cutting U.S. carbon emissions to zero by midcentury will require trillions of dollars of investment and disrupt entire sectors of the economy reliant on fossil fuels. But that doesn’t mean that states most reliant on fossil […]
General Motors Pledges a Zero-Emissions Light-Duty Vehicle Fleet by 2035
Biggest U.S. automaker will have 30 all-electric models by 2025 and zero out corporate emissions by 2040. General Motors plans to achieve companywide carbon-neutrality by 2040 and sell only carbon-emissions-free light-duty vehicles by 2035, a major step by America’s biggest automaker to align its future with the climate-change imperatives of the international Paris Agreement and […]
California Sets $200M Budget for ‘Complex, Multi-Property Microgrid’ Projects
Utility funding for community resilience against fire-prevention outages doesn’t go far enough, microgrid groups argue. California regulators have approved a microgrid plan directing $200 million to help communities build networks that can supply power through the state’s extended wildfire-prevention blackouts, a task expected to take years to move from planning to completing its first projects. […]