"In one recently electrified Mozambique village, people have used the invention to start selling items from cold drinks to fridges and offer customers mobile charging stations."
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Tariffs won’t build a robust US solar industry
"Removing tariffs does not mean abandoning domestic manufacturing. The U.S. should continue investing in manufacturing capabilities to support demonstration projects that incentivize firms to invest in bringing the next generation of these technologies closer to market. And the U.S. should also continue investing in innovating at the technological frontier to discover new and better technologies, like solid state batteries and next generation solar technology."
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Tracking plastic pollution hot spots
"The tool, whose interface resembles maps tracking other environmental problems, from wildfires to carbon dioxide emissions, provides for the possibility of partnerships with governments that are contributing a significant amount of land-based plastic waste."
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Biden rollback of permitting reform is making his own energy goals impossible
"Now it is time to come together and reform the environmental review and permitting process to support an all-of-the-above approach to American energy — including oil, gas, coal, nuclear, renewables, and critical minerals. Through bipartisan reforms, we can secure our domestic production and export American-produced energy across the globe. I’ll be waiting for the administration to join me."
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Climate-Data Startup Arcadia Raises $200 Million
"By combining many regional utility data points in one place, Arcadia lets customers know when it is best to store clean energy, use solar power or charge an electric vehicle, Chief Executive Kiran Bhatraju said in an interview."
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Politics Could Speed Up Clean Energy. They May Also Slow It Down.
"Yet there are signs of progress in other areas. One key bottleneck is approval for transmission lines: A record 1,400 gigawatts of total generation and storage capacity are currently seeking interconnection to the grid, more than the current U.S. generating capacity of 1,200 gigawatts, according to a new paper from Berkeley Lab. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is now working on a series of proposed rule changes to streamline the processes for approving transmission lines."
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Giving old dams new life could spark an energy boom
"Most American dams are more than 60 years old, and many have outlived their utility or present public safety risks. There is a consensus both in the hydroelectric industry and among environmentalists that these dams should be removed. However, there is growing interest on the part of hydroelectric companies to tap into the energy-producing potential of the nonpowered dams that remain essential to our infrastructure."
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Wyoming partners with nuclear research lab amid push to attract new industries
"Under the agreement, the state of Wyoming and Battelle Energy Alliance, the contractor operating the Idaho National Laboratory, will 'collaborate in the research, development, demonstration and deployment of advanced energy technologies and approaches,' including nuclear and hydrogen, the governor’s office said."
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Poland and Bulgaria Gas Cutoff: ‘Closing Time’ for Gazprom’s Eurozone Cash Flows
"From the energy security perspective, the specifics of those countries’ decision will be important and need to represent a definitive, unifying statement that, as it stands, Russia is not a reliable provider of natural gas and the EU needs to diversify gas supplies away from Russia, if not abandon them altogether."
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Fewer gas pipelines will mean higher carbon emissions and more Russian threats
Jeff Kupfer of ConservAmerica writes in The Washington Examiner about the importance of gas pipelines. “Band-Aid approaches aren’t going to secure our energy future. Nor should discussions about setting the right course fall along party lines. Instead, policymakers must consider real, long-term solutions to address our energy needs. That means not just taking advantage of...
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