Was 2024 a breakout year for next-generation… | Canary Media
2024年12月20日 · Worldwide, next-generation geothermal might represent as much as 800 GW of clean electricity capacity by 2050 — or roughly 50 times the world’s current geothermal capacity, according to a new analysis by the International Energy Agency and Project InnerSpace, which advocates for geothermal heat and power use globally.. For all of the progress in 2024, …
What climate law tax credits will be in — and out - Canary Media
2024年12月2日 · The engine of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), the Biden administration’s landmark climate and industrial policy achievement, is tax credits.. Through federal tax incentives alone, the law could direct as much as $ 780 billion into the U.S. clean energy economy over the rest of this decade. That money will help the U.S. cut its carbon emissions, grow employment, …
This Pennsylvania school is saving big with solar and
2024年12月19日 · When Steelton-Highspire School District decided to go solar, it wasn’t because of climate altruism. It wasn’t sustainability goals that drove it to convert its six school buses from diesel to electric, either. Instead, the 1, 377-student district, located in a historic Pennsylvania steelmaking town where unemployment is high and tax revenue is low, has a simple guiding …
Duke Energy to knock down coal plant and build its… | Canary Media
2024年12月3日 · The Allen site already has a grid hookup, and its other prospects for redevelopment are limited by the large quantities of toxic coal ash present there (Duke is excavating the ash and moving it to double-lined landfills onsite). Plus, Duke could invoke a “ generator replacement request” to streamline the grid interconnection process for the larger …
Chart: US solar installations hit record high, but… | Canary Media
2024年12月6日 · That’s because this year’s “ uniquely high” installations were driven by the expiration of a two-year moratorium on tariffs targeting solar panels made in Southeast Asia, S & P wrote. That pause, which ended in June, allowed companies to stockpile cheap panels, but developers were required to use up that inventory by December 3 to avoid paying duties.
Chart: Nearly all new US power plants built in 2024… | Canary Media
2024年2月23日 · The latest federal forecast for power plant additions shows solar sweeping with 58 % of all new utility-scale generating capacity this year. In an upset, battery storage will provide the second-most new capacity, with 23 %. Wind delivers a modest 13 %, while the long-delayed final nuclear reactor at Vogtle in Georgia will add 2 % of new capacity, assuming it does in fact …
Illinois looks to continue clean energy progress under Trump
2025年1月3日 · The last time President-elect Donald Trump took office, Illinois had just passed the Future Energy Jobs Act (FEJA), creating an ambitious renewable electricity mandate, solar incentive programs, green job training, and equity provisions to propel the state’s clean energy economy.That progress is offering both a blueprint and a source of hope for Illinois clean …
DOE Loan Programs Office races to get cleantech money
2024年12月5日 · A Republican-majority Congress could potentially roll back not-yet obligated funding in order to help offset the costs of a likely extension of Trump’s 2017 tax cuts, which are estimated to add $ 4. 6 trillion to the national debt over the next decade.. As of November 30, the office had 212 outstanding applications with a total of $ 324 billion in loans requested.
California’s rooftop solar is a benefit, not a cost,… | Canary Media
2024年11月15日 · Utilities across the country have used this same cost-shift argument to fight various state-level policies that benefit rooftop solar. The aim is typically to water down or roll back net-metering programs, which pay customers for the power their rooftop solar systems send back to the grid.. Rooftop solar supporters dispute the cost-shift argument, which originated from …
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