Michelle Lewis

In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB):

• Japan aims to abolish gas-powered vehicles in the next 15 years.
• Massachusetts reaches a deal to make 40% of its electric power green by 2030.
• South Korea will replace all diesel trains with an electric bullet train by 2029.
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In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB):

• The New York Times digs into how Trump tried but failed to bury the US’ top climate report.
• Utility-scale solar and wind projects are expected to add 172.5 GW of US energy capacity through 2024.
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In 2019, US annual energy consumption from green energy sources exceeded coal consumption for the first time in 134 years, according to the US Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) Monthly Energy Review.

In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB):

• The University of the Sunshine Coast in Australia proves thermal energy storage’s great potential.
• Illinois is getting a new 185 MW wind farm.
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A Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) research team published a paper in the journal Science earlier this month on the development of a perovskite/silicon tandem solar cell that achieved 29.15% efficiency. That’s a new world record.

In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB):

• Al-Dhafra will depose its sister site in Abu Dhabi when it becomes the world’s largest solar farm in 2022.
• Virginia’s Dominion Energy files plans with federal regulators for the largest US offshore wind farm to date.
• A Missouri utility acquires its first wind farm — the state’s largest — in its journey from coal to net zero.
• UnderstandSolar is a free service that links you to top-rated solar installers in your region for personalized solar estimates. Tesla now offers price matching, so it’s important to shop for the best quotes. Click here to learn more and get your quotes. — *ad.

The state of New Jersey is investing in a $250 million manufacturing facility to build steel components, known as monopiles, for offshore wind turbines. It will serve the entire US offshore wind industry.

In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB):

• Considering installing rooftop solar panels? You now have more time to get the current tax credit.
• Here are some of the big green energy and climate change wins that came out of US Congress.
• UnderstandSolar is a free service that links you to top-rated solar installers in your region for personalized solar estimates. Tesla now offers price matching, so it’s important to shop for the best quotes. Click here to learn more and get your quotes. — *ad.

Pete Buttigieg, casually known as “Mayor Pete” since he was mayor of South Bend, Indiana, for eight years, was nominated last week by President-elect Joe Biden to be secretary of transportation. Buttigieg reiterated what he wants for the future of electric cars in the US late yesterday afternoon.

In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB):

• The size of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge land to be auctioned for gas and oil exploration is slashed by 30%.
• Xos partners with DLL to finance electric trucks so companies can more easily stop driving diesel trucks.
• UnderstandSolar is a free service that links you to top-rated solar installers in your region for personalized solar estimates. Tesla now offers price matching, so it’s important to shop for the best quotes. Click here to learn more and get your quotes. — *ad.

The Rockefeller Foundation, a 107-year-old philanthropy founded by oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller Sr., has a $5 billion endowment. And that foundation is divesting from the oil that created its wealth — and it’s the largest US philanthropic foundation to do so.

In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB):

• Vermont’s Public Utilities Commission slashes solar net metering rates by 3 cents.
• Québec’s public utility Hydro-Québec launches EVLO, an energy storage system subsidiary.
• The UK breaks a green energy power generation record with high winds.
• UnderstandSolar is a free service that links you to top-rated solar installers in your region for personalized solar estimates. Tesla now offers price matching, so it’s important to shop for the best quotes. Click here to learn more and get your quotes. — *ad.

In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB):

• Arizona’s Navajo Generating Station coal plant’s smokestacks have been toppled — VIDEO.
• The Corporate Electric Vehicle Alliance releases principles to accelerate US commercial fleet electrification.
• UnderstandSolar is a free service that links you to top-rated solar installers in your region for personalized solar estimates. Tesla now offers price matching, so it’s important to shop for the best quotes. Click here to learn more and get your quotes. — *ad.

Equinor’s and SSE’s Dogger Bank is the world’s largest offshore wind farm. It’s being built in three phases — A, B, and C — off England’s northeast coast. And phase C will see GE’s 14MW Haliade-X turbines, upgraded from 13MW (previously the most powerful offshore wind turbine in operation), deployed for the first time.

In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB):

• FIA says Formula One will be carbon neutral in 2021 and net zero by 2030.
• A zero-carbon emission hydrogen fuel cell developer wins the 2020 NASA iTech Initiative Cycle II award.
• UnderstandSolar is a free service that links you to top-rated solar installers in your region for personalized solar estimates. Tesla now offers price matching, so it’s important to shop for the best quotes. Click here to learn more and get your quotes. — *ad.

President-elect Joe Biden has tapped Representative Deb Haaland (D-NM) for secretary of the interior and Michael S. Regan as head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

Haaland (pictured above left) will be the first Native American cabinet secretary and head of the Department of the Interior. Regan (pictured above right) will be the first Black man to head the EPA. Both appointments will need to be confirmed.

Xcel Energy’s self-build 522-MW Sagamore Wind Project in eastern New Mexico, on the Texas border, is now online. It’s New Mexico’s largest single wind farm.

In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB):

• After a nine-year vacancy, Joe Biden names the NRDC’s Gina McCarthy domestic climate czar.
• A 9-year-old girl has become the first person in the UK to have air pollution listed as a cause of death.
• Australia’s newest coal-fired power plant has been written off as worthless.
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Community-owned Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) and nonprofit EV advocate Plug In America have partnered up to provide free electric vehicle advice, not only just in Sacramento, but nationwide.

President-elect Joe Biden is expected to name Jennifer Granholm, the former governor of Michigan, as secretary of energy. She is a huge advocate for electric vehicles. Biden’s choice was confirmed by four people to the Associated Press.

Researchers from the Tokyo University of Science have taken another step in the ongoing quest to bring next-generation sodium-ion batteries to market. They have achieved a higher-energy density in sodium-ion batteries than in lithium-ion batteries.

In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB):

• The US solar industry surged in 2020 despite the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic.
• ExxonMobil’s investors pressure the oil giant to cut emissions, and it underwhelmingly responded.
• Plans have been submitted for North Carolina’s first offshore wind farm.
• UnderstandSolar is a free service that links you to top-rated solar installers in your region for personalized solar estimates. Tesla now offers price matching, so it’s important to shop for the best quotes. Click here to learn more and get your quotes. — *ad.

The Lion Electric Company, a Quebec-based manufacturer of electric school buses, has successfully completed a vehicle-to-grid (V2G) pilot deployment of five school buses in White Plains, New York.

In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB):

• China says at the UN virtual climate summit that it will triple its wind and solar in 10 years.
• The US didn’t attend the UN virtual climate summit. What’s its green energy plan?
• UnderstandSolar is a free service that links you to top-rated solar installers in your region for personalized solar estimates. Tesla now offers price matching, so it’s important to shop for the best quotes. Click here to learn more and get your quotes. — *ad.