The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is due to receive input to implement its $3 billion Clean Ports Program and $1 billion Clean Heavy-Duty Vehicle Program. The agency is seeking information on the availability, market price and performance of zero-emission trucks and port equipment, as well as charging and other fueling infrastructure. The first program will invest in technologies to reduce harmful air and climate pollutants at U.S. ports and the second program will support electrification and other zero-emissions technologies to cut emissions while strengthening the clean energy supply chain. The EPA also seeks to explore the extent to which the content and components of these systems are made in the U.S. READ MORE

The U.S. Energy Information Administration will issue its Short-Term Energy Outlook report, providing a forecast of energy supply, demand, and prices. The share of electricity generation from natural gas is expected to average at 40 percent in 2023, followed by a decline to 38 percent in 2024, according to the agency’s last short-term outlook. The forecast share of electricity generation from renewable sources rises from 22 percent in 2022 to 26 percent in 2024, contributing to a decrease in generation from fossil fuel-fired power plants. About 11 gigawatts of coal-fired generating capacity is scheduled to retire in 2023, representing nearly 6 percent of the entire coal generating fleet. The agency projects a continuous decline in coal’s share from 20 percent in 2022 to 17 percent in 2023, and 16 percent in 2024.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will host virtual training sessions to provide communities and tribes with information regarding its proposal to limit power plant carbon emissions and participation in the public comment process. The proposed standards rely on carbon capture and sequestration, low-emission hydrogen co-firing, and natural gas co-firing technologies to achieve emissions reductions. Starting in 2030, the rule would generally require more emissions control at fossil fuel-fired power plants that operate more frequently and for more years and would phase in increasingly stringent requirements over time. The agency projects these proposals would cut 617 million metric tons of carbon dioxide through 2042, and deliver up to $85 billion in climate and public health benefits over the next two decades. READ MORE

The Bureau of Land Management is due to receive comments on Star Range Solar LLC’s proposal to construct and operate the Star Range Solar Project, a 600-megawatt facility. The company has applied for a right-of-way grant to provide land and access for the project proposed on a solar variance area of about 4,288 acres. The project would support the current administration’s goal of attaining a carbon-free power sector by 2035, as well as the direction in the Energy Act of 2020 to permit 25 gigawatts of solar, wind, and geothermal energy production on public lands by 2025.