California lawmakers on Sept. 1 passed a bill to provide a $1.4 billion loan to extend operations at the state’s last operating nuclear power plant Diablo Canyon by an additional five years. The plant’s two units are scheduled to be retired in 2024 and 2025. The proposal, also part of Governor Gavin Newsom’s agenda, cleared…...
The Maine Supreme Judicial Court on Aug. 30 ruled that a ballot referendum in Maine that was voted in November 2021 to block the New England Clean Energy Connect transmission project is unconstitutional. The latest development provides renewed impetus to the $1 billion U.S. transmission line designed to transmit Canadian hydropower. The court states that…...
The U.S. Energy Department on Aug. 31 announced $46 million in funding for 22 biofuel projects to help reduce carbon emissions in the transportation and power sector. The grant aims to lower the cost of fuels and products made from algal feedstocks while increasing the positive greenhouse gas impacts that could be achieved by deploying…...
The U.S. Energy Department on Aug. 30 released a request for information on a $10.5 billion Grid Resilience and Innovation Partnership Program. The funding, backed by the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, spans a five-year period from fiscal years 2022 through 2026 to prevent outages and enhance the resilience of the electric grid, deploy…...
The U.S. Energy Department on Aug. 26 announced $425 million in formula funding through the State Energy Program, SEP, to help states expand their clean energy programs and ramp up deployment under the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. The funding is expected to create jobs, boost financial growth, lower individuals’ energy prices, and reduce…...
Federal and state actions to boost distributed solar show the growing interest in harnessing the technology to achieve broader policy goals.
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management On Aug. 26 granted approval for ExxonMobil Corporation’s proposal for permanent underground storage of carbon dioxide in areas located at Lincoln and Sweetwater counties in Kemmerer, Wyoming. The project will capture carbon dioxide produced along with natural gas at Shute Creek Plant for sequestration at disposal wells rather than…...
The U.S. Energy Department awarded more than $540 million for research in clean energy technologies and low-carbon manufacturing to 54 state universities and 11 national labs across 34 states and the District of Columbia, according to an Aug. 25 news release. The investment will facilitate research activities that are crucial to advance solar and nuclear…...
The California Air Resources Board on Aug. 25 adopted aggressive regulations to shift away from gasoline and diesel engine vehicles, requiring automakers to sell only zero-emission vehicles by the mid of the next decade. The board approved the Advanced Clean Cars II rule, which requires zero-emission vehicles to constitute all new light-duty vehicle sales by…...
The thirty-second quarterly carbon auction held by California and Quebec sold all of the about 57 million carbon permits offered for current emissions at a price of $27 per allowance, above the floor price of $19.70, according to the results released on Aug. 24 by the California Air Resources Board. The settlement price dropped by…...
