The White House on Nov. 12 announced a new framework to ramp up domestic nuclear energy capacity, with an ambitious target to reach 200 gigawatts (GW) by 2050. The roadmap sets two short-term targets of adding 35 GW of new nuclear capacity by 2035 and sustaining 15 GW of annual nuclear production by 2040. To…...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Nov. 12 announced a final rule to support the implementation of a Waste Emission Charge to reduce methane emissions from the oil and gas sector. The 2022 Inflation Reduction Act, or IRA, established the methane emissions fee to impose a charge on certain oil and gas facilities that emit…...
The California Independent System Operator Board of Governors and the Western Energy Markets (WEM) Governing Body on Nov. 8 took action to implement the first step of the West-Wide Governance Pathways Initiative. This initiative was developed last year to maximize the benefits of wholesale electricity markets through a new governing organization. The West-Wide Governance Pathways…...
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management on Nov. 8 announced the completion of the environmental review for the SouthCoast offshore wind project. Once operational, the wind farm could have a power generation capacity of 2.4 gigawatts, sufficient to supply over 800,000 households. The SouthCoast offshore wind lease area spans around 127,388 acres and is approximately…...
Transmission planning across the U.S. is adapting to meet rising energy demands, necessitating coordinated efforts to strengthen and expand infrastructure. Beyond supporting renewable integration and enhancing resilience, transmission expansion is becoming…Read the full report …...
Transmission planning across the U.S. is adapting to meet rising energy demands, necessitating coordinated efforts to strengthen and expand infrastructure. Beyond supporting renewable integration and enhancing resilience, transmission expansion is becoming critical for new electrification demands, increased manufacturing activity, and large data center loads.
The U.S. Interior Department on Nov. 7 announced over $140 million in funding for fiscal year 2024 to tackle polluting and abandoned mine lands, or AML, and spur economic development in coal communities across West Virginia. With this, more than $492 million in fiscal year 2024 awards have been allocated nationwide. Additional funding will be…...
The U.S. Energy Department on Nov. 7 announced the closing of a $445 million loan to Li-Cycle U.S. Inc. to support the first-of-its-kind lithium-ion battery resource recovery facility to be built in New York. The project aims to produce up to 180,000 electric vehicles (EVs) annually using recycled materials, while also supporting efforts to onshore…...
U.S. electricity production from hydroelectric plants is expected to be 13 percent lower during 2024 than the 10-year average, according to a Nov. 7 report published by the U.S. Energy Information Administration. If realized this will be the lowest volume of electricity produced from hydropower since 2001. The decrease in hydropower generation can be attributed…...
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) will provide technical guidance to three projects the U.S. Energy Department selected for its Distributed Energy Systems Demonstrations Program, according to a Nov. 6 press release. In September 2023, the department launched a $50 million funding opportunity for three projects to deploy distributed energy resource management systems, or DERMS…....
Washington voters on Nov. 5 rejected Initiative 2117, a ballot measure that sought to repeal the 2021 Climate Commitment Act, which established the cap-and-invest program, a key component of the state’s efforts to achieve emission limits set in law and progress toward net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. Nearly 62 percent of voters cast ballots against…...