Green Energy

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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.

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.

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.

One of Europe’s largest vertical farms is up and running in a warehouse near Copenhagen, and it’s powered by wind. That’s not surprising, since Denmark has the highest proportion of wind power in the world.

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

• Global emissions are expected to drop around 2.4 billion tonnes in 2020 (7%), a record.
• Amazon declares that it’s now the largest corporate purchaser of green energy in the world.
• 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.

Michael Phillips, the CEO of Sense, a technology company that makes a home energy monitor (pictured above) to track efficiency, cost, and reliability, told us about his predictions for six 2021 home energy trends.

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

• New York State’s retirement fund is the first US public pension fund to set a net zero goal by that date.
• NRG Energy has announced North America’s first Sustainability-Linked Bond (SLB).
• Rhode Island’s largest single rooftop solar project is now under construction.
• 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):

• Royal Dutch Shell executives quit due to discord over the oil giant’s green energy timeframe.
• As electric trucks gain popularity in the US, they’ll need maintenance and repair — Dickinson is preparing.
• 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):

• Irish telecoms company Eir and EasyGo will replace 180 phone boxes with EV rapid charge points.
• Denmark and Norway team up to build the world’s largest green hydrogen ferry.
• Norway’s plugin vehicle market share jumped from 60% to 80% in just one year, to November 2020.
• 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):

• The Danish parliament approved a plan for at least 1 million electric or hybrid cars on Danish roads by 2030.
• Boise, Idaho, will now require all new homes to provide a circuit for electric car charging.
• IRENA urges governments to prioritize renewable energy on the fifth anniversary of the Paris Agreement.
• 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):

• US offshore wind workers will complete VR training at Maryland’s Maritime Institute of Technology and Graduate Studies.
• The Oil and Gas Climate Initiative releases its 2020 Progress Report. Does it make any difference?
• 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.

Researchers at the UK’s Lancaster University studied a crystalline material — a solid material with parts such as atoms, molecules, or ions that are arranged in a highly ordered microscopic structure — and discovered it has properties that allow it to capture solar energy. The energy can be stored for several months at room temperature, and it can be released on demand in the form of heat.

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

• 42 corporations release a letter to the US government urging ambitious climate policies.
• The US would save billions if local solar powered 25% of homes, according to a new study.
• Japan may ban sales of ICE cars by the mid-2030s.
• 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.