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…...
U.S. consumers spent $1 trillion on energy expenditures in 2020, the lowest amount since 2002, according to an Aug. 29 report from the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Total energy expenditure is the sum of the entire amount consumed across all sectors, such as residential, industrial, commercial, and transportation. Energy consumption decreased by 7 percent from…...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Aug. 27 issued an emergency fuel waiver to ease fuel shortages in four states whose supply of gasoline has been affected due to BP’s Whiting refinery shutdown. The emergency waiver is in response to a fuel supply emergency by a fire-led shutdown. The waiver, which began Aug. 27 and…...
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…...
The U.S. Energy Department on Aug. 23 announced a $40 million funding opportunity announcement to advance the expansion and deployment of green hydrogen technologies. An additional $20 million will be made available to create a university research consortium on grid resilience to support the development of grid resilience programs across states, regions, tribes, and utilities…....
The U.S. biofuel production capacity as of Jan. 1, 2022, stood at 21 billion gallons per year from 275 facilities, with over 80 percent of the capacity for fuel ethanol, according to an Aug. 22 report from the U.S. Energy Information Administration. About 81 percent of the nation’s total biofuels capacity comes from fuel ethanol…...