While addressing the issue of climate change in the final presidential debate with rival Joe Biden, Donald Trump attacked ally India and called it “filthy”. US President made an uncalled attack at its ally, India and called it’s climate “filthy” during the final face-off with Joe Biden at Nashville on October 23. Few minutes before […]
Biden’s First 100 Days: What Would They Look Like for Clean Energy?
Joe Biden has pledged unprecedented action on climate change and clean energy. What might he actually get done? Any candidate running for president has a priority list, both public and internal, laying out what their administration hopes to accomplish in its first days and months. For his part, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has laid […]
Trump backs revoking tariff exemption for some solar panel imports
WASHINGTON: U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday signed a proclamation underscoring his support for revoking an exclusion from tariffs on some imported double-sided solar panels, and for raising the planned tariff rate to 18% for 2021 from 15%. Trump said the domestic U.S. industry was starting to increase production and market share of certain solar […]
Trump administration ends two-year rent holiday for solar and wind projects
Amid these tough times of coronavirus, the Trump administration has decided to end the two-year rent holiday for solar and wind projects that are operating on federal lands. The US government has handed these projects huge retroactive bills, which the corporations were not expecting. “The bills came as a surprise,” Shannon Eddy, executive director of […]
Trump administration agrees to help wind farms with subsidy tweak
In a letter to Senator Charles Grassley, Frederick Vaughn, principal deputy assistant secretary in the Treasury Department’s Office of Legislative Affairs, said the department “plans to modify the relevant rules in the near future” for the renewable energy tax credits The Trump administration on Thursday agreed to change rules governing key renewable energy tax credits, […]
Trump signs order to protect the US electricity system: Energy Department
The order allows the energy secretary, in consultation with other officials, to prohibit acquisition, importation, transfer or installation of power equipment from an adversary that they determine poses a risk of sabotage to the US power system WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday that seeks to protect the US electricity system […]
OPEC+ set to agree 4.3 mln bpd in output cuts: JP Morgan
Despite US President Donald Trump’s calls for cuts of 10 million bpd or more, OPEC+ are expected to agree on a “soft cut” of around 4.3 million bpd versus the group’s output in April 2020, JP Morgan said LONDON: OPEC and Russia this week are likely to agree to cut oil output by about 4.3 […]
Trump’s Titanic Gift to China’s Solar Makers
The White House put an easily exploited loophole in its tariffs, and the effort to undo it has been held up in court. For most of the past year, there’s been a big hole in President Trump’s China tariffs—one in the shape of a solar panel. Companies that build America’s major solar farms spent 2018 […]
Even Under Trump, U.S. Renewable Investment Hit a Record in 2019
Even Under Trump, U.S. Renewable Investment Hit a Record in 2019 The U.S. renewable energy industry doesn’t seem to take much notice of President Donald Trump’s views on green energy and climate change as investments surged to a record last year Read More…
Trump Approves First Solar’s Mega-Farm in California Desert
The Trump administration on Wednesday will announce the authorization of a roughly 3,000-acre solar farm near Palm Springs, California, after developers scaled back its size to help avoid threatened desert tortoises and cultural artifacts. First Solar Inc.’s 450-megawatt Desert Quartzite project in eastern Riverside County has been praised by some environmentalists for its careful design […]